Name: Culture in Decline | Episode #4 "War On Nature" by Peter Joseph
Uploaded: 2017-08-09T12:55:00.000Z
Duration: 29 min 24 s
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Blowing stuff up, watching people suffer and die, it's exciting!

Violence, domination, retribution and other attributes of this competitive

warring fascination clearly dominates our media

with films, television and other expressions constantly

glorifying and reinforcing this gesture of conflict.

In fact, it has been found that by the time an average kid

he or she has visually witnessed over 8,000 depicted acts of murder.

Given all of this, it might make you wonder:

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?

Likewise, isn't it interesting how most of us in America sleep quite well at night

while our military forces routinely invade,

slaughter and steal from other nations at will;

as, of course, all global empires have done historically,

with, this time, a global civilian death toll well over 1 million

in the past decade alone, many of them women and children.

Yet, the same American culture shudders in horror and confusion

when some dude stumbles into an American schoolyard and randomly wipes out

I ask you, by what measure do we differentiate importance

when it comes to the death of different groups of people?

While history is certainly full of xenophobic, racist, religious

and nationalist conceits which have served as convenient justifications for

external dehumanization, subjugation and imperial power abuse,

a rather unnoticed yet profound scientific truth has also emerged:

Today, every person on Earth can trace his or her lineage

back to a single common female ancestor who lived about 200,000 years ago.

proving indeed that we are truly one family.

Likewise, the planet Earth, the habitat this family shares, it knows no division.

It is a unified, synergistic system at every turn, fully connected.

It has no idea what a nation, a politician or a racist is.

It has no notion of any such human conceit, for that matter;

in the order of nature by which we're all invariably subject.

"Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his country,

under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations,

and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense

to grab slices of other people's countries,

and keep them from grabbing slices of his.

And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands

and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'- with his mouth."

While we all love to give lip service to the idea of peace and collaboration,

holding up icons such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

something underneath the surface is clearly holding us back.

that if we took the total war budgets of all the nations on Earth

(tens of trillions of dollars over the past quarter century alone)

and applied that energy-producing capital towards creating

an advanced, intelligent, efficient system of Earth/Human management,

not only would poverty and most deprivation be removed from our lives on the global scale

our progressive capacity to create, build and improve

could catapult the human family into an age of prosperity

Just imagine. If we took America's Pentagon or Britain's Northwood

along with all the world's advanced military centers,

OK, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be harsh.

I guess we have to do something with them.

Maybe we can just take them all and place them in the Grand Canyon

and just let them beat the piss out of each other,

and hopefully they'll get it out of their systems and move on.

I don't know, we'll figure that out later.

But we, as the intelligent, mature human family

now interested in improving the lives of all,

we use that incredible technology to help assist true developmental progress.

Imagine if the Manhattan Project, which harnessed about 130,000 people,

mostly scientists and technicians, was dedicated not

to building a bomb that could destroy on a scale never before seen;

but rather, utilizing that collaborative drive to solve true global problems,

which are causing the interest in war to begin with.

Today, the hyper-glorified, romanticized obsession with competition,

advantage and conflict has made it into almost every facet of our lives.

Not only do we declare war against virtually everything that annoys us:

'the war on drugs', 'the war on poverty', 'the war on crime',

'the war on terrorism', 'the war on cancer', you name it;

we also, apart from the near constant nationalist wars,

live in a perpetual state of common war or 'class war'

where we battle each other on a daily basis

for unnecessary economic survival and delusions of status.

The fact is, something has been set in motion

that keeps us all on a multilevel war path.

Something in our psychology and, hence, sociology is constantly pushing us

into justifications of these patterns, and as this episode will argue

that something appears to reside at the very foundation

a foundation which has given rise to an ever-expanding destructive neurosis

a neurosis clearly characteristic of a culture in decline.

This just in: The President has finished an emergency session at the White House

where he announced that the security focus of his administration

will be moving away from the global war on terror,

instead, focusing all available resources against something the administration

has deemed a larger threat to US and international security

than anything recognized before: Nature itself.

That's right, Dodge, the newly declared war against Nature

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