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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>
Mission Statement
''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==
Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work.
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>
The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.


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"/>
Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.


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"/>
This "Resource-Based Economic Model" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components.


==Reactions==
The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.
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 '']'' 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" />
The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness Campaigns extend from short to long term, with the model based explicitly on Non-Violent methods of communication. The long term view, which is the transition into a Resource-Based Economic Model, is a constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community Support.


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>
For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today are also not considered a long term solution, it is still considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need, while also drawing awareness to the principle goal.

The Zeitgeist Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group.
==Concepts advocated by the Zeitgeist Movement==
The core idea advocated by TZM is the replacement of current civilization with a money-free and cybernated "resource-based economy".<ref name="NYT"/> The Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project promote replacing human labour with ], government will be through collective participation of the public, aided by advanced cybernation.<ref name="NYT"/><ref>Jacque Fresco , ''The Venus Project''</ref><ref>Zeitgeist India </ref> According to the movement, there will be no decision-making process regarding greater social issues by human beings, those decisions are arrived at by using the ], based on the carrying capacity of the Earth, rather than using human opinions.<ref>The Zeitgeist Movement </ref> The replacement of human decision making by ] is termed 'Social Cybernation'.<ref>Jacque Fresco , Cybernetic Government ''The Venus Project''</ref> ] will not be abolished, but it will become obsolete as culture grows, being replaced by "a system of universal access".<ref>Peter Joseph , page 69.</ref>

==Activities and publications==
], November 2011]]
===Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)===
The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual "Z-Day" in March. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009 and the second on March 13, 2010. On this day, the Zeitgeist Movement has local gatherings to learn and share information with all interested individuals. In 2009 there were more than 450 events held in 70 countries around the world.<ref name="zeitgeist day">{{cite web |url=http://www.zday2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46 |title=What is Zday }}</ref> In 2009, among other events, Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco spoke to a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours.<ref name="Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco Critique the Monetary Economy"<ref name="ZD2009">{{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 |author= Alan Feuer|date= March 16, 2009 |work= |publisher= ]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref>
The third Z-Day was on March 13, 2011. Peter Joseph and others spoke to a sold-out audience of 1100 at "Friends House" in Euston, London.

] of '']'' attended Z Day 2011 in Los Angeles on March 12, 2011 at ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4C6Xqd8qRc}}</ref> She said she is intrigued by the idea of the Venus Project.

] of ] also attended Z Day in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Baelyn Neff.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brandon Boyd of Incubus at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJ8Vchv8KU}}</ref> He said ''Zeitgeist Moving Forward'' is his favorite Zeitgeist film so far. He also said he is very familiar with Jacque Fresco and watched a documentary film about Jacque Fresco's work called ''Future by Design''.

===Media Project===
According to a press release circulated to members on May 12, 2010, the Zeitgeist Media Project (ZMP) Beta was released. According to the press release the Media Project is an extension of the Communications Team.<ref>http://www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com</ref>

==Chapters==
The Zeitgeist Movement members are organized into country/regional, state and city "sub"-chapters.<ref></ref> Each chapter/sub-chapter is hosted and maintained independently on its own domain, or in sub-domains from the Zeitgeist Movement's main site. The chapters are coordinated by individuals or groups of individuals who are well-versed in the movement's tenets and direction and have chosen to donate their time to help further its current goals. According to the Zeitgeist Movement July 2010 Newsletter, the Zeitgeist Movement has 46 official country chapters and over 200 regional sub-chapters internationally.<ref>http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/July2010NL.pdf</ref> This includes all 50 official U.S. state chapters.<ref name="Chapters">{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/|title=The Zeitgeist Movement Website | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2010-04-02}}</ref>

===Radio address===
Peter Joseph, the founder and head of the Zeitgeist Movement, along with some other members of the movement deliver a weekly radio address which is broadcast every Wednesday on ]. These broadcasts define the Zeitgeist Movement and discuss the progress of the movement's efforts, hold interviews with various relevant personalities, and provide information for the Zeitgeist Movement's ]. When Peter Joseph is hosting, he provides guidelines to followers and answers questions submitted by listeners/movement members.
There are two other BlogTalkRadio shows that discuss the Zeitgeist Movement, a resource-based economy and the Venus Project. One is Z Radio, a weekly broadcast co-hosted by Thunder and Franklee, and produced by Shawn Hodgins. The other, known as V-Radio,<ref name="vradio">{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/v-radio|title=V-Radio}}</ref> is hosted by Neil Kiernan Stephenson.

==Reception==
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===Media reviews===

]
On April 30, 2009, Rhonda Swan of the ''Palm Beach Post'' wrote:<ref name="PBP20090430">
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{{cquote|Who can argue with such a movement? What we have never has worked for the benefit of society as a whole. How much longer can we really expect it to last? Isn't keeping our current system and expecting something different from what it's always given us insanity?|200px|Rhonda Swan|''Palm Beach Post''}}

On March 17, 2009, Alan Feuer of the ''New York Times'' wrote in an article:<ref name="NYT">{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=1 | work=The New York Times | first=Alan | last=Feuer | title=They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present | date=March 17, 2009}}</ref>

{{cquote|"The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if ] and ] had hired ] from his “]” days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life.|200px|New York Times|''New York Times''}}

From the same article:
{{cquote|"If this sounds vaguely like a disaster scenario out of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', Mr. Fresco did not seem worried in the least. Machines are unemotional and unaggressive, unlike human beings, he told the crowd during the question-and-answer phase. “If you took your laptop and smashed it in front of 50 other laptops, trust me, none of them would care.”}}

Alan of ''The Sovereign Independent'' wrote of the Zeitgeist Movement:<ref>http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=13193 Peter Joseph, Jacque Fresco and the Zeitgeist Movement: Venus Flytrap or Final Solution?</ref>

{{cquote|"The idea, though it is not new, (but is packaged in hypnotising emotional ] movies) sounds lovely. Lets give up our power to machines. In one generation we lose every skill we ever had at managing the earth, growing food, existing as a family unit, forget how to exercise, work at anything and become so dependant on the system that should an error occur the engineers become the new elite, the rulers of the ] ] sci-fi ]."|200px|The Sovereign Independent|''The Sovereign Independent''}}


==Criticism==
# '''Libertarian''': Some beleive the Resource Based Economy requires central planning and control (wich is false, since it is a dynamic system composed of decentralized units linked to a central unit that can in theory manage the earths resources efficiently, no human control is imposed), libertarians criticize it as an extreme form of authoritarianism. Such a system, once programmed, would be an unalterable (therefore ultra-conservative) straightjacket on mankind (this is also false because such a system needs to be contunally updated to new discoverys). {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''Economic''': Assuming that no scarcity will exist - that human desire will never exceed the available resources - is naive according to classical and neo-classical economic thought. The failure of central planning to satisfy consumer demand has an extensive literature - see ]. In short, most economic information is local, and unavailable to central planners. The farmer knows what grows best in his soil, not a far-off government bureaucrat. (this view lacks the understanding of how a resource based economy works, localization is a big part of it, you dont need a global central computer to manage and automated agracultural facility, you need a local system that has access to the global central system for other purposes then the critical funtions of the facility. another problem is that desires are regarded as needs and infinite, when in fact it is the environment that generates those desires an the beleif that those desires are needs) {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''Systemic''': The central planning approach ignores the possibilities and potential for emergent order. ''Cosmos'', the emergent order of ecosystems, markets, and various other phenomena may be a better solution than ''taxis,'' planned order from above. (a resource based economy is not centrally planned, it is calculated in real time considering multiple factors including space-time location.) {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''technology not available yet''':If such machines existed to automate almost everything, they would already be used as they would make huge amounts of money(although after a while prices would have to drop to zero). Also, a computer than runs everything would be extremely hard to create, since computers cannot respond to a change that hasn't be programmed into it (a computer can only do what a human programmes (tells it) to).


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Mission Statement

Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work.

The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.

Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.

This "Resource-Based Economic Model" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components.

The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.

The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness Campaigns extend from short to long term, with the model based explicitly on Non-Violent methods of communication. The long term view, which is the transition into a Resource-Based Economic Model, is a constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community Support.

For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today are also not considered a long term solution, it is still considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need, while also drawing awareness to the principle goal.

The Zeitgeist Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group.
==Concepts advocated by the Zeitgeist Movement==
The core idea advocated by TZM is the replacement of current civilization with a money-free and cybernated "resource-based economy".<ref name="NYT"/> The Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project promote replacing human labour with ], government will be through collective participation of the public, aided by advanced cybernation.<ref name="NYT"/><ref>Jacque Fresco , ''The Venus Project''</ref><ref>Zeitgeist India </ref> According to the movement, there will be no decision-making process regarding greater social issues by human beings, those decisions are arrived at by using the ], based on the carrying capacity of the Earth, rather than using human opinions.<ref>The Zeitgeist Movement </ref> The replacement of human decision making by ] is termed 'Social Cybernation'.<ref>Jacque Fresco , Cybernetic Government ''The Venus Project''</ref> ] will not be abolished, but it will become obsolete as culture grows, being replaced by "a system of universal access".<ref>Peter Joseph , page 69.</ref>

==Activities and publications==
], November 2011]]
===Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)===
The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual "Z-Day" in March. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009 and the second on March 13, 2010. On this day, the Zeitgeist Movement has local gatherings to learn and share information with all interested individuals. In 2009 there were more than 450 events held in 70 countries around the world.<ref name="zeitgeist day">{{cite web |url=http://www.zday2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46 |title=What is Zday }}</ref> In 2009, among other events, Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco spoke to a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours.<ref name="Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco Critique the Monetary Economy"<ref name="ZD2009">{{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 |author= Alan Feuer|date= March 16, 2009 |work= |publisher= ]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref>
The third Z-Day was on March 13, 2011. Peter Joseph and others spoke to a sold-out audience of 1100 at "Friends House" in Euston, London.

] of '']'' attended Z Day 2011 in Los Angeles on March 12, 2011 at ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4C6Xqd8qRc}}</ref> She said she is intrigued by the idea of the Venus Project.

] of ] also attended Z Day in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Baelyn Neff.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brandon Boyd of Incubus at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJ8Vchv8KU}}</ref> He said ''Zeitgeist Moving Forward'' is his favorite Zeitgeist film so far. He also said he is very familiar with Jacque Fresco and watched a documentary film about Jacque Fresco's work called ''Future by Design''.

===Media Project===
According to a press release circulated to members on May 12, 2010, the Zeitgeist Media Project (ZMP) Beta was released. According to the press release the Media Project is an extension of the Communications Team.<ref>http://www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com</ref>

==Chapters==
The Zeitgeist Movement members are organized into country/regional, state and city "sub"-chapters.<ref></ref> Each chapter/sub-chapter is hosted and maintained independently on its own domain, or in sub-domains from the Zeitgeist Movement's main site. The chapters are coordinated by individuals or groups of individuals who are well-versed in the movement's tenets and direction and have chosen to donate their time to help further its current goals. According to the Zeitgeist Movement July 2010 Newsletter, the Zeitgeist Movement has 46 official country chapters and over 200 regional sub-chapters internationally.<ref>http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/July2010NL.pdf</ref> This includes all 50 official U.S. state chapters.<ref name="Chapters">{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/|title=The Zeitgeist Movement Website | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2010-04-02}}</ref>

===Radio address===
Peter Joseph, the founder and head of the Zeitgeist Movement, along with some other members of the movement deliver a weekly radio address which is broadcast every Wednesday on ]. These broadcasts define the Zeitgeist Movement and discuss the progress of the movement's efforts, hold interviews with various relevant personalities, and provide information for the Zeitgeist Movement's ]. When Peter Joseph is hosting, he provides guidelines to followers and answers questions submitted by listeners/movement members.
There are two other BlogTalkRadio shows that discuss the Zeitgeist Movement, a resource-based economy and the Venus Project. One is Z Radio, a weekly broadcast co-hosted by Thunder and Franklee, and produced by Shawn Hodgins. The other, known as V-Radio,<ref name="vradio">{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/v-radio|title=V-Radio}}</ref> is hosted by Neil Kiernan Stephenson.

==Reception==
{{quotefarm|date=November 2011}}
===Media reviews===

]
On April 30, 2009, Rhonda Swan of the ''Palm Beach Post'' wrote:<ref name="PBP20090430">
{{cite web
|title=COLUMN: A dream worth having
|author=Rhonda Swan|date=April 30, 2009
|publisher=The Palm Beach Post
|url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2009/04/30/swancol_0501.html#
|accessdate=May 4, 2009}}
</ref>
{{cquote|Who can argue with such a movement? What we have never has worked for the benefit of society as a whole. How much longer can we really expect it to last? Isn't keeping our current system and expecting something different from what it's always given us insanity?|200px|Rhonda Swan|''Palm Beach Post''}}

On March 17, 2009, Alan Feuer of the ''New York Times'' wrote in an article:<ref name="NYT">{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=1 | work=The New York Times | first=Alan | last=Feuer | title=They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present | date=March 17, 2009}}</ref>

{{cquote|"The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if ] and ] had hired ] from his “]” days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life.|200px|New York Times|''New York Times''}}

From the same article:
{{cquote|"If this sounds vaguely like a disaster scenario out of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', Mr. Fresco did not seem worried in the least. Machines are unemotional and unaggressive, unlike human beings, he told the crowd during the question-and-answer phase. “If you took your laptop and smashed it in front of 50 other laptops, trust me, none of them would care.”}}

Alan of ''The Sovereign Independent'' wrote of the Zeitgeist Movement:<ref>http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=13193 Peter Joseph, Jacque Fresco and the Zeitgeist Movement: Venus Flytrap or Final Solution?</ref>

{{cquote|"The idea, though it is not new, (but is packaged in hypnotising emotional ] movies) sounds lovely. Lets give up our power to machines. In one generation we lose every skill we ever had at managing the earth, growing food, existing as a family unit, forget how to exercise, work at anything and become so dependant on the system that should an error occur the engineers become the new elite, the rulers of the ] ] sci-fi ]."|200px|The Sovereign Independent|''The Sovereign Independent''}}


==Criticism==
# '''Libertarian''': Some beleive the Resource Based Economy requires central planning and control (wich is false, since it is a dynamic system composed of decentralized units linked to a central unit that can in theory manage the earths resources efficiently, no human control is imposed), libertarians criticize it as an extreme form of authoritarianism. Such a system, once programmed, would be an unalterable (therefore ultra-conservative) straightjacket on mankind (this is also false because such a system needs to be contunally updated to new discoverys). {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''Economic''': Assuming that no scarcity will exist - that human desire will never exceed the available resources - is naive according to classical and neo-classical economic thought. The failure of central planning to satisfy consumer demand has an extensive literature - see ]. In short, most economic information is local, and unavailable to central planners. The farmer knows what grows best in his soil, not a far-off government bureaucrat. (this view lacks the understanding of how a resource based economy works, localization is a big part of it, you dont need a global central computer to manage and automated agracultural facility, you need a local system that has access to the global central system for other purposes then the critical funtions of the facility. another problem is that desires are regarded as needs and infinite, when in fact it is the environment that generates those desires an the beleif that those desires are needs) {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''Systemic''': The central planning approach ignores the possibilities and potential for emergent order. ''Cosmos'', the emergent order of ecosystems, markets, and various other phenomena may be a better solution than ''taxis,'' planned order from above. (a resource based economy is not centrally planned, it is calculated in real time considering multiple factors including space-time location.) {{Cn|date=October 2011}}
# '''technology not available yet''':If such machines existed to automate almost everything, they would already be used as they would make huge amounts of money(although after a while prices would have to drop to zero). Also, a computer than runs everything would be extremely hard to create, since computers cannot respond to a change that hasn't be programmed into it (a computer can only do what a human programmes (tells it) to).

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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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