Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Roxanne Meadows:
[from trailer] The problems that we have today will continue to go on. This will never go away within a monetary system.

Dr. James Gilligan:
[from trailer] In the past, throughout nearly all of human history, the main threat to human survival was Nature. Today it is culture.

John McMurty:
[Dr. McMurty is Prof. emeritus of University of Guelph] You know, economists are, in fact, not economists at all, they are propagandists of money value.

Dr. James Gilligan:
[from trailer] Not only does structural violence kill more people than behavioural violence, it is also the cause of the majority of behavioural violence.

Jacque Fresco:
I'm 94 years old now, and I'm afraid my disposition is the same as it was 75 years ago: This $hit's got to go!

Narrator:
Money is in fact a *false* incentive, and it causes a hundred times more distortion than it does contribution.

Jacque Fresco:
Now, we have to change our system - or perish.

Martin Luther KIng Jr.:
[from trailer] There is some things in our society and some things in our world which I'm *proud* to be maladjusted to, and I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted to these things.

[first lines]

opening title card:
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it. - Ernst Fischer

voiceover-collage:
...deadly riots over the government's plan to avoid defaulting on its loans... is that the unemployment keeps rising, and it has to keep rising just because it has an excess supply of goods... because this is all borrowed money that our kids... and our debt is owned by banks, you know... to build a cigarette that delivers the taste and... I first learned it from my grandmother. Now my grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything she could, and eventually she became the master of the board. And then she would always say the same thing to me, she'd look at me and say "One day you'll learn too play the game."

[last lines]

Jacque Fresco:
The in-group will do all it can to stay in power. And that's what you've got to keep in mind. They'll use the army and the navy and lies or whatever they have to use to keep in power. They're not about to give it up. Because they know of no other system that perpetuates their kind.

Michael Ruppert:
The world is now using 6 barrels of oil for every barrel it finds. 5 years ago it was using 4 barrels for every barrel it found. A year from now it's going to be using 8 barrels for every barrel it finds.

Jacque Fresco:
I later calculated that all the destruction and wasted resources spent on WWII could have easily provided for every human need on the planet. Since that time I've watched humanity set the stage for it's own extinction. I've watched as the precious finite resources are perpetually wasted and destroyed in the name of profit and 'free' markets. I've watched the social values of society be reduced into a base artificiality of materialism and mindless consumption, and I have watched as the monetary powers control the political structure of supposedly free societies. - I'm 94 years old now, and I'm afraid my disposition is the same as it was 75 years ago: This $hit's got to go!