The Zeigeist Movement

Hello everyone, don't even know where to start from with this post right here. Guess it's got to be from the very beginning, right? Well, there was a time I was still young and stupid having as only dream to buy a BMW and have a lot of dough, please bear with me, I'm a changed man, now!!!. And one of the reasons that took me there is The Zeitgeist Movement and Peter Joseph (a bit later about him). As I was saying, was stupid back then, but karma probably felt pity on me and blessed my with a viewing of Zeitgeist the movie. An experience which to this date remains one of the most life - changing experiences I had. Strange, right? Especially if you consider the fact that not so many people out there watched it and you can't call this movie a popular one, we can blame the biased nature of media these days for this situation. In fact, I think we can blame the biased nature of our media for many aspects talked over in the movie and project.

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If you haven't watched this movie yet, you should know one important thing first, this movie opens doors which were closed and never to be opened. Doors both in the material and spiritual realm. In fact Zeitgeist touches issues such as religion, politics, society and most important of all - money. It crashed down all ideas I had about liberty, freedom of speech, prospects I had for my future and much more. Crashed, but not in a destructive way. Indeed, I actually had quite a rebirth kind of experience and sort of rebooted my perception of society and mankind. You see, the thing is that many people today, including myself, think that the world evolves in a normal pace and that majority of things going wrong with society today are a normality. For instance what is going on in Africa today or the situation we have with our economy were emphasis is done on competition and exploitation. But is it just the way it is or there are much deeper things involved, maybe the situation can be changed provided we make an effort to change it. Perhaps there will be no need for war as an only means of resolving conflict, or no need for the immense penitentiary complex we have today. I mean when you look at the stats it seems that the whole world is going to end up in prison for one reason or the other. Moreover, there might be something that can be done to remedy the situation we have with disease today. Is it that all diseases are that incurable or like it was shown by Buzynski, it's just a matter of pharmaceutical companies not wanting to produce or back up real breakthroughs in medicine. Why would they want to do that when there are so many lives we can save. The short answer is money, and for no there hasn't been any politician, official, leader who has actually tried to remedy all these issues. Of course you might refer to different political movement like communists, socialists, capitalists and so on, and might even won't to take sides with some of this ideologies, but the thing is that none of them actually addresses the core of the problem which is money. No one except The Zeitgeist Movement.

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As usual I wouldn't go into the details of the production and so on, or about the amazing direction this documentary has, but would rather concentrate on the way I perceived this information. The way it changed my life and opinion on a range of issues. So, money - money - money, that seems to be the issue right? And the thing I found most revealing about this was that the very idea we have about money is wrong. Let me put it this way, when we think about money, we assume that it is the only means we have to trade in an equitable manner, right? We also, for some reason assume that due to the fact that all resources in the world today are limited, there must be a way of controlling access to them, hence money. But what if this was wrong, what if there was an alternative to this status quo, what if we actually live in a world of abundance and there's no need for money at all? Crazy, right? But believe me it is really possible not only to imagine this, but actually create a society like that, provided we make an effort, provided we open up to a higher much more humane realm.

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The claim that The Zeitgeist Movement makes is a simple one. As I said before the claim they seems to make is that humans by their nature are not competitors who are ready to eat each other in order to achieve some personal greatness or what have you. All this might have been true before when there were all this wars and conquerors and when indeed the human race lived in constant lack of food, shelter and so on. But take a look at the society we live in today. Does it really look like a society lacking something? My guess will be that it's not. And take a look at the state our technology is in today, does it look like we still need manual labour with poor remuneration to keep the world going round? I think, no! In fact like it is said in Zeitgeist, I think if we really wanted we could automate almost all manual labour in several years and free people from this monotonous lifestyle and all it leads to and that will be a good thing. This myth that people won't know what to do if they had no work is simply stupid. Why do people go in for guitar lessons on weekends? Is it that they get paid for it? I think no. Or why does a teacher like myself blog about this and that, it's not that I earn money from it, actually I don't, but I still do it. So, perhaps it is possible for people to live on a money free society. 

The same rhetoric goes for almost all aspect of our life and Zeitgeist gives solutions, answering questions which are were left unanswered by modern day politics. I can go on and on about this movie, this experience, but I guess it will be best if you watched it for yourself. Waiting for your feedback. Peace, Love and Unity...