what to do now??

I recently ran upon a friend of mine blog that he wrote. I watched the movie and I don't know what to say, he said it perfectly so read below, watch the movie, and come to the conclusions you want for yourself. Enjoy Jesse's words....

I've just finished watching the recent film Zeitgeist, and I am having to take some deep breaths to compose myself so that I can write this blog in a calm and rational way.

The first thing I want to do is say that I hope we can all agree that there are some very sad and scary events taking place in the world right NOW. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... Civil wars and genocide in Africa... Increasing poverty and economic recession as well as decreasing education and health standards in the United States and many other countries.,, And all the while a near constant stream of fear based propaganda is being churned out by major media outlets around the globe.

What is happening? What is it all pointing towards? If you say, "Nothing, it's just human nature to fight" or 'That's the way the world works... Life isn't fair" then most likely you are probably just unaware of events in the past that prove that very often a small group of people are responsible for large scale human events such as war, economic fluctuations, presidential elections, assassinations, as well as the shockingly corrupt creation and manipulation of religious institutions.

However, I don't feel like I can explain this idea as well as the film, so I am literally BEGGING you to watch this movie AS SOON AS POSSIBLE... and then to spread it TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

I do want to say that as with anything that someone is telling you, including this blog, this movie should be watched with a degree of skepticism. However, the main point of the film is to encourage independent thinking... and no one should be opposed to that idea.

I am struck right now by this feeling that time is of the essence. I am imagining that I am a citizen of Germany pre-World War II and that I have just been given an outline of the terrible destruction that my patriotic and popular president Adolf Hitler is about to unleash across Europe, and also the ability to do something to stop it.

Never before has there been a time when people can quickly share ideas across the entire planet like they can today. The most important thing right now is the education of the average citizen of whatever country you're in. We need to learn from the tragedies of the past. The drama of a powerful minority controlling and oppressing the uninformed majority has played itself out over and over... usually ending on some small level temporarily by some sort of violent revolution. But right now we have the power to stop the bleak (and unfortunately, totally believable) future that this movie predicts before it happens by raising enough awareness in the general population to prevent the powerful minority from pursuing their selfish, corrupt, and arrogant desires.

Go watch the movie and then check the sources for yourself online and learn how to get involved in the Activism section of the website.

http://zeitgeistmovie.com

Thanks for your time and your optimism and your love.
JrC