'Zeitgeist' Articles
We aren’t here to offer anyone the “opiate” that Marx spoke against, so if you don’t want to hear about money or government because it’s not “spiritual”, well then you don’t get us. Principles of Zeitgeist have three divisions, religion, money and government. A principal of Zeitgeist is that spirituality should be your choice and not shaped by political agenda, but they don’t feel that establishment religion contributes in any real way to the greater good. The alternative to the current economic system, as they see it, is a resource based economy, and a commitment to using resources for socially supportive technologies, sustainable technologies, and not weapons or toxic resources.
“The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They’re tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that’s just what we are going to do.” Ted Strickland
“In times of change, of Zeitgeist, when the accompanying need for new orientation to new conditions the psyche is stunned into activity- Sensitive souls receive the impact of these activities from the psychic depths.” John Weir Perry
Establishment Religion
Zeitgeist means roughly “mans spirit of the age“, and their concern as a body is with the social ills we now experience. They are in a sense a party to the spiritual community, because they do have views on spirituality and religion, but they are focused more on their areas of concern than criticisms of any specific thing. Essentially, and I think we can all relate to this, our society as it stands now was built on an economic model. They had other ideals for it to start, and there was much debate in early American history, as there have… Seek More
Paying For It
Money is the biggest belief of all. Money is the biggest religion. In the almighty bill or coin we trust. Even before the Zeitgeist movement was founded, I recall hearing that we had the technology to terraform barren desert land, but no one chose to do it. It would make land less scarce and make the property markets drop. They couldn’t enslave people to owning real estate. How about who was going to pay for it? The “who was going to pay for it” is the problem according to the Zeitgeist movement. The big people have the money, but we are… Seek More
Alternative View
Let’s use a model. Say you want my counselling (that being what I do), if you give me money how will it go? There does have to be an agreement system, but if in my example you sought my counselling so you came and gave me food, there would be a direct impact. If you came and gave me money, what I actually get is totally arbitrary. Maybe I even get very little. What about the problem of you then having a whole house of potatoes? More then you need, but no apples? Then I can trade potatoes with someone who wants… Seek More
It Is Your Choice
For various reasons, we accept that we “must” from society, but we do not “have” to do anything except breathe and eat? Actually, yes we do. You won’t get to eat anything if you don’t work, or break the law. Somebody owns anything and everything you might want. It is your choice, but should you be forced to make such a stupid choice? In the past even in America as it was starting out in some places, if you wanted to live somewhere you just did. If someone else was already there, you had to fight, and people generally don’t… Seek More
