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''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (TZM) is a [[501(c) organization|501(c)(3)]] [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit organization]] incorporated in the state of [[California]].<ref>[https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ "THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT (Incorporation details)"], ''businessfilings.sos.ca.gov'',.</ref> It is also a grassroots social movement organized by regional chapters.<ref name="VC">Shane Cohn, [http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ "The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County"], ''vcreporter.com'' December 5, 2011,.</ref><ref>[http://www.tzmchapters.net/ "The Zeitgeist Movement Chapters Portal"], ''tzmchapters.net''.</ref> It was founded by filmmaker [[Peter Joseph]] in 2008.<ref name="HP">Travis Donovan, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future"], ''huffingtonpost.com'' May 25, 2011,.</ref> According to its mission statement it is “a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.”<ref name="HERALD">[http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-build-a-better-future/27800/ "The Zeitgeist Movement: practical advices to build a better future"], ''heralddeparis.com'' March 19, 2009.</ref> It advocates a transformation of society, specifically its economic system, promoting a [[Post-scarcity economy|post-scarcity]] type economic approach often termed a “resource-based economy”.<ref>[http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxOPorto-Peter-Joseph-Arrivin;search%3Apeter%20joseph "TEDxO'Porto - Peter Joseph - Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy"], ''tedxtalks.ted.com''.</ref> |
''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (TZM) is a [[501(c) organization|501(c)(3)]] [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit organization]] incorporated in the state of [[California]].<ref>[https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ "THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT (Incorporation details)"], ''businessfilings.sos.ca.gov'',.</ref> It is also a grassroots social movement organized by regional chapters.<ref name="VC">Shane Cohn, [http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/ "The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County"], ''vcreporter.com'' December 5, 2011,.</ref><ref>[http://www.tzmchapters.net/ "The Zeitgeist Movement Chapters Portal"], ''tzmchapters.net''.</ref> It was founded by filmmaker [[Peter Joseph]] in 2008.<ref name="HP">Travis Donovan, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future"], ''huffingtonpost.com'' May 25, 2011,.</ref> According to its mission statement it is “a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.”<ref name="HERALD">[http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-build-a-better-future/27800/ "The Zeitgeist Movement: practical advices to build a better future"], ''heralddeparis.com'' March 19, 2009.</ref> It advocates a transformation of society, specifically its economic system, promoting a [[Post-scarcity economy|post-scarcity]] type economic approach often termed a “resource-based economy”.<ref>[http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxOPorto-Peter-Joseph-Arrivin;search%3Apeter%20joseph "TEDxO'Porto - Peter Joseph - Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy"], ''tedxtalks.ted.com''.</ref> |
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The Zeitgeist Movement was originally created in 2008 in partnership with an organization called The Venus Project that was founded by engineer and futurist [[Jacque Fresco]].<ref name="HP"/> Fresco is said to have coined the term “resource-based economy”.<ref name="HERALD"/> In 2011, the two groups separated over disagreements in goals and objectives.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6cCw_n1XJ8 "Zeitgeist: The Venus Project Break Up - Peter Joseph - London Real"], ''youtube.com'',.</ref> While started as an all volunteer, informal group, without any legal status, in 2016 the movement formed its 501(c)(3) nonprofit under the same name, allowing for tax-exempt status and tax-deductible donation support. The name “zeitgeist”, meaning the “spirit of the age” was taken from founder Peter Joseph’s [[Zeitgeist (film series)|Zeitgeist Film Series]], which was an inspiration for the organization.<ref name="HERALD"/> |
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The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008<ref>{{Cite web|title = TZM - Mission Statement|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement|website = www.thezeitgeistmovement.com|accessdate = October 2, 2015}}</ref> by Peter Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', the second film in the [[Zeitgeist (film series)|'Zeitgeist' film series]].<ref name=o3/><ref name=v2/> In its first year the group described itself as "the [[activist]] arm of [[Jacque Fresco#The Venus Project and later career|The Venus Project]].<ref name=h11/> In April 2011, the two groups partnership 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."<ref name="o3">{{cite journal |first=Jeff|last=Gore |url=http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-view-from-venus/Content?oid=2248863 |title=The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board? |journal=Orlando Weekly |date=October 12, 2011 |accessdate=September 17, 2015}}</ref> |
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Jacques Fresco in an interview said that although the Zeitgeist movement wanted to act as the 'activist arm' of Venus project, Peter Joseph never clarified what that would entail. In addition Fresco's ideas of how to change society were not followed, leading to Fresco dropping participation in the Zeitgeist Movement.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=retxWac-6Z8 Interview of Fresco Retrieved May-3-2016</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 name="v2" /> |
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Samuel Gilonis describes the movements opinions as wanting to replace all [[private property]] with for what Joseph refers to as "strategic access" as well as replacing [[democracy]] with a form of [[technocracy]] whereby the ruling class would comprise technical experts in control of their relevant domains.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/features/2011/02/21/the-cult-of-zeitgeist/|title=The Cult of Zeitgeist|last=Gilonis|first=Samuel|date=February 21, 2011|work=Wessex Scene|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701011630/http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/features/2011/02/21/the-cult-of-zeitgeist/|archive-date=July 1, 2015|access-date=|via=}}</ref> |
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The group is critical of [[market capitalism]] describing it as structurally corrupt and inefficient in the use of resources. According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', the group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading and embraces a version of sustainable [[Ecology|ecological]] concepts and scientific administration of society.<ref name="t9" /><ref name="pia14" /><ref name="m15" /><ref name="g16" /><ref name="p17" /><ref name="n18" /> |
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In January 2014, the group published a book, ''The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing A New Train Of Thought'', composed of eighteen essays on psychology, economics, and scientific theory written by the 'TZM Lecture Team' and edited by Ben McLeish, Matt Berkowitz, and Peter Joseph.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought|last = TZM Lecture Team|first = |publisher = |year = 2014|isbn = 978-1495303197|location = |pages = |edition = 1st|url = http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/uploads/upload/file/19/The_Zeitgeist_Movement_Defined_PDF_Final.pdf|editor-last = McLeish|editor-first = Ben|editor-last2 = Berkowitz|editor-first2 = Matt|editor-last3 = Joseph|editor-first3 = Peter|archive-url = http://web.archive.org/web/20150912194856/http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/uploads/upload/file/19/The_Zeitgeist_Movement_Defined_PDF_Final.pdf|archive-date = September 12, 2015}}</ref> |
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Abbreviation | TZM |
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Formation | 2008 |
Type | Advocacy group |
Region served | International |
Key people | Peter Joseph |
Website | www |
The Zeitgeist Movement' (TZM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California.[1] It is also a grassroots social movement organized by regional chapters.[2][3] It was founded by filmmaker Peter Joseph in 2008.[4] According to its mission statement it is “a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.”[5] It advocates a transformation of society, specifically its economic system, promoting a post-scarcity type economic approach often termed a “resource-based economy”.[6]
History
The Zeitgeist Movement was originally created in 2008 in partnership with an organization called The Venus Project that was founded by engineer and futurist Jacque Fresco.[4] Fresco is said to have coined the term “resource-based economy”.[5] In 2011, the two groups separated over disagreements in goals and objectives.[7] While started as an all volunteer, informal group, without any legal status, in 2016 the movement formed its 501(c)(3) nonprofit under the same name, allowing for tax-exempt status and tax-deductible donation support. The name “zeitgeist”, meaning the “spirit of the age” was taken from founder Peter Joseph’s Zeitgeist Film Series, which was an inspiration for the organization.[5]
Events
The group holds two annual events: Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum"[8] held in March and an artivist event called Zeitgeist Media Festival.[9] The second Z-Day took place in Manhattan in 2009 and included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco. The organisers said that local chapters also held sister events on the same day.[8] The Zeitgeist Media Festival was first held in 2011. Its 3rd annual event took place on August 4, 2013 at the Avalon Hollywood nightclub in Los Angeles, California.[9][10]
Criticism
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.[11]
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." 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."[12]
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."[8]
In Socialist Unity magazine and also Tablet Magazine the film’s relationship to anti-Semitic texts is claimed and it is claimed that those theories are made to look left-wing or liberal. A relationship between the film and a book called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with the films use of other anti-Semitic tropes is claimed.[13][14]
See also
References
- ^ "THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT (Incorporation details)", businessfilings.sos.ca.gov,.
- ^ Shane Cohn, "The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County", vcreporter.com December 5, 2011,.
- ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement Chapters Portal", tzmchapters.net.
- ^ a b Travis Donovan, "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future", huffingtonpost.com May 25, 2011,.
- ^ a b c "The Zeitgeist Movement: practical advices to build a better future", heralddeparis.com March 19, 2009.
- ^ "TEDxO'Porto - Peter Joseph - Arriving at a Resource-Based Economy", tedxtalks.ted.com.
- ^ "Zeitgeist: The Venus Project Break Up - Peter Joseph - London Real", youtube.com,.
- ^ a b c Alan Feuer (March 17, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2009.
- ^ a b "Zeitgeist Media Festival 2012: A celebration to be shared with the entire Earth". Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ Martin, Abby. "RT - Breaking the Set".
- ^ Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109. doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.539846. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- ^ Goldberg, Michelle (February 2, 2011). "Brave New World". Tablet. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ^ http://socialistunity.com/zeitgeist-exposed Retrieved June-15-2016/
- ^ http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved June-15-2016
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