Zeitgeist is a series of three documentaries released between 2007 and 2011 presenting a number of conspiracy theories, as well as proposals for broad social and economic change.
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Zeitgeist: The Movie
Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 film by Peter Joseph featuring a number of conspiracy theories. The film collects archival records, animations and narration. Released online on June 18, 2007, immediately received tens of millions of views on Google Video, YouTube and Vimeo. According to Peter Joseph, the original Zeitgeist is not presented in a movie format, but is "a performance section consisting of vaudevillian, multimedia style events using recorded music, live instruments, and videos".
Synopsis
The introduction of the film features animated, war shots, explosions, and September 11 attacks and audio quotes from ChÃÆ'¶gyam Trungpa Rinpoche and George Carlin.
Part I claims that Christianity comes primarily from other religions, astronomical statements, astrological mythology, and other traditions. As a continuation of the myth of Jesus myth, this passage refutes the historicity of Jesus, which, he claims, is a literary and astrological hybrid, nurtured by political and opportunist forces. It is influenced by the work of Acharya S.
Part II alleges that the September 11 attacks were regulated or permitted by elements in the United States government to generate mass fears, justify the War on Terror, provide a pretext for restrictions on civil liberties, and generate economic benefits. This confirms that the US government had initial knowledge of the attacks, that the military deliberately allowed the aircraft to reach their targets, and that the World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7 underwent controlled demolition.
Part III states that the Federal Reserve System is controlled by a small plot of international bankers who conspire to create a global disaster to enrich themselves. Three wars involving the United States during the twentieth century are highlighted as part of this alleged agenda, beginning with specially designed events, including the sinking of RMS Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Incident Bay of Tonkin. The film asserts that such wars serve to defend conflict in general and force the US government to borrow money, thereby increasing the profits of international bankers. The film also claims that the Federal Income Tax is illegal.
Part III also accuses a secret agreement to merge the United States, Canada, and Mexico into the North American Union as a step toward establishing a world government. The film speculates that under such a government, every human being can be implanted with an RFID chip to monitor individual activity and suppress dissent.
Reception
The first film received universal condemnation from the media, although it also "attracted great interest" from the public.
The Arizona Republic newspaper described the Zeitgeist: The Movie as "a collection of conspiracy theories involving September 11, the international monetary system, and Christianity" which says also that the movie trailer states that "there the person who guides your life and you do not even know it ".
A review in The Irish Times wrote that "this is a real deviation from the original issues and debates, and they tarnish all the criticisms of faith, the Bush administration, and globalization - there is more than enough factual injustice in this world going around without having to create a fiction ".
Ivor Tossell at Globe and Mail cites it as an example of how modern conspiracy theories are applied, although he praised his effectiveness:
"This film is an interesting subject lesson on how conspiracy theories become so popular.... It is a propaganda that is encouraged, if not uniformly, a marvel of strict editing and blurry thinking.The sources on the camera are predominantly conspiracy theorists , combined with selective eyewitness accounts, taken from archival records and often taken out of context.It scoffs at the media as a pawn of the International Bankers, but generates media reports for credibility when convenient.This film ignores expert opinion, except for a handful of experts agree with that.However, it's interesting.This unabashedly plows forward, connecting the dots with real certainty that makes you want to give it A for the effort. "
Filipe Feio, reflecting the popularity of the film's Internet at DiÃÆ'¡rio de NotÃÆ'cias , states that "[f] icti or not, Zeitgeist: The Movie threatens to become the conspiracy theorists of today ".
Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, mentions Zeitgeist in an article at Scientific American about skepticism in the era of mass media and postmodern belief in truth relativism. He argues that this belief, coupled with the "mass media clicker culture," produces many claims of truth packed in "infotainment units", in the form of films like Zeitgeist and Loose Change .
Jane Chapman, film producer and reader in media studies at the University of Lincoln, called Zeitgeist a collection of quick agitprops, "examples of" unethical filmmaking. " He accused Peter Joseph of "implicit fraud" through the use of standard film-making propaganda techniques. While part of the film, he said, "funny" self-defeating, the nature of "crooked evidence" and the use of a Madrid bomb tape implies it is from the London bombing of the number of "ethical abuse in the sources". He completed his analysis with the comment: "So the legitimate question of what happened on 9/11, and about corruption in religious and financial organizations, is all undermined by the film's determined efforts to maximize the emotional response at the expense of a reasonable argument."
Alex Jones, American radio host, conspiracy theorist and executive producer of Loose Change, stated that the Zeitgeist film segment was taken directly from his documentary Terrorstorm , and that he supports "90 percent" of the film.
Skeptic Tim Callahan's magazine, criticizing film sections on the origins of Christianity, writes that "some of what he said is true. Unfortunately, this material freely - and recklessly - mixed with the material is only partial true and many clear and simple. "
Chris Forbes, senior lecturer at the Ancient History of Macquarie University and a member of the Synod of the Diocese of Sydney, criticized Part I of the film, stating that it has no basis in serious scholarship or ancient sources, and it depends on amateur sources. who recycle frivolous ideas from one another, commented that "[i] t remarkable how many claims it made is not true". A similar conclusion was reached by Dr. Mark Foreman from Liberty University.
In Tablet Magazine , journalist Michelle Goldberg criticized Zeitgeist: The Movie as "deep-fitting anti-Semit conspiracy theorists, isolationists and veiled," claiming that the film was borrowed from by Eustace Mullins, Lyndon LaRouche, and radio host Alex Jones, and it describes the cabal of international bankers who supposedly rule the world. In an interview with TheMarker, Joseph said that while the film mentions bankers not trying to blame individuals or groups of individuals. He argues that they are merely the product of a socioeconomic system that requires change.
Chip Berlet writes that the conspiracy theory of 9/11 "is a bait used to attract viewers from the 9/11 and other truth movements that embrace conspiracy thinking to the idiosyncratic antireligion view of videographers and the world of right-wing antisemitism theory from the world of banking conspiracy."
Jay Kinney questioned the accuracy of claims and the quality of his argument, describing it as agitprop and propaganda. Sometimes, according to Kinney, "Zeitgeists engage in intentional obfuscation by showing network TV shows or cable news with the expulsion of unidentified people unrelated to the news program If not paid attention, the effect would be to confer the status and authority of the news TV on spoken words Even when a quotation or a sound bite is given to the source, there is no way of knowing whether the quotation is quoted correctly or in context. "
Use in other media
In June 2013, Peter Joseph directed the music video for "God Is Dead?" by Black Sabbath, using the widespread image of Zeitgeist: The Movie and its sequels.
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Zeitgeist: Addendum
Zeitgeist: Addendum is a 2008 movie produced and directed by Peter Joseph, and is a sequel to the 2007 film, Zeitgeist: The Movie . It premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008.
Synopsis
The film begins and ends with a quote from a speech by Jiddu Krishnamurti. The rest of the film is narrated by Peter Joseph and divided into four sections, beginning with a quote on the screen from Krishnamurti, John Adams, Bernard Lietaer, and Thomas Paine, respectively.
Part I includes the fractional reserve banking process as illustrated in Modern Money Mechanics, by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The film shows that people are manipulated into economic slavery through a debt-based monetary policy by requiring individuals to apply for jobs to pay off their debts.
Part I has an interview with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, who says he is involved in the conquest of Latin American economies by multinationals and the United States. government, including involvement in the overthrow of Latin American heads of state. Perkins sees the US as a corporatocracy, where profit maximization is the first priority.
Part III introduces the futurists Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project and confirms the need to move away from the current socioeconomic paradigm. Fresco states that capitalism perpetuates the conditions it claims to overcome, because the problem is solved only if there is money to be made. The film looks at Fresco's proposal on resource-based economies, which puts environmental friendliness, sustainability and abundance as a fundamental social goal. He went on to discuss the technology he saw as the main driver of human progress, and he described politics as not being able to solve problems.
Part IV suggests that the main reasons for what the film sees as the social value of society ("war, corruption, oppressive law, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and sedition, caring, profit oriented) of the ruling class ") is a collective ignorance of" emerging aspects and symbiosis of the laws of nature ". The film supports the following actions to achieve social change: boycott the most powerful banks in the Federal Reserve System, major news networks, the military, energy companies, all political systems; and join, and support the Zeitgeist Movement.
Reception
Zeitgeist: Addendum won the 2008 Artivist Film Festival award for the category best ("Spirit Artivist").
Initially, the movie was uploaded-released on Google Video. Currently, posting videos on YouTube exceeds 5 million views by the end of 2013.
Alan Feuer of The New York Times noted that while the first film was notorious for alleging that the September 11 attacks were an insider's work, the second, "completely empty of such conspiratorial ideas, directs rhetoric and values high production towards posing a substitute for crime banking system and a dangerous economy of scarcity and debt ".
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is the third installment in the Peter Joseph series Zeitgeist . The film premiered at the JACC Theater in Los Angeles on January 15, 2011 at the Artivist Film Festival, released in theaters and online. As of November 2014, the movie has over 23 million views on YouTube. The film is organized into four sections, each containing an interview, a narrative and a series of animations.
Synopsis
The film begins with a sequence of animations narrated by Jacque Fresco. He described the life of adolescents and the cessation of public education at the age of 14 and illustrates the effects of early life.
Part I: Human Nature
Human behavior and nature versus parenting debates are discussed, which Robert Sapolsky calls a "false dichotomy." Illness, criminal activity, and addiction are also discussed. The overall conclusion from Part I is that social environment and cultural conditioning play a large role in shaping human behavior.
Part II: Social Pathology
John Locke and Adam Smith are discussed in terms of modern economics. The film critically questioned the economic needs for private ownership, money, and inherent inequalities between agents in the system. Also seen critically is the need for cyclical consumption to maintain market share, resulting in wasted resources and planned obsolescence. According to the film, the current monetary system will produce a default or hyperinflation in the future.
Part III: Earth Project
As with Zeitgeist: Addendum, this film presents a "resource-based economy" as Jacque Fresco suggests discussing how human civilization can start from a fresh start in terms of resource type, location, quantity, to satisfying human demands; track consumption and depletion of resources to regulate human demands and maintain environmental conditions.
Part IV: Up
The current world situation is described as a disaster. A case is presented that pollution, deforestation, climate change, overpopulation, and war are all created and perpetuated by the socio-economic system. Various statistics of poverty are shown which show the deterioration of a progressive world culture.
The last scene of the film shows the view of some of the Earth from outer space, followed by a sequence of superimposed statements; "This is your world", "This is our world", and "The present revolution".
List of Resources
Reception
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward menerima "Best Political Documentary" pada tahun 2011 dari Action on Film International Film Festival.
A review of The Socialist Standard says that the use of animation and the humor of the film gave it a "unanimous feeling," though it criticized the "shaky economic analysis" in the second part of the film, saying "Karl Marx has performed an analysis that more scientific ", adding," analysis is at least on the right track ". Regarding the transition to the new system proposed in the film, reviewers noted "there is no mention of how to get from here to there".
In an article, in Tablet Magazine, Michelle Goldberg describes the film as "silly enough that sometimes [she] suspects it is [s] slyre satire about the techno-utopianism of the new era, not an example of I t". He described the 3 Zeitgeist film as "a series of 3 apocalyptic documentary films.
Zeitgeist Movement
Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) started a series of events that led to the formation of the Zeitgeist movement. This group supports the transition from a global money-based economic system to a post-operative economy or a resource-based economy. VC Reporter Shane Cohn summarized the charter of the movement as: "Our biggest social problem is the direct result of our economic system". Joseph created a political movement which, according to The Daily Telegraph, rejected the historical religious concept as misleading and embracing a version of the concept of sustainable ecology and the scientific administration of society. This group describes the current socioeconomic system that is structurally corrupt and inefficient in the use of resources. Michael Goldberg describes the Zeitgeist movement as "the first Internet-based apocalyptic cult".
See also
- conspiracy theory 9/11
- Economic post-scarcity
- Technological utopianism
References
External links
- Official website
- Zeitgeist on IMDb
- Addendum on IMDb
- Moving Forward on IMDb
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