A favorite 12 Monkeys rant as a tribute to "black Friday" consumers

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

My favorite scene from my favorite dark genius film maker Terry Gilliam. (Brad Pitt is so wonderfully over the top, the transcript doesn't do justice to the delivery).

I always think of this rant when I see the crazed shoppers at 4 in the morning waiting to "consume".

COLE: I need to make a telephone call.

JEFFREY: A telephone call? That's communication with the outside world! Doctor's discretion. Hey, if alla these nuts could just make phone calls, it could spread. Insanity oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all those poor sane people, infecting them! Whackos everywhere! A plague of madness.

In fact, very few of us here are actually mentally ill. I'm not saying you're not mentally ill, for all I know you're crazy as a loon. But that's not why you're here. Why you're here is because of the system, because of the economy.

There's the TV. It's all right there. Commercials. We are not productive anymore, they don't need us to make things anymore, it's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers. Okay, buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, you know what? You're mentally ill! That's a fact! If you don't buy things...toilet paper, new cars, computerized blenders, electrically operated sexual devices...

SCREWDRIVERS WITH MINIATURE BUILT-IN RADAR DEVICES, STEREO SYSTEMS WITH BRAIN IMPLANTED HEADPHONES, VOICE- ACTIVATED COMPUTERS, AND...





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JEFFREY: Seriously, more and more people are being defined now as mentally ill. Why? Because they're not consuming on their own. But as patients, they become consumers of mental health care. And this gives the so-called sane people work!

WHOOO! SHOCK THERAPY! GROUP THERAPY! HALLUCINATIONS! THERAPEUTIC DRUGS! IGGIDY DIGGIDY DIG! PERFECT! THE SYSTEM IN HARMONY LIKE A BIG MACHINE...

Happy Holidays from one good citizen consumer to another! :hi:
MKJ

[pitohui]

1. wonderful, wonderful, wonderful movie

thanks for that

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. You're welcome and yes, it was a captivating and thought provoking movie

that just gets "truer" over the years. MKJ

[MountainLaurel]

3. Didn't know Gilliam did that

May have to go back and watch it again.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. I'm planning on watching it again in the next couple of weeks. I haven't

seen it since before 9/11.

It will probably scare the living daylights out of me. When I last watched it, in the late 90's, pre-bush and bfee, it scared me but the world at that time was not feeling so apocalyptic.

Now, I'll finish watching the movie and return to a reality that is not very reassuring. MKJ