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'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is an activist movement established in the ] in 2008 by ]. The group is critical of market ], describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ] and scientific administration of society.<ref>McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. . ''The Telegraph.'' Retrieved November 14, 2018.</ref><ref name="pia14">{{cite journal|author=Resnick, Jan|date=February 25, 2009|title=The Zeitgeist Movement|url=http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=543809933974722;res=IELHEA|journal=Psychotherapy in Australia|volume=15|issue=2|issn=1323-0921}}</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, ] (Israel), January 19, 2012.</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , ] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref>
'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (] is 'the spirit of the times' in German) is a global, ], ] and ] ] organization founded in 2008.
''VC Reporter's'' Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".<ref>{{cite web|author=Cohn, Shane|title=New world re-order|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|publisher=VCReporter|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>


==History==
The movement seeks to provide education concerning their belief that the ] economy should be replaced with a ] global system in which all resources become the ] of all the inhabitants of the planet.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TVP-R"/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/>
The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008 by Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of '']'', the second film in the ].<ref name=o3/><ref name=v2>{{cite web|last1=Cohn|first1=Shane|title=New world re-order|url=http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/|publisher=VCReporter|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=May 28, 2015|archive-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110044/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


Zeitgeist was first linked to ], which had been founded by ] in 1985. In April 2011, partnership between the two groups ended in an apparent power struggle, with Joseph commenting, "Without , doesn’t exist – it has nothing but ideas and has no viable method to bring it to light."<ref name=o3>{{cite journal|author=Gore, Jeff|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-view-from-venus/Content?oid=2248863|title=The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board?|journal=Orlando Weekly|date=October 12, 2011|access-date=September 17, 2015}}</ref>
In the movement's view, this system would be a ], moneyless, and ] global system in which money, debt, credit, exchange, barter, wage labor, private property and the profit motive would be eliminated. Human needs would be supplied for everyone. Resources would be managed as efficiently and carefully as possible through the technological potential of ] (economic development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.)
<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TVP-R"/><ref name=nytimes/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119"/><ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name="OrlandoSentinel1995"> , Mike Thomas, ], Feb. 12, 1995.</ref>


The first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of ], ], and radio host ].<ref name="Goldberg"/> Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries.<ref name="Goldberg"/>
This global socio-economic system is based on the movement's belief that the intelligent application of highly advanced science and technology can provide a high standard of living for all of the Earth's inhabitants. The movement believes the current general practice around the globe is based on rationing resources through monetary methods; thus, in the movement's view, this practice is irrelevant and counterproductive to humanity's survival. The movement believes that their proposed system is based on the cooperation and balance of technology and nature, capable of creating, in the movement's view, a sustainable future.<ref name=huffpost>{{cite web |title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html |date=Mar 16, 2010 |publisher='']''}}</ref><ref name=PalmBeachPost>, Rhonda Swan, ], April 30, 2009</ref><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=2|title=They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present|publisher=] |date=2009-03-16}}</ref><ref name="Globes20100318">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , ] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref><ref name="TheMarker20120119">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, ] (Israel), January 19, 2012.</ref><ref name="TVP-R">{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy|title=The Venus Project|publisher=]}}</ref>


The group holds an annual event, Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum" held in March. '']'' reported on the second Z-Day held at ] in New York in 2009 which included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco.<ref name="Feuer" /> This event sold out with 900 people paying $10 each to attend. The event's organizers said that 450 connected events in 70 countries around the globe also took place.<ref name="Feuer"/>
The Zeitgeist Movement was inspired by ]'s film '']''. The film described ] as a possible solution.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3245249-421/hogancamp-marwencol-zeitgeist-dolls-films.html?print=true | title=Art-house films: ‘Marwencol,’ ‘Zeitgeist’ | accessdate=March 7, 2011 | author=Bill Stamets | date=February 15, 2011 | publisher=]}}</ref><ref name=nytimes/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/>


==Mission== ==Reactions==
An article in the '']'' describes the movement as an example of a "]", a synthesis of ] spirituality and ].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ward, Charlotte|author2=Voas, David|year=2011|title=The Emergence of Conspirituality|journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion|volume=26|issue=1|pages=109–111|doi=10.1080/13537903.2011.539846|s2cid=143742975}}</ref>
of the Zeitgeist movement marching in ] in support of ], October 2011]]


] of '']'' called the movement "the world's first Internet-based apocalyptic cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity."<ref name="Goldberg">{{cite web|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world|title=Brave New World|author=Goldberg, Michelle|date=February 2, 2011|work=]|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> In her opinion, the movement is "devoted to a kind of sci-fi planetary communism", and the ] that "sparked" the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."<ref name="Goldberg" />
Until a split in 2011, the movement acted as the activist arm of ],<ref name=faq>{{cite web|title=The Zeitgeist Movement – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq}}</ref> and still advocates for a global society where resources are ] ] among all the people on the planet, because they view the current economic system as the cause of the greatest ].<ref name=huffpost/>


Alan Feuer of '']'' said the movement was like "a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his "Imagine" days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life."<ref name="Feuer">{{cite news|last=Feuer|first=Alan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html|title=They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present|work=The New York Times|date=March 17, 2009<!--"A version of this article appeared in print on March 17, 2009, on page A24 of the New York edition." -->|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>
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==See also==
The movement says its mission is “the application of ] for ].” <ref name=nytimes/>
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That is, the movement believes the money-based economy is ], due to issues such as ], ], ] and resource ], and that the system of ] is — in the face of advancing technology — completely obsolete and harmful to humanity, and thus should be discarded.<ref name=nytimes/><ref name="Globes20100318"/>
* ]
Some of the movement's basic themes: modern ] is a fraud; ] is a serious problem; the ] is harmful to society; and more than legislation — or governments — need to change.<ref name=nytimes/>
* ]
The movement believes that it would take a ] and a remodeling of our ], starting with education based on ] to actually put such a program into action to change the world into a new global society that has given up money and ] in favor of a ], ], technology- and science-driven community.<ref name=nytimes/><ref name=huffpost/>
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The movement believes that getting rid of money, ] and even government is necessary in order
* ]
to create a peaceful society that provides a high standard of living for everyone.<ref name=huffpost/>
* ]

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In the movement's view, the vast majority of crimes in the world are the product of the system itself.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>
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The movement says that in a world where everything is supplied, the majority of today's crimes would not exist,
* ]
as they are primarily related to obtaining ] and ], or born of ].<ref name=huffpost/>
* ]
The movement believes that the crimes that still exist would be considered symptomatic of mental aberration,
* ]
and these people would be given treatment and help, not punished, as no ] would exist.<ref name=huffpost/>
The movement believes that the social system is based on an old, obsolete way of thinking - ']' - which is based on the assumption that there are not enough ].<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>
The view of the movement is that there are sufficient ] and have always been, but in the past (prior to the ]) we did not have the required technology to realize this.
For example, the movement says that there is currently enough food to feed everyone in the world,<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="WHES">, World Hunger Education Service (WHES)</ref>
but not enough money to pay for it,<ref name=huffpost/> and as a result,
many people are under-nourished.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="WHES"/>
The movement believes that its conceptual ideas and models for ],
that may seem of ], are not unrealistic,
and if ] and ] were focused on ] instead of ], these ideas would be realized.<ref name=huffpost/>
For example, the movement believes we can employ ] systems on a massive global scale,<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> and that we can design cities where ] would be ] and local,
using semi- or fully ] systems which will take care that no one would go hungry.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>
Thus, in the movement's view, today we can feed all the people in the world, but, in the movement's view,
we do not do it because of the ] imposed by the monetary-market system.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>
That is, the movement believes the current global socio-economic system cannot become more efficient, because ] is expensive and it will hurt ]; the movement believes our current system operates on ], because efficiency is the opposite of what leads to ], new jobs and the movement of cash.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> In other words, the movement believes the system is fighting efficiency.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>

] ]]]

The Zeitgeist movement advocates for a global economy in which the world's resources would be considered the equal inheritance of all the world's peoples, and would be managed as efficiently and carefully as possible
through focusing on the technological potential of ] (economic growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.)<ref name=huffpost/>
It is toward this idea that The Zeitgeist Movement works to educate and inform people.<ref name=huffpost/>
The movement believes that ] is key to human survival,
and all the social ] that currently exist are inadequate
because they don't address resources as a part of their fundamental principles.<ref name=huffpost/>
The ideal society proposed by the movement would have a worldwide ] computer system
actively monitoring the levels of the world's surveyed resources and ranking them according to factors
such as their potential, ], and ].<ref name=huffpost/>
The movement believes that this computer would ] make objective decisions as to the uses of these resources based on ] ], not ] legislation.<ref name=huffpost/>
In the movement's view, ] labor would be perfected on a mass scale, eliminating all mundane jobs that insult human capacity when they can instead be relegated to machines that will act more precisely and productively.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/>
The ] will do almost all of the work and humans would oversee the process and supervise the machines.<ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/>
The movement holds the view that even without a monetary reward,
people would still want to work, and would still develop new innovations
because the incentive to work would be internal - for example,
similar to today's ].<ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=huffpost/>
From the maximization of efficient use of resources and ] labor,
the movement imagines a future world where work and success are determined by a novel set of criteria
compared to the main criteria in wide use today; <ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="Globes20100318"/>
for example, ] would not be a driving force.<ref name=PalmBeachPost/>
According to the movement, the answer for a corrected, civilized society lies in ] and ]
which would enable ] - and then there will be no more ] or ].<ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="Globes20100318"/>

==Activities==
The movement aims to provide information about why a new global system is needed.<ref name=huffpost/>
The members of the movement are engaged in raising awareness on the issues discussed in the films ('']'', '']'' and '']'') regarding what is, in their view, the inherent structural corruption of the current socio-economic system.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>

===Z-Day===
The Zeitgeist Movement stages an annual event called "Z-Day" in March, to raise awareness of the movement's goals.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009. The main event in New York City had a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.<ref name=nytimes/> The 2010 event took place on March 13. "While 337 sympathetic events occurred in over 70 countries worldwide, NYC was home to the main event, a 6-hour live web cast presentation with lectures from the movement's key figures, and 30 different countries represented in the audience."<ref name=huffpost/> The 2011 main event was held in ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.brockwood.org.uk/2011/04/11/brockwood-at-zeitgeist-day-in-london-march-13th-2011/ |title=Brockwood at Zeitgeist-Day in London – March 13th, 2011 |publisher=Brockwood Park School |date=2011-04-11}}</ref> and the 2012 main event was held in ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC |url=http://www.voguetheatre.com/detail.php?id=252 |publisher=voguetheatre.com}}</ref>

== Criticism of the Zeitgeist movement ==

'']'',<ref name=huffpost/>
'']'',<ref name=nytimes/>
'']'',<ref name=PalmBeachPost/>
'']'',<ref name="Globes20100318"/>
'']'',<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>
'']'',<ref name="OrlandoSentinel1995"/>
'']'' <ref> , ], Sept. 14, 2011</ref><ref> , ], Dec. 2, 2011</ref>
and '']'' <ref>, ], Jan. 19, 2012. Interview conducted in English, following a brief introduction in Hebrew. The brief Hebrew introduction states: "Hello, Peter Joseph is with us, he is the filmmaker and director who created the Zeitgeist film series and The Zeitgeist movement, which advances for a global socio-economic change. The Zeitgeist films were among the most popular films in the history of the Internet, and Peter is here to answer a few questions regarding the nature of the Zeitgeist movement."</ref>
discussed various aspects of criticism of the Zeitgeist movement, for example allegations of ], reduced work incentives in the proposed future global socio-economic system and practical difficulties in a transition to that system. In each case, members of the movement were given an opportunity to respond to the criticism.

The original documentary that launched the Zeitgeist movement has been criticized as being ant-Jewish. In 2009 a German social networking site, ], banned Zeitgeist groups because of what they characterized as their implicit anti-Semitism.<ref>http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieval June-2-2012</ref><ref>http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/studivznet-shut-down-zeitgeist-groups/ Retrieval June-2-2012</ref>

The Austrian economist ], in his article "Venus Needs Some Austrians", argued that several of the project's foundational premises, such as the notion that human productivity is not dependent on monetary wealth or ], are fundamentally flawed.<ref name=murphy>Murphy, Robert P. , "The Ludwig Von Mises Institute," 30 Aug. 2010</ref> He writes, "these idealists are wrong to blame our current, dysfunctional world on capitalism or money per se. On the contrary, if everyone respected each other's property rights — meaning there would be no more petty crime, but also no more taxation, military conscription, or drug prohibition — then humanity would become fantastically wealthy, in material terms." His basic thesis is that unjustified governmental imposition into the ] of democratic citizens results in decreased productivity and diminished prosperity, and that only a capitalistically predicated, ] economy based on ] principles of individual freedom will result in improved products and an enhanced society.<ref name=murphy />

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Movement that emerged from the Zeitgeist movie series "TZM" redirects here. For the superalloy, see Molybdenum § Alloys.

The Zeitgeist Movement
AbbreviationTZM
Formation2008; 16 years ago (2008)
TypeAdvocacy group
Region served International
Key peoplePeter Joseph
Websitethezeitgeistmovement.com

The Zeitgeist Movement is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph. The group is critical of market capitalism, describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ecology and scientific administration of society. VC Reporter's Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".

History

The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008 by Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of Zeitgeist: Addendum, the second film in the Zeitgeist film series.

Zeitgeist was first linked to the Venus Project, which had been founded by Jacque Fresco in 1985. In April 2011, partnership between the two groups ended in an apparent power struggle, with Joseph commenting, "Without , doesn’t exist – it has nothing but ideas and has no viable method to bring it to light."

The first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of Eustace Mullins, Lyndon LaRouche, and radio host Alex Jones. Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries.

The group holds an annual event, Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum" held in March. The New York Times reported on the second Z-Day held at Manhattan Community College in New York in 2009 which included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco. This event sold out with 900 people paying $10 each to attend. The event's organizers said that 450 connected events in 70 countries around the globe also took place.

Reactions

An article in the Journal of Contemporary Religion describes the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of New Age spirituality and conspiracy theory.

Michelle Goldberg of Tablet Magazine called the movement "the world's first Internet-based apocalyptic cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity." In her opinion, the movement is "devoted to a kind of sci-fi planetary communism", and the 2007 documentary that "sparked" the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."

Alan Feuer of The New York Times said the movement was like "a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his "Imagine" days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life."

See also

References

  1. McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. Forest boy 'inspired by Zeitgeist movement'. The Telegraph. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  2. Resnick, Jan (February 25, 2009). "The Zeitgeist Movement". Psychotherapy in Australia. 15 (2). ISSN 1323-0921.
  3. Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of The Filmmaker Who Helped Recruit Millions for the Global Protests of the Bottom 99%, original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, TheMarker (Israel), January 19, 2012.
  4. Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler, Globes (Israel), March 18, 2010.
  5. Cohn, Shane (May 12, 2011). "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  6. ^ Gore, Jeff (October 12, 2011). "The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board?". Orlando Weekly. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  7. Cohn, Shane (May 12, 2011). "New world re-order". VCReporter. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  8. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  9. ^ Feuer, Alan (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  10. Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846. S2CID 143742975.

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