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If you review these ideas, no one puts them into practice.
In the end, my disposition on religion is very, very simple:
it's nothing but a bunch of stories. They are allegories that have meaning.
They get distorted through interpretations because that's the nature of semantics.
But I don't want to rule out religion.
I don't think religion should be outlawed or anything like that.
I think it should be understood for what it is.
The problem with humanity is we're ripped apart.
There are far too many ideologies out there that have no basis on anything tangible.
I want this, I wanna make this very, very clear:
all orthodox religions, at least Western religions...
there might be a few elements of Hinduism and Buddhism that are an exception...
but let's just say the Judeo-Christian Islamic system of belief, to me, is no different
than the isms of state associations that we see in our political sphere,
meaning communism, socialism, fascism, capitalism.
These are ideas that have been created that have no relevance to nature whatsoever.
In other words, they have absolutely no relevance to the carrying capacity of the Earth,
to our ability to support ourselves;
to our ability to produce, to the methods of production,
to the methods of distribution;
to the way we orient society and keep ourselves alive and keep ourselves healthy
and prosper, and for the betterment of the...
what I consider to be the organism of the human species, as a single organism.
None of those beliefs have anything to do with any of that,
and that's a problem to me.
For example, the Catholic church, and a lot of other religions
that feed off of those early old testament ideologies,
they advocate this illusion that we can just procreate constantly,
and everyone's going to be fine.
God will take care of everyone.
As of right now, with the future of energy, established energy,
the future of the way we are orienting ourselves on this planet through depletion,
I'm not having any children.
While I try to be as optimistic as possible
with The Zeitgeist Movement and what we could do,
which is phenomenal, what we could do.
As of right now we have some powerful barriers.
I'm not having children. Why?
Why would I say that?
First of all, I wouldn't feel good.
I would feel utterly negligent and irresponsible at this point in time,
to bring in another human being.
Most people when they give birth to children, it's a traditionalized self-serving, established notion where,
"We are going to have kids and a family. To hell with the carrying capacity of the Earth,
to hell with the fact that we might be impoverished."
I mean, you see this in trailer parks all the time.
I used to live in a trailer park. I've seen this countless, countless times.
People don't have any relationship to anything. They have no education,
as far as what makes society work, as far as what the processes are that feed them.
So, they continue to have kids over and over and over again,
or do many, many things that have no relationship to anything.
But let's focus on the children aspect.
For me to bring in a child, is for me to actually say:
"I believe the world will be in good shape for the duration of my child's life."
And then it becomes: "What if my child has a grand child?
Should the world have the integrity to maintain stability for that child as well?"
This is the question.
This is what all parents out there should be asking themselves.
They shouldn't be having children for their own self serving needs
so they can have "a family" and be traditional and show up at church
and have their two kids.
It has to relate to something real.
Humanity has to start thinking about its relationship to the Earth.
Until it does so, we're *** doomed.
We have created a economic structure,
a religious-philosophical structure,
that is absolutely de-coupled from anything tangible and real,
and these ideologies are what will destroy the human species and destroy the planet.
DEBUNKERS
It has become a cottage industry
for people to sell books and DVDs debunking Zeitgeist.
There are people that have full websites that use advertising, sponsorship to make money,
and I find the whole thing just to be amusing frankly.
Zeitgeist 1 is based on pre-existing information.
There isn't one thing in that film that doesn't come from a source.
The most grand debunking aspect is part one, the religion section.
Comparative religion.
It's no mystery. It's been talked about for decades and centuries:
religions have been borrowing from each other.
Religions have to borrow from each other.
Why? Because all information is serial.
All knowledge is serial.
It is illogical to think that any information of any religion is of a novel origin.
And that's the beauty of it in fact, when you trace the source of most established religions,
because they all come back to nature.
They all come back from primitive ideas about natural unfoldings of nature-
storms, the sun obviously.
It's nothing metaphysical. It's nothing esoteric. It's just absolutely obvious.
Is it any mystery that the sun has been idolized as a source of life?
Which it is.
Is it any mystery, for any of that? Obviously not.
PRESENT
As of right now,
we are running out of oil.
We are going to be running out of natural gas.
In fact, very simply, all fosil fuels,
which is the governance of all society;
our entire society is completely created based on fossil fuels,
from the plastics, everything.
I'm not even going to go into it.
Anyone that questions that, just take a moment to think about what oil powers, what fosil fuels power.
From the lights that we all use,
from the coal or natural gas power plants, to what runs your car,
to what comprises the fabric of industrial civilization, is fossil fuels.
And we are provably using them at the rate far exceeding their renewability,
which takes hundreds of millions of years.
No one's thinking about this.
No one is thinking about it because the economic paradigm will not allow it.
The core value of our Western Society today...
I mean, in America, the central motivating value now is nothing but blind consumption.
"Saturdays are for shopping", I heard someone once say.
You know, there's a reason why I used Times Square in Zeitgeist Addendum as the noise,
if you remember there's all the noise on the screens because,
Times Square is the epitome of absolute waste.
The most disgusting angles of humanity.
Materialistic noise.
Humanity cannot survive in a paradigm that requires infinite growth,
which again, is what it's based on.
If you're not familiar with that, think about it.
All we do is buy and consume, and consume, and consume.
That's what makes the economy go.
If people stop buying, the GDP of all countries goes down.
Well, the more we buy, consume and waste our resources,
the faster we extinguish ourselves.
What do you do?
What do you do? How do you stop this?
This is why The Zeitgeist Movement exists.
We have to; one, get a philosophical disposition under our belts that says;
"You know what? We're all on the same page."
"We all have to survive on this planet."
"We are faced with some tremendous problems,
and the only way they are going to be resolved is to begin to work together."
Everyone needs to shed their religious ideas,
and to shed their capitalist, socialist, fascist, communist preconstructs.
They need to shed everything that they have been taught
and ask themselves one simple question:
"What the *** do we need to continue our survival on this planet
without horrors and wars and continuing the patterns of all the things that continue to happen?"
RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY
You know, The Zeitgeist Movement as it's been denoted in all of our materials is the, quote;
"Activist arm of The Venus Project", pushing forward to what we call a "resource-based economy".
A resource-based economy is very, very simple.
It's simply a system that is structured in a, quote;"systems theory approach".
To explain the systems theory approach, all you have to do is to look at the planet itself.
The planet is a holistic system.
So, the first step is very, very simple:
we recognize it as a system and we treat it as such.
We have to start measuring and monitoring all the Earthly resources.
We cannot be so stupid as to give corporations the ability to control,
for their own little clique's betterment,
resources that we all should have an inherent, inherent... deserving err...
Every resource on the planet should be common heritage to all human beings.