does not necessarily reflect my personal views

Watching ‘Network’ on the tube.

some great, evil quotes in that.

“It is the international system of currency which determines the vitality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.”

“The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars!”

Mr. Jensen: The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. Our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock — all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Howard Beale: Why me?

Mr. Jensen: Because you’re on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.

Mr. Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

I’m listening to Gregorian monks while I code. (Thank goodness some non-spyware net radio stations are still functional! 🙂 ) It somehow seems rather appropriate. I can just imagine a group of monks up until all hours of the night trying to get the gospels to be just right in song so that the information will parse correctly. Will HTML and C++ be considered art 700 years from now?

*note to self, bring dsl modem back to the house, this dialup form home is sooooo sloooow.

benison

benison BEN-uh-suhn; -zuhn, noun:
Blessing; benediction.

Benison comes from Old French beneison, from Latin benedictio, from benedicere, “to bless,” from bene, “well” + dicere, “to say.”

Every moment spent with my love is a benison, exhilarating and heartwarming each step of the way.