Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #11

Synopsis: Zeitgeist Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.
Director(s): Peter Joseph
Production: Gentle Machine Productions
 
IMDB:
8.3
NOT RATED
Year:
2008
123 min
1,484 Views


or from Washington D.C. to

Beijing, China, in two hours.

This is the future of continental

and intercontinental travel.

Fast, clean, with only a fraction of the

energy usage we use today for the same means.

In fact, between mag-lev technology,

advanced battery storage and geothermal energy

there will be no reason to

ever burning fossil fuel again.

And we can do this now, if we were not

held back by the paralyzing profit structure.

Now America is inclined towards fascism.

It has a propensity by its dominant philosophy

and religion to uphold to fascist point of view.

American industry is essencially a fascist institution.

If you dont understand that, the minute you

punch that time clock you woke into a dictatorship.

We are given notions about the respectibility

of work. And I realy look at it as being paid slavery.

Youre brought up to believe that you shall

earn your living by the sweat of your brow.

That holds people back. Freeing people from drudgery,

repetitive jobs which make them ignorant, you rob them.

In our society, that is a resourced

based economy, machines free people.

You see, we can't imagine that because

we never known that kind of world.

If we look back at history, we see a very clear pattern

of machine automation slowly replacing human labour.

From the dissapearence of the elevator man to the

near full automation of an automobile production plant.

The fact is, as technology grows the need for

humans in the work force will continioully be diemineshed.

This creates a serious clash, which proves the

falsness of the monitary based labour system.

For human employment is in direct

competition with technological developement.

Therefore given the fundamental

priority of profit by industry,

people through time will be continually

layed off and replaced by machine.

When industry takes on a machine

instead of shortening the work day,

they downsize. You loose your job

so you have a right to fear machines.

In a high technology resourced based economy,

it is conservative to say that about 90% of all

current occupations could be phased out by machines.

Freeing humans to live their life without servitude.

For this is the point of technology itself.

And through time with nano technology

and other highly advanced forms of science

it is not far fetch to see how even complex medical

procedures could be performed by machines as well.

And based on the pattern with much higher

success rates than humans get today.

The path is clear but our monetary based structure

which requires labour for income blocks this progress.

Humans need jobs in order to survive.

The bomb line is that this system must go or we will

never be free and technology will be constantly paralyzed.

We have machines that clean out

sewers and frees human being doing that.

So look at machines as

extensions of human performance.

Furthermore many occupations today will have

simply no basis to exist in a resourced based economy.

Such as anything assosiated with the management

of money, advertising along with a legal system itself.

For without money, a great majority of the crimes

that are commited today would never occur.

Virtually all forms of crimes are

consequence in the moneatry system,

either directly or by neurosis

inflicted through financial deprevation.

Therefore laws themselves

could eventually become extinct.

Instead of putting up a sign "drive carefully slippery when wet"

put a abrasive on the highway so it is not slippery when wet.

And when a person gets in car that drunk

and a car oscillates at great deal

there's a little pendulum

that swings up and back and that

will pull the car over to the side

- not a law. Solution.

Put sonar and radar on automobiles

so they cant hit one another.

Man-made laws are attempts

to deal with occuring problems

and not knowing how to solve them

they make a law.

In the United States, the most privatised,

capitalist country on the planet,

it shall come as no surprise

that it also has the largest prison population

in the world - growing every year.

Statistically, most of these people

are uneducated

and come from poor, deprived societies.

And contrary to propaganda,

it is this enviromental conditioning, which

lures them into criminal and violent behaviour.

However society, looks the other way

and regard to this point.

The legal and prison systems

are just more examples

of how our society avoids examining

the root-causes of behaviour.

Billions are spend each year

on prisons and police,

while only a fraction is spend on

programs for poverty,

which is one of the most fundamental variables

responsible for crime to begin with.

And, as long as we have an economic system,

which preferes and infact creates

scarcity and deprivation,

crime will never go away.

If people have access to the necessities of life

without servitude, debt, barter, trade;

they behave very differently.

You want all this things

availabe without a price tag

Now then, youve gotta have a price tag.

What will motivate people?

Men gets just everything what he wants,

he's just lay around in the sun.

This is the myth they perpetuate.

People in our culture are trained to believe

that the monetary system produces incentive:

If they have access to all things,

why should they want to do anything?

They would loose their incentive.

That's what you're taught to

support the monetary system.

When you take money out of the scenerio,

there would be different incentives,

very different incentives.

When people have access to the necessities of life,

their incentives change.

What about the moon and the stars?

New incentives arise.

If you make a painting, that you enjoy,

you will enjoy giving it to

other people - not selling it.

I think most of the education,

that I've seen today,

is essentially producing a person for a job.

It's very specialized.

They're not generalists.

People don't know a lot

about a lot of different subjects.

I don't think you can get people to go to war,

if they knew a lot about a lot of things.

I think education is mostly rote

and they're not taught how to solve problems,

they're not given the tools,

emotionally or whithin their own field,

of how to do critical thinking.

In a resource based economy,

the education would be very different.

Our society's major concern

is mental development

and to motivate each person

to their highest potential.

Because our philosophy is

the smarter people are

people are the rich of the world

because everybody becomes a contributor.

The smarter your kids are,

the better my life will be.

Because they'll be contributing more

constructively to the environment

and to my life.

Because everything that we devise

with an resource based economy

would be applied to society.

There would be nothing to hold it back.

Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies,

all that is a sign,

that we're not civilized yet.

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Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist. He is best known for the Zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrated, scored, and produced. He is the founder of the related The Zeitgeist Movement. Other professional work includes directing the music video God Is Dead? for the band Black Sabbath more…

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