I would question the notion that his real name is James: zeitgeistmovie.com/q&a.htm

Accepted and corrected. Thx

A HQ torrent would be nice!

If you're running Firefox, get the DownloadHelper extension. It'll allow you to grab an MP4 version that's about one quarter of the size of the MOV and playable in almost any media player.

We don't espouse the view that there will be an absolute unimaginable abundance of goods to no limit. People will always be working to improve on this or that because of a lack (degree of scarcity) in one way or another.

The society we have today is a result of the creative ingenuity of human beings, which occurs through many incentives- be it monetary gain, the desire to see improvement, et al,.

I think a good example might be someone who has Ulcerative Colitis (as I personally do) becoming a doctor with the wish of improving the lives of people specifically with that disease. Their incentive is the cessation of suffering for others (likely along with other incentives).

So there are so many incentives today, and there will be in the future - the important thing for society is to find the higher and more beneficial incentives.

A Barter system, a Communistic system and a laissez faire system all use a "monetary economy", all use "price-tags", all lead to unequal stockpiling of goods and social stratification. Communism and Capitalism are the two extremes in a same scale of government control of the monetary economy, with socialism in the middle.

What is advocated is "begone with the notion of property" and "full access to everyone to the stuff they need/want". This is better explained in the second part of this lecture series vimeo.com/7938805

seconded :)

Great informal interview to the genius Peter Joseph:
youtube.com/watch?v=CIINgQ1TooE

Agreed. I majored in sociology and psychology as well, and I had an epiphany while pouring over my many behavioral books for more info. and refreshing myself with the theories after viewing all I could on the movement. LOL! I'm embarrased that I didn't connect and synthesize the info myself in regard to the connection of what's wrong with our social and economic systems. I was doing independent research, recording my research and brainstorming, but wasn't close.

Epiphany is putting it mildly after reading all of P.J.'s posts concerning sociology and psychology on the Z site....

He's phenomenal and inspiring!

Don't introduce it initially as a world without money. ;) You need to address the root problems first, remember that we weren't exposed to it as a "world without money" from the outset.

That's at least one hour into Addendum before we even begin to consider that.

It doesn't necesarily matter if you don't CONVINCE each individual of the validity of our proposals at this time, even if they just know about them - that's a big step. :)

Hi. A couple of things. First, you said, "And parts of it, that are simply not true in my opinion." I'd like to point out that that statement contradicts itself. You said that it is simply not true, but then said that it's your opinion. You can't state your opinion as empirical fact. If you disagree with certain things that he says, maybe you could state contradictory information or list contradictory sources of information (reliable, accurate, objective sources of course).

I don't see how freedom of choice can be "proven," but it can be defined in various ways. And the ideas that some people are absolutely restricted & have no freedom are not "utter and complete bullshit" as you suggest. What would you say to the nearly 16,000 children who are going to die from hunger tomorrow? Would you say, "You’re not restricted by anything but you own mind," and tell them that their demographic and social conditions are irrelevant?

It seems that there are different degrees of freedom of choice, dependent upon the socioeconomic conditions into which one is born. The 15,000+ children who die each day from hunger have virtually no freedom of choice or social mobility. It takes education, resources, and opportunity to be able to take charge of your own destiny. Think seriously about the environment that you were born into and raised in. I commend you for dropping the bad job, taking charge, and changing your own life, but those options aren't equally available to everyone. Furthermore, there are many who have even more social mobility than you do. I'm not defending laziness, inaction, or submission; but I believe that the "American Dream" is worth pursuing for maybe only 5-10% of the world's population. I'm not stating this as fact; it's my OPINION, based on the information available to me.

And speaking of information – you also said that "We are at the time of unlimited access to information." If this was true, then everyone in the world would have high-speed, unrestricted internet access. Everyone would have equal access to schools and education, professors of Ivy League colleges, libraries, laboratories and other research facilities, tools, and whatever else may be necessary for gathering information. In fact, if everyone had unlimited access to information, then the US Congress and the American people could have studied the information that Bush supposedly used to justify war in Iraq. We could publicly discuss the tax evasion, offshore bank accounts, and money laundering of the big corporations. We could read and discuss the nearly 3,000 violations that Massey’s mine in Montcoal (the one that exploded earlier this week and killed 25 miners) has been cited with in the last 15 years. But unfortunately, this kind of information is highly restricted and inaccessible by almost anyone until it's too late. I've presented 3 examples; there are millions more. Of course, none of this would be an issue in a resource based economy.

Sorry to ramble. I wasn't planning to write nearly this much. You just said so many things that I took issue with. I do agree with you, though, that it is depressing and discouraging; and I definitely agree that capitalism will ultimately fail, as every other money-based economy has and will. We need to move into a resource-based economy; and the sooner, the better.