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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> | |||
| ==Overview== | |||
| 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> | |||
| 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" /> | |||
| 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> | |||
| 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 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> | |||
| ''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" /> | |||
| ==Origin of movement== | |||
| 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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| == References == | |||
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| <ref name=g16>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=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> | |||
| <ref name=h11>{{cite news|title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=May 28, 2015}}</ref> | |||
| <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> | |||
| <ref name="socialeng">{{cite web|title=Jacque Fresco - Social Engineer - Legendado Português.|url=https://dotsub.com/view/b0b989f8-f5c8-4de8-96d7-66ab43a16915|publisher=dotsub|accessdate=2 April 2016}}</ref> | |||
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