reSee.it - Tweets Saved By @TheLuciusSeneca
@TheLuciusSeneca - Lucius Seneca
The World is a Corporation (Network - 1976) https://t.co/oADZYRJB2w
Video Transcript AI Summary
The conversation follows Howard Beale, who declares a final revelation and that “the light is impending. I bear witness to the light.” He appears disoriented, and Speaker 1 escorts him to a conference room, noting Beale’s agitation and his own impression that Beale is mad.
Speaker 2 interrupts Beale’s crisis with a stark warning: “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, mister Beale, and I won’t have it. Is that clear? Do 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.” He frames the disruption as an ecological and economic rebalancing, insisting that “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.” He lists currencies—“Petro dollars, electro dollars, multi dollars, Reichmarks, RINs, rubles, pounds, and shekels”—as the structural reality of the world’s order.
Speaker 1 expands on the idea, stating that “It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.” He further declares that “the world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.” He argues that the world’s dynamics are driven not by nations or ideologies but by corporate power, likening the global arena to a business enterprise.
The dialogue then moves to Beale’s role and the proposition of his audience: “And you will atone.” Speaker 1 asks if he’s getting through to Beale, noting Beale’s television platform: “You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBN and ITT and AT and T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.” He contends that the Russians also operate with analytical tools, using “linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions,” to calculate prices and investments, asserting that “We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, mister Beale. The world is a college of corporations.”
Speaker 1 concludes with a chilling vision: “The world is a business, mister Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, mister 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
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: The final revelation is at hand. I have seen the shattering vulgarations of ultimate clarity. The light is impending. I bear witness to the light.
Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Beal. You're telling me you're a madman.
Speaker 2: Only dizzle to relieve.
Speaker 1: How are you now?
Speaker 0: I'm as mad as a hatter.
Speaker 1: Who is he? I'm going to take you into our conference room. Seems more seemlier setting for one. I have to say to
Speaker 0: you. I
Speaker 1: started as a salesman, mister Beale. I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hairbrushes, and electronic equipment. They say I can sell anything. I'd like to try to sell something to you. Valhalla, mister Beale.
Please sit down.
Speaker 2: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, mister Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? Do 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, 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.
Speaker 1: 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
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 1: Am I getting through to you, mister Beale? You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBN and ITT and AT 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 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, mister Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.
The world is a business, mister Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, mister 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, mister Beale, to preach this evangel.
Speaker 2: Why me?
Speaker 1: Because you're on television, dummy. 60,000,000 people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2: I have seen the face of God.
Speaker 1: You just might be right, mister Beale. That evening, Howard Beale went on the air to preach the corporate cosmology of Arthur Jensen.
Speaker 0: I'm sorry. I don't