"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 worth. Pigs murder in the streets 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 climate is unfit to sustain, and we sit doomscrolling while some journalist tells us about record bank profits, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

"We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're shit. It's like everything everywhere is going to shit, 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 Internet and my Video Games and my Gas Stove 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 write to your congressman, because that does jack shit. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the white collar crime. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

"You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'"

-Lightly Modernized quote from the 1976 film "Network."