WEBVTT 00:00:00.091 --> 00:00:05.104 ALL IMPERSONATIONS ON THIS VIDEO ARE BASED ON ACTUAL CRITICISMS I HEARD FROM PEOPLE 00:00:05.366 --> 00:00:09.109 Since I was a kid, i used to look at the world, 00:00:09.293 --> 00:00:13.215 and you know, ask myself questions and... 00:00:13.428 --> 00:00:15.690 Yeah... Questions! Questions... 00:00:15.833 --> 00:00:18.869 Questions need answers! And think! Think! 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! 00:00:23.072 --> 00:00:25.186 Don't bother thinking! ''It's useless!'' 00:00:25.322 --> 00:00:28.527 I've been thinking, you know! I've been thinking and, 00:00:28.664 --> 00:00:30.599 if you are like me, you walk down the street, 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.085 and you see things not working, like: 00:00:33.211 --> 00:00:36.180 Poor people! You see poor people on the street, 00:00:36.402 --> 00:00:40.468 dying of hunger, cold, dehydration, and... 00:00:41.017 --> 00:00:44.597 And you kind of wonder Why? ''Why is this happening?'' 00:00:44.756 --> 00:00:47.459 ''It's human nature and those people deserve to be there!'' 00:00:47.590 --> 00:00:51.910 Ok, wait a minute... If fits, people in the society, 00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:54.873 and, this people don't fit, 00:00:55.197 --> 00:00:57.032 there must be a reason, and the reason, 00:00:57.187 --> 00:00:59.023 must be connected to society, you know, 00:00:59.224 --> 00:01:01.501 how it works, how it's designed to work. 00:01:01.670 --> 00:01:04.105 And, if it's designed not to work, 00:01:04.293 --> 00:01:08.244 or just to work for someone, then it's not really a fair society! Is it? 00:01:08.452 --> 00:01:11.652 ''Oh, you can never fix society, you're too small!'' 00:01:11.821 --> 00:01:13.995 ''You're just one! Who do you think you are?!'' 00:01:14.191 --> 00:01:15.832 ''You don't count for shit!'' NOTE Paragraph 00:01:15.977 --> 00:01:19.023 ''The only time you count is when you turn 18 and you can vote!'' 00:01:19.176 --> 00:01:20.684 ''That's your ability to choose!'' 00:01:20.814 --> 00:01:23.501 Wow! Turning adult is awesome! 00:01:23.824 --> 00:01:25.908 You can put an 'X' on a piece of paper! 00:01:26.170 --> 00:01:28.517 Amazing! Wow! That's cool! 00:01:28.641 --> 00:01:33.601 But, what if you actually think about problems and how to solve them? 00:01:33.735 --> 00:01:37.165 Is there any way now, in society that you can kind of interact? 00:01:37.434 --> 00:01:39.873 You see all this pollution! Wars! 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:43.215 Wars over oil, over territorial disputes... 00:01:43.415 --> 00:01:47.131 And the People dying! All those things happening... 00:01:47.365 --> 00:01:50.330 And you kind of wonder: Isn't there a better way to do things? 00:01:50.564 --> 00:01:51.925 WHERE ARE WE NOW? 00:01:52.109 --> 00:01:56.851 If you look at the trends how things are working, and what's happening now, 00:01:57.010 --> 00:01:58.687 you kind of see a pattern: 00:01:58.810 --> 00:02:01.521 The level of technology, rises exponentially, 00:02:01.672 --> 00:02:03.225 so it keeps growing and growing... 00:02:03.354 --> 00:02:07.006 You have: Technological unemployment. 00:02:07.313 --> 00:02:11.037 90% of the people worked on farming, a hundred years ago, 00:02:11.187 --> 00:02:15.137 and now it's 2% of the people in developed countries. 00:02:15.252 --> 00:02:18.895 And, of course all the other people, they had to move to another sector. 00:02:19.075 --> 00:02:21.242 Then, it was the manufacturing sector and then... 00:02:21.401 --> 00:02:23.139 Technological unemployment again! 00:02:23.269 --> 00:02:25.845 So what do you, you move those people to the service sector. 00:02:25.977 --> 00:02:27.488 And what does the service sector do? 00:02:27.586 --> 00:02:29.638 Some people they have some kind of utility, you know, 00:02:29.746 --> 00:02:32.796 they help like, social workers... Oh excellent job! 00:02:32.924 --> 00:02:35.184 Voluntary work! Oh amazing! 00:02:35.346 --> 00:02:37.201 Helping! Helping other people!? 00:02:37.515 --> 00:02:39.655 But then, you've got all these other jobs like: 00:02:39.779 --> 00:02:42.044 Advertisement, anthropologists,... 00:02:42.312 --> 00:02:44.942 Oh wait, wait a second, Anthropology that's interesting... That's...! 00:02:45.167 --> 00:02:48.089 Yeah... But, how do use anthropologists now? 00:02:48.228 --> 00:02:53.379 I have some friends, some researchers and Phds, in anthropology and social sciences. 00:02:53.573 --> 00:02:58.965 You know how the system uses, the people most likely to be able to help others, 00:02:59.193 --> 00:03:01.740 because they can understand how, social interactions work, 00:03:01.909 --> 00:03:03.930 and how societies and cultures interact? 00:03:04.057 --> 00:03:05.941 They use them for: 00:03:06.926 --> 00:03:08.856 Exploitation! Profit! 00:03:08.988 --> 00:03:11.810 How to get into your mind, and make advertisement, 00:03:11.973 --> 00:03:14.062 and flashy things, and so it gets into you! 00:03:14.173 --> 00:03:15.649 OPTIONS 00:03:16.060 --> 00:03:18.229 I see only 2 options. Two options! 00:03:18.352 --> 00:03:21.206 One: We keep the things as they are now. 00:03:21.338 --> 00:03:23.419 So Status Quo. We keep it going... 00:03:23.512 --> 00:03:26.217 And what happens, you have: 00:03:26.691 --> 00:03:29.435 Natural monopolies and oligopolies... 00:03:29.636 --> 00:03:32.865 A bunch of corporations, taking over everything, and they have... 00:03:32.988 --> 00:03:35.456 Patents! Patents on everything for profit! 00:03:35.589 --> 00:03:37.734 You have patents on: Medicines... 00:03:37.872 --> 00:03:41.091 And then patents on: Seeds and synthetic life... 00:03:41.344 --> 00:03:43.003 Even on biological life... 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.532 Do you really want that kind of world? 00:03:46.963 --> 00:03:49.318 You make the planet inhabitable?! 00:03:49.442 --> 00:03:52.163 You pollute everything to the point of, 00:03:52.318 --> 00:03:55.533 not being able to breathe and drink and do anything, 00:03:55.651 --> 00:03:57.401 without killing yourself? 00:03:58.909 --> 00:04:03.325 And give everything and the control, to corporations?! 00:04:04.367 --> 00:04:06.345 Or isn't there a better way to do things? 00:04:06.475 --> 00:04:08.061 STOP COMPLAINING FIND SOLUTIONS 00:04:08.532 --> 00:04:12.344 Why do I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement? 00:04:12.536 --> 00:04:15.320 Well, first you kind of have to understand 00:04:15.612 --> 00:04:18.950 what the Movement is and what it proposes! 00:04:19.267 --> 00:04:21.003 ''Getting rid of property!'' Really? 00:04:21.218 --> 00:04:22.695 ''Getting rid of money!'' 00:04:22.850 --> 00:04:24.586 ''Transhumanist!'' 00:04:24.842 --> 00:04:28.073 ''You're a communist!'' ''Anarchist!'' 00:04:28.322 --> 00:04:31.937 ''You're a socialist!'' ''You're a conspiracy theorist!'' 00:04:32.249 --> 00:04:34.867 ''New world order! You want reinstall a new world order!'' 00:04:34.993 --> 00:04:37.250 ''That's what you want?!'' ''You're a kook!'' 00:04:37.466 --> 00:04:41.555 ''Central planning never worked, and it killed a hundred gazillion people...!'' 00:04:41.755 --> 00:04:44.878 ''Like socialist Russia, in China, in Cambodia...!'' 00:04:45.103 --> 00:04:47.053 Stop! Step back! 00:04:47.561 --> 00:04:50.158 Take a deep breath! Think! 00:04:50.531 --> 00:04:52.584 What is the Zeitgeist Movement about? 00:04:52.802 --> 00:04:55.689 It's not about getting rid of money, getting rid of property, 00:04:55.833 --> 00:04:59.147 central planning and all those things! No, no, no...! 00:04:59.341 --> 00:05:02.887 The Movement is about really, a change of culture. 00:05:03.094 --> 00:05:07.369 Why don't we base our activities on, what the planet can provide? 00:05:07.643 --> 00:05:09.751 Instead of just taking? 00:05:10.536 --> 00:05:13.044 It's changing our values! 00:05:13.582 --> 00:05:17.545 It's about realizing, that we live in a finite planet. 00:05:17.706 --> 00:05:22.620 And that we have to, live in symbiosis with the planet, 00:05:22.781 --> 00:05:26.016 and with other species. And to do that, 00:05:26.152 --> 00:05:30.613 we have to use the most efficient, method that we know of. 00:05:30.786 --> 00:05:34.000 And as of now, it's the scientific method. 00:05:34.147 --> 00:05:37.548 ''Science? Are you crazy? What has science ever done for us?'' 00:05:37.677 --> 00:05:40.345 ''Science? Science is cold!'' 00:05:40.447 --> 00:05:43.172 Science is whatever works best! 00:05:43.302 --> 00:05:44.939 That's basically science, you know! 00:05:45.063 --> 00:05:46.709 Whatever helps you, is science! 00:05:46.817 --> 00:05:50.097 ''Science is the atom bomb and weapons, that's science!'' 00:05:50.255 --> 00:05:56.990 No! That's, geopolitical will, exploiting scientists. 00:05:57.341 --> 00:06:00.095 That's not really science, you know! That's not how science works. 00:06:00.256 --> 00:06:03.114 Science is a method, of arriving at decisions. 00:06:03.343 --> 00:06:06.073 So that when you need something, and you have to kind of, 00:06:06.196 --> 00:06:10.572 figure out what's the best way to do it, then you use the scientific method! 00:06:10.742 --> 00:06:16.020 Try to figure out, what is the best way to live, with others, peacefully. 00:06:16.243 --> 00:06:18.676 ''But in the real world! Not in the utopia!'' 00:06:18.895 --> 00:06:22.008 ''Let's build the Fresco´s city! The circular thing that everybody wants, 00:06:22.200 --> 00:06:24.519 and it's perfect and everything is recyclable...!'' 00:06:25.161 --> 00:06:29.530 Yeah, you can live in your soap-bubble, for a while maybe... 00:06:29.684 --> 00:06:33.603 But then the bombs start to fall, and explode around you... 00:06:33.732 --> 00:06:39.213 So, you're inside your little, soap-bubble thingy, and... 00:06:40.004 --> 00:06:41.474 That's just not gonna work! 00:06:41.597 --> 00:06:45.044 You have to make it, World Wide. 00:06:45.146 --> 00:06:49.536 Declare all the earth's resources, common heritage, to all the world's people. 00:06:49.816 --> 00:06:54.035 ''You wanna impose on people? You wanna take away my rights? Impose no property?'' 00:06:54.168 --> 00:06:57.416 No, no, no...! That's not how it works. 00:06:57.652 --> 00:07:04.288 In the Venus Project, people can have property, if they like to. If they want to. 00:07:04.853 --> 00:07:08.411 There is no rule saying: ''Oh you don't have property! No! No!'' 00:07:08.557 --> 00:07:13.145 ''You want property? You want... You want your own tshirt? No way! No! Sorry!'' 00:07:13.450 --> 00:07:17.028 ''We decided on 'No Property', and we are gonna impose that value!'' 00:07:17.208 --> 00:07:20.071 No dude! You're getting all wrong! 00:07:20.277 --> 00:07:23.998 It's not about getting rid of, or imposing anything! 00:07:24.190 --> 00:07:32.262 It's about, evolving out, of the need, for useless, cyclical consumption. That's it! 00:07:32.777 --> 00:07:35.621 You wanna keep your tshirt? You keep your freaking tshirt! Who cares? 00:07:35.813 --> 00:07:41.111 The point is: You make resources available, efficiently, 00:07:41.238 --> 00:07:46.287 using the most scientifically advanced, technologies that you have, 00:07:46.433 --> 00:07:50.348 to provide needs, to people. 00:07:50.493 --> 00:07:53.444 The idea is to live sustainably on the planet, 00:07:53.583 --> 00:07:57.027 peacefully, with the others. 00:07:57.734 --> 00:07:59.904 That's it! How do you do that? 00:08:00.020 --> 00:08:03.076 Well, you design flaws out the society. 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.276 ''You want a perfect society? There's no way you can have a perfect...!'' 00:08:06.405 --> 00:08:09.757 No dude! We don't want a 'Perfect Society'! 00:08:09.865 --> 00:08:11.500 We just want to get rid of the things, 00:08:11.624 --> 00:08:13.311 that are really, really wrong! 00:08:13.441 --> 00:08:16.169 ''What if i don't want to, get into your little game of, 00:08:16.354 --> 00:08:19.205 you know, the perfect society and live sustainable?'' 00:08:19.326 --> 00:08:22.271 ''I don't give a shit about the flowers and the planet, and the people!'' 00:08:22.385 --> 00:08:25.495 ''I just want my rights! And my property! And my things...!'' 00:08:25.597 --> 00:08:28.995 Ok! Ok! Fine! I'm not going to impose anything! 00:08:29.103 --> 00:08:31.980 This is a peaceful movement. 00:08:32.165 --> 00:08:35.739 Because the shift, can only happen if, 00:08:35.916 --> 00:08:38.862 there is a cultural shift. Emergent! 00:08:38.977 --> 00:08:41.351 Emergent is the opposite of imposed! 00:08:41.781 --> 00:08:43.596 All those things that have been tried before, 00:08:43.711 --> 00:08:47.775 were ideologies, thought, through, by someone, 00:08:47.985 --> 00:08:50.062 and then imposed on the population! 00:08:50.208 --> 00:08:53.348 That's not how it works! And that's not what we propose. 00:08:53.483 --> 00:08:56.634 You don't have to tell people how to behave! 00:08:56.736 --> 00:08:58.867 You just have to teach them, 00:08:58.994 --> 00:09:02.621 how the world works, and how science works, 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:06.301 and how human relationships work, and how they are important! 00:09:06.412 --> 00:09:10.618 Violence, breeds violence. That's a scientific fact. 00:09:10.779 --> 00:09:12.200 So how do you get rid of violence? 00:09:12.308 --> 00:09:18.575 You design society, so that you can take away, negative retroactions. 00:09:19.341 --> 00:09:21.002 You know it just... It just makes sense. 00:09:21.129 --> 00:09:23.959 It's about finding a way, to provide, 00:09:24.119 --> 00:09:26.850 the best for everyone, using, 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:31.519 scientific knowledge, and, the most relevant, 00:09:32.450 --> 00:09:36.192 technologies that we have, in an emergent culture! 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! 00:09:40.484 --> 00:09:44.587 They're just a piece of junk, if they don't have people! 00:09:44.764 --> 00:09:47.822 The purpose of technology is, to free people, 00:09:47.984 --> 00:09:52.138 from those jobs and those, worries and stress! 00:09:52.349 --> 00:09:57.388 And so you can dedicate your life, into something more meaningful, 00:09:57.634 --> 00:10:00.335 like, social relationships! 00:10:00.599 --> 00:10:02.928 Spend time with your family, with your friends... 00:10:03.166 --> 00:10:04.927 Study, play music! 00:10:05.078 --> 00:10:06.708 What you want to do, really! 00:10:06.852 --> 00:10:09.961 So it's not 'work', it's activities! Voluntary work! 00:10:10.205 --> 00:10:12.172 It's, something that you wanna do! 00:10:12.341 --> 00:10:13.633 ''Oh people won't do anything!'' 00:10:13.748 --> 00:10:15.662 Yeah! I would! I would! 00:10:15.816 --> 00:10:18.830 Fuck! I'm working 9 hours a day, every day of the week, 00:10:18.991 --> 00:10:20.863 and I'm still doing other activities, 00:10:20.991 --> 00:10:22.744 and I'm still studying other stuff, 00:10:22.913 --> 00:10:24.956 and I'm still, active in doing things! 00:10:25.148 --> 00:10:28.431 Because it's fun! It's fun to learn, and do things! 00:10:28.647 --> 00:10:31.045 It's fun! You know, it's... human! 00:10:31.191 --> 00:10:34.526 If there is anything about human nature is: Curiosity! 00:10:34.696 --> 00:10:37.359 The pleasure, of finding things out! 00:10:37.632 --> 00:10:39.204 TO SUM UP 00:10:39.610 --> 00:10:41.779 On one side, you have: 00:10:42.079 --> 00:10:43.540 Possible self-destruction... 00:10:43.670 --> 00:10:46.478 A handful of corporations controlling everything... 00:10:46.593 --> 00:10:48.269 Totalitarian governments... 00:10:48.369 --> 00:10:51.650 Patents on life and seeds... And money, profit... 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:55.838 Destruction of the suitable environment for us and... 00:10:55.994 --> 00:10:57.685 Yeah... 00:10:58.290 --> 00:10:59.981 Doesn't sound very appealing! 00:11:00.112 --> 00:11:02.096 One the other side you have: 00:11:02.223 --> 00:11:05.939 Human evolution! Exploration of space and... 00:11:06.269 --> 00:11:07.690 Human knowledge, and... 00:11:07.821 --> 00:11:10.668 Music and poetry, and human relationships... 00:11:10.821 --> 00:11:13.856 And what's the nature of the Universe and... 00:11:13.995 --> 00:11:18.241 You kind of weight those things together and... 00:11:20.638 --> 00:11:22.578 I wonder, which one would I chose! 00:11:22.718 --> 00:11:25.534 I know, I'm over simplify! It's not that simple! 00:11:25.646 --> 00:11:30.569 But, if you really think about it, it is that simple! 00:11:31.548 --> 00:11:36.730 Cyclical consumption of goods and services, for the sake of profit, 00:11:36.895 --> 00:11:39.821 in a World that has finite resources, on one hand. 00:11:39.970 --> 00:11:43.919 And sustainable living, based on, 00:11:44.826 --> 00:11:48.745 what the planet can provide, living in symbiosis with it, 00:11:48.883 --> 00:11:51.326 and living peacefully, with other people! 00:11:51.452 --> 00:11:54.568 This is the kind of paradigm shift, that we are talking about! 00:11:54.953 --> 00:11:58.784 Maybe what we are proposing here, may not be the best way, 00:11:58.986 --> 00:12:02.362 and surely is not! And it's not perfect! It's not perfect! 00:12:02.551 --> 00:12:04.064 Just a lot better than the other. 00:12:04.175 --> 00:12:07.256 If you don't like something in the Movement, 00:12:07.402 --> 00:12:10.025 join and help us make it better! 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:11.099 Like science! 00:12:11.192 --> 00:12:13.407 It's not about the people on the top! No! 00:12:13.529 --> 00:12:16.330 It's about the ideas! It's about this paradigm shift! 00:12:16.560 --> 00:12:18.101 JOIN 00:12:19.025 --> 00:12:21.827 Join us! Help us! Help us make a better world! 00:12:22.040 --> 00:12:24.662 But for real, not just small talk! 00:12:24.786 --> 00:12:27.487 What you got to lose?! Like, your Planet?! NOTE Paragraph 00:12:27.596 --> 00:12:29.261 That's nothing!? Your Life! 00:12:29.380 --> 00:12:30.749 Your Future! 00:12:31.273 --> 00:12:32.827 Join us! It's fun! 00:12:32.955 --> 00:12:35.456 Here it's something really important! Ok, check this out: 00:12:35.594 --> 00:12:39.356 If you are not having fun, saving the world, 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.024 you shouldn't! You shouldn't save the world! 00:12:42.125 --> 00:12:44.948 You should just, keep going and destroying your fucking life! 00:12:45.196 --> 00:12:46.494 That's what you should do! 00:12:46.603 --> 00:12:48.279 You need to have fun, saving the world! 00:12:48.425 --> 00:12:50.721 Otherwise, i don't think it's worth it! 00:12:50.841 --> 00:12:54.026 I'm having fun! So, let's have fun together! 00:12:54.317 --> 00:12:56.510 My name is Federico and I'm from Italy! 00:12:56.663 --> 00:12:59.904 But really, we are all citizens of the Earth! 00:13:00.038 --> 00:13:00.838 Love you! 00:13:00.871 --> 00:13:03.339 JOIN THE MOVEMENT 00:13:03.462 --> 00:13:07.270 THEZEITGEISTMOVEMENT.COM