3rd #Industrial #Revolution - #JeremyRifikin - #Vice #Documentary

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-the-third-industrial-revolution-a-new-story-for-the-human-family/5a79c759f1cdb34df33d5811

#No More #Guns - No More #Killing! #Swords into #Plowshares!

I love and respect our US Constitution but it has and will evolve as we do. People who think otherwise do not know their history or that of the Constitution that has already with many amendments added since ratification in 1791 - not 1776! - As well as Supreme Court and Congress decisions counter balancing the Bill of Rights like the common sense exception to 1st Amendment Free Speech - no yelling fire in building that is not on fire etc. My father was a military guy who owned a gun but I despise guns because all they do is kill. But I am not against defending yourself but without killing on purpose whoever attacks- and am also a vegetarian since i was a teen many moons ago to be consistent in my beliefs but I do not practice what the ancient Hindu extremists Jains called Ahimsa = no killing at all. I do eat fish occasionally, kill bugs that come near my kitchen counter and even wear leather and eat some dairy products - but I am 85% there - which is good enough for me right now. Anyway, I am a supporter of the second amendment at this point in history even though I hate guns - but not military weapons for average citizens! Yet I also believe in what Gandhi practiced with much success - Satyagraha = Truth Force. He was not passive by any means in his life time of dedicated Social Work on 3 continents that culminated in freeing India from 200 years of British Imperialism rule via militant civil disobedience - some people did die and many were beaten but none killed or shot back. I think most agree that killing is the worse sin/ bad Karma a person can do. Now that we have Gandhi example and Martin Luther King's successful Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century as proof of the valid nature of the non-violent approach to conflict - which does a moral jujitsu on people's conscience - that all possess - humans are ready to make a quantum leap to a higher level of consciousness where we truly live up the the platitude that all life is sacred - because we never have so far on a mass world wide level - but it (peace - swords into plowshares and lion lays with lamb) will happen if we survive this nuclear and bio-tech age. Thus the need for guns is really not necessary if you choose to make a vow of peace and never to kill a fellow human, which is basically playing God and that is blasphemy - and surely the bad karma that comes with such a vile action will not help you advance in the next life. There are still many lessons to be learned. We are still very primitive in our behavior toward one another. I met a very smart and talented jazz musician recently who said he did not care about all the isms - said if everyone was just nice to each other - the rest would take of itself. Words of wisdom.

Florida student #Survivor to #NRA and #Trump: 'We call BS'

Need to Shift Away from #GDP Consumption System or else future is Very Bleak!

https://www.cnnmoney.ch/shows/newsmaker/videos/graeme-maxton-recycling-not-answer-global-warming

Mel Blanc, The Man of 1000 Voices [1981] - AMAZING TALENT !!

#Greed is a #Sickness #Destroying the #World

The gorilla in the room is greed and Bill Gates - generous as he is - represents all that is wrong with our overly speculative casino like Wall Street model capitalism. The .01% of the planet (mostly USA) possess the majority of wealth and it has only grown exponentially in the last 20 years with the explosion of the worldwide multi-national, corporate, myopic, quarterly based economy that has only served to make the filthy rich 1% more filthy and rich. Historically, extreme stratification of society into the haves and have-nots is a recipe/precursor to bloody revolution. Yet we arrogant contemporary 21st century people think we are immune to repeating ugly and violent history. But the current flow of empires and negative geopolitics tells the real story. There are solutions such as enforced trickle down economics aka Universal Basic Income UBI - and some of the younger, not-so-out-of touch rich folks like Musk & Zuckerberg are for it and understand its urgency in the face of 80% of Americans (and many other educated, working peoples around the world) who did everything right and yet are 2 paychecks from losing everything. A UBI would allow the majority of hard working peoples who are not adept at being creepy capitalistic sharks a chance at peace of mind and so instead of fighting with their spouses about money problems/paying bills (90% of couples' fighting), which in turn negatively affects the entire family unit and eventually manifests in angry populist and nationalistic movements in society - with UBI they could instead spend more relaxed quality time with their families and maybe even get involved in their communities as in healthy democratic civic duty/actions. There is no balance to our current broken neoliberal system - which includes our corrupted Democracy where leaders spend 50% of their time on the phone raising money for the next election cycle in quid pro quo politics as usual in the post Citizen's United plutocracy reality where the rich are running the show and if you go by the state of nature - are dragging us all to hell in a hand basket - all for more profits. Greed is a sickness that is destroying the world and yet we put these ridiculously rich people on the cover of magazines and worship them like the false idols they are. The APA should list greed as a mental illness/disease that requires immediate treatment and/or the person should be institutionalized to protect the rest of humanity. God bless this greedy man made mess!

Excellent #Documentary about Possible #Future #Scenarios - #Life & #Death

Excellent doc - that being said - glad I will be dead before these scenarios occur - too much!

https://nypl.kanopystreaming.com/video/future-work-and-death