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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby WurmD » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 14:00:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')*]The current social order should be replaced with a military dictatorship, which will change culture and remove deviant and socially offensive behavior.[4]

Whaaat?? XD!!! Where the hell did you take this from? At least is not in the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_movement anymore

It says somewhere that "It is not coercive, it cannot be coercive and work."

About motivation, I think we can at least divide motivation into two:
- motivation for shitty work
- motivation for advancement of humanity (meaning: social and scientific research and problem solving)

For the shitty work, I can't really find anything referring to how to make people keep doing the shitty works that 'need' be done. What I can find is, that the vision is of a future where we've automated shitty work, after shitty work until.. there are none left :D

As for motivation for the good stuff.. I can speak for myself (I am currently doing research in the context of a PhD, and there are plenty of people doing the same around me), that me and my colleges aren't really motivated by the monetary income we get (scholarships). We mostly motivated simply because we like to do what we do.. :|, isn't the average 'social worker' or 'scientist' like that?
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Pretorian » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 19:26:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Honest to god, this is the first I've heard of it.


so you do believe in god ? Which one, if that is not a secret
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 19:28:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Honest to god, this is the first I've heard of it.


so you do believe in god ? Which one, if that is not a secret


Just a turn of phrase. Christ!
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 19:36:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WurmD', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')*]The current social order should be replaced with a military dictatorship, which will change culture and remove deviant and socially offensive behavior.[4]

Whaaat?? XD!!! Where the hell did you take this from? At least is not in the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_movement anymore


You're right. It isn't there anymore. Someone changed it. But it was there. I just copied/pasted. I just heard about The Zeitgeist Movement for the first time the other day. Naturally, I looked it up on Wiki and posted what I found there.

If you're a member and understand in detail how Zeitgeist envisions the world, by all means, elaborate. I read "Designing The Future" but found it lacking. For example, ZM wants to do away with currency but I couldn't find anything on what should replace currency. ZM also didn't talk about any sort of transition phase from our current system. The document I read just sounded like so much vapid dreaming. Nothing that would appeal to a pragmatic mind.
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Ludi » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 19:43:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WurmD', '
')For the shitty work, I can't really find anything referring to how to make people keep doing the shitty works that 'need' be done.



Who "makes" you clean your toilets, wash your dishes, etc?

Maybe we should figure out a society in which there's no work so shitty we wouldn't be willing to do it ourselves if it needs to be done, instead of designing a society in which shitty work exists because someone can always be coerced into doing it?
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Pretorian » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 22:06:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Honest to god, this is the first I've heard of it.


so you do believe in god ? Which one, if that is not a secret


Just a turn of phrase. Christ!


then you being dishonest here
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby americandream » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 22:14:32

You did notice that he did not capitalise "god"?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Honest to god, this is the first I've heard of it.


so you do believe in god ? Which one, if that is not a secret


Just a turn of phrase. Christ!


then you being dishonest here
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 01:06:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 't')hen you being dishonest here


couldn't care less
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Pretorian » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 02:48:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'Y')ou did notice that he did not capitalise "god"?




Of course, thats why I asked which god he was referring to.
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Pretorian » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 03:00:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')[list][*]The main concept advocated by the Zeitgeist Movement is that all the worlds resources, from needs such as food and shelter to desires such as vacations and cars should be the common heritage of all the worlds people.



In other words, Welfare Nation from Detroit and Harlem is entitled to Russian Oil, Canadian Platinum, South African Gold, Brazilian coffee with sugar, Argentinian Beef, Mexican Silver, German Cars, English Porridge and so on and so forth. Sounds like a (huge) bulshit too me.

Also, the propertry thing is an interesting concept: what if you dont want share your toothbrush or sleeping bag (I'm sure the sleeping bag will be the high-end house with an economy like that) with anyone else?
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Joseph Matthew » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 21:15:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I')n other words, Welfare Nation from Detroit and Harlem is entitled to Russian Oil, Canadian Platinum, South African Gold, Brazilian coffee with sugar, Argentinian Beef, Mexican Silver, German Cars, English Porridge and so on and so forth. Sounds like a (huge) bulshit too me.

Also, the propertry thing is an interesting concept: what if you dont want share your toothbrush or sleeping bag (I'm sure the sleeping bag will be the high-end house with an economy like that) with anyone else?

No, the focus is on using local resources & maximizing effectiveness of natural cycles. Diversity is built-in, given the variation of regional resources. It is completely illogical & wasteful to ship natural resources around the world, unless the case of emergency. In such cases, a more efficient / concentrated form would be sought & used whenever possible.

If you don't want to share your toothbrush, then don't; there will be enough for all. Although it is worth noting, the concept of ownership as it is understood today will naturally phase out; the advantages to such behavior will diminish / be nonexistent and without such advantage, most behaviors die out.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')ho "makes" you clean your toilets, wash your dishes, etc?

No one makes you; we'd eventually design better, self-cleaning toilets, a better system of management for dishes.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'F')or example, ZM wants to do away with currency but I couldn't find anything on what should replace currency.

Once the RBE is in motion, nothing would replace money, there is no money; our means would be the direct reflection of the resources available in conjunction with what we're capable of producing.

Priority of production would be measured by compassionate and scientific metrics, initially covering our shared needs; clean food, water, shelter, education, etc.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'Z')M also didn't talk about any sort of transition phase from our current system. The document I read just sounded like so much vapid dreaming. Nothing that would appeal to a pragmatic mind.

We need a current survey of all available planetary resources. This survey will enable us to determine the parameters for global planning for humanizing social and technological development, based on the carrying capacity of Earth and the needs of its people. This can best be accomplished with a constantly updated, computerized model of our planetary resources.

To sustain civilization, we must coordinate advanced technology and available resources within a humane global systems approach. For instance, the characteristics of the population in a given area will determine how many hospitals and schools are built and the equipment needed. Some medical systems will be mobile and others will be prefabricated on land and sea.

During the transition, scarcity regions will be provided with heat concentrators for cooking and sterilizing water. Food for those areas can be dehydrated and compressed to save shipping space. The packaging will be biodegradable and may double as non-contaminating fertilizers. Regions without arable land will use hydroponic farms, land-based fish farms, and sea farming. Energy will come from wind, solar, heat concentrators, photovoltaic, wave, biomass, geothermal and other sources.

An interdisciplinary team of qualified personnel, in line with the project's requirements, will work on automated systems to produce and supply goods and services on a massive scale. These can be the armies of the future, a large peaceful mobilization to restore and preserve the earth and its people. This has never been done before and can only be done when money is no obstacle. The question is not do we have the money, but do we have the resources and means to accomplish this new direction.

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http://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venu ... uction/faq

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('diemos', 'T')he eternal problem. It would be so easy to turn the world into a paradise.

If only human beings weren't human.
Provably our behavior is largely the result of our environment; modern behavioral science proves we're amazing creatures like that. Put we humans in an environment that encourages us to be violent and hateful towards each other, and we oblige (sound familiar?). Put us in an environment where our base needs are covered, where there is no competition for resources, and we're benevolent, sharing & motivated by learning.

Which environment do you think we have more of today? Which environment do you think would lead to an increase of our current social ails (war/crime/disease/poverty/poison in our food/etc.)? The choice is ours.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'D')oes the Zeitgeist Movement allow for change on an individual and community level? Are the founders and followers making changes to their actual lives, or are they merely writing manifestos?...
As Pops says - "Make a plan and work it." Is the Zeitgeist Movement a plan which is actually being worked?
Yes to the 1st. Yes, as much as we're able to to the 2nd.

As for the 3rd, it won't just happen magically; it takes some collective understanding of the mechanisms by which our current failure is generated. We're already seeing such thinking increasingly, and the need is part of why we're focusing on communication today. If you're waiting for someone to hand a fully packaged solution to you, then keep on waiting. While you wait, others are making it a reality. What do you want your role to be?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlos', 'T')hat old Communist aphorism, "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability" just doesn't accord with human nature. It was the main criticism of the ideology. I figured incentives would be addressed right away, but it wasn't.
Indeed, though Communism has nothing to do with either a Resource Based Economy or The Venus Project. Let's define Communism? $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oxford's dictionary', ' ')"Communism: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs."We don't advocate class war, more the opposite & we don't advocate money, in fact are working to make money irrelevant.

Thus neither a Resource Based Economy nor The Venus Project can reasonably be defined as Communism.
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Ludi » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 21:32:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Joseph Matthew', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')ho "makes" you clean your toilets, wash your dishes, etc?

No one makes you; we'd eventually design better, self-cleaning toilets, a better system of management for dishes.


Or you could just clean them when they need cleaning, which would be a lot easier than inventing self-cleaning toilets and dishes. You know, like you do in your own house. Presumably, nobody makes you clean your house.

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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Ludi » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 21:36:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Joseph Matthew', ' ')If you're waiting for someone to hand a fully packaged solution to you, then keep on waiting.



Yeah, that's me all right. Ol' "wait around and let someone else do it" Ludi. :)
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby yeahbut » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 21:40:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Joseph Matthew', ' ')If you're waiting for someone to hand a fully packaged solution to you, then keep on waiting.



Yeah, that's me all right. Ol' "wait around and let someone else do it" Ludi. :)


Heh heh :-D
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby americandream » Fri 27 Aug 2010, 22:33:58

It's funny how the thought of communism arouses fear in some. No no, we wont have money, we wont have bad folks, we will raise the kids to love all and most of all we wont be communists.

This is all pie in the sky. There wont be any change without struggle. No rich fat cat Rolls Royce driving tycoon is going to roll over and hand you the keys to this castle. You will have to take it or forever be consigned to polishing his boots.
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Joseph Matthew » Sat 28 Aug 2010, 14:27:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')t's funny how the thought of communism arouses fear in some. No no, we wont have money, we wont have bad folks, we will raise the kids to love all and most of all we wont be communists.

This is all pie in the sky. There wont be any change without struggle. No rich fat cat Rolls Royce driving tycoon is going to roll over and hand you the keys to this castle. You will have to take it or forever be consigned to polishing his boots.

No one is saying this is going to be easy, or that it won't require a shift in our collective understanding.

If it helps, your contention is a logical fallacy; the False Dilemma -- a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are other options.

Factually, as a society, one of our greatest strengths is in expressing & supporting what is deemed favorable to all. As one example: In general, most people consider anti-social behavior as disdainful, and we treat those who express it with disdain.

If the common definition of anti-social behavior included exploiting others to gain more resources than one could reasonably use in their lifetime, we'd start to our attitudes towards Mr. Rolls Royce change; indeed as a social animal, he'd change himself to some degree.

As it is today, such exploitation is lauded in our economic system. When we change that structure, by say... eliminating the advantage to undesirable behavior, so we change what is socially acceptable.

Stated simply, this is not a defeatist's movement; it's a progressive social movement -- by definition it aims to help move society forward progressively through modern understanding; let's exist at the front of our great path, not behind it?

A relevant question is "how much more failure do we need to go through, how many people need to needlessly suffer & die, before we look at things differently"?
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby americandream » Sat 28 Aug 2010, 19:08:25

When all the hope and band aid is finally installed and in place, what will determine resource allocation in your utopia bearing in mind that Marx was merely a scientific analyst of human nature in the material order we call society and the best mode of resource allocation for the largest class.

His was quite a simple analysis premised as it was on the rather simple formula: man = material conditions. The rest were merely prescriptions to achieving the formula. Capital cannot co-exist within that formula nor can labour within its reverse. These are objective facts neither one of us can escape given the compelling nature of the material.

In other words, subject a man to the rhetoric of personal gain and he wil so act, irrespective of whether it is couched in the language of ethics, Christ, Allah, Buddha or the other obscurantist ideas that proliferate, reformism being a fact of all systems subject to more compelling imperatives.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Joseph Matthew', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')t's funny how the thought of communism arouses fear in some. No no, we wont have money, we wont have bad folks, we will raise the kids to love all and most of all we wont be communists.

This is all pie in the sky. There wont be any change without struggle. No rich fat cat Rolls Royce driving tycoon is going to roll over and hand you the keys to this castle. You will have to take it or forever be consigned to polishing his boots.

No one is saying this is going to be easy, or that it won't require a shift in our collective understanding.

If it helps, your contention is a logical fallacy; the False Dilemma -- a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are other options.

Factually, as a society, one of our greatest strengths is in expressing & supporting what is deemed favorable to all. As one example: In general, most people consider anti-social behavior as disdainful, and we treat those who express it with disdain.

If the common definition of anti-social behavior included exploiting others to gain more resources than one could reasonably use in their lifetime, we'd start to our attitudes towards Mr. Rolls Royce change; indeed as a social animal, he'd change himself to some degree.

As it is today, such exploitation is lauded in our economic system. When we change that structure, by say... eliminating the advantage to undesirable behavior, so we change what is socially acceptable.

Stated simply, this is not a defeatist's movement; it's a progressive social movement -- by definition it aims to help move society forward progressively through modern understanding; let's exist at the front of our great path, not behind it?

A relevant question is "how much more failure do we need to go through, how many people need to needlessly suffer & die, before we look at things differently"?
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby WurmD » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:28:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'W')hen all the hope and band aid is finally installed and in place, what will determine resource allocation

math :).

If society agrees that its major goal is survival of the species, and then goes on to agree that the best way to achieve such a goal is to be the most efficient and sustainable as possible, then.. there is only one, unique, optimum for the technical problem of food, water and energy production/distribution (given current technology). It becomes a optimization problem. Engineers today solve such optimizations when determining the best place for the next power plant, for one.
"Let's just do more of that" :)
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Re: The Zeitgeist Movement

Unread postby Pops » Tue 31 Aug 2010, 16:23:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WurmD', 'I')f society agrees
It doesn't.

Of course not, like most every other living thing we act in our own self interest.

If we acted in the interest of the species we wouldn't need a movement would we?
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