it's my pleasure to introduce the first
speaker
she's somebody who i personally have a
lot of respect and admiration for
she is the global events coordinator
many of you know her she leads and
motivates the team
in organizing events such as this one
please put your hands together for
charlene
bye baby
hello good afternoon thank you for being
with us here
for the fifth annual zeitgeist day how
you all feeling
good and we want to give a special
acknowledgement to our global audience
watching around the world thank you for
tuning in
my name is charlene bezagie and i've
been with the zeitgeist movement since
2010
assisting mostly with event planning for
global and
los angeles events today however
i'm going to present a brief
introduction to the zeitgeist movement
and hopefully set the tone for the rest
of the program
with almost a dozen speakers we have
tried our best to unify this message as
a whole
and it is our intention by the end of
the program you'll have a clear
and concise understanding about what the
zeitgeist movement is
and how it operates
founded in 2008 the zeitgeist movement
tzm
for short is a sustainability advocacy
group
which operates through a network of
regional chapters
projects public events and media
expressions
we also promote charity operations and
other acts of kindness
to help existing suffering however it's
important to know
that is not the core focus of tzm the
entire point of the movement
is to resolve such issues so these acts
of charity are no longer needed
our activism is based on non-violent
methods of communication
with the core focus on educating the
public about the true
root sources of many common personal
social and ecological problems today
coupled with the vast problem solving
and humanity improving
potential science and technology
available that goes unapplied
due to barriers inherent in the current
established system
well the term activism is correct by its
exact meaning here
tzm's awareness work should not be
misconstrued as the culturally common
activist protest actions we have
historically seen
rather the zeitgeist movement expresses
itself mostly through targeted education
projects
that work to set in motion a train of
thought that is logically
self-realizing tzm's pursuits are
actually very similar to civil rights
movements of the
past in that they revealed the
oppression inherent
in our current social order due to
archaic established methods
which structurally and sociologically
restrict
human well-being the vast majority of
the world's population
unnecessarily suffers today it could be
said there exists in the modern world a
form of bigotry
which is no less insidious than racial
or gender discrimination
this comes in the form of economics at
its core
this bigotry is apparent in the class
war alive today
as different groups of people jockey for
advantage perfectly willing to forgo the
well-being of others
in the incentive psychology inherent to
the competitive market economy
however this inherent bigotry is really
only part of a larger condition
which could be termed structural
violence
illuminating a broad spectrum of
built-in deprivation
and inhumanity that is simply accepted
as normality today
by an uninformed majority the bottom
line here is that when we step back
and consider realities that are clearly
having detrimental effects
on the human condition yet go unabated
by the establishment
we inevitably end up in the context of
civil rights
and hence social sustainability this new
civil rights movement
is not only about the sharing of human
knowledge
and our technical ability to resolve
problems
but more so to facilitate a new
scientifically derived
social system that actually optimizes
our well-being rather than restrict it
the fact is anything less will create
imbalance
and is simply a hidden form of
oppression
so the zeitgeist movement works not only
to create awareness of such problems
and their true systemic roots it also
works to express the potential we have
to greatly improve the human condition
in general
this could be summarized as the
application of the scientific method for
social concern
tzm is an emergent state of mind this is
about a train of thought
a worldview we're not here to impose a
set of ideas on you
or get you to join the movement as a
club per se
rather it is about you deciding the
merit and logic for yourself
so you can adjust your own actions and
intentions accordingly
in fact in many ways we are all in the
zeitgeist movement whether we know it or
not
since each of us are receiving morphing
and transmitting data
on the social level all the time
creating a constant evolution of the
zeitgeist itself
the question is are we as a species
moving in the right direction
and how do we measure such a thing is
there a benchmark which can guide
us yes it exists in our alignment with
the natural laws of our world
in the most fundamental sense building
our values and social approaches from
these core truths
about what it means to be human and live
in the habitat we do
take a look at the current monetary
market economy and ask yourself
is this pro-earth is built in scarcity
imbalance obsolescence waste pollution
constant consumption
the intelligent management of the
earth's resources
at this rate are we exceeding the
carrying capacity of the earth
a term you will hear frequently today is
the gesture of a new social system
called a natural law resource-based
economy
or nlrbe for short
a natural law resource-based economy is
defined as
an adaptive socio-economic system
actively derived from direct physical
reference
to the governing scientific laws of
nature
and gen wildling put together this great
graphic that i think
points out the characteristics very well
thanks chad
most people don't realize the current
state of technology we have that could
be profoundly more effective in meeting
the needs
of the human population however this
approach inherently challenges
all forms of traditionalism in the world
today
the ancient whims and dynamics of the
dominant political and financial
establishments
not only become inapplicable they are
seen as deeply flawed
and detrimental we need to remember that
modern scientific causality
something we very much take for granted
today has really only been with us for a
couple hundred years and brought
awareness and practice
yet even today this scientific train of
thought is just barely being given
respect on the social level
usually only in response to various
ecological
crises resulting from industrial human
actions
for the first time in human history we
have people actually talking about being
green
as though it's new as though we were
ever supposed to be anything but
given the most basic principles of human
and ecological sustainability
so in conclusion to this brief
introduction
let it be stated that the real
revolution is the revolution of values
sustainable beliefs precede sustainable
practices
and if our values are not in accord with
the natural laws that govern our planet
if our values are not in accord with
what can create true well-being
then clearly we cannot expect to move
forward with transformative technical
changes
it is important to note that the
zeitgeist movement's interest is purely
global
nation race religion or other such
notions of division
are not recognized in this equation
since when you break them all down
they are artificial contrivances created
mostly by fear
instead we see the human species as one
family
all sharing the same basic needs and the
earth
as one habitat with no borders
may we walk into this bright future
together thank you very
thank much
you