What is The Zeitgeist Movement?
Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists fundamentally as an organization for spreading awareness of 1) the systemic factors that influence human society, as well as 2) offering solutions to these problems. The direction of the movement is to encourage social and technological processes that encourage a sustainable and peaceful society for future generations. The basic pursuit of The Movement is to begin a transition into a new, sustainable social design based on strategic resource management.
The current operations of The Movement include Regional Chapters, Teams and Team Specific Projects.
General observations: In the view of The Movement, the world today has become very detached from the physical world, with techniques of production and distribution that have no relationship to the environment. Our use of a profit based, growth driven monetary system has become one of the greatest destroyers of the natural world and sustainable human values. It is important to understand that the entire global economy requires cyclical consumption to operate, which means that money must constantly be circulating. Thus, new goods and services must be constantly introduced regardless of the state of the environment and actual human necessity. This "perpetual" approach has a fatal flaw, for resources as we know it are simply not infinite. Resources are finite and the Earth is essentially a closed system.
Strategic new direction: A new type of economic model is required, one that utilizes existing resources rather than money, and provides an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner for the entire population. The fundamental nature of such a system could be termed "strategic access". It is a system in which all natural, man-made, machine-made, and synthetic resources would be available without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of symbolic exchange. This type of strategy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, and the means of production, such as physical equipment and industrial plants, to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources, conservation and the most advanced methods of science and technology, we now know it is technically possible to produce the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all. However, in order to do this we must overcome our current, outdated, established practices.
The purpose of TZM is to create global awareness of these facts; to lay a foundation of activism with which the transition into a new, sustainable direction for humanity as a whole could be established.
The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to drastically slow and paralyze progress, through social structures which are out of date, dogmatic, and hence out of line with nature itself. The world you see today, full of war, corruption, elitism, pollution, poverty, epidemic disease, human rights abuses, inequality and crime is the result of this paralysis.
This movement is about awareness, in avocation of a fluid evolutionary progress, both personal, social, technological and spiritual. It recognizes that the human species is on a natural path for unification, derived from a communal acknowledgment of fundamental and near empirical understandings of how nature works and how we as humans fit into/are a part of this universal unfolding we call life. While this path does exist, it is unfortunately hindered and not recognized by the great majority of humans, who continue to perpetuate outdated and hence degenerative modes of conduct and association. It is this intellectual irrelevancy which the Zeitgeist Movement hopes to overcome through education and social action.
The goal is to revise our world society in accord with present day knowledge on all levels, not only creating awareness of social and technological possibilities many have been conditioned to think impossible or against "human nature", but also to provide a means to overcome those elements in society which perpetuate these outdated systems.
The movement itself is not a centralized construct. We are not here to lead, but to organize and educate.