Zeitgeist: Addendum

2008
8.2| 2h3m| en
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Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival. Director Peter Joseph stated: "The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It address the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution."

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Also starring John Perkins

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
denvergrown303 !Warning, some spoilers contained!I didn't really care for this documentary because it's format is not very academic. Jacque Fresco seeks to educate and inform, but his method is not very professional. He simply asserts an idea as truth, and then moves on the next idea, to build his case against the practice of fractional-reserve banking. I don't entirely disagree with all of his ideas (I would even support banking reform based off of this documentary), I just wish he would go about it in a more professional and academic method.The foundation for the modern form of education, debate, and critical viewing of ideas goes back to Socrates, Plato, and earlier philosophers. One of the most important maxims that has evolved is the idea of "citing your sources." I have watched Zeitgeist and Zeitgest Addendum and Mr. Jacque Fresco is terrible at citing sources. If I lived in 1200 A.D./C.E. and someone simply stated the world was round, it would be really easy to dismiss them. If someone told me that they had done research, and based on their calculations, which were based on the calculations of other respected mathematicians that they believed the world was round, it would be a lot harder to dismiss.. That's because now I'm not just dismissing the idea, I'm dismissing the persons work, their research, other respected mathematicians, and quite possibly scientific thought up until this point. That's a much larger hurdle than just dismissing a statement. Mr. Fresco's ideas are fairly easy to dismiss because he doesn't cite his sources well. Mr. Fresco does occasionally use references to academic journals, magazines, quotes, and even cites a court case, but he uses them as they suit his argument, sometimes out of context, and ignores evidence that doesn't concur. For example, he uses the First National Bank of Montgomery v. Jerome Daly case to highlight that making money out of thin air is illegal and unconstitutional. He fails to highlight that the court case was later nullified by a higher court. That's a pretty important aspect for someone who is going to use that as evidence for building an argument, but it's inconvenient so he fails to mention it.Mr. Fresco's ideas are definitely intriguing and cause pause for thought, but they just do not hold up to the bombardment of critical thinking.
kaapoff This movie is really worthless. The creators have changed or used the quotes in all the false meanings. The simple thing that FED doesn't create money and that there are different types of debts makes this movie a conspiration theory with purpose of generating money for the creators. If you are patient and want to explore the false thesis used in this movie, just read a little on internet. Seriously, do you really think that all the educated bankers are CORRUPTED and ignorant? That everyman who knows how the system works is egoist? This movie tries to generalize economic theories, but it is impossible. As impossible as explaining the complete functions of a car in two sentences. This is science, guys! This scince have existed for centuries and definitely improved during the latest decades. Come on, people, be critical! Create your own point of view! This movie is just as bad as the first part.
jhuni_x Okay this movie basically can be divided into five parts:(1). Monetary System w/ Ron Paul(2). Confessions of Economic Hit-man (3). Venus Project (4). Religion(5). Random Anti-American Stuff you can doOkay first of all they start out with a discussion on the monetary system and they talk about how corrupt the federal reserve is but that does not really prove that there shouldn't be any monetary system just that there shouldn't be a federal reserve. Then they bring in Ron Paul for a while in there and he talks about the federal reserve but anyone who knows him, knows he is a capitalist and he likes free-markets as long as there is no federal reserve involvement. This part doesn't really help the video that much.Okay then they talk about John Perkins, an economic hit-man, and this is really quite interesting but they just throw together things in a small amount of time like a half an hour and it is just not that interesting if you really want to know about this stuff his book that I read is very good and I recommend you read that it is called "Confessions of an Economic Hit-man". Shortly after talking about this section they bring in Jacque Fresco who says every single government in the world is pretty much corrupt and this really screws up the entire point of this last section and I am really disturbed by that. They talk about Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in the second section and then they say that he and his allies in Latin America are all basically corrupt...Okay then they bring on the third part of the movie, but it was after an hour and I was already wondering what is the point of this whole movie is about anyways this is the most interesting part of the movie they talk about how we could build an underwater train that runs based on magnets. I think they should ditch the rest of the movie and just talk about The Venus Project the entire time.Then they start talking about religion. Well this movie contains so many contradictions it could be a religion. For example they say that the machines being invented are oppressive when they talk about capitalism and then they move on to say that they are instruments for good in The Venus Project and many other confusing things like that, many of which I have already covered. For all these reasons I cannot give it more then 6/10.
tor-66 Everyone should watch this movie. In all countries the law is to protect the shareholders of BIG companies, the political elite and the rich few. It was an eyeopener for me and also for my friends thats seen it. It shows the American way. in its real lights. Paranoia. Words like top secret, classified, need to know basis, and so on, are used too often and only for the benefit of the big business, and corrupt leaders. Maybe there will be some change with the new president, but I doubt it, and I think it will "same same but different", as usual. The leaders of yesterday has left too many unanswered questions. As said "Watch & decide for yourself". Ill be waiting for the next movie, if and when it comes.