If you have seen the original Zeitgeist - great - you will be more than glad to know that the se
quel known as Zeitgeist Addendum is just out and available for viewing online for free or for ordering the DVD for $5 from www.zeitgeistmovie.com. If you have not seen it yet, then I really recommend that you do dedicate 2 hours of your time for the new one for it has a really amazing things to share. The original movie is also available with an interactive transcript and multitude of languages subtitles so that we can spread it to our international friends and networks. (Try to disregard some shortcomings as the frequent switches to audio and completely black screens - nothing wrong with your computer :)
1. "The Web of Debt" - Ellen Brown, www.webofdebt.com
2. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" - Robert Perkins, founder of www.DreamChange.org
3. & 4. "The Best that Money Can't Buy" - Jacques Fresco, visionary and founder of
"The Venus Project" & his partner Roxanne Meadows, www.TheVenusProject.com
Parts 3 & 4 of "Zeitgeist: Addendum" offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles of boom and recession, famine, poverty, corruption, a declining environment, and territorial conflicts where peace is merely the interval between wars. It outlines an attainable, humane social design of the near future where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life. Based on the visions from the book "The Best That Money Can't Buy", by Jacque Fresco, it is a challenge to us all to work towards a society in which all of the world's resources become the common heritage of all of us.
You can also download a fascinating 73 page intro to the Venus Project "Designing the Future" as a free pdf download here.
Here's a brief description of the movies from the creators:
"Zeitgeist, The Movie' and 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' were created as Not-for-Profit expressions to communicate what the author felt were highly important social understandings which most humans are generally not aware of. The first film focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.
The second film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes
of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not
based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates
a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced
by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project. "
And some of my thoughts about it:
The insights in the first half about the truly fraudulent nature of the financial system and the continuous absurdity of spiraling greed, manipulation, 'corpotocracy' and corruption are augmented by the visions and possibilities described in the second half of the movie, where Jacques Fresco and Roxanne describe the possibility, promise and possible transition to a new resource-based economy where even the notion of money could become obsolete. The concrete and pragmatic suggestions at the very end of NOT supporting the system and being the agents of change individually and collectively may well become a centerpoint and driver to a much larger movement for massive change.
A short section of the movie deals with demythologizing the whole terrorist scare by pointing out that only 68 Americans have died from terrorist acts in 2007 while twice as many have died from peanut allergies alone, but the US government is still spending 6600 times more on terror than on heart failure problems which is the leading cause of death.
Very interesting and notable are the sections dedicated to the clean and sustainable energies and the enormous potential and availability and at the same time our continual ignoring and failure to harness them esp. solar, wind, water, tidal, and the huge repercussions of the yet untapped and so cheap and readily available geothermal power.
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There is much more to and in it than I can describe, that is why viewing, discussing and sharing these movies is the best way to start. Thanks to Maria Galenza for the timely alert & to Peter Joseph & hist team for their amazing creation and mission!
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October 2009 
Joy Bringer
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Hi Darina,
I wrote a post about the new movie - a bit longish to comment here…