Tag Archives: Movies

The World is a Business
This is a powerful scene from the 1970’s movie “The Network”. Its ever more poignant today as it was back when the film was made. “…You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and […]

How "Foreign Policy" Really Works
This is the monologue from a scene in the movie “Good Will Hunting” 1997. It almost summarises western government foreign policy over the last 70 years. “Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, […]