HOWARD BEALE - YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE!
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale! And, I won't have it! Is that clear! Do 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 & 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 3rd worlds - there is no West - There is only one holistic system of systems - One vast and main interwoven, interactive, multi-varied - Multi-national dominion of dollars - Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rubles, pounds & scheckles - 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 atomic and sub-atomic 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, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen - And howl about America & democracy - There is no America, there is no democracy - There is only - IBM, ITT, AT&T, and Dupont - Dow, Union Carbide & 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 lineal programming charts - Statistical decision theories Min & max solutions & compute the price cost probabilities of their - Transaction & investments Just l