http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
We're in a lot of
trouble!!
Because you people and
62 million other Americans are listening to me right
now.
Because less than 3
percent of you people read books.
Because less than 15
percent of you read newspapers.
Because the only truth
you know is what you get over this tube.
Right now, there is a
whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't
come out of this tube.
This tube is the
gospel, the ultimate revelation.
This tube can make or
break presidents, popes, prime ministers.
This tube is the most
awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world.
And woe is us if it
ever falls into the hands of the wrong people
And when the largest
company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda
force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be
peddled for truth on this network.
So, you listen to me.
Listen to me!
Television is not the
truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a
circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers,
dancers singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and
football players.
We're in the
boredom-killing business.
So if you want the
Truth,
Go to
yourselves!
Because that's the
only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.
But, man, you're never
gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna
hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the
killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house.
And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just
look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll
tell you any shit you want to hear.
We deal in illusions,
man. None of it is true!
But you people sit
there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors,
creeds.
We're all you
know!
You're beginning to
believe the illusions we're spinning here!
You're beginning to
think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are
unreal.
You do whatever the
tube tells you --
You dress like the
tube.
You eat like the
tube.
You raise your
children like the tube.
You even think like
the tube.
This is mass madness,
you maniacs!
In God's name, you
people are the real thing.
We are the
illusion!
So turn off your
television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn
them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of
this sentence I'm speaking to you now.
Slightly edited speech from the movie "Network". One of the
greatest, most spot on monologues of our time. And if you're
wondering, this was from 30 years ago. If not for the internet,
we'll all be slaves to a glass and plastic box.
Bravo if you read that lot. Now turn off your bloody tvs.