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'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is an activist movement established in the [[United States]] in 2008 by [[Peter Joseph]]. The group is critical of market [[capitalism]], describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The group dismisses historic religious concepts as misleading, and embraces sustainable [[ecology]] and scientific administration of society.<ref>McElroy, Danien. June 17, 2012. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9337209/Forest-boy-inspired-by-Zeitgeist-movement.html Forest boy 'inspired by Zeitgeist movement']. ''The Telegraph.'' Retrieved November 14, 2018.</ref><ref name="pia14">{{cite journal|author=Resnick, Jan|date=February 25, 2009|title=The Zeitgeist Movement|url=http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=543809933974722;res=IELHEA|journal=Psychotherapy in Australia|volume=15|issue=2|issn=1323-0921}}</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of [http://www.themarker.com/markerweek/1.1620957 The Filmmaker Who Helped Recruit Millions for the Global Protests of the Bottom 99%], original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, [[TheMarker]] (Israel), January 19, 2012.</ref><ref>Quotations and citations in this Wikipedia article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of [http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000547764 Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler], [[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]] (Israel), March 18, 2010.</ref>

'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' (TZM) is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by [[Peter Joseph]]. TZM was the subject of a case study by a London School of Economics researcher who studies political sociology and social movements. In his essay, he described the movement as having a "synthesized emancipatory worldview based on the implicit themes of cosmopolitanism, secularism, the explicit themes of systems-thinking, and promise of postscarcity globally redistributive (resource-based) economics. These perspectives challenge the conventional paradigms of nationalism, religion, modernism, and neoliberal capitalist globalization, respectively."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cooper |first1=Brent |title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Alter-globalization, Complexity, and Conspirituality |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/329613705/The-Zeitgeist-Movement-Alter-globalization-Complexity-and-Conspirituality |website=Scribd |access-date=5 March 2021}}</ref> ''VC Reporter's'' Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".<ref>{{cite web|author=Cohn, Shane|title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|publisher=VCReporter|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>

''VC Reporter's'' Shane Cohn summarized the movement's charter as: "Our greatest social problems are the direct results of our economic system".<ref>{{cite web|author=Cohn, Shane|title=New world re-order|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html|publisher=VCReporter|date=May 12, 2011|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>

==History==

The Zeitgeist Movement was formed in 2008 by Joseph shortly after the late 2008 release of ''[[Zeitgeist: Addendum]]'', the second film in the [[Zeitgeist (film series)|''Zeitgeist'' film series]].<ref name=o3/><ref name=v2>{{cite web|last1=Cohn|first1=Shane|title=New world re-order|url=http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/|publisher=VCReporter |date=May 12, 2011 |access-date=May 28, 2015|archive-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110044/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/new_world_re_order/8838/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Zeitgeist was first linked to [[the Venus Project]], which had been founded by [[Jacque Fresco#The Venus Project and later career|theJacque Venus ProjectFresco]] in 1985. In April 2011, partnership between the two groups ended in an apparent power struggle, with Joseph commenting, "Without [the Zeitgeist Movement], [the Venus Project] doesn’t exist – it has nothing but ideas and has no viable method to bring it to light."<ref name=o3>{{cite journal|author=Gore, Jeff|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/the-view-from-venus/Content?oid=2248863|title=The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics, poverty and war. Will it ever leave the drawing board?|journal=Orlando Weekly|date=October 12, 2011|access-date=September 17, 2015}}</ref>

The first Zeitgeist documentary which predates the organization Zeitgeist movement, borrowed from the works of [[Eustace Mullins]], [[Lyndon LaRouche]], and radio host [[Alex Jones]].<ref name="Goldberg" /> Much of its footage was taken directly from Alex Jones documentaries.<ref name="Goldberg" />

The group holds an annual event, Z-Day (or Zeitgeist Day), an "educational forum" held in March. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported on the second Z-Day held at [[Manhattan Community College]] in New York in 2009 which included lectures by Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco.<ref name="Feuer" /> This event sold out with 900 people paying $10 each to attend. The event's organizers said that 450 connected events in 70 countries around the globe also took place.<ref name="Feuer" />

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