Network - Money speech

You have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Mr Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear?

You think you 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, tide and 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-varied, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rands, 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 sub-atomic 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, mini-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 bye-laws of 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 is no war nor 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.

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Truer words have seldom been spoken...

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[SelfHatingWhite]

apparently the mad as hell thing has been co-opted by glenn beck types? which is weird b/c the film is all about the power of capital (through the medium of television) to corrupt ideologies and lay waste to ideas. the scene with maoist guerillas arguing over distribution rights..... ownage.....

[richmyjz]

12 people run the world...and they hit the dislike button after watching this.

[artbunker]

NWO speech

[reynoldsohoulihan]

They cut out the part where Howard says he has seen the face of god, and Jensen responds by saying you just might be right... That's my favorite part.

[wisefulone]

@sugarlanskee8 Agreed

[sugarlanskee8]

@wisefulone

It's just one cult: "the college of corporations." At least in in 1976, the U.S. was a big deal. Now we are just part of Greater Mexico/Puerto Rico controlled by China. BHO said we're bringing back 100 jobs and people still believe the Dems and Repubs are separate entities. It's all our own fault, fawning over these reverse-socialists (corporates own the govt).

[wisefulone]

Corporations=Cults

[TheBradreed]

I think we've found a running mate for Mitt Romney.

[frozensunuk]

Good job for uploading this. I uploaded a network clip only to have it blocked by warner bros. What beautiful irony, LMAO! FFS!

[BLAGASPANTS]

@tratorta Well I couldn't choke on yours, pee wee.

[shuboy05]

I'm sure many people know of Ned Beatty for that one scene in Deliverance but THIS is the performance I will always remember.

[WalkingEyeTV]

If you like this, check out our version of this scene and let us know what you think.