The Matrix when Agent Smith is telling Morpheus that humanity is like a virus.
I hate this mindset. Humanity is definitely not a virus. There’s so many tribes and small farmers and fishermen who respect nature and live with it in harmony.
Assholes and the super wealthy are the viruses.
Oh and by the way, maybe every organism‘s cells nuclei are viruses (all multi cell organisms) - there’s evidence that the nucleus is a virus. So maybe we, as living beings, are viruses after all? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis
It’s more about rewarding sociopath with more power than sane people
It’s a partial truth. It’s what makes storytelling villains great. If they didn’t have an ostensibly plausible reason for being evil, villainy looks cheap and painted on. What is Thanos without his half-truth sustainability philosophy and ethics? What is Smith without this speech?
Mostly the wealthy ones.
The Newsroom. - EPA
And while perhaps more contentious, and more like an honorable mention, not a winner.
The Newsroom - Greatest Country
Nemik’s manifesto from Andor
Umm what? I think andor is a star trek thing. Sorry im dumb when it come to the stuff.
I’m jealous of you. You’re one of the lucky ten thousand today. Andor is a Star Wars property, but it’s an adult look at fascism and building a rebellion against it. One of the top ten series of the 2020’s really amazing writing.
I mean, you could have either looked it up or assumed that people talking about something know more about it than you when you don’t know anything about it.
I’m jumping on the dog pile to tell you to watch Andor. I am NOT a Star Wars guy but I got talked into this one by a friend who knows my general distaste for the franchise.
It’s fantastic, I really have nothing bad to say about it. It’s not campy like Star Wars, it doesn’t feel rushed, and the stakes a lot more visceral.
It’s also extremely relevant in 2026
[Wordless crackle of a Geiger counter]
I don’t want to set the woooorld ooooon fiiiire…
Colbert’s monologue on “Truthiness” that then led to Mark Carney’s speech on global order and middle powers. The next one will be about the Fall of the US Empire.
It was a slippery slope that some of us knew we were on…
Link? He had many monologues on truthiness.
I’ve tried looking for it in the past, but unfortunately Comedy Central has managed to scrub those old clips from YT.
Now I only have the vague memory of it and the impression it left on me.
It was part of the Colbert Report’s “Word of the Day” segment.
this era is going to be a treasure trove of speeches to look back on.
