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   edenbee wrote about 1 month ago

   This is the discussion for the blog post Zeitgeist

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   doctoral replied about 1 month ago

   Who has the guts to boycott the system whereby we live? A complete revolution of mind? It's a simple choice that will cost us nothing and gain us everything.

3. walle replied about 1 month ago

   I love this video...it's so well made. All of the commercial understanding and highly-polised delivery of a big Madison Ave firm.

   But this is exactly what is needed to get the general population behind an idea. You have got to sell to them!

   The key elements for me are the completely laudable objectives and ideals. But the fact that you want to take on the entire humman race from capialism to religion to nationality is a little far-fetched. In histroy, such huge changes are always achieved by the sword.

   It also asks us to replace one set of belief systems with another set. I am and athiest, by the way.

   (1.) A money system based on faith (money only has value when people have faith in that value) to a system of sharing based on faith in each other.
   (2.) Replace laws and religion with a desire for the cosmic oneness.
   (3.) Replace government and representation with the wisdom of the crowd and the general goodness of the human spirit to help his fell man.
   (4.) Replace commerce with the persuit of intellectual achievement.
   (5.) Replace "enforced" scarcity with "unlimited" abundance of all resources.
   (6.) It goes on...

   I love the idea that we could do all of those things. But its asking for a leap of faith, for revolution...

   I have two take-aways from this video:
   (1.) The idea that has been reported by all climate change and peak-oil dogma has been a focus on a need to return to simplier times. What this video does is say, that is not what we need to do at all, we need to embrase technology will even more effort and application. All of the energy we need from now to the end of the earth itself is locked away in the Automic decay happening under our feet. We use that to free the human race from toil and war -- and money!
   (2.) We can make a difference right now by changing the way governments needs and commercial interests are in effect at odds with the common good. We offer up solutions based on technological, intellectual and poiltical innovation - the mainstay of the humnan race for 4 million years. What are those solutions? Well that is where this becomes easy...

   We have to find a way to tap the unlimited power supplies hidden under our feet.
   The power suply is the root of everything: if it is clean, abundant and free we have the basis of new conomy basee on innovation and not deprevation. This is why Ilove tis video.

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