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Jul 26, 2009 21:14

"I dont have to tell you things are bad; everybody knows things are bad. The dollar buys a nickels worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street, because nobody anywhere seems to know what to do and theres no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. We sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homocides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad, worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everyone everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my tv and my steel-belted radios and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!' Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressmen, 'cause I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depressions and inflations and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value!'
                       - Howard Beale, "Network"

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