Zeitgeist
A couple nights ago, I had the hardest time going to sleep, and it was due to none other than another controversial documentary I had watched, this time being Zeitgeist Addendum.
I understand that this type of thing has to be taken with a grain of salt – even though in this particular case, I do believe that many of the lines they’ve drawn carry a lot of validity. Even if not for the exact theories they’ve concluded, but simply for the possibility of them being related at all, in any measure. It’s interesting to investigate these types of things, and I’ve done my fair share of discovery on various socio-political alternative theories in the past little while, to say the least.
It wasn’t the logical Biblical translations, or the corrupt government facts and hypothetical theories that bothered me necessarily. It was more due to the running concept that they incorporated throughout, and referenced for the most part, called The Venus Project. It seemed logical at first, but ultimately manifested an inevitable realization that whichever side you’re on, we are headed in one direction.
The Venus project is basically a ‘social design” that eliminates politics, poverty, and war because it eliminates measures of power such as our current monetary system - and focuses on creating a “resource based economy”.
“When education and resources are made available to all people without a price tag, there would be no limit to the human potential. Although this is difficult to imagine, even the wealthiest person today would be far better off in a resource based society as proposed by The Venus Project. Today the middle classes live better than kings of times past. In a resource based economy everyone would live better than the wealthiest of today.
In such a society, the measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.”
My insomnia, as mentioned earlier, did not stem from the introduction of such a complex philosophy, but was more based on the realization that maybe Aldous Huxley wasn’t far off. If this is the polar opposite, and most radical adversary of what they claim the world is heading towards anyway, aren’t we going to be living in a fish bowl regardless? I was left wondering if Disney’s Wall-E was just an inevitable destination, as opposed to a surreal fantasy. Disney seems to have a knack for romanticizing tragedies in history, such as Pocahontas, why would their future predictions be any less skewed, yet revealing?
I understand that this type of thing has to be taken with a grain of salt – even though in this particular case, I do believe that many of the lines they’ve drawn carry a lot of validity. Even if not for the exact theories they’ve concluded, but simply for the possibility of them being related at all, in any measure. It’s interesting to investigate these types of things, and I’ve done my fair share of discovery on various socio-political alternative theories in the past little while, to say the least.
It wasn’t the logical Biblical translations, or the corrupt government facts and hypothetical theories that bothered me necessarily. It was more due to the running concept that they incorporated throughout, and referenced for the most part, called The Venus Project. It seemed logical at first, but ultimately manifested an inevitable realization that whichever side you’re on, we are headed in one direction.
The Venus project is basically a ‘social design” that eliminates politics, poverty, and war because it eliminates measures of power such as our current monetary system - and focuses on creating a “resource based economy”.
“When education and resources are made available to all people without a price tag, there would be no limit to the human potential. Although this is difficult to imagine, even the wealthiest person today would be far better off in a resource based society as proposed by The Venus Project. Today the middle classes live better than kings of times past. In a resource based economy everyone would live better than the wealthiest of today.
In such a society, the measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.”
My insomnia, as mentioned earlier, did not stem from the introduction of such a complex philosophy, but was more based on the realization that maybe Aldous Huxley wasn’t far off. If this is the polar opposite, and most radical adversary of what they claim the world is heading towards anyway, aren’t we going to be living in a fish bowl regardless? I was left wondering if Disney’s Wall-E was just an inevitable destination, as opposed to a surreal fantasy. Disney seems to have a knack for romanticizing tragedies in history, such as Pocahontas, why would their future predictions be any less skewed, yet revealing?
Also check out Zeitgeist the Movie. It's another take on traditional social acceptances.
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