Monday, September 29, 2008

Lauren London's Weave

NETWORK. THE CURRENT WORLD KNOW RELENTLESS


"... You're an old man who only thinks in terms of peoples and nations. There are no nations, there are no peoples. There are no Russians, no Arabs, no third worlds, and the West. There is only one large system of systems, one vast, interwoven wild, intercropping, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars, petrodollars, electrodólares, multidólares, marks, yen, pounds, francs, rubles. It is the international monetary system that determines the totality of life on this planet. That's the natural order of things today. That is the atomic structure and subatomic universal things that make up today. And you have meddled with the primitive forces of nature, and you should fix it ... I understand you Mr. Beale? ... You appear in his small 21-inch screen and scream about America and democracy. There is America, there is no democracy, there is only IBM, ITT, Dow, ATIT, Exxon, etc. Those are the nations of the world today .... What the Russians talk about in their councils of state ?...¿ De Karl Marx? ... No, linear programming systems, theories of economic statistics and computing costs of their transactions and investments as we do. We no longer live in a world of nations, ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably led by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled from the mud, and our children will live to see that Mr. Beale. A perfect world where there will be no war or famine, pressure, or brutality. A vast and ecumenical partner company in which all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men possess a number of actions, which will cover all needs are moderate all anxieties and are fun to not get bored. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale to preach the gospel ... (1) "

NETWORK (1976)