! (Speech)

Final Speech (From The Great Dictator) Charlie Chaplin

*! (Speech)* is the sixteenth public video to be uploaded to the Komplot Group Band's YouTube channel.

## Transcription

[0:00]: Picture 1

[0:03]: Video 1: Charlie Chaplin’s speech from *The Great Dictator*.

[3:49]: End.

## Details

*! (Speech)* is the second video on the Komplot channel to have an inverted colour scheme. It is also the first video that uses an excerpt from a movie. Instead of using white on black, tilde uses black on white.

The video shares this trait with *~ (Silence)*. Together these videos create a duality in that tilde represents silence and exclamation is speech. The tilde and exclamation symbols are also “negation”, especially in Boolean: ~ is mathematical “not”. ! Is computer science “not”. It is also interesting to note that “!” Is Γ as in Gamma function extends the factorial over complex numbers.

The *433* and *431* videos bear similar thematic symbolism in that both *433* and *431* are white on black, have their titles as all numbers, and also have the “listen” / “neglect” tag pair. This could indicate *~ (Silence)* and *! (Speech)* are dualities for 433 and 431.

The hat of Charlie Chaplin is also a black hat, suggesting a connection to the "mafia" tag seen in the *Dawn of the KGB* and *Twilight of KGB* videos.

The description says “Farewell Ι.” which means *! (Speech)* is a funeral speech of sorts for the death of Iota. It is also interesting that ! as a symbol is an inverted “i”, which serves as an interesting parallel to the inverted “ssh” silence from *~ (Silence)*. *~ (Silence)* also uses identical audio progression that of *Lament of I*.

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"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, Gentile, Black Man, White, we all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. And this world has room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent, and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power, the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future, and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise! They never will! Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!" - Charlie Chaplain as Adenoid Hynkle from *The Great Dictator*.