1 00:00:00,979 --> 00:00:04,227 At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything 2 00:00:04,666 --> 00:00:07,259 Instead you sit alone before a screen. 3 00:00:07,259 --> 00:00:11,400 So what's stopping us from doing what we want, being where we want to be. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,910 Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path 5 00:00:14,910 --> 00:00:19,200 to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,220 Along the way something changed. Before days for timeless 7 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:25,890 now our days are scheduled. 8 00:00:25,890 --> 00:00:29,870 Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free? 9 00:00:29,870 --> 00:00:32,659 But are we really free? 10 00:00:32,659 --> 00:00:38,630 Food. Water. Land. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. 11 00:00:38,630 --> 00:00:42,320 There's no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,400 No land to build a home. 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,430 If you try and take what the earth provides you'll be locked away. 14 00:00:48,430 --> 00:00:51,230 So we obey their rules. 15 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:53,400 We discover the world through a textbook. 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,620 For years we sit and regurgitate what we're told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab. 17 00:00:58,620 --> 00:01:03,670 Raised not to make a difference in this world. Raised to be no different. 18 00:01:03,670 --> 00:01:04,640 Smart enough to do our job 19 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,869 but not to question why we do it. So we work and work 20 00:01:08,869 --> 00:01:12,300 left with no time to live the life we work for. 21 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:14,390 Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job 22 00:01:14,390 --> 00:01:16,850 It is here we're left to die 23 00:01:16,850 --> 00:01:20,630 Our children take our place in the game. To us our path is unique 24 00:01:20,630 --> 00:01:25,520 but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,829 The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations 26 00:01:27,829 --> 00:01:32,170 This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground 27 00:01:32,170 --> 00:01:34,650 It is us. 28 00:01:34,650 --> 00:01:38,530 We build their cities. We run their machines. We fight their wars. 29 00:01:38,530 --> 00:01:42,260 After all, money isn't what drives them. It's power. 30 00:01:42,260 --> 00:01:45,000 Money is simply the tool they use to control us. 31 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,710 Worthless pieces of paper we depend on 32 00:01:47,710 --> 00:01:51,680 to feed us, move us, entertain us. 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,180 They gave us money, and in return we gave them the world. 34 00:01:55,180 --> 00:02:00,600 Where there were trees that cleaned our air, are now factories that poison it. 35 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,300 Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. 36 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:10,139 Where animals ran free are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction. 37 00:02:10,139 --> 00:02:15,000 Over a billion people are starving despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go? 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 70% of the grain we grow is fed to the animals you eat for dinner 39 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,130 Why help the starving? You can't profit off them. 40 00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:23,700 We are like a plague sweeping the earth. 41 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:26,560 Tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,350 We see everything as something to be sold. As an object to be owned. 43 00:02:31,350 --> 00:02:35,180 But what happens when we have polluted the last river? Poisoned the last breath of air? 44 00:02:35,180 --> 00:02:38,690 Have no oil for the trucks that bring us our food? 45 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:42,150 When will we realize money can't be eaten, that is has no value? 46 00:02:42,150 --> 00:02:47,620 We aren't destroying the planet. We're destroying all life on it. 47 00:02:47,620 --> 00:02:50,300 Every year thousands of species go extinct. 48 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:52,870 And time is running out before we're next. 49 00:02:52,870 --> 00:02:56,090 If you live in America there's a 41% chance you'll get cancer. 50 00:02:56,090 --> 00:03:00,000 Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. 51 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,940 We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems. 52 00:03:01,940 --> 00:03:06,470 But medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. 53 00:03:06,470 --> 00:03:09,810 We're told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists 54 00:03:09,810 --> 00:03:12,320 so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away. 55 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,000 But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit. 56 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,100 We think we're running for a cure 57 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:22,600 but really we're running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume. 58 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,500 and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. 59 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,300 The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases. 60 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:35,730 But we don't see this. The small group corporations that own the media don't want us to 61 00:03:35,730 --> 00:03:40,200 Surrounding us with a fantasy we're told is reality. 62 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,280 It's funny to think humans once thought the earth was the center of the universe 63 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,500 but then again now we see ourselves as the center of the planet. 64 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:52,200 We point to our technology and say we're the smartest. 65 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,680 But do our computers, cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are? 66 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,250 Or do they show how lazy we've become. 67 00:04:00,250 --> 00:04:02,470 We put this civilized mask on. 68 00:04:02,470 --> 00:04:05,490 But when you strip that away, what are we? 69 00:04:05,490 --> 00:04:09,100 How quickly we forget only within the past 100 years did we allow women to vote. 70 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,560 Allow blacks to live as equals. 71 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,019 We act as if we're all knowing beings yet there's much we fail to see. 72 00:04:17,019 --> 00:04:19,399 We walk down the street ignoring the little things. 73 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,000 The eyes who stare, the stories they share. 74 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,900 Seeing everything as a background to "me". 75 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:31,720 Perhaps we fear we're not alone. That we're a part of a much bigger picture. 76 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,810 But we fail to make the connection 77 00:04:33,810 --> 00:04:38,840 We're okay killing pigs, cows, chickens, strangers from foreign lands. 78 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:44,600 But not our neighbours. Not our dogs, our cats, those we have come to love and understand. 79 00:04:44,650 --> 00:04:46,910 We call other creatures stupid 80 00:04:46,910 --> 00:04:49,200 Yet we point to them to justify our actions. 81 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:56,180 But does killing simply because we can, because we always have make it right? Or does it show how little we've learned. 82 00:04:56,180 --> 00:05:01,000 That we continue to act out of primal aggression, rather than thought and compassion. 83 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:04,380 One day this sensation we call life will leave us. 84 00:05:04,380 --> 00:05:07,440 Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected. 85 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,700 Yesterday's actions all the remain. 86 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:15,000 Death constantly surrounds us. Still it seems so distant from our everyday reality. 87 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,250 We live in a world on the verge of collapse. 88 00:05:19,250 --> 00:05:22,200 The wars of tomorrow will have no winners. 89 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,900 For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution. 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,500 If we all look at our innermost desire, we will see our dreams are not so different. 91 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:35,300 We share a common goal. Happiness. 92 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:40,700 We tear the world apart looking for joy, without ever looking within ourselves. 93 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:44,000 Many of the happiest people are those who own the least. 94 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 But are we really so happy with our iPhones, our big houses, our fancy cars? 95 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,000 We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met. 96 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,340 We witness the extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else. 97 00:06:04,340 --> 00:06:08,800 We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves. 98 00:06:08,810 --> 00:06:13,410 Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It's two sides of the same coin. 99 00:06:13,410 --> 00:06:18,600 We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created. 100 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,600 But the world remains the same. 101 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,860 We fail to realize the politicians don't serve us. 102 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:26,500 They serve those who fund them into power. 103 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:33,500 We need leaders, not politicians. But in this world of followers we have forgotten to lead ourselves. 104 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:37,300 Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see. 105 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:39,600 We didn't get to this point by sitting on our asses. 106 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,280 The human race survived not because we are the fastest or the strongest 107 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:46,200 but because we worked together. 108 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:53,200 We have mastered the act of killing. Now let's master the joy of living. 109 00:06:58,780 --> 00:07:03,600 This isn't about saving the planet. The planet will be here whether we are or not. 110 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,000 Earth has been around for billions of years. Each of us will be lucky to last eighty. 111 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,650 We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever. 112 00:07:13,650 --> 00:07:18,400 I often wish I lived in an age before computers. When we don't have screens to distract us. 113 00:07:18,430 --> 00:07:22,300 But I realize there's one reason why this is the only time I want to be alive 114 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:25,290 because here today we have an opportunity we never had before. 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:31,000 The internet gives us the power to share a message and unite millions around the world. 116 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,270 While we still can we must use our screens to bring us closer together rather than farther apart. 117 00:07:37,270 --> 00:07:41,020 For better or worse our generation will determine the future life on this planet 118 00:07:41,020 --> 00:07:47,200 We can either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of our existence remains. 119 00:07:47,290 --> 00:07:50,290 Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards 120 00:07:50,290 --> 00:07:56,300 but rather falling down. We just have screens in our faces so we don't see where we're heading. 121 00:07:56,340 --> 00:08:01,240 This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to. 122 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,319 We are the faces of all who came before us 123 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:11,100 And now it is our turn. You can choose to carve your own path, or follow the road countless others have already taken. 124 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:16,740 Life is not a movie. The script isn't already written. 125 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:20,000 We are the writers. This is your story. 126 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,800 Their story. 127 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,449 Our story.