WEBVTT 00:00:00.979 --> 00:00:04.227 At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything 00:00:04.666 --> 00:00:07.259 Instead you sit alone before a screen. 00:00:07.259 --> 00:00:11.400 So what's stopping us from doing what we want, being where we want to be. 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.910 Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path 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. 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.220 Along the way something changed. Before days for timeless 00:00:23.220 --> 00:00:25.890 now our days are scheduled. 00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:29.870 Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free? 00:00:29.870 --> 00:00:32.659 But are we really free? 00:00:32.659 --> 00:00:38.630 Food. Water. Land. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. 00:00:38.630 --> 00:00:42.320 There's no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.400 No land to build a home. 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:48.430 If you try and take what the earth provides you'll be locked away. 00:00:48.430 --> 00:00:51.230 So we obey their rules. 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:53.400 We discover the world through a textbook. 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. 00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:03.670 Raised not to make a difference in this world. Raised to be no different. 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:04.640 Smart enough to do our job 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.869 but not to question why we do it. So we work and work 00:01:08.869 --> 00:01:12.300 left with no time to live the life we work for. 00:01:12.300 --> 00:01:14.390 Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job 00:01:14.390 --> 00:01:16.850 It is here we're left to die 00:01:16.850 --> 00:01:20.630 Our children take our place in the game. To us our path is unique 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:25.520 but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:27.829 The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations 00:01:27.829 --> 00:01:32.170 This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground 00:01:32.170 --> 00:01:34.650 It is us. 00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:38.530 We build their cities. We run their machines. We fight their wars. 00:01:38.530 --> 00:01:42.260 After all, money isn't what drives them. It's power. 00:01:42.260 --> 00:01:45.000 Money is simply the tool they use to control us. 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.710 Worthless pieces of paper we depend on 00:01:47.710 --> 00:01:51.680 to feed us, move us, entertain us. 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.180 They gave us money, and in return we gave them the world. 00:01:55.180 --> 00:02:00.600 Where there were trees that cleaned our air, are now factories that poison it. 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:04.300 Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. 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. 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? 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.000 70% of the grain we grow is fed to the animals you eat for dinner 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.130 Why help the starving? You can't profit off them. 00:02:22.130 --> 00:02:23.700 We are like a plague sweeping the earth. 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:26.560 Tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.350 We see everything as something to be sold. As an object to be owned. 00:02:31.350 --> 00:02:35.180 But what happens when we have polluted the last river? Poisoned the last breath of air? 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:38.690 Have no oil for the trucks that bring us our food? 00:02:38.690 --> 00:02:42.150 When will we realize money can't be eaten, that is has no value? 00:02:42.150 --> 00:02:47.620 We aren't destroying the planet. We're destroying all life on it. 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:50.300 Every year thousands of species go extinct. 00:02:50.300 --> 00:02:52.870 And time is running out before we're next. 00:02:52.870 --> 00:02:56.090 If you live in America there's a 41% chance you'll get cancer. 00:02:56.090 --> 00:03:00.000 Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.940 We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems. 00:03:01.940 --> 00:03:06.470 But medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. 00:03:06.470 --> 00:03:09.810 We're told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:12.320 so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away. 00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:16.000 But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.100 We think we're running for a cure 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. 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:27.500 and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.300 The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases. 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 00:03:35.730 --> 00:03:40.200 Surrounding us with a fantasy we're told is reality. 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:44.280 It's funny to think humans once thought the earth was the center of the universe 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.500 but then again now we see ourselves as the center of the planet. 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:52.200 We point to our technology and say we're the smartest. 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:56.680 But do our computers, cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are? 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:00.250 Or do they show how lazy we've become. 00:04:00.250 --> 00:04:02.470 We put this civilized mask on. 00:04:02.470 --> 00:04:05.490 But when you strip that away, what are we? 00:04:05.490 --> 00:04:09.100 How quickly we forget only within the past 100 years did we allow women to vote. 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:12.560 Allow blacks to live as equals. 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. 00:04:17.019 --> 00:04:19.399 We walk down the street ignoring the little things. 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.000 The eyes who stare, the stories they share. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.900 Seeing everything as a background to "me". 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. 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:33.810 But we fail to make the connection 00:04:33.810 --> 00:04:38.840 We're okay killing pigs, cows, chickens, strangers from foreign lands. 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. 00:04:44.650 --> 00:04:46.910 We call other creatures stupid 00:04:46.910 --> 00:04:49.200 Yet we point to them to justify our actions. 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. 00:04:56.180 --> 00:05:01.000 That we continue to act out of primal aggression, rather than thought and compassion. 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:04.380 One day this sensation we call life will leave us. 00:05:04.380 --> 00:05:07.440 Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected. 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:09.700 Yesterday's actions all the remain. 00:05:09.700 --> 00:05:15.000 Death constantly surrounds us. Still it seems so distant from our everyday reality. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.250 We live in a world on the verge of collapse. 00:05:19.250 --> 00:05:22.200 The wars of tomorrow will have no winners. 00:05:22.200 --> 00:05:26.900 For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution. 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. 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:35.300 We share a common goal. Happiness. 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:40.700 We tear the world apart looking for joy, without ever looking within ourselves. 00:05:40.700 --> 00:05:44.000 Many of the happiest people are those who own the least. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:49.000 But are we really so happy with our iPhones, our big houses, our fancy cars? 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.000 We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.340 We witness the extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else. 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:08.800 We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves. 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. 00:06:13.410 --> 00:06:18.600 We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created. 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.600 But the world remains the same. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.860 We fail to realize the politicians don't serve us. 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:26.500 They serve those who fund them into power. 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. 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:37.300 Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see. 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:39.600 We didn't get to this point by sitting on our asses. 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.280 The human race survived not because we are the fastest or the strongest 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:46.200 but because we worked together. 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:53.200 We have mastered the act of killing. Now let's master the joy of living. 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. 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. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:13.650 We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever. 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. 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 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:25.290 because here today we have an opportunity we never had before. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.000 The internet gives us the power to share a message and unite millions around the world. 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. 00:07:37.270 --> 00:07:41.020 For better or worse our generation will determine the future life on this planet 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. 00:07:47.290 --> 00:07:50.290 Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards 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. 00:07:56.340 --> 00:08:01.240 This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to. 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.319 We are the faces of all who came before us 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. 00:08:11.900 --> 00:08:16.740 Life is not a movie. The script isn't already written. 00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:20.000 We are the writers. This is your story. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.800 Their story. 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.449 Our story.