re: #54 Dread Pirate

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He was right.

It reminds of this earlier monologue, about television:

This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people…

“This is Mass Madness, You Maniacs”, Howard Beale (Network, 1976)

Paddy Chayefsky wrote, quite possibly, one of the greatest screenplays in cinema history. It was as much prophecy as it was commentary.