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''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (TZM) is a [[501(c) organization|501(c)(3)]] [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit organization]] incorporated in the state of [[California]].<ref>[https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ "THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT (Incorporation details)"], ''businessfilings.sos.ca.gov'',.</ref> It is also a grassroots social movement organized by regional chapters.<ref name="VC">Shane Cohn, [http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ "The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County"], ''vcreporter.com'' December 5, 2011,.</ref><ref>[http://www.tzmchapters.net/ "The Zeitgeist Movement Chapters Portal"], ''tzmchapters.net''.</ref> It was founded by filmmaker [[Peter Joseph]] in 2008.<ref name="HP">Travis Donovan, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future"], ''huffingtonpost.com'' May 25, 2011,.</ref> According to its mission statement it is “a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.”<ref name="HERALD">[http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-build-a-better-future/27800/ "The Zeitgeist Movement: practical advices to build a better future"], ''heralddeparis.com'' March 19, 2009.</ref> It advocates a transformation of society, specifically its economic system, promoting a [[Post-scarcity economy|post-scarcity]] type economic approach often termed a “resource-based economy”.<ref>[http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxOPorto-Peter-Joseph-Arrivin;search%3Apeter%20joseph "TEDxO'Porto - Peter Joseph - Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy"], ''tedxtalks.ted.com''.</ref>
'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' was established in 2008 by [[Peter Joseph]] and advocates a transformation of society and its [[economic system]] to a non monetary system based on resource allocation and environmentalism.

Originally, the ideas were based on a societal model by [[Jacque Fresco]] a [[Social engineering (political science)|social engineer]] with [[Jacque Fresco#The Venus Project and later career|The Venus Project]].<ref name="o3" />{{r|socialeng}} In the Venus project machines control government and industry and safeguard resources using artificially intelligent “earthwide autonomic sensor system” super-brain connected to all human knowledge.<ref name="h6" />


==Overview==
==Overview==

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The Zeitgeist Movement
AbbreviationTZM
Formation2008
TypeAdvocacy group
Region served
International
Key people
Peter Joseph
Websitewww.thezeitgeistmovement.com

The Zeitgeist Movement' (TZM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California.[1] It is also a grassroots social movement organized by regional chapters.[2][3] It was founded by filmmaker Peter Joseph in 2008.[4] According to its mission statement it is “a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.”[5] It advocates a transformation of society, specifically its economic system, promoting a post-scarcity type economic approach often termed a “resource-based economy”.[6]

Overview

The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008[7] by Peter Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of Zeitgeist: Addendum, the second film in the 'Zeitgeist' film series.[8][9] In its first year the group described itself as "the activist arm of The Venus Project.[10] In April 2011, the two groups partnership ended in an apparent power struggle, with Joseph commenting, “Without [The Zeitgeist Movement], [The Venus Project] doesn’t exist – it has nothing but ideas and has no viable method to bring it to light."[8] Jacques Fresco in an interview said that although the Zeitgeist movement wanted to act as the 'activist arm' of Venus project, Peter Joseph never clarified what that would entail. In addition Fresco's ideas of how to change society were not followed, leading to Fresco dropping participation in the Zeitgeist Movement.[11]

VC Reporter's Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".[9]

Samuel Gilonis describes the movements opinions as wanting to replace all private property with for what Joseph refers to as "strategic access" as well as replacing democracy with a form of technocracy whereby the ruling class would comprise technical experts in control of their relevant domains.[12]

The group is critical of market capitalism describing it as structurally corrupt and inefficient in the use of resources. According to The Daily Telegraph, the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading and embraces a version of sustainable ecological concepts and scientific administration of society.[13][14][15][16][17][18]

In January 2014, the group published a book, The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing A New Train Of Thought, composed of eighteen essays on psychology, economics, and scientific theory written by the 'TZM Lecture Team' and edited by Ben McLeish, Matt Berkowitz, and Peter Joseph.[19]

Events

The group holds two annual events: Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum"[20] held in March and an artivist event called Zeitgeist Media Festival.[21] The second Z-Day took place in Manhattan in 2009 and included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco. The organisers said that local chapters also held sister events on the same day.[20] The Zeitgeist Media Festival was first held in 2011. Its 3rd annual event took place on August 4, 2013 at the Avalon Hollywood nightclub in Los Angeles, California.[21][22]

Criticism

An article in the Journal of Contemporary Religion describes the movement as an example of a "conspirituality," a synthesis of New Age spirituality and conspiracy theory.[23]

Michelle Goldberg of Tablet Magazine called the movement "the world's first Internet-based apocalyptic cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity." In her opinion, the movement is "devoted to a kind of sci-fi planetary communism", and the 2007 documentary that "sparked" the movement was "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."[24]

Alan Feuer of The New York Times said the movement was like "a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his “Imagine” days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life."[20]

In Socialist Unity magazine and also Tablet Magazine the film’s relationship to anti-Semitic texts is claimed and it is claimed that those theories are made to look left-wing or liberal. A relationship between the film and a book called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with the films use of other anti-Semitic tropes is claimed.[25][26]

See also

References

  1. ^ "THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT (Incorporation details)", businessfilings.sos.ca.gov,.
  2. ^ Shane Cohn, "The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County", vcreporter.com December 5, 2011,.
  3. ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement Chapters Portal", tzmchapters.net.
  4. ^ Travis Donovan, "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future", huffingtonpost.com May 25, 2011,.
  5. ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement: practical advices to build a better future", heralddeparis.com March 19, 2009.
  6. ^ "TEDxO'Porto - Peter Joseph - Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy", tedxtalks.ted.com.
  7. ^ "TZM - Mission Statement". www.thezeitgeistmovement.com. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Gore, Jeff (October 12, 2011). "The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board?". Orlando Weekly. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  9. ^ a b Cohn, Shane. "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  10. ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  11. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=retxWac-6Z8 Interview of Fresco Retrieved May-3-2016
  12. ^ Gilonis, Samuel (February 21, 2011). "The Cult of Zeitgeist". Wessex Scene. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015.
  13. ^ McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. Forest boy 'inspired by Zeitgeist movement'. The Telegraph. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  14. ^ Resnick, Jan (February 25, 2009). "The Zeitgeist Movement". Psychotherapy in Australia. 15 (2). ISSN 1323-0921. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  15. ^ Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of The Filmmaker Who Helped Recruit Millions for the Global Protests of the Bottom 99%, original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, TheMarker (Israel), January 19, 2012.
  16. ^ Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler,Globes (Israel), March 18, 2010.
  17. ^ Swan, Rhonda (April 30, 2009). "A dream worth having". The Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ Newman, Alex (March 10, 2011). "Zeitgeist and the Venus Project". The New American. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  19. ^ TZM Lecture Team (2014). McLeish, Ben; Berkowitz, Matt; Joseph, Peter (eds.). The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought (PDF) (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1495303197. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 12, 2015.
  20. ^ a b c Alan Feuer (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2009.
  21. ^ a b "Zeitgeist Media Festival 2012: A celebration to be shared with the entire Earth". Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  22. ^ Martin, Abby. "RT - Breaking the Set".
  23. ^ Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  24. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  25. ^ http://socialistunity.com/zeitgeist-exposed Retrieved June-15-2016/
  26. ^ http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved June-15-2016
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