Misconception about centralization

I think that the Zeitgeist Movement has made a severe mistake(which has justly triggered discomfort from the NWO fearing community) by using the word "centralization" rather than "distributed computing", to refer to the cybernated systems that will allow for a Resource Based Economic Model to exist.





The huge difference is that the former seems to portray the image of a man sitting on a mad-scientist-esque luxury leather chair with a thousand button control device in front of him waiting for his command. Most humanity's hopes and future is put into the moral values of a scientist(or group of scientists). That's technocracy. I don't and nobody should support technocracy, as it would eventually lead to bias and ultimately corruption.



The latter instead("distributed computing" or "cloud computing") is already happening now and it is booming like nothing else. Even the mainstream media is not ignoring the huge outcome of this powerful and potentially benevolent resource that is showing positive results in computing cures for Malaria, solving aminoacid combinations for proteins that has the potential of curing HIV and alzheimer's disease. It currently serves business for calculations of logistics, product and monetary management. It is the #1 source for information, and it has allowed Open Software and Open hardware systems to proliferate, which have more effective communities than proprietary software and private digital content firms.

Distributed computing will become the management resource of the 21st century, it is only a matter of deciding whether we will let the financial elite take control, or will fight against their archaic system to implement a Marxist ideology upon which such distributed system works for everyone rather than for a few elitists.

With the advent of the revolutions all around the world (Egypt rising, Libya civil war, Occupy Wall Street, Indignados in Spain, protests in Greece, Japanese outrage of Nuclear energy, etc.), it is time to propagate the idea of a Resource Based Economy, but most importantly how technology already works for us, and can keep doing it in a much more efficient fashion than what the business paradigm currently allows.

Another huge problem, and it shows when someone is exposed to the RBEM idea, is that people don't know how to use technology, they still think that the mobile device will explode if you press the wrong button, or that machines make mistake more often than humans(scapegoat, anyone?). Machines don't think as we do, yet, they just happen to follow a series of instructions we order them to accomplish, what if we order them to automate food production, and self-sustainable homes? That can all be done with current technology and for everyone. Just search over the internet and see how many technologies are already helping business.

Artificial intelligence, on the other side, has even more potential to accelerate technological development, because the computing power that these artificial entities living on the cyber-cloud will posses, will exceed in every way the human brain capabilities in no less than 20 years. That is not to suggest that we become useless, au contraire, if we join the cybernated systems(just like we have being doing by accepting a desktop computer in our house, a mass-manufactured t-shirt around our thorax, an music player while jogging etc.), we will be able to compute our solutions much faster than we ever did. Ethical Artificial Intelligence will develop solutions to hunger, resource scarcity, decision making help(I underline help, because personal decision would still be decided by the individual), space exploration, psyche exploration and more.

In sight of these advents, we must end all military and business power, we don't need defence when there is no need for attack(which in the majority of cases is for perceived or real scarcity of resources), and business is an archaic, detrimental practice that has no relevance to today's powerful technological driven abundance boost.

A transition has to emerge from the realization that the conventional way of running our lives is not the most efficient and requires unnecessary frustration, boredom and even suffering to maintain the status quo. The transition is not easy, people will complain about loosing their businesses they've worked so hard for. But they will soon realize that all the good they produced will still be valuable in the transition period, and that without those business models, the transition couldn't have been put forward in the first place. So no hard feelings on hard working business people.

Are we going to sit there staring at the TV screen hearing what to do with our lives(mainly buy sht that you don't need, AKA consumerism), political propaganda(the evil mid-east dictators eat babies alive, while Western Dictators like Berlusconi are just an excuse for a sex joke) and conformism driven ideologies? Or are we going to educate ourselves by reading and informing the best way we can and contribute to society motivated by altruism and true care?

The revolution starts in the mind.

World Clock

Poodwaddle.com

The culture of the "Don't think to much"

Without any doubt, the people are starting to revolt, against a system that clearly does not work for them, but on the contrary they work for the system regardless of their acceptance and consent.

Politicians keep approving the laws that benefit the core financial elite. Bailing out the bankers not the lower-mid class people. 14 trillion dollars owned by the USA to other countries. Thankfully, people are starting to realize this is an agenda to further enslave and control them, comming from the financial elite and their puppets, the government.

But there's still an issue. People still think that the "corrupt politicians" being substituted will solve the issue.

There never seems to be a hint in the general zeitgeist, that somehow the source of all problems are on the inner self, in the attitudes to be more precise.

The establishment starts at home: the family. The parents teach their children how to eat, they feed them the food the parents believe is necessary for their correct nutrition, inform them about the world in simplistic ways, and finally send them to the conformity establishm... ehm, school.

Barcelona police brutality.

I can't say anything that the video itself does not express:



Go to your nearest Spanish embassy and protest.

Downright unacceptable.

Venus project Hollywood-budget movie.

I don't understand what's the mentality of The Venus Project right now, but it seems that they've lost sight of their essential objectives.

They want to create a Hollywood-budget film explaining the Venus Project and the Resource Based Economy. Now if you aren't able to spot the problem right from the start, let me enlighten you with some bullet points:

• A Hollywood movie in average costs more than 10 million dollars.
• One of the Venus Project's objective is to abolish money.
• Donations have been asked for previously, but now that the Zeitgeist movement has gained more popularity, they seem to be willing to create a high-budget film, completely disregarding any other pro-sustainability projects, and sometimes even going against them, just because their 'competitors' were 'plagiarising' the term Resource Based Economy.
  
• Somebody smells fish?
• Jaques Fresco is certainly not going in a luxury vacation with that money, but either he is deceiving himself regarding the true outcome of that film(which will more likely be taken as a Star Wars with peace in its main subject), or he is down right broke and needs the money for maintenance.
• Very few people give a damn about the world's current state of affairs, much less about a sci-fi film.
  
• There are literally millions of people starving to death, probably much saner to allocate resources to those people, while the monetary system collapses to its knees and the Resource Based Economy becomes the de-facto standard for society.
• But then again, when has money solved anything once and for all?
• Very disappointed with the lack of out-of-the-box thinking from The Venus Project.
• Jaques Fresco is an excellent social/industrial engineer/designer, not a film maker.
• Everybody (at the Zeitgeist movement) seem to be following Jaques' ideas too closely. Almost to the point of blind belief.

All in all, I do hope that if they manage to pull off something as big as a Hollywood blockbuster, people take the film seriously(up to this date, completely unprecedented).

But then again, if money is all The Venus Project can think of for solutions, they can count me out of their trusted followers.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

The documentary film speaks for itself. Kudos to Peter Joseph.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward has been released in some theaters around 60+ countries. I couldn´t orginize an event for projecting the film here in El Salvador, unfortunately.

Critics have been very positive. And apparently if you´ve been updated with information around the Zeitgeist Movement and technological advancements, it will not surprise you in its claims and visions.

What might turn out novel to some of us, is the Dr. Gilligan interview, in regards to aberrant behaviour, Peter Joseph´s excellent mysterious music and overweight narration. Animations, and the interviewees will also take a major role in the documentary film, Peter Joseph´s narration will have a less protagonistic role than both previous films.

25th of January 2011 will be the official web release. It will be downloaded like hot pancakes.

What impact will it have upon society? I don´t know. Hopefully a positive influence in the audience´s behaviour.