Name: 我們生活的謊言 (The Lie We Live)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:54:49.000Z
Duration: 8 min 25 s

At this moment you could be anywhere doing anything

此刻你本可以在任何地方做任何事

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So what's stopping us from doing what we want, being where we want to be.

是什麼在阻礙我們做想做的事、去想去的地方？

Each day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path

to live the same day as yesterday. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure.

Along the way something changed.  Before our days were timeless

曾幾何時  每一天都是一次全新的冒險

Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free?

Food. Water. Land. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations.

There's no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams

If you try and take what the earth provides you'll be locked away.

We discover the world through a textbook.

For years we sit and regurgitate what we're told. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab.

Raised not to make a difference in this world. Raised to be no different.

生存必需的元素都被大企業掌控

but not to question why we do it. So we work and work

left with no time to live the life we work for.

Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job

如果你嘗試享用地球供給的東西  就會被關進牢籠

Our children take our place in the game. To us our path is unique

but together we are nothing more than fuel. The fuel that powers the elite

多年來  我們坐在教室裡機械地重複被灌輸的知識

The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations

This is their world. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground

而不被鼓勵去改變世界、做與眾不同的人

We build their cities. We run their machines. We fight their wars.

After all, money isn't what drives them. It's power.

Money is simply the tool they use to control us.

They gave us money, and in return we gave them the world.

我們的孩子會取代我們繼續這場遊戲

Where there were trees that cleaned our air, are now factories that poison it.

我們總覺得自己的人生是獨特的

Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks.

但我們加在一起不過是燃料(電池)而已

Where animals ran free are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction.

Over a billion people are starving despite us having enough food for everybody. Where does it all go?

那些隱藏在大企業商標後的精英們

70% of the grain we grow is fed to the animals you eat for dinner

Why help the starving? You can't profit off them.

Tearing apart the very environment that allows us to live

We see everything as something to be sold. As an object to be owned.

But what happens when we have polluted the last river? Poisoned the last breath of air?

Have no oil for the trucks that bring us our food?

When will we realize money can't be eaten, that is has no value?

We aren't destroying the planet. We're destroying all life on it.

金錢只是他們用來控制我們的工具

Every year thousands of species go extinct.

是幾張滿足我們溫飽、交通和娛樂需求的毫無價值的紙

And time is running out before we're next.

If you live in America there's a 41% chance you'll get cancer.

Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans.

We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems.

But medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.

We're told everything can be solved by throwing money at scientists

so they can discover a pill to make our problems go away.

But the drug companies and cancer societies rely on our suffering to make a profit.

成了養殖、屠殺動物的工廠化農場  以飽我們口腹之慾

我們的糧食能餵飽全世界  但超過十億人卻在忍饑挨餓

but really we're running away from the cause. Our body is a product of what we consume.

and the food we eat is designed purely for profit. We fill ourselves with toxic chemicals.

70%的糧食都餵給了你要吃的動物

The bodies of animals infested with drugs and diseases.

這些糧食為何不給饑民呢？因為饑民不能讓大企業盈利

But we don't see this. The small group corporations that own the media don't want us to

Surrounding us with a fantasy we're told is reality.

把賴以生存的環境破壞的支離破碎

It's funny to think humans once thought the earth was the center of the universe

萬物在我們眼裡都淪為了可被買賣和佔有的東西

but then again now we see ourselves as the center of the planet.

We point to our technology and say we're the smartest.

But do our computers, cars, and factories really illustrate how intelligent we are?

沒有汽油供卡車運食物給我們時  會怎樣呢？

「我們何時才意識到毫無價值的錢是不能吃的？」

我們並不是在毀滅地球  而是在毀滅地球上的所有生靈

But when you strip that away, what are we?

每年  成千上萬的物種瀕臨滅絕

How quickly we forget only within the past 100 years did we allow women to vote.

如果住在美國  你會有41%的幾率患上癌症

We act as if we're all knowing beings yet there's much we fail to see.

三個美國人中就有一人死於心臟病

We walk down the street ignoring the little things.

我們以為吃處方藥就可解決問題

The eyes who stare, the stories they share.

但醫療是僅次於癌症和心臟病的第三大死亡主因

Seeing everything as a background to "me".

我們被告知只要付錢給科學家就可以解決一切問題

Perhaps we fear we're not alone. That we're a part of a much bigger picture.

這樣他們就能研發藥物治療我們的病

但醫藥公司和癌症協會正因為我們受疾病之苦才有利可圖

We're okay killing pigs, cows, chickens, strangers from foreign lands.

But not our neighbours. Not our dogs, our cats, those we have come to love and understand.

但實際上我們是在逃離問題的根源

吃什麼樣的東西  就會有什麼樣的身體

Yet we point to them to justify our actions.

而我們的食品不過是商家牟利的工具

But does killing simply because we can, because we always have make it right? Or does it show how little we've learned.

我們不斷把有毒化學添加劑往肚子裡塞

That we continue to act out of primal aggression, rather than thought and compassion.

我們吃的動物已被藥物和疾病感染

One day this sensation we call life will leave us.

Our bodies will rot, our valuables recollected.

因為那些掌控媒體的企業不想讓我們看到

我們活在一個被我們視為真實的幻象世界裡

Death constantly surrounds us. Still it seems so distant from our everyday reality.

有趣的是  人類曾認為地球是宇宙的中心

We live in a world on the verge of collapse.

現在我們又妄想自己是地球的中心

The wars of tomorrow will have no winners.

我們指著我們的科技成果  說自己是最聰明的物種

For violence will never be the answer, it will destroy every possible solution.

但電腦、汽車、工廠真的能證明我們有多聰明嗎？

If we all look at our innermost desire, we will see our dreams are not so different.

還是揭露了我們變得多麼懶惰？

We tear the world apart looking for joy, without ever looking within ourselves.

Many of the happiest people are those who own the least.

這麼快我們就忘了「允許女性參與投票」「承認黑人和我們平等」  這些轉變也不過是近100年的事情

But we we really so happy with our iPhones, our big houses, our fancy cars?

We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met.

We witness the extraordinary on screens, but ordinary everywhere else.

我們走在街上無視那些渺小的事物

We wait for someone to bring change, without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

那些看著你的眼睛  那些亟於被訴說的故事

Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It's two sides of the same coin.

我們覺得一切都是襯托自己的背景

We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created.

可能是我們擔心自己不再獨一無二