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Derrick, would it be possible for you to do this video in Spanish? There are soooo many young people both on Spain and Latin America who would benefit from it! Thank you for your dedication.

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This was wonderfully-put, good job. I think the most important thing is to deliver a message that is palpable to young minds. I've noticed in my life, people who are older, in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, are much less receptive to learning new things about the physical world that surrounds them. Living inside a mental cage by choice is something I've observed people do.

I find that the less people who care, the less of chance something has of happening. My parents grew up in the 1960s, their kitchens had already been infiltrated by nefarious food companies and multinationals. Margarine, processed sugar, processed meat, more harmful preservation methods (all those wonderful preservatives), it had already supplanted butter, local meat, and can sugar.

It is vital that we, as aware people, spread these messages. It was not our parents' fault for not knowing, it was the fault of those who knew and did not care. There is so much tribalism spawned by the media regarding those issues, it pits young against old, poor against rich, and pushes narratives that are profitable to it and its corporate sponsors.

Local news tv broadcasts have never been reliable sources for factual information in more than a generation. Operation Mockingbird, I'm sure, included a division focused on controlling the written press, and the tell-you-vision content at the local level long before it was disclosed.

I see a hope from blockchain technology and decentralizing power in every way possible. Removing so much influence from the hands of the few and giving every single person ownership of their own lives would destroy the beast that was created many years ago.

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