1 00:00:00,657 --> 00:00:05,381 My name is Stefan Kengen, aka Steven Keen - 2 00:00:05,381 --> 00:00:08,961 - and I am the Danish coordinator for the Zeitgeist Movement. 3 00:00:08,961 --> 00:00:13,376 I've been on board for about 3 years. 4 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,262 I joined the movement through a friend - 5 00:00:20,262 --> 00:00:23,498 - who sent me the link to the first 2 Zeitgeist movies - 6 00:00:23,498 --> 00:00:26,882 - of which I had never heard before. 7 00:00:26,882 --> 00:00:31,612 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' clarified some things for me. 8 00:00:31,612 --> 00:00:35,412 I had the puzzle pieces in front of me - 9 00:00:35,412 --> 00:00:40,131 - but I couldn't put them together. Addendum did that for me. 10 00:00:40,131 --> 00:00:44,569 I looked up the website and became an active member. 11 00:00:44,569 --> 00:00:48,549 It went quite fast for me actually. 12 00:00:59,966 --> 00:01:02,801 The movement began in Denmark about 3 years ago - 13 00:01:02,801 --> 00:01:07,050 - and has developed slowly. More and more people - 14 00:01:07,050 --> 00:01:11,382 - are sympathizing. We have some structutal issues - 15 00:01:11,382 --> 00:01:15,133 - because we are doing things differently - 16 00:01:15,133 --> 00:01:19,183 - hierarchically and so on. 17 00:01:19,183 --> 00:01:24,531 We need people to be autonomous and do things on their own accord - 18 00:01:24,531 --> 00:01:29,036 - which is challenging. But we have had quite a few successes as well - 19 00:01:29,036 --> 00:01:31,750 - with various events. 20 00:01:31,750 --> 00:01:36,795 The theatrical launch of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' went very well. 21 00:01:36,795 --> 00:01:40,301 We've had 2 consecutive Z-Day events, which had - 22 00:01:40,301 --> 00:01:45,058 - high attendance. So we're getting there. 23 00:01:50,979 --> 00:01:54,169 The future of the movement - 24 00:01:54,169 --> 00:01:57,409 - will play out naturally I think. 25 00:01:57,409 --> 00:02:01,717 Because our failiure to solve our problems will become more apparent - 26 00:02:01,717 --> 00:02:07,261 - not just in Denmark but globally. 27 00:02:07,261 --> 00:02:10,411 People will gravitate towards other possibilities - 28 00:02:10,411 --> 00:02:13,819 - because "the old way" no longer works. 29 00:02:13,819 --> 00:02:17,739 I forsee a growing interest in the tenets of the movement - 30 00:02:17,739 --> 00:02:23,169 - and what indiviuals themeselves can do to move things in a better direction. 31 00:02:31,963 --> 00:02:36,625 The situation i Denmark is one of cautious waiting. 32 00:02:36,625 --> 00:02:40,453 Most people who address the public in some way - 33 00:02:40,453 --> 00:02:42,882 - hold back a lot these days - 34 00:02:42,882 --> 00:02:47,579 - because they realize that our ways aren't working anymore. 35 00:02:47,579 --> 00:02:51,213 The political and financial situation here - 36 00:02:51,213 --> 00:02:55,330 - is stagnating a little. 37 00:02:55,330 --> 00:02:59,050 We will most likely see many creative suggestions - 38 00:02:59,050 --> 00:03:03,129 - which won't work, because we are at a point - 39 00:03:03,129 --> 00:03:07,929 - where neither political nor monetary measures work. 40 00:03:08,959 --> 00:03:13,385 There is stagnation and cautious waiting in this regard - 41 00:03:13,385 --> 00:03:17,219 - but as the election approaches - 42 00:03:17,219 --> 00:03:20,488 - the debate will heat up - 43 00:03:20,488 --> 00:03:23,254 - but no results. 44 00:04:24,302 --> 00:04:26,323 The transition... 45 00:04:26,323 --> 00:04:30,089 If there is one, it's already happening. 46 00:04:30,089 --> 00:04:32,783 And has been for a long time. 47 00:04:32,783 --> 00:04:36,183 I don't believe in drastic paradigm shifts. 48 00:04:36,183 --> 00:04:40,659 It's a developing function that can be faster or slower - 49 00:04:40,659 --> 00:04:44,967 - according to the predominant socio-economic factors. 50 00:04:44,967 --> 00:04:50,258 The question is what we are transitioning to. 51 00:04:50,258 --> 00:04:54,169 We try to work towards an NL/RBE - 52 00:04:54,169 --> 00:04:58,183 - which is a model - 53 00:04:58,183 --> 00:05:03,503 - in which we share the resources, to put it very short. 54 00:05:03,503 --> 00:05:07,134 What will happen next is speculative. 55 00:05:07,134 --> 00:05:10,253 We work towards a more constructive - 56 00:05:10,253 --> 00:05:14,210 - and productive direction, rooted in the technological - 57 00:05:14,210 --> 00:05:20,956 - and scientific knowledge and understandings we have. 58 00:05:20,956 --> 00:05:24,852 The understanding that we no longer have the need for money. 59 00:05:25,437 --> 00:05:29,210 But the 'transition' itself is beyond me. 60 00:05:29,210 --> 00:05:33,200 But we will keep working in that direction. 61 00:06:04,328 --> 00:06:06,389 My friends. My fellow humans. 62 00:06:06,389 --> 00:06:10,374 It's time to do things differently. It's time be more efficient. 63 00:06:10,374 --> 00:06:13,128 Humanity har reached a point - 64 00:06:13,128 --> 00:06:17,422 - where we need to realize that our old ways no longer work - 65 00:06:17,422 --> 00:06:20,542 - and that new measures are required. 66 00:06:20,542 --> 00:06:25,047 Luckily we know all we need to know in order to achieve it. 67 00:06:25,047 --> 00:06:28,542 It is only a matter of sharing the information - 68 00:06:28,542 --> 00:06:32,862 - join hands, and work together for a global future - 69 00:06:32,862 --> 00:06:35,739 - that has room for us all.