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Extremely interesting video, fundamentally flawed and over-idealistic in many areas, but an brilliant and extremely important in others. Worth watching twice for the best bits. I LOVE the first seven minutes. Mistakes and a confusing, mixed up explanation are presented 7 mins to 20 mins,... more
Reviewed by stevedtrm Oct 04 2008, 03:47pm ( 106 reviews ) • google.com
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Rated by jordankasteler on Oct 05 2008, 2:19am
addendum to the best movie ever
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Rated by JustinSimonsen on Oct 04 2008, 5:20pm
I'm totally on board. Who ever posted this on the drop.io on the DSC thanks dude!
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Rated by stevedtrm on Oct 04 2008, 3:47pm
Extremely interesting video, fundamentally flawed and over-idealistic in many areas, but an brilliant and extremely important in others. Worth watching twice for the best bits. I LOVE the first seven minutes. Mistakes and a confusing, mixed up explanation are presented 7 mins to 20 mins, and Landlordism is ignored, but the the essence of the argument is correct and the tone is PERFECT, making this the BEST exposure of mass enslavement through inflation I have seen. The script should be redone, though. 2nd half hour:- Perkins is a remorseful hero. You should watch and read anything you can find by him, including this. 46:21 >> inflating currency would discredit the currency without oil denomination the currency value would plunge. The filmakers miss the vital importance of the historic deal to use dollars to buy oil (Saudi Arabia), military intimidation to coerce others to use dollars and the underlying power of natural resources here. 50:41 !!! heart disease vs terrorism- why so much fear of terrorism? - only because the current system is so dramatically murderous, theiving and oppressive that it will inevitably inspire terrorism. 55:00 Unecessary nay saying and pessimism 59:29 good critique of how people cannot afford to be moral. 1:09:44 idiotic oversimplistic economic theory. If you find more diamonds, the fact you receive less money per diamond is outweighed by the extra number you sell. 1:15:00 money without "submission through employment?" >> requires land reform. 1:29:00 VERY valid arguments, I have never heard anywhere before here. 1:30:00 specialised education as an ignorance engine - reminds me of Habermas (see wikipedia). Absoliutely correct. Specialisation leads to ignorance of the wider picture. 1:31:30 - common good thru shared natural resources 1:36 - scarcity was a reality- no longer is. very true except on the technologyical edge. 1:43:00 interesting parallels between Bill Hicks and John Perkins notions of common consciousness and universal love. I don't think I buy it. Sounds like hippy idealism to me. There's an element of truth in there somewhere though. I think its the commonailty in our interests and motives, that makes each of us predictable, and if mutally controlled, mutally benevolent. (eg if everyone had a nuke, noone would be a slave, because everyone from be deterred from enslaving anyone else.) 1:47:00 - US defence expenditure is founded on the need to defend from the US steals from. 1:49:25 - competition vs collaboration. Competition is the supreme method of forcing two people to fight against each other to serve their master. 1:50:00 STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM. The system HAS to fail. 1:52:00 century long pyramid scheme. 1:52:00 stupid myopic boycott idea. The system is far wider than those 4 banks. You need to stop serving any of the corporations/governments they finance too, which is just about the entire US/UK economy. 1:53:00 correct advice to turn off mainstream media. 1:54:00 energy self sufficiency to help free people from dependency on corrupt governments and their violently controlled natural energy reserves. 1:56:00 reject the fake 2 party political system. 1:56:10 All global natural resources are the rightful inheritance of EVERYONE. This central statement makes this video a Georgist video.
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Rated by untucked on Oct 04 2008, 3:21pm
WAKE UP! TAKE ACTION! November 22 END THE FED!
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Rated by Droidydoo on Oct 04 2008, 11:05am
Zeitgeist 2 Addendum by Peter Joseph 2008 www.zeitgeistmovie.com MONEY! The Problem & The Solution! 1st hour- The Problem: Money = Debt 2nd hour- The Solution: Jacque Fresco's Resource Based Economy Want to know more about Jacque Fresco? Check out the JF Label on the Dedroidify blog Also check out Jacque Fresco's documentary Future By Design (torrent link). Clips can be found here. "I have no notions of a perfect society, I don't know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we've got, I'm no utopian, I'm not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don't live that way, we'll kill each other and destroy the Earth." Jacque Fresco
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Rated by Spectrum108 on Oct 04 2008, 8:46am
Thanks "Alana13." Zeitgeist: Addendum, cut loose 4 U.
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Rated by alana13 on Oct 04 2008, 8:14am
Zeitgeist II: Addendum "Of all the social institutions we are born into, directed by and conditioned upon, there seems to be no system as taken for granted and misunderstood as the monetary system. Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is. How money is created, the policies by which it is governed, and how it truly affects society are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population. In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth, in a world where 34,000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases and where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day, one thing is clear -- something is very wrong. And whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions and thus, society itself, is money. Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are. Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom. Endless streams of financial jargon coupled with intimidating mathematics quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it; however, the fact is, the complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures humanity has ever endured."
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Rated by DingoDance on Oct 04 2008, 3:17am
Zeitgeist 2