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The MOveMenT
The Zeitgeist Movement
is not a political
movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are now false, outdated distinctions that are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to drastically slow and paralyze progress, through social
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structures which are out of date, dogmatic, and hence out of line with nature itself. The world you see
today, full of war, corruption, elitism, pollution, poverty, epidemic disease, human rights abuses, inequality and crime is the result of this paralysis. This movement is about awareness, a fluid, evolutionary progression, combining the personal, social, technological and spiritual. It recognizes that the human
The currenT ecOnOMIc sysTeM Is FallIng aParT aT an acceleraTIng raTe, WITh The PrOsPecT OF WOrlDWIDe uneMPlOyMenT OccurrIng On The largesT scale ever seen.
species
is on a natural path for unification, derived from a communal acknowledgment of fundamental and near empirical understandings of how we as humans
great majority of humans, who continue to perpetuate outdated and hence degenerative modes of conduct and association.
It is this intellectual irrelevancy that the Movement hopes to overcome through education and social action.
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sIMulTaneOusly, We are cOurTIng The POInT OF nO reTurn In regarD TO The DesTrucTIOn OF The envIrOnMenT.
WhaT Is POssIBle?
Through the humane application of science and
and inevitabilities, then review solutions derived from an assessment of what is actually relevant to life and society.
FacTs:
The greatest catalyst and contributor to long-term unemployment is technological innovation by way of the automation of labor (mechanization or machine automation). 50% of the worlds population lives on less than $2.50 per day.
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