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Improbable Democracy The New Human Rights Movement, Sept 9, 2017 Peter Joseph

non-profit a long time ago called The Zeitgeist Movement

and it's an organization that still has numerous chapters,

hundreds of chapters in 60 countries and we've done about a

thousand public awareness events since its inception.

And beyond that social experiments working in the hope

to unify the world in a common direction,

desperately needed of course due to the ecological crisis and

the social instability that we're seeing emerge.

I also produce educational and socially conscious activist media

I wish I'd brought some books actually but I couldn't

get the weight in my luggage or I would have given you all some.

The 'Zeitgeist Movement Defined' was the original text,

kind of a joint effort but mostly written by myself, produced in 2013.

It's the root thesis of The Zeitgeist Movement

and it advocates in pretty extended technical detail what

The second book, 'The New Human Rights Movement',

was published by BenBella earlier this year

and it takes a more social justice approach

and a public health approach if you will,

focusing on what really underscores a stable, healthy and peaceful society

including the active reduction of intergroup conflict,

oppression, bigotry, racism, xenophobia and so on,

something that this country and the world is

Today's talk will be more or less a derivative of this book,

specifically in regard to the history, structure and nature of modern political economy.

and you can go on and see about 20 or 30 hours of my lectures online,

I apologize if this moves quickly for those that are new.

But if anything is unclear - this will be about 45 minutes or so

and I'm definitely always into questions - so make some notes

So to jump to the work's conclusion for the sake of clarity

the bottom line is that without the removal

meaning the various levels of inequity we see both domestically

and internationally as linked to economic roots -

there's a serious need for concern about what the future holds.

Unannounced to most, there's a strong public health argument

against the existence of economic stratification and class.

And by extension this means that there is a strong public health argument

against the mechanisms of our society that create

a system that is also leading to the destruction of our habitat

due to its archaic basis in cyclical consumption,

perpetuating a built-in incentive to create waste,

inspire more purchases to create more jobs ...

And when you step back and take all this in,

you realize that an economy powered by consumerism,

which is what it is, is in fact not an economy at all.

the strategic and efficient use of materials and means to preserve sustainability

not only inspiring vast wealth imbalance,

limiting in fact the well-being of 60% of the human population today,

in the context of relative and absolute poverty,

but also in the sense that the entire system is really backwards

in terms of extended sustainability and effectively earthly economic goals;

a complete omission from all economic textbooks.

And it's worth pointing out that this seed of unsustainability really wasn't

as the process and means of production was quite manual and arduous.

and the introduction of mechanization and increased efficiency -

increased production I should say because it's not really efficient, it's just

the more of production that we're able to increase -

What was once an agrarian economy that worked to meet

core needs of a scarce society, generating jobs to facilitate those needs,

has transformed into an economy that has become so productive

producing a neurotic, insatiable and materialistic culture

simply for the sake of buying, owning and accumulating.

And without that value system, the economy wouldn't work today.

the current state of evolution of the market economy

not only requires an insecure, immature and selfish population,

it also requires that nothing really work too well, for too long:

For true preservation, efficiency and sustainability

It's the enemy of the foundation of our society

is enormous amounts of waste, pollution and resource overshoot.

And it's interesting today with all the talk

about ecological degradation, climate change, biodiversity loss and so on,

very rarely do people speak of the most important consequence of this:

we're destroying our future capacity to coexist peacefully

We're setting the stage for new forms of unnecessary scarcity and limitation.