MISSION
STATEMENT Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a
Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based
activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional
Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity
Work. The Movement's principle focus includes the
recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague
the human species at this time are not the sole result of some
institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of
"human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality in
the activist community. Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues
such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation
and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social
structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal
Community Support are of interest to the The Movement, the defining
goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based
upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and
Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method
of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions. This
"Resource-Based Economic Model” is about taking a direct technical
approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even
Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the
most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving
behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are
generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits,
corporations and other structural and motivational
components. The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not
figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that
through the use of socially targeted research and tested
understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to
logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly
more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In
fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war,
poverty, 95% of most crime and many other money-based scarcity
effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over
time The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness
Campaigns extend from short to long term. The long term view, which
is the transition into a Resource-Based Economic Model, is a
constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the
path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for
transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community
Support. For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is
not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such
legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of
transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes
drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today is
also not considered a long term solution, it is still also
considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need,
while also drawing awareness to the principle goal. The Zeitgeist
Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional
political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the
human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries
must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to
survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and
promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth,
not a select
group. |