The Classical Scenario: The Fall of an Empire.

All throughout history, empires had fall and decline. Our books are filled with the stories of mighty kingdoms that seemed unstoppable and had characteristics that lead people to believe that those kingdoms and empires were created by God itself. However, the closer they got to their maximum development, the closer they were to their imminent fall. Examples include the Mesopotamian empire, the Chinese, the Greek, the Roman, the Egyptian, etc. And, If there is a fact that we can't ignore is that History repeats itself, and if we do not learn from it, we are condemned to repeat the same mistakes that our ancestors made. This rule is also applicable to today's world. Even though it does not seem like the world is divided among empires that constantly fight each other, there are some economical and political empires that are definitively clashing in order to gain control of resources and profit of the entire world. And in order to survive and struggle to obtain a better and fairer world, it is important for us to understand what the heck is happening. 

The idea that the system we are immersed in is close to its end its an idea that may seem a little bit incongruous. However, many individuals who have witnessed the mistakes and errors of this system are starting to question it. This questions all end up in the same kind of answers. Everything points to the conclusion that we need reforms. But before coming up with a possible solution, we need to understand the crisis itself, because understanding something means to be liberated from it.

Four Horsemen is a 2012 documentary that tries to depict the economical crisis that leads to the creation of social and cultural problems in the XXI century. The documentary assures that today's system is directly heading towards an imminent end. It provides evidence to support this claim such as the fact that the problem of the system is located at its core; it is a vicious structure. The system is centered in the banking system, meaning that every movement of the financial world is based on the movement of the banks. The reality is that the government has lost it's power, the ones that control our world are the ones who sit everyday behind a desk in the top of a building in Wall Street. The banking system has created a moral code that glorifies it, and therefore, not only economically but socially and culturally banks are the strongest empires that the world has seen since the beginning of the existence of the human race. Since 1971, the world's strongest economical structures, including the U.S (thanks to Nixon)  are part of a system called FIAT, which literally means "Let it be so." Speculation  is the central belief of the investments and transactions all around the world, and speculation create speculation bubbles, which lead to the constant increase of the gap between the rich and the poor. The world is fooled by the capitalist idea that everything is okay as long as we keep buying stuff, because having things implies being happy. More and more citizens seem to ignore the fact that 97% of the world's money is debt. This leads to inflation, increase in the price of mortgages, taxes, interests, devaluation, and the rise of the false belief that unregulated finances are the best way to find a way out of this chaos.

Even though that when money finally finds its way down to the bottom of the social pyramid it has lost its purchase power, the solution for this is not the redistribution of wealth. The system needs to crash in oreder to rise form its ashes. Only rich companies and enterprises have the right to delimit and come up with the governmental resolutions to be made, and this system is not a democratic one, it's a plurtocratic one. Once example that definitively proofs this idea is the 2008 bailout in the U.S. 

If the system fails, there are two possible outcomes. The first one is a total chaos, the end of an organized era and the beginning of Anarchy. Obviously, this is the last thing we want, to be forced to see who is the strongest person and who can survive this apocalyptic scenario. The second outcome is the understanding that change is the reason for a better tomorrow, that capitalism is not the ultimate truth, and that if something fails, then something better is coming around the corner. However, for that to happen, we first need to remember that we are humans and that we need each other in order to thrive. Unfortunately, we are really far away from that.    

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Ashcroft, Ross. "Four Horsemen." (2012). Motherlode. Film.