TZM Member steals Peter Joseph's handle

Zeitgeist: The Movie, by Peter Joseph #zeitgeistmovie #peterjoseph https://t.co/tOsdLtbmY4

— zeitgeistfilm (@zeitgeistfilm) May 9, 2023

"Zeitgeist: Addendum" by Peter Joseph, 2009
Via Tubi.https://t.co/XWh1uZwOS1

— zeitgeistfilm (@zeitgeistfilm) May 10, 2023

Peter Joseph doesn't like positivity

This is why I take offence at the negativity coming from @ZeitgeistFilm it doesn't translate well into people bringing about a better future.
We shouldn't delude ourselves, there's some big challenges. But the Losada ratio still has merits.

— Michael Kubler (@kublermdk) October 16, 2021

Go back about five-six years and then start complaining as my temperament and cynical amusements are exactly the same now as they were then. In fact this is simply my personality as a whole 😉

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) October 16, 2021

Not sure if this is legit. But the idea is interesting. People already create bubbles to isolate themselves from opinions they don’t like, why not glasses that create the illusion everyone around you is happy?

Hey @charltonbrooker #blackmirror https://t.co/i4di6MbkhO

— Peter Joseph (@ZeitgeistFilm) October 15, 2021

Peter Joseph goes after John Perkins

Peter Joseph hates white people (except Italians)

Mass shootings yes sir. But i also see terrorism in inner city black kids with no direction. Although they don't kill in masses. I will never overlook the inner city terror. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I see this on a daily basis. World war 1 and 2 killed over 100 million people

— Larry cooper (@Larryco33290033) November 23, 2019

I see no reason to bring race into this everyone knows men do most of the killing in this world no matter skin color why is it relevant what color they are ?

— Tom science (@Tomscience1) November 24, 2019 

72% of people in Us is white. So in absolute numbers, yes. But in relative numbers no, please look at https://t.co/HOwUvaWkjx and you will find it is actually less. You always look At the relative Numbers!

— And I feel fine (@Ren05569480) November 23, 2019

Yet mass shootings don’t account for a majority of gun deaths. Calling out white men misses the point on overall civilian gun violence which is socioeconomic based.

— M.R. (@CalfTatsRCool) November 23, 2019

Please don't be sectarian and racist, this goes against all of your films messages Peter.

— Logan (@Logan_910) November 23, 2019

Wow there's more stupid rednecks here than I thought. I always thought Trump only served the wealthy 1% and left the workers to pick up wage scraps.

— Cyan (@CyanRGB) June 8, 2020

2021- the year you failed to be as relevant as Joe Rogan. Heh, loser.

— william fitzgibbons (@williamfitzgi17) December 31, 2021

The Venus Project assets so far

I just realized something on #TheVenusProject site
Their assets are 77K, but we know they raised 200K+ for their movie
Means they've spent most of their movie $ before they started filming, they've been covering their losses with your money, or it's gone in #RoxanneMeadows pocket pic.twitter.com/8YtpsCAeoY

— Rebuking RBE Myths (@MythsRbe) August 13, 2019

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Peter Joseph still can't figure out the ECP

TZM predicted to be doomed

Thanks for the link @MarmaMusic. Zeitgeist Films is not affiliated with the Zeitgeist Movement or any of the Zeitgeist documentaries. Also, rather than a political project, Zeitgeist is a sustainability advocacy organization. https://t.co/fPM3TpQlzb

— Zeitgeist Movement (@tzmglobal) November 10, 2017

Gravitas Ventures promotes Zeitgeist trilogy

Peter Joseph Sells Out Zeitgeist Movement: Gravitas Ventures

 

Published on Apr 3, 2017

Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) is a treatment on Mythology and Belief in society today presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues. Chapter 1 presents historical data relating to the astronomical/astrological origins of the Judeo-Christian theology. Chapter 2 presents a alternative view of the events of Sept. 11th 2001. Chapter 3 presents a shotgun tour through the subjects of Central Banking, War Pretexts, Banking Panics, the Military Industrial Complex, Media Culture and ultimately the mental neurosis and deadly addiction known as Power.

• Provider Channel

  • Gravitas Ventures

• Release date

  • 2007

• Running time

  • 1:56:39

• Language

  • English

 

Published on Apr 3, 2017

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) features former "Economic Hit-Man" and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with The Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the 1st explains "Fractional Reserve Banking" and how Debt and Bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The 2nd exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system. The 3rd then considers solutions to current social woes and the 4th gives a philosophical view with the hope to inspire change in the viewer.

• Provider Channel

  • Gravitas Ventures

• Release date

  • 2008

• Running time

  • 2:03:09

• Language

  • English

 

Published on Apr 3, 2017

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) focuses on "Monetary-Market Economics" and its repercussions. Chapter 1 is treatment on "Human Nature", noting that our social traditions are out of line with what constitutes positive human development. Chapter 2 details the core flaws of our economic system and how it is destroying us and the planet. Chapter 3 begins a thought exercise where our modern scientific understanding is considered as the starting point for human decision-making and Chapter 4 sets predictions of what is to come as society becomes more destabilized due to our outdated practices.

• Provider Channel

  • Gravitas Ventures

• Release date

  • 2011

• Running time

  • 2:41:15

• Language

  • English

To all the #TZM idiots who say PJ does #Zeitgeist out of the goodness of his heart http://t.co/jrYhHFpB Not even close. #bigmoney #WalMart

— The Goodest Jim Jesus 🤘🏴💰🍕 (@JimJesus) November 30, 2012

Sports is okay now

“@mancalledczar: Zeitgeist Addendum (HD) Part I - Federal Reserve @ronnieo147 http://t.co/1BvHrc0xlG”u gotta watch this mind blowing

— Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 11, 2013

.@ronnieo147 thanks for sharing the message... #WeAreOnePlanet

— Zeitgeist Movement (@tzmglobal) September 25, 2013

Mark Dice reviews Zeitgeist: Addendum again

Peter Joseph is a lazy music video director

 Zeitgeist Film Series Creator Peter Joseph Directs New Black Sabbath Music Video "God is Dead?"

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Fri Jun 7, 2013 5:23pm EDT

Zeitgeist Film Series Creator Peter Joseph Directs New Black Sabbath Music Video "God is Dead?"

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LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2013

LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Controversial filmmaker and social activist Peter Joseph, made world famous by his counter-culture/social revolution film series under the banner title of "Zeitgeist", meaning the "general intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era", was tapped by Black Sabbath to direct the nearly 9 min. epic, first single release of the group since their original formation disbanded in 1978 with the leaving of Ozzy Osborne. The new album is titled "13".

What was deemed more of a "short-film" than a music video, the work had its World Premiere screening at the band's June 6th album release in Hollywood's Harmony Gold Preview Center. Comprised of symbology extracted from his documentary trilogy, coupled with layers of imposed archival imagery of the band, marking their history in a unique abstraction, the "God is Dead?" official music video is a sign of the times.

In an interview, director Peter Joseph, GENTLE MACHINE PRODUCTIONS LLC, stated:
"After an initial hesitancy in the direction proposed using just existing footage from my films, I quickly realized it was to be an extremely interesting and original expression. The gesture of the song "God is Dead?", with its subtle reflection on the often dark world we inhabit and questioning of how such a world can be if there was a god, resonated with me."

"It was expressed at the start that my work had been an influence on the song to begin with so that was very inspiring to hear. I grew up listening to early Black Sabbath and am a big fan of the core message. Songs such as 'War Pigs' and the anti-war, pro-unity gesture found in those early albums are very much in line with my values. I was honored to help."

A musician as well as a filmmaker and outspoken social critic, Joseph has run the gamut of socially conscious expressions, including founding the global sustainability advocacy group The Zeitgeist Movement, along with being the founder/curator of the annual Zeitgeist Media Arts Festival which holds its annual event each year in Hollywood for socially conscious art. He hosts an online satire web-series called "Culture in Decline" and is in production of a new feature film series called "InterReflections".

More about his work can be found at his website: http://www.peterjoseph.info/

Black Sabbath's new album is to be released on June 11th, with the music video going live soon after.

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Failed doomsday prediction by Peter Joseph

[Peter Joseph from Zeitgeist: Addendum] 
"As of now, the world financial system is on the brink of collapse, due to its own shortcomings. The comptroller of currency stated in 2003 that the interest on the US national debt will not be affordable in less than 10 years. This theoretically means total bankruptcy for the US economy. And its implications for the world, are immense."

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Peter Joseph wants Ellen Brown to support RBE

The Atheist Experience on the Zeitgeist Sequels

 A few words about the Zeitgeist sequels

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Our opinion of the movie Zeitgeist should be pretty well known by now. It is an extremely bad and tedious bit of filmmaking, and the scholarship in it is awful, and we disagree with all of parts 2 and 3, as well as nearly all of part 1. And if you need a reminder about why, here are three sites dealing, respectively, with the claims that:

1. Jesus never existed.
2. 9/11 was an inside job.
3. U.S. citizens don't really have to pay taxes.

Now that that's out of the way, let me share a few recent emails.

2/11/11

I was wondering if you guys were aware of the (second) sequel to that terrible film, Zeitgeist, and if you plan on talking about it any time soon. If you've done it recently, I apologize for spamming you... I haven't had the opportunity to watch the last few episodes just yet. I've just started watching the sequel on YouTube (so you don't have to do any googling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w&feature=feedlik), and in the first 10 minutes they started harping on how Biology is wrong because there's such a thing as epigenetics. Sounds like more relatively well-informed stupidity to me. I only watch it for the same reason I saw Expelled and What The Bleep Do We Know !!!111!? My hopes for humanity diminish proportionally.

1/28/11

by the way you sould look the new film " zeitgeist Moving Forward " where we see how
[long list of names with irrelevant credentials]
...etc and of course Peter Joseph

describe that our current system breeds insanity

and i hope you dont act emotional about the word zeitgeist because

" Zeitgeist moving forward " is not like the first film

1/25/11

I am a member of The Zeitgeist Movement and would love to get your feedback on what the movement is advocating. I have searched high and low for evidence that the concepts of this movement are falsifiable, but have yet to find any information doing so. I’m not sure as to whether or not you are aware of the difference between The Zeitgeist films and the Movement, but there is certainly an expressed difference.

11/29/10

Also, your host insistently bash the Zeitgeist movement and 911 truth. This really baffles me because the Zeitgeist Movement is a just secular movement that advocates the scientific method for social concern (doing away with corrupt monetary capitalism that allows children to go hunger)

Yes, okay, we get it. We heard you. Thanks. The guy who made Zeitgeist has made another movie-- actually TWO other movies now -- and they cover different topics than the original movie. Lastly, this message is from a comment on a Facebook link I shared that relates to Medicare. Though the commenter doesn't mention Zeitgeist directly, he did bring up the theme of the last two movies.

The better solution than social services is a Resource Based Economy and the elimination of the monetary system altogether. We cannot possible print enough money to solve all of our problems and we certainly cannot save our way to the needed solutions through austerity measures. The 'bottom line' is that money is THE constraint on human progress (well, that and cultural conditioning).

So, okay, I've finally decided I need to respond to this steady stream of emails, if only so I can have something to link in the future.

I have not watched the new movies, as I greatly prefer to do actual reading over sitting through talking heads. I have set it aside as something I might watch. After all, I suffered through What the Bleep Do We Know? and I guess I can get around to this one too, eventually. From what I understand, Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (which I shall henceforth refer to as ZA/ZMF because I hate typing) are mostly focused on popularizing something called "The Venus Project" (see link). It's a Utopian movement by a guy named Jacque Fresco -- Engineer, Design Consultant, and "Futurist" -- and he's been going around pitching this idea of a resource-based economy.

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting: Atlantis. I mean, The Venus Project.

Here's what that means as I read it. The financial system is broken beyond all hope of repair, so we abolish all forms of currency. In its place, everyone gets boundless freedom to use "resources." Money is a fiction anyway, and the federal reserve is evil (as explained in the first Zeitgeist, part 3), and people are going hungry because we artificially limit resources (i.e. food) when they could be made useful for everyone (i.e., feeding third world countries).

I'm a fairly liberal guy. I believe that there are problems with our current economic system, and some such problems stem from unregulated capitalism. A couple of recent sources for information I recommend are The Big Short by Michael Lewis, which traced the origins of the recent banking crisis in a highly entertaining and readable way; and this episode of the show This American Life, in which they discuss the ways in which money is really a convenient fiction.

On the other hand, I'm a numbers geek, and from my perspective, money -- though "fictional" in some sense -- was a fantastic technological advancement in the history of civilization. In any system of trade, some kind of valuation is going to arise naturally. Economists may call it "utils," or it may just be that we compare the value of one thing to the value of something else on an individual basis ("I'll give you two chickens for that hatchet"). Money is simply a means of formalizing a system that people are going to agree on one way or another. In prison it becomes cigarettes. In the future it's probably moving towards all digital currency. Heck, you can even calculate a meaningful exchange rate between United States Dollars and World of Warcraft gold pieces (after adjusting for a lot of inflation due to the recent Cataclysm expansion). It's an abstraction that achieves a goal. Barter systems are fine in small villages, but they are hopeless at large scales.

In any case, "scarcity" does not exist because of money. Quite the opposite, in fact -- money exists in large part because scarcity exists. While many resources such as air and sunlight are effectively in infinite supply, other things are very definitely limited. An excellent (though fairly disturbing) book on the subject is Collapse by Jared Diamond. Diamond studied a number of cultures which, for one reason or another, didn't survive -- they experienced massive population crashes in which a large proportion of their citizens died over a short period of time. In most cases it was because they ran out of something.

In fact, I can kind of sum up Diamond's formula for disaster that is common among most civilizations that died by their own hands:

1. You have a limited resource. In one case it was timber (cutting down trees on an island faster than they grew back) and in another, it was grazeable farmland.
2. Something about your civilization requires you to use a lot of that resource.
3. It starts to run out, but the culture is rigid and resists change.
4. People talk about breaking their dependency on this resource, but don't actually do anything about it.
5. Much to everyone's surprise, it runs out.
6. Turns out the requirement for that resource is pretty widespread. Many people die.

I'm not going to go off on a tangent about which finite resources we rely on in modern society (*cough*oil*cough*) but even so, I'm pretty well convinced that if we solved one problem of scarcity, the problem would just move off to something else.

And that's where money comes in. It is an abstraction that puts a value on resources with different levels of scarcity. They're not all concrete resources, either: people enjoy their free time, and working to accomplish a difficult task (like volunteering to fly to a third world country and deliver mass quantities of food) is frequently regarded as a "what's in it for me?" situation. That's not money's fault. Money is simply a method of making an abstract concept ("What's it worth to ya?") be attached to concrete numbers.

Oh, but I forgot to mention how this problem of scarcity is solved under Jacque Fresco's system. Here, let me quote:

"A resource-based economy would make it possible to use technology to overcome scarce resources by applying renewable sources of energy, computerizing and automating manufacturing and inventory, designing safe energy-efficient cities and advanced transportation systems, providing universal health care and more relevant education, and most of all by generating a new incentive system based on human and environmental concern."

And also:

"With automated inventory on a global scale, we can maintain a balance between production and distribution. Only nutritious and healthy food would be available and planned obsolescence would be unnecessary and non-existent in a resource-based economy."

So you see, this is easily achievable, as long as we first keep in mind the intermediate goals of developing unlimited, clean, renewable energy sources. Also, since human government officials are inherently corrupt, we just need to develop artificially intelligent administrators to manage our cities and distribute everything efficiently.

Riiiiight.

Artificial intelligence and alternative energy research are only a couple of the most complicated problems facing inventors, businesses, and academics. Have been for decades. And to think that you can hand-wave that away as a minor inconvenience blocking the realization of your Utopia, that's a pretty damn extraordinary claim. In fact, I would venture to say that if you could create a world with no scarce resources, that all by itself would do a hell of a lot more to fix everything than whatever fantasy anti-currency government system the Venus Project promoters can dream up.

And then there's this issue of benevolent computer systems that will impartially make sure everyone gets everything they want. Okay, I've been involved with software development for most of my adult life, and I feel pretty comfortable saying we're not replacing all our politicians with robot administrators any time real soon. But even after assuming that little hurdle is crossed, artificial intelligence isn't a magic solution to anything. There's no reason to think it would be more advanced than human intelligence to start with, and if it eventually got there, no reason to think it would be any less self-serving.

Show of hands, please. How many people want to turn over our economy to these guys? ...Thank you.

Okay, I'm not saying that all artificial intelligence is inevitably going to conquer humanity and harvest their essences to power an elaborate virtual reality that enslaves us or anything. I'm just saying, I don't see why the AI is going to make any decisions better than a human with some really good ideas who knows how to use data mining tools. A better question is, why don't we elect one of those?

Getting rid of money wouldn't save the world from scarce resources. If anything, the immediate effect would be that without a perceptible cost to themselves, people would use up those resources faster than ever. I don't see how these super-cities that Jacque Fresco invented will stop people from wanting to travel, which is one of the big ones when it comes to draining energy. In fact, if I had all this free time and were unlimited by capital, that's the first thing I'd do a lot more of. And I can't envision a realistic political path to implement what sounds mainly like "Socialism... With Robots!" when you have the Tea Party just slavering to declare that Civilization As We Know It is coming to an end if we allow some tax cuts to expire.

So in the end, I'm left with an impression of The Venus Project that is not much different from the original Zeitgeist. It's a large group of fans with who have coalesced around a group of persuasive amateurs, drawn to the notion that they have uncovered some deep and massive truth that is hidden from the rest of us willfully deceived, blind fools. It is largely ignored by people who have expertise in anything relevant like, say, economics -- not because they're trying to suppress it, but because there's basically nothing of substance there.

There. You asked my opinion. Now you've got it. I hope you're satisfied.

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• Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)
• Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)