"I don't have to tell you things are bad, everyone knows things are bad.
A dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep
a gun hidden under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and
there's no one anywhere who seems to know what to do and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat and we sit
watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen
homocides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way its supposed to be.
We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything,
everywhere, is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and
slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller. And all we say is,
"Please! At 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 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, or 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 goddammit! My life has meaning!""
- Network (1976)
