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| Abbreviation | TZM |
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| Formation | 2008 |
| Type | Advocacy group |
| Region served | International |
| Key people | Peter Joseph |
| Website | www |
The Zeitgeist Movement is a non-profit organization established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph. The organization advocates a transformation of society and its economic system to a non-monetary system based on resource allocation and environmentalism.
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.
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."
Events
The group holds two annual events: Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum" held in March, and an art event called Zeitgeist Media Festival. 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. The Zeitgeist Media Festival was first held in 2011. Its third annual event took place on August 4, 2013 at the Avalon Hollywood nightclub in Los Angeles, California.
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.
Response
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
- "TZM NPO 501(c)3". ZMCA.
- "The Zeitgeist Movement - TZM 2.0 - 501c3 Non-Profit Status". Dot Sub.
- "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Huffington Post.
- "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Foreword Reviews.
- "What is the Zeitgeist Movement and Who is Peter Joseph?". Occupy.org.
- ^ TZM Lecture Team (2014). McLeish, Ben; Berkowitz, Matt; Joseph, Peter (eds.). The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought (PDF) (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1495303197. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2015.
- ^ Alan Feuer (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2009.
- ^ "Zeitgeist Media Festival 2012: A celebration to be shared with the entire Earth". Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Martin, Abby. "RT - Breaking the Set".
- Feuer, Alan (March 16, 2009). "Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco Critique the Monetary Economy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
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