One of the first steps to implementing a resource based economy - according to The Zeitgeist Movement's steps - would be to declare all resources the property of all humanity, not the property of greedy corporations.
Occupy Wall Street is beginning to do just that. They're saying "This belongs to the People! This land - this city - this government - belong to THE PEOPLE, not to greedy bankers and corporations to dole it out to us in return for our slavery."
That's the first step.....
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
How to move forward with Occupy Wall street
A message from Peter Joseph to Occupy Wall
OWS already has support in most cities. Taking this advice from a movement that went worldwide in only a couple years can help OWS meet its goals.
Select a representative from each city.
Meet with OWS organizers and outline specific goals that you want to see met that you feel will change the current system.
Meet with the folks now in charge IN A PUBLIC, LIVE and TELEVISED FORUM. This will make your demands heard by not only those in power, but the people. Demand that all media be there, that would leaders be there, that nothing will be censored.
Right now you're still being largely ignored and ridiculed by the mainstream media.
THIS IS HOW YOU GO LIVE.
OWS already has support in most cities. Taking this advice from a movement that went worldwide in only a couple years can help OWS meet its goals.
Select a representative from each city.
Meet with OWS organizers and outline specific goals that you want to see met that you feel will change the current system.
Meet with the folks now in charge IN A PUBLIC, LIVE and TELEVISED FORUM. This will make your demands heard by not only those in power, but the people. Demand that all media be there, that would leaders be there, that nothing will be censored.
Right now you're still being largely ignored and ridiculed by the mainstream media.
THIS IS HOW YOU GO LIVE.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
What sucks the most...
.... these banks, and Wall Street folk, who make a killing in the Stock Exchange, who look down on people that can't find a job, that protest because they have no health care, that don't know where their next meal is coming from.... These money shufflers are rich because they shuffle money.
That's it.
They create Nothing.
They manufacture Nothing.
They cure Nothing.
They build Nothing.
They feed No one.
They house No one.
They clothe No one.
THEY CONTRIBUTE NOTHING!
Yet they are rewarded more than any other human on the planet.
How screwed up does a system have to be that rewards such people when there are millions who can't contribute because they aren't given the opportunity - because the corporation owners control the resources, control the food, and hold people's homes for ransom?
That's it.
They create Nothing.
They manufacture Nothing.
They cure Nothing.
They build Nothing.
They feed No one.
They house No one.
They clothe No one.
THEY CONTRIBUTE NOTHING!
Yet they are rewarded more than any other human on the planet.
How screwed up does a system have to be that rewards such people when there are millions who can't contribute because they aren't given the opportunity - because the corporation owners control the resources, control the food, and hold people's homes for ransom?
Monday, October 17, 2011
Create a Zeitgeist Corporation? Using money against itself.
I joined the Sacramento Chapter of TZM a while ago, as I probably will end up joining many other cities' chapters just to better keep up on what folks are doing at local levels. There are some brilliant people out there and their ideas should be spread throughout all chapters, not just their own local chapter, simply because some chapters are still too small to really act upon their ideas.
With this belief in mind, and having read Kirby Armstrong's "Proposal for Action", I feel it's important to share his idea and see what kind of response it gets.
http://tzmsacramento.groupsite.com/discussion/topic/show/511631#message_715428
It proposes that we start a corporation where no one owns more than 10,000 shares at a dollar a share, so we can invest some of our money into this corporation and begin building it to support ourselves and further our goals for a resource based economy.
I can see TZM'ers pissing themselves already at the thought of tainting TZM with money and even calling ourselves a "corporation", but consider this...
We live in a monetary system. We cannot operate outside this system. Right now, we're giving our money to a system that exploits us and it's people for every nickel it can get.
Let me take this a few steps further - maybe into fantasy land...
We advertise on Craigslist to get a large group of people who have education they can't use because there aren't any jobs, who have lost their homes to banks, and we all get together and buy into this corporation and get some farmland. We build earthships, cob homes, strawbale homes, invest in a solar power grid and some wind power - heck even some pedal power to generate electricity. We buy a few cars that we share.
Now we've eliminated mortgage/rent utilities and car payments.
We plant food in every nook and cranny on the property that will grow food - even the roofs (where there are no solar grids). We get WiFi internet and share it. We convert the cars to electric using motors from old forklifts we buy from foreclosed warehouses.
Now we have nothing left to spend our money on but our own projects. All our inventions are patented under the corporation and then release under creative commons to draw in more professionals. All profit goes into buying more land, more power systems, and doing the same thing til we've pretty much taken over the world.
OK, it won't be as easy as that, but you catch my drift. The possibilities are pretty extreme once we've eliminated the need to feed the system and taken care of all our basic needs.
I would guess all potential members would need to first familiarize themselves with the TZM orientation guide and the workings of the Venus Project in order to become accepted as members. Adhering to the current mindset of a monetary system would be completely counterproductive to this endeavor. Rules and financial transactions and records would all need to be completely transparent to all members at all times to stave off temptation from any latent greed that might still have not been completely weeded out of our systems.
We all understand, as it has been drummed into us from the start by anyone who opposes TZM that the transition will not be an easy one. Do we want to wait around and hope that Occupy Wall Street creates a class war? Do we want to wait til the monetary system collapses and we're all fighting off bands of marauders stealing the last scraps of a dead world? Do we want to sit around and bitch about why no one is doing anything?
Personally, I'd rather at least TRY this. The worst that could happen is we could all join together for a common cause and meet some very cool people. So hit that link above, read the idea, comment on it if you can expand on it. If you don't like the idea, move on or come up with one of your own. There's just no point wasting your time - and especially ours - bashing it. Go do your own thing. It's not a popularity contest - it's a brainstorm. The worst that could happen? It could fail, and we could walk away with new knowledge. The best? We could actually get this ball rolling!
With this belief in mind, and having read Kirby Armstrong's "Proposal for Action", I feel it's important to share his idea and see what kind of response it gets.
http://tzmsacramento.groupsite.com/discussion/topic/show/511631#message_715428
It proposes that we start a corporation where no one owns more than 10,000 shares at a dollar a share, so we can invest some of our money into this corporation and begin building it to support ourselves and further our goals for a resource based economy.
I can see TZM'ers pissing themselves already at the thought of tainting TZM with money and even calling ourselves a "corporation", but consider this...
We live in a monetary system. We cannot operate outside this system. Right now, we're giving our money to a system that exploits us and it's people for every nickel it can get.
Do we really want to continue to do that?
We are buying food from Monsatan, clothes from Waltard, houses built with the cheapest materials possible for the most amount they can squeeze out of it (whatever the market will bear). Do you really want to continue to support the very corporations you want to see gone?
Me neither
So after reading Kirby's idea, I thought - maybe one corporation would have a hard time building up to a point where we can begin living self-sustainably, but....
- What if we did this in every city? What if every city had a similar 'corporation' with the exact same rules, each with an apartment building - or groups of buildings - from which they operated and housed members who wished to live there?
- What if each of these 'corporations' merged into one giant corporation and small 'franchises'?
- What if someone in one city could add his shares to a project in another city?
- What if we actively recruited 'out-of-work' scientists and engineers and chemists (I'm sure they're out there) to collectively invest in their own ideas?
See where this is going?
Now before you go sci-fi/illuminati on me, keep in mind these facts:
- There is no CEO in this 'corporation'
- There are no 'bosses' in this 'corporation'
- Anyone who wants to work on any idea invests his/her own time and money into the ideas.
- Profit from this 'corporation' goes first directly into expanding the real estate of this 'corporation' for more members to work, carry out their ideas, and possibly live, if they don't want to pay outrageous rent and/or mortgages.
- All 'costs' for anything created by the 'corporation' would be minimal to it's members, and market value to non-members - the latter generating both more money to invest in more facilities, and incentive for non-members to become members.
Let me take this a few steps further - maybe into fantasy land...
We advertise on Craigslist to get a large group of people who have education they can't use because there aren't any jobs, who have lost their homes to banks, and we all get together and buy into this corporation and get some farmland. We build earthships, cob homes, strawbale homes, invest in a solar power grid and some wind power - heck even some pedal power to generate electricity. We buy a few cars that we share.
Now we've eliminated mortgage/rent utilities and car payments.
We plant food in every nook and cranny on the property that will grow food - even the roofs (where there are no solar grids). We get WiFi internet and share it. We convert the cars to electric using motors from old forklifts we buy from foreclosed warehouses.
Now we have nothing left to spend our money on but our own projects. All our inventions are patented under the corporation and then release under creative commons to draw in more professionals. All profit goes into buying more land, more power systems, and doing the same thing til we've pretty much taken over the world.
OK, it won't be as easy as that, but you catch my drift. The possibilities are pretty extreme once we've eliminated the need to feed the system and taken care of all our basic needs.
I would guess all potential members would need to first familiarize themselves with the TZM orientation guide and the workings of the Venus Project in order to become accepted as members. Adhering to the current mindset of a monetary system would be completely counterproductive to this endeavor. Rules and financial transactions and records would all need to be completely transparent to all members at all times to stave off temptation from any latent greed that might still have not been completely weeded out of our systems.
We all understand, as it has been drummed into us from the start by anyone who opposes TZM that the transition will not be an easy one. Do we want to wait around and hope that Occupy Wall Street creates a class war? Do we want to wait til the monetary system collapses and we're all fighting off bands of marauders stealing the last scraps of a dead world? Do we want to sit around and bitch about why no one is doing anything?
Personally, I'd rather at least TRY this. The worst that could happen is we could all join together for a common cause and meet some very cool people. So hit that link above, read the idea, comment on it if you can expand on it. If you don't like the idea, move on or come up with one of your own. There's just no point wasting your time - and especially ours - bashing it. Go do your own thing. It's not a popularity contest - it's a brainstorm. The worst that could happen? It could fail, and we could walk away with new knowledge. The best? We could actually get this ball rolling!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
It's like monkeys.......
.... like when one monkey figures out that if you pick up wheat from the sand and throw it in the water, the sand sinks and the wheat floats, so you can eat the wheat without getting a bunch of sand in your mouth.
Pretty soon, a few other monkeys see the first monkey do that and follow suit. Then soon, all the monkeys are doing the same thing because they see that the first monkeys are successful at getting yummy food.
Corporations have used this same "monkey see monkey do" technique for decades. They create TV commercials showing happy people being happy and successful buying their product and living the lifestyles they portray, and just like the monkeys watching the first monkey separating the sand from the wheat, they mimic what they perceive to be success.
Ghandi said "Be the change you want to see in the world". This is because when you become the person you want to be, and are successful in attaining true happiness, people who see that will mimic you. You can preach to folks til you're green in the face, but people, ultimately, will only change when they see something actually work, when they see the end results.
Problem is, you are competing with 24/7/365 corporate TV/Radio/Internet propaganda constantly feeding people a false illusion of success. TV shows, sitcoms, movies, all are written to show people engaging in a certain lifestyle, namely, a corporate projected lifestyle, wearing certain type clothing, turning their yards into grass instead of gardens, living in energy wasting homes that don't utilize any sustainable energy systems, driving gas guzzling SUVs, going out to restaurants and clubs all the time instead of cooking healthy meals, all this subliminal suggestion showing how your life should be lived. All this is so subtle that most people aren't even aware of it, and it creates a standard in your subconscious mind that this is what everyone else is doing and you certainly don't want to be singled out of the herd or you'd be open to slaughter from the lions or worse - shunned by your peers.
The latest trend now is to locate people who don't follow a corporate projected lifestyle and make fun of them. TV shows like Hoarders, Intervention, Jerry Springer, all focus on outrageous lifestyles no one would want to follow. The shared mockery of these people reinforces the corporate projected lifestyle as being the preferred lifestyle, by getting people to identify with other corporate projected lifestyle followers to "gang up" on the strange lifestyle they saw on TV the night before, secure in the notion that they, like their peers, are following the preferred lifestyle. It also serves to make these same people afraid to deviate too much from the corporate projected lifestyle for fear again of being shunned, ridiculed or mocked.
On a side note - this mocking of people who are 'different' and who don't follow the status quo has been rampant in schools for decades also. Children follow their parents' lead, and "peer policing" becomes another way in which people are kept in line from an early age to maintain the corporate projected lifestyle and squelch free thinking.
Fox News especially uses this technique in their coverage of news stories that their corporate sponsors, and specifically, Rupert Murdock, disapprove of. Behavior that is counter to the corporate projected lifestyle is quickly ridiculed and portrayed as counter to the preferred lifestyle, swiftly quelling any notion the participating viewer may have of accepting those views. They'll cover something like the Occupy Wall Street movement and refer to them all a bunch of homeless smelly bums, or Zeitgeist Movement members as cult members or marxists. Regular viewers of Fox News eventually identify with the newscasters the same way Hoarders and Jerry Springer watchers identify with each other as members of "the herd", thus feeling safe from attack because they are part of a large, protective mass that is 'in power', therefore, 'successful'. Mimicking the 'successful' media, then, becomes the "monkey see, monkey do" survival technique that has been reinforced in humans since our arboreal days.
Once these manipulations are recognized, though, it's difficult to ignore them, and they'll begin to appear in a lot of places you haven't noticed them before. It becomes like the "Emporer's New Clothes", or like the first time you can finally "see" the "Magic Eye" 3D effect. You start seeing through the manipulations and it's like a light coming on.
Unfortunately, the first thing most people do when you turn on the light is close their eyes.
Relying on logic, on recognizing what truly makes you happy, recognizing true success, trusting your instincts and living your own way, you can become the change you want to see in the world. Just be patient though. There is a lot of competition out there. Movements like The Zeitgeist Movement and Occupy Wall Street can help to bring people together who see this, and supporting their events shows the followers of the corporate projected lifestyle that the false illusion of the corporations' commercialism is there to manipulate them.
Supporting these movements gives them a new monkey to follow - one that actually cares about them.
Pretty soon, a few other monkeys see the first monkey do that and follow suit. Then soon, all the monkeys are doing the same thing because they see that the first monkeys are successful at getting yummy food.
Corporations have used this same "monkey see monkey do" technique for decades. They create TV commercials showing happy people being happy and successful buying their product and living the lifestyles they portray, and just like the monkeys watching the first monkey separating the sand from the wheat, they mimic what they perceive to be success.
Ghandi said "Be the change you want to see in the world". This is because when you become the person you want to be, and are successful in attaining true happiness, people who see that will mimic you. You can preach to folks til you're green in the face, but people, ultimately, will only change when they see something actually work, when they see the end results.
Problem is, you are competing with 24/7/365 corporate TV/Radio/Internet propaganda constantly feeding people a false illusion of success. TV shows, sitcoms, movies, all are written to show people engaging in a certain lifestyle, namely, a corporate projected lifestyle, wearing certain type clothing, turning their yards into grass instead of gardens, living in energy wasting homes that don't utilize any sustainable energy systems, driving gas guzzling SUVs, going out to restaurants and clubs all the time instead of cooking healthy meals, all this subliminal suggestion showing how your life should be lived. All this is so subtle that most people aren't even aware of it, and it creates a standard in your subconscious mind that this is what everyone else is doing and you certainly don't want to be singled out of the herd or you'd be open to slaughter from the lions or worse - shunned by your peers.
The latest trend now is to locate people who don't follow a corporate projected lifestyle and make fun of them. TV shows like Hoarders, Intervention, Jerry Springer, all focus on outrageous lifestyles no one would want to follow. The shared mockery of these people reinforces the corporate projected lifestyle as being the preferred lifestyle, by getting people to identify with other corporate projected lifestyle followers to "gang up" on the strange lifestyle they saw on TV the night before, secure in the notion that they, like their peers, are following the preferred lifestyle. It also serves to make these same people afraid to deviate too much from the corporate projected lifestyle for fear again of being shunned, ridiculed or mocked.
On a side note - this mocking of people who are 'different' and who don't follow the status quo has been rampant in schools for decades also. Children follow their parents' lead, and "peer policing" becomes another way in which people are kept in line from an early age to maintain the corporate projected lifestyle and squelch free thinking.
Fox News especially uses this technique in their coverage of news stories that their corporate sponsors, and specifically, Rupert Murdock, disapprove of. Behavior that is counter to the corporate projected lifestyle is quickly ridiculed and portrayed as counter to the preferred lifestyle, swiftly quelling any notion the participating viewer may have of accepting those views. They'll cover something like the Occupy Wall Street movement and refer to them all a bunch of homeless smelly bums, or Zeitgeist Movement members as cult members or marxists. Regular viewers of Fox News eventually identify with the newscasters the same way Hoarders and Jerry Springer watchers identify with each other as members of "the herd", thus feeling safe from attack because they are part of a large, protective mass that is 'in power', therefore, 'successful'. Mimicking the 'successful' media, then, becomes the "monkey see, monkey do" survival technique that has been reinforced in humans since our arboreal days.
Once these manipulations are recognized, though, it's difficult to ignore them, and they'll begin to appear in a lot of places you haven't noticed them before. It becomes like the "Emporer's New Clothes", or like the first time you can finally "see" the "Magic Eye" 3D effect. You start seeing through the manipulations and it's like a light coming on.
Unfortunately, the first thing most people do when you turn on the light is close their eyes.
Relying on logic, on recognizing what truly makes you happy, recognizing true success, trusting your instincts and living your own way, you can become the change you want to see in the world. Just be patient though. There is a lot of competition out there. Movements like The Zeitgeist Movement and Occupy Wall Street can help to bring people together who see this, and supporting their events shows the followers of the corporate projected lifestyle that the false illusion of the corporations' commercialism is there to manipulate them.
Supporting these movements gives them a new monkey to follow - one that actually cares about them.
Friday, October 14, 2011
How to win an argument about TZM...
First - stay REALLY cool.
Always CHECK yourself.
Tighten the muscles around your solar plex as tightly as you can. Do so while relaxing your face muscles.
When they say "How do you plan to deal with "blahblahblah", always - ALWAYS - ask "Well how do you deal with it now?"
When they ask "Well who will decide blahblahblah? Ask them "Who decides now? And why do THEY get to decide? Do YOU have a say? Really?" ...and continue to bring up things like "Did YOU vote to give all that money to the banks?" and "did YOU vote to drop radioactive bombs spiked with plutonium?"
Always make them look at the way things are handled now, show them how little power they actually have in this system
Then - and ONLY then - offer TZM's solution.
Familiarize yourself with TZM's orientation guide
Watch the movie if you don't retain reading material well.
Make sure you know your stuff before you start talking, or they'll squash you like a bug.
Remember - KEEP YOUR AB MUSCLES TIGHT.
I don't know why it works but it really keeps your emotions in check, and emotionalism is not what TZM is about. It's about logic, science, and love.
Hope that helps.
So.... What can you do? Here's what I do.
I have a Google alert for "Zeitgeist Movement" pop into my Gmail "as it happens" and anytime I see a post on a blog or a news story or video about TZM come into my Gmail I hit the link and read it, and if it merits a response, I post a response, especially if it's a negative article that is completely wrong about our movement.
These articles, blogs, etc are being read by people who already show some from of interest in the subject - otherwise they wouldn't be reading about it. These are the folks we need to talk to - the ones whose attention we already have. Randomly talking to people who haven't heard of the movement is fine. but pulling folks over to our side of the fence who are on the fence already, or clinging to the other side of the fence, and trying to get them to make an actual argument against the movement can help them make a more intelligent decision about whether to accept TZM's view on things or not.
Once I've made a comment on a blog, a post, or a news article, I share that comment on my Facebook. People love to read other people's mail. Doesn't hurt to actually SAY who you are by sharing your FB info, nothing's private anymore anyway. it gives you more credibility and gives your response more merit than being anonymous.
You can also share the article on all your other social media. I intend to begin sharing them on my blog. I just posted a comment on an article about TZM being s "fringe group" "infiltrating" OWS from a Tucson newspaper - and I live in Ohio.
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2011/10/14/occupy-tucson-starts-saturday-9-am-armory-park&cb=d534a98637069a136a608703fc37a88d&sort=desc#readerComments
You don't have to do everything locally. just get out there, look for the bad articles and defend yourselves. The have no logical argument against our movement. use that.
These articles, blogs, etc are being read by people who already show some from of interest in the subject - otherwise they wouldn't be reading about it. These are the folks we need to talk to - the ones whose attention we already have. Randomly talking to people who haven't heard of the movement is fine. but pulling folks over to our side of the fence who are on the fence already, or clinging to the other side of the fence, and trying to get them to make an actual argument against the movement can help them make a more intelligent decision about whether to accept TZM's view on things or not.
Once I've made a comment on a blog, a post, or a news article, I share that comment on my Facebook. People love to read other people's mail. Doesn't hurt to actually SAY who you are by sharing your FB info, nothing's private anymore anyway. it gives you more credibility and gives your response more merit than being anonymous.
You can also share the article on all your other social media. I intend to begin sharing them on my blog. I just posted a comment on an article about TZM being s "fringe group" "infiltrating" OWS from a Tucson newspaper - and I live in Ohio.
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2011/10/14/occupy-tucson-starts-saturday-9-am-armory-park&cb=d534a98637069a136a608703fc37a88d&sort=desc#readerComments
You don't have to do everything locally. just get out there, look for the bad articles and defend yourselves. The have no logical argument against our movement. use that.
Occupy Columbus / Occupy Wall St
My girl and I attended and took part in Occupy Columbus protest that was held at the High St side of the statehouse on Monday in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests going on in New York. It was fun, and good to be around people who are aware enough to see what's going on in this country. It was unfortunate that there were no other Zeitgeisters there, but we put in a plug for TZM as we photographed our signs (bearing TZM's website), let others photograph and publish our signs on their websites and social media pages, and discussed TZM with other protestors.
While I'm sure many of TZM members feel Occupy Wall Street is just a band-aid, please take into consideration that at the very least, it exposes the corruption in our government to a much larger crowd, leaving them more open to an alternative to what we have now. While the deer are in the headlights is the best time to show them the light. I discussed TZM with a few other people there and, because they already understand the situation with government corruption and corporate influence, they are much more accepting of TZM's goals than the average person. OWS members want alternatives, and we can offer them.
I just hope all of us in TZM will take extra steps to support OWS, to add to their numbers and help legitimize their cause.
While I'm sure many of TZM members feel Occupy Wall Street is just a band-aid, please take into consideration that at the very least, it exposes the corruption in our government to a much larger crowd, leaving them more open to an alternative to what we have now. While the deer are in the headlights is the best time to show them the light. I discussed TZM with a few other people there and, because they already understand the situation with government corruption and corporate influence, they are much more accepting of TZM's goals than the average person. OWS members want alternatives, and we can offer them.
I just hope all of us in TZM will take extra steps to support OWS, to add to their numbers and help legitimize their cause.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
LOL! Just some ZM humor for the day.
Sorry I just had to post this.... and the comment I added to it.
Products of a materialist world.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
7/19/11 Town Hall - Well wirth the watch!
There's some plain English in this video!
It's happening folks.
Peter and other answer some questions from the audience
This first one has an awesome, simple explanation as to how impossible it is for our system to work - showing how there is just not enough money in existence to pay back all the interest on the debt - and that all debt should be null and void.
the continuation answers some good questions.
It's happening folks.
Peter and other answer some questions from the audience
This first one has an awesome, simple explanation as to how impossible it is for our system to work - showing how there is just not enough money in existence to pay back all the interest on the debt - and that all debt should be null and void.
the continuation answers some good questions.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Peter Joseph on Russia Today
What you want to do? what you like to do?
This girl loves being a journalist - loves reporting the news.
She's thinking that in a resource based economy that ability to report the news would be lost and that she wouldn't be allowed to do what she does. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
(update: 9/17/11 - there's a nice "Plain English" article on this here: http://rt.com/usa/news/zeitgeist-world-joseph-society-599/ © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2011. All rights reserved.)
My comment to that would be that "Yes you could report news!"
A resource-based economy has news too. The news would be filled with reports of GOOD news instead of BAD. New inventions! New cures for disease! New toys! And there would be reports on the way society was adapting to the new way of thinking, what was working - what wasn't - and views from various people on how to fix the things that weren't working.
The news she was reporting could be news that actually helped and informed people, rather than subliminally sway their way of thinking to some political end.
Her fears are unwarranted.She would actually have even more freedom to report on things she wants to report on, rather than reporting on things her boss decides for her to report on, because she wouldn't have a boss. In a resource-based economy news wouldn't be filtered by people who wanted to use it to control votes to make money. People would just report what they think people wanted to hear - good or bad.
Without money and politics, there would be no reason to manipulate the news, as no one, even the bearer of the news, would have anything to gain by it. And any reporter would have freedoms they never dreamed of without the restrictions of working in servitude for an editor or boss.
Of course there will be crimes - though without money - there would be little motivation for the usual crimes. Nothing to 'steal', no wars to fight because resources would be shared. No societal pressures created by the fear of 'not getting mine" that drive most crimes of passion. At most, there would be debate over what to do with some resources, even with computers showing the best possible use of materials, those decisions would still have to be made using the data that was entered and taken into account, and there would occasionally be dispute over whether the proper data was included in the process by which a decision was arrived at.
Maybe there'd be the occasional drug addict or alcoholic acting crazy - but public shame and the ability to receive free mental health assistance and rehabilitation should stifle most of that too - at least when you compare it to today, where a good percentage of the homeless are not treated or helped with their mental disorders - because no one has the money. There are people all over the world who want to help these folks but don't have the resources to do so and are stifled by not having the money to get the education to become GOOD mental healers. But in a resource based economy that doesn't waste resources, with free education for all, and an abundance of resources with which to work, these would not be issues for anyone who wanted to be anything, be it to help mentally ill, rehabilitate drug addicts or alcoholics, or whatever. There would be no shortage of help for those who needed it, as the only shortage we have now is caused by money.
It's not, remember, a utopia that's being created here. We're all still going to be human, with human flaws. Even if the reporter in this video were to be the type who enjoys reporting on the suffering of others (yeah, they're out there) I'm sure there will always be human conflict to report on. Just not as much of it.
This girl loves being a journalist - loves reporting the news.
She's thinking that in a resource based economy that ability to report the news would be lost and that she wouldn't be allowed to do what she does. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
(update: 9/17/11 - there's a nice "Plain English" article on this here: http://rt.com/usa/news/zeitgeist-world-joseph-society-599/ © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2011. All rights reserved.)
My comment to that would be that "Yes you could report news!"
A resource-based economy has news too. The news would be filled with reports of GOOD news instead of BAD. New inventions! New cures for disease! New toys! And there would be reports on the way society was adapting to the new way of thinking, what was working - what wasn't - and views from various people on how to fix the things that weren't working.
The news she was reporting could be news that actually helped and informed people, rather than subliminally sway their way of thinking to some political end.
Her fears are unwarranted.She would actually have even more freedom to report on things she wants to report on, rather than reporting on things her boss decides for her to report on, because she wouldn't have a boss. In a resource-based economy news wouldn't be filtered by people who wanted to use it to control votes to make money. People would just report what they think people wanted to hear - good or bad.
Without money and politics, there would be no reason to manipulate the news, as no one, even the bearer of the news, would have anything to gain by it. And any reporter would have freedoms they never dreamed of without the restrictions of working in servitude for an editor or boss.
Of course there will be crimes - though without money - there would be little motivation for the usual crimes. Nothing to 'steal', no wars to fight because resources would be shared. No societal pressures created by the fear of 'not getting mine" that drive most crimes of passion. At most, there would be debate over what to do with some resources, even with computers showing the best possible use of materials, those decisions would still have to be made using the data that was entered and taken into account, and there would occasionally be dispute over whether the proper data was included in the process by which a decision was arrived at.
Maybe there'd be the occasional drug addict or alcoholic acting crazy - but public shame and the ability to receive free mental health assistance and rehabilitation should stifle most of that too - at least when you compare it to today, where a good percentage of the homeless are not treated or helped with their mental disorders - because no one has the money. There are people all over the world who want to help these folks but don't have the resources to do so and are stifled by not having the money to get the education to become GOOD mental healers. But in a resource based economy that doesn't waste resources, with free education for all, and an abundance of resources with which to work, these would not be issues for anyone who wanted to be anything, be it to help mentally ill, rehabilitate drug addicts or alcoholics, or whatever. There would be no shortage of help for those who needed it, as the only shortage we have now is caused by money.
It's not, remember, a utopia that's being created here. We're all still going to be human, with human flaws. Even if the reporter in this video were to be the type who enjoys reporting on the suffering of others (yeah, they're out there) I'm sure there will always be human conflict to report on. Just not as much of it.
Friday, September 2, 2011
For The Noobs
Point 1:
Robots are taking over the world.
That's right. You're most likely out of a job because there's a computer program or a machine that can do it faster than you, better than you, with less errors, no sleep, no breaks, no vacations, no pay, no health insurance coverage, no unions, no safety regulations.
So why the hell would anyone want to hire you?
Point 2:
The other reason you're probably out of a job is because if a corporation can't find a machine to do your job, they go to some poor destitute country where people don't know any better, destroy their self-sustaining way of life, which has fed, housed and clothed them for thousands of years, and force them to accept the monetary system as a way of life, which means working a job to make money to buy food to feed their families, instead of growing their own food. And they'll literally work for peanuts, long hours, with no health coverage, little to no breaks or vacations, and they'll even let kids work.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/04/business/la-fi-robot-retail-20110304
So why the hell would anyone want to hire you?
Point 3:
We have enough resources and technology on this planet to feed, clothe and house every human in the world with only 7000 people maintaining it and no one else working any kind of job. But 1 billion people are starving right now and you're jumping through hoops trying to be able to afford to keep what you have and still feed yourself, working sometimes 2 jobs, if you have any job at all, doing something that a monkey can do.
Point 4:
Quoted from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
"In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth and the top 1% owned 38%. On the other hand, the bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation's wealth.[13] According to this 2006 study by the Federal Reserve System, from 1989 to 2004, the distribution in the United States had been changing with indications there was a greater concentration of wealth held by the top 10% and top 1% of the population.[1] A PBS report by Solman on Aug. 16, 2011 now found that financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth.[2], the 2nd 20 % holds 11%, the third 20 % 4 %. The following figure shows the actual distribution of wealth in the US. The 4th 20% (0.2%) and the Bottom 20% (0.1%) are not visible:"
My guess is that you don't fall within the fortunate percentage of folks that own the most stuff.
The Zeitgeist Movement is an attempt to educate everyone in the world that the monetary system, the system we use all over the world now, of working for money in exchange for stuff, is obsolete. It doesn't work anymore.
And this is why:
Why don't they work?
Another reason technology is slowed down by the monetary system...
This is why everything is shit and ends up in a landfill within a year or so.
If we didn't waste all the materials we use on this shit, we could have PLENTY to give everyone a free cellphone, computer, TV, car, house, anything they wanted, that were the best quality our science can make --- FREE
What to do about it?
First - it won't be easy. The transition will be the hardest.
Gather the scientists and technicians and developers and programmers of the world and start building machines that make machines that make the things we need - like food, shelter and clothing.
Eliminate the entire money system
There's more. LOTS more. But this is the gist of the Zeitgeist Movement.
Go here: http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/
Read the stuff on the left side of the webpage. Some are PDFs. This explains more.
Keep an open mind. YES it sounds far-fetched. But if you went back in time and told your grandparents the shit that was going on now you'd be laughed out of town.
Just read it. It's not gonna happen overnight.
If people blow it off it won't happen in your lifetime.
But at some point in the future, people are going to look back and say "what the hell were those dumbasses thinking letting a bunch of banks and corporations make them jump through hoops just to stay the hell alive?"
Robots are taking over the world.
That's right. You're most likely out of a job because there's a computer program or a machine that can do it faster than you, better than you, with less errors, no sleep, no breaks, no vacations, no pay, no health insurance coverage, no unions, no safety regulations.
So why the hell would anyone want to hire you?
Point 2:
The other reason you're probably out of a job is because if a corporation can't find a machine to do your job, they go to some poor destitute country where people don't know any better, destroy their self-sustaining way of life, which has fed, housed and clothed them for thousands of years, and force them to accept the monetary system as a way of life, which means working a job to make money to buy food to feed their families, instead of growing their own food. And they'll literally work for peanuts, long hours, with no health coverage, little to no breaks or vacations, and they'll even let kids work.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/04/business/la-fi-robot-retail-20110304
So why the hell would anyone want to hire you?
Point 3:
We have enough resources and technology on this planet to feed, clothe and house every human in the world with only 7000 people maintaining it and no one else working any kind of job. But 1 billion people are starving right now and you're jumping through hoops trying to be able to afford to keep what you have and still feed yourself, working sometimes 2 jobs, if you have any job at all, doing something that a monkey can do.
Point 4:
Quoted from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
"In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth and the top 1% owned 38%. On the other hand, the bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation's wealth.[13] According to this 2006 study by the Federal Reserve System, from 1989 to 2004, the distribution in the United States had been changing with indications there was a greater concentration of wealth held by the top 10% and top 1% of the population.[1] A PBS report by Solman on Aug. 16, 2011 now found that financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth.[2], the 2nd 20 % holds 11%, the third 20 % 4 %. The following figure shows the actual distribution of wealth in the US. The 4th 20% (0.2%) and the Bottom 20% (0.1%) are not visible:"
My guess is that you don't fall within the fortunate percentage of folks that own the most stuff.
The Zeitgeist Movement is an attempt to educate everyone in the world that the monetary system, the system we use all over the world now, of working for money in exchange for stuff, is obsolete. It doesn't work anymore.
And this is why:
- You make stuff to make money to buy stuff.
- In order to make stuff cheap enough to make money you have to cut the cost of the materials and labor.
- This results in making cheap stuff.
- The cheap stuff sells, but it's crap and falls apart after a year - sometimes even after a few months.
- The stuff you spent time and money on to make is in the trash filling up landfills within a year.
- All those resources you used making something that's a piece of shit are now wasted.
Why don't they work?
- Because if you make a product that works perfectly, can be upgraded by anyone, and never need repaired, you won't make any money after you've sold it.
- Cars are made with more moving parts than are needed because people who make cars make a LOT of money from selling parts.
- Electric cars were phased out before they began because they lasted, and rarely broke down.
- Things have to break in order to sell more things - companies know this. If it doesn't break, you go out of business.
- They call this cyclical consumption - it creates a cycle. You make a shit product, it breaks, they buy more shit products, you make more money, YOU buy from someone ELSE who make shit products, they make more money, then turn around and buy more shit products from you. ...and the whole system feeds itself and everything is shit.
- There's a saying in the business world that goes "Whatever the market will bear"
- This means they will charge as much as they possibly can for as long as they can until YOU quit buying it.
- Then, once they quit selling a product, they'll spoonfeed you some fancy new technology to get you to throw out the shit they just sold you and buy their new fancy gadget.
- They'll jack up the price as high as they can so only the wealthy can afford it.
- They'll advertise that this is what EVERYONE is getting and having one is a new status symbol (their trick for making you feel inadequate if you don't have their new gadget)
- This spoonfeeding technique is why YOU don't have the latest technological gadgets.
- They're still the same plastic, silicone and metal that the old shit is made out of.
- They still have machines make it faster than you, better than you, with less errors, no sleep, no breaks, no vacations, no pay, no health insurance coverage, no unions, no safety regulations. So that cost isn't a problem
- It's "Whatever the market will bear" that makes those products unavailable to YOU, unless you trade your time and energy to make the money to buy it.
- And what's most absurd is you could have had half this stuff ten years ago! But they make more money if they wait.
Another reason technology is slowed down by the monetary system...
- If you invent something you get a patent so no one else can steal the idea - because then YOU won't get the money for the idea.
- Because you're so afraid of not getting the money, you can't allow people who know more about your type of invention in on developing it, so it doesn't get developed to it's full potential - and is in danger of becoming just another piece of shit.
- Only people who have enough money to go to school to learn how to create the new technology can make new inventions.
This is why everything is shit and ends up in a landfill within a year or so.
If we didn't waste all the materials we use on this shit, we could have PLENTY to give everyone a free cellphone, computer, TV, car, house, anything they wanted, that were the best quality our science can make --- FREE
What to do about it?
First - it won't be easy. The transition will be the hardest.
- Everyone FIRST has to be educated. They have to learn that materials aren't scarce, they're wasted. There's plenty everywhere, it's just being hoarded and turned into trash.
- Once everyone in the world understands that there ARE plenty of resources and that they can be managed responsibly, and that EVERYONE will benefit from using them wisely, we can begin to work towards taking materials OUT of the hands of greedy corporations and start making things OURSELVES.
- We need to make education free. All colleges do is tell you to read books, talks about the books, take tests that prove you read and understand the books, then give you a piece of paper saying you read all the books. We can pre-record classes and post them on the internet - for free - free access - for everyone. Anything you want to learn goes up online.
Imagine all the brilliant minds that can't afford college! Now imagine them getting education for free - the things they can invent that will benefit us all!
Gather the scientists and technicians and developers and programmers of the world and start building machines that make machines that make the things we need - like food, shelter and clothing.
- By building the machines that make the machines that build first, we'll have faster, more efficient production of the things we need - because we'll have more machines to do the building.
- We can create machines that can spit out a house in a day, using a fraction of the resources we use now for a single mobile home.
- We can spread these machines all over the world and start feeding, clothing and housing everyone ASAP
- So those who want to can educate themselves and work together to create better things
- So everyone can communicate what they need
- So a database can be created cataloging all the materials that exist and where they are, so we know what we have the materials to make.
- So everyone can have a say as to what should be done, what should be made, how things should be made, and can work and communicate together to get it done.
Eliminate the entire money system
- Yes - it means no one will have to work
- But people volunteer every day - even if they have jobs. Millions of people volunteer for millions of services. Firemen are mostly volunteer in small communities. Habitat for humanity, the peace corp. Imagine how many MORE would volunteer if they didn't need a job and all their basic needs were met.
- Retirees work harder after they retire than when they had a job. Ask them!
- You'll have time to help in areas that you want to in order to make your OWN life better.
- You can feed yourself by growing your own food
- You can study what you WOULD have gone to college for, if you could have afforded it.
- You'll want to help just for the simple fact that it will help YOU.
There's more. LOTS more. But this is the gist of the Zeitgeist Movement.
Go here: http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/
Read the stuff on the left side of the webpage. Some are PDFs. This explains more.
Keep an open mind. YES it sounds far-fetched. But if you went back in time and told your grandparents the shit that was going on now you'd be laughed out of town.
Just read it. It's not gonna happen overnight.
If people blow it off it won't happen in your lifetime.
But at some point in the future, people are going to look back and say "what the hell were those dumbasses thinking letting a bunch of banks and corporations make them jump through hoops just to stay the hell alive?"
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