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I am Franky. I am from the Chapter Frankfurt.
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I coordinate the German Chapters and I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM).
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I got to know The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) by watching the film 'Zeitgeist', following 'Zeitgeist: Addendum'.
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I answered a lot of questions myself, which were brought up by the films.
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Then I realised that something has to be done.
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We live on a planet with finite resources and are using an economic system which moves in a totally unsustainable direction.
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Hence I have to do something
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and The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) is oriented in the right direction and it offers the general framework to shape the world for the better.
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I am advocating a Resource Based Economy
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because in the capitalistic system we live under
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everything is assessed by money.
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It is totally unsustainable and even illogically within itself.
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As long as you assess everything by money,
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all things that are abundant, efficient, available on a large scale or sustainable
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do not create profit.
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Hence it is profitable to run things short, it is profitable to produce unsustainable goods
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only to perpetuate the system and to keep it going.
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The system which we support today - assessing everything by money -
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is not in accordance with nature, hence not in accordance with the planet
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and therefore not in accordance with us humans, living on this planet.
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The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) in Germany is challenged by the same difficulties as in every other country.
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[At the beginning] there were a lot of people which were enthusiastic because of the ideas [presented].
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To create some structures for bringing these people together,
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to make them learn to communicate and to work with each other,
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was one of the biggest challenges until now.
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Now, we bring in some structures.
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Myself as well, together with a team, we coordinate the German speaking Chapters.
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Thus we organised several activities to move forward with TZM and to spread awareness for these problems.
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To name some activities: Among others there was the World Lecture Tour of The Venus Project in Munich in August 2010,
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the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward' in January 2011,
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the ZDAY which took place in Frankfurt in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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These activities intent to create awareness for the people to connect each other more, to communicate more and to realise
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that they are all in the same team.
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You see a lot of flyers spread on the table, which are evidence, that we are already doing numerous things.
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The task is bringing the movement from the online-based to the offline-based [physical] world.
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Therefore, we use various flyers, reaching from money-bills dropped on the floor to get people aware of the monetary system,
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over DVDs, flyers which explain our economic system in a very simple way,
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over the introduction of The Venus Project, to the free distribution of the films ...
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All of these were created with huge efforts cooperating with many other freethinkers in Germany.
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Therefore much love to everyone listening out there.
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Something short about the events of TZM:
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First of all, the ZDAY which takes place in the mid of March every year - the Zeitgeist-Day;
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regarding organising the ZDAY, it's in the responsibility of every Chapter, meaning the proactive members, to create something together.
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For example we've organised a big jam-session in Frankfurt in 2010.
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A lot of musicians came together in the public to spread the name of TZM.
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The World Lecture Tour was one of the events organised in cooperation between the German and the Austrian TZM.
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Here as well it were just a few proactive people at the beginning who despite all barriers
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and despite the fact that they never met each other before to work together,
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they got something going and even were able to get Jacque Fresco to Munich/Germany
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to present his ideas to a larger audience.
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And last but not least
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to mention the premiere of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'
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from January 15th to the 26th, the global Chapters had the opportunity to show the film as a preview
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before it was released for free via the Internet.
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Here as well it was possible to work in cooperation with many small cinemas and many proactive people in Germany
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to whom I have much love and gratitude for.
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So we had various public events within this period in Germany as well.
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Again, many thanks to everyone participating.
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Something about the future of TZM in Germany:
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It's important to know that we in Germany, as a so called country of the first world,
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seem to have the least demand for social change.
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But even we have to face the questions:
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Why are there increasing uprisings in the Middle East?
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Why is there a debt-crisis in Greece?
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Why is the same starting to happen in Spain?
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Why is this happening in Ireland?
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What about Iceland?
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All these questions have to get faced even by the well looked-after Germans.
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We need to face some world issues here.
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We need to face those legitimate fundamental questions which get brought up by the system we live in.
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Regarding The Zeitgeist Movement in Germany
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there are gathering people, who are working on their own initiative in a solution-oriented way and are self-motivated,
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independent from established governmental, financial, religious and military institutions.
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They simply just act, which means they come together starting projects towards social sustainability
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as well as projects which are directly helping other people
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which leads to the perspective to see the world with different eyes,
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changing our own values from self-interest towards an open-source-system,
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a holistic type of thinking far beyond the vested interest thinking
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which is necessary just for materialistic consumption.
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Meanwhile these projects are getting bigger
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and they are getting connected by TZM.
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No egos anymore, because we are all in this together.
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If we don't change, we will die.
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About the political situation in Germany ...
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It takes a while to really understand the current system by yourself -
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this system which is considered natural in Germany as well.
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I want to thank several people formerly working in the financial industry and experts
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like Dirk Mueller, professor Franz Hoermann, doctor Bernd Senf
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and many others warning against these logical symptoms of this system for years now
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forecasting what is happening out there right now.
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Therefore thanks to the many people who had the guts to raise their voice,
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instead of letting themselves get down by their environment,
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meaning nine out of ten people that say that it can't be done.
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So thanks to all freethinkers with courage.
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Currently the social situation even in Germany is getting worse.
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We are not in the land of Cockaigne anymore and now we feel the fact
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that we were not brought up to think solution-oriented.
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Just to put things into relation to other things like "Comparing us to another country, we are pretty well over here"
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is not really thinking in solutions.
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We must get away from this type of thinking
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and rather start asking relevant questions like "Why does this system work the way it does?"
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So we need to do a life value analysis.
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When it comes to the opponents of nuclear power which I support of course as well,
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you should start by asking "Why is nuclear power used at all?"
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So, of course the answer is that sustainability, efficiency and abundance are contrary to making profit,
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meaning renewable energy sources are not really profitable.
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Hence within the monetary system it is profitable to use old and ramshackle sources of energy
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instead of restoring or updating them, because that costs money.
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We keep using old methods to maintain profit.
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We will soon experience the consequences - hopefully not -
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out of reinforcing this type of thinking that
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instead of taking action by ourselves
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we still believe in existing established institutions
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that are only interested in keeping things as they are.
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To believe in those institutions just because they are established doesn't mean that they are on the right track.
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Hence nuclear power will come to an end as well.
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I hope it will be sooner than later.
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I think, whoever saw the technical possibilities existing out there, is laughing his head off about many issues.
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The transition from a monetary-based system to a resource-based economy could happen in two ways:
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By a breakdown of the system - that is happening right now -
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and we either did not learn to communicate and cooperate with each other before that,
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to start new projects to build up a better alternative;
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or by the system becoming what it is anyway, the so called "New World Order" - call it how you want to.
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We tend to a surveillance state and to follow the plans which were set anyway by our established institutions.
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It's important to realise that it's only on us to set the initiative.
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And just because there's about one 1% of the worlds population controlling everything
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that doesn't mean that 99% have no power to change this.
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Insofar we shall turn things around and realise our potential.
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We shall understand who and what we are, hence what power we have.
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Sooner or later in one way or another we will end up in a resource-based economy;
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we will get back to the basics on this planet and realise
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that only in symbiosis with this planet we can live (again).
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My message to the world out there is
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that we need to get off our asses.
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We need to understand the Earth as a whole self-contained system,
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and we must learn to live in accordance with the planet
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or we will die.
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It's simple as that!
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Cheers from Germany.