The Zeitgeist Movement
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The Zeitgeist Movement is a grass-roots "organization" promoting a change[1] in the current spirit of the time (hence the name "The Zeitgeist Movement") that was formed in response to Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist: Addendum documentary. Basically a modern re-hash of the Technocracy movement, their ideas are derived from multiple sources, primarily The Venus Project and Buckminster Fuller. Indeed, the movement's Activist Orientation Guide defines itself as 'the activist arm of the Venus Project'. (PDF VIDEO) They consider themselves to be a 'sustainability advocacy organization'.[2] The community is largely concentrated on the internet and have their own live broadcasting shows.[3][4]
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[edit] Organization
The Zeitgeist movement is organised into various different 'chapters' across more than 50 different countries, though just how active these chapters are is probably only known to those involved in them [5] and differs greatly from chapter to chapter. Even though recordings of most chapter meetings are freely available online, where all types of chapter related matters like activity are discussed. A quick glance at some chapter websites reveals they have at least some presence in certain University societies and at the local level. Nevertheless, most of their forum posting seems to be discussions about the movement's philosophy and what activists intend to do in the near future. It is however difficult to measure if the movement achieves its goals seeing their sole intention is to be an educational movement[6] and 'spread awareness', one could suspect they do seeing new chapters are added on a monthly basis (see chapter list on the website) and the userbase on the different facebook pages[7] show an increase.
[edit] In a sentence
The organization is based on undirected whining about capitalism, accompanied by a belief that somehow computers should do all future resource planning, and that shortly robots will be doing all the work - in summary, standard techno-utopianism.
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- ↑ http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zeitgeist_Movement
- ↑ http://www.blogtalkradio.com/zmglobal/
- ↑ http://www.zbnlive.com/shows/
- ↑ http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/
- ↑ http://www.tzmeducation.org/
- ↑ http://www.facebook.com/tzmglobal/likes?ref=ts