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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 

 Beyond The 6 Zeitgeist Actions For Social Transformation

Near the end of Zeitgeist: Addendum, the director/narrator Peter Joseph suggests "6 ACTIONS for Social Transformation", briefly as follows:
(Each "action" is followed by my comments/suggestions)

1) Expose the Fed Cartel
* Boycott Citibank, JP Morgan Chase & Bank of America

This appears to be a rather superficial suggestion. I mean, firstly, by distributing the Zeitgeist movies themselves, you will be "Exposing the fed cartel", in a way, by default. Secondly, boycotting those 3 specific banks, even if they are the biggest, doesn't mean a whole lot if someone then goes out and shifts their banking to, say, Wells Fargo. The suggestion should be at least to shift your banking probably to more local, credit union-type institutions, such as Desert Schools here "in" "Arizona". Thirdly, beyond that slightly more refined "in-the-system" suggestion, there should be some pointers to the existing, somewhat functional "alternative" or "complementary" currency systems that have already been developed around the world, such as LETS and Ithaca Hours and WIR and egold, for example. These systems operate pretty much entirely outside ALL nationalised central bank systems. In addition to that, people eager to perhaps pioneer functional alternatives should be pointed to the free online books Private Enterprise Money by E.C. Riegel and New Money For Healthy Communities by Thomas H. Greco.

2) Boycott The News Networks
* Use and Protect the Internet

OK, how about a little more information, such as HOW to use the Internet and HOW to protect the internet? Furthermore, what online news sources does Peter Joseph use regularly and trust (to some extent)? Which ones do YOU use? One good aggregate newsletter I like is from G. Edward Griffin on behalf of Freedom Force International, although too many of his choices are negative anticivilization-based articles, for me.

3) Boycott The Military

Absolutely, although having the knowledge/experience of handling a few different kinds of weapons, from knives to guns, and perhaps owning some for personal defence-of-last-resort purposes, especially "in" the "USA", might be prudent, no?

4) Boycott The Energy Companies
* Get off the grid and make your home & car self-sustainable

Desirable, but I'm not sure just how practical this is for most people. What do you think?

5) Reject The Political System
* Focus on working to dissolve the outdated system of politics, in favor of technological redesign

This "action" also seems somewhat ambiguous. Firstly, I would make a clear distinction between "politics" and "government". Consider that politics is, in addition to being only the 4th branch of a valid philosophy, merely the description of the way two or more people interact. The attempt of people to "systematize" this interaction could be called "government". So I take Joseph's suggestion to "reject the political system" to mean "reject the government". If he means something else, specifically, then I'd like to hear it. So, I suppose, much more detailed suggestions that the individual can implement on their own, in their own personal lives, are what I'm seeking under this transformation action. My personal view is less "negative" (i.e. "dissolve the outdated system of politics") and more "positive" (i.e. "focus on technological redesign").

So, what would the personal transformation action of focusing on technological redesign look like?

Is not voting good enough?

Is merely telling others to not vote good enough?

How about shifting from fear-based politics, where you shy away from interacting with strangers, toward love-based politics, where you increasingly interact, positively, more with strangers?

To me, one of the best ways to "dissolve a government" is to stop supporting it! How about figuring out how to "internationalize" yourself and your assets? Fly "below the radar". Use the "black market". Learn how to "untax yourself". What forms of existing technology can you, the individual, use RIGHT NOW to free yourself from this anticivilization matrix? (See action #2 above). Consider your PERSONAL use of Freedom Technology will have an aggregate effect on "the system" and eventually result in systemic "redesign" as that "magical" critical mass is reached. Maybe, just maybe, "we" don't need the Venus Project at all. All "we" need, is for you to be free!

6) Create Critical Mass
* www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
* www.procivilization.com

Indeed, and remember, there are thousands of movements, groups and organisations "containing" perhaps hundreds of thousands of activists worldwide who have been working on all this for years. What Peter Joseph has achieved thus far, with more to come, is a quantifiable increase in the energy of the general movement toward what I call a Procivilization. Thanks Peter!

As I think more about these specific transformation actions, I'll add to this post/blog. In the mean time, how about YOU reply with your own well-thought-out, highly-leveraged A C T I O N S we can all consider and implement to free ourselves individually and speed up the movement collectively?

 


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