Name: "The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)
Uploaded: 2025-08-28T23:04:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 19 s
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I have seen the shattering fulgurations of ultimate clarity.

I'm going to take you into our conference room.

Seems more seemly a setting for what I have to say to you.

I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hairbrushes and electronic equipment.

I'd like to try to sell something to you.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!

Do you think you've merely stopped a business deal?

The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back!

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.

There is only one holistic system of systems.

One vast and humane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.

Petrodollars, electrodollars, multidollars, Reichmarks, rims, 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.

You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.

There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, 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 the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just 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.

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 is 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 eventual.

Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.