(ALL OVER) - Those of you who have had the exquisite experience of seeing the movie, Network, will vividly remember the character Howard Beale, the Mad Prophet of UBS. Even if you have not seen the movie, the following quotation from the second inciting incident of the movie (there are two) is so famous, you may have heard the lines anyway.

Amazingly, the words, the script was written by a liberal, Paddy Chayevsky. Yet, he was prescient in his prediction the outcome of a Liberal's world. It was written 1973 and was eventually made into a movie, three years later.

In any case, the words glare out into the vague, ugly world that Liberalism creates. But it also shows the way to getting out of this mess. Self reliance, in the end is the answer. For those of you who missed it, here is the rant, as it played on your big screen in 1976:

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

"We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

"Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

"You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God****it! My life has VALUE!'