Sharleen B. - Global "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" / Bob Templeton - Gun Shows
Program Date:Sharleen B. - Global Release Coordinator - "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" / Bob Templeton - Owner: Crossroads of the West Gun Shows
Sharleen B. - Global Release Coordinator - "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" / Bob Templeton - Owner: Crossroads of the West Gun Shows
I am a coordinator for the South Dakota chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement. As I came from the freedom-movement - and am a voluntaryist - I know how to answer the questions that are asked by libertarians about TZM.
The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project advocate for a purely voluntary society. These ideas for a new economic system are only possible as long as people choose them and voluntarily implement them. We advocate for no hierarchy, no coercion, no force, no government, no elite class - nothing of the sort.
If some people wanted a resource-based economy and began this transition, but others did not want this - these others would be free to live a life of their choosing. This is a big planet, and there is plenty of room for everyone.
However, a RBE would only be effective on a global scale, because if there are other nations, government, military, etc., they would inevitably attack an unarmed resource-based society, or prevent sharing of resources.
The difference between TVP ideas, and the freedom-movement, are merely how to implement the most prosperous, peaceful and free society possible. TVP illustrates a scientific approach to creating abundance of prosperity for everyone, which would necessarily render the monetary/market system obsolete.
Our current state of technology makes such a system possible. The only real obstacle to implementing it is convincing people to understand how it would work, so that they may realize for themselves that this is possible - but all new and radical ideas are always met with opposition by those who are attached to the old paradigm.
In a resource-based economy, all 'work' would be voluntary, and minimal. No one would be forced to do anything, but out of their personal interests to better their lives and the world would contribute based on voluntary contribution only.
Remember, no government, no military, no police, no politicians, no class system, no hierarchy. The Venus Project is a 100% purely voluntary society.
The goal of libertarians is to convince people that freedom is the way; the goal of TZM is to convince people that a resource-based economy is the way to freedom.