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'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (TZM) is an international sustainability advocacy group established in 2008 by [[Peter Joseph]]. The group operates through a decentralized network of people using non-violent forms of communication, with the core focus being on educating the public about how society organized in its current form is unsustainable and how to reach a better state of living.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Team |first1=TZM |title=The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought |date=January 2014 |publisher=TZM Global |isbn=1495303195 |page=5 |edition=1st}}</ref>To work towards this end, TZM is made up of a collection of chapters and individuals who collectively work towards a [[post-scarcity economy]] by identifying methods of [[collective action]] that will result in community building and scientific development.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Team |first1=TZM |title=The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought |date=January 2014 |publisher=TZM Global |isbn=1495303195 |pages=165-228 |edition=1st}}</ref> To achieve this, they propose many mechanisms for increasing awareness ranging from participating in monetary reform at the high level to erase debt from society to use-share libraries at the low level to help promote cooperative behavior.<ref>{{cite web |title=TZM 2.0 |url=https://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/tzm-2/ |website=The Zeitgeist Movement |access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref> |
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'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by [[Peter Joseph]]. The group is critical of market [[capitalism]], describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable [[ecology]] and scientific administration of society.<ref>McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9337209/Forest-boy-inspired-by-Zeitgeist-movement.html Forest boy 'inspired by Zeitgeist movement']. ''The Telegraph.'' Retrieved November 14, 2018.</ref><ref name="pia14">{{cite journal|author=Resnick, Jan|date=February 25, 2009|title=The Zeitgeist Movement|url=http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=543809933974722;res=IELHEA|journal=Psychotherapy in Australia|volume=15|issue=2|issn=1323-0921}}</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of [http://www.themarker.com/markerweek/1.1620957 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.</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of [http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000547764 Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler], [[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref> |
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''VC Reporter's'' Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".<ref>{{cite web|author=Cohn, Shane|title=New world re-order|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|publisher=VCReporter|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> |
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| Abbreviation | TZM |
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| Formation | 2008 |
| Type | Advocacy group |
Region served | International |
Key people | Peter Joseph |
| Website | TheZeitgeistMovement.com |
The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is an international sustainability advocacy group established in 2008 by Peter Joseph. The group operates through a decentralized network of people using non-violent forms of communication, with the core focus being on educating the public about how society organized in its current form is unsustainable and how to reach a better state of living.[1]To work towards this end, TZM is made up of a collection of chapters and individuals who collectively work towards a post-scarcity economy by identifying methods of collective action that will result in community building and scientific development.[2] To achieve this, they propose many mechanisms for increasing awareness ranging from participating in monetary reform at the high level to erase debt from society to use-share libraries at the low level to help promote cooperative behavior.[3]
History
The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008 by Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of Zeitgeist: Addendum, the second film in the Zeitgeist film series.[4][5]
Zeitgeist was first linked to the Venus Project. In April 2011, partnership between the two groups 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."[4]
The first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of Eustace Mullins, Lyndon LaRouche, and radio host Alex Jones.[6] Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries.[6]
The group holds an annual event, Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum" held in March. The New York Times reported on the second Z-Day held at Manhattan Community College in New York in 2009 which included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco.[7] This event sold out with 900 people paying $10 each to attend. The event's organizers said that 450 connected events in 70 countries around the globe also took place.[7]
Reactions
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.[8]
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."[6] 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."[6]
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."[7]
See also
References
- ^ Team, TZM (January 2014). The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought (1st ed.). TZM Global. p. 5. ISBN 1495303195.
- ^ Team, TZM (January 2014). The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought (1st ed.). TZM Global. pp. 165–228. ISBN 1495303195.
- ^ "TZM 2.0". The Zeitgeist Movement. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cohn, Shane (May 12, 2011). "New world re-order". VCReporter. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ a b c Feuer, Alan (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
- ^ Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109–111. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846.
External links
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