Money and Free Market Philosophy The original free market philosophy involves tangible goods, but opened the door to today's unproductive financial trading by commoditizing money. Money Decoupled from Life Interest The money sequence of value has decoupled from the foundational life interest.
Gross Domestic Product Rather than looking at happiness, people measure progress through economic abstractions like GDP, which relates only to the money sequence and in fact measures social degradation. Consumption and Waste Cyclical consumption keeps our market economy going.
Waste Due to the waste our economy promotes, life systems are in crisis. Intrinsic Obsolescence Some say the market seeks to create the best goods at the lowest prices.
Planned Obsolescence In a market economy, producers will make products with short lifespans in order to continue cyclical consumption. Planned Obsolescence and Service Industry The narrator applies planned obsolescence to argue the health industry has no interest in curing diseases, and many industries have interest in crime and terrorism.
Value System Disorder The American dream is based on consumerism, created by propaganda that uses conditioning, an expert says. Critique of Economists See a man confront Milton Friedman about an old man who died of cold when he could not pay his electric bill. Monetary System While the market system involves the interaction of people, the monetary system sets conditions for this market.
Debt-Based Economy All money is created out of debt. Debt Slavery A person in debt is more likely to take a low-paying job, so debt gives corporations a pool of cheap labor.
Stock Market The stock market does not produce anything, but buys and sells money and debt. Bailouts and Economic Collapse As our system of paper wealth collapses, we scramble to bail out banks and countries, but eventually we will run out of money for bailouts.
Bankrupt Earth Debt, which does not exist in the physical world, is damaging the wellbeing of people throughout the world. Structural Classism The monetary-market system results in inequality, gravitating toward monopoly and entrenches class divisions as the rich lend to the poor at interest.
Inequality and Violence Our material wealth coexists with social problems such as violence. Health and Poverty Poverty hurts people's health, even in countries where the poor have access to health insurance. Poverty and Social Problems Quality of social relations is a crucial factor in stress. Socioeconomic System The leading source of almost all the world's problems, and holds us back from moving to new methodologies, is not a corrupt government, but rather the socioeconomic system itself.
Description This program details the central inherent flaws of the monetary market system of economic conduct—and how this system is destroying us and the planet in a very direct way. Performance Rights Prices include public performance rights. Not available to Home Video customers. Other Titles You Might Like. Zeitgeist: Addendum—Human Nature.
Zeitgeist: Addendum—Project Earth. Zeitgeist: Addendum—Rise. Your Name. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This film will feature experts in the fields of public health, anthropology, neurobiology, economics, energy, technology, social science and other relevant subjects which relate to social operation and culture.
Put together the work creates a model of understanding the current social paradigm; why it is critical to move out of it — coupled with a new, radical, yet practical social approach based on advanced understandings which would resolve the current social woes facing the world today.
This large scale release is not associated with any major distributor. Part of the counter-culture expression of this approach is to bypass all corporate media involvement and utilize independent groups, in a non-profit manner, which will show the work in their respective regions.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a non-commercial project, which means it will be available for free acquisition via internet in both online viewing form and full DVD download. Pollution and environmental problems are very real concerns and getting worse all the time.
And the reason for this? Greed perpetuated by an addiction to power and huge sums of money owned by the very few. There is nothing flourishing about the human race right now. I am a student and teacher or history. I have read enough books to know that more change has occurred in the last hundred years than in the previous few millennia, and this brings with it a host of unanticipated problems.
I knew that the way our world is governed by the hegemony of the rich and powerful, and that they will do anything they can to protect that wealth, long before I came across these films. I am not unreasonably paranoid. Nor is this a comfortable realisation. However, it is the only conclusion that can be reached by any intelligent, sensible person. To think otherwise is wilfully ignorant.
I also know that what the Venus Project represents is neither communist or fascist. It is egalitarian in approach, certainly, but is apolitical otherwise. It may not be perfect and does not own to be. It may not have all the answers. It gives me great hope that there are people out there who care enough about other people to find an alternative to the monetary system that inevitably breeds unhappiness to all but the very privileged few.
Furthermore, to suggest that the vision of the Venus Project will breed a stagnant society is incorrect. Progress of a kind — a healthy kind — will likely be made. Think of the possibilities to innovate and explore our realm, and perhaps beyond, and gain a greater understanding of the universe and our place in it if we have the time and freedom to do this.
If we are no longer wage slaves or cogs in a great machine, we will have that creative freedom. Indolence and indifference are products of our current society because of the sickness inherent in our money-based thinking. That feeling of helplessness associated with a lack of control over our collective destinies is endemic in a society beholden to money. I am hopeful that given a life without worry about material wealth, we will have a society more well-adjusted, and healthier in mind and body, than any we have seen before.
Would this not be a real definition of progress? The desire to strive would not disappear. We would all still need to learn and acquire skills. We would all still derive pleasure from this. We would all still have personal measures of success in these terms to motivate us. These drives will not disappear just because we are not given some little pieces of green paper in return.
I applaud the Zeitgeist film-makers. They have merely articulated what I, and many other thinking people, have been feeling for a long time. Their intentions are wholly laudable and should be applauded, not vilified. We should be celebrating people like these who have a real understanding of the causes of happiness and unhappiness in the human race, and a real desire to help bring about collective happiness on a global scale.
It is high time we saw the truth in our similarities instead of buying into the notion of difference. Those in charge of our current world understand the simple fact that to divide is to conquer.
If we are united, however, we are stronger than any government or corporation could ever hope to be. Zeitgeist is a bunch of crap. Really if you fall for this nonsense, go play a fucking videogame. What zeitgeist proposes is basically communism. You only get to decide on your area of expertise. Expertise you can only get from a government education, expertise you can only apply in a government program.
You live in a house the government provides for you, eat the food they give you and tell you is healthy and good for you. And you get decide nothing.. So what if they fuck up? What are you going to do? Call the cops? Lawyer up? And who decides on that? How the fuck are they gonna do that? But how the fuck are all the scientists and engineers ever gonna find concensus?
And what if Teh Science is wrong…? It sounds awfully stagnant to me.
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