Name: THE CORPORATION [23/23] Prognosis
Uploaded: 2026-02-28T01:29:11.000Z
Duration: 5 min 8 s
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Modal verbs - A2

Sometimes it surprises me how effective you can actually be.

Past simple

After we beat the Gap, I walked past these Gap stores and I look at them.

I think, my God, there's like 2,000 in stores across the country.

That's the only way we're going to redesign, rethink, reconstitute what capital and property can do.

Fifteen corporations would like to control the conditions of our life.

And millions of people are saying, not only do we not need you, we can do it better.

We are going to create systems that nourish the Earth and nourish human beings.

They are the mainstay of large numbers of communities across the world.

You know, I've often thought it's very ironic that I'm able to do all this, and

I'm distributed by studios that are owned by large corporate entities.

Why would they put me out there when I am opposed to everything that they stand for and I spend my time on their dime opposing what they believe in?

Okay, well, it's because they don't believe in anything.

They put me on there because they know that there's millions of people that want to see my film or watch the TV show, and

And I've been able to get my stuff out there because I'm driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw.

The thing that says the rich will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he can make a buck off it.

And they also believe that when people watch my stuff or maybe watch this film or whatever, they think that, you know.

They'll watch this and they won't do anything, you know, because we've done such a good job of numbing their minds and dumbing them down, you know, they'll never affect any.

People aren't going to leave the couch and go and do something political.

I'm convinced that a few people are going to leave this movie theater or get up off the couch and go and do something, anything to get this world back in our hands.