Name: Summary of The Zeitgeist Movement
Uploaded: 2018-11-29T07:55:28.000Z
Duration: 10 min 54 s
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I'm currently the de facto founder of an organization called The Zeitgeist Movement,

which is seeking to alter the current cultural climate, if you will,

into something that can be considered as actually sustainable

for not just one nation or class, but all the world's people.

We live in a paradigm, now, where we have society operating

Therefore, we keep buying and consuming regardless of how many resources we have.

This creates a collision course with nature, which the world is figuring out right about now,

on many levels, that the Earth is essentialy a close system.

It took billions of years to create the minerals we have.

It took many many hundreds of millions of years

to create the fosil fuels which govern everything we have.

And, amazingly enough, we've created this system

to create the economic growth required to sustain employment and everything else.

And simultaneasly, we're diminishing our resources at a near exponential rate,

it seems, as population continues to grow,

and no one seem to understand that it's an absolute clash

and that eventually we're going to run out of pivotal resources,

and eventually you're going to see things, I don't know,

like the human population start to dwindle down.

and I'm going to present the concepts of The Venus Project.

you have to declare all the world's resources

as the common heritage of all the world's people.

All the artificial boundaries have to be removed,

There are many people that feel, "Well, let's develop each country."

You can't do that because if the russians do experiments with nuclear materials,

and the chinese, that air goes all over the world.

So, I would say, if you want these things,

you have to change the way your society operates.

We believe, here at The Venus Project, we are not civilized yet.

As long as you have armies, navies, prisions, police, we are not civilized.

The more we learn, the more we know about the environment and human relation,

the more we're able to deal with the problems.

If we fail to do that, we won't be able to solve problems.

If we go with traditional values, we won't be able to solve problems.

There's always been wars. The wars have continued to get worse,

even though the universities today have the most sofisticated equipment

in the science labs, the arquitectural labs, all the labs...

and the wars are getting worse. Explosions are getting worse.

Since the atom bomb, the explosive power is much worse.

So, there's something definitely wrong with all cultures.

When I say wrong, I mean that the system doesn't work.

Now, to talk about a system that does work is a little foreign to our habits of thought.

I'm going to try to explain how we make decisions...

The only way a real society can operate, period, is in a steady state economy,

meaning you don't have the mechanism of constantly needing to do anything,

other than being sustainable in your every day living,

and having society recognize the attributes of sustainability which are required.

That's the value system orientarion needed to create a stable society.

As a brief extension of this, we live in a materialistic culture,

we live in a culture that's predicated on inferiority

and people thinking that they need more and more and more because of many reasons,

because of someone else having more, status oriented issues, so on and so forth.

And that fuels into this mechanism of the growth economy,

people give each other gifts, these are inventions for economics.

As long as we use money and the bottom line is profit,

then those who control the money are able to make the laws in their favor.

And that means that they really don't care about people.

They care about wealth, property and power, when that is the main incentive.

So, when we use the monetary system, there is no justice within this system,

What we need is an entirely new system that we call a Resource Based Economy.

In regard to social operation and how to create a new society,

or better yet just to say, to create any society that would be sustainable and efficient,

there's really empirical train of thought, if you will, on how to do that.

First of all, you have to think about what the human being actually needs.

We requiere resources at the bare minimum,

we requiere food, water, etcétera, as we all know.

Therefore, resources become the most paramount subject.

Resources in fact should be the foundation of any economic structure.

So, what do you do? If you consider that the Earth is a close finite system.

First thing you have to do is a survey of the Earth's resources

and the carrying capacity of the environment.