Zeitgeist
(from German Zeit-time and Geist-spirit)
The Spirit of the Time
Saturday, March 13, 2010, was the second annual celebration of the Zeitgeist Movement or ZDay for short. The purpose of ZDay was to educate others about the movement and its concepts. There were 337 events in over 70 countries worldwide with the main event being held in New York City. I recently became a member of the Los Angeles Zeitgeist Chapter and I volunteered at the event. It was great! The movement is relatively new and already has over 350,000 official members worldwide. It’s growing every day. There’s also no telling how many people are with this movement in spirit but have not yet officially joined.
The Zeitgeist Movement speaks deeply to me and I’m passionate about this organization and its mission. Instead of just ranting and raving about how awful everything is, The Zeitgeist Movement presents ideas. The ambitions are bold but the world is in dire need of a bold new direction. We are using up our resources at an alarming rate and our present model of society cannot sustain itself.
Below is a short Q&A about this movement and some links that I highly recommend you check out. I know the concepts at first glance may seem a bit complicated to grasp. They may even seem a bit utopian and way out there. You may think they would never work.
Keep in mind, anything is possible. There were people who used to think the world was flat and people who never thought a man would walk on the moon. There was a time when the Divine Right of Kings was accepted as truth. Slavery was once legal in this country and women were considered property. Think things can’t change? Think again! Also, the technology around us today would have been unthinkable even a few decades ago. One way or the other things will change. Change is constant and the one thing we can always depend on. Why not work for a vision of change that is empowering and leaves no one out?
What exactly is the Zeitgeist Movement? The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is a worldwide grassroots movement advocating social change, most significantly that of society transitioning from a monetary-based economy to a resource-based economy. Filmmaker Peter Joseph founded the movement after creating the movie Zeitgeist Addendum. TZM is the activist arm of the Venus Project. It is not a political movement and it sees all people as equal.
To View Zeitgeist the Addendum movie for free, click on the link below:
To find out more about the Zeitgeist Movement, click on the link below:
What is the Venus Project? The Venus Project presents a bold new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems. The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
To find out more about the Venus project, click on the link below:
What is a Resource-Based Economy? A Resource Based Economy is a society without money, barter or exchange, with the awareness that Humanity is ONE family and where technology, science and spirituality is used to its fullest to develop and manage the planet’s resources to provide abundance for everyone in the most sustainable way.
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