The Film Calls The Four Horsemen And How They Are Wreaking...

The narrators of the documentary suggest that wars, the mentality to conquer will continue to cause famine and most likely death and more global deaths. It is also suggested and demanded that Americans and people globally need to questions why we have systems in place that serve the rich. How can we reform is one question that is asked. Currently these systems serve the interest of a select few. The film stated that Tim Berners-Lee (Links to an external site.)created the World Wide Web and in doing so he inadvertently supplied all of the major financial institution more power to grow because information was available more quickly on new conquest. This paper will explore what the film calls the four horsemen and how they are wreaking†¦show more content†¦The age of decadence is described as gaudy behavior. This behavior is displayed as a vast and extended military, an unnecessary display of wealth, a disparaging gap between the rich and poor, and finally a bloated stat e that has too much to handle and resources that will run thin. This will happen because the United States began like another superpower – Rome. And just like Rome we were on the gold and silver standard. Rome, like the United States began to counterfeiting or making money with no value but people began to realize that by soaking the gold it would turn back into silver or some the useless metal. Also in Rome, Chefs were considered celebrities while finally one or two people had amassed all of the money. The film suggests that we are caught up in having the best food, nicest clothes and we can never get enough of what we don’t need. The film also suggested that Baby boomers have squandered the fortune of future generations’ inheritance of the Earth and the Earth’s resources. Later it is said that we are capable of heroic acts but we rather result to atrocities. Millions of people go to sleep nightly without food and people are throwing food in the trash. Wealth is not distributed fairly. Why does the social structure