SPOILER ALERT! CONTENT TAKEN FROM EPISODE #1 OF SEASON #3 OF MR. ROBOT!
"The revolution will not be televised! The revolution is here!", from Gil Scott, can also be heard in "The 6th sense" from the album "Like water for chocolate" by Common
- [Darlene] Go fuck yourself!
- [Elliot, thinking] (Darlene's right... I can't trust them. This was too easy. But at least I stop them, for now. I can go home knowning that.)
- [Elliot, speaking loudly] But was she right about me? Am I sticking my head in the sand? Did my revolution just bury our minds, instead of freeing them? Encrypting Evil Corp's data was meant to empower us. Instead, it left us powerless, scaring us into even more submission. I am not going to get rid of the invisible hand. Turned it into a fist that punched us in the dick. And like a botnet, the fear I created is spreading so fast, it's practically airborne. It's swallowed us whole, digested us, and now we're stuck in its asshole, waiting to be dumped out. And while we're here, they're having their way with us. They packaged a fight into product. Turned our dissent into intellectual property. Televising our revolution with commercial breaks. They backdoored into our minds and robbed our truth, refurbished the facts, then marked up the prices. This is what they do. It's what they're good at. This is their greatest trick.[1]
- [Frank, on TV, in distorted voice] To try and bring the truth. They're trying to take that away. And now they're moving to the next step. Yeah, next step. You know what the next step is?
- [Elliot, speaking loudly] Lobotomizing us into their virtual reality horror show.
- [Frank, on TV, in distorted voice] Why? So they can take away your power, and I am not talking about your electricity.
- [Elliot, speaking loudly] And this all started because... I tried to hide from society. Remember? Fuck society. Yeah, well, I fucked society, all right. I reset it to zero, and if I don't do anything about it, it will continue to grow in this malignant way. And that's what I'm afraid of the most. This dark future that I set into motion. Who knows what could come from this?
- [Donald Trump, on TV] Thank you, thank you very much.
- [Elliot, speaking loudly] What if instead of fighting back, we caved, gave away our privacy for security, exchanged dignity for safety, and traded revolution for repression? What if we choose weakness over strength?
- [Donald Trump, on TV, in distorted voice] These are not the people that made our country great. These are the people that are destroying our country.
- [Elliot, speaking loudly] They'll even have us build our own prison. This is what they wanted all along. For us to buy in on our worst selves. And I just made it easier for them. I didn't start a revolution. I just made us docile enough for their slaughtering.
Elliot in Mr. Robot, season 3, episode 1
streets of Bei-dai-he, People's Republic of China (2007)
[1] That is what capitalism is precisely good at: “co-opting”; capitalism has co-opted everything from Che Guevara to punk, from anarchism to feminism, and converted everything, including all types of dissents, into (commercial) products.
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