The Network speech is one of the greatest ever, IMNSO. “you will atone!”
Via IMDB: Arthur Jensen <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000885/?ref_=tt_ch>: 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, 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 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. -Deb On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 4:48 PM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, James Stanley Barr wrote: > > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ned-beatty-dead-deliverance-1234967321/ > < > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ned-beatty-dead-deliverance-1234967321/ > > > > > > Ned Beatty dead at 83. > > > Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc > -- Deborah Speer Features Editor POLLSTAR 590 Alluvial Ave. Ste. 101 Fresno CA 93711 [email protected] 559-650-8534 (direct) 559-905-1599 (cell) Features Editor POLLSTAR 590 Alluvial Ave. Ste. 101 Fresno CA 93711 [email protected] 559-650-8534 (direct) 559-905-1599 (cell) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CANUy%3DjH-CyADeX90ZF6vL58%3DQp1%3D-Q5Tk9Z3wPeYsTS4UhZFTA%40mail.gmail.com.
