Zeitgeist Moving Forward Critique by Stefan Molynuex

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Interesting critique that I agree with many portions of.

What I still want to know is what is the root cause of money? I know films like Zeitgeist attempt to tell us where it comes from and how it's produced. But I'm afraid I didn't catch the why? Of course I have my own theories as to why, I'm just wondering if any Zeitgeist fans have any clues?

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Just for info

Hey there =)

so, I want to state - I am active in ZM for about a year now, but I do not like the new film, for a lot of reasons. Neither am I a big supporter of The Venus Project... Anyway, since you ask - here Peters reply on this critique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozy52bZ6JTw

I did not listen to either of them, I am just tired of the whole thing at the moment, it just makes me irritated, so I am staying away =)

But I like ZM, since it brings together people who wants to talk about alternatives to the current, failing system...

With love!
S

Wow, thanks for posting

Wow, thanks for posting Peters reply, I was hoping that would turn up at some point. I was involved with TZM from the start but then exiled since about.... when did I sign up at Evolver? So I guess I don't see them as "wanting to talk" so much. I love what's going on now because now the discussion is pouring out into the public venue.

To my point specifically, he still doesn't answer it, he never has. He's come close. He acknowledges that a value shift is necessary, but hasn't quite figured how he himself needs to shift. That's why there's no link between where he is and where he's trying to go. True for both sides of this discussion. Meanwhile, this thing's probably going to crash down around them before they can ever apply this wealth of knowledge to their own conditions.

So long as these groups have this "wait and see" attitude in order to prove themselves right are only going to get caught up in it. And that is what's going kill us all, this back and forth.

"You just wait and see!", "No, You just wait and see!", "Oh you'll see alright!", " you just wait, YOU JUST WAIT...", "Oh I'll wait alright, then you'll see!", "Yeah you wait, you'll SEE!"

...oh brother...

And I wanna say "give it rest guys" but I can't because they need to get over it already, but they won't because you can't wake those convinced that they are already awake and there's nothing anyone can do to implant this inception in their minds.

<3

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."

=)

Well, in the Vienna ZM Chapter we discuss loads, we even invited a whole panel with interesting people who debated ZMF on the premier, and we will continue like this =) I dont know how other chapters are, but I have connected with all kinds of people in ZM.

I basically agree with your points of critique here below, and I think that the answer to our future lies in open discussions. Though I do believe that "the masses" do want to wake up - all in their own way... =)

Love and a big hug!
S

I'm actually tight with one

I'm actually tight with one of the local organizers. He actually introduced me to DiMiTri... But he's just one of many and after I got banded from the main board was exiled to the chapter board but they couldn't handle it either and was promptly banned from there also. So for me, I find most of anything they say to be very hypocritical. I met with the local group a couple times and it definitely has it's share of irrational, emotionally unstable, cognitively dissonant outspoken pundits or psy-ops, idk, it's hard to tell sometimes.

You wanna know what the final straw the broke the camels back was? "How much of your conditioning are you prepared to come out of?" Conditioning? What conditioning? Many of them think that because they saw Zeitgeist they're awake now. They'll say everyone's been brainwashed without first thinking "hey, maybe I was brainwashed.", "maybe I'm not exempt.", "maybe I need to be a better observer." Well, isn't that one of the main attributes of science? To observe. I mean how do you wake someone up to that? Anyway, ever since then I have been trying to force the discussion out of the box.

<3

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."

I can totally relate to that experience ...

...but I have more experienced that in the international forums, I wrote smth about that after ZMF came out btw - I wanted to post the link to this critique under this post for days, but the ZM homepage seems to be down or to slow all the time... But here is the same text as a comment on an Evolver post- I developed it a bit better for my ZM-post, but well - its still the "same same but different " =)

http://www.evolver.net/user/hello_im_alex/blog/reality_sandwich_delibera...

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Interesting critique

Interesting critique but I found that PJ's response basically ripped the whole thing apart.

Well it ain't over you

Well it ain't over you know...

Stefan has posted yet another reply.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9WEWcbfnHg

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."

Beyond thought

I must admit the ZM stuff is very fascinating and I love the research and examples that are discussed in the first half of the film. And, regarding the personal arguments above, Peter Joseph's response was very systematically superior, in every way (except in his own irritation). I am in academic sciences and have sat through countless reasearch talks, PhD thesis defenses, etc and he truly is a master at defending his argument.

BUT, the fundamental flaw in his work (and in Stefan's) as Absalom points out, is this (and I would never be able to point this out in other forums but since universal consciousness is a theme and goal here at Evolvler):

The idea that these problems can be solved exclusively with the 'thinking mind'. The thinking mind is the source of most of the problems, this mind which arises from the ego, even in its subtlest forms. There is a consciousness and intelligence beyond our thinking minds. Anybody around here who has done enough psychedelics, visited yogis, had near death experiences, etc knows that. Until your consciousness is seating Unity (rather than dualistically...wait that's an oxymoron!) we can't even begin to 'know' what an optimal strategy is. To claim an understanding of planetary efficiency and global sustainability without being rooting in the One is ludicrous...and futile.

As such a staunch supporter of science, PJ should reflect on some of Albert Einstein's quotes:

"The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking (mind) we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them."

"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slightest details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

I didn't make it all the way

I didn't make it all the way through Stefan's critique and I'm not going to bother with the other one. I support ZM because its one of the few sources doing what it is doing, talking about what it is talking about. Everyone around me has no idea about any of this stuff, they are blind to even the first inklings of a worldview aligned with ZM. I would love to be shown other sources raising the same sort of questions ZM and producing anything near the quality that they produce.

"To claim an understanding of planetary efficiency and global sustainability without being rooting in the One is ludicrous...and futile."

I agree. Zeitgeist Addendum sort of presented unity consciousness as the ultimate solution rather than encouraging taking to the streets as Moving Forward did. (Seriously is there no other way to change things than going out and getting our asses beat by jacked up macho policemen? I mean, I'll do it if it comes down to that even though I don't trust them not to shoot me... But there has got to be another way.)

I definitely think they we will not see the sort of shining eco-city future that ZM imagines any time soon. I think we have a lot of falling apart to do before we are ready to do something on that level. Nevertheless, the more our peers can absorb the sort of thinking that ZM is encouraging with its films, the better.

"I am a human animal and I'm prepared to accept the consequences." Tom Robbins

I think you just illustrated

I think you just illustrated the flaws by your very own experience. You said so yourself that most of the people around you haven't a clue about any of this stuff. Yet the "plan" requires this seething mass of humanity to alter their values. Okay so what's going to alter the values of the masses? For me this is where they put the cart before the horse. They'd say education, but look around, do the masses look like they want to be educated? So you need the masses to make it happen, can't do it without them, but since they don't know anything and not educated enough to make the necessary decisions to see the thing threw, can't make this a realization due to fitness of the participants.

They have an altruistic "view" of "saving others" or "saving the planet"; without first "saving themselves". Rave about applying science, but haven't yet applied that science to their own present circumstance. Same goes for Molyneux and the like. Both point to something exterior as both the problem and the solution. Both suffer the same affliction. One wants to escape the State the other wants to escape the Monetary system which both exists due to the same mechanism. People don't honor their agreements.; or they have no faith in their brother and thus put their faith in either Money or the State.

Both of which if were gone tomorrow wouldn't change the fact that people don't honor their agreements and the fact that they don't means once the State is gone and the means by which remedy and justice applied made unavailable. Well now we're right back to tar and feathering each other in the street. Which, is why they created the military industrial complex. So you're not going to fight an insurrection. Not against what they got and they got a lot of back up. If the US fails to suppress domestic social unrest they can just promote China to the enforcement arm and they have a larger standing army than the entire US population. So there is no fight.

The international community has protocols for dispute resolution that they all recognize and observe and have treaty on. I'm not biased, I don't really care what type of government you prefer or if you were in charge how you'd run it. It doesn't really matter to me, the path for all is the same. To go to peace with the system and become the State; by forming a new nation state among the family of nations. Whereby threw treaty position and variation of agreement are not liable for the fraud or anything else "they" do in their system. It is the only way one can sustain themselves while this system exists as well as not contribute to feeding the beast.

This is why nobody has political rights. They don't have nor have they ever had a social contract; they've been subject under say, the US constitution. But as that entity was the sole property of the signatories to it. None of us have any rights and never did. So the solution is to get an agreement, form a social compact, pledge life, fortune, and sacred honor to uphold declarations that you can believe in, the way the founders of the United States did and assume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station to which Nature and Natures God entitle. I'm talking about the Right of Self-Determination.

I know this is difficult for many to grasp, but this is about peace, it always was. But if you're not building your society with your Posterity and Stewarding the planet, just milling around as a slave on someone elses tax plantation, then complaining about the conditions when you've done nothing to secure your freedom. Not demonstrated that steadfast purpose without lawlessness, fickleness, folly, or self-indulgence and proved beyond the shadow of doubt that you are sovereign. Then you're not nor can you be truly free. Here again, I don't think the universe is impressed; I don't thing the ET's are impressed; I don't think the Elites are impressed and they have all the guns.

So, I am looking to move forward... Because i realize my station and how I came into this world...blind, stupid, and woefully positioned within a family to learn what I actually "needed" to learn. Is it now not the time for a new family?; Think the universe isn't watching? The "godfather" is abusive, it's a dysfunctional family, I would like to leave now.

Judgment day is coming and we all shall be faced with the same question; same opportunity to choose. Freedom or servitude. But don't take this lightly, freedom is not a given, it's not so cut and dry or black and white. Freedom, true freedom is not for everyone. Clearly we can look out at the world and see that not everyone possess the capacity to learn nor the fitness to be free. Not even among the most outspoken of us like Peter Joseph or Stefan Molynuex yet possess it. Otherwise we'd see it. Thus, tainting their solutions with their own hypocrisy. Which makes for a long reach. This is why I don't spend my time on the masses as much as I don't spend my time with the prideful cult of personalities with their regurgitated facts proclaiming to be awake. You simply cannot wake those people who think they already are. I spend my time with Evolvers, you all who at least halfway get it. Mostly awake with far fewer spiritual hang-ups.

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."

my critique

I have my own critique if you'd like to read it:
http://www.kindagamey.com/2011/01/re-zeitgeist-moving-forward/

I'm pro- resource management, but i think centralization leads to corruption or weakness. I think the movement needs to be a safety net that grows in the cracks of the current system, not a city from scratch. I think science needs to wake up to the fact that the world is much bigger than the mechanistic viewpoint; that our reality is intertwined with consciousness.
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Be aware of yourself and the change will come naturally.

Cart before the horse and still can't be led to water

I was totally unfamiliar with the ZM thing until this post and the trailer teasers were posted here so I went and checked out the site, and I'd like to see the movie.

But reading what they have proposed so far, in that a solely technological - political solution, is not enough. As someone who's been involved in architecture for 15 years the solutions to our resource problems have been on the shelves since the 70's. In the practice I worked at we dusted them off and demonstrated how we could help clients save $$ over time. My principal was at the 1st Earth Day, and has designed subterranean energy efficient houses that still stand today, (and probably will 100 years from now). I would love for it to be so simple to be a mass change to zoning, building codes and ordinances to begin changing how our cities and buildings work, but that takes time, money and political will across not just the US but around the world where there is no such thing as building regulation. The US has the most complex, pro-community, pro-safety, set of building codes in the world. Look around you, this is the best we got. And other than ADA (American with Disabilities Act), everything governing construction, zoning, and efficiency is local.

Even those interested in utilizing the most green tech it still comes down to the bottom line. It takes a change in thinking. Even if the developer want's to be the most resource efficient and responcible, his investors want the lowest upfront investment and the fastest pay back. We have to change people's spirit to not cling to money for money's sake, but to do the best they can with what they have, and no amount of math and specifications can do that. I agree, developers, investors and consumers have to transcend a lot of baggage to even begin to make the kinds of changes ZM suggests.

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Money and consciousness

Some thoughts on Stefan and the Zeitgeist Movement:
He mentions entrepreneurs create wealth. Really? Is it not that they actually convert life into money. The wealth is already there. In economics a forest is worthless unless it is converted into board-feet of lumber and sold. Once something enters the realm of money there is a constant pressure to grow. But nothing can grow forever. Thus we need a new money system not more free enterprise capitalism with a patchwork of technological solutions.

Are resources really scarce or is it that money is scarce? We live in a world/universe of abundance if we can change our consciousness. As humanity's consciousness shifts to a higher frequency then we may see the acceptance of free energy technology, which I believe is real.

Many people have suggested money with negative interest. This would make money operate like everything else in the universe which is to decay over time. Money with negative interest would flow from those who don't need it to those who do. It would create greater equality and end the desire to accumulate more money. This stems from the fact that the universe does want to provide for us. We've created this dog eat dog world through the use of money with interest.

If we believe that nature is competitive (survival of the fittest) then that assumes a winner and a loser. But if the lion wins and eats all the antelope then the lion loses too. In nature it seems all creatures are of equal value whether they are big or small. It is a series of interdependent relationships. The blade of grass is no less important than any top predator or graceful humpback whale. Human behavior seems to mirror our culture of money and places great value on those jobs or persons that create the most money...e.g. stock brokers. That is why the system creates so much inequality and suffering.

Material desires are not infinite if all material needs are met. The only desire that is infinite is our desire to expand consciousness. Material desires are only substitutes for a lack of infinite consciousness. Our current paradigm says we are separate competing egos (consumers) while in reality we are all connected and have the potential for boundless awareness and love.

The criticism of the current system in ZM is quite correct. However like another poster suggests we can't keep using the same tools that created the problem to fix the problem.

Part III

Ok just watched Part III of Moving Forward, just about puked after the opening monologue that "unlike politics and religion, science has no ego." If he really believes that then he has no understanding of the purpose of religion (aside from those who have systematically abused it throughout history), and say the US Constitution or Bill or Rights which have no ego either in and of themselves. I have a PhD in biology from a tier 1 university and while 'science' may have no ego as a method, I've yet to meet a scientist without an ego. People have egos, tools don't. This I see is his fundamental shortcoming of really nailing the root or core problems (as I stated in a previous post) created in our society.

An outright cynical and contrite dismissal of religion is as totally ignorant as an outright dismissal of science (ask Einstein). Science AND religion AND politics have all contributed devastating atrocities to humanity. He seems essentially a philosophical materialist.

Funny that 'survival' is the basis for sustainability in his new world. Anyone who understands the chakra system (Kabbalistic systems) knows that survival is the root (and lowest vibration) form of energy in our being. There are other higher spheres (and vibrations) of influence in chakra (or Sepiroth) system. An imbalance in this chakra combined with cutoff from the vibratory spheres, is the source of our duality and hence the source of the instinct of self-preservation at the expense of all others.

Oh yeah, and a fucking computer running everything, what is this The Matrix?! The Beast of Revelations?

I did however like the final chapter and the discussion of peak oil, Michael Ruppert was a nice addition to this entire film.

Ummm.....

Stefen and Peter are both douchebags.

The end.

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