War What Is It Good for Profits Say It Again
Tick, Tock? If nosotros are facing the next ugly chapter in humanity's seemingly Countless State of war, several things come to mind including: the role of multinational corporations; an evocative vocal chosen "War"; and, a listen-bravado speech and scene from the Oscar-winning movie, Network.
First off, at that place is this song'south lyrics: "(War, huh) Yes! (What is information technology good for?)/Absolutely zip, uhuh/(War, huh) Yep! (What is information technology good for?)/Absolutely goose egg/Say it again, you lot!...War I despise /'Cause it ways destruction of innocent lives/War ways tears to thousands of mothers' eyes/When their sons go out to fight and lose their lives I said..." —War by Edwin Starr with Bruce Springsteen
Without jumping the gun, so to speak, the headlines starting off the New year's day have been ominous: The Mean solar day Afterwards War Begins in Iran; This was an Act of War; Americans increasingly critical of Trump'southward record on Islamic republic of iran, most wait war, says Poll; and, Iran attacks US military machine bases.
That was then counteracted by ii other headlines: Trump Opts Not to Escalate Iran Conflict; and, the US House "Votes to limit Trump war powers."
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Okay, and then maybe at that place'due south a pause on proceedings.
Only then, in that location is this powerful paraphrased film quote: "Yous get up on your HD widescreen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. At that place is no democracy. There is only Saudi Aramco and Microsoft, Apple tree and Amazon, Facebook and Visa, Petro Red china and Exxon..."
Exercise these words sound familiar? From a book or a movie? Yes, it's a paraphrase of corporate icon Mr. Jensen reading the riot deed of the way things really are to erstwhile everyman, Howard Beale, in the Oscar-winning Best Picture, Network from 1976. The corporate names have been updated to reflect today where computer and social media companies rank up there with oil/free energy behemoths.
The actual film scene is a master class in acting, writing, and directing. Information technology's also a heed-blowing explanation of how the globe really operates. And, the message is every bit brutally true today as information technology was in 1976—with the implication being that the large corporations, are looking at how much revenue "war" can bring into their coffers from increased media acquirement (optics on our various screens) and sales of products used in war.
Jensen spoken communication in Network – "Courtesy of MGM"
And then, just intermission, view this astonishing flick clip from Network, and consider the speech considering a version of this is most probably going on in corporate boardrooms these days.
In Network, Communications Corporation of America chairman Arthur Jensen pontificates: "You take meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't accept it! Is that clear?! Do you remember you've simply stopped a concern deal? That is not the instance. The Arabs accept taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it dorsum! It is ebb and menses, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! Y'all are an old human who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. At that place are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. In that location are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only i holistic system of systems, ane vast and immense, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, 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 sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today! And y'all have meddled with the cardinal forces of nature, and You Volition Atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You become upwards on your niggling twenty-1 inch screen and howl about America and commonwealth. In that location is no America. There is no democracy. In that location is but IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What practice you lot think the Russians talk about in their councils of country - Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-price probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer alive in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business concern, Mr. Beale. Information technology has been since human being crawled out of the slime. And our children will alive, Mr. Beale, to run into that perfect world in which there's no state of war or famine, oppression or brutality. Ane 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 evangel. (Beale: 'Why me?') Because y'all're on television set, dummy. Threescore million people watch y'all every nighttime of the week, Monday through Fri. (Beale: 'I take seen the face of God.') Y'all just might exist right, Mr. Beale."
And, one time once again, for emphasis: "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 by-laws of business concern. The world is a concern, Mr. Beale. Information technology has been since man crawled out of the slime."
We may or may not being going to war right now, it may be next week or next calendar month...but on certain corporate ledgers, war well-nigh e'er means more revenues. Then, how practice you think it will turn out?
By the mode, the 100 largest artillery producers and military services contractors recorded $395 billion in arms sales in 2012. Lockheed Martin, the largest arms seller, alone deemed for $36 billion.
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Source: https://www.bbntimes.com/society/war-what-is-it-good-for-erh-massive-profits
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