The Zeitgeist Movement

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The Zeitgeist Movement

Is anyone here familiar with The Zeitgeist Movement?

If not, here is the mission:
Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement 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.

The movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems that plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, absolute scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality. Rather, the movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, pollution, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure.

While intermediate reform steps and temporal community support are of interest to the movement, the defining goal is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible resource management, allocation and design through what would be considered the scientific method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.

This “Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy" (NLRBE) is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a monetary or even political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods known, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profit, business and other structural and motivational issues.

The movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. The view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in science and technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications that could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population, increasing public health. There is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crime and many other monetarily-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time. The range of the movement's activism and awareness campaigns extend from short to long term, with methods based explicitly on non-violent methods of communication.

The Zeitgeist Movement has no allegiance to country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on Earth, not a select group.

The book is available to download for free at http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/orientation .. or a hard copy can be purchased (non-profit, of course) here http://www.amazon.com/Zeitgeist-Movement-Defined-Realizing-Thought/dp/14...

I assume most Atheists ended up as Atheists by thinking logically? Well logic is basically what the movement is based on, I think the Atheist Republic should be fully supporting TZM, and make it known. Anyone agree?

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Zaphod's picture
I have heard mention of it
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Ok, I have been putting this
Danny Craft's picture
Haha all good. Hope you
Zaphod's picture
Cool, So far I have gotten to
Danny Craft's picture
Glad you're liking it :) and
Zaphod's picture
I am in about a hundred pages
Danny Craft's picture
Good on ya! Wish I had more
Zaphod's picture
I read a real lot so I read
Danny Craft's picture
Wow! That's an impressive
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Will try to read more this
Danny Craft's picture
Yo! Sorry for the long time
Zaphod's picture
I just got back here after
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I never bothered learning
Danny Craft's picture
The movies are an artistic
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And all good Zaphod.. It
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Sounds legit.
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Honestly the more you look in
Danny Craft's picture
It does pain me to hear such
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I don't believe the heart of
Danny Craft's picture
Ah you're not raining on my
Danny Craft's picture
Whoooaw TZM holds absolutely
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But, you haven't asked me to
Lmale's picture
Its a nice idea but wont work
Danny Craft's picture
I hear ya. And like it says
Spewer's picture
I think it's a great idea,
Lmale's picture
Well said
Danny Craft's picture
I don't believe we're
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I'm reading posts with hope
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Well said cyber
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Yes i dont bother to vote

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