"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!"
The above is a speech by actor Peter Finch in the movie "Network" in 1976. I believe it still applies today, as we have the same problems we had then. Depression, inflation, worrying about our jobs, our debt, Congress' debt, JB's debt, China, the Russians; all of it. This reminds me of song from the 80's: "We're not going to take it, NO we ain't going to take it, We're not going to take it anymore!" by Twisted Sister, and the message is the same.
People, we need to stand up and scream it from the top of our lungs; "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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