Zeitgeist Addendum
 

It's been floating around for a month and a half now and what are peoples' thoughts? I'm sure some of you have seen it. If not it's here: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Let's get the shitstorm started again.

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I've watched the first one, it was ok. Hard to believe/accept some of it though. Watching this one.

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The economics at the beginning are some of the reason why the US economy is in "recession." The whole accepting some money, creating a ton more, loaning it out, and debt creation.

I'm probably a 2/5's through the addendum thing right now.

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Just finished it. It was ok. I don't agree with the idea of one world, no one left behind, everybody contributes idea though. Sounds great, but I don't see that ever happening. I don't think it could ever happen. And I'm not talking about 100.00000% participation not being possible. Even if the system magically started at 100% participation world wide, people would be even more inherent to be lazy and not participate, and not work to better everyone. So what happens if people refuse to participate? There's no law or police to make people. But for the system to work, everyone needs to participate. Some people won't accept "satisfaction" as reward enough for their efforts. Way too many flaws in the system for it to ever work.

Truthfully, I think education is the single most important thing that could realistically be improved and benefit everybody. It starts at home though.

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shhhhhhh about education. Talking about that around here is against the rules.

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lol, that film is propaganda for their little Venus project, which is essentially the exact same "perfect society" that Karl Marx descibed in the "Communist Manifesto", so its a case for communism which we already know doesn't work, it talks so bad about the currency system but at the end of the video it asks you to go to their website where you can donate to the Venus Project. ::)

Theres alot of other ---- in there that also is just wrong, they fail to point out that humans are naturally selfish and all things they do are self serving (Thomas Paine talks about this in "Common Sense") and noone in their perfect society would participate because they wouldn't be required to, like if their maglev trains break down who will fix them? oh wait, well thats one of those mundane "slave" jobs......

But whats said about the IMF and world bank, as well as how they ---- other countries is dead on accurate, but theres other people that explain it better (see a book by Chalmers Johnson called "The Sorrows of Empire", or Naomi Kleins "Disaster Capitalism") anyway the real way to change the world is for people to quit being ------- ignorant morons and read books from the Non-Fiction section of the library for a change.

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Better dead than Red. :X

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Yeah it got funny towards the end. Funny queer not funny haha.

The Venus project bs is not something attainable before we destroy ourselves, which is what's going to happen.

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:P