Name: Zeitgeist Day 2013: Sharleen Bazeghi | "Introduction to The Zeitgeist Movement" [Part 1 of 11]
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It's my pleasure to introduce the first speaker.

Adverbs of manner

She is somebody who I personally have a lot of respect and admiration for.

she leads and motivates the team in organizing events such as this one.

Please, put your hands together for Sharleen Bazeghi.

Hello, good afternoon. Thank you for being with us here

for the 5th Annual Zeitgeist Day. How're you all feeling? [claps hands]

[applause] Good! We want to give a special acknowledgement

to our global audience watching around the world. Thank you for tuning in.

My name is Sharleen Bazeghi, and I've been with The Zeitgeist Movement since 2010,

assisting mostly with event planning for global and Los Angeles events.

Today, however, I'm going to present a brief introduction to The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM),

and hopefully set the tone for the rest of the program.

With almost a dozen speakers, we have tried our best to unify this message as a whole.

It is our intention [that] by the end of the program,

you will have a clear and concise understanding about what TZM is and how it operates.

Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM for short),

which operates through a network of regional chapters,

projects, public events, and media expressions.

We also promote charity operations and other acts of kindness,

However, it's important to note, that is not the core focus of TZM.

The entire point of the Movement is to resolve such issues

so these acts of charity are no longer needed.

Our activism is based on non-violent methods of communication,

with the core focus on educating the public about the true root sources

of many common personal, social and ecological problems today,

coupled with the vast problem-solving and humanity-improving

potential science and technology available that goes unapplied,

due to barriers inherent in the current established system.

While the term activism is correct by its exact meaning here,

TZM's awareness work should not be misconstrued

as the culturally-common activist/protest actions we have historically seen.

Rather, TZM expresses itself mostly through targeted education projects

that work to set in motion a train of thought that is logically self-realizing.

TZM's pursuits are actually very similar to civil rights movements of the past,

in that they reveal the oppression inherent in our current social order.

which structurally and sociologically restrict human well-being,

the vast majority of the world's population unnecessarily suffers.

Today, it could be said there exists in the modern world a form of bigotry,

which is no less insidious than racial or gender discrimination.

This comes in the form of economics, at its core.

This bigotry is apparent in the class war alive today,

as different groups of people jockey for advantage,

perfectly willing to forgo the well-being of others

in the incentive psychology inherent to the competitive market economy.

However, this inherent bigotry is really only part of a larger condition,

which could be termed 'structural violence',

illuminating a broad spectrum of built-in deprivation and inhumanity

that is simply accepted as normality today by an uninformed majority.

The bottom line here, is that when we step back and consider realities

that are clearly having detrimental effects on the human condition,

we inevitably end up in the context of civil rights and hence, social sustainability.

This new civil rights movement is not only about the sharing of human knowledge

and our technical ability to resolve problems,

but more so, to facilitate a new, scientifically-derived social system

that actually optimizes our well-being, rather than restrict it.

The fact is, anything less will create imbalance

and is simply a hidden form of oppression.

So, TZM works not only to create awareness of such problems

and their true systemic roots, it also works to express the potential we have

to greatly improve the human condition in general.

the application of the scientific method for social concern.

This is about a train of thought, a worldview.

We're not here to impose a set of ideas on you,

or get you to join the movement as a club, per se;

rather it is about you deciding the merit and logic for yourself,

so that you can adjust your own actions and intentions accordingly.

In fact, in many ways, we are all in TZM, whether we know it or not,

since each of us are receiving, morphing and transmitting data

creating a constant evolution of the zeitgeist itself.

The question is, are we as a species moving in the right direction,

Yes, it exists, in our alignment with the natural laws of our world,

building our values and social approaches from these core truths

about what it means to be human and live in the habitat we do.

Take a look at the current monetary-market economy and ask yourself

Is built-in scarcity, imbalance, obsolescence, waste, pollution,

constant consumption the intelligent management of the Earth's resources?

At this rate, are we exceeding the carrying capacity of the Earth?

A term you will hear frequently today is the gesture of a new social system

called a Natural-Law/Resource-Based Economy

A NLRBE is defined as an adaptive, socioeconomic system,

actively derived from direct physical referents

to the governing scientific laws of nature.

And Jen Wilding put together this great graphic,

that I think points out the characteristics very well. Thanks, Jen!

Most people don't realize the current state of technology we have