User:Smallman12q/The Zeitgeist Movement

The Zeitgeist Movement is the activist arm of The Venus Project, which is the lifelong work of Jacque Fresco industrial designer and social engineer. The movement intends to "restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the advocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings, but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually." The movement is essentially "the application of the scientific method for social concern." According to Peter Joseph, the movement currently has "a quarter-million members".

The movement claims that "current methods of social conduct have proven to have no chance in resolving the problems of environmental destruction, human conflict, poverty, corruption and any other issue that reduces the possibility of collective human sustainability on our planet." The movement is against our current monetary system because, "since the money is created as a debt due to the Central Banks and it’s not property of the single person, it unavoidably causes a heavy dependence of governments themselves and a too powerful presence of the bank system in the world’s political affairs that are always more ruled following the private interest of big corporations instead of public wellbeing." Rather, it supports the use of the "humane application of Science and Technology to social design and decision-making" as a means "to transform our tribalistic, scarcity driven, corruption filled environment into something exceedingly more organized, balanced, humane, sustainable and productive."

The movement has no leaders in the original sense, it instead encourages members to set up their own projects to educate more and more people about Jacque Fresco's proposals of a different society.

Zeitgeist Day
The Zeitgeist Movement has labled March 16, 2009 as Zeitgeist day.