The Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Premiere went SMASHingly well. 80 degree day in Los Angeles. Kickin' haircut. Schnazzy outfit. Punctual to a fault. Big, big smile. (people like to talk to you with this much natural energy. makes for good interviews.) And everyone there was smiling back at me.
844 filled seats.
And that wasn't even the GOOD part.
The movie was incredibly inspiring, and pinpointed specific touchstones of where our problems really lie. It makes me even more driven to try and re-envision the world as a place VOID of the destructive forces of greed and lack of empathy for one's fellow human beings.
And that our current socio-political and monetary paradigms (which most unquestioningly take as truth) are but one way of approaching the world, and a very destructive one at that.
And that our need for more and more OWNERSHIP is counter-intuitive to nature and contrary to so much of what science has taught us.
And that the idea of PLANNED OBSOLESENCE (thus creating our disposable culture) is destroying literally EVERYTHING around us, for the profit of the money junkies.
The Earth is NOT an infinite resource. And it DOES matter if you just decide to ignore the problem because you feel you NEED to own more and more THINGS. Greed IS a sickness.
And that the reasons i have felt so uncomfortable in the world for so many years STEM from being forced into a culture where MONEY is truly worshiped on a religious scale.
Society is ALWAYS in evolution. Sometimes even revolution.
resource based economy. empathy for ALL beings.
investigate yourself. be who and what you are, not what you own.
don't just ignore me.
844 filled seats.
And that wasn't even the GOOD part.
The movie was incredibly inspiring, and pinpointed specific touchstones of where our problems really lie. It makes me even more driven to try and re-envision the world as a place VOID of the destructive forces of greed and lack of empathy for one's fellow human beings.
And that our current socio-political and monetary paradigms (which most unquestioningly take as truth) are but one way of approaching the world, and a very destructive one at that.
And that our need for more and more OWNERSHIP is counter-intuitive to nature and contrary to so much of what science has taught us.
And that the idea of PLANNED OBSOLESENCE (thus creating our disposable culture) is destroying literally EVERYTHING around us, for the profit of the money junkies.
The Earth is NOT an infinite resource. And it DOES matter if you just decide to ignore the problem because you feel you NEED to own more and more THINGS. Greed IS a sickness.
And that the reasons i have felt so uncomfortable in the world for so many years STEM from being forced into a culture where MONEY is truly worshiped on a religious scale.
Society is ALWAYS in evolution. Sometimes even revolution.
resource based economy. empathy for ALL beings.
investigate yourself. be who and what you are, not what you own.
don't just ignore me.