In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth… in a world where 34,000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases, and where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day… one thing is clear: Something is very wrong.
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— Peter Joseph
This user has traveled to different parts of the world.
Hello, my name is Michael and I think the way we run our society today is completely unsustainable, and if we continue to live our lives the way we do it will lead to our self-manufactured demise. We cannot continue to support the monetary system, which induces and even encourages self-interest, conflict, debt, poverty, perpetual waste and more. New money is created out of debt, and due to this cycle - we will never be free from debt so long as we have money. We are trapped in this system because the vast majority of people do not see the main problems with it.
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Americans have been conditioned in their kind of society to get a different kind of car next year, to buy a new television set or a tape recorder. We are radical as hell, though our political and social institutions have not changed, and this is where we are stagnating; because we always equate any new idea with communism or regimentation, because we've been brought up to fear that which is new.
It can be proven beyond much doubt that governments lie to the public - its a recurring fact, shown by history again and again. The sinking of the Maine, the Reichstag Fire, the Mukden Incident, Operation Ajax, Operation Northwoods and now 9/11. What changes is the reasons for which we are lied to. There's usually some form of profit invloved, but the severity of mis-truth can vary wildly. How can people not see that the media corporations - private enterprises run for profit by people who are not elected - can say what they like? So of course they'll lie! We have evidence at every corner to disprove what we are told.
I do not speculate about a worldwide Jewish plot to own all the oil, or a plan for world domination by reptilian shape-shifters. People such as Alex Jones for instance seem to make up scary stories because they cannot see whats really going on. I use evidence to come to my conclusions, and the evidence I have seen tells me that radical social change is far more important than how corrupt any government is, or how poisoned any vaccine could be.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
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