[Music]
Gentle Machine Productions presents
A Peter Joseph Film
From an anthropological perspective
our civilization has passed through three major transformations.
The Neolithic Revolution some 12,000 years ago
and hence the dawn of agriculture.
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century introduced mechanization,
rapidly advancing productivity.
And of course the post-scarcity revolution that we now know as
the great transition, which began at the turn of the 22nd century.
THE GREAT TRANSITION
I would describe the pre-transition period as a race:
a race between human wisdom and complete societal catastrophe.
Which is what happens when a technologically advanced culture isn't mature enough
to understand the nature of its own power.
It's easy for us to look back and wonder
how the insanity of that time went on for as long as it did.
I mean here we were as a species sitting on vast scientific potentials
to ease social stress, improve public health and
find harmony with our habitat,
and yet our cultural baggage was so great,
loyalties to bogus political, religious and economic philosophies,
so strong, that we barely made it to the more stable world of today.
And how did we get to this great transition? Well,
it was quite the drama.
The traditional avenues of that world's so-called democracies
certainly provided no such route.
It would take the rise of a kind of apolitical subculture,
a subculture existing far outside of the dominant establishments,
to help guide our civilization in the right direction, and
I must say it is quite the story.
[Newscaster] They call themselves Concordia
after the ancient Roman goddess of harmony.
The pro-revolution hacktivist group,
world-famous after a decade of subversion,
suffered a major blow this week with the capture of leader John Taylor.
- John!
- Simon.
– Boy, are you a sight for sore eyes.
- Is this really necessary?
- Yeah, I'm afraid so.
It was just last year they breached the accounts of the world's
richest CEOs, extracting some 1.6 trillion dollars,
moving that money into virtually traceless charity donations worldwide.
- I assume you know why you're here
and not in some vassal state being tortured, right?
- Theatrics.
[Chuckles]
So what exactly is this place?
I feel like I’m in a badly rented sci-fi movie.
We on a spaceship?
- Only spaceship Earth.
A year before that they jammed both Chinese and American defense systems
during the Saudi annex crisis,
disabling thousands of warheads,
a move which some on the left claimed
might have saved the world from World War 3.
And in 2045 they leaked emails
revealing how major Wall Street investment firms
lobbied the CIA, Mossad and MI6
to help procure monopoly control of rare-earth metals in Asia.
[Political Prisoner]
I think we agree this is unprecedented
to have a designated terrorist group
becoming a pop culture fascination,
with public support of their anti-government and anti-corporate actions.
Their published manifesto has been downloaded
100s of millions of times,
with thousands of supporting groups out there in social media.
Adapted from the book The New Human Rights Movement
comes a story about The Greatest Revolution of All Time
[Phone ringing]
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