Network is an Academy Award-winning 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network named Union Broadcasting System (UBS) and its struggle with poor TV ratings. Director Sidney Lumet's brilliant criticism of the hollow, lurid wasteland of television journalism where entertainment value and short-term ratings were more crucial than quality. Paddy Chayefsky's black, prophetic, satirical commentary/criticism of corporate evil (in the tabloid-tainted television industry) is an insightful indictment of the rabid desire for ratings. Indignation toward the network executives by an unbalanced news-anchorman (Finch) ("I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore") is manipulated by ruthless VP programming boss (Dunaway) for further ratings. One of the film's posters correctly proclaimed: "Television will never be the same."
1. First we go back. Restore the Constitution and the Republic, reduce the size and scope of the corporate-fascist state.
2. Then we go forward. Expand the size and scope of our personal responsibilities.
3. Libertarian social structures (i.e. anarcho-syndicalist work forces) must be mobilized. A new integral consciousness must emerge to cope with our global pluralistic needs. Art as action, never for it's own sake. Tools not only to reform the world, but also the human spirit.
1. First we go back. Restore the Constitution and the Republic, reduce the size and scope of the corporate-fascist state.
2. Then we go forward. Expand the size and scope of our personal responsibilities.
3. Libertarian social structures (i.e. anarcho-syndicalist work forces) must be mobilized. A new integral consciousness must emerge to cope with our global pluralistic needs. Art as action, never for it's own sake. Tools not only to reform the world, but also the human spirit.
UNDERMING POWER STRUCTURES EVERYWHERE // INSIDE AND OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD
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