iMedia: Ted Rives - Mockingbirds

In this video, Ted Rives explains how he is going to release Mockingbirds into the world and for them to pick up the sounds of life, and then mimic them to the various regions of the world.
I picked this video because I loved Rives ingenious way of explaining how valuable awareness and knowledge truly are. The line that I think best sums up what he is trying to do is this one - "And as I drive through a neighborhood, say where people got alotta, I'll take a mockingbird I caught in a neighborhood where folks ain't got nada, and I'll let it go." I think what Rives is trying to accomplish is to show how voice, and sound give you knowledge. He wants to release these MC's of the animal kingdom, and let them gather all of the words, and to mimic them to others. Then, once everyone has heard everyone, once the lies and the truths have been exposed, once all of the voices are captured, people will gain knowledge.
And what knowledge would we be gaining? It is the mockingbirds that spit reality back in our faces, until we realize what we are doing and the harm it is causing. We gain knowledge about reality. Rives said everyone gets hurt, and that the mockingbirds are the honest witnesses of this terrible crisis.
I agree with Rives when he says this. Unless we come face to face with something, we often disregard it. However, these mockingbirds will show us what is going on, and we will be forced to do something about it. These mockingbirds don't give us the golden key to the city that Rives talks about, but rather the answer to this unfortunate twist of devastating events known as reality. From poverty, to global warming, to killing, to war, to suffering, to starvation, the mockingbirds will capture all of it, and mock it back to us, until we accept and face it.
In conclusion, this video was extremely inspiring, and the metaphor was ingenious, and because of it, the video was ten times as effective. Rives also has a "presence", that Mr. Allen discussed at the beginning of the year, that’s hard to describe, but it makes people want to listen to him. For me, I found this video very inspiring in the way that Rives absorbed the many realms of our modern day society, and portrayed their exposure through the use of mockingbirds.