Watched this. Sort of another “Zeitgeist,” except it’s fairly right wing (as opposed to Libertarian) and full of contradictions. The elite are pagans out to create a world that worships the earth so the answer is…paganism. A strange mixture of New Age spirituality and right wing rhetoric. Has this alarmingly stupid [...]

Things are really a mess when even the radicals can’t see eye to eye:
Signs of looming trouble began in New York in mid-March. We were there to meet up again with Jacque Fresco (director of The Venus Project) along with his partner Roxanne Meadows. They were appearing at the annual Z-Day event [...]

There was a recent Facebook thread by Evolver.net about Zeitgeist and the Venus Project that got surprisingly cynical.  First comment:
Who wants to live in a world like they propose… it’s f***** up!!
I’ve written here before that these two movements seem weirdly and unnecessarily at odds with each other.  One group wants to elevate consciousness [...]

When conspiracy theorists collide. In this video, Alex Jones criticizes Zeitgeist for being anti-Christian and being a part of the New Age conspiracy to take over the world.

To sum up the video – it’s saying that Zeitgeist, which is anti-Christian, advocates a New Age New World Order in which Christianity is supplanted, even as [...]

Check out the long discussion on Reality Sandwich about its withdrawal from a Peru retreat scheduled for spring.  Gist is that Daniel Pinchbeck was going to lead a group to take Ayahuasca.  I entertained the thought of signing up for half a second because Pinchbeck’s writing has seriously opened my mind up, but I think [...]

Two interesting interviews found recently.  One via Futurismic with the founder of Paypal and principle investor in Facebook who has a sci-fi vision of the future.
Wired: What happens if we don’t get the growth everyone expects?
Thiel: If it doesn’t happen, people will go bankrupt in retirement. There are systemic consequences, too. If we don’t have [...]

Say what you will about the conspiracy theory inherit in the Zeitgeist movement, but you cannot deny the intelligence and sincerity of Jacque Frescoe and his vision of a possible utopia.  Here’s a fascinating interview (first part) with Larry King from 1974.

The Venus Project clearly separates the Zeitgeist movement from other conspiracy theorizing from the [...]

Powerful, effective.  If the issue of 9-11 truth gives you jitters, you might be put off by part 2, but you should at least investigate it before dismissing it out of hand.  But part one makes an enormously compelling case for the cross-pollination of world myths and how Jesus’s death and resurrection is nothing more [...]