Name: Peter Joseph's Response to "60 Minutes" / Brooklyn Co.Expo [ The Zeitgeist Movement ]
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to this 60 Minutes Brooklyn College edition news piece

that was put out by a student named Daniel Allen

under the guidance of some individuals from 60 Minutes.

I really enjoyed this piece, I have to be honest

because it really does represent the kind of expectation

we should have when any major media, meaning Western dominant media

will attempt to talk about Zeitgeist and The Zeitgeist Movement.

The very first thing to point out is the explicit non-separation

of the Zeitgeist film series from The Zeitgeist Movement itself.

the author of the work actually knows the difference but chose to take

the more commercial route (meaning the more mainstream avenue)

which utilizes sensationalism to capture its audience.

Let's remember that 60 Minutes, Fox News, these are entertainment venues.

They also have an agenda to push with a very fundamental association

at how it contradicted itself in a certain strategy

so it would enable itself to take both my movie and analyze it

while unfortunately still meshing the two together

I also wanted to take this opportunity to quickly address

a lot of the common assumptions of this work

which I usually don't have time to address

because of how minor they really are in my mind.

But because of the issue of religion, because the issue

of the Jared Loughner incident and other things keep arising

(usually with those who have an axe to grind)

you can rest assured that those controversial notions

if they ever chose to pay attention to us.

I'm going to take this opportunity to also quickly address

Zeitgeist: It's a word you may have heard before.

Its origins are German, and if you've ever used it in a sentence

you know it refers to the spirit of the age.

What you may not know is that it's also the name

of a worldwide social movement spawned from a trilogy

of documentary films released on the Internet.

The goal of the movement is to live in a world without money

and to use technology to provide for basic human needs.

While their membership is explicitly non-violent

some of their ideas in their movies might make you uncomfortable.

(Joseph) The initial introduction was perfectly acceptable overall

but then he immediately jumps into the fallacy of my film association

to 'their' movies, meaning that these films represent The Zeitgeist Movement

not acknowledging that the two films of the current three

existed before The Movement was ever in operation.

One claims that Jesus never really existed

While they admit they don't have all the answers

they're always trying to spread the word to see if they can seduce you

into becoming a member of The Zeitgeist Movement.

(Joseph) And we're off with the completely erroneous definition

of what The Zeitgeist Movement represents which has nothing to do

with religion and nothing to do with 9/11.

Anybody with the diligent sense of research

could go to the FAQ of thezeitgeistmovement.com

and see the obvious disassociation with my films to the Movement.

They could even go to the Zeitgeist movies film series

my film series website, and see the complete disassociation.

You could also review every moment and every sentence

of all the materials ever put out via lecture and video

to see that absolutely no reference is ever made

If one was to search Youtube for all of our videos

which has about 11,000 returns, those produced by our members

never reference comparative religion or 9/11.

is something that we speak about in our Orientation Guide

regarding functional spirituality, it has nothing to do with the subjects

described in Zeitgeist: The Movie (part one).

The reason the word zeitgeist is used is because of its actual definition.

The Zeitgeist Movement means we are interested in changing

the very cultural climate that seems to be destroying us

and that has to do with a lot of different interwoven notions

about what people believe and why and how they relate to the planet, etc.

It's like saying that The Zeitgeist Movement because of its name association

relates to Google Zeitgeist which is untrue as well.

(Journalist) We wanted to meet some of the estimated half million worldwide Zeitgeisters

While the group spends their Sundays in the park, it's actually not

their most effective recruitment tool. Putting their message online

is what's transformed them into a global phenomenon.

Would-be followers can visit their website and download 3 films

(Joseph) And it is here where the editorial officially divides

as it begins a full treatment on my first film

which again has nothing to do with The Zeitgeist Movement.

and the movement didn't materialize until very late 2008

and early 2009 after the release of Zeitgeist: Addendum.

(Journalist) The films are the work of Peter Joseph.

The musician and filmmaker debuted a performance art piece

Some of the video projections that played behind him

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