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Synopsis: American Zeitgeist is a feature length documentary by filmmaker Rob McGann that offers a historical look at the War on Terrorism from 1979 through 2006. The narrative of American Zeitgeist is woven out of more than 40 in-depth interviews with leading experts on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, Islam and Middle Eastern studies.
 
IMDB:
8.4
Year:
2006
150 min
93 Views


that you have this war on terror

and there's no real enemy.

He's talking about how by having

this war on terror you can never win it

'cause it's an eternal war, so you can always

keep taking people's liberties away.

I said, "How you're gonna convinced people

that this war is real?"

He said, "By the media. The media can convince

everybody it's real.

You know, it's just that you keep talking about things,

you keep saying it over and over and over again

and eventually people believe this."

You know they've created Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies,

they've created 9/11 which is another lie,

through 9/11 you're then fighting the war on terror

and afterwards you're going to Iraq

which was another lie.

and then they gonna do Iran.

And it's all one thing leading to another,

leading to another, leading to another.

And I would say, "what are you doing this for?

What's the point of this thing?

You have all the money in the world you'd ever want,

you have all the power."

I said, "You know, you're hurting people,

it's not a good thing."

And he would say,

"What do you care about the people for?

Take care of yourself,

and take care of your family."

And then I said to him,

"What are the ultimate goals here?"

He said, "The ultimate goal is to get

everybody in this world chipped with an RFID chip."

And to have all the money to be on those chips,

and everything on those chips.

And if anybody wants to protest what we do

or violate what we want,

we just turn off their chip."

That's right. Microchipped.

In 2005 Congress under the pretense

of immigration control

and the so-called "War on Terrorism"

passed the Real ID Act,

under which, it is projected, by May 2008

you will be required to carry around

a federal identification card

which includes on it a scannable bar code

with your personal information.

However, this bar code

is only an intermediary step

before the card is equipped with that very chip,

RFID tracking module

which will use radio frequencies

to track your every move on the planet.

If this sounds foreign to you, please know

that the RFID tracking chip is already in

all new American passports.

And the final step is the implanted chip

which many people had already been manipulated

into excepting under different pretenses.

We have a Florida family who are really

pioneers in the brave new world.

They have volunteered to be the first ever

to have microchipped identification devices

implanted into their bodies.

After 9/11 I was really concerned about

the security of my family.

I wouldn't mind having something planted

permanently in my arm that would identify me.

In the end everybody will be locked

into a monetary control grip

where every single action you perform

is documented.

And if you get out of line,

they can just turn off your chip

for at that point of time

every single aspect of society

will revolve around

interactions with the chips.

This is the picture that is painted

for the future if you open your eyes to see it.

A centralized one world economy

where everyone's moves

and everyone's transactions are tracked

and monitored, all rights removed.

The most incredible aspect of all:

these totalitarian elements

will not be forced upon the people,

the people will demand them.

For, the social manipulation of society

through the generation of fear and division

has completely detached humans from

their sense of power and reality.

The process which has been going on

for centuries, if not millennia,

religion, patriotism, race, wealth, class

and every other form of arbitrary

separatist identification thus conceived

has served to create a controlled population

utterly malleable in the hands of the few.

Divide and conquer is the motto.

And as long as people continue to see

themselves as separate from everything else

they lend themselves to be completely enslaved.

The men behind the curtain know this

and they also know

that if people ever realized the truth

of their relationship to nature

and the truth of their personal power,

the entire manufactured zeitgeist they prey upon

would collapse like a house of cards.

The whole system that we live in

drills into us

that we're powerless, that we're weak,

that our society is evil, that it's fraudulant

et cetera and so forth

It's all a big fat lie.

We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary.

There is no reason why you cannot understand

who we truly are, where are we going.

There is no reason why the average individual

cannot be fully empowered.

We are incredibly powerful beings.

I think I've spent 30 years of my life,

the first 30, trying to become something.

I wanted to become good at things,

I wanted to become good at tennis,

I wanted to become good at school and grades...

and everything I kind of viewed in that perspective:

I'm not OK the way I am, but if I got good at things...

...and I realized that I had the game wrong.

The game was to find out what I already was.

Now, in our culture we've been trained

for individual differences to stand out.

So, you look at each person and immediately it is

brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer...

and we make all these dimensional distinctions,

we put them in categories and treat them that way.

And we get so that we only see others

as separate from ourselves

in the ways in which they're separate.

And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience

is being with another person and suddenly seeing

the ways in which they're like you,

and not different from you,

and experiencing the fact that which is

essence in you, which is essence in me

is the one, the understanding there is no other.

It is all one.

And I wasn't born rich and upper,

I was just born as a human being

and then I learned this whole business

of who I am, and whether I'm good or bad

or achieving or not,

all that's learned along the way.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism,

to rabid nationalist fervour 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.

Bill Hicks used to finish his shows with this:

Life's like a ride in an amusement park.

We go on it and think it's real

'cause that's how powerful our minds are.

And the ride goes up and down and round and round.

It has thrills and chills

and it's very brightly coloured

and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while.

Some have been on the ride for a long time

and they begin to question,

is this real, or is this just a ride?

And other people have remembered,

and they come back to us,

they say, "Hey, don't worry,

don't be afraid, ever,

because, this is just a ride..."

And we kill those people.

"Shut him up.

I've got a lot invested in this ride.

Shut him up!

Look at my furrows of worry.

Look at my big bank account and my family.

This has to be real."

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