In their live coverage of Tucker Carlson’s parting ways with Fox News, Infowars played the fitting and famous “the world is a corporation” speech from the 1976 movie Network.
While there is certainly no comparison to be made between Carlson and the film’s on-air talent Howard Beale, masterfully portrayed by Peter Finch, we can make an imagined correlation between the movie’s network executive Arthur Jensen (played by Ned Beatty) and any unnamed Fox News executive.
With that in mind, here is the link to the original speech, and the text of what a modern “Arthur Jensen” might say today:
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Carlson, and I won’t have it! Is that clear? You think you’ve merely been “telling the truth.” That is not the case! The Chinese have taken billions of dollars out of this country, but we’re not going to ask for any jobs back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old school American who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Ukrainians. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There are no borders or election integrity. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of climate change and currencies. Renewable energy credits, carbon credits, digital dollars. 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 DNA and mRNA and molecular structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU … WILL … ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Carlson? You get up on your little soapbox and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only the Trusted News Initiative – AP, BBC, Reuters, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, the Financial Times, the CBC and the EBU. 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 iPhones and check their Facebook and TikTok and Instagram just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Carlson. The world is a cabal of globalists who inexorably control the laws of business and communication. The media is their Praetorian Guard. It has been this way since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Carlson, to see that perfect world … in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast pagan holding company, for whom all men will work to serve the common good, but no man will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And you are not going to be allowed to contradict this evangel.
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