This is from a movie made in 1976

[Socialist Dem]

(Network)

JENSEN:You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal -- that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions
of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is
ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations!
There are no peoples! There are no Russians. There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is
no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting,
multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
(pause)
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no
America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A Tand T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They pull out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably deter- mined by the imutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.

HOWARD: (humble whisper) Why me?

JENSEN: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

[teach1st]

1. I know I'm mad as hell

And we've been taking it for much too long.

[Imperialism Inc.]

2. Network!

[terrya]

3. I'm amazed how Paddy Chafyesky was prescient about those ideas...

especially since they have come to pass.

"Network" was decades ahead of its time. I remember, first seeing it, how outlandish I thought the film seemed to me. But after repeated viewings over the decades...it truly has come to pass.

[Socialist Dem]

8. The movie was way ahead of it's time,

but it's ideals weren't. The corporations had the government firmly in their pockets in the 70s, it just wasn't wide-spread knowledge yet.

The corporate entertainment news departments didn't exist yet like they do now.....I fully expect for Fux "news" to hire a "sybil the soothsayer" any day now, and to televise the death/execution of one of it's reporters in Iraq soon. All for ratings of course.

The sad thing is, people are too busy fighting this "red state-blue state" crap over issues that won't ever even effect most of the people fighting the battles (think Mobile Alabama will ever get bombed by Al Queda?) to notice what the corporations are doing behind the screens.

[skeeterintexas]

4. How about

'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[Liberal_Andy]

7. That's right, skeeterintexas!

Welcome to DU!
:hi:

[NightTrain]

5. "Network." God, what a great film!

I was 16 when I saw it on HBO in 1982. I'm guessing if I were to see it now, I'd love "Network" even more!

[hyphenate]

6. I love Network

I was using a Howard Beale quote not that long ago for a sig. SO completely relevant even today--ESPECIALLY today.