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The ZeiTgeisT MoveMenT
Beyond servitude, poverty, politics, and war
WHERE DO YOU SEE OUR CIVILIZATION HEADING? Taking into account the multifaceted collapse of the globalfractional reserve pyramid scheme, in conjunction with the quadrillion dollars in outstanding US derivatives, coupled withpeak-oil and the unsustainable use of resources, coupled with technological unemployment and outsourcing, war, populationissues, and serious health and environmental issues. Something is not right with our society.YOU SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED that you see a controlled and regimented society outside your doors, that we havemonopolies and cartels, that politicians are bought, and individuals are in constant fear of losing their necessities. This is thefree market at work. It’s what the free market creates. How do you think the constant fear of losing your necessities if youdon’t make your next paycheck (or your parents don’t make theirs) affects your behavior and you psyche?THE MONETARY SYSTEM IS OBSOLETE. The technology we have this very day could be used to create abundance forall of the earth’s inhabitants instead of destroying ecosystems and confining you to an existence as a lifelong wage slave.The monetary system is based on the creation and perpetuation of scarcity. When you're born into a scarcity drivenenvironment you are going to make choices based upon the protection of your basic needs; you are going to horde andprotect yourself because that is what the system requires. With everyone acting this way at once we end up with chaos andwarfare. As long as a social system uses money or barter, people and nations will seek to maintain the economic competitiveedge, and if they cannot do so by means of commerce they will by military intervention. The monetary system makes uscompete for the planets resources. A good college education is no longer a lifetime meal ticket.MONEY CREATES INSTITUTIONS that are forced for their own survival to perpetuate themselves. Therefore, progress isinhibited by money more than it is accelerated by it. Money serves as an incentive, only to a certain degree. Once you buildan establishment and you have lots of people working for you, it doesn't matter how honest or genuine you think you mightbe. The moment you have that type of establishment and the moment something comes along to challenge your advocation,you are going to have a natural propensity to want to restrict the development of anything that might take away your marketshare. This is the underlying mechanism that governs the whole of monetary society. The current monetary system is notcapable of providing a high standard of living for everyone, nor can it ensure the protection of the environment because themajor motive is profit. Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperament. They are in fact beingcontinuously created and amplified as a direct result of the monetary system.WHY DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR POLITICIANS WITH NO FORMAL TRAINING in science or engineering toarbitrarily decide what is best for you? With the scientific method problems could be solved without anyone having to“decide” what the solution will be, because solutions would “arrive” from logical analysis of situational variables, just thesame as a calculator arrives at the correct answer when the correct data is entered. Wouldn’t it make sense to apply thescientific method to the intelligent management of the Earth’s resources and the operation of society? Politics doesn't solveanything. The people in power have no problem solving capabilities outside of manipulation of the Monetary System andlegislation. You do not need the Monetary System and legislation is the wrong approach. Politicians and monetary interestsare a hindrance to the evolvement of human civilization.IMAGINE A SOCIETY WHERE THERE ARE NO HARDSHIPS, poverty, war, crime, corruption because everyone hasfull access to the necessities of life, and more, absolutely free. Imagine having enough free time to do whatever you wouldlike: to create, to travel, to volunteer, to learn, to help others, to enjoy your life. But you might ask, “if humans don’t do thework how will the work get done?” The appropriate application of technology can at this very moment allow for theautomation of laborious and banal tasks that are on all accounts a waste of human potential. Almost all problems in theworld relating to humans’ basic needs (shelter, food & clothing, etc.) are technical in nature. And, any problem that istechnical in nature can be solved through the application of the scientific method and automated by technology. There is notechnical job that could not be automated and performed by computers, robots, or machines that we have right now. Nomatter how mundane, redundant, or technical the work may be, machines are capable of doing every job imaginable. Moneyis used as a means of compensating labor contributions. If all banal labor contributions are done by machines then again,there is no need for money. Truly, it is morally wrong not to replace banal human labor (servitude) with machines wheneverand wherever possible. Technology has progressed to the point where economies based on barter, servitude, and money arerendered unnecessary.THE MISSION OF THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT is to spread awareness of a
Resource Based Economy (RBE)
and theapplication of the scientific method for social change. The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not