Just as Margaret Atwood's HANDMAID'S TALE predicted the nightmare that is the creeping theo-fascism that is endemic to the elites of this nation, so clearly seen in the NOLA situation, and even further evidenced in the "camps" that are being set up across this nation to house the colored and impoverished---Paddy Chayefsky wrote the novel/screenplay for the film NETWORK at the height of the Nixon ugliness. Mark Drolette today reminds us all of that one amazing scene that i have found to be so clearly portending this that has come. Combined with the scenes in the original ROLLERBALL, when the corporations that own the various aspects of the earth's infrastructure compete using physical gladitorial slaves, this scene is the identifier of all that is clearly wrong with the US today:
"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!
"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 T and 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 determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale!"
You have discovered arachnoanarchy
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