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'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is a ] established in the United States in 2008 by ].<ref>{{cite web|work = ZMCA |title = TZM NPO 501(c)3 |url = http://zmca.org/faq-s }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work = Dot Sub |title = The Zeitgeist Movement - TZM 2.0 - 501c3 Non-Profit Status |url = https://dotsub.com/view/58760602-1e46-40df-ba58-4c4934c3b3e4 }}</ref> The organization advocates a transformation of society and its ] to a non-monetary system based on resource allocation and environmentalism.<ref>{{cite web|work = Huffington Post |title = The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work = Foreword Reviews |title = The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future |url = https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-zeitgeist-movement-defined/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work = Occupy.org |title = What is the Zeitgeist Movement and Who is Peter Joseph? |url = http://www.occupycafe.org/profiles/blogs/what-is-the-zeitgeist-movement-and-who-is-peter-joseph }}</ref>


'''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>
==Overview==
⚫ ''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>
In 2007 Peter Joseph produced and self-financed a live ] piece which ran for six nights in lower Manhattan that he entitled "Zeitgeist". According to Joseph in an interview in 2012, he was surprised after a version he made of this performance (''Zeitgeist: The Movie''), the first film in the Zeitgeist film series, went viral on ] with millions of views.<ref name=JoeRoganExperience173>{{cite web|title=PODCAST #173 - Peter Joseph, Brian Redban|url=http://podbay.fm/show/360084272/e/1325929015?autostart=1|website=The Joe Rogan Experience|accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref>


==History==
The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008<ref>{{Cite web|title = TZM - Mission Statement|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement|website = www.thezeitgeistmovement.com|accessdate = October 2, 2015}}</ref> by Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of '']'', the second film in the ].<ref name=o3/><ref name=v2/> The ideas were based on the ], a societal model created by ] ].<ref name="o3" />{{r|socialeng}} In the Venus Project, machines control government and industry and safeguard resources using an ] "earthwide autonomic sensor system", a super-brain connected to all human knowledge.<ref name="h6" />
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>


In its first year, the movement described itself as "the ] arm of ]."<ref name=h11/> 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 |first=Jeff|last=Gore |url=http://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 |accessdate=September 17, 2015}}</ref> In an interview, Fresco said that although the Zeitgeist Movement wanted to act as the 'activist arm' of Venus project, Joseph never clarified what that would entail, and Fresco's ideas of how to change society were not followed. As a result, Fresco withdrew participation in the Zeitgeist Movement.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=retxWac-6Z8 Interview of Fresco Retrieved May-3-2016</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 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"/>
The group is critical of market ], describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. According to '']'', the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ] and scientific administration of society.<ref name="t9" /><ref name="pia14" /><ref name="m15" /><ref name="g16" /><ref name="p17" />


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 first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of ], ], and Austin radio host ]. Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries,<ref>http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved July-10-2016</ref>such as his documentary '']''.<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/13/zeitgeist-the-documentary-that-may-have-shaped-jared-loughners-worldview.html Retrieved July-July-18-2016</ref>


==Reactions==
⚫ ''VC Reporter's'' Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".<ref name="v2" />
⚫ 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" />
==Origin of movement==


⚫ 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>
Near the end of ''Zeitgeist: Addendum'', a 'call to action in the form of joining "The Zeitgeist Movement" was put forward. In 2009, months after the release of Addendum the first formal "Zeitgeist Day" (ZDAY) occurred in New York City.'<ref>http://peterjoseph.info/biography/ Retrieved July-31-2016</ref>

==The Zeitgeist Movement book==

In January 2014, the group self-published a book, ''The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing A New Train Of Thought'', composed of eighteen essays on psychology, economics, and scientific theory written by the 'TZM Lecture Team' and edited by Ben McLeish, Matt Berkowitz, and Peter Joseph.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought|last = TZM Lecture Team|first = |publisher = |year = 2014|isbn = 978-1495303197|location = |pages = |edition = 1st|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/uploads/upload/file/19/The_Zeitgeist_Movement_Defined_PDF_Final.pdf|editor-last = McLeish|editor-first = Ben|editor-last2 = Berkowitz|editor-first2 = Matt|editor-last3 = Joseph|editor-first3 = Peter|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150912194856/http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/uploads/upload/file/19/The_Zeitgeist_Movement_Defined_PDF_Final.pdf|archive-date = September 12, 2015}}</ref>

The book describes the name of the group in this way:
:"The term "zeitgeist" is defined as the "general intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era." The term "movement" simply implies "motion" or change. Therefore, The Zeitgeist Movement is an organization that urges change in the dominant intellectual, moral and cultural climate of the time."<ref name=":1" />

==Events==
The group holds two annual events: Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum"<ref name=n8/> held in March, and an ] event called Zeitgeist Media Festival.<ref name=h6/> The second Z-Day took place in Manhattan in 2009 and included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco. The organizers said that local chapters also held sister events on the same day.<ref name="n8" /> The Zeitgeist Media Festival was first held in 2011. Its third annual event took place on August 4, 2013 at the ] nightclub in Los Angeles, California.<ref name=h6/><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btJbfcXUqA|title = RT - Breaking the Set|last = Martin|first = Abby|date = |work = |access-date = |via = }}</ref>

''The New York Times'' reported in 2009 that the organization's second annual event sold out the Manhattan Community College in New York with 900 people who paid $10 apiece to attend. The event's organizers said that 450 connected events in 70 countries around the globe also took place.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html|title=Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco Critique the Monetary Economy|last=Feuer|first=Alan|date=2009-03-16|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-07-05}}</ref>

==Response==
⚫ An article in the '']'' describes the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of ] spirituality and ].<ref name=j10/>

⚫ ] of '']'' 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 ] that "sparked" the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."<ref name=t7 />

⚫ 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."<ref name=n8/>


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==External links==
<ref name=h6>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Media Festival 2012: A celebration to be shared with the entire Earth|url=http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2012/08/14/zeitgeist-media-festival-2012-a-celebration-to-be-shared-with-the-entire-earth/|accessdate=April 29, 2015}}</ref>
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<ref name=j10>{{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=10.1080/13537903.2011.539846 |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846 |accessdate=June 16, 2012}}</ref>

<ref name=n8>{{Cite news|title=They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present|author=Alan Feuer|date=March 17, 2009<!--"A version of this article appeared in print on March 17, 2009, on page A24 of the New York edition." -->|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html|accessdate=March 17, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name=t7>{{cite web|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world|title=Brave New World|last=Goldberg|first=Michelle|work=]|date=February 2, 2011|accessdate=April 15, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=t9>McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. . ''The Telegraph.'' Retrieved April 29, 2014.</ref>

<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|accessdate=May 28, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=p17>{{cite news |first=Rhonda|last=Swan |url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2009/04/30/swancol_0501.html |title=A dream worth having |work=] |date=April 30, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830041525/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2009/04/30/swancol_0501.html |archivedate=August 30, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name=pia14>{{Cite journal|url = http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=543809933974722;res=IELHEA|title = The Zeitgeist Movement|last = Resnick|first = Jan|date = February 25, 2009|journal = Psychotherapy in Australia|access-date = May 31, 2015|issue = 2|issn = 1323-0921|volume = 15}}</ref>

<ref name=m15>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>

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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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