From the movie "NETWORK (1976)"
Howard Beale hosts an editorial news show where he has told all his viewers to write to congress to block the sale of his network to the Saudi's. He gets called in to talk to the owner of the company....
Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've 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, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and 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? 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 AT&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 get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, min and max 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 determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or 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, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel. Beale: But why me? Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Originally posted by uzlessyou were here on 28 march 2006.
I'm not "testing" your intelligence. I gave up hope of finding intelligence on this site back on March 28, 2006.
from this fact and your previous post (quoted) i conclude that you consider yourself non-intelligent.
maybe u should just leave the finding intelligence over to the intelligent ppl🙂
Originally posted by uzlessHow many will poke around futilely looking for capitals and question marks? How many will check the OP and quickly not give a rat's arse over yet another meaningless cut 'n paste?
how many here will understand it . How many will ignore it. How many will make fun of it.
Edit: OP on 02 Feb '09 10:48
Never mind.
Originally posted by dweezilsigh...
How many will poke around futilely looking for capitals and question marks? How many will check the OP and quickly not give a rat's arse over yet another meaningless cut 'n paste?
Edit: OP on 02 Feb '09 10:48
Never mind.
Meaningless cut/paste? Um, don't you think that, you know, perhaps some of the dialogue from the movie has SOME kind of relevance to the modern day?
If you don't see the connection, I'd suggest running down to your local Blockbuster and renting the movie. It won many Oscars. You will like it.
Originally posted by zozozozoDouble sigh...
you were here on 28 march 2006.
from this fact and your previous post (quoted) i conclude that you consider yourself non-intelligent.
maybe u should just leave the finding intelligence over to the intelligent ppl🙂
See the whole board.
I joined the site March 27, 2006
