1 00:00:00,091 --> 00:00:05,104 ALL IMPERSONATIONS ON THIS VIDEO ARE BASED ON ACTUAL CRITICISMS I HEARD FROM PEOPLE 2 00:00:05,366 --> 00:00:09,109 Since I was a kid, i used to look at the world, 3 00:00:09,293 --> 00:00:13,215 and you know, ask myself questions and... 4 00:00:13,428 --> 00:00:15,690 Yeah... Questions! Questions... 5 00:00:15,833 --> 00:00:18,869 Questions need answers! And think! Think! 6 00:00:19,167 --> 00:00:22,927 Please, don't, I don't... I don't wanna think! I just... Don't wanna think! 7 00:00:23,072 --> 00:00:25,186 Don't bother thinking! ''It's useless!'' 8 00:00:25,322 --> 00:00:28,527 I've been thinking, you know! I've been thinking and, 9 00:00:28,664 --> 00:00:30,599 if you are like me, you walk down the street, 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,085 and you see things not working, like: 11 00:00:33,211 --> 00:00:36,180 Poor people! You see poor people on the street, 12 00:00:36,402 --> 00:00:40,468 dying of hunger, cold, dehydration, and... 13 00:00:41,017 --> 00:00:44,597 And you kind of wonder Why? ''Why is this happening?'' 14 00:00:44,756 --> 00:00:47,459 ''It's human nature and those people deserve to be there!'' 15 00:00:47,590 --> 00:00:51,910 Ok, wait a minute... If fits, people in the society, 16 00:00:52,490 --> 00:00:54,873 and, this people don't fit, 17 00:00:55,197 --> 00:00:57,032 there must be a reason, and the reason, 18 00:00:57,187 --> 00:00:59,023 must be connected to society, you know, 19 00:00:59,224 --> 00:01:01,501 how it works, how it's designed to work. 20 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:04,105 And, if it's designed not to work, 21 00:01:04,293 --> 00:01:08,244 or just to work for someone, then it's not really a fair society! Is it? 22 00:01:08,452 --> 00:01:11,652 ''Oh, you can never fix society, you're too small!'' 23 00:01:11,821 --> 00:01:13,995 ''You're just one! Who do you think you are?!'' 24 00:01:14,191 --> 00:01:15,832 ''You don't count for shit!'' 25 00:01:15,977 --> 00:01:19,023 ''The only time you count is when you turn 18 and you can vote!'' 26 00:01:19,176 --> 00:01:20,684 ''That's your ability to choose!'' 27 00:01:20,814 --> 00:01:23,501 Wow! Turning adult is awesome! 28 00:01:23,824 --> 00:01:25,908 You can put an 'X' on a piece of paper! 29 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:28,517 Amazing! Wow! That's cool! 30 00:01:28,641 --> 00:01:33,601 But, what if you actually think about problems and how to solve them? 31 00:01:33,735 --> 00:01:37,165 Is there any way now, in society that you can kind of interact? 32 00:01:37,434 --> 00:01:39,873 You see all this pollution! Wars! 33 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:43,215 Wars over oil, over territorial disputes... 34 00:01:43,415 --> 00:01:47,131 And the People dying! All those things happening... 35 00:01:47,365 --> 00:01:50,330 And you kind of wonder: Isn't there a better way to do things? 36 00:01:50,564 --> 00:01:51,925 WHERE ARE WE NOW? 37 00:01:52,109 --> 00:01:56,851 If you look at the trends how things are working, and what's happening now, 38 00:01:57,010 --> 00:01:58,687 you kind of see a pattern: 39 00:01:58,810 --> 00:02:01,521 The level of technology, rises exponentially, 40 00:02:01,672 --> 00:02:03,225 so it keeps growing and growing... 41 00:02:03,354 --> 00:02:07,006 You have: Technological unemployment. 42 00:02:07,313 --> 00:02:11,037 90% of the people worked on farming, a hundred years ago, 43 00:02:11,187 --> 00:02:15,137 and now it's 2% of the people in developed countries. 44 00:02:15,252 --> 00:02:18,895 And, of course all the other people, they had to move to another sector. 45 00:02:19,075 --> 00:02:21,242 Then, it was the manufacturing sector and then... 46 00:02:21,401 --> 00:02:23,139 Technological unemployment again! 47 00:02:23,269 --> 00:02:25,845 So what do you, you move those people to the service sector. 48 00:02:25,977 --> 00:02:27,488 And what does the service sector do? 49 00:02:27,586 --> 00:02:29,638 Some people they have some kind of utility, you know, 50 00:02:29,746 --> 00:02:32,796 they help like, social workers... Oh excellent job! 51 00:02:32,924 --> 00:02:35,184 Voluntary work! Oh amazing! 52 00:02:35,346 --> 00:02:37,201 Helping! Helping other people!? 53 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:39,655 But then, you've got all these other jobs like: 54 00:02:39,779 --> 00:02:42,044 Advertisement, anthropologists,... 55 00:02:42,312 --> 00:02:44,942 Oh wait, wait a second, Anthropology that's interesting... That's...! 56 00:02:45,167 --> 00:02:48,089 Yeah... But, how do use anthropologists now? 57 00:02:48,228 --> 00:02:53,379 I have some friends, some researchers and Phds, in anthropology and social sciences. 58 00:02:53,573 --> 00:02:58,965 You know how the system uses, the people most likely to be able to help others, 59 00:02:59,193 --> 00:03:01,740 because they can understand how, social interactions work, 60 00:03:01,909 --> 00:03:03,930 and how societies and cultures interact? 61 00:03:04,057 --> 00:03:05,941 They use them for: 62 00:03:06,926 --> 00:03:08,856 Exploitation! Profit! 63 00:03:08,988 --> 00:03:11,810 How to get into your mind, and make advertisement, 64 00:03:11,973 --> 00:03:14,062 and flashy things, and so it gets into you! 65 00:03:14,173 --> 00:03:15,649 OPTIONS 66 00:03:16,060 --> 00:03:18,229 I see only 2 options. Two options! 67 00:03:18,352 --> 00:03:21,206 One: We keep the things as they are now. 68 00:03:21,338 --> 00:03:23,419 So Status Quo. We keep it going... 69 00:03:23,512 --> 00:03:26,217 And what happens, you have: 70 00:03:26,691 --> 00:03:29,435 Natural monopolies and oligopolies... 71 00:03:29,636 --> 00:03:32,865 A bunch of corporations, taking over everything, and they have... 72 00:03:32,988 --> 00:03:35,456 Patents! Patents on everything for profit! 73 00:03:35,589 --> 00:03:37,734 You have patents on: Medicines... 74 00:03:37,872 --> 00:03:41,091 And then patents on: Seeds and synthetic life... 75 00:03:41,344 --> 00:03:43,003 Even on biological life... 76 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:46,532 Do you really want that kind of world? 77 00:03:46,963 --> 00:03:49,318 You make the planet inhabitable?! 78 00:03:49,442 --> 00:03:52,163 You pollute everything to the point of, 79 00:03:52,318 --> 00:03:55,533 not being able to breathe and drink and do anything, 80 00:03:55,651 --> 00:03:57,401 without killing yourself? 81 00:03:58,909 --> 00:04:03,325 And give everything and the control, to corporations?! 82 00:04:04,367 --> 00:04:06,345 Or isn't there a better way to do things? 83 00:04:06,475 --> 00:04:08,061 STOP COMPLAINING FIND SOLUTIONS 84 00:04:08,532 --> 00:04:12,344 Why do I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement? 85 00:04:12,536 --> 00:04:15,320 Well, first you kind of have to understand 86 00:04:15,612 --> 00:04:18,950 what the Movement is and what it proposes! 87 00:04:19,267 --> 00:04:21,003 ''Getting rid of property!'' Really? 88 00:04:21,218 --> 00:04:22,695 ''Getting rid of money!'' 89 00:04:22,850 --> 00:04:24,586 ''Transhumanist!'' 90 00:04:24,842 --> 00:04:28,073 ''You're a communist!'' ''Anarchist!'' 91 00:04:28,322 --> 00:04:31,937 ''You're a socialist!'' ''You're a conspiracy theorist!'' 92 00:04:32,249 --> 00:04:34,867 ''New world order! You want reinstall a new world order!'' 93 00:04:34,993 --> 00:04:37,250 ''That's what you want?!'' ''You're a kook!'' 94 00:04:37,466 --> 00:04:41,555 ''Central planning never worked, and it killed a hundred gazillion people...!'' 95 00:04:41,755 --> 00:04:44,878 ''Like socialist Russia, in China, in Cambodia...!'' 96 00:04:45,103 --> 00:04:47,053 Stop! Step back! 97 00:04:47,561 --> 00:04:50,158 Take a deep breath! Think! 98 00:04:50,531 --> 00:04:52,584 What is the Zeitgeist Movement about? 99 00:04:52,802 --> 00:04:55,689 It's not about getting rid of money, getting rid of property, 100 00:04:55,833 --> 00:04:59,147 central planning and all those things! No, no, no...! 101 00:04:59,341 --> 00:05:02,887 The Movement is about really, a change of culture. 102 00:05:03,094 --> 00:05:07,369 Why don't we base our activities on, what the planet can provide? 103 00:05:07,643 --> 00:05:09,751 Instead of just taking? 104 00:05:10,536 --> 00:05:13,044 It's changing our values! 105 00:05:13,582 --> 00:05:17,545 It's about realizing, that we live in a finite planet. 106 00:05:17,706 --> 00:05:22,620 And that we have to, live in symbiosis with the planet, 107 00:05:22,781 --> 00:05:26,016 and with other species. And to do that, 108 00:05:26,152 --> 00:05:30,613 we have to use the most efficient, method that we know of. 109 00:05:30,786 --> 00:05:34,000 And as of now, it's the scientific method. 110 00:05:34,147 --> 00:05:37,548 ''Science? Are you crazy? What has science ever done for us?'' 111 00:05:37,677 --> 00:05:40,345 ''Science? Science is cold!'' 112 00:05:40,447 --> 00:05:43,172 Science is whatever works best! 113 00:05:43,302 --> 00:05:44,939 That's basically science, you know! 114 00:05:45,063 --> 00:05:46,709 Whatever helps you, is science! 115 00:05:46,817 --> 00:05:50,097 ''Science is the atom bomb and weapons, that's science!'' 116 00:05:50,255 --> 00:05:56,990 No! That's, geopolitical will, exploiting scientists. 117 00:05:57,341 --> 00:06:00,095 That's not really science, you know! That's not how science works. 118 00:06:00,256 --> 00:06:03,114 Science is a method, of arriving at decisions. 119 00:06:03,343 --> 00:06:06,073 So that when you need something, and you have to kind of, 120 00:06:06,196 --> 00:06:10,572 figure out what's the best way to do it, then you use the scientific method! 121 00:06:10,742 --> 00:06:16,020 Try to figure out, what is the best way to live, with others, peacefully. 122 00:06:16,243 --> 00:06:18,676 ''But in the real world! Not in the utopia!'' 123 00:06:18,895 --> 00:06:22,008 ''Let's build the Fresco´s city! The circular thing that everybody wants, 124 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,519 and it's perfect and everything is recyclable...!'' 125 00:06:25,161 --> 00:06:29,530 Yeah, you can live in your soap-bubble, for a while maybe... 126 00:06:29,684 --> 00:06:33,603 But then the bombs start to fall, and explode around you... 127 00:06:33,732 --> 00:06:39,213 So, you're inside your little, soap-bubble thingy, and... 128 00:06:40,004 --> 00:06:41,474 That's just not gonna work! 129 00:06:41,597 --> 00:06:45,044 You have to make it, World Wide. 130 00:06:45,146 --> 00:06:49,536 Declare all the earth's resources, common heritage, to all the world's people. 131 00:06:49,816 --> 00:06:54,035 ''You wanna impose on people? You wanna take away my rights? Impose no property?'' 132 00:06:54,168 --> 00:06:57,416 No, no, no...! That's not how it works. 133 00:06:57,652 --> 00:07:04,288 In the Venus Project, people can have property, if they like to. If they want to. 134 00:07:04,853 --> 00:07:08,411 There is no rule saying: ''Oh you don't have property! No! No!'' 135 00:07:08,557 --> 00:07:13,145 ''You want property? You want... You want your own tshirt? No way! No! Sorry!'' 136 00:07:13,450 --> 00:07:17,028 ''We decided on 'No Property', and we are gonna impose that value!'' 137 00:07:17,208 --> 00:07:20,071 No dude! You're getting all wrong! 138 00:07:20,277 --> 00:07:23,998 It's not about getting rid of, or imposing anything! 139 00:07:24,190 --> 00:07:32,262 It's about, evolving out, of the need, for useless, cyclical consumption. That's it! 140 00:07:32,777 --> 00:07:35,621 You wanna keep your tshirt? You keep your freaking tshirt! Who cares? 141 00:07:35,813 --> 00:07:41,111 The point is: You make resources available, efficiently, 142 00:07:41,238 --> 00:07:46,287 using the most scientifically advanced, technologies that you have, 143 00:07:46,433 --> 00:07:50,348 to provide needs, to people. 144 00:07:50,493 --> 00:07:53,444 The idea is to live sustainably on the planet, 145 00:07:53,583 --> 00:07:57,027 peacefully, with the others. 146 00:07:57,734 --> 00:07:59,904 That's it! How do you do that? 147 00:08:00,020 --> 00:08:03,076 Well, you design flaws out the society. 148 00:08:03,279 --> 00:08:06,276 ''You want a perfect society? There's no way you can have a perfect...!'' 149 00:08:06,405 --> 00:08:09,757 No dude! We don't want a 'Perfect Society'! 150 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:11,500 We just want to get rid of the things, 151 00:08:11,624 --> 00:08:13,311 that are really, really wrong! 152 00:08:13,441 --> 00:08:16,169 ''What if i don't want to, get into your little game of, 153 00:08:16,354 --> 00:08:19,205 you know, the perfect society and live sustainable?'' 154 00:08:19,326 --> 00:08:22,271 ''I don't give a shit about the flowers and the planet, and the people!'' 155 00:08:22,385 --> 00:08:25,495 ''I just want my rights! And my property! And my things...!'' 156 00:08:25,597 --> 00:08:28,995 Ok! Ok! Fine! I'm not going to impose anything! 157 00:08:29,103 --> 00:08:31,980 This is a peaceful movement. 158 00:08:32,165 --> 00:08:35,739 Because the shift, can only happen if, 159 00:08:35,916 --> 00:08:38,862 there is a cultural shift. Emergent! 160 00:08:38,977 --> 00:08:41,351 Emergent is the opposite of imposed! 161 00:08:41,781 --> 00:08:43,596 All those things that have been tried before, 162 00:08:43,711 --> 00:08:47,775 were ideologies, thought, through, by someone, 163 00:08:47,985 --> 00:08:50,062 and then imposed on the population! 164 00:08:50,208 --> 00:08:53,348 That's not how it works! And that's not what we propose. 165 00:08:53,483 --> 00:08:56,634 You don't have to tell people how to behave! 166 00:08:56,736 --> 00:08:58,867 You just have to teach them, 167 00:08:58,994 --> 00:09:02,621 how the world works, and how science works, 168 00:09:02,779 --> 00:09:06,301 and how human relationships work, and how they are important! 169 00:09:06,412 --> 00:09:10,618 Violence, breeds violence. That's a scientific fact. 170 00:09:10,779 --> 00:09:12,200 So how do you get rid of violence? 171 00:09:12,308 --> 00:09:18,575 You design society, so that you can take away, negative retroactions. 172 00:09:19,341 --> 00:09:21,002 You know it just... It just makes sense. 173 00:09:21,129 --> 00:09:23,959 It's about finding a way, to provide, 174 00:09:24,119 --> 00:09:26,850 the best for everyone, using, 175 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:31,519 scientific knowledge, and, the most relevant, 176 00:09:32,450 --> 00:09:36,192 technologies that we have, in an emergent culture! 177 00:09:36,338 --> 00:09:40,215 You can take all the technologies you have, you can just throw them out of the window! 178 00:09:40,484 --> 00:09:44,587 They're just a piece of junk, if they don't have people! 179 00:09:44,764 --> 00:09:47,822 The purpose of technology is, to free people, 180 00:09:47,984 --> 00:09:52,138 from those jobs and those, worries and stress! 181 00:09:52,349 --> 00:09:57,388 And so you can dedicate your life, into something more meaningful, 182 00:09:57,634 --> 00:10:00,335 like, social relationships! 183 00:10:00,599 --> 00:10:02,928 Spend time with your family, with your friends... 184 00:10:03,166 --> 00:10:04,927 Study, play music! 185 00:10:05,078 --> 00:10:06,708 What you want to do, really! 186 00:10:06,852 --> 00:10:09,961 So it's not 'work', it's activities! Voluntary work! 187 00:10:10,205 --> 00:10:12,172 It's, something that you wanna do! 188 00:10:12,341 --> 00:10:13,633 ''Oh people won't do anything!'' 189 00:10:13,748 --> 00:10:15,662 Yeah! I would! I would! 190 00:10:15,816 --> 00:10:18,830 Fuck! I'm working 9 hours a day, every day of the week, 191 00:10:18,991 --> 00:10:20,863 and I'm still doing other activities, 192 00:10:20,991 --> 00:10:22,744 and I'm still studying other stuff, 193 00:10:22,913 --> 00:10:24,956 and I'm still, active in doing things! 194 00:10:25,148 --> 00:10:28,431 Because it's fun! It's fun to learn, and do things! 195 00:10:28,647 --> 00:10:31,045 It's fun! You know, it's... human! 196 00:10:31,191 --> 00:10:34,526 If there is anything about human nature is: Curiosity! 197 00:10:34,696 --> 00:10:37,359 The pleasure, of finding things out! 198 00:10:37,632 --> 00:10:39,204 TO SUM UP 199 00:10:39,610 --> 00:10:41,779 On one side, you have: 200 00:10:42,079 --> 00:10:43,540 Possible self-destruction... 201 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:46,478 A handful of corporations controlling everything... 202 00:10:46,593 --> 00:10:48,269 Totalitarian governments... 203 00:10:48,369 --> 00:10:51,650 Patents on life and seeds... And money, profit... 204 00:10:51,839 --> 00:10:55,838 Destruction of the suitable environment for us and... 205 00:10:55,994 --> 00:10:57,685 Yeah... 206 00:10:58,290 --> 00:10:59,981 Doesn't sound very appealing! 207 00:11:00,112 --> 00:11:02,096 One the other side you have: 208 00:11:02,223 --> 00:11:05,939 Human evolution! Exploration of space and... 209 00:11:06,269 --> 00:11:07,690 Human knowledge, and... 210 00:11:07,821 --> 00:11:10,668 Music and poetry, and human relationships... 211 00:11:10,821 --> 00:11:13,856 And what's the nature of the Universe and... 212 00:11:13,995 --> 00:11:18,241 You kind of weight those things together and... 213 00:11:20,638 --> 00:11:22,578 I wonder, which one would I chose! 214 00:11:22,718 --> 00:11:25,534 I know, I'm over simplify! It's not that simple! 215 00:11:25,646 --> 00:11:30,569 But, if you really think about it, it is that simple! 216 00:11:31,548 --> 00:11:36,730 Cyclical consumption of goods and services, for the sake of profit, 217 00:11:36,895 --> 00:11:39,821 in a World that has finite resources, on one hand. 218 00:11:39,970 --> 00:11:43,919 And sustainable living, based on, 219 00:11:44,826 --> 00:11:48,745 what the planet can provide, living in symbiosis with it, 220 00:11:48,883 --> 00:11:51,326 and living peacefully, with other people! 221 00:11:51,452 --> 00:11:54,568 This is the kind of paradigm shift, that we are talking about! 222 00:11:54,953 --> 00:11:58,784 Maybe what we are proposing here, may not be the best way, 223 00:11:58,986 --> 00:12:02,362 and surely is not! And it's not perfect! It's not perfect! 224 00:12:02,551 --> 00:12:04,064 Just a lot better than the other. 225 00:12:04,175 --> 00:12:07,256 If you don't like something in the Movement, 226 00:12:07,402 --> 00:12:10,025 join and help us make it better! 227 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:11,099 Like science! 228 00:12:11,192 --> 00:12:13,407 It's not about the people on the top! No! 229 00:12:13,529 --> 00:12:16,330 It's about the ideas! It's about this paradigm shift! 230 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:18,101 JOIN 231 00:12:19,025 --> 00:12:21,827 Join us! Help us! Help us make a better world! 232 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,662 But for real, not just small talk! 233 00:12:24,786 --> 00:12:27,487 What you got to lose?! Like, your Planet?! 234 00:12:27,596 --> 00:12:29,261 That's nothing!? Your Life! 235 00:12:29,380 --> 00:12:30,749 Your Future! 236 00:12:31,273 --> 00:12:32,827 Join us! It's fun! 237 00:12:32,955 --> 00:12:35,456 Here it's something really important! Ok, check this out: 238 00:12:35,594 --> 00:12:39,356 If you are not having fun, saving the world, 239 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,024 you shouldn't! You shouldn't save the world! 240 00:12:42,125 --> 00:12:44,948 You should just, keep going and destroying your fucking life! 241 00:12:45,196 --> 00:12:46,494 That's what you should do! 242 00:12:46,603 --> 00:12:48,279 You need to have fun, saving the world! 243 00:12:48,425 --> 00:12:50,721 Otherwise, i don't think it's worth it! 244 00:12:50,841 --> 00:12:54,026 I'm having fun! So, let's have fun together! 245 00:12:54,317 --> 00:12:56,510 My name is Federico and I'm from Italy! 246 00:12:56,663 --> 00:12:59,904 But really, we are all citizens of the Earth! 247 00:13:00,038 --> 00:13:00,838 Love you! 248 00:13:00,871 --> 00:13:03,339 JOIN THE MOVEMENT 249 00:13:03,462 --> 00:13:07,270 THEZEITGEISTMOVEMENT.COM