Hello there fellow humans/blogger, please put this message on your blog
You
do not know me, but I know you because you are a famous blogger in
Malaysia and Singapore. If my source is still correct, you have more
than 20,000 audiences. I'm sure you would agree to the power in numbers.
20,000 is not a big number when compared to total population of
Malaysians/Singaporeans, but it sure is a number that can make an impact
big enough in networking.
I'll just be honest with you, I'm
contacting you for your networking power. Do I have anything to offer in
return for your interest? No. So you can delete this email if you do
not wish to understand why I am asking for your help when I am offering
nothing in return.
If you are still reading this line, thank you.
I hope when you have the time, you will investigate into the
information I'm about to present to you. How is this relevant to you?
Well this is relevant to every single person on Earth, because we all
live on the same planet, and our planet is under threat by our very own
monetary-based social system which is old and outdated. I'm reaching to
you because you have the potential and influence to Malaysians and
Singaporeans, which are not aware of this.
I'm a member of a
non-profit organization called The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM). Started in
late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and
"Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project (TVP). The
Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer
Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and overcome the
lack of sustainability existing currently across the world and work to
incorporate new methods and values before it is too late. The basic
pursuit of The Movement is to begin a transition into a new, sustainable
social design called a “Resource-Based Economy” (RBE). This term was
first coined by Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project and refers to an
economic structure based exclusively on strategic resource management as
the starting point for all decisions.
Jacque Fresco - Larry King Interview (1974)
Jacque Fresco - Future by Design (2006)
Basic Observations:
In
the view of The Movement, the world today has become very detached from
the physical world, with techniques of production and distribution that
have no relationship to the environment. Our use of a profit based,
“growth” driven monetary system has become one of the greatest
destroyers of the natural world, not to mention sustainable human
values. It is important to understand that the entire global economy
requires “cyclical consumption” to operate, which means that money must
constantly be circulating. Thus, new goods and services must be
constantly introduced regardless of the state of the environment and
actual human necessity. This "perpetual" approach has a fatal flaw, for
resources as we know it are simply not infinite. Resources are finite
and the Earth is essentially a closed system. The true goal of any
economy is to preserve - or "economize" - this is not occurring and
cannot occur in a monetary driven system where labor for income requires
consumer demand. We actually live in a global "anti-economy" by all
rational standards.
Also, the intents inherent within a monetary
system are counter progressive and derive a strategic edge from
scarcity. This means that depleted resources are actually a positive
thing for industry in the short term, for more money can be made off
each respective unit. This is known as the basic law of supply &
demand and hence “value” in economics. This creates a perverse
reinforcement to ignore environmental problems and the negative
consequences of scarcity, for it literally translates into profit. There
is little intrinsic motivation to "solve" any problem or to make things
that last in the current model. It is much more beneficial for jobs and
hence profit to "service" things- not resolve them.
In other
words, the system requires problems/constant consumer interest in order
to work. The more people who have cancer, the better the economy due to
expensive medical treatments. Needless to say, this generates an
inherent disregard for human well being. The monetary arrangement,
whether in the form of capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism,
free-market or the like, is utterly detached from natural resources and
thus human well-being. It is erroneously assumed that the incentive to
seek money is also the incentive to help society. Nothing could be
further from the truth. For example, every single product created by a
corporation today is immediately inferior by design, for the market
requirement to cut creation costs in favor of lowering the output
"purchase price" to maintain a competitive edge, automatically reduces
the quality of any given item by default. In other words it is
impossible to create the “strategically best”, long lasting anything in
our society and this translates into, again, outrageous amounts of
resource waste. This is entirely and provably unsustainable as a social
system and the world you are beginning to see emerge around you, with
growing starvation, poverty, unemployment; along with the growing
scarcity of water, food and arable land, is the result.
Likewise,
most occupations are not directly related to the actual necessities of
life. Rather, they are artificial concoctions in order to keep people
employed so they can acquire purchasing power to keep cyclical
consumption going. The very reality that each human being is required to
be put in a position of servitude to a corporation or client in order
to gain income to purchase the necessities of life also perpetuates
extreme, needless waste... however, this time, it is the waste of the
human mind and human life. In the modern world, advancements in science
and technology have shown that we can automate a great deal. In fact,
statistically speaking, the more we have applied mechanization to labor,
the more productive things have become. Therefore, it is not only
negligent for us to waste our lives waiting tables, working at a bus
station, fixing cars, or other repetitive, monotonous jobs, it is also
entirely irresponsible for us not to apply modern mechanization
techniques to all industries possible for, apart from strategic resource
management, this is a powerful way to achieve balance and abundance for
all the world's people, reducing crime generating imbalances.
In
other words, it is time to update society to present day knowledge,
taking the carrying capacity of the earth into account and realigning
our methods based not on the reward of monetary gain..but the goal of
social sustainability as a whole.
Even with our current,
destructive methods, the Earth is still abundant with resources. Today
our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is
irrelevant and counter-productive to the well-being of people. Today’s
society has access to highly advanced technologies and can easily
provide more than enough for a very high standard of living for all the
earth’s people. This is possible through the implementation of a
Resource-Based Economy.
A Resource-Based Economy utilizes
existing resources rather than money, and provides an equitable method
of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner for the entire
population. It is a system in which all natural, man-made, machine-made,
and synthetic resources would be available without the use of money,
credits, barter, or any other form of symbolic exchange. A
Resource-Based Economy would utilize existing resources from the land
and sea, and the means of production, such as physical equipment and
industrial plants, to enhance the lives of the total population. In an
economy based on resources, conservation and the most advanced methods
of science and technology, we could easily produce all of the
necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all. To do
this, we have to overcome our current, outdated, establishment
practices. This is the purpose of The Zeitgeist Movement- to create a
global awareness to thus transition into a new, sustainable direction
for humanity as a whole.
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Here are 3 documentaries produced by director Peter Joseph (also founder of TZM):
Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007 - Artivist Best Feature Artivist's Spirit Award)
This
documentary is not connected to The Zeitgeist Movement because Peter
Joseph did not know The Venus Project and haven't founded The Zeitgeist
Movement. This documentary is solely Peter Joseph's personal work and
has no connection whatsoever to TZM, TVP or RBE. The history of
"Zeitgeist: The Movie" is not what many assume. The original Zeitgeist
was actually not a "film", but a performance piece, which consisted of a
vaudevillian style multi-media event using recorded music, live
instruments and video. The event was given over a 6-night period in New
York City and then, without any interest to professionally release or
produce the work, was "tossed" up on the Internet arbitrarily. The work
was never designed as a film or even a documentary in a traditional
sense - it was designed as a creative, provoking, emotionally driven
expression, full of artistic extremity and heavily stylized gestures.
However, once online, an unexpected flood of interest began to generate.
Within 6 months over 50 Million views were recorded on Google Video
counters (before they were reset for some reason). The current combined
estimates put the number of Internet views at over 100 million as of
2009. Suddenly "Zeitgeist" the event, became "Zeitgeist: The Movie".
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008 - Artivist Best Feature Artivist's Spirit Award + Opening Movie) RECOMMENDED WATCH
Addendum
begins and ends with excerpts from a speech by Jiddu Krishnamurti. The
film is divided into four parts[, each prefaced by a quotation from some
well-known scholar. Part I denounces the United States Federal Reserve
System, argues that a nation's creation of money and debt are
necessarily intertwined and irresolvable, and claims that the monetary
system contradicts with efforts toward social progress due to the
inevitable hindrances of interest and inflation. Part II, in order to
illuminate the immorality of the profit-only motivation of corporations,
interviews John Perkins, a self-described former economic hitman, who
articulates the involvement of the United States government (through the
CIA) in the violent overthrow and installation of various dictatorships
in South and Central Americancountries, all on behalf of U.S. corporate
interests, while completely disregarding the interests of the people of
these countries. Part III introduces The Venus Project,Jacque Fresco
and Roxanne Meadows’s vision of a technocracy movement emphasizing 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.
Part IV explores how all major social problems are ultimately the
result of wide-scale ignorance concerning the concepts of emergence and
symbiosis, as detrimentally maintained by political, monetary, and
religious institutions; several means of social change are then
suggested, 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.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011 - Released 25th
January 2011) MUST WATCH! 1.2 MILLION YOUTUBE VIEWS IN LESS THAN A WEEK!
(YOUTUBE REMOVED IT FROM 'MOST VIEWED' FOR UNKNOWN REASONS)
Zeitgeist:
Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length
documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out
of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire
world society.
This subject matter will transcend the issues of
cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the
core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival,
extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social
paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy".
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Due
to the radical nature of a proposal for a global social transformation,
a lot of people are confused and made ungrounded and biased assumptions
and guilt-by-associations towards TZM. We are talking about global
social change, there is a lot of information to be read and understood
instead of judging a book by its cover.
Most common misconceptions:
1. RBE is Communism/Socialism/Technocracy/etc.
In
the past, various attempts of social transformation has been tried but
eventually failed. This is due to the inherent co-relation of a country
to another in terms of resources. A Communist country cannot function
properly in a world that operates based on Capitalism. Resources must be
managed globally, for global needs.
2. Conditioned fear for 'One World Government'.
If
there really is NWO / One World Government, we are living in one. The
monetary system. Money governs everything in the current system.
Capitalism or so-called 'Free Market' made it seem 'free', when we are
not. Ever heard of 'divide and conquer'? Divided people are easier to be
conquered, hence all the countries you see in the world today. People
of the world need to unite and take care of each other. RBE does not
have 'government'. Decisions are not made by anyone or politicians based
on opinions, but decisions are arrived at, based on scientific facts in
management of resources, for the benefit of everyone and the Earth,
preserving a sustainable system for all.
3. Human nature is inherently corrupt, greedy, etc...
Countless
researches have been done on this issue, and there is an answer: while
genetics provide the propensity for our behaviors, it is our environment
that manifests the behaviors. The environment is highly responsible for
shaping human behaviors, not genes. When people come up with the Nature
vs Nurture argument, it is actually a cop-out tactic to take the easy
way out: blaming genes instead of solving problems in our environment.
Criminals are sent to prisons instead of solving the root causes that
made them behave aberrantly in the first place.
4. We do not have the level of technology required for RBE.
The
majority of people today do not realize the current level of
technology. To them 'advanced' means 'consumer electronic gadgets' that
trends in culture every other month/year. In reality, we are more
advanced than your average consumer electronics. Implementing the RBE is
only as simple as maximizing the efficiency of today's available
technology. You can get more information in the documentaries on the
reasons why efficiency is deliberately controlled and not maximized in
the monetary market system.
5. A world without money destroys motivation and incentive.
No.
As babies, we curiously explore and adventurously challenge our
environment, it only makes sense for people to grow up to become problem
solvers in areas they are interested in and motivated with the
satisfaction of solving problems. However, this natural
motivation/incentive is short-lived when kids are exposed, conditioned
and forced to obey the rules of the game: the monetary market system.
Unfortunately, a lot of people do not realize this social conditioning,
hence they think money is 'natural' when it is not. Humans have existed
long before money was invented, if humans did not have natural
motivation of solving problems, humans would have perished on Earth long
time ago.
6. TZM is a conspiracy movement.
Most people do not
realize that a lot of serious issues are downplayed and outright
twisted by governments through mainstream media and propagandas.
Guilt-by-associations are mainly used to scare people of from anything
radical in order for the establishments to maintain their status quo.
"You believe this, oh you are conspiracy theorist!" is one of the common
phrases. People in the current system are not being encouraged to think
critically, instead they are being told what to think, not how to
think. To check whether anything is a conspiracy theory or not, simply
investigate into the sources that present scientific facts. However,
most people are not willing to do this and prefer to 'stay with the
crowd', but this doesn't make them correct.
7. TZM is anti-religions.
The
movement advocates for application of scientific method for social
concern. There are 2 parts of all religions: Values and Superstitions.
Values in religions are social science, while Superstitions are what you
may call 'pseudo-science', because they have not been proven with
scientific method or have experiments that are repeatable and generate
consistent results. RBE, which is advocated by the movement truly
embraces the values in religions and use science to create a society
that encourages such values, such as caring for one another,
cooperation, respecting people and empathy. In the current system, most
of these values are only 'lip service', as the monetary market system
inherently rewards selfishness and competitiveness.
These are the most common misconceptions. For more Q&A, you may refer to The Venus Project FAQ.
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Finally,
I really appreciate your patience for reading to the last sentence of
such a heavy content. If you are interested in helping to change this
world for better, please spread the word. You may forward this email to
all the people you wish to help. Changing the world is not done
overnight, we constantly live in a state of progression, or
'transition'. RBE is not Utopian, because there can never be a Utopia.
Utopia means perfect, and perfect means no problems at all. RBE is
simply solving most of the human-made problems today (crime, poverty,
social stratification, war, pollution, etc), so that humans can focus on
natural problems in future: diseases, exploration, natural disasters,
scientific discoveries and advancement in technology, etc.
In a
world where thousands of children die every single day from poverty and
preventable diseases, and 1% of the world population owns 40% of the
world's resources, one thing is clear; something is very wrong.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
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