Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #14

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
1,485 Views


unity and progress.

The US alone now spends about

$500 billions dollars anually on defense.

That is enough to send every high school

senior in America to a four year college.

In the 1940s the Manhattan Project produced

the first true weapon of mass destruction.

This program employed 130,000

people, at an extreme financial cost.

Imagine what our life would be

like today if that group of scientists,

instead of working on a way of killing people, worked

on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world.

Life today would be very very

different if that was their goal.

Instead of weapons of mass destruction,

it is time to unleash something much more

powerful.

Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).

Our true divinity is in our ability to create.

And armed with the understanding

of the symbiotic connections of life,

while being guided by the emergent nature of reality,

there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish.

Of course, we face strong barriers in the form of

established power structures that refuse to change.

At the heart of these structures is the

monetary system. As explained earlier,

the fractional reserve policy

is a form of slavery through debt,

where it is literally impossible for society to be free. In

turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade,

uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries into

subservience to a handful of large business and political powers.

Apart from these obvious amoralities,

the system itself is based on competition,

which immediately destroys the possibility of

large scale collaborations for the common good.

Hence paralyzing any attempt

at true global sustainability.

These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete,

and they must be outgrown.

Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the

business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea

for they will lose power and control.

Therefore, peaceful and highly

strategic action must be taken.

The most powerful course of action is simple.

We have to alter our behavior to force

the power structure to the will of the people.

WE MUST STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM.

The only way the establishment will

change is by our refusal to participate

while continuously acknowledging

its endless flaws and corruptions.

Theyre not gonna give up the monetary system,

because of our designs of what wed recommend.

The system has to fail, and people have

to lose confidence in their elected leaders.

That will be a major turning point if The

Venus Project is offered as a possible alternative.

If not, I fear the consequences.

The trends now indicate that

our country is going bankrupt.

The probability is our country will

move towards a military dictatorship

to prevent riots and complete social breakdown.

Once the US breaks down, all the

other cultures will undergo similar things.

As of now, the world financial system is on the

brink of collapse due to its own shortcomings.

The comptroller of currencies stated in 2003

that the interest on the US national debt

will not be affordable in less than ten years.

This theoretically means total bankruptcy for the US

economy and its implications for the world are immense.

In turn the fractional reserve based monetary

system is reaching its theoretical limits of expansion

and the banking failures you

are seeing are just the beginning.

This is why inflation is skyrocketing, all

debt is at record levels and the government

and FED are hemorrhaging new

money to bailout the corrupt system.

For the only way to keep the banks

going is by making more money.

The only way to make more money

is to create more debt and inflation.

It is simply a matter of time before the tables turn

and no one is willing to make new loans while defaults

grow as people are unable to afford their current loans.

Then the expansion of money will stop and

contraction will begin on a scale never before seen.

Ending a century long pyramid scheme.

This has already begun.

Therefore, we need to expose this financial failure

for what it is, using this weakness to our advantage.

Here are some suggestions:

One. Expose the banking fraud.

Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and Bank of America are the most

powerful controllers within the corrupt Federal Reserve system.

Its time to boycott these institutions.

If you have a bank account or credit card with

any of them, move your money to another bank.

If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank.

If you own their stock, sell it. If you work for them, quit.

This gesture will express contempt fo the true powers

behind the private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve.

And create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself.

Two. Turn off the TV news.

Visit the emerging independent news

agencies on the internet for your information.

CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX and all the others present

all news pre-filtered to maintain the status quo.

With four corporations owning all major media outlets,

objective information is impossible.

This is the true beauty of the internet.

And the establishment has been losing control

because of this free flow of information.

We must protect the internet at all times,

as it is truly our savior right now.

Three. Dont ever allow yourself, your family,

or anyone you know, to ever join the military.

This is an obsolete institution now used exclusively

for maintaining an establishment that is no longer relevant.

US soldiers in Iraq work for US corporations, not the people.

Propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural

and the military is an honorable institution.

Well if war is natural, why are there 18 suicides every single day

by American veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder?

If our military men and women are so honored, why is it that

Four. Stop supporting the energy companies.

If you live in a detached house, get off the grid.

Investigate every means of making your

home self-sustainable with clean energy.

Solar, wind, and other renewable energies

are now affordable consumer realities,

and considering the never ending rising costs of traditional energies,

it will likely be a cheaper investment over time.

If you drive, get the smallest car you can and

consider using one of the many conversion

technologies that can enable your car to be a hybrid,

electric, or run on anything other than establishment fuels.

Five. Reject the political system.

The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence.

In a monetary system, there is no such thing

as a true democracy, and there never was.

We have two political parties owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists.

They are place into their positions by the corporations,

with popularity artificially projected by their media.

In a system of inherent corruption the change of

personnel every couple of years has very little relevance.

Instead of pretending that the political game has any true meaning

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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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