The Golden Rule  ---   He who owns the gold rules.

Of all the films, videos, television programs, and other forms of communication designed to acquaint us with our environmental and economic perils,  The Store of Stuff  outshines them all by light years.   

Delivering the producers intended message is what a documentary  film/ video is supposed to do.   The Store of Stuff  accomplishes this task effectively, and does so in only twenty minutes.    Its intended message is expressed and displayed in masterful simplicity.    A woman  (Annie Leonard)  standing in front of a blank white background, talks to us while what she is saying is being displayed around her in line-drawing animations.   

Her words and the animation brilliantly join forces to tell the previously untold story of the true cost of  material goods we so willingly buy and so glibly throw away.  Once you've seen it, your perspective on how humans relate to planet Earth will never be the same. 

She talks fast enough to keep the younger generation from getting board and clearly enough so that anybody from a child to aging grandparents can get its message.    It's to the point, without any foo-foo or fancy special effects.    The technology of production is available to anybody with a computer (+ software), basic animation talent and a minimum budget.   The behind the scenes creators are obviously masters of video communication.   The end result, in terms of message delivery, outshines multi-million-dollar productions.

Not only that, it is the perfect lead-in to a much needed follow-up video which asks and answers the next set of questions.  TLC-Life-Center is proposing a follow-up video done in a similar style and format titled:  The Story of Money

The Story of Money is the perfect follow up to The Story of Stuff.    While communicating a basic understanding of what money actually is and where it comes from, the Story of Money video  will answer questions such as:

    With every borrower, there must be a lender.  This brings up two serious questions.   Who has those thousands of billions of dollars that everybody is borrowing?  And whose taking in all that interest money that everybody's paying.   

  Inflation.   Inflation is not some monster that just happened upon the world.   It's a financial tool of the super-wealthy intentionally built into the financial structure for the express purpose of sucking  money out of the working people and putting it into the pockets of the wealthy.   

  Fractional reserve lending,   commonly knows as "leverage" is another financial tool of the super-wealthy.   This one is designed to allow the wealthy to charge the public hard-earned money for the loan of make-believe money.   

  Inflation and leverage sound innocent enough as long as you don't know what they are, where they come from, what their hidden purpose is, what the price is we pay for them, who is paying that price, and who are the beneficiaries? 

  Who is actually responsible for creating all the destruction?   

  Why are they doing so?  

  How do we stop the destruction?   

  How do we create a sustainable economic system?    and  

  How do we create a sustainable relationship between humans and Sacred Mother Earth?  

If you have not yet seen The Story of Stuff, doing so is highly recommended.   It's available online at:    http://www.StoryOfStuff.com.²     Take a few minutes to view the video and then return here to our Story of Money website.   Our address is:

http://www.StoryOfMoney.net#86 ² 

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