Communicating the Need for Something New
For all the blood, sweat, and tears over the years environmentalists
have spent in their efforts to assuage the ongoing crisis concerning
so many vital aspects of our environment, it’s become clear
true progress cannot be obtained by a mere understanding of the
scientific facts alone, regardless of how thorough, or uncontested
these facts have become within the scientific community itself.
TRUE progress, looked at in light of what
the science, itself, is dictating as being absolutely mandatory,
means unreserved political buy-in from the top down. As
long as government, however, continues to insist upon
incorporating environmental measures only so long as they fall
within their strictures for economic growth, and as long as
economic growth equates to
the unsustainable rates of fossil & uranium fuel, rainforest,
and natural habitat consumption & pollution, then
it is the very politico-economic component of this equation itself which
now must be just as thoroughly examined, understood, and transformed
by our own efforts, accordingly.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people are
disasterously unaware of how this critical, "economic growth"
component of the aforementioned equation truly operates. After
all, it's not as if "Fractional Banking 101" is being
taught in our schools (where most American History books you'll
find today have, not Jefferson, but - literally - "Wells
Fargo Bank" adorning their covers instead); this, despite
the fact it's been the mainstay force behind our politico-economic
course ever since just before the Great Depression...
 There
is a reason Henry Ford once declared, "It is well that
people do not understand our banking and monetary system because
if they did, I am afraid there would be a revolution tomorrow".
It's the very same reason which drove former President Woodrow
Wilson to declare, six years after signing the Federal Reserve
Act into law on Dec 23, 1913, "I am a most unhappy man.
I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation
is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is
concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be
one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled
and dominated governments in the civilized world, no longer a
government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction
and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion
and duress of a small group of dominant men."
So it is in the face of this predicament do
we wake and finally see what has come of us. For the
relatively few who received, or gave themselves, a proper education
in American History, it should strike home as being quite odd
that one couldn't mention a subject considered more boring in
our modern school system than that very one concerning how our
nation came to be...
Now more and more families find themselves
bereft of even hearth and home due to the falling dollar and
insupportable interest rates, and all they were doing to begin
with was affording the most which they could afford; something
we are all advised upon doing when purchasing such a sure-bet
item as a home. Even the ones who've paid their mortgages in
full will find they lack the final say should some faceless corporation
decide their land would be put to better use under
Eminent Domain, however.
Faceless corporations taking ownership of lands
their officers never walked upon, commiting vast expanses of
our very nation into nothing more than commoditized assets for
their ever-remote and collectivist dictates. And all the while
now... we go from one generation to the next with an education
system unwilling to illuminate us as to even the most basic intricacies
of politico-economics...
"If the American People ever allow private
banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation
and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property
until their children wake up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
Why is this quote, and the legions more regarding
the true purpose that drove these men to risk their lives for
what we inherited, missing from our class books today?
What's needed is an impact which effectively
inspires, informs, and accelerates the replacement of a global
lifestyle with one that works.
So what is Going
to Work?
Designed to look, upon introduction, like the
most viscerally spellbinding portions of an upcoming, major motion
picture trailer (green screen prefixed and all), and combined
- exclusively - with a special instrumental track by the internationally
acclaimed group, Depeche Mode, Going to Work is a short,
artistic, environmental film production with a twist. Within the
two minutes it comprises, it covers the issues of pollution, sprawl,
the rat race, deforestation, apathy, indigenous
people & wildlife habitats, lifestyles & their effects
on the environs, waterways, and a simple yet inspiring impetus
for change, with an irresistible beckoning for viewers to learn
more.
It is not of a nature that is likely to be familiar
to its audience, yet this provocation only works towards its benefit,
as Going to Work actually only BEGINS to start "going
to work" - to its critical capacity - at the precise moment
of its completion. Here, the presentment of the words, "Alternatives
Exist", is followed with the enticement to visit SleepingNatives.org,
wherein the public at large may determine for themselves what's
only been intimated at above, and in droves much, much larger
than any economics poster could possibly beget.
Who are we?
Sleeping
Natives Productionsis a non-profit, limited company founded and
comprised by the three film & television professionals responsible,
collectively, for writing, producing, and directing not only
an environmental documentary for Channel4 (UK) on the denigration
of Siberian forests, but a Gold Award winning film on drug awareness
(Rome Festival); music video productions for the likes of Gwen
Stefani, Cypress Hill, Polygram, Knight Frank & Rutley, and
Beggars Banquet Records; plus commercials for companies such
as Nike, Oil of Olay, British Airways, Firestone, the Royal Navy,
the Royal Air Force, and Shell (UK & Int.).
We believe our formula is the vital step forward
towards engendering an effectively transformational event within
our society, on more than one level, to be sure. Contact us with
any questions you may have about what you've read thus far; there's
a lot of information to share. It may sound a bit crazy, but then
any true catalyst for change, by definition, would be expected
to, at first anyway.
Needless to say, you'll also find we won't
be having Shell pay for the production, so, naturally, it falls
on us to make it clear at this point that what we need in order
to make this happen is your support. As it's a totally non-profit
organization, all sums are for production costs alone, which
in themselves are actually quite low, considering the nuances
of the production.
Our audience
is there; they are you, they are us, they are everyone. Most
importantly, they are ready. For them, rest assured, we will
connect the dots.
If you can, please help us cast our net.
Philip de Souza,
Founding Writer & Producer
Sleeping Natives Productions
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