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The Zeitgeist Movement
From the beginning of Zeitgeist: Addendum:
Full transcript of Addendum available in html format at http://rentalsocks.com/Addendum/index.htm
Film is available for free viewing at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#
"Society today is composed of a series of institutions. From political institutions, legal
institutions, religious institutions, to institutions of social class, familiar values, and
occupational specialization.
It is obvious the profound influence these traditionalized structures have in shaping our
understandings and perspectives. Yet, of all the social institutions we are born into,
directed by, and conditioned upon, there seems to be no system as taken for granted
and misunderstood as the monetary system.
Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one
of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is. How money is created, the policies by
which it is governed, and how it truly affects society, are unregistered interests of the
great majority of the population.
In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth, in a world
where 34.000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases and
where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day one thing is
clear. Something is very wrong; and, whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of
all of our established institutions, and thus society itself, is money.
Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy is critical to understanding
why our lives are the way they are. Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with
confusion and boredom. Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating
mathematics quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it. However, the fact
is that the complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask designed to
conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures humanity has ever endured."
The purpose of this series of movies and the movement associated is to answer the questions we've all had at some point in our lives but probably dismissed. Questions like "why are there always poor and homeless while the upper classes sit in luxury?", "why doesn't there ever seem to be a legitimately progressive government?", "how is it that a miniscule portion of the world population owns such a great share of its wealth?" and "why are third-world countries, dramatically behind in terms of both technology and standard of living, doomed to remain so?"
If you're simply going to post something along the lines of tl;dr or not bother to take the time to understand the true ideals behind this movement, do not bother posting. This could very well change the way you think about society if you keep an open (but not stupid) mind about it throughout. The last Zeitgeist thread contained about 20 pages of misinformed posters attempting to pick apart the ideas of the Zeitgeist movement while clearly not understanding them and going by large part on the (incomplete and in retrospect misleading) information in the original post by Thar (who is now atheist, woo!) as well as bogus misinterpretations posted by other users attempting to discredit the movement. As such, replies made within a very short period of this thread's posting are very likely to be ignored.
Watch in this Order (also from least important to most)
1) Zeitgeist the Movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXirzknYYE
2) Zeitgeist Addendum - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs
3) Zeigeist: Moving Forward - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
From the beginning of Zeitgeist: Addendum:
Full transcript of Addendum available in html format at http://rentalsocks.com/Addendum/index.htm
Film is available for free viewing at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#
"Society today is composed of a series of institutions. From political institutions, legal
institutions, religious institutions, to institutions of social class, familiar values, and
occupational specialization.
It is obvious the profound influence these traditionalized structures have in shaping our
understandings and perspectives. Yet, of all the social institutions we are born into,
directed by, and conditioned upon, there seems to be no system as taken for granted
and misunderstood as the monetary system.
Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one
of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is. How money is created, the policies by
which it is governed, and how it truly affects society, are unregistered interests of the
great majority of the population.
In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth, in a world
where 34.000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases and
where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day one thing is
clear. Something is very wrong; and, whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of
all of our established institutions, and thus society itself, is money.
Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy is critical to understanding
why our lives are the way they are. Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with
confusion and boredom. Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating
mathematics quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it. However, the fact
is that the complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask designed to
conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures humanity has ever endured."
The purpose of this series of movies and the movement associated is to answer the questions we've all had at some point in our lives but probably dismissed. Questions like "why are there always poor and homeless while the upper classes sit in luxury?", "why doesn't there ever seem to be a legitimately progressive government?", "how is it that a miniscule portion of the world population owns such a great share of its wealth?" and "why are third-world countries, dramatically behind in terms of both technology and standard of living, doomed to remain so?"
If you're simply going to post something along the lines of tl;dr or not bother to take the time to understand the true ideals behind this movement, do not bother posting. This could very well change the way you think about society if you keep an open (but not stupid) mind about it throughout. The last Zeitgeist thread contained about 20 pages of misinformed posters attempting to pick apart the ideas of the Zeitgeist movement while clearly not understanding them and going by large part on the (incomplete and in retrospect misleading) information in the original post by Thar (who is now atheist, woo!) as well as bogus misinterpretations posted by other users attempting to discredit the movement. As such, replies made within a very short period of this thread's posting are very likely to be ignored.
Watch in this Order (also from least important to most)
1) Zeitgeist the Movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXirzknYYE
2) Zeitgeist Addendum - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs
3) Zeigeist: Moving Forward - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w