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I went to Z Day in Brisbane yesterday. It wasn't exactly what I expected. It seemed like none of the people went any further than just watching Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. No one listened to the radio addressed, no one had done much reading which expanded on the ideas of Zeitgeist/ The Venus Project and everyone was more interested in talking about growing your own food and alternative energy sources than they were about social change- which is WHAT ZEITGEIST IS ABOUT.
There was one guy who was pretty much only interested in talking about peak oil and how technology isn't good enough to sustain electricity in the future. Aside from the fact that in the future we won't be using the shitty technology we have today, everything he was talking about has been covered by Jacques Fresco already!
I did try to steer the conversation back to social change but it never stayed there so I stopped bothering.
I was more than a little disappointed.
There was one guy who was pretty much only interested in talking about peak oil and how technology isn't good enough to sustain electricity in the future. Aside from the fact that in the future we won't be using the shitty technology we have today, everything he was talking about has been covered by Jacques Fresco already!
I did try to steer the conversation back to social change but it never stayed there so I stopped bothering.
I was more than a little disappointed.