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Hello, I'm Peter Joseph and welcome to the "Why I Advocate" campaign.

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You can learn more about this at thezeitgeistmovement.com

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

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to discuss why, in a very concise manner

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they advocate The Zeitgeist Movement,

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

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So, for me, to make this concise

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which is very difficult for me at times

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I'll give three basic overlaying points.

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The first I think is best summarized by Saint Timothy,

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

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

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Even in many things that tend to be aberrated

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for the sake of aberrated, seemingly unrelated to finance

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you'll tend to find that underneath the surface

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

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

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One of the most unique things that's been discovered

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recently by social scientists is that

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the degree of inequality in the current society

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excuse me, in a society

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is directly proportional to the rates of violence

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across the whole spectrum of violent behavior.

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So, it's economic attributes

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that can relate to seemingly aberrated acts of violence,

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even random shootings and things as such.

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So, these are important factors to take into account

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there's a lot of evidence regarding this information.

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The stress of this society is underlying, based economically,

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it leads to all sorts of social distortions and neurosis,

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addictions and problematic behaviors,

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not to mention physical illnesses and everything else.

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

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The second point I would like to make

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

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Money is not neccesary anymore.

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

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and they generate more sickness than anything positive.

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More sickness than progress.

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People function essentially in

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two different capacities in the modern world,

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they're either parasites or they're prostitutes.

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Sorry to be blunt about it, but that is the

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firm reality across the entire spectrum,

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regardless of how you look at it.

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

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

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about the world that we live in.

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Freedom is not even a nuance of the system

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

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If it was, it would be completely different,

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

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But that's an aside.

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

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where people don't have the acquisitive materialistic values,

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

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to keep GDP up, to keep employment up

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and everything else that keeps this machine going.

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

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as they always had been throughout time.

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

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

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the ability to create access abundance,

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

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the ability to elevate our technology to levels

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that we probably can't even imagine,

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is intrinsically stiffled by this very system

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because of the cost-efficiency mechanisms

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and all the profit attributes that make it virtually impossible

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for the best of anything to be created.

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

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

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to be perfectly frank.

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Maybe I'm little extreme on that note,

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maybe more to the effect of sixty years behind

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but I think somewhere between sixty and a hundred years behind

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is where we exist today.

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If we wanted to take modern knowledge and apply it

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towards renewable energies, production

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and anything that we think is socially viable,

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you would see a cataclysmic change, if that knowledge would

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simply be applied and not hindered by the profit mechanism

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and the things that are required to

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make anything come to fruition in this culture.

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

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

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

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The third point was very simple to the effect that

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

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That's stated incorrectly.

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The system is breaking down, excuse me.

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

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if the mechanisms of the monetary system are adhered to.

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

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gigantic amounts of debt relief is assumed or...

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things of that nature or, you know

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

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Those are the only things that are going to

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slow the decline of the current system

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

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

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So, as this system continues to fail,

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as the wars increase, as the social stresses increase,

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as the divisions of society increases,

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

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it's about time that people realize that

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there's no solution anymore within the current order.

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We're going to have to do something different.

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We have to change our way of thinking

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

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a steady-state society that can actually

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take care of the 7 to 8 billion people

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

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

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A loose distinction, but I hope everyone will

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go the thezeitgeistmovement.com and look into these points.

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

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a flood of such testimonials from all of you

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in the near future. Thank you.