The source of all evil.
Satan. - Nope.
Religion. - Close but still nope.
Greed. - That’s even closer but it’s a sympton not the cause.
Money. - Well not entirely.
Profit. - Ding! Ding! Ding!
I have ranted before on this blog about corporations and social ills caused by the intentional divisions of people through wealth, status, race, religion and the like. They are all tools for social manipulation.
Never have I seen this laid out so clearly than in the movie I just watched:
Zeitgeist: Addendum.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/dloads.htm
UPDATE: (If you don’t have a bittorrent client*, here is the google video version of the film in its entirety.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
But make sure you have juice on your notebook and time as it’s 2 hours long but worth every minute.)
Yes, it is from the same people who created the first Zeitgeist movie that was broken into three parts: Religion, 911 stuff, and Money System. All good stuff if perhaps a little reaching on the 911 events, but still worth watching for the content of the Religion and Money parts.
But Addendum is trained like a razor light - a laser if you will - on the root causes of the world we live in today. And better yet it proposes a solution. A solution already seen by Gene Roddenberry and so many other writers and creative thinkers in the world who have millions upon millons of fans who thirst for a better world but are stuck.
I encourage everyone to go to the above link and download this movie. It’s free. Or if you have some coin it’s $5 dollars. Yeah, $5 bucks for a two hour movie. A one hour movie from the history channel is $30 dollars and doesn’t contain half the revelations as laid out in the above.
The main thrust of this movie is that all these social problems we have: crime, energy, medicine, education, the list goes on, can be solved today, with current technology.
The road block is “What’s the profit in it?” Unless there is profit there is no progress. What a sad and disturbing way to live.
We need a global sense of altruism. We need a radical change in our group think. One that embraces the potential enhancements of our lives and our species rather than our bank accounts. One that replaces superstitions and dogma with reason and education.
Not everything in this movie is straight forward and getting through the first half may be hard for some, since it’s about the financial system and how our governments create money out of nothing, but once you understand that and see the rest you may never be the same.
Crazy talk, I know. But sometimes the crazy people are the only sane ones left in a society. (Ask Galileo, Ghandi, Socrates, Martin Luther King, and countless others who dared to question the established status quo.)
Steagus
*(utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/) is a small bittorrent client that does not have spyware or malware or viruses. It’s also FREE. I was able to download the torrent version of the above movie in just over an hour and watched it later.)
You live in a fantasy world dude. What you are basically saying is “We need to stop being what we are and always have been.” Well duh! Lemme know when you find this magic wand that can make humans not act like humans.
Sghoul,
I disagree. I think we are what we are because of the world/environment we have. People can and have shown great moments of compassion and good will toward their fellow man. Unfortunately those moments are short lived because the “realities” of self preservation override their desire to be helpful. They run out of resources, money, or time to continue providing that help and support to others and so are compelled to focus back on themselves just to survive.
So where does the fault lay? With the people or with the system?
If given a choice I think the overwhelming majority of people would be perfectly content to live in peace and harmony with each other (without war) and could do so for a very long time if not indefinitely. The trouble is the artificial nature we have created around our society. The artificial way we manipulate the world around us to create wealth and power.
There is no magic wand. There doesn’t need to be one. We just need to adjust our priorities and our perceptions of who exactly has the power to change our conditioning. The people or the governments? At the moment governments and similar institutions rule and will do so until the people stop giving them the power and authority over the lives of people.
Like you I am a cynic, but unlike you perhaps, I don’t think we need more controls to fix the system, we need less.
I think the movie makes a very good point about why we lived the way we lived for thousands of years. Governments provided much needed support and structure,(life was difficult and food was scarce) but now, with technology there is no reason to continue living with scarcity. Everything is available to everyone anywhere and yet we retard growth and progress for profit. Why is this considered progress and justified? Justified for whom?
Just look at the food industry (heck you know sugar) and tell me why governments pay farmers not to farm certain crops? If they were able to farm to the full potential everyone on Earth could be fed. But why doesn’t that happen? Because it would destroy the economics of the system.
When money is more important than people we are all statistical commodities and therefor worthless.
Watch the movie and then comment again. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
I’m curious what you base your belief on. There is little proof in our short time here that humans are what you say.
Especially since you believe we are just animals. In such a case we can’t be ‘good’ by default and simply molded by the ’system’. We are survivors by default.