You can learn more about this at thezeitgeistmovement.com

where we're basically trying to get people from around the world

to discuss why, in a very concise manner

they advocate The Zeitgeist Movement,

The Venus Project and, of course, a Resource-Based Economy.

So, for me, to make this concise

which is very difficult for me at times

I'll give three basic overlaying points.

The first I think is best summarized by Saint Timothy,

and that is, "For the love of money is the root of all evil."

And I think, historically speaking, you'll find that to be the case.

Even in many things that tend to be aberrated

for the sake of aberrated, seemingly unrelated to finance

you'll tend to find that underneath the surface

there's something causal ocurring within the system itself. For example

there's a great deal of violence ocurring in the United States.

One of the most unique things that's been discovered

recently by social scientists is that

the degree of inequality in the current society

excuse me, in a society

is directly proportional to the rates of violence

across the whole spectrum of violent behavior.

So, it's economic attributes

that can relate to seemingly aberrated acts of violence,

even random shootings and things as such.

So, these are important factors to take into account

there's a lot of evidence regarding this information.

The stress of this society is underlying, based economically,

it leads to all sorts of social distortions and neurosis,

addictions and problematic behaviors,

not to mention physical illnesses and everything else.

So, the love of money is the root of all evil on multiple levels.

The second point I would like to make

is that, well, very simply money isn't needed.

Money is not neccesary anymore.

The values that we have, permeating in this culture are distorted

and they generate more sickness than anything positive.

More sickness than progress.

People function essentially in

two different capacities in the modern world,

they're either parasites or they're prostitutes.

Sorry to be blunt about it, but that is the

firm reality across the entire spectrum,

regardless of how you look at it.

There's a subservience attribute to what this system demands and it

always blows my mind when people think that there's something free

about the world that we live in.

Freedom is not even a nuance of the system

that we currently live in. It's not based on freedom whatsoever.

If it was, it would be completely different,

in fact, much closer to a Resource-Based Economy.

But that's an aside.

So, money is not needed, not only the values need to be changed,

where people don't have the acquisitive materialistic values,

they don't have to be brainwashed into constant, conspicuous consumption

to keep GDP up, to keep employment up

and everything else that keeps this machine going.

Those can be resolved in a new system. And new values can be created

as they always had been throughout time.

A second part to that, which I think is important to bring up,

is that the efficiency that we're capable of doing, capable of having,

the ability to create access abundance,

the ability to take care of the basic needs of all the world's people,

the ability to elevate our technology to levels

that we probably can't even imagine,

is intrinsically stiffled by this very system

because of the cost-efficiency mechanisms

and all the profit attributes that make it virtually impossible

for the best of anything to be created.

We could raise society to the state of present day knowledge, which

if you analyze today, we're probably about a hundred years behind,

to be perfectly frank.

Maybe I'm little extreme on that note,

maybe more to the effect of sixty years behind

but I think somewhere between sixty and a hundred years behind

is where we exist today.

If we wanted to take modern knowledge and apply it

towards renewable energies, production

and anything that we think is socially viable,

you would see a cataclysmic change, if that knowledge would

simply be applied and not hindered by the profit mechanism

and the things that are required to

make anything come to fruition in this culture.

If you can't make money off of something, it's not going to happen.

And the world you see around you is the result of that.

Third point, to cut off my posible long winded tangents.

The third point was very simple to the effect that

the system has ran its course, the entropy has kicked in.

That's stated incorrectly.

The system is breaking down, excuse me.

And there's nothing that's going to stop that break down

if the mechanisms of the monetary system are adhered to.

It's only if the mechanisms are bypassed and, say,

gigantic amounts of debt relief is assumed or...

things of that nature or, you know

Manhattan Projects, if you will, for say, renewable energies...

Those are the only things that are going to

slow the decline of the current system

which has been breaking down for at least seventy years now.

We don't see it because we live in it. We are in the box, remember.

So, as this system continues to fail,

as the wars increase, as the social stresses increase,

as the divisions of society increases,

you're going to see a lot of social instability and

it's about time that people realize that

there's no solution anymore within the current order.

We're going to have to do something different.

We have to change our way of thinking

if we expect to resolve this and to create a stable society,

a steady-state society that can actually

take care of the 7 to 8 billion people

that are on this planet or are going to be on this planet.

So, I'm going to leave it at that.

A loose distinction, but I hope everyone will

go the thezeitgeistmovement.com and look into these points.

And thank you for your time, and I hope to see

a flood of such testimonials from all of you

in the near future. Thank you.