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The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is a grassroots movement and online community. It describes itself as a sustainability advocacy organization, and is the official activist arm of The Venus Project founded by industrial designer and social engineer Jacque Fresco. The Zeitgeist Movement was inspired by the social response from Peter Joseph's film Zeitgeist: Addendum, sequel to Zeitgeist: The Movie. It was Zeitgeist: Addendum which first introduced the Venus Project. A third film was released in theaters globally on January 15, 2011 and on the internet on the 25th called Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, which focuses on human behavior, technology, and rationality.

Concepts advocated by the Zeitgeist Movement

The core idea advocated by TZM is an anti-capitalist system, replacing current civilization with a money-free and cybernated "resource-based economy". They promote replacing human labour with automation, government will be through collective participation of the public, aided by advanced cybernation. According to the movement, there will be no decision-making process, decisions are arrived at by using the scientific method, based on the carrying capacity of the Earth, rather than human opinions. The replacement of human decision making by artificial intelligence is termed 'Social Cybernation'. Private property will not be abolished, but it will be become obsolete as culture grows, being replaced by "a system of universal access".

Activities and publications

Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)

The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual "Z-Day" in March. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009 and the second on March 13, 2010. On this day, the Zeitgeist Movement has local gatherings to learn and share information with all interested individuals. In 2009 there were more than 450 events held in 70 countries around the world. In 2009, among other events, Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco spoke to a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours. The third Z-Day was on March 13, 2011. Peter Joseph and others spoke to a sold-out audience of 1100 at "Friends House" in Euston, London.

Media Project

According to a press release circulated to members on May 12, 2010, the Zeitgeist Media Project (ZMP) Beta was released. According to the press release the Media Project is an extension of the Communications Team.

Chapters

The Zeitgeist Movement members are organized into country/regional, state and city "sub"-chapters. Each chapter/sub-chapter is hosted and maintained independently on its own domain, or in sub-domains from the Zeitgeist Movement's main site. The chapters are coordinated by individuals or groups of individuals who are well-versed in the movement's tenets and direction and have chosen to donate their time to help further its current goals. According to the Zeitgeist Movement July 2010 Newsletter, the Zeitgeist Movement has 46 official country chapters over 200 regional sub-chapters internationally. This includes all 50 official U.S. state chapters.

Radio address

Peter Joseph, the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, delivers a weekly radio address (on hiatus as of 2011) broadcast every Wednesday on BlogTalkRadio. These broadcasts discuss the progress of the Zeitgeist Movement, hold interviews with various relevant personalities, provide information for the Zeitgeist Movement's chapters, and answer questions sent in by listeners/members. There are two other BlogTalkRadio shows that discuss the Zeitgeist Movement, a resource-based economy and the Venus Project. One is Z Radio, a weekly broadcast co-hosted by Thunder and Franklee, and produced by Shawn Hodgins. The other, known as V-Radio, is hosted by Neil Kiernan Stephenson (aka Liz, aka Brittany Smith, aka Leveer Silverleaf, aka VTV).

Reception

Media reviews

On April 30, 2009, Rhonda Swan of the Palm Beach Post wrote:

Who can argue with such a movement? What we have never has worked for the benefit of society as a whole. How much longer can we really expect it to last? Isn't keeping our current system and expecting something different from what it's always given us insanity?

— Palm Beach Post

On March 17, 2009, Alan Feuer of the New York Times wrote:

"The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his “Imagine” days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life.

— New York Times

From the same article:

"If this sounds vaguely like a disaster scenario out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mr. Fresco did not seem worried in the least. Machines are unemotional and unaggressive, unlike human beings, he told the crowd during the question-and-answer phase. “If you took your laptop and smashed it in front of 50 other laptops, trust me, none of them would care.”

See also

• Scientism
• Post scarcity
• Millenarianism

References

1. Copyright
2. "thezeitgeistmovement.com – Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
3. "The Zeitgeist Movement Website". The Zeitgeist Movement. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
4. The Zeitgeist Movement Public Forum, Radio Address, Full Q & As (from Peter), available at http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=1905&func=showcat&catid=232. Retrieved on 2009-05-31
5. ^ Feuer, Alan (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times.
6. Jacque Fresco "Construction", The Venus Project
7. Zeitgeist India FAQ
8. The Zeitgeist Movement FAQ
9. Jacque Fresco "City Systems", Cybernetic Government The Venus Project
10. Peter Joseph "The Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Guide", page 69.
11. "What is Zday".
12. Alan Feuer (March 16, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
13. http://www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com
14. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=492&Itemid=1908
15. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/July2010NL.pdf
16. "The Zeitgeist Movement Website". The Zeitgeist Movement. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
17. "V-Radio".
18. Rhonda Swan (April 30, 2009). "COLUMN: A dream worth having". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved May 4, 2009.

External links

• Official Website
• Zday 2010 Review
• Zday 2009 Review by New York Times
• The Venus Project

• Social movements
• Zeitgeist