eNewsChannels COLUMN: Is anyone paying attention? Is anyone outraged? If not, go see “Inside Job” a “Wall Street-damning documentary,” as well as “The Company Men.” Both films show that it was not those “greedy homeowners who bought houses they couldn’t afford” that threw this country and the world into the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. It was Wall Street and the mega-banks, in the crime of the millennium.
Foreclosures have broken all records. Attorneys General throughout the country are conducting investigations into big bank mortgage fraud. Over 5,000,000 homes have been seized so far by banks who in fact lack legal standing to foreclose, and another 5,000,000 homes will likely be seized before this is over. That’s a lot of roofs over a lot of heads. What is happening to all those families? Do you really want to know? It’s a nightmare.
There has been a coup in this country – an insidious takeover facilitated by our belief in bottom-line profit as the only mechanism to prosperity. This Industrial Age mindset has been robbing our children of their spirits for centuries – creating educational systems that provide the workplace with the “survival of the fittest” mentality needed to operate a competitive economic system.
This entire system is collapsing – look around you – ask those smiling folks behind you at the grocery store what is really going on in their lives. We are like chickens with our heads cut off, running around as though everything is OK. Well, everything is not OK, and the chicken eventually figures out it’s missing its head and drops.
What’s been missing is the heart, and systems with no heart can’t survive. But the human spirit will prevail. There’s a new American Dream waiting to be actualized – one of cooperation, caring, nurturance, trust. We can lead the way. It’s our job, our response-ability.
Go see “Inside Job.” Director Charles Ferguson closes the film with a call to action: “Some things are worth fighting for” he says, as the camera flies over the Statue of Liberty. Are we going to let our fear rob humanity of the great promise America made in its freedom documents – a Nation of the People, By the People and For the People, with liberty and justice for all? I don’t think so!
DO SOMETHING! Use the power of intelligence, education, and Spirit gifted you to ensure that our children and their children have an economic system and a country that serves the realization of the human potential.
Video Trailer for “Inside Job.”
Article is Copr. © 2011 by Connie Baxter Marlow. eNewsChannels.com. All rights reserved.
Connie Baxter Marlow, filmmaker, photographer, writer and speaker is a futurist who feels she has discovered missing pieces to the prevailing paradigm. For 15 years she has been creating forums for dissemination of this missing information primarily through the voices of visionary indigenous elders. She has been speaking at colleges, universities, high schools and independent events around the country on a variety of inspirational topics. Her unique worldview gives her a positive, uplifting approach to history, current events and possible solutions that is inspiring. Connie is producer of an upcoming foreclosure crisis film “COPS ‘n ROBBERS vs THE PEOPLE: the Death and Rebirth of the American Dream.” A movie of the People, by the People, for the People. Taking the High Road to INSPIRE AMERICA to its higher conscience. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1658993755/cops-n-robbers-vs-the-people-an-optimistic-film .
