Chip wrote
at 5:27 am - 17th October 2008 Permalink

Yes, a resource based economy is more logical and our earthly short term survival ultimately will depend upon it. And yes the political system and religious institutions are based on lies, fear and greed. But, we should be careful not to through the baby out with the bathwater.

Hopefully, Obama is playing along with the political system until he gets elected, then when sworn in he will bring sweeping changes steering us toward a more sustainable economy and socialised democracy.

But the real truth is that a meteor could hit our planet tomorrow wiping out most of life, mankind for sure, thus the main question is how should we live today, the answer is simply with love and joy. As for planning for survival beyond the next catastrophe, we already have the technology to survive in our consciousness, teleportation. We really need to collectively meditate on moving to another planet….”beam me up Scotty”.

Elyce Courbois wrote
at 9:47 am - 17th October 2008 Permalink

Thank you so very much for sharing this profound capsule of life as we are living now – it has truly been an insight into a higher intelligence and I am of a different mind set because of viewing this beautifully presented reality. And to know I am not alone in it is somehow comforting to know.

Vlad Rangotchev wrote
at 6:40 pm - 25th November 2008 Permalink

Thank you. I wish more people get to see this movie.

Ian Tennant wrote
at 3:54 am - 1st December 2008 Permalink

Fantastic stuff – cheers for sharing. This has come at just the right time. The general media is creating such a sense of doom and gloom about the economic “crisis” we are experiencing. This movie shows clearly that the whole fanfare is uneccessary – and that mankind is fully able to create a wonderful future where all present global issue melt away.

NIKITA wrote
at 7:02 am - 16th December 2008 Permalink

While I agree with most of the information that I have seen from Zeitgeist movies the stabs taken on a persons right to believe that we are of a spirtual not religious being as well as a physical one underminds the very purpose that the film is for. By continuously attacking Christ it creates futher division and it was not neccessary to prove a very solid point. If a person wants to believe in Jesus or God or budda or the easter bunny it should be their right to do so. It serves the overall good to believe in us all being one and coming from a higher source and striving to reconnect with one another and that source. I may not understand the beliefs of another but in order to love that person unconditionally it means that i must not bash his or her beliefs or force my beliefs on that person. Religion can be controlling but sprituality is not. It is a very valuable resource in fact. There will still be imperfections and stresses even in a resourced based society and i would much rather be next to an individual who can focus himself on bettering his spirit man as a form of release rather than acting out violently towards a fellow human or other being in general. For without spiritual grow in us all the is an absence of hope and while there may be technologies technology does not take the place of some very basic human needs like comfort in tragedies and hope in an otherwise hopeless situation. The film seems to think that faith is “silly” or basically null and void in the place of technological advances and explaination for everything but EVERYONE excercises faith everyday. The technicians exercise faith when they walk outside and have faith that gravity will keep them from flying off of the planet or that the matter in the pencil will not spontaneously combust. It is perfectly ok to want to have a society free of religion but one free of all things spiritual in nature replaced by technology and science is just the same as chasing fake money.

michael maruta ananda stavrinides wrote
at 12:41 am - 17th December 2008 Permalink

Why don’t we create commune?

Joachim Skibenes wrote
at 12:57 am - 12th January 2009 Permalink

Lucas,

This movie is awakening. Thanks so much for sharing.
It puts words on the day to day frustration I experience living in society.

Joachim

Doron Hanoch wrote
at 10:55 pm - 24th January 2009 Permalink

I want to thank Nikita and Krishnamurti.

Yes, much of what the movie shows about the currant state is of great importance for the world to see and know.
But between that and thinking that science can be the new religion…
As long as humans still feel the division there will be issues. Which technology to build, what is better, who will build it? Who will maintain it? Who will grow vegetables, and is GMO food OK? Is GMO food not an invention of science?

It is crucial that all take action now. The action within oneself. Of Doing good, and respecting all that there is. Not action of division.

The issue is not with money, but with people handling the money. This issue, the way of greed, can be transformed into any system as it has been proved through history.

May we all find the joy of simplicity, of sustainability and love, first within ourselves, and then allow it to radiate to everything and everyone.

Thank You for sharing this with us Lucas.

mark wrote
at 6:27 am - 26th April 2009 Permalink

I have seen this film before and also the updated version 2. It might interest you in seeing LOOSE CHANGE a further insite into todays corporations and goverments with a lack of empathy, compassion and love for all ? Thanks for the link.

peace and love to all Mark

Jeff Brown wrote
at 3:10 pm - 7th August 2009 Permalink

Here is what I am afraid that something like this movie will produce. It dabbles in a certain amount of profound deep truth that it automatically converts the unsuscepting to it’s whole package.

After serving in Vietnam I suffered post traumatic stress syndrome. The war itself took a toll on me, and the rejection from the anti-war crowd made me worse when I got home. I mis-diagnosed myself and tried to cover up my symtoms with drugs and alcohol. I became a lost person, including being somewhat self destructive. What eventually contribited to my salvation was that I was fortunate to have a reference point, a foundation, the memory of a reasonable family structure and a decent childhood. Not what all children have, especially nowadays with broken families, etc.

During my time of being a lost soul, and I do mean a lost soul, I did go through a period of trying to find meaning through various avenues. I tried a little Buddha, I tried chanting and meditation, I read the philosophy of white witchcraft, I studied and actually gained ability at interpreting Tarot cards and yes I got interested in Yoga, this was back in about 1970. I still remember the first book I read, “Yoga for You.”

Let’s see why I am on this site, well because I appreciate stretching and flexibility, and working out, and trying to stay healthy and energetic. Now when I first read “Yoga for You,” my mind was somewhere else and I was searching for a purpose, for my own lost self, and also maybe a worldview. In otherwords I was very susceptible to propaganda as long as it tickled my fancy, and I obviously needed something. During these times Yogie gurus, practitioners of transidental meditation, and other various gurus were infiltrating the U.S. and other western cultures, and making some pretty big bucks while at it. John Lennon and others were preaching oneness, join the peace communes and the anti establishment, etc. I was taking it all in. Internally I was a wreck, but craving for an answer, a meaning and a purpose.

Now back to “Yoga for You.” I was enthralled with this book. Through Yoga it promised many things, including out of body experiences and so forth. There were things that I wasn’t sure how to digest. It taught reincarnation, and how we were bound to dying over and over again, and of all things, the thing that kept us bound to this cycle of death was sex. So you needed to eventually be sexless to brake this death cycle. Another thing about this offering of truth, it did criticize and judge other religions in order to rise above it all with it’s own philosophy. In otherwords, it had to put down other belief systems to justify itself as the real way, or only way, by means of Yoga. The author of the book said he was counseled by literal spirit brothers, who he took their word on blind faith because of the simplicity of their truth, that is how he accepted it without question. These spirits referred to him as brother Claude, who they picked to write this book.

Well brother Claude wrote a book that definately captivated me. I didn’t help me or change my life, but let’s say it mentally enthralled me, and I needed something to hang onto.

One of the main emphasis of this movie is about the money system, capitalism and greed. It is interesting to note that the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. It is often misquoted as saying, money is the root of all evil, but that is not accurate, as it says, the “love”
of money is the root of all evil.

Anyway, when it gets down to it, we can all agree on the truth of those words, therefore then we ask, what is the point of the movie. It gives naively simplistic answers, to make it appear as if the answers are really without complications, or at least should be simple. I’m sorry but I for one do not swallow that. It would be nice, but like many politicians that have claimed that if only we latch onto their interpretation of change, if only we pick them for the pied piper, then we exclusively have the answer that all the others cannot see, because we have bought into something that we ourselves are not really thinking out in realistic completion, but at least we are believing it is what it is, and we feel good about that.

I think Yoga stretching is good for your health and physical well being, but Yogie gurus have not been above anyone else in this capitalist society. Now their mental advertisement for you, to your mindset, is to make capitalism a bad word, a negative connotation, which can be another play on words, though we all know about the effects of corruption and greed, just don’t fall for the cherry picking of ideas and philosophies to lead you into God knows what, just because you are empty and need something to believe in.

What type of governness is the pied piper trying to lead you to? Is technology the answer to everything? How empty!

Anju Dangol wrote
at 4:53 am - 23rd November 2009 Permalink

I believe a yoga is only the way to keep the body and mind together. Just like keeping in concentration the mind with the outer and inner body.

Have you ever notice even we don’t stress our body in work the heart keeps on beating like it has got it’s duty to preform. Beside heart there are other muscular tissues which is completely working in organize together our lungs, intestines etc.

So I believe it’s like driving a machinery into action with the featured posture that helps to circulate the bloods in every parts of the body.

That’s the reason nerves diseases, unconsious or faith etc unnumerable disease has so far been eradicated through so far when the medicines were invented.

If the machinery engine is not been in used it get rusted so the body is also need to apply in the action.

I will be sharing my information again. Thanks

Ian McConnon wrote
at 1:23 pm - 29th May 2010 Permalink

This is just an adaptation of Karl Marx’s Das Capital and his German Ideology. The loss of the ‘real’ value of money dates back not to the creation of the federal reserve, but rather to the late Middle Ages (see Marc Bloch’s Feudal Scoiety). And while I respect the film’s attention to historical contextualization and even ‘determinism’, I find that it’s over-zealous in its anti-superstitious thrust. The consequence of the discussion of Biblical allegory led to a facile assumption of linguistic nihilism (according to which the imposed equivalence between ‘money’ and ‘debt’ would be equally ‘poetic’ or ‘allegorical’. Furthermore, the film does borrow on Apocalyptic imagery itself (destructive eschatology, man responsible for his own FALL, in both religious and mythographic senses). In the end, this film is quite dogmatic in a very ‘rationalistic’ sense. I just hope people don’t watch it and lapse into a depression, because this anti-capitalistic apocalyptic lore is always present in any capitalist society. Likewise, satires of the monarchy tend to be composed (more literally) in monarchical societies, and allegorically in analogous forms of government.

Delia wrote
at 12:00 am - 13th August 2010 Permalink

I have seen this movie before. And I have shared it to my friends. It depicted the reality that human are capable of changing themselves and thus they are responsible to their failure to change for the better.
We should be awaken to the truth. Its good that you have shared it in your site Lucas.