Am I Getting Through to You Mr. Beale?

The current ongoing disintegration of Establishment control is reminiscent of the mid 1970's, which was the last time that the Establishment bid for domination over America democracy was seriously threatened.

At the time, the worldwide financial system was already highly interconnected in a borderless corporatist fashion (see clip below). But there was not yet the New World Order as we now know it---the self-recognizing community of multinational guardian-globalists who could cooperate along the lines of the Old World aristocracy to ensure the continuity of the entire (Anglo-American-led) system without disruptive crises interfering with it.  This achievement was yet a dream in the eyes of the Establishment core.

Things in the middle 1970's felt very unsteady to many Americans. Unlike now, the news did not mince words about the hardships being endured by the common people, and try to distract them at every single turn with the circus of pop culture (although it certainly did plenty of that as well).

Among other things, the years around 1975 were a Golden Age of exposure and criticism of the Establishment program itself, both politically and artistically. Even in mainstream Hollywood movies, Americans got a peek into the system of clandestine guardianship that had been implemented in their midst since the end of World War II.

(Warning: clip has yelling right off the bat) This scene from Network (1976), screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, is much less famous than the iconic one in which Beale (Peter Finch) urges his viewers release their primal frustrations from their open windows. Here Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) sets Beale straight about how the world works. Beale's subsequent reverent pronouncement that he has seen "God" is perhaps the most poignant insight into why the quasi-revolution of the 1970's failed to stop the Establishment program, namely that the entire television news industry, including all new future recruits to it as "journalists", essentially fell in love with the Establishment through the seduction of power.  Note that Chayefsky's short description of the Petrodollar system is remarkably forthright and accurate, and stands up today as one of the best pop elaborations of how the post-1973 world oil-banking system operated.