The Ideology of Too Old to Die Young - "The Tower" monologue

- [Radio Voice] These clowns
are on the sidelines.

They're just white noise background
for the collapse of the American empire.

And when America falls, my friend,

then we are headed
back to the dark ages.

Are you feelin' me here?

Now do you understand what I mean
when I say dark ages?

I mean,

humans reduced to
roving bands of barbarians.

Animals!

That's what the dark ages were.

Little patches of humanity and society
surrounded by a sea of barbarian hordes.

And where there was society...

- [Viggo] Once there was
just men and nature.

Then men came bearing crosses.

We used to believe that we were
the center of the universe.

That the sun and the stars
all revolved around us.

And we spent the last years
since Copernicus in this slow crawl...

to where we are now,

to this pinnacle of human achievement.

Where we finally bent
nature to our will.

We split the atom.

We broke the fabric of reality.

That's how far we've come.

Now the lights of our cities stretch
further than the stars in the sky.

But the more perfect society gets...

the more psychotic we become.

We evolved through brutality.

That's why we had teeth and claws.

Self preservation was the highest law.

But as time went on...

the pack began to provide for us...

and we abandoned our violent nature.

But it never went away.

Laid beside us in our sleep.

Waiting.

And as it waited...

we became slaves to
the systems we built.

Now it's all falling apart.

Soon our cities will be
washed away by floods.

Buried in sand.

Burned to the ground.

That's why you found me.

Because you're no longer
blind to all this.

When I was in the bureau...

I got shot in the head.

I lost my eye.

My body deteriorated.

And I died for three minutes.

But when I came back from the other side,
everything was clear to me.

It was like I'd been given a gift.

As the world fractures...

Someone...

Someone has to be there
to protect innocence.