ZEITGEIST

According to this video, Zeitgeist (Addendum), the money system based debt and interest is the fundamental problem of humanity.

Money creates power for the few while it inhibits human growth while causing wars and environmental destruction. We live in a world of scarcity whereas we could live in a world of abundance, including energy abundance.

How accurate the operation of the reserve bank system and creation of money with debt is, I cannot say. Wikipedia has an article on criticism of fractional-reserve banking. In general the film is a one-sided presentation, without considered contrary views.

For example, in the earlier film, also called Zeitgeist, Christianity is portrayed based on astrological theory, so that Christ is much like Horus, the ancient Egyptian sun god, without acknowledging, like Islam, it was a liberation theology. While interesting and possibly true, the case is not the full story. An important question is ignored: How did a “liberation theology” become a political and social ideology? To place events in historical context means to locate them in a time frame. The Emperor Constantine is 300 years after the events recorded in the New Testament in Roman-occupied Judea.

The analysis in the video makes perfectly understandable the operation of the US political system, and the creation of perpetual war. War is so profitable that the smart thing to do is back both sides. Despite what the military might thing, war is not about winning. It is about profit. The longer they run, the more profitable they are.

The big problem is that others see how successful the scheme is and start copying the idea. I notice that in Tehran the demonstrators are now being called “terrorists”. Isn’t imitation wonderful?

Wikipedia has a review of this film and of the earlier version. (This review is very useful because both films run for about two hours. I think it is important since if like me you might be left with the sense after watching both that was all very new and interesting, but how do I evaluate it. I noticed, but did not comment, on the reference to symbiosis of all life, and the preeminence in our mind of who we are, our socialization, over what we are, our humanity. To what extent are we conditioned and controlled? To what extent authentic?)

There is as well The Zeitgeist Movement with a website explaining the philosophy. We are always stuck in our paradigms and similtaneously threatened or made uncertain by alternative views. One thing is clear the world is not only working for most people, but we are headed for environmental disaster. What are the alternatives?

Postscript:

There is more to what is being said than the 911 conspiracy theories or the take on fractional reserve banking. A critique requires evaluation. As I see, this thesis seems to me to a post-Marxist theory for a post-industrial world. In this vision, science delivers for all and there is harmony between people and with the planet. In this idyllic world will population control be necessary, and how would that be controlled?

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