thanks for your perspective Robin, I'm excerpting Andreas piece in a few days ... On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, robin <[email protected]> wrote:
Great! A marxist approach to Zeitgeist. It could go a lot deeper but it isn't that bad.
It is missing critique on the conspiracy theories that the first 2 movies have spread, its use of bad-taste propaganda techniques in all movies and, possibly connected, an analysis on how this has spread in the first place - but it is 1 of the first coherent articles I have read
*One* of the reasons why I think it gained so much ground is the cheap and poorly researched focus on banks and debt-creation as an explanation for our suffering; the same hollow rhetorics as nazism but different in terms of where fingers are pointing to. Another is that young people have always been bored with the system and because of the vacuum of good critique they are happy there is someome telling them we can escape.
For some more about this check this: * http://www.conspiracyscience.com/articles/zeitgeist-addendum/part-one/page/8... * http://webskeptic.wikidot.com/zeitgiest-addendum
And also the article misses critique on the state-centered approach of Zeitgeist/ Venus but what else can you expect from a Maxist?
I take it that people on this list know that Marxism doesn't care so much about the means. It is the end that matters? Funny enough the article is arguing the same thing:
"The new Zeitgeist-movie propagates a communism in its best sense, and without even mentioning Marx – be it because of tactical reasons, be it because of a kind of narrow-mindedness (*which does not hurt as long as the message stays clear*)."
Put it on the blog I would say if you want something that analyses Zeitgeist/ Venus. I don't think I have the time and energy at the moment to do something that I can be satisfied with, and I am sure others will pick it up soon, since the third movie will be getting even more popular.
Robin.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Exner <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM Subject: [Commoning] The Communism of Zeitgeist: Science or Science
Fiction?
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