Zeitgeist: Why This Is IMPORTANT

"Simply put, what The Venus Project represents and what The Zeitgeist Movement hence condones, could be summarized as: ‘The application of The Scientific Method for social concern.’" ~ http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke

It's easy to imagine that what matters in life is the small circle of family, friends, and colleagues surrounding us, and to narrow our focus so as not to detract from the attention we wish to give them. It's harder to imagine how this inner circle is ultimately affected by much wider issues and concerns about the culture as a whole. When we do attend to larger issues, they are entirely, or almost entirely, confined to the political arena as it exists within our present culture. Perspectives which transcend the culture altogether, and propose sweeping, foundational changes to the culture, tend to be summarily dismissed as irrelevant and unconnected with "the real world". In fact, the opposite is true. While we try to keep our careers and personal lives afloat, and lend our support to political movements (or simply empty promises) which involve making various adjustments to the current system, we lose sight of the bigger picture. The fact is that our system is not "broken" -- rather, it is flawed by design. There's nothing we can do to reestablish equilibrium in the economy, because it never existed to begin with. It is not a question of rooting out threats to our economy; our economy IS the problem.

The following films are not merely informative. They are game-changing, world-changing films. Your understanding of human nature, and how environmental conditioning affects the "free will" of individuals, will be utterly transformed and updated. Your belief in what is possible will likewise be radically revised. In light of what you know now (or imagine you know), it must be impossible to suppose that our civilization now has everything needed (in terms of technological advancement) to establish a world in which the material abundance you enjoy may be maintained at approximately 3% of the labor now exerted. Also, that this may be done is such a way as to eliminate, not only labor, but also famine, war, poverty, waste, and environmental collapse. In light of what you know now (or imagine you know), such a concept must seem like an absurd utopian dream, which may at best be attained in some thousand years or so. Well, that's because you haven't seen these films. Instead, you've been listening to the people who are trying to preserve our outmoded system, and the traditional values you've assumed are those which aim to support this system. It's time to open your mind to the possibility of a very different way of seeing the world. All that is necessary is the flexibility to allow your most rigid and deeply ingrained beliefs to be challenged, not by another opinion, but by science.

It is science which will ultimately convince you (if you will only take the time and make the slightest effort to listen objectively) that within a monetary system, which relies on the profit motive, true advances in civilization are not only inhibited, but are actively resisted because they reduce profits. Presently, the well-being of a nation, and its progress, is measured by a country's GDP (Gross Domestic Product), or how much money is being made -- particularly by the richest 1% of the population. But once you understand that money is made by manufacturing needs and desires, and not by satisfying them, you will see how backwards this model is. The healthcare industry makes money, not by curing disease, but by treating it; hence, the more sick people there are, the higher the profits. And this principle may be seen to exist at every level of our economy; not merely in the healthcare industry. In other words, this is not an aberration in the system -- THIS IS THE SYSTEM. And the sickness, suffering, poverty, servitude, oppression, war, and death engendered by this system, and required to maintain this system (which is ultimately doomed to devour itself anyway, because it depends upon an infinite supply of resources; and no such supply exists) are not merely the "facts of life" -- they are not necessary evils with which we must contend. Rather, they are the inevitable by-products of the present system. Moreover, they make the Holocaust look like a wet dream, and Hitler look like a hot date.

You are hereby cordially invited to discover the real real world:

Zeitgeist 2: Addendum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg

Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

Future By Design
(Jacque Fresco, modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe7tlr-2I4

The Venus Project
http://www.thevenusproject.com/


Thank you,

Valus