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this video from '76 is at least as true today as it was then (youtu.be)
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[–] timeisart 3 points 2 years ago

love Network, been years since I’ve seen it but great movie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meta of this scene is that the network only allows it because it's pure spectacle, and everyone goes back to their normal ignorant apathetic existences afterwards, with nothing changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s what makes it so good imo. It has layers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Right? What he's saying is absolutely incredible and stirring, but it's also useless, because it's just words, and everyone takes it as a performance and a "viral moment" and then goes back to the next program on the dial. It's incredibly prescient.