"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 multi-national dominion of dollars. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.
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. 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." -- 'Arthur Jensen' (Ned Beatty) in Network [ReadWatch]
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