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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live on the same planet, and our planet is under threat by our very own monetary-based social system which is old and outdated.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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