Please help support us on Patreon, read our goals here: https://www.patreon.com/truthstreammedia As context is very important for all videos; this message is to confirm that the purpose of this video is reporting on or documenting the content. Note that we make an effort to research for context and cite our sources when necessary. Truthstream Can Be Found Here: Our First Film: TheMindsofMen.net Our First Series: Vimeo.com/ondemand/trustgame Site: http://TruthstreamMedia.com Twitter: @TruthstreamNews Backup Vimeo: Vimeo.com/truthstreammedia DONATE: http://bit.ly/2aTBeeF Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bbxcWX ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*­~*~*~*~*~ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJtVAS0UR8

How Henry David Thoreau Looks at Our Lives Today - This short film takes a revealing look into our own lives. Short excerpts from Walden are juxtaposed with amazing visions of modern society -- the vivid dreams and hollow fixtures of television-driven culture, Edward Bernays' manipulated consumer world, built on advertising, propaganda, constant entertainment, cheap credit, perpetual debt and escapist illusions -- all predicted by Henry David Thoreau in the mid-1800s, experimenting with life in the woods. "Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?" Thoreau asks. The American Dream is exposed as a Ponzi scheme based upon public facades and false images of success. As Thoreau rightly points out, men have become the tools of their tools, and have forgotten their higher purpose. Concentrated urban life, driven by technology, has replaced natural scenery; houses, cars, decorations, ornaments and possessions entrap their owners and reduce them to mere cogs in the system. Modern slavery continues in foreign factories shipping baubles to global destinations, where the latest fashions and distractions please busy 9-to-5 worker bees unaware of any larger purpose, without any sense of destiny. "The false society of men — — for earthly greatness All heavenly comforts rarefies to air." Melissa Melton reads key passages from the Thoreau's Walden, in the first chapter on Economy. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_ReTBxOR8

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Please help support us on Patreon, read our goals here: https://www.patreon.com/truthstreammedia Truthstream Can Be Found Here: Our Film: TheMindsofMen.net Site: http://TruthstreamMedia.com Twitter: @TruthstreamNews Backup Vimeo: Vimeo.com/truthstreammedia DONATE: http://bit.ly/2aTBeeF Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bbxcWX ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*­~*~*~*~*~ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzA3VvUp_Ks