The world is coming to an end The air is polluted. The oceans contaminated. The animals are going extinct. The economies collapsed. Education is shot. Police are corrupt. Intelligence is shunned and ignorance rewarded. The people are depressed and angry. We can't live with each other and we can't live with ourselves, so everyone's medicated. We pass each other on the streets and if we do speak it's meaningless robotic communication. More people want 15 seconds of fame than a lifetime of meaning and purpose because what's popular is more important than what's right. Ratings are more important than the truth. Our government builds twice as many prisons and schools It's easier to find a Big Mac than an apple. And when you find the apple, it's been genetically processed and modified. Presidents lie. Politicians trick us. Race is still an issue, so is religion. Your God doesn't exist, my God does and he is all loving If you disagree with me I'll kill you or even worse, argue you to death. 92% of the songs on the radio are about sex. Kids don't play tag, they play twerk videos. The average person watches 5 hours of television a day and it's more violence on the screen than ever before. Technology is giving us everything we could ever want and at the same time stolen everything we really need. Pride is at an all-time high Humility and all-time low. Everybody knows everything. Everybody's going somewhere, ignoring someone, blaming somebody. Not many human beings left anymore. A lot of human doings. Plenty of humans lingering in the past. Not many human beings. Money is still the root of all evil. Yet we tell our kids don't get that degree the jobs don't pay enough. Good deeds are only done when there's a profit margin. Videos are the misfortunes of others go viral. We laugh and share them with our friends to laugh with us. Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be. There are states where people can legally be discriminated against because they were born a certain way. Companies invest millions of dollars hiring specialists to make little girls feel like they need make-up to be beautiful permanently lowering their self-esteem because they will never be pretty enough to meet those impossible standards. Corporations tell us buy, buy, buy! Get this! Get that! You must keep up, you must fit in, this will make you happy, but it never does for long. So what can we do in the face of all this madness and chaos what is the solution? we can love Not the love you hear in your favorite song on the radio. I mean real love, true love, boundless love. You can love. Love each other from the moment we wake up, to the moment we go to bed. Perform an act of kindness because that is contagious. We can be mindful during every interaction planting seeds of goodness, showing a little more compassion than usual We can forgive because 300 years from now, will that grudge you hold against your friend, your mother, your father have been worth it? Instead of trying to change others, we can change ourselves. We can change our hearts. We've been soaked in lies. Brain-washed by our leaders and those we trust and not recognize our brothers and sisters who exhibit anger, hatred, and cruelty, but once we truly love we will meet anger with sympathy, hatred with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the Earth. Robert Kennedy once said that few will have the greatness to bend history but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation So yes, the world is coming to an end and the path towards a new beginning starts within you. you
I don't get why people don't think the solution is love. Do you think it's something external or outside us? Humans must start to truly operate on unconditional love before anything external changes. This video is to evoke a feeling inside of you. What i've learned from psychedelics is to trust your heart and intuition more than analyzing and thinking so hard about everything. Feel more and think less.
Just leave this here.
Prince EA is a smart guy and this is appropriate as he is trying to spread positive consciousnesses. He does offer an immediate solution to the world's issues, he says "We can Love". If everyone was a bit more compassionate and loved, a lot of the world's problems would just fade away.
While /r/videos may have been a better place for this, I want to thank you for posting anyways. Regardless of the other comments here, handing in a pretty hard takedown to you, the message in the video is not improper for these times.
For those that would downvote: Yes, it lacks immediate solutions, and offers a broad view of the issues we face, but it's not wrong. It's not. It's a message that is explicit, and serves as a quick reminder of the overall directional goal. It's lofty, yes, but it's not wrong. The world can be shit, and it may be that pop culture has taken a dive, but we're all just expressing our deepest, darkest shit in the form of popular culture these days. We as a society don't repress our demons as we used to in past decades, and until we realize how dark it actually is, we have no hope of redirecting ourselves.
I see this message as a signpost, a beacon. Take it as you will, but don't pass it up because it looks cheesy or doesn't have LSD and mind expansion plastered all over it. It doesn't have to be about that.
I enjoyed this video - it's a good message, thanks for posting OP.
Beautifully articulated message. I was happy to see this here, thank you for posting.
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