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  • [Peter Joseph]

  • Why the name 'The Zeitgeist Movement'?

  • As some might know, I'm a filmmaker and I've used that term

  • but it really has nothing to do with it.

  • The term 'zeitgeist' is defined

  • as the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.

  • The term movement simply implies motion or change

  • so The Zeitgeist Movement by definition

  • is an organization, which seeks to change

  • the dominant intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of a time

  • for reasons of which will be discussed in a moment.

  • The Movement was founded in 2008

  • and since that time it's gained over half million subscribers

  • with about 1100 chapters across 70 countries

  • (in a very short period of time which is quite impressive

  • in my sense of history).

  • Originally the movement was partnered with an organization

  • called The Venus Project and we're still very much in support

  • of the work of Jacque Fresco, of course, absolutely

  • [Applause]

  • but this relationship has disbanded for a number of reasons

  • and the two organizations coexist with very similar pursuits.

  • The Zeitgeist Movement chooses not to be grounded

  • to a singular institution or figure, or even data set.

  • Rather, we're interested in developing an emerging train of thought

  • and highlighting that train of thought for others to absorb

  • and identify with and expand upon

  • in the emergent nature of any type of intellectual development.

  • The model of The Movement is really nothing original.

  • It's fundamentally based on the Civil Rights Movements' structures

  • that have proven effective over time in different areas of the world.

  • This includes the use of educational programs, events

  • and eventually, as our phases unfold

  • mass, non-violent protest actions.

  • Jason is going to be talking about the basic structure

  • and activism of The Movement later on but I want to quickly throw out

  • that The Zeitgeist Movement is really defined by its chapters.

  • Everyone listening that's in a chapter, or maybe isn't in a chapter

  • please understand that this is a chapter-based movement structure.

  • We have project teams that emerge out of those chapters

  • and the actual projects and events themselves

  • are just another attribute of that

  • of the communication process that we work on.

  • The structural goal, which isn't something

  • that's brought up very often for those that follow The Movement

  • is what you could call critical mass on a global scale:

  • a mass strong enough to affect the operation of society

  • by its collective efforts from a grassroots level.

  • The Zeitgeist Movement isn't a political movement

  • nor, for many reasons I don't have time to explain

  • do we identify with the political structure and the way it unfolds.

  • It is basically an elitist structure

  • coming out of a long history of elitist mentalities

  • and it's been an illusion

  • that this sort of democratic process that everyone throws around

  • has actually served the majority of the population.

  • Why are we here then?

  • I'm going to present a very generalize statement as the basic goal

  • and then work backwards to define the terms that comprise this.

  • As stated: "We seek a new economic model

  • based not on the movement of money

  • and the dynamics associated with such a system

  • but rather on truly objective

  • scientific resource management and allocation

  • strategically seeking to enable

  • an equitable distribution of all goods and services

  • to meet the needs of the entire, global human population

  • while ensuring maximum environmental sustainability

  • over generational time."

  • That's a big mouthful.

  • Let's break this down. What does this mean?

  • First, we have the concept of an economic model.

  • What is economics?

  • The Greek root of the word

  • basically means 'management of a household'

  • also implying concepts of thrift or conservation

  • hence the term 'economize'.

  • Therefore, an economy is a method of organizing materials

  • that seeks to reduce waste, hence increase efficiency

  • in its process of providing for a population.

  • Simple enough.

  • Next we have our qualifier.

  • Where this economic model we speak of is quote

  • 'not based on the movement of money and the dynamics associated.'

  • Why are we ruling out the monetary system?

  • Because as radical as this may seem

  • the model cannot be logically considered a true economy

  • by the definition we've just described.

  • The inherent strategies associated with the monetary model

  • actually reinforces the opposite

  • of what a true economy is supposed to be

  • as we just defined.

  • The notions of preservation, efficiency, sustainability

  • hence the need to economize, are actually the enemies

  • as I will point out, of our current model.

  • We live, in fact, in an anti-economy.

  • The first thing to understand

  • is that the only thing that keeps you employed in our system

  • is constant or cyclical consumption.

  • The fuel of our world economy

  • is the interest to keep buying and consuming

  • and buying and consuming.

  • The more turnover, the greater our GDP

  • and so-called 'economic growth' we keep hearing people talk about

  • as though it actually represents something tangible

  • in an empirical sense.

  • If a computer company actually decided

  • to make strategically optimized products

  • (Apple Computer for example)

  • if they decided to create goods that would evolve

  • they would be designed to last, not to be replaced.

  • Product development would be with the most durable design

  • scientifically evaluated, enabling structural updates

  • to current equipment that's already in existence

  • in the interest to extend the life

  • and maximize preservation and efficiency

  • rather than the constant replacement of things.

  • I can assure you that computer company

  • would suffer tremendously in profit

  • not to mention the labor levels they have would drop substantially.

  • This train of thought goes for all industries.

  • I would say the core driving force of the system today

  • is really inefficiency.

  • Efficiency and sustainability are the enemies

  • and this issue is more apparent today than ever before

  • because of the tremendous advancement in technology.

  • When the monetary, market-exchange model as we know it

  • began many centuries ago

  • this inefficiency that's inherent was masked

  • by the fact that there was a great deal of raw human labor

  • involved in the production of goods and services.

  • Imagine the amount of time and energy it took

  • for a farmer with a plough to plant and harvest

  • without the modern equipment we have today.

  • When you compare the two you begin to see something very interesting.

  • What's happened essentially, is that our technological ingenuity

  • our ability to create tools that help us to ease our labor

  • and make our lives easier in abstraction

  • has 'shifted the tides'

  • from people being actually required to do work

  • to get the necessities of life

  • in a very real, tangible, utilitarian way

  • to the existence of this advanced automation society

  • that we're harboring into

  • where we now have to invent arbitrary occupations

  • over and over again, structurally purposeless jobs

  • (if you're willing to take the time to see it

  • even though it's very hard when you're born into this

  • to recognize them as such)

  • just for the sake of monetary circulation alone.

  • That's what is needed to keep this model going

  • and unfortunately it's not working. We can't do it fast enough.

  • Inefficiency in a broad scheme

  • is now the current path, whether advertent or not

  • for keeping consumption and hence the system

  • (outdated, archaic system) going

  • and it comes in many forms.

  • Fortunately for the system itself

  • yet to our human and social detriment

  • inefficiency is built right in to the structure, as noted prior.

  • 'Cost efficiency' is defined as:

  • productive, relative to the cost

  • or being effective without wasting expense.

  • This modern economic concept based on money

  • has nothing to do with materials or with design.

  • It's about saving capital, not resources.

  • This is a classic example of how our system is utterly decoupled

  • from any natural state or processes.

  • One of the most misleading statements

  • about this capitalist system that we all share

  • is the classic phrase you might have all heard in Economics 101:

  • "The role is to produce the highest quality goods

  • at the lowest possible prices."

  • If you really think about that statement

  • it is an explicitly circular rationale

  • based only on the observation of money

  • and the intrinsic value of money

  • but yet completely decoupled and devoid of any physical reference

  • or scientific integrity.

  • It serves to support the false idea that market competition

  • is a good thing.

  • The result in short is the following:

  • 1. Every item produced in our society is immediately inferior

  • the moment it is created.

  • It is a mathematical impossibility

  • to produce the most strategically, conscious goods we can.

  • This system simply will not allow it.

  • The result is copious waste and pollution.

  • 2. Jobs will always be mechanized

  • when it becomes cheaper than human labor.

  • This is an ongoing, unstoppable process

  • called 'technological unemployment'

  • and is currently reducing employment and purchasing power

  • at an accelerating rate

  • even though very few people will ever have the nerve

  • to talk about this in the economic or news media.

  • 3. Environmental negligence is built in. It's constant.

  • Not only [are] disposal methods not done correctly

  • in a scientific, appropriate way

  • due to the need to cut costs (the cost efficiency mechanism)

  • but there is also, elusively, a built-in indifference

  • at the end of the day

  • to the natural order and preservation of the environment.

  • Problems generate profit.

  • Industry thrives on problems

  • and solutions, which are again a form of efficiency

  • is the enemy.

  • Tangible physical efficiency is inverse

  • to actual market economic efficiency.

  • If you took all the money spent today

  • producing bottled water on this planet...

  • I was just joking to someone earlier. I was like

  • "God, we've got to get rid of these bottled waters on stage."

  • But what do you do in this society? You walk around;

  • this is what people do. It becomes normality to be so inefficient

  • where you just accept it because our lives...

  • It's built into our structure and

  • it's hard for us to be conscious or sometimes to even be active

  • with the type of preservation methods that are required.

  • But if you took all the money

  • spent on bottled water production on this planet for drinking

  • and applied it to a massive public filtration system

  • desalination, clean infrastructure channels

  • I suspect it would be paid for many times over.

  • But pollution, as alluded to prior

  • is another form of inefficiency to be capitalized on.

  • Pollution creates jobs and markets

  • just as any other form of inefficiency does.

  • Just as all of us having more cancer would improve

  • the GDP of our country, because we'd have to be treated for it.

  • A final form of inefficiency that I'm just going to throw in there

  • is the creation of false needs for the populous.

  • This is done through advertising and marketing.

  • If you can convince a person that a $5000 handbag

  • has more use than a $10 one, even though there's absolutely

  • no real utilitarian difference between the two

  • just because of relative status notions

  • you've created a new level of emotional

  • and status inefficiency to exploit

  • and false needs to be filled to conform to the culture

  • and this is a very rampant thing and you see this epidemic everywhere.

  • The movement of money

  • through the mechanism of systematic and intrinsic efficiency

  • cannot be called an economy

  • [and] therefore is not valid as a working methodology.

  • Coming back to our statement

  • "What would define a true economy?"

  • This leads us to the next point where it says:

  • "For the economic model we speak of

  • needs to be based on truly objective

  • scientific resource management and allocation."

  • What does that mean? Throughout the course of human history

  • we as a species have taken on many worldviews

  • from superstitious notions of demons as the cause of illness

  • to countless controlling gods that rule our lives.

  • Humans have been seeking since antiquity

  • to understand the causality of their lives.

  • Fortunately, after much turmoil

  • we've been guided by evolution to discover something truly useful

  • and it's only been with the past couple of thousand years

  • that this has emerged. This tool has stood the test of time

  • providing us with continual confirmation of its effectiveness

  • and we see it all around us

  • and that's scientific causality.

  • If we recognize science as a tool

  • and process a verified method of viewing the world

  • and acting upon evidence rather than faith or blind assumptions

  • we see that a true economy can only exist

  • if organized and orchestrated

  • within the confines of scientific discipline.

  • For instance, science has shown us that we live

  • yes, on a finite planet, with finite resources.

  • We understand the Earth as a single biosphere system

  • literally symbiotically balanced in a natural order.

  • Truly one system and hence, should be respected as such.

  • We understand that each one of our resources, the materials we use

  • have properties which are conducive to certain applications

  • and simply not conducive to others.

  • Just as we have the law of gravity

  • which we use to calculate

  • making airplanes fly

  • the natural laws that govern human life

  • and good health on this planet must be observed

  • and when observed and identified, obviously must be respected.

  • Nature really just doesn't care what any of us actually think

  • or believe or have faith in

  • and we can either listen and align with what we learn

  • or we invariably suffer the consequences.

  • As simple as that notion may seem

  • the great majority of people on this planet

  • refuse to acknowledge this.

  • Out of this comes a new, yet obvious, train of thought.

  • First, inefficiency is unacceptable on a finite planet.

  • We need to calculate industry.

  • We need to calculate society.

  • The free market is a haphazard and dangerous anarchy

  • and the grace period of our irresponsibility is coming to an end.

  • We either unify

  • and get strategic in our management of the Earth's resources

  • or we face immense hardships.

  • We need a global resource management system

  • to account for a dynamic equilibrium and keep balance.

  • We need to account for what we have.

  • We also need to apply science

  • in how we actually create our goods. Imagine that!

  • strategically making them as efficient as possible

  • meaning that they are made to last, not break down

  • made with the expectation for updating, not replacement.

  • These are very simple, obvious, fundamental truths.

  • We also need to use the most efficient methods

  • for producing those goods

  • and in this case, deliberate mechanization.

  • Technological unemployment, I've talked about this in length

  • and I'm not going to go into too much detail here

  • but it is now inverse to productivity in most sectors.

  • The more people are displaced

  • the more mechanization comes in, the greater the productivity.

  • That's an amazing change in the paradigm

  • as far as the way we've been operating for thousands of years.

  • This means it is negligent, literally irresponsible

  • for us not to mechanize on every relevant level

  • if we wish to be truly efficient

  • and respect the nature and habitat that we live in.

  • This brings us to the next concept of our goal statement:

  • "Strategically seeking to enable an equitable distribution

  • of all goods and services

  • to meet the needs of the entire, global human population."

  • There's plenty of food to go around in this planet

  • as stated many times over

  • even by institutions you'd be surprised that would state such a thing

  • yet over a billion people are starving.

  • Every five seconds a person dies from starvation on this planet.

  • But, hey! What does that have to do with me?

  • You know, well...

  • It has everything to do with you

  • for in the end, there's nowhere to hide.

  • Our safety and security can only be as good

  • as the safety and security of the world we inhabit.

  • The more deprivation that occurs

  • the more resentment, anger,

  • and inevitable destabilization that will follow.

  • It's not an altruistic notion to help others

  • in this type of perception.

  • It is a socially unsustainable practice not to.

  • I personally don't even really believe

  • that human altruism exists

  • in the poetic context that many speak of.

  • I think that deep down people know

  • when they behave in seemingly selfless ways

  • that they are actually personally at risk

  • at one level or another

  • if they do not act in those ways.

  • Our self-interest can only maintain integrity

  • if our societal reality is actually stable.

  • The cliché staple of the modern-market, capitalist theory

  • "Live for yourself only, do only things for you"

  • and somehow magically by the invisible hand

  • it will work out for society.

  • This is an incorrect, provably-so, truncated

  • and utterly false concept.

  • Self-integrity can only be maintained

  • if the habitat you live in and the society you inhabit

  • the world itself, maintains an equally high level of integrity.

  • And that's one of those radical notions that, as obvious as it is

  • will still be derogatorily associated

  • and you can just be communist or...

  • Even Martin Luther King Jr. was called a communist

  • when he was attempting to bridge the difference

  • between the blacks and the whites.

  • He was a communist apparently to try and create that

  • and the exact same propaganda and inhibited mindset

  • is exactly what stops us from trying to make an economic unity

  • on a tangible level in society today.

  • Any time people throw out the communist stuff

  • you have a tool to use.

  • The majority of wars on this planet

  • have always been about resource and territorial control.

  • Most acts of so-called 'crime' are related to money and property.

  • We must level the playing field.

  • Meeting the needs of the human population is the first step.

  • Notice I didn't say wants. Wants are contrivance.

  • Wants are a different subject all together.

  • People need their needs met

  • and there's a lot that can be said about that

  • which I'm not going to delve into at this time.

  • We know we can provide the basic necessities of life

  • for everyone on this planet.

  • It's a scientific reality

  • because of our advanced technological methods.

  • This is one of the genius notions put forward by Jacque Fresco

  • that really should be understood

  • and everyone needs to understand this.

  • We need to simply devise a system to do so and get it done

  • in accord with the most scientifically efficient

  • and responsible methods we understand

  • hence the nature of a true economy.

  • Finally we have

  • "... while ensuring maximum environmental sustainability

  • over generational time."

  • This simply goes back to what the definition of an economy requires.

  • We have the kind of specter of recycling initiatives

  • and so-called 'green' industries.

  • It's just a sad attempt at true ecological respect

  • in a system that has no ecological respect

  • and can't have any for it to operate.

  • A true economy doesn't have a notion of a 'green' practice.

  • The fact that we even have such an idea

  • that we even comment "Ooh, how sustainable!"

  • that's a tremendous signpost of how far we've come.

  • A true economy doesn't utilize anything

  • for example, recycling is an afterthought.

  • Even after all the years of our recycling practices

  • very few initiatives are made in the production capacity

  • by industry to actually think ahead about this

  • because it isn't profitable for them to do so.

  • The majority of goods have no capacity to be updated

  • you know, the computer enclosures... I can go on long tangents

  • about very logical, simple things that could be done

  • to extend longevity

  • but again, it will bring down cyclical consumption

  • bring down the circulation of money, drop GDP, drop labor, etc.

  • Recycling mechanisms are going to be built-in

  • in the future; they would have to be, in the production phase.

  • Landfills would be an anomaly, not normality.

  • To conclude my section of this meeting

  • let's quickly take a look at where we are now.

  • What is the consequence of all this inefficiency we speak of?

  • As much as I hate to say it, our society

  • rests on the edge of a cliff with a gigantic abyss underneath.

  • The consequences of the monetary market model

  • are no longer mere inconveniences

  • or theoretical assumptions put forward by people.

  • We see what's happening now.

  • It's a cancer that's slowly eroding the fabric of our stability.

  • As many know, very briefly

  • money is made out of debt and interest is charged on that debt.

  • Anyone familiar with banking or the stock market knows

  • that money is now treated as a commodity

  • It always was, but more so today than ever

  • and it's bought and sold.

  • The profit generated by the sale of money comes from interest.

  • However, unannounced to most.

  • something you won't read in a Time Magazine or any economist's manual

  • is that the interest-money charged

  • doesn't exist in the money supply.

  • It's not there!

  • There's only so much there and every time they charge interest

  • that money has to come from somewhere.

  • It has to come from more monetary creation

  • which is loaned out at interest again.

  • There's always more outstanding interest

  • than there is principle debt.

  • If anyone's confused why we have skyrocket debt defaults

  • across the world: personal, corporate, sovereign

  • this is fundamentally the reason.

  • It's not the sole reason. It's perpetuated by other things

  • that are happening in derivatives markets, but it's an inevitability.

  • The global market is one gigantic pyramid scheme

  • and one way or another it's going to come crashing down

  • if it's not literally stopped in its tracks

  • which is something, frankly, I advocate

  • as difficult as that may seem.

  • However, we're not only faced

  • with ongoing, systemic, global debt defaults

  • we're also faced with a coming labor collapse

  • or a growing labor collapse across the world

  • due to technological unemployment

  • largely ignored by economists, who choose to see

  • basically what they prefer to see, as best I can tell.

  • The invention and application of technology

  • is what has caused every major shift of human labor throughout history.

  • Given the exponential (literally) rise in our development

  • in automation and computer technology, artificial intelligence

  • I'm sorry to say... or actually I'm very happy to say

  • that humans actually don't stand a chance

  • to compete with what we've created.

  • We can't personally evolve as fast as our technological ingenuity is

  • and the effectiveness and application over time is just powerful!

  • Either a shift happens

  • or we just continue this constant grind down

  • of destabilization through global unemployment.

  • The final component, briefly worth mentioning

  • is our energy collapse.

  • Peak oil is very real and it is essentially here

  • and the problem oddly is not really the 'running out of oil'.

  • It's the market psychology of what's going to happen

  • when the public finally awakens to this very real reality.

  • The psychology of this scarcity, when it finally hits

  • is going to cause a unique form of panic.

  • The combination of these three factors

  • are on pace to causing a severe integrity problem, to put it mildly.

  • Each one is not problematic on its own

  • but the fact is they feed into each other.

  • The more unemployment occurs, the less likely

  • governments are going to be able to gain taxation support

  • not to mention the less money in the economy itself

  • circulated as purchasing power

  • inhibiting consumption and economic growth

  • triggering more personal, corporate, government defaults.

  • The more energy prices rise

  • which is inevitable in the hydrocarbon economy we have

  • the less accessible it is to gain

  • and that creates an even more stifling economic effect on circulation

  • since oil, among many other things

  • is the sole driver of transportation

  • but not to mention so many other facets I don't have time to go into.

  • All it takes in the West Coast

  • is for one big trucking company to get fed up with the oil prices

  • and want more money from their going-bankrupt company to go on strike

  • and then see a stifling of incredible amounts of materials

  • and then systemic turmoil and panic.

  • You don't have to think very far

  • to see how it just takes a few little dominos to fall.

  • We're in a very fragile state at this point in time.

  • I hope people understand that.

  • This is precisely, in a nutshell

  • what The Zeitgeist Movement hopes to counter

  • and find a way to adapt

  • before we meet the proverbial 'point of no return'.

  • That concludes my general overview. Thank you.

  • [Applause]

  • Now we're going to bring up, Jen?

  • Yes, Jen Wilding, our US State Coordinator?

  • [Applause]

  • [Jen Wilding - US State Coordinator]

  • Thanks for coming out.

  • I'm so happy to see so much interest in an event like this.

  • We're hoping to do them regularly.

  • So... The Movement... Look at you.

  • The Zeitgeist Movement

  • is comprised of pretty much two components.

  • There is the portion that Peter was going into

  • pretty much the body of ideas, the train of thought

  • the idea that the Earth

  • should be declared the common heritage to all of the Earth's people

  • using the scientific method and technological innovations

  • in the service of social concern

  • and for human betterment.

  • I'm all for that, which is why I'm here. I hope you are too.

  • That's one piece of the meat of The Movement

  • and the other piece is the people that are comprised

  • in the structure of activists.

  • Basically, right now

  • The Movement is geared toward awareness activism:

  • helping people to learn these ideas, to understand the problems

  • and to bring them along to talk about the solutions.

  • That, to me, seemed to be the way to go

  • and so what you're doing here

  • what we're doing here

  • is all part of what's considered 'what the Movement does'

  • and The Movement has a structure.

  • We have a holographic structure

  • which means, basically, we're all tapping

  • into a lot of the same material

  • that talks about the ideas.

  • We use Peter's films as tools.

  • We have a lot of tools that are created

  • by activists involved in The Movement that are shared

  • and we basically are creating a structure

  • that is replicating itself

  • to spread awareness about these ideas.

  • We have, pretty much

  • a two-way flow of information.

  • We have things that we are doing here:

  • presentations that are going to be used by other chapters

  • and other teams in their activism.

  • Come on in!

  • We also have materials

  • that are created by activists

  • that end up getting adopted by the other pieces of the structure.

  • There's a beautiful way

  • that the information is flowing in both directions

  • in that we have activism that happens on a local level

  • that, when it's really successful and people are excited about it

  • gets picked up and adopted on a global level

  • and resources are shared to make that happen.

  • There are, right now, approximately 1100 chapters

  • across 7 countries

  • so we're coming up on about three years.

  • [P.Joseph] 70 countries... Oh, 70!

  • [Applause]

  • 70 countries. That's a big difference.

  • (She's reading it, so she was caught up.

  • She's ahead of me. You could even come up here and finish this).

  • 70 countries, which is pretty impressive

  • and we're going to hear some more talk

  • about how exciting that is when we actually do global events

  • and the part that plays

  • when Shar is telling us about our screening events coming up.

  • And

  • basically

  • the components of the structure are in teams.

  • We have global teams and we have regional teams

  • and the global teams are where people can utilize their talents

  • whatever various talents they have

  • to plug in and help us with awareness activism

  • and the teams are:

  • The Linguistics Team

  • They do translations into all sorts of different languages

  • so the information that is created

  • is translated and used in 70 countries.

  • Also they do proofreading:

  • We have people that just go through

  • and proofread a lot of the things before they're going out

  • and especially when you're doing translations

  • proofreading is important.

  • We have a Developers Team, and that's development

  • in the sense of mostly website development right now

  • and they're working on web and communication platforms.

  • We have a News and Public Relations Team.

  • We have that team that does a newsletter

  • that was by-monthly for a while.

  • I don't know when but

  • I think we're getting ready to release a new one coming up.

  • We also have a Technology Team

  • and one of the things that they're known for

  • is the creation of a website called zeitnews.org

  • which is a good place to go

  • if you're looking for information

  • on how technology is coming up

  • with so many different breakthroughs

  • that could be used in a global Resource-Based Economy

  • for those people who are just thinking

  • "No, I don't really think we could really do that.

  • It's not quite feasible."

  • There are things that could blow you away

  • that you can uncover on this website

  • of developments that we have now

  • even in a monetary system, that just need to be used

  • in a global sense

  • and for the benefit of basic human needs.

  • We have a Media Project Team

  • and they have a website: zeitgeistmediaproject.com

  • where a lot of people create artistic materials

  • or flyers and brochures

  • and they even do videos.

  • They can upload them to the Zeitgeist Media Project website

  • and they can be picked up for use all over the world

  • and that's really exciting. Something that you might create

  • could be used by people all over to help further

  • the education of new people to these ideas.

  • Then we have regional teams

  • which are basically the Chapters Team.

  • It is a team

  • but it is quite a bit of the expansiveness of The Movement

  • of actually getting into your community

  • and interacting with people

  • on a local level about these ideas

  • and being connected to the global sense, the global teams

  • and part of the global communication structure.

  • The Chapters Team

  • is sort of the circulatory system of The Movement

  • in the flow of information.

  • It's where people are getting together to volunteer.

  • They're exchanging ideas, they're having meetings

  • and getting all on the same page

  • so that we know what's happening globally.

  • When we're having global events

  • we can do events all on the same day

  • and know that they're being done

  • in so many other countries at the same time

  • and feel a part of something really big

  • and getting bigger all the time.

  • So with that

  • I would like to... I want to show you one thing that...

  • This is an image that is what I think of

  • when I think of the chapters' structure

  • and basically it's sort of a communication network that branches out

  • like the branches of a tree.

  • We're all rooted in the same values

  • and people who support these ideas

  • have volunteered to be a part of this structure

  • to be a part of our efforts of activism

  • and connect in the structure

  • with other activists

  • to educate their communities.

  • We're all connected

  • in the sense of being on online platforms

  • and having local interactions.

  • I'm going to introduce, in a moment, Jason Lord

  • of the California Chapter

  • who is going to continue with the discussion

  • on what exactly a chapter is

  • that would be a part of this tree

  • part of this living, breathing entity

  • and give you a little bit of background on what that's about

  • and hopefully encourage you to get involved

  • with a local chapter, especially the Los Angeles Chapter

  • if this is your area.

  • If you've traveled in, thanks for doing that.

  • There may be a chapter in your area

  • and we can get you connected with who may be close to you

  • so you can be involved in that.

  • Without further ado, Jason Lord.

  • [Applause]

  • [Jason Lord - California Coordinator]

  • I guess we're all sitting this evening. I need notes

  • so I wrote it down.

  • I don't know if she remembered to introduce herself

  • that was Jennifer Wilding. She's the coordinator of the United States

  • for The Zeitgeist Movement.

  • She helps pull this all together on a national level.

  • I just wanted to make sure people had a reference

  • of who was just speaking to you.

  • Hi, my name is Jason. I volunteer to coordinate The Movement

  • at what we refer to as a state level. I'm a state coordinator

  • and there are multiples of me all over the place.

  • If you travel across the country

  • more than likely there's a Movement chapter in that area.

  • I just wanted to give people a sense of how we're organized

  • and how this all comes together.

  • I'm just going to dive right into some notes I wrote down quickly.

  • We use the term official chapters, and there's a reason for that.

  • Official chapters are recognized as self-motivated groups

  • of individuals that advocate and support The Zeitgeist Movement

  • and the solutions proposed in our materials.

  • The chapter structure consists of international

  • national, state and local chapters (Los Angeles is a local chapter).

  • Our structure is a communications network which is worldwide.

  • Each new chapter that pops up in a specific region

  • gives people a place to go

  • to engage in these ideas.

  • At the moment, The Movement's focus is on awareness activism

  • of not only The Movement's presence in the world

  • but also of the root causes to persistent social problems

  • and a sustainable solution

  • which can be briefly named a Resource-Based Economic Model.

  • The chapters themselves are focused on on-the-ground awareness

  • projects and social interactions in regards to this direction.

  • This event is an example of that in action.

  • Our greatest challenge isn't the technical application

  • of the solutions that exist

  • to create an access abundance for the world's population.

  • It is the value systems which are perpetuated

  • by established institutions

  • that comprise a large part of our society

  • namely the monetary, political, and religious establishments.

  • The hardened value systems that are created

  • are the most difficult for us to address.

  • Someone I admire stated to me once

  • "The truth isn't something that is told to you.

  • It is something you realize

  • through taking in new information."

  • The purpose of the chapters is to be holographic, as a network

  • and in on-the-ground and in-person presence

  • which takes on the task of engaging the public

  • inputting new information into the current value system

  • communicating with people as best we can

  • so that the possibility of a sustainable world can exist

  • beyond the ultimate decay of an over-consumption model

  • such as we have right now.

  • As noted before, our structure is holographic

  • in the sense that each chapter contains the same information

  • and the purpose of The Movement itself

  • engaging in awareness activism in their region.

  • Having organized in this way helps keep

  • the internal noise of conflict and opinion to a minimum.

  • We have chapters which are comprised of volunteers. We're all volunteers

  • who desire to forward The Movement's direction.

  • Projects and events that are accomplished

  • by members that show merit to The Movement itself

  • and success in the communication of these ideas to new people

  • tend to get picked up by other chapters as we go around the world.

  • The usefulness of feedback becomes self-evident

  • and ultimately is brought to the attention

  • of the global and national coordinators and then

  • the whole feedback-loop of communication is flowing both ways

  • so we can all stay in touch and move together.

  • I introduced myself as the California coordinator

  • and the term coordinator is a descriptive title

  • of what actions one is doing within The Movement's chapter structure.

  • Coordinators as well as all TZM members, again we're all volunteers.

  • Our time and efforts are purposed by the necessity of transitioning

  • out of the current monetary market paradigm

  • into a sustainable resource-based model.

  • Our meetings consist mainly for planning of activism events

  • for feedback, for a completed project

  • as well as being a communications portal

  • for the movement-wide efforts that are happening around the world.

  • We've done some global events

  • which you're going to hear about in a second from Sharleen.

  • We learn effectiveness of our activism by experience

  • and we work with the resources available

  • within our chapter regardless of its size.

  • Everyone goes through a growing process:

  • We started out with a couple of people in a coffee shop.

  • Then, we moved to four people in someone's house

  • and then for our first global event

  • I had people come over to my house to watch Zeitgeist:Addendum

  • and now it has blossomed into a group of about 400 people

  • that are interested in this Movement, in the direction that we advocate.

  • Now these events can be a little bit larger

  • and reach out to more people at one time.

  • There's an efficiency in doing that.

  • On a fun note

  • social aspects are certainly part of what we do.

  • This is a social movement but our focus is on engaging social values

  • via public awareness campaigns

  • which is a race against time

  • in regards to the mounting bio-social pressures

  • forming in the human experience that we call civilization.

  • You could see some of those that Peter addressed

  • at the end of his lecture with the debt collapse

  • energy collapse, and the like.

  • These pressures can show up (I've made some notes for this too)

  • as physical, which would be a resource depletion example.

  • They could be abstract pressures, like monetary inflation.

  • They could be physiological pressures, such as stress on individuals or

  • environmental pressures, which is ecological degradation.

  • (We're polluting the environment at an enormously fast rate.)

  • This also shows up as the ultimate human failing

  • which is warfare with other nations.

  • These pressures, along with many others can be referenced

  • in a recently published book from the UK called 'The Spirit Level'

  • and I can let anyone know how to find that afterwards.

  • We use the designation as an official chapter.

  • There's a reason for that:

  • The event that you're at now has been put on

  • by what we acknowledge as Los Angeles' Official Chapter, Official Group.

  • Just to note, it's not necessary to really maintain the status.

  • There are a lot of people that get into this that don't have the time

  • don't have... really they have other causes they wish to address.

  • They may want to fight something single-focused

  • like pollution in the oceans or the homeless specifically

  • as a single focus.

  • While these things may tie into

  • what we advocate as The Zeitgeist Movement

  • they are not what we are about on the whole

  • because we're trying to address the social issues on a global scale.

  • Finally, to wrap things up

  • (I think that's it for me actually), I just wanted to lay that out

  • so people had an understanding of how we organize

  • what a chapter is and what we're doing.

  • This event is an example of the Los Angeles Chapter in action

  • so thanks for coming.

  • I think we're going to move on to having Eva and Brandon

  • who are the coordinators for the Los Angeles Chapter

  • (again all these terms and names in place).

  • There's a structure here, so people

  • they are involved in the in-person, in-face, on-the-ground engaging

  • of the public, of people like yourselves

  • and trying to get this information out there

  • in as fastest time as possible so

  • I'd like to introduce them.

  • [Applause]

  • [Eva Omori - Los Angeles Coordinator]

  • Hi, good evening, my name is Eva

  • and I am the Los Angeles coordinator along with Brandon, here tonight

  • and again thank you from the LA Chapter as well.

  • I had a series of notes of things I wanted to talk about

  • and most of it's been covered very thoroughly

  • so you'll hear the words such as efficiency, root cause

  • things such as this.

  • Let me talk a little bit about my experience

  • as someone being introduced initially a couple of years ago

  • through a friend, through a DVD

  • and then finding myself a year later

  • coordinating the Los Angeles Chapter.

  • What the Chapter really is at this level, as a local chapter

  • is where we get an opportunity

  • to actually put into action the goals and tenets

  • and the ideas that have been presented.

  • Now that's kind of a big stretch because everyone shows up

  • with their own idea of what that's supposed to look like

  • so as a coordinator, what we do

  • is we facilitate those ideas

  • showing up at the table: your idea, your project

  • and seeing how far we can go with it.

  • We've had projects such as the Z-Day which is a global project

  • that we had at the Convention Center recently.

  • We assisted with Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

  • as far as that being a global release.

  • We're pretty much up to whatever anybody shows up with

  • but there's a certain amount of personal education

  • that goes along with this.

  • I've heard quite often

  • "It was like all the pieces were there

  • and when I saw the movie someone put it together for me."

  • That application of putting that together, that learning, never stops

  • and that's one of the things when you become

  • or when I became active in The Movement

  • I had the ability to further.

  • What I'm saying is: These are ideas that are presented

  • and you may with agree some, all...

  • I had some I put on the back shelf and waited

  • until I had a better understanding of the terminology and uses

  • and really, actually just looked at the world around me

  • to see if maybe that is a correct interpretation.

  • Maybe I need to just shift and look.

  • We're not here to try to convert or convince.

  • We're presenting information that gives you a better tool

  • to look at the world as it is.

  • OK, what does that mean 'as it is' ?

  • That's something that you yourself have to determine

  • and that is one of the things that I highly value:

  • your individual ability as well as mine

  • and to come to an agreement and actually take action on this.

  • To me that is what we do.

  • We've had many opportunities, Brandon and I, out on the streets.

  • Brandon is one of those who'll go up to complete strangers

  • and just start a conversation about The Movement.

  • I'm one of those people that goes up "How's your day going?"

  • standing in the grocery line, there's fifty of us, right, one cashier.

  • You get kind of tired of this

  • and I kind of work my way into that conversation.

  • So this is a great place to start.

  • It's because it is local. We're in your neighborhood

  • and if we're not, we'll come and visit you and we'll assist.

  • That's part of what we do at a local chapter.

  • That's part of our commitment.

  • It's a personal commitment that's not everyone's commitment

  • but how else are we going to get the word out there?

  • How else are we going to have these discussions?

  • How else are we going to flush all this out?

  • How else are we going to learn this?

  • Our ideas are bound as well

  • whether they're workshops or understanding the material

  • or presenting the material

  • or understanding fallacies when they're presented.

  • How do you deal with someone when they're just up in your face

  • and won't listen to anything you have to say?

  • All of it's OK. That's a big part of it.

  • We've been so conditioned to think that things aren't OK with us

  • and there must be something I'm doing wrong.

  • This is an opportunity to step back, relax

  • take a look at the world in a different viewpoint.

  • Take your time with it. Engage with like-minded people.

  • [You] have an opportunity to redesign your life

  • and with it, the world.

  • The whole humor aspect of changing the world

  • to me isn't humorous any longer.

  • It seemed at some distant point "Yeah, OK

  • one person changing the world. " That's not how it's going to work.

  • What it is, is one person willing to look at things differently

  • willing to change their mind

  • willing to look at things a little bit differently.

  • It is a step-by-step process.

  • Now this step-by-step process

  • I'm going to let Brandon talk about a little more

  • in the most literal sense

  • of what we physically are doing out in the real world.

  • Brandon

  • [Applause]

  • [Brandon Kristy - Los Angeles Coordinator]

  • Hey everyone, good evening. My name is Brandon Kristy.

  • I coordinate the LA chapter with Eva

  • and I'm going to do a quick run down of what the activism is like

  • for the Los Angeles Chapter, and in The Movement in general.

  • Our main purpose with the activism is to

  • engage the public in the ideas

  • the concepts that Peter laid out and Jason and Jen.

  • It's the logic and the reasoning behind

  • that lies at the core of our communications

  • which is sustainability and peaceful coexistence

  • and the world working together as a whole

  • to benefit the integrity of the whole

  • and adapting and being emergent to the best way

  • the best methods of what we know of

  • and hopefully these concepts

  • become a major part of the culture.

  • That's really, at the end of the day, what the activism is about.

  • This picture up here is... we do a lot of different things...

  • This is a picture of us at UCLA

  • and one of our main things is to have discussions.

  • We hand out materials, obviously information.

  • We're an educational movement. I'm sure you've heard that before.

  • We're really focused on awareness

  • so we talk about things with people.

  • That's one of the main things we do: discuss

  • and, at the very least, get people thinking in that direction.

  • The idea here is that a critical mass

  • or a massive movement worldwide will take to this

  • and a lot can happen at that point

  • when we get

  • a massive, dedicated, committed, determined movement behind us.

  • This is just one picture here.

  • We do banner activism.

  • I coordinate 'The Banner Project'.

  • I see some faces here in the audience that have done that.

  • We go over freeway bridges. We display these massive banners.

  • (Actually you can see one right over there.)

  • We display them over freeway bridges. Hundreds of people see those

  • when they drive underneath the freeway bridge.

  • We go to busy intersections

  • because sometimes we get kicked off the freeway bridges.

  • We, you know, busy intersections...

  • we go to...

  • so also

  • in a California-statewide coordinated effort and

  • because a lot of the chapters in California actually have banners

  • we all go out on the same day and just display them.

  • It's building

  • where more chapters start to do it

  • and it makes more of an impact, more of a message out there.

  • The banner project is always fun to get out there

  • and talk to people

  • because it sparks discussion. It sparks conversation

  • and people, when they see it, eventually look into it.

  • So the colleges here...

  • We're trying to get into the colleges, speak and attend events.

  • Speaking of events

  • we also do sustainability events

  • about green festivals and energy.

  • We're trying to be everywhere

  • because this movement touches every subject out there.

  • There's nothing that it doesn't relate to.

  • We're trying to be everywhere.

  • We're going to be at the Abbot Kinney Festival in September

  • and we... Am I leaving anything out as far as events?

  • We do screenings. This is an event right here

  • and just to show you

  • to describe what it's like to put on an event:

  • booking the event, it's committing to a date

  • it's getting the team together, it's getting an RSVP function

  • it's promoting it, it's doing a webcast.

  • There's a lot to it and this is all a volunteer movement.

  • It just goes to show how much we can actually do

  • if we come together and work together as a chapter.

  • Individual efforts are always fine, are always great:

  • sliding a card in somewhere

  • a little Zeitgeist business card

  • but when you work together with a chapter

  • it really just makes more sense.

  • It can make more of an impact

  • and I encourage everybody to get involved in the Los Angeles Chapter

  • and work with us to create a massive movement throughout Los Angeles.

  • People out in the world

  • that are tuning in right now to the webcast

  • I encourage you to join a chapter and let's

  • create a massive movement.

  • Thank you.

  • [Applause]

  • I just want to add one little thing to this before Shar steps up

  • and talks about the global event coordination

  • that she's been very active in

  • and that is: Currently, you can go anywhere in the world

  • and go to the zeitgeistmovement. com

  • and from there, go into your country, go into your state

  • and then find these local chapters.

  • That's why typically I don't talk about the LA Chapter.

  • We have URLs. We have all that good stuff.

  • We have websites and stuff like that

  • but always look for the zeitgeistmovement.com

  • and you can find us.

  • Shar

  • [Applause]

  • [Sharleen Bazeghi- Event Coordinator]

  • Hi, welcome everyone and happy first day of summer

  • and for our global audience, happy winter solstice!

  • You've just heard about The Zeitgeist Movement

  • the history, the definition, the chapter structure.

  • I'm here to tell you about four events that we've done

  • and are doing the rest of this year

  • that illustrate how 2011

  • is really the year that The Zeitgeist Movement flourished

  • as an operational organization

  • capable of pulling off, simultaneously coordinated

  • international, multi-country, multi-language

  • top of the line, state-of-the-art productions.

  • [Applause]

  • It's no small feat when it's all volunteer.

  • It's as Jacque says "The best that money can't buy."

  • We skipped off the year January 15th with Peter Joseph's third movie

  • featured film 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'

  • and that was premiered internationally in over 350 locations

  • over 60 countries, over 30 languages

  • and tens of thousands of people saw the movie during the premiere.

  • Hollywood would be impressed. The places we got in

  • vary from Singapore, Mongolia, Africa

  • We were all over the map.

  • Every time zone brought us in

  • so that was a huge event and then just two months later

  • we went into Z-day which is

  • the intellectual and educational event that's done annually.

  • That was over 300 events worldwide, multi-language, multi-country.

  • Then just a few months later we're kicking off with you all tonight

  • the monthly, global Townhall meetings.

  • Thank you for being part of our kick-off tonight.

  • [Applause]

  • Then finally we're kicking off another new event in September.

  • It's globally the weekend of September 9-11

  • and that's the The Zeitgeist Media Festival

  • which is a different way to approach the public

  • through the arts, music, dance, by-passing the intellectual

  • and going on the creative level

  • (socially-conscious art, music and dance)

  • but that will be at the Music Box in LA, Sunday September 11

  • (worldwide throughout the whole weekend)

  • You can find out information about the bands and performers

  • on ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org.

  • I just want to say that I'm very honored and privileged

  • to be part of helping coordinate these global events.

  • To see The Movement be able to pull off

  • these kind of productions worldwide is astonishing

  • because I've worked on other productions in the entertainment business

  • and there's something about the passion of volunteers doing it.

  • These translators alone, they've turned around

  • hundreds of pages I think of text from the movie in record time

  • over the holidays, like two weeks.

  • It's really impressive to see that

  • and everyone feels so fulfilled from doing that.

  • I just want to end with saying two things that I saw

  • 'bumper sticker wisdom'

  • but could tie into prompting you for questions tonight

  • because really what we want is you to ask questions

  • to understand that there's alternatives.

  • Usually when you tell people there is a way outside of money

  • they say "Oh no, we can't live that way.

  • We're not going to go back to trading chickens and cows and stuff"

  • but that's not what we're talking about

  • so please feel prompted to ask, but just two short things.

  • These are quotes that I actually heard on Facebook

  • which is like the new bumper sticker wisdom

  • if you have socially-conscious Facebook friends.

  • "Humans are the only species that pay to live on Earth"

  • and secondly, "Without money we'd all be rich."

  • Just to get you started thinking on these concepts, right? Yeah!

  • [Applause]

  • So...

  • Without any further ado, we'll bring up the panel and get started

  • get you guys energized! Summer Perry can you come up, sweetie?

  • She is going to be a roving moderator with a wireless mic

  • so just raise your hand and she'll go up to you

  • and please feel free to ask any questions. That's why we're really here.

  • Please stay tuned for the announcement on next month's

  • monthly Townhall. We're hoping each month to increase it

  • so we may get to larger and larger spaces.

  • Most of them, unless we have a special guest or something

  • we'll be mostly just interactive with the public.

  • Thank you so much for being here.

  • [Audience questions and answers not transcibed]

[Peter Joseph]

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