WEBVTT 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:39.200 I am Franky. I am from the Chapter Frankfurt. 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.200 I coordinate the German Chapters and I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM). 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:58.500 I got to know The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) by watching the film 'Zeitgeist', following 'Zeitgeist: Addendum'. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.500 I answered a lot of questions myself, which were brought up by the films. 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:07.500 Then I realised that something has to be done. 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. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.500 Hence I have to do something 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. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.600 I am advocating a Resource Based Economy 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:54.800 because in the capitalistic system we live under 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:56.900 everything is assessed by money. 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:00.800 It is totally unsustainable and even illogically within itself. 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:02.500 As long as you assess everything by money, 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:10.000 all things that are abundant, efficient, available on a large scale or sustainable 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.700 do not create profit. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:19.800 Hence it is profitable to run things short, it is profitable to produce unsustainable goods 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.000 only to perpetuate the system and to keep it going. 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.600 The system which we support today - assessing everything by money - 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:31.500 is not in accordance with nature, hence not in accordance with the planet 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:36.600 and therefore not in accordance with us humans, living on this planet. 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. 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]. 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:24.600 To create some structures for bringing these people together, 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:28.200 to make them learn to communicate and to work with each other, 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:30.600 was one of the biggest challenges until now. 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.200 Now, we bring in some structures. 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:38.600 Myself as well, together with a team, we coordinate the German speaking Chapters. 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. 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, 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:56.600 the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' in January 2011, 00:03:56.600 --> 00:04:02.900 the ZDAY which took place in Frankfurt in 2009, 2010 and 2011. 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 00:04:10.600 --> 00:04:13.000 that they are all in the same team. 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. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.600 The task is bringing the movement from the online-based to the offline-based [physical] world. 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, 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.500 over DVDs, flyers which explain our economic system in a very simple way, 00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:49.600 over the introduction of The Venus Project, to the free distribution of the films ... 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:59.600 All of these were created with huge efforts cooperating with many other freethinkers in Germany. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.600 Therefore much love to everyone listening out there. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.200 Something short about the events of TZM: 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; 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. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.200 For example we've organised a big jam-session in Frankfurt in 2010. 00:06:40.200 --> 00:06:47.000 A lot of musicians came together in the public to spread the name of TZM. 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. 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 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:11.000 and despite the fact that they never met each other before to work together, 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:16.000 they got something going and even were able to get Jacque Fresco to Munich/Germany 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.000 to present his ideas to a larger audience. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.000 And last but not least 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.000 to mention the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' 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 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 before it was released for free via the Internet. 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 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.000 to whom I have much love and gratitude for. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:58.000 So we had various public events within this period in Germany as well. 00:07:58.200 --> 00:08:01.200 Again, many thanks to everyone participating. 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.200 Something about the future of TZM in Germany: 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, 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:31.400 seem to have the least demand for social change. 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.200 But even we have to face the questions: 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.000 Why are there increasing uprisings in the Middle East? 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.000 Why is there a debt-crisis in Greece? 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.000 Why is the same starting to happen in Spain? 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.000 Why is this happening in Ireland? 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.000 What about Iceland? 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.800 All these questions have to get faced even by the well looked-after Germans. 00:08:51.800 --> 00:08:54.200 We need to face some world issues here. 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. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.500 Regarding The Zeitgeist Movement in Germany 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, 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:19.500 independent from established governmental, financial, religious and military institutions. 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:30.500 They simply just act, which means they come together starting projects towards social sustainability 00:09:30.500 --> 00:09:36.300 as well as projects which are directly helping other people 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:39.500 which leads to the perspective to see the world with different eyes, 00:09:39.500 --> 00:09:46.500 changing our own values from self-interest towards an open-source-system, 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:50.500 a holistic type of thinking far beyond the vested interest thinking 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:54.500 which is necessary just for materialistic consumption. 00:09:54.500 --> 00:09:58.500 Meanwhile these projects are getting bigger 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:02.500 and they are getting connected by TZM. 00:10:02.500 --> 00:10:06.400 No egos anymore, because we are all in this together. 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:09.000 If we don't change, we will die. 00:10:23.700 --> 00:10:26.700 About the political situation in Germany ... 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.700 It takes a while to really understand the current system by yourself - 00:10:31.700 --> 00:10:35.500 this system which is considered natural in Germany as well. 00:10:35.800 --> 00:10:43.200 I want to thank several people formerly working in the financial industry and experts 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:48.000 like Dirk Mueller, professor Franz Hoermann, doctor Bernd Senf 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:54.600 and many others warning against these logical symptoms of this system for years now 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.200 forecasting what is happening out there right now. 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:06.200 Therefore thanks to the many people who had the guts to raise their voice, 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:08.600 instead of letting themselves get down by their environment, 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:14.200 meaning nine out of ten people that say that it can't be done. 00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:22.200 So thanks to all freethinkers with courage. 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:26.700 Currently the social situation even in Germany is getting worse. 00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:31.200 We are not in the land of Cockaigne anymore and now we feel the fact 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:36.200 that we were not brought up to think solution-oriented. 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" 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.000 is not really thinking in solutions. 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.000 We must get away from this type of thinking 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.000 and rather start asking relevant questions like "Why does this system work the way it does?" 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.700 So we need to do a life value analysis. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.500 When it comes to the opponents of nuclear power which I support of course as well, 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:19.300 you should start by asking "Why is nuclear power used at all?" 00:12:19.300 --> 00:12:27.300 So, of course the answer is that sustainability, efficiency and abundance are contrary to making profit, 00:12:27.300 --> 00:12:32.300 meaning renewable energy sources are not really profitable. 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:41.800 Hence within the monetary system it is profitable to use old and ramshackle sources of energy 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:49.000 instead of restoring or updating them, because that costs money. 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.300 We keep using old methods to maintain profit. 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.300 We will soon experience the consequences - hopefully not - 00:12:58.300 --> 00:13:01.700 out of reinforcing this type of thinking that 00:13:01.700 --> 00:13:04.700 instead of taking action by ourselves 00:13:04.700 --> 00:13:09.900 we still believe in existing established institutions 00:13:09.900 --> 00:13:16.300 that are only interested in keeping things as they are. 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. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:28.300 Hence nuclear power will come to an end as well. 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:30.000 I hope it will be sooner than later. 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. 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: 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:00.300 By a breakdown of the system - that is happening right now - 00:14:00.300 --> 00:14:05.600 and we either did not learn to communicate and cooperate with each other before that, 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.800 to start new projects to build up a better alternative; 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. 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. 00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:37.300 It's important to realise that it's only on us to set the initiative. 00:14:37.500 --> 00:14:41.800 And just because there's about one 1% of the worlds population controlling everything 00:14:41.800 --> 00:14:46.800 that doesn't mean that 99% have no power to change this. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:51.300 Insofar we shall turn things around and realise our potential. 00:14:51.300 --> 00:14:55.300 We shall understand who and what we are, hence what power we have. 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; 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:07.800 we will get back to the basics on this planet and realise 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:12.800 that only in symbiosis with this planet we can live (again). 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.200 My message to the world out there is 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.800 that we need to get off our asses. 00:15:59.800 --> 00:16:04.200 We need to understand the Earth as a whole self-contained system, 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.800 and we must learn to live in accordance with the planet 00:16:06.900 --> 00:16:08.200 or we will die. 00:16:08.700 --> 00:16:09.700 It's simple as that! 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.200 Cheers from Germany.