The Zeitgeist Movement

The Zeitgeist Movement (English: The Zeitgeist Movement) is an international grassroots movement whose stated goal is to bring together world existing Community sustainability and education projects as well as conduct annual events, media events and charity projects. Initiated in 2008, Motion advertises for a replacement of the on monetary means of exchange (money) based economies through a resource-based economy.

Objectives of the Zeitgeist Movement

The Zeitgeist Movement followed by their statements, the goal is to create sustainable solutions with maximum benefits for the people and thus seeks a transformation of society "from below " to, towards a welfare society. This will be achieved through education and awareness of current crises. Is intended to support the view that fundamental social changes are necessary.

Poverty, corruption, crises, homelessness, war, famine and the like are not. Consequences as less deficiencies of social institutions, the misconduct of individuals or a 'fallacy " to see the " human nature ", but as symptoms of outdated social structures and social

In a future global society sustainability should be regarded as the most important criterion for decisions to be taken in addition to the absolute respect for human rights. The " scientific method " is to be applied for the purpose of social change, which policy is unnecessary. Similarly, decisions should be made on a scientific way, so do not rely on opinions, which can vary between individuals depending on their interests and well-being. Policy, the balance between these different interests, will therefore unnecessary.

Since the world is too complex for a comprehensive ideology would have the chance to offer a solution, the transformation should take place in an evolutionary manner. To the design of this process would a hypothesis for a complex application set up in accordance with the processes in research, simulated by computer and converted in terms of an experiment. After some time, the result would be examined. Where it was necessary adjustments would be made. The results showed that the hypothesis was wrong, would a different set up and tested. So the company can evolve in iterative steps.

The core idea of the Zeitgeist Movement is the replacement of currently existing economies by a money -free and " resource-based economy". The Zeitgeist Movement promotes the replacement of human labor by automating and the government by the collective participation of the citizens with the support of technology and advanced cybernetics.

One of the reasons for the current major social problems of the people, the predominant forms of human decision-making processes are considered. Therefore, robust decisions should be made on the basis of scientific methods that take into account the resource capacity of the earth. The support of human decisions by artificial intelligence called "Social cybernetisation ". Property is not abolished, but it will lose during the target culture growth in importance and are solved by ensuring the free availability of things.

Activities and publications

The Zeitgeist Movement held annually in March, the so-called "Z- Day" with local meetings. The filmmaker Peter Joseph, author of the Zeitgeist film series, and Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project spoke at the sold out 2009 Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours to some 900 attendees. 2010, there were more than 330 events in 70 countries.

2011 Peter Joseph said, and others from around 1,100 people in the sold-out Friends House in Euston, London. Another global event of the movement is the annual "Zeitgeist Media Festival ". Registers each local group on the respective website, the event in the country. Musicians and artists like Natacha Atlas, Hierosonic and Banksy were represented at the main event in Los Angeles.

The Zeitgeist Movement maintains with the TZM Network is a social network for those interested and members. It has similarities to Facebook, to which it is partially compatible.

Members of the Zeitgeist Movement participated in the own goals in demonstrations on various political issues, so in the wake of protests against the financial market and banking policy in which the Occupy Wall Street initiatives in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Zurich, Salzburg, Los Angeles and Vancouver.

Organization

The members of the Zeitgeist Movement organized in country, regional, federal, state, and local groups, which have a worldwide and act in the sense of an advocacy organization. The groups of volunteers who are familiar with the principles and the direction of movement, coordinated. 2010 belonged to the Zeitgeist Movement on 46 country groups and over 200 regional subgroups. In Germany there were 2011 eleven local chapters in major German cities, who advertised with some unconventional methods for the Zeitgeist Movement. The Berlin local group has about 80 members, the largest in Germany.

The Internet is used as with other global organizations, as a connecting medium. The movement was to April 2011, closely connected with the Venus Project, an initiative of the American author Jacque Fresco. Before that was the movement as its activist arm. It was created in 2008 as a reaction to the film Zeitgeist: Addendum by Peter Joseph. The number of members is not exactly verifiable, based on self-reported data and is to be at least 430,000. The Zeitgeist Movement organizes public performances of the Zeitgeist films previously subtitled in different languages.

Zeitgeist Film Series

The Zeitgeist Film Series Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward referred to the movement as artistic expression by Peter Joseph. It has interfaces with the focus of the Zeitgeist Movement. Not be attributed Addendum, however, as is often claimed, on the because of wrong facts, inaccuracies, conspiracy theory and critical of religion tendencies criticized Zeitgeist ( Movie): The emergence of the movement can be also relatively clear at the time of release of the movie Zeitgeist.

Not Moving Forward, his first film, however: The official YouTube channel of the movement lists only Joseph's films Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward reported so far 4.5 and 19.3 million viewers.

The two most recent Zeitgeist films seem in view of the audience in the network and the frequent performances by activists apparently supportive of the movement, however, should not be equated with the views of the Zeitgeist Movement, according to official statements. The Zeitgeist Movement distanced himself from Joseph's films. They were due to their popularity and reputation for compassion, peace and sustainability to understand rather than " inspiration ". The focus of the movement stood not the theories and explanations, which are not submitted in Peter Joseph's films.

Reception

In German-speaking movement pushed so far on only a small reception in the media. Media in the English-speaking and Russian -speaking her devoted attention is more common.

Internationally

Rhonda Swan dedicated to the Zeitgeist movement in the Palm Beach Post 2009 comments in which she described the utopias of the Zeitgeist Movement as an alternative that is worth considering at least.

Alan fires reported in the same year in the New York Times on "Z- Day" in New York. He described the films Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum as the " subtext " of the evening. Peter Joseph had turned away from the represented in the first film theory, the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were an inside job of the American government. However, the second film is not free of conspiratorial ideas that relate to the banking system and economy. The heterogeneous in age and appearance audience was enthusiastic about the event.

The musician Natacha Atlas called the Zeitgeist Movement as an inspiration for her 2010 concept album Mounqaliba arisen.

At one event to Z- Day in Los Angeles took in 2011 the American actress Michelle Rodriguez and musician Brandon Boyd part. Rodríguez said this in an interview that they are " great and very inspiring," find the films of the Zeitgeist series.

The Bulgarian TV channels On Air beamed all three films in 2011 by Peter Joseph from. In March, the last two parts of the Zeitgeist film series were broadcast on station WTV in Australia. Moving Forward: In May 2012, the Chilean station ARTV Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist sent.

Germany

The magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung devoted Peter Joseph, his films, including the third of the series, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and the Zeitgeist Movement in 2011, a lengthy article. For all the criticism that one "conspiracy theory nonsense " can be summed up in the word related to the films, the films were " a cultural phenomenon with millions of viewers " and essential components of a global, represented over the Internet subculture. This is founded in the fact that the conditions laid down in the films theories to be similar to the novels of Dan Brown coherent and exciting and would provide simple explanations of complex problems such as the financial policy. The ideas of another world, as in the film Zeitgeist: Addendum expressed, correspond to those of a " Cockaigne ". To create. Attempt was made to a " - - scientists, technology geeks use the computer totalitarian society in which a few alpha men" will Peter Joseph is an authority whose theories would repeat uncritically for many of his followers. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward WOULD reputable, has been researched but not always in a serious manner, as contributing scientists about the background of the film series had been left in the dark in the film and would not otherwise have cooperated.

In an article in Weeyoo.com the future vision of an economy is presented without money in it an advanced technology enables people to get along with almost no work and take the Earth's surface with automated, rigorously planned cities " in less than 15 years, a completely new shape " should. Critics would wrongly fear a rule of the machines, but it was questionable whether the ideas of the Venus Project could ever realize.

An article in the taz warned by reference to the Zeitgeist movement, protest campers of the Occupy movement should " careful that they are not kidnapped by an obscure cult- like movement -. If that is not even happening," Thereupon, the Frankfurt activists distanced themselves from the Zeitgeist Movement and took measures to avoid being exploited by various political groups.

The owner of the online community StudiVZ were in 2009 " called Zeitgeist groups " in their network to delete, including the group " Zeitgeist Revolution.de ". The reason they cited conspiratorial and structurally anti-Semitic tendencies that they had spotted in movies by Peter Joseph. In the declaration part of StudiVZ it said in part: "It is not our intent to obstruct or prevent alternative views and news, but we have been observing for some time with great concern the development of theories, for example, were initiated by the Zeitgeist movies. The ideas of gray eminences, elites or secret societies pull the strings in the background is not new. "