Are you out there...?

Are you out there...?
As some of you may know, I like to try to write some thoughts and share them every day.
Not necessarily in professional blogging style, just more free flow stream of thought.

And I miss some days when I'm too busy or can't think of anything for whatever reason, but today... I want to talk about the movie series I've been working on called "Are You Out There?"

The first one I released a couple years ago or so, and.. It's only received a little bit over a thousand views on YouTube, so.. Not really a huge hit by any means.. However.. The feedback I did get was pretty monumental to me.. People told me watching it made them change their lives to try to be more respectful to our world, other people, the environment and the animals. And.. That feedback let me know I was on a good track/path.

When I started the movie.. I wasn't even vegan yet.. By the time I released it to the public.. I was.
I had seen Earthlings growing up and it made me go vegetarian for a long time, however.. I slowly reverted back to eating meat as my family ate such and it was cheaper to just eat what everyone else was eating so to speak.

It's a bad excuse I know, it was mental laziness and.. I didn't totally "get it" yet. I'm not proud of it. The reason I bring it up though is to illustrate that I was aware of some of the horrors of factory farms and in my movie I included some pretty gnarly footage as well.

That wasn't really what made me change ultimately though I had a spiritual epiphany after meeting a woman who showed kindness to a fly, and that sparked my changes the most I think.. I was sorta just saying at the time that.. "Hey.. This is out of balance, we need to look at this and reflect and slow down"

And even though I'm vegan now, I still try to express similar sentiments to people who choose to continue to eat animal products.. PLEASE at least slow down.. Collectively it's too much! It's going to fuck us up. Every little bit helps that you can reduce your impact. There's a ton of adverse effects to too much consumption and some of them even threaten the very survival of our species based on the research I've seen.

I had based my movie series off the Koyaanisqati series which I watched when visiting family when I was around 20 years old and was released back in the 1980s which painted a sort of similar story that people were out of balance, they used no words.. Just pictures and music to show how out of balance we're becoming as a species. It was a powerful movie for me.

Now almost 40 years later things are worse than ever! At least in our recorded history, maybe there were civilizations in the past that were worse off and wiped themselves out. I dunno... But.. It's bad!

And while my series does have some narration, I tried to keep it limited and let the pictures speak for themselves as much as possible. I also worked with Bonnie Legion on the narration and had her help for music as well as numerous other musicians and.. I went a lot further. I showed some of the worst of it, and.. I go into politics and secret societies and impoverished peoples as well.

I also touch on love and beauty and kindness and I try to balance the movie out itself and not be just all dark and bad.

I understand well that some people and even one person in my own family refuse to even watch the movie because they know what's in it. They don't want to see slaughterhouse footage or victims of war. So.. I understand where some people are coming from in a sense that.. They don't wanna see it.

Though I personally believe we need to look at these things in order to try to understand them better in order to try to address and repair or fix them if that is possible.

There's been quotes that go along the lines of.. "If the media showed us what really happens in war the wars would end tomorrow".
And "If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegan".

While I don't necessarily agree with those quotes 100% and I think there will be outliers who continue to prey and abuse others, I do think there's an important message there and that we could DRASTICALLY reduce these things by bringing more attention to them.

One of the problems I realize is that.. Even if you show people some of this stuff, it doesn't matter if they don't care.. So.. It's not as easy as just showing these things.

We also have to try to encourage and cultivate an atmosphere of "love" or "compassion" or "care" in order for this to mean anything.. If no one cares, then who cares. It means nothing if people don't care. People have to care first, and then see what's happening and then try to do something about it.

Anyways.. I don't want this to be too long or it cuts down significantly on the amount of people who will read it.
To cut to the point.. I've been rendering Are You Out There part 2 Where's your line? for the last couple of days. :D

If my computer doesn't freeze.. It should be done... sigh.. Probably in around 4 days at the rate it's going.. Might be sooner, but looks like this might take almost a whole week to render.

I need a new computer. And.. It is a long movie though! Which is another disclaimer.. I don't expect a lot of people to watch just cause it's so long.

It's over 2 hours long.. The first one was around 45 minutes I think.. Yet I felt it was important and I already cut hours from it, it could have been so much longer.. Yet even cutting like a madman I felt anything less was robbing the viewer of part of the bigger picture.

So for anyone who genuinely wants to know this kind of stuff, and if a couple hours is fine to them.. It will be available there on YouTube until it likely gets deleted and censored cause the people in power can't handle reality and allowing the people to see reality.

Eventually, I'm going to move the video and all of my other videos to Dtube on the steem blockchain where I will not be able to be censored again like that so easily.

Though.. I'm essentially saying.. I'm putting this piece of artwork out and.. I'm willing to be banned for it. I'm willing to lose the channel I worked on for years which has a video me and my father worked on that has close to 25 thousand views, because.. I'm trying to get a message of truth out there and.. If YouTube can't handle it.. Then I guess YouTube will censor me.

I thought about making another channel, but they'll probably just ban that one too if they want to. They're out of control and that's what happens when you try to censor peoples opinions who harm no one.

If I get banned and censored, so be it. I've made a line. Where's yours? Do you even have a line? Have you ever thought about it? How much horrible stuff has to happen in the world before you try to do something about it?

Some of you clearly have already thought about it and are likeminded to me and are doing things to help and that's why we're connected and you're even reading this in the first place.. But quite a few on my friends list are normal people who don't really delve into the scary reality of the world very much. Quite a few of these people care more about partying than they do about trying to save our species from potential extinction. And.. I just want to try to politely remind and bring their attention to the fact that there's a lot of bad stuff happening in the world and we need more people to care and help.

Thank you for your time. And.. Bye until next time.

Here's a link to part 1 if you'd like to check it out. And if everything is good on the sequel and I don't have to edit anything else.. Then I should be releasing that in around a week probably.