Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #17

are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.

That the person is "bad"... or that person is a "serial killer"...

Serial killers are made

just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.

They become killing machines, but nobody

looks at them as murderers or assassins

because that's "natural"...

So we blame people.

We say, "Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews"...

No, he was brought up to torture Jews.

Once you accept the fact that people

have individual choices and they are free

to make those choices... Free to make

choices means without being influenced

and I can't understand that at all.

All of us are influenced in all of our choices

by the culture we live in, by our parents

and by the values that dominate.

So, we're influenced - so there can't be "free" choices.

What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:

I haven't been all over the world and I don't know

enough about different cultures to answer that question. '

I don't know anybody that speaks that way.

They say 'it's the good old USA!

the greatest country in the world!'

There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'

Have you been to England?' - 'No. '

Have you been to France?' - 'No. '

Then what do you make your assumptions on?'

They can't answer- they get mad at you.

They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell

are you to tell me what to think?!'

You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.

They are not responsible for the answers;

they're victims of culture and that means

they have been influenced by their culture.

[Part 4:
Rise]

When we consider a Resource-Based Economy

there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...

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[Eh! Hey!]

[Now hold on just a minute!]

[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]

[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]

[My father died in the Gulag!]

[Communist! Fascist!]

[You don't like America you should just leave!]

All right, everybody just calm down...

[Death to the New World Order!]

And as the irrationality of the

audience grew, shocked and confused:

suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack. '

And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.

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But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people

in 'think tank' type situations

you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...

they say "Marxist!"

What? Marxist? Where did that come from?

They just got this icon they hold onto -

It's their Holy Grail

and it's such an easy one, you know.

People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist

I say I am none of the above. Why do you

think that those are the only options?

All of those political constructs

were created by writers who assumed

we lived on a planet of infinite resources.

Not one of those political philosophies even

contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.

I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism

are part of social evolution.

You can't take a giant step

from one culture to another -

there are in-between systems.

Before there's any "Ism", we have a life ground

and the life ground is as I've just described

most easily as all the conditions

required to take your next breath

and that involves the air you breathe

the water you get, the safety you have

the education you can access- all

these things that we share and use and that

no life, in any culture, can do without.

So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground

and the life ground is no longer any "Ism"...

"It's life value analysis."

[Beyond The Pale]

It's simply a matter of historical fact

that the dominant intellectual culture

of any particular society reflects the

interests of the dominant group in that society.

In a slave owning society

the beliefs about human beings and human rights

and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.

In the society, again, which is based on

the power of certain people to control and profit from

the lives and work of millions of others

the dominant intellectual culture will

reflect the needs of the dominant group.

So, if you look across the board, the

ideas that pervade psychology and

sociology and history

and political economy and political science

fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.

And the academics who question that too much

tend to get shunted to the side or

to be seen as sort of "radicals"...

The dominant values of a culture

tend to support and perpetuate

what is rewarded by that culture.

And in a society where success and

status is measured by material wealth

- Not social contribution -

it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.

We are dealing with a value system disorder

- Completely denatured -

where the priority of personal and social health

have become secondary to the detrimental

notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.

And, like a virus, this disorder now

permeates every facet of government

- News media - entertainment - and even academia.

And built into its structure

are mechanisms of protection

from anything that might interfere.

Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion

the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo

constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought

which might interfere with their beliefs.

The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.

If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.

If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist

and if you feel society can be greatly improved

to consider, perhaps - I don't know -

taking care of everyone?

you're just a "Utopianist"...

And the most insidious of them all:

if you are not for the "free-market"

you must be against freedom itself.

I'm a believer in freedom!

Every time you hear the word freedom

being said anywhere or government interference

said anywhere, it means, decoded:

blocking maximization of turning money

into more money for private money possessors.

That's it. Every other thing they'll say:

'Oh, we need more commodities for people';

'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth

every time you see it, you can decode it down to

that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation

with every time they use it.

And this, in a sense, we might call:

a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.

So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it

so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'

but in fact, that's what they do.

Just like you may speak a grammar

and you have rules of grammar you follow

without recognizing what the rules are...

and so what we have is what I call the "Ruling Value Syntax"

that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:

government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'

or 'progress' or 'development'

you can decode them all to come back to mean that.

Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'

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