ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD

What do you think about it?

Utopian pipe dreams.

Tinfoil hattery

Mass Sterlization would go farther toward resolving world peace.

NWO dreams realised.

2,3, AND 5

>go from monetary capitalist economy to resource-based economy
>everyone equal
>everyone wants to sit around all day, smoke weed, and science
>nobody does physical work such as construction, farming, mining, cleaning, etc.
>nothing gets done

SCIENCE!

I've never scene it. but these days my politics are driven by the notion that people are beneith it all good and that their potential is what makes human rights sacred; and that fear doesn't hold the world together, its the reason why it keeps falling apart. Though I don't think we're getting worse, I think we're getting better.

It's got lots of good points. I liked the bit about the economy and human nature.

I watched Addendum halfway and I nodded my head until late-half through the movie, they start saying something like

"WELL WOULDNT IT BE AWESOME IF THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENT, NO MONEY NO LAWS LOL  AND THEN WED GET RULED BY SCIENCE LOL"

The whole premise revolved around that rational people, that is more precisely, the scientists; the guys who create all our current technology, should be the ones governing how the world works.

Meanwhile, while completely disregarding the reason why laws were created (and enforced) in the first place, that many civil rights, ideas of justice, and the whole concept of 'freedom', were not necessarily something created out scientists, but rather by philosophers, writers, and the common man.

And it didn't take into account that 'scientists' (a.k.a the guys who make technology) arent exactly purely logical people, and that profit does indeed motivate them.  Unfortunately we're living in a sort of technocracy right now, and as far as our civil liberties, financial, and social lives go, havent changed much, or in many respects, has made us worse off.

My friend, 'scientists' is a broad term. Except for the scientists you understood, there are political scientists, sociologists, linguists, philosophers, historians. Hell, even economists.

Saying this, this system in athenian democracy was called axiokratia. This means putting the most capable people to run the government instead of choosing the most popular one. Axiokratia was tried because popular politicians were sometimes useless in running the state. Of course, neither system is perfect. in democracy you get popular idiots, often corrupt, running things, in axiokratia, you get very efficient government but this system has a tendancy to totalitarianism. Also the thinking of the very capable thinkers is often too far ahead of the masses,making them seem crazy to the poeple and thus causing social reactions.

Half ass, pseudo-documentary....      Start fact checking and filter out the "lets get along" crap at the end. Put things in context in terms of a timeline. And the whole thing turns to crap....

No documentary is 100% right. Still I've kept some things from zeitgeist.