I'm As Mad As Hell and I'm NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!
1976...has it gotten better or worse?
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
One of the best monologues in movie history. Done in 1976! That was how many years ago? Is it BETTER or WORSE? Has VOTING made a rats ass bit of difference? LOL!
True.
The Republic has been usurped.
Voting is merely a charade , a circus show to give the gullible masses the illusion of choice.
We are in the long cold night. Dawn is not even a hint of gray on the horizon.
I hear politicians and lawyers are flammable.
They could light the way and keep us warm don't you think?
Never mind, the smell would be unbearable.
Well, my friend, those of us writing and making videos about being mad as hell and not willing to take it any more are doing something. It may seem insignificant, but as more of us wake up and exit the bullshit systems of the death-cult matrix, little by little, we will send the wayward wizards back to entropy. I'd love to see that in my lifetime, so I'm working extra hard and smart. I know you are, too.