the primal forces of nature

How are you now? - I'm as mad as a hatter.
Who isn't?
I'm taking you into our conference room.
Seems more seemly a setting for what I have to say to you.
I started as a salesman.
I sold sewing machines,automobile parts...
hair brushes and electronic equipment.
They say I can sell anything.
I'd like to try to sell something to you.
Valhalla, Mr. Beale.
Please sit down.
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale...
and I won't have it!
Is that clear?
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...
multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars!
Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi-dollars.
Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels!
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 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!
Am I getting through to you?
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 IBM and ITT...
and AT&T...
and Du Pont, 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...
price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments like we do.
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.
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.
And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale...
to preach this evangel.
Why me?
Because you're on television, dummy!
Sixty million people watch you...
every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
I have seen the face of God.
You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

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