There's a war out there, old friend, a world war.
And it's not about who's got the most bullets.
It's about who controls the information:
...what we see and hear, how we work, what we think.
It's all about the information.
Simply one of the greatest films of all time.
"Listen, when I was in prison I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality, but the perception of reality."
"Stock market? Currency market? Commodities market? Small countries?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LJJB7dVTU
I know he's the "bad guy" but I suspect I (many of us?) have been subconsciously channeling Cosmo since I saw the movie as an impressionable kid.
[to his henchmen] Cosmo: Kill my friend.
wait, radio—
wait, tv—
wait, social media is going to control the world.
radio: media
tv: media
facebook: media
All prior guesses have always been right, but information control changes name and shape every few decades. :)
Reminds me of the transformation of the character Media to New Media in the TV show American Gods.