If you do not take the time to read this, you’re feeding The System. So read, think, react and take action! Cause no one can do everything, but everyone can do something!! (at the bottom of this post is both a swedish and an english link you can choose from to learn more and to join in to help our society and the human wellfare!)
The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are now false, outdated distinctions that are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to drastically slow and paralyze progress, through social structures which are out of date, dogmatic, and hence out of line with nature itself. The world you see today, full of war, corruption, elitism, pollution, poverty, epidemic disease, human rights abuses, inequality and crime is the result of this paralysis. This movement is about awareness, in avocation of a fluid, evolutionary progression, combining the personal, social, technological and spiritual. It recognizes that the human species is on a natural path for unification, derived from a communal acknowledgment of fundamental and near empirical understandings of how nature works and how we as humans fit into/are a part of this universal unfolding we call life.
While this path does exist, it is unfortunately hindered or not recognized by the great majority of humans, who continue to perpetuate outdated and hence degenerative modes of conduct and association. It is this intellectual irrelevancy that the Movement hopes to overcome through education and social action. The goal is to revise our world society in accord with present day knowledge on all levels, not only creating awareness of social and technological possibilities many have been conditioned to think “impossible” or against ”human nature”, but also to provide a means of overcoming those elements in society which perpetuate these outdated systems. In order to do so, we first have to establish a perspective in reference to the world today.
As of now, the technology that can free humans from meaningless tasks is stifled due to the monetary based labor system. This is unacceptable. The fact that technology is not being allowed to flourish for the benefit of human kind is, in fact, a Civil Rights issue on a certain level. It is time we forget about our differences and come together for the collective benefit of our species. We all need food, air, water and the like, and we all want liberty and happiness. The only way this is going to be accomplished is if we all work together to overcome a now-obsolete social system. Of course, this is easier said than done, as humans who have undergone tremendous social distortion currently run our world. Their often elitist values are constantly reinforced by the material benefits their business and political corruptions obtain. We should feel pity for their ignorance, however. In the words of Ghandi: “Do not hate your oppressors. They need to be liberated just as you do”.
The fact is, traditional political activism is not the path. The establishment has gotten far too good at controlling traditionally oriented dissent. Rather, the path of this movement is to first create grassroots awareness on a global scale. This comes down to communication. Those of us who believe in this direction must work to spread awareness of its ideas. Humanity must first be aware of this social direction before any kind of action can be taken. As of now, thezeitgeistmovement.com is being developed into 30+ languages. We will be creating country, state and regional organizations in the hopes of eventually having a Movement organization in every area of the globe. This kind of communications project will have difficult barriers from various ideological groups. It’s very important that we bridge the differences between cultures by expressing how, at the core, we are really all the same . Our similarity and needs greatly over-shadow our religious and political differences.
Apart from spreading awareness, our focus should also be on continually exposing the monetary frauds and social corruptions that are endlessly churned out in our society. We want to make the governments and peoples of the world feel embarrassed by the sickness their systems generate, while also making the population understand the root causes of the corruption and how to move away from it with the intelligent application of science and technology for social and environmental concern. As expressed, the monetary systems of the world are all failing at this time. The result of this could be catastrophic. It is critical that we absorb those who are being hurt by this monetary failure and give them direction. Once a very large number of people on the planet join hands in common pursuit of a dramatic social shift, we will begin the next phase, which will put pressure on all nations simultaneously to begin moving out of the monetary structure. Until then, communication, coupled with peaceful social rebellion is key.
As a general rule, all social facets that perpetuate the profit system, war and human abuse should be banned. No one should ever join any military in any nation or work for the war industry. In turn, the political system needs to be exposed for what it is. The governments of the world today are run by businessmen, lawyers and military men… likely three of the most useless specializations we have. When we understand that our problems on this planet are technical , we then see that if any group of people were to be considered as qualified to make decisions about anything, they would naturally be technically and thus objectively focused … not politically motivated . Politics is a monetary creation.
Tips for spreading awareness:
-Post thevenusproject.com and thezeitgeistmovement.com online wherever you can.
-Create YouTube videos promoting both the Movement and the idea of a Resource-Based Economy. -Call into radio shows and bring up the Movement whenever possible.
-Download Zeitgeist Addendum and screen it in your community; get it on public access/networks. -Copy this booklet and distribute it via hard copy or Cd-Rom
-Download the Orientation Presentation Slideshow and Slideshow Movie and hold your own events. -Saturate the Internet as much as possible. -Be aware that March 15th of each year is “Zeitgeist Day” and hold an event in your area. -Work to specifically inform those who are suffering due to the pending economic collapse.
-Continually expose the corruption of our current system, publicly.
-Contact existing “activism” groups, such as the ACLU and Greenpeace, and try to explain to them how their efforts, while very noble, are not going to solve any of the major social problems, for they are not addressing root causes.
The backbone of the initial development of this new social system will come from teams of researchers and technicians working in all relevant fields. These can be called Interdisciplinary Teams. The first team we are putting together is the “Communications Team”. Everything listed above would constitute some action of this team. Anyone who supports this direction should help to inform others. We are all a part of the Communications Team on a certain level. In turn, more teams will be created that will work in specific areas related to the implementation of a Resource-Based Economy. There are many scientific fields that are needed to solidify the underlying mechanisms of the project. These Interdisciplinary Teams would include research into computer programming, city planning, robotics, education, data collection, etc. Please check back to www.thezeitgeistmovement.com for organizational announcements in this regard. If you feel you have a skill that would contribute to this development, please let us know when we begin to setup the teams. A whole section of the website will be devoted to this interaction and focus. As we grow, full conferences will emerge. In time, we will eventually be able to begin the first city , even if it is only a prototype of sorts.
Final Thoughts:
There are many out there who would say that what we are describing here, that is the development of a Resource-Based Global Economy , would never happen. They would typically cite “human nature”, the “power elite” or erroneous technical opinions in their defense. This cynicism has no support in view of humanity’s technical and social development throughout history. We have come from a world of extreme superstition, abject slavery and extreme racism and social prejudice, to a slowly emerging world of race equality, scientific ingenuity and emerging values that desire to see humanity benefit as a whole.
In the words of Carl Sagan: ”The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism, to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism, and recognizes that an organism at war with itself, is doomed. We are one planet.” We have gone from smoke signals to the telephone to electronic mail sent at near the speed of light. Everything that has once been considered impossible has gradually become possible. The Wright Brothers were told by “experts” that it was impossible to fly…years ago people who talked of traveling to the moon were dismissed and labeled as “Mooniacs”. To assume something is ‘impossible’ in this world is a failure of creativity.
If 120,000 people can come together to build a nuclear bomb, as was done with the Manhattan Project in the late 1930s, there is no reason why we cannot come together and use human ingenuity to accomplish incredible social achievements for the betterment of humanity. It is time we unleash our ‘Weapons of Mass Creation’ (WMCs) unto the world. It is time we take responsibility for each other and ourselves. We have the knowledge, means and initiative to devise an entirely new social architecture that can create a world we actually enjoy and flourish in.
Very simply, it is time to grow up.
It’s about 31 degrees outside so I hope it will still be warm tomorrow for the picnic, eventhough working outside in this weather is a pain in the ass at moments! I still look like a red crab on my chest cause of the sunburn I got yesterday…at least it doesn’t sting today!
I keep putting on aftersun lotion with lots of calming Aloe Vera and I hope it will help.
