WEBVTT 00:00:01.587 --> 00:00:03.590 Hello, my name is Jean-Michel and my alias 00:00:03.590 --> 00:00:06.262 for the movement is Seldon 00:00:09.462 --> 00:00:12.777 Who are you? what are you doing in the movement? Present yourself as you want : alias, occupation, 00:00:12.777 --> 00:00:15.075 hobbies, etc... So, hm, 00:00:19.905 --> 00:00:20.899 So, I've recently taken 00:00:20.992 --> 00:00:25.079 the coordination of "Languedoc-Roussillon", since I'm living in the "Gard" 00:00:25.418 --> 00:00:28.819 around "bagnols-sur-Ceze", not far from "Avignon/Nîmes", 00:00:30.556 --> 00:00:33.579 and, hm, I'm trying to make my contribution 00:00:33.579 --> 00:00:37.570 for the movement since these ideas have echo in my mind 00:00:37.677 --> 00:00:40.593 and... what really drives me is to take real action. 00:00:44.194 --> 00:00:45.279 How did you 00:00:45.279 --> 00:00:47.954 join the movement? why did you join it? and why do you advocate 00:00:47.954 --> 00:00:51.092 the movement and a ressource based economy? 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:56.441 so, I've been aware of the 00:00:56.441 --> 00:00:59.317 film : "Zeitgeist : the movie" 00:00:59.841 --> 00:01:03.446 and it was totally matching the ideas 00:01:03.446 --> 00:01:07.364 that I was developping on my own as well, and it was just after 00:01:07.364 --> 00:01:12.164 the "addendum" part where I found out that there was an associated movement with it 00:01:12.550 --> 00:01:15.209 and... I took some time before 00:01:15.209 --> 00:01:18.626 to gather infos about it was all about, and I registered myself in 00:01:18.626 --> 00:01:22.679 the end of 2010, in the movement. 00:01:26.202 --> 00:01:28.601 Why do you support the movement 00:01:28.601 --> 00:01:30.677 and a ressource-based economy? 00:01:31.047 --> 00:01:35.279 I support this movement because of the ideas it brings 00:01:35.279 --> 00:01:39.445 as to say : informing people about the financial system 00:01:39.445 --> 00:01:42.030 as it is, and the process of money creation which really is 00:01:42.030 --> 00:01:46.252 the root cause of all our troubles and also 00:01:46.252 --> 00:01:50.286 this idea of a ressource-based economy 00:01:50.286 --> 00:01:54.484 which will be, in a future 00:01:54.484 --> 00:01:56.084 that I know to be far, will be a 00:01:56.084 --> 00:02:00.619 a viable solution to find some equilibrium on this planet 00:02:04.295 --> 00:02:06.483 Tell me 00:02:17.786 --> 00:02:20.527 Tell us something about the movement history in your country, its most successful achievements, its most 00:02:20.527 --> 00:02:25.973 important difficulties, talk to us about the next actions of the movement in 00:02:33.298 --> 00:02:34.462 the story of the french movement 00:02:36.815 --> 00:02:40.820 of course, I don't have the full details since the 00:02:40.928 --> 00:02:44.930 movement is quite young, so, the most 00:02:44.930 --> 00:02:49.498 important difficulties -in my opinion- that the movement is facing 00:02:49.498 --> 00:02:52.338 is trying to 00:02:52.369 --> 00:02:57.192 motivate new activists in order to 00:02:57.192 --> 00:03:01.393 concretely work on real projects 00:03:02.997 --> 00:03:07.543 and one of the difficulties we've been facing was the splitting with the 00:03:07.543 --> 00:03:11.783 Venus Project. I am a part of those 00:03:11.783 --> 00:03:15.416 who took it in a positive way, 00:03:15.416 --> 00:03:19.337 knowing that, at the moment, there are two distinct existing entities. 00:03:23.003 --> 00:03:27.282 tell us more about what is more important about the current social, economical and political context of 00:03:27.282 --> 00:03:30.028 your country 00:03:32.351 --> 00:03:35.084 that is a huge topic. in fact, the 00:03:35.084 --> 00:03:38.788 circumstances in France are not so different than 00:03:38.788 --> 00:03:42.402 most of European countries, and in the news, 00:03:42.402 --> 00:03:46.860 for example in Greece, it is more and more 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:49.838 noticeable that other countries are stricken in same ways and believing France 00:03:49.838 --> 00:03:53.943 won't be reached by those events 00:03:53.943 --> 00:03:56.611 is a mere delusion. so, we will have 00:03:56.611 --> 00:04:01.871 to suffer the same aftermath, as Greece, Portugal, 00:04:01.871 --> 00:04:05.582 Ireland, Spain... All these countries that are affected 00:04:05.582 --> 00:04:09.433 by this economic crysis and by a sort of privatization of 00:04:09.433 --> 00:04:11.036 countries. 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.983 how do you imagine the transition between the actual economy and the ressource based economy? 00:04:23.706 --> 00:04:25.307 The ressource based economy is 00:04:25.322 --> 00:04:29.206 an ultimate goal, but it can 00:04:29.206 --> 00:04:33.383 not ever happen -in my opinion- 00:04:33.383 --> 00:04:37.614 because of two major facts. First of all, 00:04:37.614 --> 00:04:42.149 everyone has to take full responsibility and act accordingly 00:04:42.149 --> 00:04:44.739 to defuse that system from its root cause. 00:04:45.587 --> 00:04:49.022 As to say, from the consumption point of view, 00:04:49.022 --> 00:04:53.958 avoid the super-markets, clarify one's banking status, 00:04:53.958 --> 00:04:56.651 Of course, this status is 00:04:56.651 --> 00:04:59.693 relatively difficult since some people are in need. 00:05:00.369 --> 00:05:03.639 and we have even more responsabilities in relation to this 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:08.685 trying to inform people at our best and, if we are able to do it, 00:05:08.685 --> 00:05:10.167 finally help them. 00:05:15.630 --> 00:05:17.698 on the second hand, 00:05:17.698 --> 00:05:21.165 before reaching the RBE, 00:05:21.165 --> 00:05:25.160 it will be necessary to "militate" 00:05:26.108 --> 00:05:27.935 about intermediate phases to 00:05:27.935 --> 00:05:30.481 break that financial system, ie, 00:05:30.481 --> 00:05:35.072 forbid money speculation 00:05:36.733 --> 00:05:39.607 forbid tax havens, 00:05:40.484 --> 00:05:43.635 forbid all speculations from companies 00:05:43.635 --> 00:05:48.273 to feed shareholders that are not real actives but only there to 00:05:48.273 --> 00:05:51.519 take benefits from the work of all. 00:05:51.704 --> 00:05:54.721 So, I think there is to globally clarify this level 00:05:55.351 --> 00:05:59.438 and it only can be reached with a maximum 00:05:59.438 --> 00:06:03.900 of people who knows how the financial system 00:06:03.900 --> 00:06:05.422 works, and 00:06:05.422 --> 00:06:10.643 it is how the Zeitgeist Movement can help, by bringing 00:06:10.674 --> 00:06:15.162 really coherent and practical datas on how this financial system works 00:06:15.162 --> 00:06:17.897 as perverted as it now can be 00:06:20.821 --> 00:06:23.297 talking directly at the camera, your message 00:06:23.297 --> 00:06:25.970 to all the people in the world, think about something brief, a sentence 00:06:25.970 --> 00:06:28.929 that you'd like to say to viewers in the whole world 00:06:29.637 --> 00:06:36.416 and we switch the tapes (laughs) 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:30.329 watching the camera? 00:08:07.008 --> 00:08:10.400 Well, so... then 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:13.960 hm... to viewers and people 00:08:13.960 --> 00:08:18.659 I'll tell you, with the help from a thinker : Sri Chinmoy, 00:08:18.659 --> 00:08:21.007 he said as follows : 00:08:21.007 --> 00:08:28.179 "when the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" 00:09:09.889 --> 00:09:14.049 Well, the future of the ZM as I can see it, 00:09:14.049 --> 00:09:18.937 one of the advantages that I can find in the Zeitgeist Movement 00:09:18.937 --> 00:09:22.792 is the ability to have an international communication 00:09:23.162 --> 00:09:26.392 and from my point of view, the part that I am trying to play as 00:09:26.392 --> 00:09:29.174 the coordinator of "Languedoc-Roussillon" 00:09:29.174 --> 00:09:33.820 is a more local coordination because there are 00:09:33.820 --> 00:09:38.641 many associations and groups in France, that exists and works with concrete results 00:09:39.088 --> 00:09:41.414 We already have very important people 00:09:41.414 --> 00:09:45.093 with great philosophies such as 00:09:45.093 --> 00:09:49.977 Pierre Rabhi, for example, with "Terre et Humanisme" and the "Mouvement Colibris" 00:09:49.977 --> 00:09:53.719 So, I can feel the Zeitgeist Movement as a kind of 00:09:53.719 --> 00:09:59.264 an international spokesman of local actions 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:05.444 since many people take real actions 00:10:06.890 --> 00:10:08.845 and the point of it 00:10:08.845 --> 00:10:12.331 is to get the benefits of international informations 00:10:12.331 --> 00:10:14.999 at a local level. 00:10:14.999 --> 00:10:17.973 Here are some of the things I think I do. 00:10:44.821 --> 00:10:47.710 Hello! My name is Jean-Michel, 00:10:47.710 --> 00:10:51.321 my alias in the ZM is "Seldon", 00:10:56.506 --> 00:11:00.850 I live in the area of Bagnols-sur-Ceze, in the Gard (SSW, France) 00:11:00.850 --> 00:11:04.104 and I recently took coordination of Languedoc-Roussillon for the Zeitgeist Movement 00:11:04.658 --> 00:11:07.611 and it also appeared important to me 00:11:07.611 --> 00:11:11.498 to be an active member, since my area is a bit unusual 00:11:11.498 --> 00:11:13.922 Bagnols-sur-Ceze being near a 00:11:13.922 --> 00:11:20.132 nuclear and nuclear-waste treatment plant, but the Gard 00:11:20.132 --> 00:11:23.156 is also a target for prospectors interested 00:11:23.156 --> 00:11:27.091 by gas fracking, so I am used to collaborate 00:11:27.091 --> 00:11:29.853 with several movements in my area 00:11:29.853 --> 00:11:33.545 like the collective "Stop au gaz de schiste". 00:11:33.545 --> 00:11:38.814 So it seems important to me to find an echo with the Zeitgeist Movement.