Ahh, politicians. Big business. Television. Hollywood. Magazines. Media. The porn industry. (Insert other forms of distraction from government activity here).

They’ll fix the problem! They’re job creators! They’re magical wizards who will wave their money wands for us if only we pay them first. Those who are manipulated into voting against their own interests (which is quite a large amount of people, unfortunately) tell us not to punish success, to just give more and more of our hard-earned money to the very people who brought us into this mess in the first place. But, as every logical person should realize, giving more money to those who clearly do not have an interest in putting it back into society is not a solution.

Throwing money at a problem doesn’t fix the problem or make it go away, as time as shown over and over again. What this country and this world needs is change. Let us rid ourselves of a media that lies and spreads misinformation to begin with! The popular TV news channels are meant to confuse people, mislead them, and drive them apart based on political affiliation, race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Mark Twain once said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” This is because people don’t want to believe that their government would lie and work against them. It’s not too far-fetched to be afraid; in fact, it makes a lot of sense. They have money, power, and guns. But we have something that money can’t buy, that power can’t suppress, and that guns can’t kill: an idea.

The one thing they haven’t figured out how to extract from us yet is our thoughts, our capability to critically examine the actions of our elected leaders and our fellow man, to notice there is a major problem with the distribution of wealth and equality in this world, and to have the courage to stand up and question those who believe they can use the world to satisfy their selfish ends. To be more specific, I have outlined below the main goals, featured on our Facebook page, of a new organization: The Awareness Project.

The main platforms of the Awareness Project include exposing the use of television and the mass media as a hypnosis tool to hide the fact that only a few big corporations own most of the information and services provided for the American people. Politicians receive money from these corporations to work for their benefit, which is against the economic, social, and political benefit of the general population. This practice is defined by political experts as fascism. This leads directly into our next problem: the rise of the global super rich. These people often benefit from loopholes in our corporate tax system, such as getting away with paying a much smaller (or none at all) amount of taxes than the average American household.

We will also be examining the alteration and elimination of basic constitutional rights through various acts and laws introduced by the government protecting interests outside those of whom they were elected to serve, such as bills that legalized unwarranted military detainment and bills being introduced to attempt to eliminate the citizen’s right to own guns. Furthermore, we will examine the reasons why we believe America had been at war every 20- to- 40 years in its short history as a united nation. Business ventures and profit can be blamed as a large part of the reason for both these anomalies.

As a vital part of our aims, we must discuss America’s relationship with the rest of the world—particularly with the Middle East and China. We are hugely indebted to China, and the negative effects of this are mostly taxed to the common people of this country, while the rich continue to profit off of the dying middle class.

As many people are well aware, our relations with the Middle East have gone from bad to worse in the past decade. However, we are still very dependent on them for oil, making it seem like a very strategic move for the invasion of the Middle East for its resource at the cost of American military personnel. This too will be examined in full and the surmounting evidence will once more uncover the unsavory matrimony of government and big business, with the fat cat oil tycoons in particular.

Lastly, as co-founder Alvaro and myself are both artists by nature and at heart, we firmly believe in the power and significance of the artistic movement being involved with our purpose. We will always welcome, with open arms, any pieces of literature, music, drawings, paintings, and graphic designs to further engage the awareness of the general public. As Gandhi once said, we are committed to becoming the change we wish to see in the world, and we urge everyone to do the same.