THE ROLE OF PROPHETS THROUGH TIME
Yesterday today and tomorrow, time remains the same. We are prophetic, timeless voices. The message of truth that we spread is one that has existed in the past and one that is relevant today. It is a portant of what is to come. What is reality? What is true? Nature is the ultimate reality. It is a system that has survived billions of years. It has survived five massive extinctions that wiped out a majority of life on the planet. It is a brutal system, but it is one that works. It is a balance of chaos and order.
THE MODERN ECONOMY: A SHALLOW SYSTEM WITH NO ROOTS IN HISTORY
What is not working is the world economy today. The economy on a global scale is only 50 years old. The ideas it was founded upon, these democratic and capitalist industrial systems are only 200 years old. Repeatedly they have come to the verge of near collapse and have barely survived. The people who preside over this system, they are like drug addicts, they are like the heroin junkie who is looking for one last vein that has not been poisoned, because all the other ones are dead. These people are addicted to debt. They don't want things to change, because for the present, they're living in a party. They are living in an opulence - as Van Jones said - that even the wealthiest pharaohs are rolling in their graves and wishing that they could have.
These people who preside over our system, they are a wealthy one percent who own more than 50% of the total wealth on the planet. A handful of Walmart heirs in America owns more wealth than the bottom 40 million poorest people in America; and these are the people who tell us that life has never been better. That there's never been greater individual freedom. These people are spreading a lie, because all realistic studies show that slums are growing, that poverty is growing and that the population itself is expanding rapidly. There will be billions more new people in the middle of the century.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC DEBT BUBBLE
But can these billions of people survive when we are poisoning the water, when we are poisoning our soil, when we we have destructive systems that are poisoning our planet - will there be enough food? Will there be enough water? Already the CIA is projecting wars over water - a simple commodity. It is very difficult to look at these trends and not see a massive tsunami of bloodshed ahead, because what we have is not only an economic bubble but we have the environmental bubble. And when these pop at same time, look out below.
THE DICTATORS TO COME
Now what is going to happen, if the system can't get its act together and it would be nice if it could - the ideal would be a peaceful democratic solution that could instill the drastic solutions that we need to live on this planet in an environmental and conscientious way - that would be ideal. What will happen if our leaders cannot get their collective asses together is that this will all be swept away by a series of brutal dictators. How do we know this? Because we have an understanding of history, we have an understanding of time. If you look at history, if you look at 5000 years of human written history, any civilization that actually mattered, any civilization that had a long-term history and future is ruled by authoritarian rule - a series of God Kings, a series of Pharaohs, the Caesar's and so on.
THE HISTORICAL FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY
Democracy as a system is an aberation in history with very little track record. It was a failure in Greece- and we shouldn't say Greece because they weren't a unified civilization. We should say in a City State, it was a failure. It was a failure in Rome and the Republic lead to endless Civil War and violence and bloodshed and eventually when Caesar came to wash the system went away, he was hailed as a living God. So we know that if this system can't get its act together, that a brutal dictator - a series of dictators around the world - will come to power and they will make the drastic calls, they will make the tough decisions necessary needed for life on this planet, for human beings and nature to survive and it is not likely that everyone will get to make it to the party.
DICTATORSHIP: THE ALTERNATIVE TO CIVIL WAR
Now this sounds terrifying, this sounds scary, but the reality is that is that this is actually a more peaceful solution then if there were no dictators. Because if this were the case, there would be endless chaos, endless violence, and endless bloodshed over who gets to live and who gets to die. So our goal as prophets is to look at historical trends, to look at the present-day realities, to look at the future to come and see what kind of people will rise to power and what will they do? And where will they come from? These are the realities ahead that we need to think about and we need to paint the visions of the future and tell the story of what is to come.