WEBVTT 00:00:00.657 --> 00:00:05.381 My name is Stefan Kengen, aka Steven Keen - 00:00:05.381 --> 00:00:08.961 - and I am the Danish coordinator for the Zeitgeist Movement. 00:00:08.961 --> 00:00:13.376 I've been on board for about 3 years. 00:00:17.300 --> 00:00:20.262 I joined the movement through a friend - 00:00:20.262 --> 00:00:23.498 - who sent me the link to the first 2 Zeitgeist movies - 00:00:23.498 --> 00:00:26.882 - of which I had never heard before. 00:00:26.882 --> 00:00:31.612 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' clarified some things for me. 00:00:31.612 --> 00:00:35.412 I had the puzzle pieces in front of me - 00:00:35.412 --> 00:00:40.131 - but I couldn't put them together. Addendum did that for me. 00:00:40.131 --> 00:00:44.569 I looked up the website and became an active member. 00:00:44.569 --> 00:00:48.549 It went quite fast for me actually. 00:00:59.966 --> 00:01:02.801 The movement began in Denmark about 3 years ago - 00:01:02.801 --> 00:01:07.050 - and has developed slowly. More and more people - 00:01:07.050 --> 00:01:11.382 - are sympathizing. We have some structutal issues - 00:01:11.382 --> 00:01:15.133 - because we are doing things differently - 00:01:15.133 --> 00:01:19.183 - hierarchically and so on. 00:01:19.183 --> 00:01:24.531 We need people to be autonomous and do things on their own accord - 00:01:24.531 --> 00:01:29.036 - which is challenging. But we have had quite a few successes as well - 00:01:29.036 --> 00:01:31.750 - with various events. 00:01:31.750 --> 00:01:36.795 The theatrical launch of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' went very well. 00:01:36.795 --> 00:01:40.301 We've had 2 consecutive Z-Day events, which had - 00:01:40.301 --> 00:01:45.058 - high attendance. So we're getting there. 00:01:50.979 --> 00:01:54.169 The future of the movement - 00:01:54.169 --> 00:01:57.409 - will play out naturally I think. 00:01:57.409 --> 00:02:01.717 Because our failiure to solve our problems will become more apparent - 00:02:01.717 --> 00:02:07.261 - not just in Denmark but globally. 00:02:07.261 --> 00:02:10.411 People will gravitate towards other possibilities - 00:02:10.411 --> 00:02:13.819 - because "the old way" no longer works. 00:02:13.819 --> 00:02:17.739 I forsee a growing interest in the tenets of the movement - 00:02:17.739 --> 00:02:23.169 - and what indiviuals themeselves can do to move things in a better direction. 00:02:31.963 --> 00:02:36.625 The situation i Denmark is one of cautious waiting. 00:02:36.625 --> 00:02:40.453 Most people who address the public in some way - 00:02:40.453 --> 00:02:42.882 - hold back a lot these days - 00:02:42.882 --> 00:02:47.579 - because they realize that our ways aren't working anymore. 00:02:47.579 --> 00:02:51.213 The political and financial situation here - 00:02:51.213 --> 00:02:55.330 - is stagnating a little. 00:02:55.330 --> 00:02:59.050 We will most likely see many creative suggestions - 00:02:59.050 --> 00:03:03.129 - which won't work, because we are at a point - 00:03:03.129 --> 00:03:07.929 - where neither political nor monetary measures work. 00:03:08.959 --> 00:03:13.385 There is stagnation and cautious waiting in this regard - 00:03:13.385 --> 00:03:17.219 - but as the election approaches - 00:03:17.219 --> 00:03:20.488 - the debate will heat up - 00:03:20.488 --> 00:03:23.254 - but no results. 00:04:24.302 --> 00:04:26.323 The transition... 00:04:26.323 --> 00:04:30.089 If there is one, it's already happening. 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:32.783 And has been for a long time. 00:04:32.783 --> 00:04:36.183 I don't believe in drastic paradigm shifts. 00:04:36.183 --> 00:04:40.659 It's a developing function that can be faster or slower - 00:04:40.659 --> 00:04:44.967 - according to the predominant socio-economic factors. 00:04:44.967 --> 00:04:50.258 The question is what we are transitioning to. 00:04:50.258 --> 00:04:54.169 We try to work towards an NL/RBE - 00:04:54.169 --> 00:04:58.183 - which is a model - 00:04:58.183 --> 00:05:03.503 - in which we share the resources, to put it very short. 00:05:03.503 --> 00:05:07.134 What will happen next is speculative. 00:05:07.134 --> 00:05:10.253 We work towards a more constructive - 00:05:10.253 --> 00:05:14.210 - and productive direction, rooted in the technological - 00:05:14.210 --> 00:05:20.956 - and scientific knowledge and understandings we have. 00:05:20.956 --> 00:05:24.852 The understanding that we no longer have the need for money. 00:05:25.437 --> 00:05:29.210 But the 'transition' itself is beyond me. 00:05:29.210 --> 00:05:33.200 But we will keep working in that direction. 00:06:04.328 --> 00:06:06.389 My friends. My fellow humans. 00:06:06.389 --> 00:06:10.374 It's time to do things differently. It's time be more efficient. 00:06:10.374 --> 00:06:13.128 Humanity har reached a point - 00:06:13.128 --> 00:06:17.422 - where we need to realize that our old ways no longer work - 00:06:17.422 --> 00:06:20.542 - and that new measures are required. 00:06:20.542 --> 00:06:25.047 Luckily we know all we need to know in order to achieve it. 00:06:25.047 --> 00:06:28.542 It is only a matter of sharing the information - 00:06:28.542 --> 00:06:32.862 - join hands, and work together for a global future - 00:06:32.862 --> 00:06:35.739 - that has room for us all.