Four Horsemen

The collapse of the American Empire is the main topic of this film. To understand it, the film present many ideas from different people living the same system that we have created. This system is conformed by human beings that are inconsistent and paradoxical. They are people that hope peace but they keep doing things to destroy each other. They have chosen a system that doesn't benefit anyone and later they will have to pay a price for that. Americans are now in a world of obsessions, that led them start out searching because they don't feel enough with what they have.


This world that americans began to create has brought several problems that most of them are because the reason why the strongest empire is collapsing. The first and and in my opinion most important is the wealth that is being reflected in all the most of actions in a daily life in different ways.  For example banking systems are one struggle that still there in the US, because private banks create money out of nothing. This system is called as FIAT since 1971 and since then it make money growth. FIAT is a latin word and it means let it be so. This system that supposedly is make to benefit the country, brings the separation of it and this is when you start looking that the difference between rich and poor gets bigger. Problems like poverty, hunger and malnutrition start going up while all this systems that they created appear. The founder of Schumacher College, Satish Kumar said: "With all the industrialization we have not yet manage to solve the problem of poverty." I totally agree with him because instead of looking for what is missing to make an equal country, they start to take several problems that affect a lot of people, like for example malnutrition and obesity.

This system later could maybe affect my life because Colombia is in contact with the US and all the economy, for example the TLC. Our country would not be affected as much as their country but yes in some way. They should start looking for a solution and to have more integrity to solve the problems that they are not contemplating because of creating other things.