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FAQ
What does the word "Zeitgeist" stand for and how
does it fit in the movement?
The term “Zeitgeist” can be defined as “The general
intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.”
The term “Movement” implies motion and change.
Therefore the Zeitgeist Movement can be seen as a
social movement that urges change in the dominant
intellectual, moral and cultural climate of the time.

What is the Basic Structure of the Movement?
The Zeitgeist Movement’s structure is comprised of
volunteers creating a global communications
network for activism that is focused on the
educational imperatives of a new socioeconomic
model referred to as a “Post-Scarcity Economy.”
A more formal affiliation is attained by an
individual’s involvement in the Movement via
teams/branches, usually comprised of city, state or
national level groups. While the Movement is global,
branches are what comprise the local on-the-ground
presence of The Zeitgeist Movement in their
respective community or region.

How does TZM view our major social problems
today?

TZM is different from most activist communities and
political/social movements in the world today, due
to the way we view the majority of the societal
problems and their causes. We see it as structural.
In short, the socioeconomic system itself is
regarded as the root cause of persistent negative
societal outcomes, with human behavior and its
resulting effects – corruption, pollution, wars,
waste, exploitation, and hence, distortion of values
and psychology – seen as symptoms of this
fundamental root source.

Which current issues does the movement focus on?

General Observations:
In the view of The Movement, the society today has
become increasingly detached from the physical
world, with techniques of production, distribution
and social ordering that have little to no
relationship to the environment or the current state
of scientific knowledge with respect to public health
and sustainability.

Cyclical Consumption
For instance, our use of a profit-based, “growth”-
driven monetary system has become one of the
greatest destroyers of the natural world and
sustainable human values. The entire global
economy requires “cyclical consumption” to
operate, which means that money must constantly
be circulating. Thus, new goods and services must
be constantly introduced regardless of the state of
the environment and actual human necessity. This
“perpetual” approach has a fatal flaw, for resources
as we know it are simply not infinite. Resources are
finite and the Earth is essentially a closed system.
To assume the need for constant consumption to
keep people employed and hence the market
system going is eco-cidal on a finite planet. The true
goal of an economy, by definition, is to strategically
preserve and create efficiency. The system today
demands the opposite.

Infinite Growth
The Monetary-Market Model is based upon money
being treated as a Commodity and its origination
from Debt; sold for Interest Income. This is a “Ponzi
Scheme”. Each time this Commodity (Money) is
sold (Bank Loans), it needs to be paid back (Debt)
with more money charged as a fee for profit
(Interest). The problem is that the Interest Value
required to settle the debt does not exist in the
Money Supply outright. In other words, Bankruptcy
and Default are not byproducts – they are inevitable
– as there is always more debt outstanding than
money in existence. This creates severe, offset
monetary scarcity that oppresses many people on
many levels.

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