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The document that started me out: I Want the Earth plus 5%
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The Money Masters:
Fiat Empire:
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If violence cannot solve complex social problems, why do we use it and pretend we don't?
If violence cannot solve complex social problems, why do we use it and pretend we don't?
The document that started me out: I Want the Earth plus 5%
The Money Masters:
Fiat Empire:
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July 12, 2009 at 7:29 pm
largeendeavors
Mm I wonder what the end result of our own stupidity will be?
September 28, 2009 at 3:22 pm
TJ
Keep up the good work, we need more people like you with critical thinking to spread the words.
I’m working on My Ph.D in system engineering, my topic is very big and vague and all my advisers had against me to take on such a generic topic: :”Is Monetary System still relevant today or counter-productive to human race.” As more research I take on, the less faith I have to my ability to make an effect on this, you somehow are doing what you can and impact the world by having an impact on others’ conscienceless.
Any source you would suggest me looking into for my research? I had a lot of “Zeitgeist”-point-of-view articles, I’m looking for solutions rather than the cause at this point, but anything you suggest, I would look into it.
THANKS, and again, love you work.
February 22, 2010 at 6:35 pm
BI
TJ:
Zietgeist is actually all about solutions. The problems are certainly spelled out (some may argue if there are no problems why should we bother to fix or improve the existing system). Hopefully you have figured this out by now in your research. They (the people involved) do not have all the answers detailed, but a general method “i.e., the application of the scientific method toward social concern” with the underlying principal or value that the earth is the equal heritage of all people. It is also well detailed that there are no Utopia’s and change is a natural process. It is up to all of us (and perhaps more particularly people like yourself) to contribute new ideas toward a better world.
There are many more ideas detailed if you look at the literature. (e.g., why going back to +100 year (the founding fathers, confederation) old ideas as if they were somehow Utopian or ideal is not the solution, free market capitalism’s tendency towards monopolization or cartels, ecological degradation or lack of enviornmental concern in a profit based system and many many more.) Some of these things may be improvements over the current system but they hardly represent a “final solution”. Nothing really does (no Utopias, continuous improvement). The solution proposed is a total new paradigm shift to a Resource Based Economy (I prefer the term Resource Based Society as Economy has the connotation of money for many people) with a totally new set of values.
If you have only watched the movies you are missing a lot of the material.
Hope this helps t