Name: Ben McLeish - 經濟學的未來--來自 "時代運動 "的觀點。 (Ben McLeish - The Future of Economics - A Perspective from The Zeitgeist Movement')
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This lecture is going to actually form part of six lectures

focusing on the root causes of our society's problems.

[Are you going to do all six now?] - No, no, sadly not, no.

There will be 6 one-hour lectures. They'll be available online.

They're really to give people a sense of idea

of how our movement came about because the fundamental root causes

that have informed our world views are not to be summed up

in a nice kind of ten-minute elevator speech.

This is the first one, and as this is already telling you

this one focuses on the monetary system specifically.

It should be noted that a complete understanding of the tenets

social goals and understandings of the movement I represent

can't be achieved through this lecture alone, but I think it will be

a very useful starting point and I hope that by the end of today

if anything, you will have a look at some of the societal constructs

that affect us every day with fresh eyes.

Before I begin, a word on the two organizations that I speak on behalf of.

I'm primarily a member of The Zeitgeist Movement

a global, decentralised grassroots organisation

The term "zeitgeist" means the dominant intellectual

The closest transliteration is the German "spirit of the age".

The term "movement" simply denotes motion or change.

As such, The Zeitgeist Movement calls for a change

in the dominant intellectual, cultural and moral climate of the time.

The Zeitgeist Movement is an activist and communications arm

of another much older organisation called The Venus Project

which under the direction of Jacque Fresco and his associate Roxanne Meadows

has focused on the technological redesign of an entirely new social system

At its core, the application of the current state of science

using the scientific method and practicality

to maximise the quality of life for all people.

This is to be achieved through tangible solutions to our problems we face

Our reasoning behind our conclusions are not based on political opinion

nor are they idle speculation nor are they stop-gap measures

to treat the symptoms of a society as a psychiatrist will treat

a psychological aftermath of a patient's experiences.

We would rather minimize, and if possible

wholly preclude the situations that got the patient

in front of the psychiatrist in the first place.

Our main focus therefore is to pinpoint the root causes

of these ill-effects and to propose straightforward concrete solutions

based on the inferential logic and the scientific method

and applied for global concern holistically.

I wanted to address in the introduction some common barriers we have

when it comes to the analysis of economics in our current society.

In today's world, many of us question the institutions

we're brought up in and by which we're influenced.

In fact, it has become a slightly more promoted disposition

that questioning authority is healthy than in prior human history.

After all, questioning religion no longer is

And the development and adoption of the scientific method

has allowed humanity to update and revise its knowledge

of the physical world by systematically adopting

a viewpoint of skepticism while hypotheses are tested

and until they are proven true or false and adopted or not.

is essentially a questioning and a conscious rejection

of some pre-existing or presented framework.

Yet, of all the institutions common across the globe

be they political, social, religious or national in origin

none has remained so thoroughly unquestioned

and even beyond the most basic analysis or understanding

by most people than the monetary system itself.

Even as the system of monetary finance is displacing

more than six million American homeowners

and half the world's six billion people are now

classed as suffering through poverty, one billion starving

a figure is up, by the way, by 80 million since the early 1990s

the system remains unscrutinized despite its global presence.

Economics is often viewed as a rather dull and abstract subject.

In fact, I'm amazed you're even all here today.

which don't allow for any real understanding of the subject being discussed

silently promoting the idea that this is an area best left to the experts

Abstract terms like derivatives, mortgage-backed securities and

strangely named institutions like Fannie Mae

and Freddie Mac are not only hard concepts for me

I don't encounter these abstractions in real life.

No one has ever sold me a mortgage-backed security.

I've never been contacted by Fannie or Freddie

and I'm sure it's taken quite a few days for some people other than myself

to even catch onto the fact that these aren't even real people.

They're institutions. Economics isn't like football.

It's not like the physical process of shopping.

And even worse, it sounds like it might be about maths.

We shy away from this mess of abstract terms

and we fear that we might not understand them

and suspect that we would dislike them if we did.

Others simply don't see a need to question the monetary system.

After all, isn't simply the method by which goods are transferred

and so, anything that simply represents that method is

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