Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zeitgeist: Moving Forward | | Directed by | Peter Joseph | Produced by | Peter Joseph | Music by | Peter Joseph, Lili Haydn and Yes | Edited by | Peter Joseph | Distributed by | GMP LLC | Release date(s) | * January 15, 2011 | Running time | 161 minutes | Country | United States | Language | English |
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is the third installment in Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist film trilogy. The film premiered at the JACC Theater in Los Angeles on January 15th 2011 at the Artivist Film Festival[1] and released online. As of May 2014, the film has over 22 million views on YouTube.[2]
Contents
* 1 Content * 1.1 Part I: Human Nature * 1.2 Part II: Social Pathology * 1.3 Part III: Project Earth * 1.4 Part IV: Rise * 2 Interviewees * 3 Award * 4 Reception * 5 See also * 6 References * 7 External links
Content
The film is arranged into four parts. Each part is an amalgam of interviews, narration and animated sequences.[3]
Part I: Human Nature
The film begins with an animated sequence narrated by Jacque Fresco. He describes his adolescent life and his discontinuation of public education at the age of 14 and describes his early life influences.
Human behavior and the nature vs. nurture debate is discussed. Robert Sapolsky sums up his opinion of the nature vs. nurture debate in which he refers to it as a "false dichotomy." The film then says that it is neither nature nor nurture that solely shapes human behavior, but the combination of both. Disease, criminal activity and addictions are also discussed. The overall conclusion of Part I is that social environment and cultural conditioning play a large part in shaping human behavior.[citation needed]
Part II: Social Pathology
John Locke and Adam Smith are discussed in regard to modern economics. In Two Treatises of Government, John Locke lays out the fundamental principles of private ownership of land, labor and capital. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith uses the term invisible hand as a means to explain how an individual's self-interest benefits society as a whole.[4] A critical view of economic theory is made by questioning the need for private property, money and the inherent inequality between agents in the system. Also seen critically is the need for cyclical consumption in order to maintain market share which results in wasted resources and Planned obsolescence. Critical views of the monetary system are given. According to the movie, the current monetary system will result in default or hyperinflation at some future time.[citation needed]
Part III: Project Earth
As with Zeitgeist: Addendum, the film presents a "resource-based economy" as advocated by Jacque Fresco discussing how human civilization could start from a new beginning in relation to resource types, locations, quantities, to satisfy human demands; track the consumption and depletion of resources to regulate human demands and maintain the condition of the environment.[citation needed]
Part IV: Rise
The current world wide situation is described as disastrous. A case is presented that pollution, deforestation, climate change, overpopulation, and warfare are all created and perpetuated by the socioeconomic system. Various poverty statistics are shown that suggest a progressive worsening of world culture. According to the United Nations, currently 18,000 children a day die from starvation.[5] Also according to the UN, global poverty rates have doubled since the 1970s.[6]
The final scene of the film shows a partial view of earth from space, followed by a sequence of superimposed statements; "This is your world", "This is our world", and "The revolution is now".[citation needed]
Interviewees
* Dr. Adrian Bowyer * Dr. Colin J. Campbell * Jacque Fresco * Jeremy J. Gilbert * Dr. James Gilligan * Max Keiser * Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis * Dr. Gábor Máté * Dr. John McMurtry * Roxanne Meadows * Michael Ruppert * Dr. Robert Sapolsky * Richard Wilkinson
Award
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward received "Best Political Documentary" in 2011 from the Action on Film International Film Festival.[citation needed]
Reception
A review in the monthly publication The Socialist Standard commented on several aspects of the film. Regarding its production values they stated that the film had a "well rounded feel." In terms of content they criticized the "shaky economic analysis" contained in the second part of the film and noted that Karl Marx had already undertaken a more scientific and thorough critique of capitalism. They went on to state that, "despite these false beginnings the analysis is at least on the right track." Regarding transition to the new system proposed in the film, the review critically noted that in the film "there is no mention of how to get from here to there."[7]
Fouad Al-Noor in Wessex Scene said that the film has more of a focus on solutions than the previous film. Calling it a modern phenomenon, he noted that while there are controversial elements, he challenged those using labels to describe the film to watch the films first.[8]
In her article on the Zeitgeist Movement, published in Tablet Magazine, Michelle Goldberg felt that the film was "silly enough that at times [she] suspected it was [a] satire about new-age techno-utopianism instead of an example of it", but noted the large following of the movement that produced the film, saying "it even seems like the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity".[9]
See also * Zeitgeist: The Movie * The Zeitgeist Movement * Criticism of capitalism
References
1. http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2011/01/17/artspublish/2348909739.html 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w 3. Link to film from official site. Retrieved: 31 May 2014. 4. Smith, A., 1976, The Glasgow edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, vol. 2a, p. 456, edited by R.H. Cambell and A.S. Skinner, Oxford: Claredon Press. 5. "18,000 children die every day of hunger, U.N. says". Usatoday.Com. 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 6. Agence France-Presse (2010-11-25). "Global poverty doubled since 1970s: UN". The Raw Story. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 7. "Film Review | The Socialist Party of Great Britain". Worldsocialism.org. Retrieved 2012-06-11. 8. Al-Noor, Fouad (6 February 2011). "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Review". Wessex Scene. Retrieved 31 August 2011. 9. Hoffman, Allison. "Brave New World - by Michelle Goldberg - Tablet Magazine – Jewish News and Politics, Jewish Arts and Culture, Jewish Life and Religion". Tabletmag.com. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward [2011] by director Peter Joseph is a 162 minute film work which continues what the prior two films of the Zeitgeist Film Series started: a critical look at the “Zeitgeist” or ‘Spirit /Awareness of the Time’. A prominent underlying thesis of the Film Series is that a great many notions, beliefs and practices currently engaged in today and assumed as “presupposed”, “given” or seemingly empirical to our societal approaches and values are not only intellectually/historically incorrect but highly detrimental to our personal and social progress and sustainability.Zeitgeist: Moving Forward focuses on the very fabric of the social order: Monetary-Market Economics. While the majority of the world today have slowly come to see some basic flaws in the economic system we share, as large scale debt defaults, inflation, industrial pollution, resource depletion, rising cancer rates and other signposts emerge to bring the concern into the realm of “public health” overall, very few however consider the economic paradigm as a whole as the source. The tendency is to demand reform in one area or another, avoiding the possibility that perhaps the entire system is intrinsically flawed at the foundational level. ZMF presents the case that it is, indeed, the very foundational mechanics of this system that generates the patterns of behavior and unsustainable methods of conduct that are leading to the vast spectrum of detrimental consequences both personal, social, and environmental and the longer they go on, the worse things will become.For example, here are four of the more dominant points with respect to the current system:-The Market System is based on “Cyclical Consumption” and in order for society to continue it’s economic operation through “labor” as the basic starting point there must be perpetual turnover of goods and services and the rate of this turnover cannot be inhibited beyond a certain level. The consequence is that strategic conservation and efficiency (the true measures of the quality of an “economy”) in the ecological, technological and hence/scientific sense become detrimental factors to perpetuating the artificial need for Cyclical Consumption. In other words the less efficient the goods and services produced, the more eventual demand and the more turnover will occur in general to meet those needs. This is the exact opposite of what logic demands for a true economic system, which would need to be based on preservation and maximum sustainability/strategic longevity. The reduction of consumption and waste is a central need for ongoing human survival on a finite planet. We live in an “anti-economy,” in fact.-Similar to the above, the Market System’s use of the immutable “Cost Efficiency” strategy denies the possibility that the most strategically advanced goods are created and hence we exist in a constant state of “efficiency/cultural lag.” It is simply impossible in a competitive system to make the strategic best and the result is excessive waste on many levels - from the waste of labor, to the waste of energy, to the waste of materials. Invention and application is a technical/scientific process and the Market System is simply an interference, which degrades the quality of goods and services.-The Debt Based Monetary System operates by “pyramiding” money to cover outstanding debts; hence inflation and bankruptcy is a natural byproduct as money is constantly scarce in proportion to the debt outstanding at all times. The end result is always deficiency and hence social deprivation in some demographic or region. Balance is impossible for there is never enough money in circulation to cover the interest charges imposed on the currency created. This creates a spectrum of ongoing deficiency, which moves like a cancer between individuals, families, cities, states and countries. This deprivation is truly detrimental to our public health as it guarantees that some win and some lose over time. The word “inhumane” is an understatement and this debt phenomenon is like a cruel social experiment.-There is no Physical Referent for decision-making processes in the Market System and this creates a vast, wasteful inefficiency with respect to the resources/materials/designs to be used and the goods created. “Price Efficiency,” which is often thought of a means of organization that ostensibly “accounts” for resource management (for example, if a resource goes scarce the price rises to offset demand) is a completely decoupled, unscientific notion with no basis in the physical world; hence neglecting the concept of “technical efficiency,” which is the true ecological/economic measure. In other words, we should not be making things based upon what we can “afford.” This is an artificial measure based on nothing tangible. It is based on a decoupled "game" and nothing more. We should be making things based on what the scientific method teaches us as to the best means to manage our conduct.Moreover, unlike the prior films of the series, this film lends more direct support to the data sets of both The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project as Activist and Sustainability organizations respectively. Please visit thevenusproject.com and thezeitgeistmovement.com to learn more about these issues and how to help bring the world back in line with nature. |