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The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) ZDay 2012 University of Southern California

Areas of Unfolding A Perfect Storm by Jason Lord

Welcome to our 4th annual ZDay event in Los Angeles.

I volunteer to take part in awareness activism for The Zeitgeist Movement.

My personal involvement has been as a coordinator for the many chapters

that have sprung up in California over the past three years.

I'm honored to be here today and to do my best to communicate what the movement is

and the train of thought that we're putting forth.

I've entitled this presentation 'Areas of Unfolding - A Perfect Storm'.

The movement advocates the need to move out of a market economy

and to this end, I will touch upon four major areas of unfolding

describing what can be seen as the social imperative

to transform our civilization into one that is sustainable and equitable

As with our usual introductions, the term 'zeitgeist' can be defined as

the intellectual, moral and cultural climate of an era.

The term 'movement' implies motion or change.

And thus, The Zeitgeist Movement is an organization which urges change

in the dominant social values of the time,

specifically the methods and values which would better serve

the well-being of everyone through scientific unfolding.

Our hope is that the direction we advocate becomes self-evident

as the components of what comprises human well-being

So, in this regard, let's open with asking "What are the underlying dynamics

of conflicts and problems that we see in the world today?"

"What can we expect as our social integrity erodes?"

and "What else can we do that embodies the term 'sustainable'?"

To start, we are looking at a huge topic;

there is nothing simple about advocating a transition at a societal scale,

namely our modern industrialized society.

Over the ages, civilizations have developed as complex societies;

history shows a long transition of culture and values.

As complexity increases with the evolution of civilizations,

they become organized around cities; they use agriculture, use writing and mathematics,

and they hold the division of labor. They're centralized,

with people and resources constantly flowing from outlying areas

And as described by archeologist Joseph Tainter

there have been 24 civilizations from this perspective

and all, except the current industrial civilization so far,

Tainter describes the growth of civilization as a process

and the development of even greater complexity, in order to solve problems.

But complexity costs energy, and eventually a point is reached

where increasing investments become too costly and yield declining returns,

since available energy resources are finite.

And it's at this point where society begins to experience collapse.

It's this notion of collapse I'd like to put into perspective.

Think of collapse in terms of social systems shedding their complexity,

and exhibiting decentralization over time.

This perspective is more accurate, helpful and probably less scary

than imagining the single catastrophic event

some of the existing worldly literature would have you believe.

But it also opens avenues for reshaping the social landscape

that is not offered by the apocalyptic vision.

Our society is a dynamic and complex system,

and it's in this view that we find where the root cause of our problems lie.

Donella H. Meadows was a PhD in biophysics from Harvard

where she did much to bring the field of system dynamics into the public view.

I'd like to read an excerpt from one of her published works regarding systems.

environmental degradation, economic instability, unemployment,

persist, in spite of the analytical ability and the technical brilliance

that have been directed toward eradicating them.

No one deliberately creates those problems, no one wants them to persist,

That is because there are intrinsically system problems, undesirable behaviors

characteristic of the system structures that produce them.

They will yield only as we reclaim our intuition, stop casting blame,

see the system as the source of its own problems,

and find the courage and wisdom to restructure it."

The problems we suffer in today's world are symptoms of a systems disorder.

The root cause of these negative outcomes

are rarely identified, in this way, by the public at large.

We have language for good and evil and even identify with such words,

but most of the public has no frame of reference for systems dysfunction,

and that's a problem. Without this frame of reference,

without language for understanding a root-cause systemic issue,

what do you think we fall back on? It will be whatever is in our frame of reference:

monetary-isms, the Democrats, the Liberals.

In a way, the purpose for the awareness of today's zeitgeist is exposed.

And with this cultural zeitgeist in mind,

we're operating a value set that is making for

a perfect storm of system failure on a global scale.

We do not want people to suffer. We do not want a decline back

into the existence of labor-intensive survival, and we don't have to.

But, as our socio-economic system experiences a loss of complexity,

here are the major areas of unfolding that pose our greatest challenge:

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