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Zeitgeist: Addendum
Directed by	Peter Joseph
Produced by	Peter Joseph
Edited by	Peter Joseph
Music by	Peter Joseph
Distributed by	GMP LLC
Release dates	October, 2008
Running time	123 min
Language	English

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Zeitgeist: Addendum, is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Peter Joseph^[1], and a sequel to the 2007 film Zeitgeist: The Movie. Zeitgeist: Addendum is itself followed by the 2011 film Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.^[2]

Synopsis

Addendum begins and ends with excerpts from a speech by Jiddu Krishnamurti. The remainder of the film is narrated by Peter Joseph and divided into four parts,^[3] each prefaced by an on-screen quotation from a notable scholar: Krishnamurti, John Adams, Bernard Lietaer, and Thomas Paine, respectively.

Part I

Part I explains in basic terms the United States economy, stressing its recurring failures. Part I argues that a nation's creation of money and debt are viciously intertwined and necessarily irresolvable, due to the inevitable factors of interest and inflation. These factors are described as forcing the nation into an endless cycle of producing money, incurring debt, producing more money, and so on. Denouncing the United States Federal Reserve System, the film equates wage labor to slavery, ultimately claiming that the most detrimental consequence of the monetary system is its hindering of efforts toward social progress.

Part II

Part II seeks to articulate the immorality of the profit-only motivation of corporations. Based around an interview with John Perkins, a self-described former economic hitman, Part II describes the |covert involvement of the United States government (largely through the CIA) in the overthrow and installation of various dictatorships in South and Central American countries. The film argues that these interventions have repeatedly been on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, while completely disregarding the interests of the people of these countries, raising accusations that the U.S. has even been known to replace democratic leaders with more despotic ones.

Part III

Part III begins with descriptions of various forms of largely unexplored renewable power, including solar, wave, tidal, wind, and geothermal energy. Part III then introduces the The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows’s vision of a technocracy movement, and interviews the two founders on their ideas. The Venus Project is presented as a wide-ranging solution to many social problems. The project emphasizes major scientific and engineering advances without any profit motive, natural resource management along with improved energy efficiency, and abandonment of the monetary system in favor of a resource-based economy.^[4]

Part IV

Part IV explores the idea that all major social problems are ultimately the result of wide-scale ignorance concerning the two concepts of emergence and symbiosis—an ignorance maintained by the political, monetary, and religious institutions. The film maintains a cosmopolitan attitude, stating that humans are part of an interdependent universe. Several means of social change are finally suggested to oppose rigid social institutions, largely via non-violent boycotting and educating. The film concludes in a sequence depicting actors as members of the fast-paced modern world suddenly stopping in their everyday activities and letting go of various symbolic items of corporate, religious, and materialistic significance.

References

^ TZMOfficialChannel's Zeitgeist Addendum
^ http://www.usnewssource.com/headlines/zeitgeist-moving-forward-movie-hits-the-internet_148126.html
^ Zeitgeist: Addendum at the Sarasota – Manatee Hebraic Roots Forum, accessed January 31, 2011
^ http://www.independent.com/news/2011/jan/19/marjorie-luke-hosts-new-emzeitgeistem-film/

External links

Zeitgeist: Addendum at IMDb

[1] TZMOfficialChannel's Zeitgeist Addendum

[2] ttp://www.usnewssource.com/headlines/zeitgeist-moving-forward-movie-hits-the-internet_148126.html

[3] Zeitgeist: Addendum at the Sarasota – Manatee Hebraic Roots Forum, accessed January 31, 2011

[4] ttp://www.independent.com/news/2011/jan/19/marjorie-luke-hosts-new-emzeitgeistem-film/

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-Part II seeks to articulate the immorality of the profit-only motivation of corporations. Based around an interview with [[John Perkins (author)|John Perkins]], a self-described former [[Confessions of an Economic Hit Man|economic hitman]], Part II describes the [[[[Covert United States foreign regime change actions||covert involvement]] of the United States government (largely through the [[CIA]]) in the overthrow and installation of various [[dictatorship]]s in [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]]n countries. The film argues that these interventions have repeatedly been on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, while completely disregarding the interests of the people of these countries, raising accusations that the U.S. has even been known to replace democratic leaders with more despotic ones.
+Part II seeks to articulate the immorality of the profit-only motivation of corporations. Based around an interview with [[John Perkins (author)|John Perkins]], a self-described former [[Confessions of an Economic Hit Man|economic hitman]], Part II describes the [[Covert United States foreign regime change actions||covert involvement]] of the United States government (largely through the [[CIA]]) in the overthrow and installation of various [[dictatorship]]s in [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]]n countries. The film argues that these interventions have repeatedly been on behalf of U.S. corporate interests, while completely disregarding the interests of the people of these countries, raising accusations that the U.S. has even been known to replace democratic leaders with more despotic ones.
 ===Part III===