Croatia Sasha

I'm Sasha, from Croatia, and in The Movement I deal with media.

The first project we did was a wall newspaper, a sort of prinable online magazine.

The goal of that newspaper is to reach both online population

and the one that does not have online access.

The concept of the paper is based on comparing the system we have today with the one based on RBE.

What I consider important is that the paper does not impose anything, but gives a broader insight

to The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) and The Venus Project (TVP).

(...next Q...)

Q: What can you tell us about the progress of the movement in your country?

TZM is rather new in Croatia.

It's expansion is very slow.

But I think that is not important at all,

because the idea of TZM is already alive within the people of Croatia

and I'm not talking about RBE, but about the awereness of how the system does not function,

that the people deserve something much better,

and I think that citizens of Croatia are thinking about these things, and TZM is here to offer some solutions

or an alternative they might accept at this very moment.

(.......... he says he has lost his thread and asks to start over........ or rather proceed to the next question. He says he thinks Natalija has answered this Q much better...)

Q: Why do you support The Movement and RBE?

Q: Why do you support The Movement and RBE?

I have noticed that kids can understand the concept of RBE

easier than they can understand the monetary system.

I think that adults, in time, simply forget the idea of solidarity, of sharing, they learn something new

and simply supress those ideas that they consider natural from their childhood.

Because we, as social beeings tend to unite, tend to create things together

and, what appeals to me the most in TZM,

is that there is a way for that to happen

and that is in fact through this education that TZM is promoting and performing.

I think I can contribute to that goal, so I decided to become a part of it, of The Movement.

Q: What is the political, social and economic situation in your country?

Croatia is, like so many times before, going through some major social changes.

All those things we were thought in school, is happening today, once again.

I think the country is loosing its soverenity and the people its freedom.

We are witnessing great social stratification.

There are at least three layers to the bigger picture.

There is one part of the population, the so called elite.

There is middle class, almost dissapearing. These people are struggling most for their survival.

And the third part of the society, living on its margins, the unvisible, the unspoken of, the forgotten.

And I think that the most interesting people, the ones that are thinking on these changes, live on this very margin.

It is hard to compare Croatia today and Croatia some twenty years ago, when this country was formed,

because I was a child, but I remeber that everybody was full of hope in the country's

independence, on it's soyerenity and fought for it's freedom.

Today, we don't feel that freedom.

Because we are limited by our purchasing power, our freedom of movement is limited, depending

once again on our purchasing power.

Parts of our country, our parents, brothers and friends fought for,

are beyond reach to those of us without money.

Our sociaty is falling into a bigger and bigger depresion.

Everybody wants changes, less and less people consume their democratic right to vote,

even fiewer people believe in democracy, in all the dogma we believed in, and I think weather there is

or there is no TZM in Croatia, the idea of TZM is alive within it's people.

And the people need so little to get going, to make that change within the society.

Although this societey appears to be conservative from the outside,

like full of prejudice, really devided,

I think that, as a whole, it can, in a very short period of time, raise it's awareness.

...

Although this societey appears to be conservative from the outside, full of prejudice, really devided,

I think that it is ready for the change.

I think that, looking at a bigger picture, Croatian people today really want something better.

The only thing is that, neither we ourselves know what we really want, and how we can achieve that.

Q: How do you see the transition between the monetary sistem to RBE?

I see two possible scenarios.

One is like that moment when all of the current system colapses.

Then, people will have to decide weather they will grab a rifle or a shovel.

Many people think this moment is approaching very rapidly, and there is less and less time

for the people to become aware and to, instead of war, choose a beter system, like RBE.

But I think the scenario does not need to be like that.

We don't have to wait for the system to colapse to make a change.

Even now we have a vast knowledge, not only in technology, but in any social or natural science

that can easily help every man to change the world.

What people should be aware of is that they can start even today on building the RBE.

Bit by bit.

Even today, the resources they have, people themselves, maybe some money,

maybe some things they have but don't use, maybe some land they are not using to grow food,

or anything thew own, because they have to own something nowadays,

they can use to contribute to common good.

There is this true story about a friend of mine,

and he has one neighbout who is planting cucumbers in his garden,

and the other who is planting tomatoes.

Each of them has a small garden, but still grow to much for themselves.

At the same time, they have to go to the market to buy the other food they need.

The surpluss of cucumbers produced by the first neighbour,

and the surpluss of tomatoes produced by the other,

they throw away into the same garbage container!

I think that people should learn about their environment, start from that,

get to know the situation of their neighbours,

their friends and relatives, and get to share these resources they already have,

in that spirit of Zeitgeist. And that could be the first step forward.

The awakening should begin from every person to a broader society.

For although TVP is a global thing, it has to start from somewhere.

It doesn't have to start at once, simply, in time, I think everything will fit into it's place.

Q: What is your message to the people of the world?

Think about your life you have been leading so far.

Analyse it.

Think on where that lifestyle is leading to.

Will you be satisfied with your life when you grow old?

Do you think you are using your time the way you want to?

That's it!

(Y)