"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".
Ned Beatty, in "Network" 1976
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