HOWARD BEALE - "I'M AS MAD AS HELL" - MAN FOR OUR TIMES!

Published: June 16, 2019, 4:30 a.m.

(The Following Excerpt Is From The Movie "Network" - 1st Released Way Back In 1976 - This Is What We Face TODAY - With TRUMP!) Let's Begin - I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression -  Everybody's out of work - Or scared of losing their job - The dollar buys a nickle's worth - The banks are going bust - Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter - Punks are running wild in the streets - And there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do about it. We know the air is unfit to breathe - And our food is unfit to eat - We sit watching our tv's about some local newscaster - tells us today we had 15 homicides and 16 violent crimes - As that's the way it's supposed to be  We know things are bad - Worse than bad - They're crazy - It's like everything everywhere is going cracy - We don't go out anymore - We sit in the house and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller - And all we say is please -  @ least leave us alone in our living rooms - Let me have my toaster and my tv and my steel-belted radials - 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 congressman - Because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write - I don't know what to do about the depression - And the inflation 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 -