此刻酒来，你本可以在任何地方做任何事卢未，但你卻獨自坐在屏幕前。究竟是什么在阻礙我們做想做的事役首，到想去的地方尝丐？
每天我們都在同樣的房間醒來，遵循同樣的生活軌跡衡奥，過著和昨天同樣的生活爹袁。曾幾何時每一天都是一場新的冒險，然而某種改變發(fā)生了矮固，曾經(jīng)的一天沒有時間的束縛失息，如今的一天卻被各種計劃占據(jù)。難道這就是長大后的生活档址？
我們追求著所謂的自由盹兢，可是我們真的自由嗎？
食物守伸、水绎秒、土地、礦產(chǎn)資源......所需要的生存元素都被大企業(yè)所壟斷尼摹。樹上沒有食物见芹， 河里沒有清水，沒有土地來建造家園蠢涝。沒錯玄呛，如果你嘗試享用地球所供給的東西，你就已經(jīng)被關(guān)在了牢籠之中和二。于是我們服從他們的規(guī)定徘铝。
我們開始習(xí)慣了通過教科書來了解世界，多年來我們坐在教室里機械式地被灌輸千篇一律的知識惯吕，像試驗品一樣被測試和評分惕它，而不被鼓勵去改變世界、做與眾不同的人废登。聰明到能夠完成眼下的工作卻從不質(zhì)疑為什么要這樣做怠缸。于是我們不停地工作，無暇享受自己心目中追求已久的生活钳宪。直到肉體衰老無力行動揭北，我們的一生就會在此止步，而我們的孩子則會代替我們繼續(xù)這一場游戲吏颖。
我們總覺得自己的人生是獨特的搔体。但實際上，我們加在一起不過是燃料而已——驅(qū)動著精英們的燃料半醉。那些隱藏在大企業(yè)商標后的精英們疚俱，這是他們的世界。
他們最有利的資源不在地下缩多，而是我們呆奕。
我們建造他們的城市养晋，操作他們的機器，殘殺于他們的戰(zhàn)爭.......說到底驅(qū)動他們的不是金錢梁钾，而是權(quán)利绳泉。金錢只是他們用來控制我們的工具而已。是那幾張用來滿足我們溫飽姆泻、娛樂零酪、交通的毫無價值的紙張。他們付錢給我們拇勃，而我們卻把整個世界拱手相讓：曾經(jīng)為我們進化空氣的森林四苇，如今化作廢墟，成為了一座座污染大氣的工廠方咆；曾經(jīng)我們?nèi)∷嫷那宄汉恿髟乱福F(xiàn)在卻被臭氣熏天的有毒廢料所占據(jù)；曾經(jīng)動物們自由奔跑的土地瓣赂，成了養(yǎng)殖屠殺動物的工廠化農(nóng)場罗售，以飽我們口腹之欲；我們的糧食能夠喂飽全世界钩述，但卻有超過十億人每天在忍饑挨餓寨躁。
也許你會問，糧食都到哪里去了牙勘？70%都用于喂給了我們要吃的動物职恳。為什么不把這些糧食供應(yīng)給饑民們？回答：因為饑民們不能為大企業(yè)營造價值和利益方面。
人類如今似乎成為了一種肆虐地球的瘟疫放钦，把賴以生存的環(huán)境破壞的支離破碎。萬物在我們眼里都被淪為了可被買賣和占有的東西恭金。但當我們污染了最后一條河流操禀，毒化了最后一絲純凈的空氣，沒有汽油供卡車來運送食物給我們時横腿，會怎樣呢颓屑？我們何時才能意識到毫無價值的錢是不能吃的？
我們并不是在毀滅地球耿焊，而是在毀滅地球上的其他生靈揪惦，每年，成千上萬的物種瀕臨滅絕罗侯，很快就將輪到我們器腋。
如果住在美國，你將有41%的幾率患上癌癥。每三個美國人中就有一人將死于心臟病纫塌。我們以為吃處方藥就可以解決問題诊县，但也許你并不知道，醫(yī)療是僅次于癌癥和心臟病的第三大死亡主因措左。我們被告知只要付錢給科學(xué)家就可以解決一切問題依痊，這樣他們就能研發(fā)藥物治療我們的病，但醫(yī)藥公司和癌癥協(xié)會正因為我們飽受疾病之苦才有利可圖媳荒；我們以為堅持跑步就能遠離疾病抗悍，但實際上我們卻在逃離問題的根源——吃什么樣的東西就會有什么樣的身體驹饺，而我們的食品不過是商家牟利的工具钳枕。我們不斷把有毒化學(xué)添加劑塞入自己的身體，我們吃的動物也已經(jīng)被藥物和激素感染赏壹，但是我們卻什么都看不見鱼炒，因為那些掌控媒體的企業(yè)不讓我們看到。
我們活在一個被我們視為真實的幻象世界里蝌借。
有趣的是昔瞧，人類曾以為地球是宇宙的中心，現(xiàn)在我們又妄想自己是地球的中心菩佑。我們指著我們的科技成果囂張地宣布我們是最聰明的物種自晰，但是電腦、汽車稍坯、機器人真的能夠證明我們多聰明嗎酬荞？還是揭露了我們變得有多懶惰？我們戴著這個美其名曰“文明”的面具瞧哟，但當面具被摘下時我們是什么混巧？這么快我們就忘了“允許女性參與投票”、“承認黑人和我們平等”這些轉(zhuǎn)變也不過是近100年的事情勤揩，我們表現(xiàn)的好像自己全知全能咧党，但是我們沒有看到的卻還有太多太多。我們走在街上無視那些渺小的事物陨亡，那些看著你眼睛傍衡、急于被訴說的故事。我們會覺得一切都是襯托自己的背景负蠕。
可能是我們擔(dān)心自己不再獨一無二聪舒，擔(dān)心自己只是滄海一粟，我們忽略了同是地球公民的其他生命虐急，我們覺得殺豬箱残、牛、雞乃至其他國家的陌生人沒有問題，卻又不允許鄰居被辑、貓和狗那些我們理解和愛的人和動物被傷害燎悍。我們聲稱其他生物很愚蠢，卻又將槍口對準他們來為自己的行為辯護盼理。但僅因為殺戮在我們能力范圍內(nèi)谈山、常常伴隨我們就代表了殺戮是正當?shù)膯幔窟€是說殺戮體現(xiàn)了我們有多無知宏怔？
我們的行為總帶著原始人般的侵略性奏路，而不是文明人該有的理智和慈悲‰铮總有一天鸽粉，這種被稱作生命的感知能力將離開我們。我們的軀體將會腐爛抓艳，我們的財物將變成記憶触机。昨天的一切未曾改變，死亡雖然不斷地圍繞著我們玷或，但又好像與我們的日常生活相去甚遠儡首。我們活在一個瀕臨崩潰的世界，明天的戰(zhàn)爭將沒有勝者偏友，因為暴力永遠都不能成為答案蔬胯。暴力只會毀滅每一個可能的答案。
如果每個人都能靜下心來審視自己內(nèi)心最深處的渴望位他，就會發(fā)現(xiàn)我們的夢想并非那么天差地別氛濒。大家都有一個共同的目標——快樂。為了尋求物質(zhì)享受棱诱，我們把這個世界折磨的支離破碎泼橘，卻從未嘗試審視自己的內(nèi)心。最快樂的人往往是擁有物質(zhì)最少的人迈勋。而我們有了iphone炬灭、豪宅、靚車之后就真的會快樂嗎靡菇？
人們之間的隔閡開始越來越深重归，以至于把從未見過的人當做偶像。我們見證著屏幕里的偉大事跡厦凤，卻在自己的生活中處處平凡鼻吮。我們坐等別人改變世界，卻從未想過要改變自己较鼓∽的荆總統(tǒng)選舉就像是拋硬幣违柏，不管那一面都是同一個硬幣。我們選擇自己想要的一面香椎， 仿佛參與了某種改變和選擇漱竖。但這個世界依舊一成不變，我們沒有意識到政治家不會為我們服務(wù)畜伐，他們不過是服務(wù)于贊助人的傀儡馍惹。我們需要的是領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者而非政治家。但在這個充斥著盲從者的世界里玛界，我們忘記了要做自己的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者万矾。
別再等待改變的到來，去創(chuàng)造你想要看到的改變吧慎框。我們能擁有今天的一切并不是一路坐著看著來的良狈。人類的幸存并不是因為我們最快、最強壯鲤脏，而是因為我們懂得合作们颜。我們已經(jīng)精通了殺戮的技巧吕朵，現(xiàn)在應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí)生命的美妙猎醇。這不是為了拯救地球，因為不管我們拯救與否努溃，地球依舊存在硫嘶。地球已經(jīng)存在了幾十億年，我們每個人有幸才能活到80多年梧税。我們只是時間長河中的一瞬閃光沦疾，但我們的影響確是永恒的。
我常常希望自己生活在電腦和網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界被建立之前的年代里第队，這樣我們才不會被凌亂繁雜的信息分散注意力哮塞。然而我意識到，我想要活在當下這個時代也是有原因的凳谦。因為今天我們有著前所未有的機遇——網(wǎng)絡(luò)給予了我們分享信息忆畅，聯(lián)合世界各地幾百萬人的力量。趁還來得及尸执，我們必須用網(wǎng)絡(luò)來拉近我們之間的距離家凯，而不是推得原來越遠。
無論好壞如失，我們這一代將決定這個星球的未來绊诲。我們要么繼續(xù)服務(wù)于這個自我毀滅的系統(tǒng)直到我們存在過的痕跡消失殆盡，要么覺醒褪贵，意識到自己并不是在向前進化而是在不斷衰敗掂之。我們把電子屏幕擺在眼前，所以看不到前路。過去的每一個腳步世舰，每一次呼吸橄镜，每一次死亡將世界帶領(lǐng)到了當下。所有的前人決定了我們今天的面貌》氤耍現(xiàn)在輪到了我們洽胶。你可以選擇開辟自己的道路，或是繼續(xù)無數(shù)前人走過的道路裆馒。
生活不是電影姊氓，劇本還未完成。我們就是編劇喷好。這是你的故事翔横，他們的故事，我們的故事......
片中作者提出了一系列尖銳的問題梗搅，重要的是禾唁，你的答案。
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The Lie We Live
At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything. Instead you sit alone beforea screen, so what’s stopping us from what we are doing what we want? Beingwhere 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. Now our days are scheduled.
Is this what it means to be grown up, to be free? But are we really free?
Food, water, land, the very elements we need to survive are owned by thecorporations. There is no food for us on trees, no fresh water in streams, no landto build a home.
If you try and take what the Earth provides, you’ll be locked away. So we obey their rules, we discover the world through a textbook. For years we sit andregurgitate what we’re told, tested and graded like subjects in a lab, raised notto make a difference in this world, raised to be no different, smart enough todo our job, 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 the daycomes we are too old to do our job. It is here (tomb) we left to die. Ourchildren take our places in the game.
To us our path is unique, but together we are nothing more than the fuel.
The fuel that powers the elite. The elite who hide behind the logos ofcorporations. This is their world, and their most valuable resources are not inthe gro und.
It is us.
We built their cities, we ran their machines, we fight their wars.
After all money isn’t what drives them, it’s power. Money is the simply tool they useto control us. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on to feed us, move us, entertain us.
They gave us money, and in return we give them the world.
Where there were 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,
We are like a plague sweeping the earth, tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live. We see everything as something to be sold, as an object tobe owned.
But what happens when we have polluted the last river, poisoned the last breath ofair, have no ail for the trucks that bring us our food? When will we realisemoney can’t be eaten, that it has no value?
We aren’t destroying the planet; we are destroying all life on it.
Every year thousands of species go extinct. And time is running out before we arenext. If you live in America there is 41% chance you’ll get cancer. Heartdisease will kill one of three Americans.
We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems. But medical care is thethird leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. We are toldeverything can be solved by throwing money at scientists, so they can discovera pill to make our problems go away.
But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit.
We think we’re running for a cure, but really we are running away from our cause. Our body is a product of what we consume, and the food we eat is designed purelyfor profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals. The bodies of animalsinfested with drugs and disease.
But we don’t see this.
The small groups of 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 human once thought the earth was the center of the universe, but then again now we see ourselves are the center of the planet.
We point to the technology and say we are the smartest, but do our computers,cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are? Or do they showhow lazy we’ve become?
We put this civilized mask on, but when you strip that away, what are we?
How quickly we forget that only within the past 100 years did we allow women tovote, allow blacks to live as equals.
We act as if we’re all knowing beings, yet there’s much we fail to see.
We walk down the streets ignoring the little things, the eyes who stare, thestories they share. Seeing everything is a background to “me”.
Perhaps we fear that we are not alone, that we are a part of a much bigger picture. But we fail to make a connection. We’re okay killing pigs, cows, chickens,strangers from foreign lands. But not our neighbors, not our dogs, our cats,those we have come to love and understand.
We call other creatures stupid, yet we point to them to justify our actions. Butdoes killing simply because we can, because we always have make it right? Ordoes it show how little we have 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, ourvaluables recollected. Yesterday’s actions all that remain.
Death constantly surrounds us, still it seems so distant from our everyday reality.
We live in a world on verge of collapse; the war of tomorrow will have no winners.For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution.
If weall look at our innermost desire, we will see our dreams are not so different. We share a common goal: happiness. We tear the world apart looking for joy, withoutever looking within ourselves.
Many of the happiest people are those who own the least. But are 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 extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else.
We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves.
Presidential election might as well be a coin toss. It’s two sides of a same coin. We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of changing is created. But the world remains the same.
We fall to realise that the politicians don’t serve us. They serve those who foundthem into power. We need leaders, not politicians. But in this world offollowers, we have forgotten to lead ourselves.
Stop waitingfor change.
And be the change you want to see.
We didn’t get this point by sitting on our asses. The human race survived not because weare the fastest or strongest, but because we work together. We’ve mastered the act of killing. Now let’s master the joy of living.
This isn’t about saving the planet. The planet is being here whether we are or not. Earth has been around for billions of years, each of us will be lucky to last eighty.
We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.
“I often wish I lived in an age before computers, when we didn’t have screens to distract us. But I realize there is one reason why this is the only time I wantto be alive. Because here today we have an opportunity we never had before.”
The internet gives us the power to share a message and unite millions around theworld.
“While we still can we must use our screens to bring us closer together rather thanfurther apart.”
For better or worse our generation will determine the future life on this planet. Wecan either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of ourexistence remains. Or we can wake up. Realize we are not evolving upwards butrather falling down. We just have screens in our faces so we don’t see where weare heading.
This present moment is what every step, every breath, and every death has led to. We are the faces of all who came before us.
And now it’s our turn. You can choose to carve your own path, or follow the road countless others have already taken.
Life is not a movie, the script isn’t already written.
We are the writers.
This is your story,
Their story,
Our story.
