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| Abbreviation | TZM |
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| Formation | 2008; 16 years ago (2008) |
| Type | Advocacy group |
| Region served | International |
| Key people | Peter Joseph |
| Website | TheZeitgeistMovement.com |
The Zeitgeist Movement is an international sustainability advocacy group established in 2008 by filmmaker Peter Joseph. The group operates with the aim of using non-violent forms of communication through a decentralized, global network of teams, public events, media expressions, and charity operations. The movement focuses on educating the public about what are claimed to be the root sources of many common personal, social and ecological problems today, coupled with the vast problem-solving and humanity-improving potential, science and technology has now enabled, but yet goes unapplied, due to barriers inherent in the current established social 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. 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
- Anti-consumerism
- Criticism of capitalism
- Environmental movement
- Environmentalism
- Money Free Party
- Post-growth
- Post-scarcity economy
- Structural fix
- Technocracy
- Technological utopianism
- Yellow socialism
References
- Team, TZM (January 2014). The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought (1st ed.). TZM Global. p. 5. ISBN 1495303195.
- ^ 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.
- Cohn, Shane (May 12, 2011). "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846.
External links
Media related to The Zeitgeist Movement at Wikimedia Commons
