Sucking On The Glass Tit

In the movie Network, Peter Finch was talking about television, but these days, he could very well be talking about the Internet.
The difference between the two is imperceptible. The lines are blurring and are just going to get even fuzzier. Fiction is being sold as truth. Opinion is being sold as fact.
The movie was made in 1976, but with a few tweaks, it could have been written yesterday.

Here’s a transcript of the speech. Replace the word “television” or “TV” with “internet”.
It works perfectly.

So, you listen to me. Listen to me!
Television is not the truth. Television’s a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.
We’re in the boredom-killing business.
So if you want the Truth, go to God.
Go to your gurus.
Go to yourselves!
Because that’s the only place you’re ever gonna find any real truth.
But, man, you’re never gonna get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We’ll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he’s gonna win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true!
But you people sit there, day after day, night after night — all ages, colors, creeds.
We’re all you know!
You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here!
You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal.
You do whatever the tube tells you –
You dress like the tube.
You eat like the tube.
You raise your children like the tube.
You even think like the tube.
This is mass madness, you maniacs!
In God’s name, you people are the real thing.
We are the illusion!
So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I’m speaking to you now.
Turn them off!!