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California Chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement

Welcome to the official state chapter page for The Zeitgeist Movement

The term “Zeitgeist” can be defined as: The intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. The term "movement" implies motion or change. The Zeitgeist Movement is thus a social aim that urges change in the intellectual, moral and cultural climate of the time. Specifically, to values and practices that would better serve the well-being of the whole of humanity, regardless of race, religion, title or other forms of contrived social status.

TZM advocates a system that utilizes existing resources rather than commerce. In which all goods and services are available without the use of currency, credit, barter or any form of debt or servitude. The aim of this new social design is, in part, to free humanity from the repetitive, mundane and arbitrary occupational roles which hold no true relevance for social development, while encouraging a new incentive system that is focused on self-fulfillment, education, social awareness and creativity.

If you are new to The Zeitgeist Movement or ZMCA, we highly recommend viewing Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and the Orientation Video to gain a relevant understanding of these ideas.

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Zeitgeist The Movie - Remastered

Monday, 14 May 2012 08:28 |

Complete Film from 2007 with 2012 Color Update/Text Quality Improvement - Direct from Peter Joseph. The first of The Zeitgeist Trilogy.

The original Zeitgeist was actually not a "film", but a performance piece, which consisted of a vaudevillian style multi-media event using recorded music, live instruments and video. The event was given over a 6-night period in New York City and then, without any interest to professionally release or produce the work, was "tossed" up on the Internet arbitrarily. The work was never designed as a film or even a documentary in a traditional sense - it was designed as a creative, provoking, emotionally driven expression, full of artistic extremity and heavily stylized gestures.

However, once online, an unexpected flood of interest began to generate. Within 6 months over 50 Million views were recorded on Google Video counters (before they were reset for some reason). The current combined estimates put the number of Internet views at over 100 million as of 2009. Suddenly "Zeitgeist" the event, became "Zeitgeist: The Movie".

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

Scaled Model of a Circular City at San Diego Zday 2012

As part of this year's Zday events, a member of the San Diego chapter created a scaled model of a circular city, based on an artistic rendering by Jacque Fresco. This years display helped to give an in-person view for event attendees during a short Q&A discussion. The most notable question being asked "How do we get from here to there?"

San Diego Chapter Site

Culture In Decline: Premiering in July

Tuesday, 17 April 2012 17:41 |

Written by CA Coordinator

What do you get when George Carlin meets Carl Sagan?

From the creator of the Zeitgeist Film Series comes the dumbest reality show of all time: The Real One

Culture In Decline will be a free, online monthly show hosted by Peter Joseph that will take a satirical approach to serious issues.
Featuring live public interviews coupled with challenging vignettes

Please follow us through Facebook/Twitter/Youtube to stay up-to-date on the world online premiere

Coming July 2012

www.facebook.com/pages/Culture-in-Decline/402591899752535
www.youtube.com/user/CultureInDecline
twitter.com/#!/CultureInDecline

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TZM Announces the "One Planet Project"

Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:55 |

Join hundreds of chapters around the world in engaging the public!

Kick off weekend May 12th and 13th!

The ONE PLANET PROJECT is a simple campaign that engages each local community head-on and creates a easy platform for open communication and education about our current world problems, which we all face as a global community, and how we can create the cultural understanding of what a sustainable society looks like!

Ecuador, Chile, Canada, Paraguay and many other countries around the world, the ONE PLANET PROJECT is spreading the message to thousands worldwide!

Get involved through your local chapter (Click here for Chapters)

For details, map, toolkit and more visit TZM's: http://oneplanetproject.net/