Zeitgeist

[quote=Canoas]Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work. The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality in the activist community. Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socio-economic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions. This "Resource-Based Economic Model" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components. The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time. http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/ - download the 3rd film (free and legal) http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ - learn about the movement Discuss. Is it too naive? Do you agree that this is the right thing to do?[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond]The movies are crap, it's not even fun to watch it. Nothing is evidenced by facts and they want to sound "clever" by using foreign words and showing some possible correlations which are far-fetched in most cases. (Though I also think that the U.S. Government is responsible for 9/11)[/quote]

[quote=Canoas]There's no claim they make without citing a study. How can you say it's not evidenced by facts?[/quote]

[quote=MaoDi]I really enjoyed the part of Zeitgeist about different religions. Im an atheist and i laughed hard at the most popular religions because of their same roots. telling everyone they're the one right religion is kinda stupid, religion is a princip of a good working society but thats another discussion. Although i think that Zeitgeist isnt a very high quality sorce of information i was pretty surprised about what kind of amazing facts they summed up. i wont trust Zeitgeist at all but it was a good pastime to watch it[/quote]

[quote=Canoas]I don't think the venus project is possible. For it to happen everyone in the entire world needs to accept it, and it just won't happen. Mankind is doomed.[/quote]