1 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:39,200 I am Franky. I am from the Chapter Frankfurt. 2 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:45,200 I coordinate the German Chapters and I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM). 3 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:58,500 I got to know The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) by watching the film 'Zeitgeist', following 'Zeitgeist: Addendum'. 4 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,500 I answered a lot of questions myself, which were brought up by the films. 5 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,500 Then I realised that something has to be done. 6 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:15,000 We live on a planet with finite resources and are using an economic system which moves in a totally unsustainable direction. 7 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,500 Hence I have to do something 8 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:25,000 and The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is oriented in the right direction and it offers the general framework to shape the world for the better. 9 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,600 I am advocating a Resource Based Economy 10 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,800 because in the capitalistic system we live under 11 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,900 everything is assessed by money. 12 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:00,800 It is totally unsustainable and even illogically within itself. 13 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,500 As long as you assess everything by money, 14 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:10,000 all things that are abundant, efficient, available on a large scale or sustainable 15 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,700 do not create profit. 16 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:19,800 Hence it is profitable to run things short, it is profitable to produce unsustainable goods 17 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,000 only to perpetuate the system and to keep it going. 18 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,600 The system which we support today - assessing everything by money - 19 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,500 is not in accordance with nature, hence not in accordance with the planet 20 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,600 and therefore not in accordance with us humans, living on this planet. 21 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,600 The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) in Germany is challenged by the same difficulties as in every other country. 22 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,500 [At the beginning] there were a lot of people which were enthusiastic because of the ideas [presented]. 23 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,600 To create some structures for bringing these people together, 24 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,200 to make them learn to communicate and to work with each other, 25 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,600 was one of the biggest challenges until now. 26 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,200 Now, we bring in some structures. 27 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,600 Myself as well, together with a team, we coordinate the German speaking Chapters. 28 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,600 Thus we organised several activities to move forward with TZM and to spread awareness for these problems. 29 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:51,600 To name some activities: Among others there was the World Lecture Tour of The Venus Project in Munich in August 2010, 30 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,600 the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' in January 2011, 31 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:02,900 the ZDAY which took place in Frankfurt in 2009, 2010 and 2011. 32 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:10,600 These activities intent to create awareness for the people to connect each other more, to communicate more and to realise 33 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,000 that they are all in the same team. 34 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:24,600 You see a lot of flyers spread on the table, which are evidence, that we are already doing numerous things. 35 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,600 The task is bringing the movement from the online-based to the offline-based [physical] world. 36 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:38,000 Therefore, we use various flyers, reaching from money-bills dropped on the floor to get people aware of the monetary system, 37 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,500 over DVDs, flyers which explain our economic system in a very simple way, 38 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:49,600 over the introduction of The Venus Project, to the free distribution of the films ... 39 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:59,600 All of these were created with huge efforts cooperating with many other freethinkers in Germany. 40 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,600 Therefore much love to everyone listening out there. 41 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,200 Something short about the events of TZM: 42 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:23,200 First of all, the ZDAY which takes place in the mid of March every year - the Zeitgeist-Day; 43 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:34,700 regarding organising the ZDAY, it's in the responsibility of every Chapter, meaning the proactive members, to create something together. 44 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,200 For example we've organised a big jam-session in Frankfurt in 2010. 45 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:47,000 A lot of musicians came together in the public to spread the name of TZM. 46 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:57,500 The World Lecture Tour was one of the events organised in cooperation between the German and the Austrian TZM. 47 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Here as well it were just a few proactive people at the beginning who despite all barriers 48 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,000 and despite the fact that they never met each other before to work together, 49 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000 they got something going and even were able to get Jacque Fresco to Munich/Germany 50 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 to present his ideas to a larger audience. 51 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 And last but not least 52 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 to mention the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' 53 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:39,000 from January 15th to the 26th, the global Chapters had the opportunity to show the film as a preview 54 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 before it was released for free via the Internet. 55 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Here as well it was possible to work in cooperation with many small cinemas and many proactive people in Germany 56 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 to whom I have much love and gratitude for. 57 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 So we had various public events within this period in Germany as well. 58 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,200 Again, many thanks to everyone participating. 59 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,200 Something about the future of TZM in Germany: 60 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:27,200 It's important to know that we in Germany, as a so called country of the first world, 61 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,400 seem to have the least demand for social change. 62 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,200 But even we have to face the questions: 63 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,000 Why are there increasing uprisings in the Middle East? 64 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Why is there a debt-crisis in Greece? 65 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Why is the same starting to happen in Spain? 66 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Why is this happening in Ireland? 67 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 What about Iceland? 68 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,800 All these questions have to get faced even by the well looked-after Germans. 69 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,200 We need to face some world issues here. 70 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:59,500 We need to face those legitimate fundamental questions which get brought up by the system we live in. 71 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,500 Regarding The Zeitgeist Movement in Germany 72 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:12,500 there are gathering people, who are working on their own initiative in a solution-oriented way and are self-motivated, 73 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:19,500 independent from established governmental, financial, religious and military institutions. 74 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:30,500 They simply just act, which means they come together starting projects towards social sustainability 75 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:36,300 as well as projects which are directly helping other people 76 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:39,500 which leads to the perspective to see the world with different eyes, 77 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:46,500 changing our own values from self-interest towards an open-source-system, 78 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,500 a holistic type of thinking far beyond the vested interest thinking 79 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:54,500 which is necessary just for materialistic consumption. 80 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,500 Meanwhile these projects are getting bigger 81 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:02,500 and they are getting connected by TZM. 82 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:06,400 No egos anymore, because we are all in this together. 83 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,000 If we don't change, we will die. 84 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:26,700 About the political situation in Germany ... 85 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,700 It takes a while to really understand the current system by yourself - 86 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:35,500 this system which is considered natural in Germany as well. 87 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:43,200 I want to thank several people formerly working in the financial industry and experts 88 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:48,000 like Dirk Mueller, professor Franz Hoermann, doctor Bernd Senf 89 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,600 and many others warning against these logical symptoms of this system for years now 90 00:10:54,600 --> 00:11:00,200 forecasting what is happening out there right now. 91 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:06,200 Therefore thanks to the many people who had the guts to raise their voice, 92 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,600 instead of letting themselves get down by their environment, 93 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:14,200 meaning nine out of ten people that say that it can't be done. 94 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:22,200 So thanks to all freethinkers with courage. 95 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,700 Currently the social situation even in Germany is getting worse. 96 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,200 We are not in the land of Cockaigne anymore and now we feel the fact 97 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,200 that we were not brought up to think solution-oriented. 98 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:43,000 Just to put things into relation to other things like "Comparing us to another country, we are pretty well over here" 99 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 is not really thinking in solutions. 100 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 We must get away from this type of thinking 101 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 and rather start asking relevant questions like "Why does this system work the way it does?" 102 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,700 So we need to do a life value analysis. 103 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,500 When it comes to the opponents of nuclear power which I support of course as well, 104 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,300 you should start by asking "Why is nuclear power used at all?" 105 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:27,300 So, of course the answer is that sustainability, efficiency and abundance are contrary to making profit, 106 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:32,300 meaning renewable energy sources are not really profitable. 107 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:41,800 Hence within the monetary system it is profitable to use old and ramshackle sources of energy 108 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:49,000 instead of restoring or updating them, because that costs money. 109 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,300 We keep using old methods to maintain profit. 110 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,300 We will soon experience the consequences - hopefully not - 111 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,700 out of reinforcing this type of thinking that 112 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:04,700 instead of taking action by ourselves 113 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:09,900 we still believe in existing established institutions 114 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:16,300 that are only interested in keeping things as they are. 115 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:23,400 To believe in those institutions just because they are established doesn't mean that they are on the right track. 116 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,300 Hence nuclear power will come to an end as well. 117 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,000 I hope it will be sooner than later. 118 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:37,300 I think, whoever saw the technical possibilities existing out there, is laughing his head off about many issues. 119 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:55,500 The transition from a monetary-based system to a resource-based economy could happen in two ways: 120 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,300 By a breakdown of the system - that is happening right now - 121 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:05,600 and we either did not learn to communicate and cooperate with each other before that, 122 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,800 to start new projects to build up a better alternative; 123 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:21,800 or by the system becoming what it is anyway, the so called "New World Order" - call it how you want to. 124 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:32,800 We tend to a surveillance state and to follow the plans which were set anyway by our established institutions. 125 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:37,300 It's important to realise that it's only on us to set the initiative. 126 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:41,800 And just because there's about one 1% of the worlds population controlling everything 127 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,800 that doesn't mean that 99% have no power to change this. 128 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,300 Insofar we shall turn things around and realise our potential. 129 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:55,300 We shall understand who and what we are, hence what power we have. 130 00:14:55,500 --> 00:15:02,000 Sooner or later in one way or another we will end up in a resource-based economy; 131 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,800 we will get back to the basics on this planet and realise 132 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,800 that only in symbiosis with this planet we can live (again). 133 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,200 My message to the world out there is 134 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,800 that we need to get off our asses. 135 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:04,200 We need to understand the Earth as a whole self-contained system, 136 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,800 and we must learn to live in accordance with the planet 137 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:08,200 or we will die. 138 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:09,700 It's simple as that! 139 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,200 Cheers from Germany.