Name: The Lie We Live
Uploaded: 2018-09-26T12:16:23.000Z
Duration: 8 min 25 s
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At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything

To-infinitive

So what's stopping us from doing what we want, being where we want to be.

Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path

to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure.

Along the way something changed.  Before our days were timeless

Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free?

Food. Water. Land. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations.

There's no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams

If you try and take what the earth provides you'll be locked away.

We discover the world through a textbook.

For years we sit and regurgitate what we're told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab.

Raised not to make a difference in this world. Raised to be no different.

but not to question why we do it. So we work and work

left with no time to live the life we work for.

Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job

Our children take our place in the game. To us our path is unique

but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite

The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations

This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground

We build their cities. We run their machines. We fight their wars.

After all, money isn't what drives them. It's power.

Money is simply the tool they use to control us.

They gave us money, and in return we gave them the world.

Where there were trees that cleaned our air, are now factories that poison it.

Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks.

Where animals ran free are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction.

Over a billion people are starving despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go?

70% of the grain we grow is fed to the animals you eat for dinner

Why help the starving? You can't profit off them.

Tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live

We see everything as something to be sold. As an object to be owned.

But what happens when we have polluted the last river? Poisoned the last breath of air?

Have no oil for the trucks that bring us our food?

When will we realize money can't be eaten, that is has no value?

We aren't destroying the planet. We're destroying all life on it.

Every year thousands of species go extinct.

And time is running out before we're next.

If you live in America there's a 41% chance you'll get cancer.

Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans.

We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems.

But medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.

We're told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists

so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away.

But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit.

but really we're running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume.

and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals.

The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases.

But we don't see this. The small group corporations that own the media don't want us to

Surrounding us with a fantasy we're told is reality.

It's funny to think humans once thought the earth was the center of the universe

but then again now we see ourselves as the center of the planet.

We point to our technology and say we're the smartest.

But do our computers, cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are?

But when you strip that away, what are we?

How quickly we forget only within the past 100 years did we allow women to vote.

We act as if we're all knowing beings yet there's much we fail to see.

We walk down the street ignoring the little things.

The eyes who stare, the stories they share.

Seeing everything as a background to "me".

Perhaps we fear we're not alone. That we're a part of a much bigger picture.

We're okay killing pigs, cows, chickens, strangers from foreign lands.

But not our neighbours. Not our dogs, our cats, those we have come to love and understand.

Yet we point to them to justify our actions.

But does killing simply because we can, because we always have make it right? Or does it show how little we've learned.

That we continue to act out of primal aggression, rather than thought and compassion.

One day this sensation we call life will leave us.

Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected.

Death constantly surrounds us. Still it seems so distant from our everyday reality.

We live in a world on the verge of collapse.

The wars of tomorrow will have no winners.

For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution.

If we all look at our innermost desire, we will see our dreams are not so different.

We tear the world apart looking for joy, without ever looking within ourselves.

Many of the happiest people are those who own the least.

But we we really so happy with our iPhones, our big houses, our fancy cars?

We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met.

We witness the extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else.

We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It's two sides of the same coin.

We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created.