The Zeitgeist Movement downplays Anti-Semitism

Just reading this article by reverse-racist @michelleinbklyn who has also accused me of effectively being antisemitic, projecting her delusions into my first film "Zeitgeist" and its really sad how "projected antisemitism" is now weaponized. Hurts everyonehttps://t.co/jnxvLuPIUd

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) February 16, 2019

TZM members can't think for themselves

 

He blocked me 😂

— Dave C (@DaveCurtis86) January 25, 2020

Peter Joseph deletes his tweets

 

Please don't leave us @ZeitgeistFilm you are the only person I rely on to be as far left as I.

— Citizen5 (@Citiz3n5) July 17, 2019

@ZeitgeistFilm Fuck the noise. Fuck the public. Fuck the system. Humanity needs you brother. Change is in ours hands. We just have to wait for society to accept it's decision of destruction or normality. It may be too late but must not give up. One love

— TwistedOperator (@TwistedOperator) July 17, 2019

@TwitterSupport What happen to @ZeitgeistFilm Peter Joseph's Twitter Account? I like to see his Tweets. Would appreciate if I knew what happen to his Tweets

— Michael Gene Price (@MichaelGenePri1) July 17, 2019

Everybody needs a break from time to time....

— Black Wolverine (@TheKolaNut) July 17, 2019

Peter Joseph is a legend of our time and Zeitgeist is the greatest documentary ever made.

I'm saddened by the lack of implementation of his and Bucky's and Jacque's ideas. #TheVenusProphet

— Buck Fresco (@BuckFresco) July 17, 2019

you have better shit to do besides being my hero on social media. later on homey.

— trigger nullifidian 🛹 (@jeff_pine) July 17, 2019

im gone too. bye twitter. *sadly twitts away*

— causal loop (@nen_specialist) July 17, 2019

Wow, he sure left quick!? I've almost done that a few times, I hardly go on Facebook anymore, but I didn't delete or suspend my account. I've been pissed/frustrated/sad enough to almost delete accounts. Damn, hopefully I'll be notified some other way when his new film comes out.

— John 1313 (@JohnEW13) July 17, 2019

I see, nevertheless..sad.

— Sheela (@Simeagh) July 17, 2019

Though, like me, i suspect you never forsaw the pushback that grew from the rabbit holes in responce to your critique. Anyways, good luck with your new projects.

Zitgit will always be one of my favourite documentaries.

— Wesley G (@WesGDJ) July 17, 2019

Oh c'mon man. You don't need to leave. Social media is what you make it of it - it's a tool. PS: Can't wait to see your film - been waiting for years

— Dan Edison (@dan0216) July 17, 2019

@ZeitgeistFilm Hey dude. Do you wanna talk for a bit? Over time you’ve gotten more and more burnt out.(And for good reason). You used to be so effective because you were originally willing to see things through the eyes of the people who are blindfolded. It’s hard, but needed.

— -THINK-CREATE-DO-BE- (@LaMongoosel) July 17, 2019

You're one of the few I have notifications turned on for because you're one of the few that says shit people don't want to hear but need to hear. I can say that it at least makes an impact on me and I'm sure on thousands of others. Take it easy PJ.

— Spencer (@SpencerBonthoux) July 17, 2019

I’m with you mate!

— Stephen Camp (@SteveCampF1) July 17, 2019

By peter😥✌🏻

— john (@john92552244) July 17, 2019

pic.twitter.com/FMo8YCREcK

— Raúl (@raulcg) July 17, 2019

Oh man, you have erased so many of your past tweets about the rich that I had saved for later reference.

— Carlos Celis (@elunicoriginal) November 21, 2021

well, i'll have to start making notes on actual notebooks and stop saving in "favourites", 'cause i really miss some of that info.

— Carlos Celis (@elunicoriginal) November 21, 2021

Sorry about that

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) November 22, 2021

TZM declared "dead in the water"

Marxistophobia? Its time to end our immaturity.

The Zeitgeist Movement and Marxism

TZM: Our mod posts marxist response to ECA but we're not communists

Just how dead is TZM? from r/TZM

The Zeitgeist Movement is the activist arm of The Venus Project... it seems to be dead.

— Becerra Rubén Darío (@BecerraRuben) April 9, 2020

What the zeitgeist movement needs is a Leninist type of vanguard party. Hate to break it to everyone but ideas alone will not do and any spontaneous uprisings with no clear vision and strict goals is highly at risk to fail and sink into a terrible regression.

— Sweet&TenderHooligan (@DizCharmingMan) June 9, 2020

Anybody on the left aware of the Zeitgeist movement?

— Voting for the meteor 🌎💥☄️ (@JoeyDeLuca11) July 15, 2020

Peter Joseph says he's leaving Social Media

Pj’s Mailbag, Jan 3 2019

Q: Hey Pete. So why the leave from social media? You are an activist, right? It seems like this decision is counterproductive to your message and work.

A: The short answer is I’m tired of the endless narcissism inherent to the medium. In the commercial society we have, coupled with the consequential sense of insecurity people feel, as they impulsively “package themselves” for public consumption, the expression most dominant in all of this - is vanity. And I find that disheartening, annoying and dangerous.

It is a form of cultural violence in many respects. And I hate the fact I have to engage any aspect of it, frankly. Sadly, (as you noted) as an activist/communicator of ideas, I have a message and to get that message out I have to use these mediums to some degree. And I will again, in time, be more active when I finish InterReflections.

However, please note the difference - that I work to promote just that – a message/idea – not myself… and I honestly loath people who today just promote themselves for the sake of themselves. A sea of humans who have been conditioned into viewing who they are – as how they are seen online. Think about that for a moment. Social identity theory run amok.

People have been conditioned to think “they are” how “others see them”. We live in an increasing fictional reality where people are now not only people – they are digital symbols. And those symbols become more important as a matter of “marketing” than people’s true personality. Now, one could argue that social perception has always had a communicative symbolism, even before the computer age. But nooooooothing like today. Social media has become a social prison and a strong means of social control, in fact.

Beyond that, as most know, social media is literally designed like a drug. And it acts like it as people get more and more addicted to being seen and addicted to molding the way they want the world to view them – no matter how false the image (If there is any word that defines peoples’ behavior here – it is pretention). Dopamine fires upon recognition and, coupled with cell phone culture, we now have a sea of people in zombie like trances looking at their phones (literally) thousands of times a day, merging their direct, true interpersonal social reality with a virtual “social media” one. No one can read anymore... they just swipe a stream of 200 character headlines/posts/tweets. understanding the world as an aggregate of those fragmented sentences. Massive loss of comprehension happening, replaced by usually agreeable, "in-bubble" views - hence an actual loss of variety.

So again, this isn’t to say non-commercial focused social media doesn’t have positive purposes, such as with activism at times. But, on the whole, it merely amplifies a general value system disorder of a “LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT HOW GREAT I AM!” – rooted in systemic insecurity. People lying to themselves, drawing meaningless satisfaction from superficial responses from a sea of avatars.

And it’s no surprise. Market economics demands people self promote shamelessly, coupled with the arbitrary constructs of beauty and success that have also resulted. People see status in certain things and, directly or pathologically, use those things for their own narcissistic advantage. Think of those endless status pics of people rock climbing, or hanging out on a stunning beach or showing off their new trophy girl-friend, etc. It goes on and on and worse the general public generally likes it, seeking to imitate those images/symbols to amplify their own false status. Hence the endless feedback loop of superficiality.

And people wonder why youth suicides have risen… a young woman looking at a model of perfection set by her peers, without proper knowledge of the medium, can be made to feel inferior far more dramatically than the typical body image problems associated to traditional advertising. That is just one example of the cultural violence inherent.

So, in summary, having been something of a public figure over the past decade, I realized over the past 2 years that I don’t like the how the medium structurally induces behavior. It has purpose - but it's socially fucked up. I would love to see an experiment where all “follows” and “likes” where removed from all accounts and posts. That would remove the structural notion of popularity and fame and hence alter people’s motivation.

But that would never happen. Why? - Because the entire industry of social media is BASED on narcissistic status promotion and narrow self-interest. That is the emotion/intent that creates the billions and billions in revenue these platforms experience, as they in turn sell off people’s personal data to advertisers and governments. You are the product, of course.
~P

PJ is back on social media

Do you still believe that there is some kind of "nutrients" or "energy" in french fries or pizza or any food that you eat?

— Alex Gritsik (@AlexGritsik) April 16, 2020

any food at all

— Alex Gritsik (@AlexGritsik) April 16, 2020

Yeah if you listen to Peter Joseph now, he has ventured away from the zeitgeist movement and is a HUGE critic of capitalism. Check out an interview he did with both Abby Martin and Jimmy Dore. Both are extremely informative in anti capitalist/imperialist information

— Keith Toledo (@KeithToledo) April 18, 2020

All of it should be nationalized and publicly owned

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) October 4, 2021

I'm surrounded by idiots.

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) October 4, 2021

You know a guy takes himself too seriously when he responds to a Taco Bell joke with exhausted contempt lol

Must be hard life https://t.co/3mUCtdNqXQ

— MicDre (@dremicdre) October 5, 2021

That's it. I can't look at any of this anymore.
I used to think people who avoided news & social issues were selfish. While generally true, there's likely an intuition:
Realizing the more you pay attention to the world freak show, the more your health is destroyed by the idiocy.

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) January 7, 2022

Negative

— Luke Thomas (@seculare) January 12, 2022

you first

— OldManYellsAtTweets (@BitcoinIsHope) January 16, 2022

PJ: everything is fucked.
Me: what should we do?
PJ: change everything
Me: how?
PJ: you can't, everything is fucked.

— OldManYellsAtTweets (@BitcoinIsHope) January 16, 2022

Whatever you're not even my real dad

— Solarpunk Feffy (@feffylovesyou) January 16, 2022

Peter. Stop tweeting. You need to stop now. Close your account, before someone else does it for you.

— … (@GrenadeGrim) March 5, 2022

No InterReflections Yet

Just so everyone knows I think it's time for me to be honest. Ppl know that I have criticized communists in the past. I've done whole podcasts defending things like sweatshops and rent. I, along with a few others, took down The Zeitgeist Movement and threw them into obscurity.

— The Goodest Jim Jesus 🤘🏴💰🍕 (@JimJesus) January 2, 2019