Form 990-EZ for period ending December
Monday, December 31, 2018
Sunday, December 30, 2018
The Zeitgeist Movement gets compared to Scientology
"Much of the footage was taken from Alex Jones" 😂😂
— Dave Folksman (@tarkonis) January 6, 2019
Delusional Zeitard defends Scientology
https://t.co/sUIvrnoHX1https://t.co/upe8iUc2LVhttps://t.co/tbEu6G4DJM
— your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷 (@davidgerard) December 30, 2018
that's literally the entire answer
you mean, people who attempt to edit the encyclopedia according to its most fundamental rules?
— your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷 (@davidgerard) December 30, 2018
talk page is here: https://t.co/7fyH7Uch8z
— your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷 (@davidgerard) December 30, 2018
this is the place to exercise your detailed understanding of what Wikipedia is and isn't for
...there's still a "movement"? it's been over a decade, hasn't it?
— KMFDNFT (@SamFateKeeper) December 31, 2018
genuinely shocked that there was still a wikipedia page with terrible sources for fucking Zeitgeist in 2018
— KMFDNFT (@SamFateKeeper) December 31, 2018
but then, my roommate a few years back in grad school at one point was recommending the film to people so idk I guess it has an allure
don't tell them about the other wiki
— Spacebat 🦇 (@MC_Spacebat) December 31, 2018
lol
— your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷 (@davidgerard) December 31, 2018
the articles there are actually not very good at all, there needs to be a merge of about four lumps of rambling
if you could imagine the ineptness of scientologists, and cross it with the ineptness of bitcoiners,
— your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷 (@davidgerard) December 31, 2018
...there's still a "movement"? it's been over a decade, hasn't it?
— KMFDNFT (@SamFateKeeper) December 31, 2018
Money is the root of evil, according to the Book of Timothy in the New Testament; burning it will heal the planet, argues the intriguing documentary “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.” This is the third in a series of “Zeitgeist” films for director-producer-writer-cinematographer-composer-editor and narrator Peter Joseph, who goes only by his first and middle names. In this installment, he attacks the international monetary system and promotes a sustainable utopia.
Peter Joseph opened his earlier “Zeitgeist: The Movie” (2007) and “Zeitgeist: Addendum” (2008) with lines from Tibetan and Indian philosophers, respectively. Austrian communist Ernest Fischer, author of The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach, supplies the epigraph for “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward”: “Art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
After circuituous discussions of human genetics, violence, addiction, currency, inflation and oil, the lengthy film gets around to changing the world using “the scientific method applied to human concerns.”
Social engineer and industrial designer Jacque Fresco plugs his Venus Project, in which he envisions a “cybernated society” of circular cities where “computers could replace the outmoded system of electing politicians.” Satellite-steered, collectively owned cars will eliminate traffic fatalities, he forecasts.
Peter Joseph’s most imaginative leap comes at the end when he dramatizes a scenario for peaceful revolt: citizens of Earth see the light and toss all their cash into fires outside banks. Although the first two “Zeitgeist” films spawned a grass-roots movement (the Illinois chapter is hosting the Chicago screenings) this tactic is not prescribed for offscreen activists.
At times, Peter Jospeh skirts with esoterica. Never as kooky as “visionaries” Lyndon LaRouche and L. Ron Hubbard, he nonetheless partakes in science worship, sci-fi mind-slavery metaphors, and a global banking obsessions. His films draw upon such disparate books as The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, The Cancer Stage of Capitalism, The Coming Oil Crisis and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Economists, including the late University of Chicago seer Milton Friedman, are the big bad guys here. Their theories are based on the lie of “infinite resources.” The provocative “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” advocates instead a “resource-based” society, rescaled under the “dictatorship” of nature.
The Zeitgeist Movement
 | |
| Abbreviation | TZM |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2008 |
| Type | Advocacy group |
Region served
| International |
Key people
| Peter Joseph |
| Website | TheZeitgeistMovement.com |
The Zeitgeist Movement is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph.
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.[1]
The group is critical of market capitalism, describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. According to The Daily Telegraph, the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable ecology and scientific administration of society.[2][3][4][5]
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."[6] 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."[6]
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."[7]
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.[8][9]
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 [the Zeitgeist Movement], [the Venus Project] doesn’t exist – it has nothing but ideas and has no viable method to bring it to light."[8]
The first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of Eustace Mullins, Lyndon LaRouche, and radio host Alex Jones.[6] Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries.[6]
VC Reporter's Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".[10]
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.[7] 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.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846.
- ^ McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. Forest boy 'inspired by Zeitgeist movement'. The Telegraph. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Resnick, Jan (February 25, 2009). "The Zeitgeist Movement". Psychotherapy in Australia. 15 (2). ISSN 1323-0921.
- ^ Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia 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.
- ^ Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler, Globes (Israel), March 18, 2010.
- ^ a b c d Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ a b c Feuer, Alan (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14,2018.
- ^ a b 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. "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ Cohn, Shane (May 12, 2011). "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
