Zeitgeist--the Movie

I noticed this five-part video on Youtube and embedded it below. It is about 65% accurate, which makes it 65 times more useful than anything you will seen on television news this year.  Rather than take facts from the movie, use it to stimulate reading.  Much of what's in the videos won't be supported by more detailed research.

I don't like the conspiracy theory aspects of these films and wish the implication that 9/11 was a Rockefeller conspiracy had been omitted. That's emabarrasingly absurd.  It is untrue that Robert McNamara said that the Golf of Tonkin attacks "never happened" or were a "mistake". He said that one of them occurred and one of them didn't. You can see this in the 2003 movie/interview Fog of War. There are numerous other mistakes. As well, I found the fifth part to be ridiculous.  Love as a political tactic is fine, but if the public cannot figure out that the Fed is destroying their future I'm not sure what deciding "life is a ride" will accomplish. That said, the movie does open your eyes.

Much of the history is useful, such as the discussion of  Prescott Bush's involvement with the Union Bank and the Nazis and the background of the Fed. Some interesting quotes from Woodrow Wilson are included.  The stuff about chip implants is worth watching.  The comments about the education system's serving as a counterpart to inculcated stupidity via mass media are spot on.


At first I liked the Patriot Act.  Now I don't.  Although I reject conspiracy-based theories I am convinced that government uses war to curtail civil liberties and that this has occurred in the past ten years.  I also see both the Democratic and Republican Parties as well as Congress, the President and the US Supreme Court as threats to my well being that exceed the threats that terrorists pose.  Which is not to say that terrorists don't exist or that they are a figment of Nick Rockefeller's imagination.  But Washington must not be permitted to accumulate power by using terrorism as an excuse.

It is unfortunate that opponents of the Fed fail to follow the KISS strategy--keep it simple, stupid. Occam's Razor is a guide.  That is, the simplest explanation is the best:  "plurality should not be posited without necessity."  Conspiracy theories fail the KISS and Occam's Razor standards and should be chucked.