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	==Philosophy and history==		==Philosophy and history==
	The Zeitgeist Movement describes itself as an educational group based on the belief that the ] economy must be replaced with a system in which the Earth's resources are equally shared by its inhabitants in a moneyless and ] system where debt, credit, exchange, barter, wage labor, private property and the profit motive would be eliminated.<ref name=huffpost>{{cite web \|title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future \|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html \|date=Mar 16, 2010 \|publisher='']''}}</ref><ref name="TVP-RBE">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy\|title=Resource Based Economy\|publisher=]}}</ref><ref name=PalmBeachPost>, Rhonda Swan, ], April 30, 2009</ref><ref name=VCreporter/><ref name=RT-Sept-2011/><ref name=RT-Dec-2011/><ref name=TheMarkerTV>, ] (Israel), Jan. 19, 2012. Interview conducted in English, following a brief introduction to Joseph and the movement in Hebrew.</ref>		The Zeitgeist Movement describes itself as an educational group based on the belief that the ] economy must be replaced with a system in which the Earth's resources are equally shared by its inhabitants in a moneyless and ] system where debt, credit, exchange, barter, wage labor, artificial scarcity (Planned Obsolescence) leading to wars, private property and the profit motive would be eliminated.<ref name=huffpost>{{cite web \|title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future \|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html \|date=Mar 16, 2010 \|publisher='']''}}</ref><ref name="TVP-RBE">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy\|title=Resource Based Economy\|publisher=]}}</ref><ref name=PalmBeachPost>, Rhonda Swan, ], April 30, 2009</ref><ref name=VCreporter/><ref name=RT-Sept-2011/><ref name=RT-Dec-2011/><ref name=TheMarkerTV>, ] (Israel), Jan. 19, 2012. Interview conducted in English, following a brief introduction to Joseph and the movement in Hebrew.</ref>

	Zeitgeist movement members say the current socioeconomic system is structurally corrupt and needs to be replaced with a system based on efficient and careful resource use through the technological potential of ].<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TVP-RBE"/><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news\|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=2\|title=They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present\|publisher=] \|date=2009-03-16}}</ref><ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, ] (Israel), January 19, 2012.</ref><ref name="Globes20100318">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , ] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref>		Zeitgeist movement members say the current socioeconomic system is structurally corrupt and needs to be replaced with a system based on efficient and careful resource use through the technological potential of ].<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TVP-RBE"/><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news\|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=2\|title=They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present\|publisher=] \|date=2009-03-16}}</ref><ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, ] (Israel), January 19, 2012.</ref><ref name="Globes20100318">Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of , ] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref>

	The movement was originally inspired by ]'s film '']'' (2008).<ref>{{cite news \|url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3245249-421/hogancamp-marwencol-zeitgeist-dolls-films.html?print=true \| title=Art-house films: ‘Marwencol,’ ‘Zeitgeist’ \| accessdate=March 7, 2011 \| author=Bill Stamets \| date=February 15, 2011 \| publisher=]}}</ref> Zeitgeist used to be the activist arm of ] (TVP), which featured in the films '']'' and '']'' (Jan. 2011) as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>, but in Aug. 2011 the groups split and currently are not associated with each other.<ref name=faq>{{cite web\|title=The Zeitgeist Movement – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) \|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq}}</ref>		The movement was originally inspired by ]'s film '']'' (2008).<ref>{{cite news \|url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3245249-421/hogancamp-marwencol-zeitgeist-dolls-films.html?print=true \| title=Art-house films: ‘Marwencol,’ ‘Zeitgeist’ \| accessdate=March 7, 2011 \| author=Bill Stamets \| date=February 15, 2011 \| publisher=]}}</ref> Zeitgeist used to be the activist arm of ] (TVP), which featured in the films '']'' and '']'' (Jan. 2011) as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>, but in Aug. 2011 the groups split and currently are not associated with each other.<ref name=faq>{{cite web\|title=The Zeitgeist Movement – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) \|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq}}</ref>

			==Main ideas as brought forward in the Zeitgeist movies==

			====Corrupt financial system====
			Money is created out of thin air through loans. Interest is charged on those loans, that doesn't exist in the pool of money, which means there is more outstanding debt than there is money to pay for it. This lends itself to more debt being created to cover it. Failure and bankruptcy is inevitable. The lower classes are paying the interest while the upper classes receive money trough deposits. This creates a flow of money from the lower classes to the upper classes. This results in a structural class divide.
			<ref name=Culture in Decline - What Democracy?>,Culture in Decline - What Democracy? </ref>

			====Intrinsic and planned obsolescence====
			It is technically impossible to produce the best of anything if a company is to maintain a competitive edge, and hence remain affordable to the consumer. This wasteful consequence of the system could be termed 'intrinsic obsolescence'.
			'Planned obsolescence' deliberately recognizes that the longer any good is in operation the worse it is for sustaining consumption. In other words, product sustainability is inverse to economic growth. There is a direct incentive to make sure lifespans are short of any given goods produced.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====Infinite growth paradigm====
			The monetary system will create ever more goods, only concerned with consumption and ever increasing profit. This tendency for infinite growth collides with the earths finite resources, making the system unsustainable by default.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====Technological unemployment====
			More and more jobs are going to be taken over by automation. In the near future this will affect people's purchasing power in such a negative way, that the system will collapse as goods can no longer be bought.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====Nature versus Nurture====
			Human beings are the product of their environment, more than of their genes. They are not greedy by nature, nor are they evil. Unhealthy conditions set by the monetary system results in negative psychological health. A resource based system is said to bring about more altruism, trust and cooperation in people.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====War and regional conflict====
			According to Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco, as conflict usually is about resources, denouncing resources common heritage will likely help bring about more peaceful coexistence.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====Crime====
			Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco state that as crime is usually the result of a lack of access to resources, in a resource based economy most crime would vanish.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			====Reducing work by automating====
			Only one percent of the population is said to have work in a resource based economy, due to automation.
			<ref name=Zeitgeist Moving Forward>,Zeitgeist Moving Forward </ref>

			==Activities==
			The movement holds an annual event, ], in March.<ref name=huffpost/><ref name="TheMarker20120119"/> It was first held in 2009 in New York City.<ref name=nytimes/> The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide."<ref name=huffpost/> London and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://blog.brockwood.org.uk/2011/04/11/brockwood-at-zeitgeist-day-in-london-march-13th-2011/ \|title=Brockwood at Zeitgeist-Day in London – March 13th, 2011 \|publisher=Brockwood Park School \|date=2011-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC \|url=http://www.voguetheatre.com/detail.php?id=252 \|publisher=voguetheatre.com}}</ref>

	==Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)==		==Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)==
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	"A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures ; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."<ref name=zday>http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref>		"A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures ; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."<ref name=zday>http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref>

	== ~~Criticism of the~~ Zeitgeist ~~movement~~ ==		==Zeitgeist Media Festival==
			In 2011, the first Zeitgeist Media Festival Event was held at the Music Box in Hollywood CA, USA in late September. They also streamed the event on the internet where "well over 100,000 people tuned in from all over the world."<ref name=ZMF>http://www.zeitgeistmediafestival.org/about.html Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref>
⚫	'']''<ref name=huffpost/>, '']''<ref name=nytimes/>, '']''<ref name=PalmBeachPost/>, '']''<ref name="Globes20100318"/>, '']''<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>, ''VC Reporter'' <ref name=VCreporter>, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter (California), May 12, 2011</ref>, ]<ref name=RT-Sept-2011> , ], Sept. 14, 2011</ref><ref name=RT-Dec-2011> , ], Dec. 2, 2011</ref> and '']''<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/17/jared-loughners-zeitgeist-obse Retrieval June-07-12</ref> criticized various aspects of the Zeitgeist movement, specifically: (a) ], (b) reduced ] in their proposed economy, (c) practical difficulties in a transition to that economy, and (d) subscribing to ] in '']'', the original 2007 film that inspired the movement. The movement responded to the criticism by saying that (a) it does not believe in utopia because there is no final frontier, and that, instead, it believes in a non-finite process of updating society's notions of economics and politics to continuously re-align them with new scientific and technical discoveries, (b) workers will be intrinsically motivated, (c) the difficulties, while very serious, are not impossible to overcome, and (d) there is no direct association between ~~the~~ ~~material~~ in the Zeitgeist documentaries and the movement.<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/><ref name=TheMarkerTV/><ref name=huffpost/><ref name=nytimes/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=VCreporter/><ref name=RT-Sept-2011/><ref name=RT-Dec-2011/><ref name=faq/><ref name="Understanding20120715">, The Zeitgeist Movement, July 15, 2012</ref>

			According to their mission statement "The Mission of The Zeitgeist Media Festival is to unify the world through annual awareness events that bridge the difference between all nations, races, classes, genders and creeds; to understand we all share the same basic needs; to understand we are truly One Family sharing One Habitat and that our world views and hence societal approaches should reflect this foundational Global Perspective. The ZMF works to help facilitate this unifying expression for all socially conscious organizations that wish to use the power of Art to effect change in the social "Zeitgeist" - advancing our value system to see how much positive possibility there is for real social change if we choose not to fear it."<ref name=ZMF>http://www.zeitgeistmediafestival.org/about.html Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref>

			At the 2011 ZMF event various people and bands performed including Peter Joseph, The Lions, Hierosonic, Lost Children of Babylon and Natacha Atlas.

			== Debate ==
		⚫	'']''<ref name=huffpost/>, '']''<ref name=nytimes/>, '']''<ref name=PalmBeachPost/>, '']''<ref name="Globes20100318"/>, '']''<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/>, ''VC Reporter'' <ref name=VCreporter>, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter (California), May 12, 2011</ref>, ]<ref name=RT-Sept-2011> , ], Sept. 14, 2011</ref><ref name=RT-Dec-2011> , ], Dec. 2, 2011</ref> and '']''<ref>http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/17/jared-loughners-zeitgeist-obse Retrieval June-07-12</ref> criticized various aspects of the Zeitgeist movement, specifically: (a) ], (b) reduced ] in their proposed economy, (c) practical difficulties in a transition to that economy, and (d) subscribing to ] in '']'', the original 2007 film that inspired the movement. The movement responded to the criticism by saying that (a) it does not believe in utopia because there is no final frontier, and that, instead, it believes in a non-finite process of updating society's notions of economics and politics to continuously re-align them with new scientific and technical discoveries,(a2)As a utopia can't exist by definition, you could say a resource based economy is utopian meaning it is unfeasible, you can't however ''critize'' it for ''being'' utopian because that's a wrong use of the concept utopia (comment by individual Tzm member) (b) workers will be intrinsically motivated,(b2)''harmful'' and ''dishonest'' incentive will be reduced (comment by Tzm member) (c) the difficulties, while very serious, are not impossible to overcome, and (d) there is no direct association between that theory in the first Zeitgeist documentaries and the movement, thereby is there nothing necessarily wrong in having an alternative vision of this event<ref name="TheMarker20120119"/><ref name=TheMarkerTV/><ref name=huffpost/><ref name=nytimes/><ref name=PalmBeachPost/><ref name="Globes20100318"/><ref name=VCreporter/><ref name=RT-Sept-2011/><ref name=RT-Dec-2011/><ref name=faq/><ref name="Understanding20120715">, The Zeitgeist Movement, July 15, 2012</ref>

	An article in the '']'' described the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of ] spirituality and ], asserting that ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'' claims that "organised religion is about social control and that ] was an inside job."<ref name=jcr109>{{cite journal \|last1=Ward \|first1=Charlotte \|last2=Voas \|first2=David \|year=2011 \|title=The Emergence of Conspirituality \|journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|page=109 \|doi= \|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846 \|accessdate=June 16, 2012}}</ref> The movement said that the article paints an "incorrect, misleading, offensive and defaming picture of the movement," and that the material in the first movie is unrelated to the movement.<ref name="Understanding20120715"/>		An article in the '']'' described the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of ] spirituality and ], asserting that ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'' claims that "organised religion is about social control and that ] was an inside job."<ref name=jcr109>{{cite journal \|last1=Ward \|first1=Charlotte \|last2=Voas \|first2=David \|year=2011 \|title=The Emergence of Conspirituality \|journal=Journal of Contemporary Religion \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|page=109 \|doi= \|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846 \|accessdate=June 16, 2012}}</ref> The movement said that the article paints an "incorrect, misleading, offensive and defaming picture of the movement," and that the material in the first movie is unrelated to the movement.<ref name="Understanding20120715"/>
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	In 2009 a German social networking site, ], banned Zeitgeist groups from their site for promoting antisemitism. Zeitgeist's Australian website commented on the ban thusly: 'The decision made by StudiVZ was without basis, the accusation devoid of evidence'.<ref name=studivz>http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/studivznet-shut-down-zeitgeist-groups/ Retrieval June 2, 2012</ref><ref name="Understanding20120715"/>		In 2009 a German social networking site, ], banned Zeitgeist groups from their site for promoting antisemitism. Zeitgeist's Australian website commented on the ban thusly: 'The decision made by StudiVZ was without basis, the accusation devoid of evidence'.<ref name=studivz>http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/studivznet-shut-down-zeitgeist-groups/ Retrieval June 2, 2012</ref><ref name="Understanding20120715"/>

			(1) Communism/Marxism/centralized planning will never work. (1) To say that humanity must perpetually be in conflict, through market competition, exploitation, conflicts over resources and conflicts over beliefs, and to abstain from making every possible effort to unite it, is setting the bar awfully low. More than that, it's just not an option.

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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The Zeitgeist Movement
File:Zeitgeist Movement globe.jpgMovement logo
Abbreviation	TZM or ZM
Formation	August 18, 2008
Type	Social movement
Region served	Global
Key people	Peter Joseph
Website	www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

The Zeitgeist Movement is a global, nonprofit, nonviolent sustainability and social equality advocacy organization founded in 2008. Zeitgeist proposes that humanity should, essentially, abolish capitalism, the nation-state and parliamentary bodies, and adopt a moneyless global socioeconomic system in which all resources would be equitably, commonly, and sustainably shared.

Philosophy and history

The Zeitgeist Movement describes itself as an educational group based on the belief that the "monetary-market" economy must be replaced with a system in which the Earth's resources are equally shared by its inhabitants in a moneyless and stateless system where debt, credit, exchange, barter, wage labor, artificial scarcity (Planned Obsolescence) leading to wars, private property and the profit motive would be eliminated.

Zeitgeist movement members say the current socioeconomic system is structurally corrupt and needs to be replaced with a system based on efficient and careful resource use through the technological potential of sustainable development.

The movement was originally inspired by Peter Joseph's film Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008). Zeitgeist used to be the activist arm of The Venus Project (TVP), which featured in the films Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (Jan. 2011) as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems, but in Aug. 2011 the groups split and currently are not associated with each other.

Main ideas as brought forward in the Zeitgeist movies

Corrupt financial system

Money is created out of thin air through loans. Interest is charged on those loans, that doesn't exist in the pool of money, which means there is more outstanding debt than there is money to pay for it. This lends itself to more debt being created to cover it. Failure and bankruptcy is inevitable. The lower classes are paying the interest while the upper classes receive money trough deposits. This creates a flow of money from the lower classes to the upper classes. This results in a structural class divide. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Intrinsic and planned obsolescence

It is technically impossible to produce the best of anything if a company is to maintain a competitive edge, and hence remain affordable to the consumer. This wasteful consequence of the system could be termed 'intrinsic obsolescence'. 'Planned obsolescence' deliberately recognizes that the longer any good is in operation the worse it is for sustaining consumption. In other words, product sustainability is inverse to economic growth. There is a direct incentive to make sure lifespans are short of any given goods produced. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Infinite growth paradigm

The monetary system will create ever more goods, only concerned with consumption and ever increasing profit. This tendency for infinite growth collides with the earths finite resources, making the system unsustainable by default. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Technological unemployment

More and more jobs are going to be taken over by automation. In the near future this will affect people's purchasing power in such a negative way, that the system will collapse as goods can no longer be bought. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Nature versus Nurture

Human beings are the product of their environment, more than of their genes. They are not greedy by nature, nor are they evil. Unhealthy conditions set by the monetary system results in negative psychological health. A resource based system is said to bring about more altruism, trust and cooperation in people. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

War and regional conflict

According to Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco, as conflict usually is about resources, denouncing resources common heritage will likely help bring about more peaceful coexistence. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Crime

Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco state that as crime is usually the result of a lack of access to resources, in a resource based economy most crime would vanish. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Reducing work by automating

Only one percent of the population is said to have work in a resource based economy, due to automation. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Activities

The movement holds an annual event, Z-day, in March. It was first held in 2009 in New York City. The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide." London and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.

Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)

The movement holds an annual event, Z-Day, in March. It was first held in 2009 in New York City. The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide." London and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.

"A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures ; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."

Zeitgeist Media Festival

In 2011, the first Zeitgeist Media Festival Event was held at the Music Box in Hollywood CA, USA in late September. They also streamed the event on the internet where "well over 100,000 people tuned in from all over the world."

According to their mission statement "The Mission of The Zeitgeist Media Festival is to unify the world through annual awareness events that bridge the difference between all nations, races, classes, genders and creeds; to understand we all share the same basic needs; to understand we are truly One Family sharing One Habitat and that our world views and hence societal approaches should reflect this foundational Global Perspective. The ZMF works to help facilitate this unifying expression for all socially conscious organizations that wish to use the power of Art to effect change in the social "Zeitgeist" - advancing our value system to see how much positive possibility there is for real social change if we choose not to fear it."

At the 2011 ZMF event various people and bands performed including Peter Joseph, The Lions, Hierosonic, Lost Children of Babylon and Natacha Atlas.

Debate

The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, Globes, TheMarker, VC Reporter , RT TV and Reason magazine criticized various aspects of the Zeitgeist movement, specifically: (a) utopianism, (b) reduced work incentives in their proposed economy, (c) practical difficulties in a transition to that economy, and (d) subscribing to 9/11 conspiracy theories in Zeitgeist: The Movie, the original 2007 film that inspired the movement. The movement responded to the criticism by saying that (a) it does not believe in utopia because there is no final frontier, and that, instead, it believes in a non-finite process of updating society's notions of economics and politics to continuously re-align them with new scientific and technical discoveries,(a2)As a utopia can't exist by definition, you could say a resource based economy is utopian meaning it is unfeasible, you can't however critize it for being utopian because that's a wrong use of the concept utopia (comment by individual Tzm member) (b) workers will be intrinsically motivated,(b2)harmful and dishonest incentive will be reduced (comment by Tzm member) (c) the difficulties, while very serious, are not impossible to overcome, and (d) there is no direct association between that theory in the first Zeitgeist documentaries and the movement, thereby is there nothing necessarily wrong in having an alternative vision of this event

An article in the Journal of Contemporary Religion described the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of New Age spirituality and conspiracy theory, asserting that Zeitgeist: The Movie claims that "organised religion is about social control and that 9/11 was an inside job." The movement said that the article paints an "incorrect, misleading, offensive and defaming picture of the movement," and that the material in the first movie is unrelated to the movement.

In Tablet magazine, Journalist Michelle Goldberg criticized Zeitgeist: The Movie as being "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories", and called the Zeitgeist movement "the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity." Zeitgeist said the accusations were "erroneous, pejorative, derogatory and intended to silence the movement's message", and that the movement does not blame international bankers, corporate leaders or politicians as individuals, but rather the global socioeconomic system that supports their values.

In 2009 a German social networking site, studiVZ, banned Zeitgeist groups from their site for promoting antisemitism. Zeitgeist's Australian website commented on the ban thusly: 'The decision made by StudiVZ was without basis, the accusation devoid of evidence'.

(1) Communism/Marxism/centralized planning will never work. (1) To say that humanity must perpetually be in conflict, through market competition, exploitation, conflicts over resources and conflicts over beliefs, and to abstain from making every possible effort to unite it, is setting the bar awfully low. More than that, it's just not an option.

References

^ "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Huffington Post. Mar 16, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Resource Based Economy". The Venus Project.
^ A dream worth having, Rhonda Swan, The Palm Beach Post, April 30, 2009
^ New world re-order: The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter (California), May 12, 2011
^ Zeitgeist Solutions: New World Re-Order, RT, Sept. 14, 2011
^ Zeitgeist Solutions: Money, Debt and RBE, RT, Dec. 2, 2011
^ Discussion of the Zeitgeist movement with Peter Joseph, TheMarkerTV (Israel), Jan. 19, 2012. Interview conducted in English, following a brief introduction to Joseph and the movement in Hebrew.
^ "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". New York Times. 2009-03-16.
^ Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of The Filmmaker Who Helped Recruit Millions for the Global Protests of the Bottom 99%, original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, TheMarker (Israel), January 19, 2012.
^ Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler, Globes (Israel), March 18, 2010.
Bill Stamets (February 15, 2011). "Art-house films: 'Marwencol,' 'Zeitgeist'". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
^ "The Zeitgeist Movement – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)".
"Brockwood at Zeitgeist-Day in London – March 13th, 2011". Brockwood Park School. 2011-04-11.
"Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC". voguetheatre.com.
"Brockwood at Zeitgeist-Day in London – March 13th, 2011". Brockwood Park School. 2011-04-11.
"Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC". voguetheatre.com.
http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012
^ http://www.zeitgeistmediafestival.org/about.html Retrieved July 30, 2012
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/17/jared-loughners-zeitgeist-obse Retrieval June-07-12
^ Understanding The Zeitgeist Movement Critics, The Zeitgeist Movement, July 15, 2012
Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved June 9, 2012
http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/studivznet-shut-down-zeitgeist-groups/ Retrieval June 2, 2012

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General	Appropriate technology Clean technology Climate smart agriculture Environmental design Environmental impact assessment Eco-innovation Ecotechnology Electric vehicle Energy recycling Environmental Design Environmental impact assessment Environmental impact design Green building Green vehicle Environmentally healthy community design Public interest design Sustainability Sustainability science Sustainable (agriculture architecture design development food systems industries procurement refurbishment technology transport)
Pollution	Air pollution (control dispersion modeling) Industrial ecology Solid waste treatment Waste management Water (agricultural wastewater treatment industrial wastewater treatment sewage treatment waste-water treatment technologies water purification)
Sustainable energy	Efficient energy use Electrification Energy development Energy recovery Fuel (alternative fuel biofuel carbon-neutral fuel hydrogen technologies) List of energy storage projects Renewable energy commercialization transition Sustainable lighting Transportation (electric vehicle hybrid vehicle)
Conservation	Building (green insulation natural sustainable architecture New Urbanism New Classical) Conservation biology Ecoforestry Efficient energy use Energy conservation Energy recovery Energy recycling Environmental movement Environmental remediation Glass in green buildings Green computing Heat recovery ventilation High-performance buildings Land rehabilitation Nature conservation Permaculture Recycling Water heat recycling

v t e Sustainability
Outline Index
Principles	Anthropocene Environmentalism Global governance Human impact on the environment Planetary boundaries Development
Consumption	Anthropization Anti-consumerism Circular economy Durable good Earth Overshoot Day Ecological footprint Ethical Green consumption Micro-sustainability Over-consumption Product stewardship Simple living Social return on investment Steady-state economy Sustainability Advertising Brand Marketing myopia Sustainable Consumer behaviour Market Systemic change resistance Tragedy of the commons
World population	Demographic transition Family planning Control Sustainable population
Technology	Appropriate Environmental technology Natural building Sustainable architecture Sustainable design Sustainable industries Sustainable packaging
Biodiversity	Biosecurity Biosphere Conservation biology Endangered species Holocene extinction Invasive species
Energy	Carbon footprint Renewable energy Sustainable energy
Food	Civic agriculture Climate-smart agriculture Community-supported agriculture Cultured meat Sustainable agriculture Sustainable diet Sustainable fishery
Water	Air well (condenser) Bioretention Bioswale Blue roof Catchwater Constructed wetland Detention basin Dew pond Footprint Hydroelectricity Hydropower Infiltration basin Irrigation tank Marine energy Micro hydro Ocean thermal energy conversion Pico hydro Rain garden Rainwater harvesting Rainwater tank Reclaimed water Retention basin Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity Scarcity Security Small hydro Sustainable drainage system Tidal power Tidal stream generator Tree box filter Water conservation Water heat recycling Water recycling shower Water-sensitive urban design
Accountability	Corporate environmental responsibility Corporate social responsibility Environmental accounting Environmental full-cost accounting Environmental planning Sustainability Accounting Measurement Metrics and indices Reporting Standards and certification Sustainable yield
Applications	Advertising Art Business City Climate finance Community Disinvestment Eco-capitalism Eco-cities Eco-investing Eco-socialism Ecovillage Environmental finance Green economy Construction Fashion Finance Gardening Geopark Green Development Infrastructure Marketing Green roof Greening Impact investing Landscape Livelihood Living Market Organic movement Organizations Procurement Refurbishment Socially responsible business Socially responsible marketing Sanitation Sourcing Space Sustainability organization Tourism Transport Urban drainage systems Urban infrastructure
Sustainable management	Environmental Fisheries Forest Humanistic capitalism Landscape Materials Natural resource Planetary Recycling Waste
Agreements and conferences	UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972) Brundtlandt Commission Report (1983) Our Common Future (1987) Earth Summit (1992) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) Agenda 21 (1992) Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) Lisbon Principles (1997) Earth Charter (2000) UN Millennium Declaration (2000) Earth Summit 2002 (Rio+10, Johannesburg) UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, 2012) Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
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