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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 a Sustainability Advocacy Group and recognized as one of the largest grassroots social movements in the world currently working in over 1000 Regional Chapters across 70 countries. The intermediate goal is to obtain a global movement, unifying the people, regardless of country, religion or race, with a common value identification that we all invariably share, pertaining to our survival and sustainability.
''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 transitional goal is to implement an economic model that follows a truly scientific train of thought with respect to the technical factors that allow for human propensity, public health and environmental responsibility over generational time.
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>
This new model, which is based upon Strategic Resource Management and Natural Law as the logical starting point for all decisions and processes, is often referred to as a "Resource-Based Economic Model."
== Philosophy and history ==
The Zeitgeist Movement's origin was a reaction to ]'s Zeitgeist Film Series. It featured structural engineer, Jacque Fresco of ] (TVP), in '']'' and '']'' and proposed a "Resource Based Economic Model" as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems,<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>


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>
The basic structure of the movement consists of chapters teams, public events, media expressions and charity operations. Their activism is explicitly based on non-violent methods of communication. While the term “Activism” is correct by its exact meaning, The Zeitgeist Movement’s awareness work should not be misconstrued as relating to culturally common, traditional “activist protest” actions such as we have seen historically. Rather, TZM expresses itself through targeted, rational educational projects that work not to impose, dictate or blindly persuade – but to set in motion a train of thought that is logically self-realizing when the causal considerations of “sustainability” and “public health” are referenced from a scientific perspective.


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"/>
Zeitgeist movement members say the current socioeconomic system is structurally corrupt and needs to be replaced with a system based on efficient and careful resource use through the technological potential of ].<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="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="Globes20100318">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , ] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref> The movement believes humanity can employ ] and computerized ] systems on a global scale to provide free food and other necessities. It believes ] would perform almost all of the resource allocation and labor, and humans would oversee the computers and supervise the machines.<ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=huffpost/>


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"/>
== Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day) ==
The movement holds an annual event, Z-Day, in March.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> It was first held in 2009 in New York City.<ref name=nytimes/> The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide."<ref name=huffpost/> London {{Citation needed|date=October 2012}} and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.<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> {{Better source|date=October 2012}}


==Reactions==
== Criticism of the Zeitgeist movement ==
⚫ 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>
'']'',<ref name=huffpost/> '']'',<ref name=nytimes/> '']'',<ref name=PalmBeachPost>, Rhonda Swan, ], April 30, 2009</ref> '']'',<ref name="Globes20100318"/> '']'',<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> ''VC Reporter'',<ref name=VCreporter>, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter (California), May 12, 2011</ref> ]<ref name=RT-Sept-2011> , ], Sept. 14, 2011</ref><ref name=RT-Dec-2011> , ], Dec. 2, 2011</ref> and '']''<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/17/jared-loughners-zeitgeist-obse Retrieval June-07-12</ref> criticized various aspects of the Zeitgeist movement, specifically: (a) ], (b) reduced ] in their proposed economy, (c) practical difficulties in a transition to that economy, and (d) subscribing to ] in '']''. Peter Joseph responded to the criticism by saying that practical difficulties could be overcome and that Zeitgeist does not believe in utopia but advocates updating society's notions of economics and politics continuously, re-aligning them with new scientific and technical discoveries, while keeping workers motivated. According to Mr. Joseph there is no direct association between the conspiracy theories in the first Zeitgeist documentary and the movement.<ref name="Understanding20120715">, The Zeitgeist Movement, July 15, 2012</ref>


] 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" />
⚫ An article in the '']'' described the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of ] spirituality and ], asserting that ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'' claims that "organised religion is about social control and that ] was an inside job."<ref name=jcr109>{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Charlotte |last2=Voas |first2=David |year=2011 |title=The Emergence of Conspirituality |journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion |volume=26 |issue=1 |page=109 |doi= |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846 |accessdate=June 16, 2012}}</ref> The movement said that the article paints an "incorrect, misleading, offensive and defaming picture of the movement", and that the conspiracy narratives in the first movie are unrelated to the movement.<ref name="Understanding20120715"/>


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>
In ], journalist ] criticized ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'' as being "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories", and called the Zeitgeist movement "the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity."<ref name=tabletmag>http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved June 9, 2012</ref> Zeitgeist said the accusations were "erroneous, pejorative, derogatory and intended to silence the movement's message", and that the movement does not blame international bankers, corporate leaders or politicians as individuals, but rather the global socioeconomic system that supports their values.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>


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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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