Name: Peter Joseph, ZDay 2016 "Where we go from here" March 26th, Athens Greece [ The Zeitgeist Movement ]
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Where We Go From Here Peter Joseph ZDay 2016, Athens, Greece

Thank you very much, everybody can hear me OK?

So I really appreciate everybody being here.

Thank you Gilbert for all the hard work. None of this is easy to do.

Thanks to the Greek chapter and of course

all the International folks that have come both to speak

and all of you that have come here in the audience. Very appreciated.

The title of this talk is ‘Where we go from here’

and it is not a transition lecture, even though it may sound like it.

Rather it's an homage to the American civil rights activist

Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, and his final book

‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’

In this work he extends the civil rights context

that's very important to American culture and American history -

from trying to alleviate the mess colonial slavery

drawing attention to the structure that created that slavery:

And while he discusses how the market structure distorts culture,

is foundationally antisocial and unsustainable,

as many people here have talked about thus,

the main theme of the work was the abolition of poverty,

and this builds a little bit on what Rich had to say earlier,

which I'm really glad that he covered certain aspects already.

And I’d like to expand upon this particular theme in this talk,

specifically in regard to public health and social stability.

Of course while King certainly was not the first to criticize capitalism

he brings the issue into a more palpable context as far as I'm concerned.

With tremendous victory behind him in the late 1960's, gaining stature,

global respect winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and so forth,

for him to take this position at that time was quite powerful and radical,

given the extremely antisocialist climate of the period.

Unlike more heady, broad anti-market theorists of the past,

to the 1930’s US organization Technocracy,

which still exists in certain areas of Europe,

specifically seeing the resolution of poverty as not a utopian ideal

but a rational and logical issue of civil or human rights.

And he even did so transcending the issue of race itself

against many other in the community at that time,

in part recognizing that the poor white masses in America

were also victims of the same broad forces,

that being a social system based upon elitism, exploitation,

scarcity and dominance, a system of favoring a small wealthy elite,

while everyone else just fights amongst themselves.

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society

to a person-oriented society. When machines,

profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people,

the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism,

and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?'

(in 1967) And when you begin to ask that question,

you are raising questions about the economic system,

When you ask that question, you begin to question

the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more,

we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”

implementation of a universal guaranteed income as the first step

(as was talked about earlier and excellently so),

to put it in this process of a reconstruction of the entire society.

the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -

the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly

by the now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed Income.”

Sadly upon his death, these newly sought economic rights,

along with his anti-poverty movement and general, basically evaporated,

devoted followers just seemed to give up on it

and sort of satisfied with this sort of political success they have

through voting rights and the like. Today, 50 years later,

it is great to see the conversation return to such things as

and it's a very important step towards improving public health

It may not address the root problem inherent -

the social structure that we all know about -

but it hones in on its most central flaw:

the grand misallocation of wealth and the creation

So, what I'd like to do here today is to explore this logic more deeply,

considering what it means for public health, social stability,

to remove, or come as close to removing, socioeconomic inequality.

To clarify the term, socioeconomic means how economic activity affects

I specifically use it to refer to economically-linked chain reactions,

such as how the economy links to personal, social, political,

and legal consequences, and health consequences as well.

isn't just about imbalance in wealth and income alone,

but the vast range of effects they create:

the various forms of social inequality that can be linked back

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