Network

Prophetic. It’s crazy to think the writing has been on the wall for nearly 50 years and nobody has done anything to stop this spiral into a hyper-capitalistic hellscape draining us of our individuality and humanity, breaking us down into data consumed by corporate conglomerates as fuel so they can continue to grow and grow and grow while we shrink and shrink and shrink until we are nothing. In Network, television is both a microcosm of corporate greed and the mechanism by which it is aided. Of course media has changed considerably since 1977. Network news is largely obsolete. The internet has taken hold and given birth to a new kind of news. But Chayefsky’s sentiment remains prescient; humanity is meaningless. There are no countries. There are no values. Democracy is no more. We live in a corporate oligarchy. There is no saving us from that fact.