Missing part of the equation
Just finished watching Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and while I prefer the approach they took in this movie in comparison to the previous ones, I found the title to be misleading. I thought this movie would be a blue print for the masses, instead it falls more in line with the very thing they do not wish to be associated with "utopian". I see the film being such since it didn't deal with the now. They showed us why things suck and how things can be but don't offer an answer on how to get from point A to point B. They're not dealing with the fact that the majority of people are undereducated and if they were to protest it would be for the wrong reasons because they've been so brainwashed by our corporate overlords. I know far too many people who love democracy and believe in money. The belief in money is stronger than their belief in a god since money has an immediate affect on their lives; so how do you get these individuals to let go of something they believe in so strongly? Education? Than how do you get that education to those people?
I had a co-worker who told me she hated all her college professors because they were liberal minded and were trying to brainwash her. I asked her if she ever did her own research, tried to figure out where the teachers were coming from, or even where her own view point came from and she simply said all the answers she needed were in the bible. How do we get those type of people-- people who have had the opportunity to be educated but still fall in line of what democracy and capitalism asks of them--to shake off their old habits and crave change? I wanted answers to these current dilemmas but none were offered. So, therefore Zeitgiest: Moving Forward is just another Utopian dream. And if they are unable to come to the same conclusions as Thomas More or Plato, that living in such a world is very near impossible due to our human condition, than they are delusional.
I had a co-worker who told me she hated all her college professors because they were liberal minded and were trying to brainwash her. I asked her if she ever did her own research, tried to figure out where the teachers were coming from, or even where her own view point came from and she simply said all the answers she needed were in the bible. How do we get those type of people-- people who have had the opportunity to be educated but still fall in line of what democracy and capitalism asks of them--to shake off their old habits and crave change? I wanted answers to these current dilemmas but none were offered. So, therefore Zeitgiest: Moving Forward is just another Utopian dream. And if they are unable to come to the same conclusions as Thomas More or Plato, that living in such a world is very near impossible due to our human condition, than they are delusional.