Young people need to look at the world in a fresh new way and say: “Enough is enough, you guys screwed it up, we need to take our planet back.”

Question:  What big idea are you most excited about in 2011?

Rainn Wilson: In terms of big ideas I think that there is another revolution coming.  I'm not sure what it’s going to look like, but I think it’s going to be very interesting and it’s going to unfold over the next 10 years. And I think it needs to be a spiritual revolution because I think that our systems are broken.  I don’t think that our political system will ever work.  I don’t think no matter how great a man...

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn’t matter.  Our system is just too corrupt and too broken.  I think that science is corrupt and broken.  I think health and nutrition.  I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.  There are some good ideas there behind and some good intentions, but these are going to break down more and more and more.  We’re going to see these wild pendulum swings between democrat, republican, tea party, right, left, right, left.  It’s going to swing every election because people are scrambling for answers and it just it doesn’t work, so the young people are going to need to like they did in the 60’s, they’re going to need to take the reins here and really look at the world in a fresh new way and say you know enough is enough, you guys screwed it up, we need to take our planet back and I think part of that journey, part of that revolution needs to be spiritual.  I think that the word spiritual is a very loaded, weird word, but I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it’s going to have to go to that or else we’re just all going to destroy each other.

Recorded November 11, 2010
Interviewed by David Hirschman

Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler