Mear One & Nosaj Thing – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class, Street Art Stop Motion (Video)

Mear One & Nosaj Thing – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class, Street Art Stop Motion (Video) | Third Monk image 1

A stop motion video with Mear One painting a thought provoking mural in London.

Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith
Music by Nosaj Thing

I came to paint a mural that depicted the elite bank cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellrs, Morgans. The ruling class, the elite few, the Wizard of Oz. They will be playing a board game of monopoly on the backs of the working class. A symbol of the free mason pyramid rises behind this group, behind that is polluted world of coal-burning nuclear reactors.

I started noticing that the people were giving me some strange looks. I was feeling some serious heat and anger from them. I continued to try to express my intent but they were not trying to hear me. I felt that I was all alone.

The next day I painted in the bankers in with the playing board and noticed that people started to become more curious.

My third day, I got the working class holding up the game board painted in, and the people were smiling saying how much they were enjoying the evolution.

Come the fourth day, there was a street festival going on, and the people were engaging me on the subject matter of the mural,  old white men to Muslim children were explaining how us Americans were spending beyond our means and how we don’t understand what our military does around the world.

My mind was blown, this whole experience transformed my whole understanding of the game. I finished my mural, drank a beer, smoked a joint, and converesed with the people My dream to paint a mural that would rally people together and inspire conversatan of things that matter was just realized. – @mearone

Mear One – The Economic Monopoly of the Ruling Class Gallery

 

 

 

Barefoot Gen – Animation by a Survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing (Video)

Barefoot Gen - Animation by a Survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing (Video) | Third Monk

In this clip from the Barefoot Gen anime, a survivor gives us an idea of how a flash in the sky brutally changed his world. 

The survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing are treated as low-level citizens shunned by the rest of society. Supporters of the bombings argue that Japan deserved it for playing their part in the war. They are condemning the wrong people, innocent people should not be blamed for the actions of their malicious governments.

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I Met the Walrus – John Lennon Blacklisted by the US for Promoting a Peaceful Revolution (Video)

I Met the Walrus - John Lennon Blacklisted by the US for Promoting a Peaceful Revolution (Video) | Third Monk

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 

Levitan: John could you please tell us what the situation is with you and your entry into the United States?

Lennon: A lot of people don’t want me in , they think I’m going to cause a violent revolution, which I’m not. And the others don’t want me in because they don’t want me to cause peace either, because war is big business, y’know, and they like war because it keeps them fat and happy. And I’m anti-war so they’re trying to keep me out. But I’ll get in, because they’ll have to own up in public that they’re against peace.

Joe Rogan – Nationalism is Primitive, Society is Funded by War (Video)

Joe Rogan - Nationalism is Primitive, Society is Funded by War (Video) | Third Monk

Joe Rogan delivers an important message about uplifting society to a higher consciousness that can see through the illusions that divide us.

Artificial Boundaries Are Used to Manipulate the Uninformed

We all have this desire to have someone lead us. We all have this feeling where we need someone smarter, wiser to represent us. The problem is really dumb people have a say too and they’re subject to a lot of tricks. They’re subject to nationalism, they’re subject to these ridiculous rah rah America speeches that don’t say jack shit. They say nothing, it’s all just this fucken cheerleading event. They can’t help it, they’re dumb, they don’t know that they’re being bullshited. They grew up with dumb people, they go to work with dumb people, there’s no one in their family that’s interesting or asks any questions at all, and they just get sucked in right into it.

The Sacrifice of Many for the Pleasure of the Few

This society is so greedy, we’re willing to go to war. We’re willing to go places and send these big metal machines that kill people and fuck people up just so we can make more money. And the way our society is set up, I’ve heard it argued, and argued successfully that our society runs on war. It runs on the domination of other parts of the world. Literally, that’s how they control a large chunk of the world, they have to keep everyone down.

Woody Harrelson – Thoughts From Within, a Stoner Poem on Society (Video)

Woody Harrelson - Thoughts From Within, a Stoner Poem on Society (Video) | Third Monk

Woody expresses his stoner observations on the world, our environment, the government and his hope for change.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

I sometimes feel like an alien creature
for which there is no earthly explanation
Sure I have human form
walking erect and opposing digits,
but my mind is upside down.
I feel like a run-on sentence
in a punctuation crazy world.
and I see the world around me
like a mad collective dream.

An endless stream of people
move like ants from the freeway
cell phones, pc’s, and digital displays
“In Money We Trust,”
we’ll find happiness
the prevailing attitude;
like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac
is somehow symbolic of food.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

Politicians and prostitutes
are comfortable together
I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather.
This government was founded by, of, and for the people
but everybody feels it
like a giant open sore
they don’t represent us anymore
And blaming the President for the country’s woes
is like yelling at a puppet
for the way it sings
Who’s the man behind the curtain pulling the strings?

A billion people sitting watching their TV
in the room that they call living
but as for me
I see living as loving
and since there is no loving room
I sit on the grass under a tree
dreaming of the way things used to be
Pre-Industrial Revolution
which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted
before Parkinson’s, and mad cows
and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas
like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers
like Monsanto and Dupont had their way
as they continue to today.

This was Pre-us
back when the buffalo roamed
and the Indian’s home
was the forest, and God was nature
and heaven was here and now
Can you imagine clean water, food, and air
living in community with animals and people who care?

Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down
are you going to make the rich man richer
or are you going to stand your ground
You say you want a revolution
a communal evolution
to be a part of the solution
maybe I’ll be seeing you around.

~ Woody Harrelson

Graham Hancock – It’s Not A War On Drugs, It’s A War On Consciousness (Video)

Graham Hancock - It's Not A War On Drugs, It's A War On Consciousness (Video) | Third Monk

Graham Hancock: Western culture has criminalized and demonized all experiences involving altered states of consciousness and any substances that put us into an altered state of consciousness. And this is clearly a war over consciousness that’s going on.

It’s clear that our societies have an investment in preventing us from exploring where altered states of consciousness will lead us. Perhaps there is a deep fear that if we do explore those altered state of consciousness, we will not accept the power structures and the fairytale illusion of material wealth that we’re all brought up to pursue as though that’s the only thing to existence.

If I, as an individual, am not sovereign over my consciousness, if I cannot decide what to do with my consciousness, which is the heart of my being, then I am not free, and I need not talk about freedom or living in a free society, or such issues as democracy, if my society will not allow me to explore my consciousness. If, in an altered state of consciousness, my behavior is disruptive in the public arena, then that behavior  should rightly be controlled by society. But the personal and private exploration of our own consciousness  is our own business, in my view, and is not the business of the State.

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Jacque Fresco Interview on Larry King Live 1974 (Video)

Jacque Fresco Interview on Larry King Live 1974 (Video) | Third Monk

Back in 1974 Jacque Fresco was told he was a man before his time. Observe this Larry King interview and see for yourself. See that he is not a man before his time but a man trying to change the social culture of his time (and for good reason).

This is a new science: socio-cyberneering. And this is its inventor, the extraordinary Jacque Fresco. He’s my guest this weekend on News Weekend. My guest is an extraordinary Miamian: Dr. Jacque Fresco. I could go through all the things that Dr. Fresco has done. He’s a social engineer, industrial engineer, designer, inventor, was a consultant for Rotorcraft Helicopter, Director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles, designed and copyrighted various items, ranging from drafting instruments to X-ray units, has had works published in the Architectural Record, Popular Mechanics, Saturday Review, and has been a technical and psychological consultant to the motion picture industry, member of the Air Force design and development unit at Wright Field, developed the electrostatic anti-icing systems, designed prefabricated aluminum houses.