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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.

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. 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 Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist Film Series. It featured structural engineer, Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project (TVP), in Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and proposed a "Resource Based Economic Model" as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems,

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.

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 sustainable development. The movement believes humanity can employ renewable energy and computerized automatic systems on a global scale to provide free food and other necessities. It believes machines would perform almost all of the resource allocation and labor, and humans would oversee the computers and supervise the machines.

Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)

The movement holds an annual event, Z-Day, in March. It was first held in 2009 in New York City. The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide." London and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.

See also

• Post-scarcity economy
• Technological utopianism
• Utopian socialism
• Jacque Fresco

References

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". New York Times. 2009-03-16.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Cite error: The named reference huffpost was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
5. "Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC". voguetheatre.com.

External links

• Official website

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