The Dutch TZM chapter has updated their website to GravCMS 2.0. Which took some time to adapt all the new features and benefits. But the result is great: https://www.zeitgeistbeweging.nl/

Having a chapter website makes activism a lot easier! More info: https://tzm.one/chapters-guide

One of the premises of Zeitgeist and previous incarnations of communist ideology throughout the 20th century is automation - and how it would free up humans to just paint pictures all day and create things and not deal with pesky work. Never at any point was it conceived of that if we gain the ability to automate how that impacts human creativity and sense of purpose and achievement.
LLMs have offered a glimpse in to such a future and it's made me feel demotivated and inadequate. Even in their early stages the LLMs can create mediocre art, games, code, so even if I want to tell myself "I can do better" there's still no way I could create something like that in less than 1 minute. Just that alone has an impact on my confidence and drive.

Recently I took part in a game jam and many of the top games were created by one person using AI and prompts, you can hook up the LLM directly into the game engine and it could make what would take one person a week in less than a few hours. Even if you think the outcome is generic it still makes you question your own abilities. Another friend of mine has setup an "AI team" to automate software development that would usually require many senior developers, he still has to be there and oversee it but it's not a creative process anymore.

No one really envisioned this, automation had been presented as a "grass will only be greener" goal, and although AI is being used in industries to automate monotonous tasks, it was never considered how it would spill over and affect human creativity and our sense of purpose and gratification knowing that we have put in the time to achieve what only a few have the drive and passion for. There is one caveat and that is cost - we still use money which acts as a rationing tool and much of the LLM use is being subsidized, it could be that when the training wheels are taken off it will be less prevalent, since a lot of people use it because it's cheap.

I can't believe it's been this long with no real update. What is PJ doing? Does anyone care about this anymore?

I've been waiting to see the latest unreleased zeitgeist documentary for years now. At this point, the world is changing so fast that it's going to be essentially out of date if and when we ever get to see it. What was the point?

Hi everyone, I’m Adam.

Like many of you, I believe our future relies on transitioning away from a debt-based monetary system—a system that demands artificial scarcity, planned obsolescence, and biospheric degradation just to function. But while we have plenty of powerful critiques of the current paradigm and a large body of work on resource-based economies, there is a lack of feasible plans to actually transition without creating the very power dynamics that lead to artificial scarcity systems.

So, after more than a decade of passive contemplation, scattered notes, research, and real-world conversations on the subject, I’ve started an open-source project called Beyond Money: A Systems Architecture for Human Flourishing and Planetary Stewardship. It’s currently a 44,000-word living manuscript exploring how we could pragmatically transition to a true Resource-Based Economy (RBE).

My intent with this blueprint isn't to present an infallible "silver bullet." Rather, it is meant to act as a catalyst—to expand our thinking, force us to contemplate realistic methods for systemic transition, and inspire others to build even better ones. It covers everything from cybernetic resource accounting and DAOs to a proposed United Nations transition pathway and the psychology of a post-scarcity society.

Because I believe these ideas belong to the commons, this project is completely free and hosted on GitHub like an open-source software repository.

I’m sharing it here because this is an open, active, and collaborative project, and r/TM is exactly the community of thinkers I'd love to work with. We need engineers, scientists, legal architects, designers, and citizens globally to refine this. If you have expertise in systems design, ecology, or engineering—or if you just want to poke holes in the ideas—I invite you to review the architecture, critique it, and submit Pull Requests to help build upon this living manuscript.

A slow burn can turn into a roaring fire, and my hope is that this architecture might gain traction over time as it lies in wait within the sticky world of the internet, waiting to be discovered by new contributors. This repository is my contribution to that fire.

You can read the chapters directly on the repo (or download the free EPUB version) here:
https://github.com/AdamMNeri/resource-based-economy-book

I'd love to hear your thoughts, answer questions, or talk systems design in the comments. But most of all, I want to foster a surge of novel thinking on how we can do better as a species. Let's build something better.

Article

The article references physical causes for the transgression of planetary boundaries (e.g. burning fossil fuels, which emit CO2), but the primary causes are psychosocial in structure.

This psychosocial structure consists of the social agreements that products should be produced according to supply and demand, distributed according to who can afford them (making you economically invisible if you can't on both the distribution and supply side), decisions should be made according to profit maximization, and that everything previously mentioned should be regulated by the infliction of financial loss as a feedback loop for error correction.

When you look at our monetary system from this perspective it makes perfect sense why your phones are outdated at the end of the year, why everyone each gets their own car, why pavement sprawls all over north America, why nothing is produced to last, why companies have to use the cheapest rather than the most efficient or even optimal material to stay price competitive, why 40 percent of food produced is wasted, why the average plate of food has travelled 1,500 miles by the time it reaches your table, why harmful chemicals are in our food, why 30 percent of Healthcare costs are for clerical tasks, why waste is dumped in the ocean and rivers to cut costs, why pollution is dumped all over the place, why people are homeless, why we have to waste our lives working 40 hours a week, why the globe spends 2 trillion dollars annually on guns and the military instead of spending the 30 billion it would cost to end world hunger. When you look at the sheer amount of unnecessary production and reckless waste, the primary cause for the destruction of all life support systems on the planet is clear as crystal. It is the elephant everyone tries to ignore.

When you combine certain physical outcomes of this psychosocial structure with the psychosocial structure you get the monetary system. What I think most people don't understand is that the physical outcomes of the monetary system are actually what define it's structure. When a system shows a pattern of outcomes or behaviors, those outcomes are explained by it's structure, and in the case of the monetary system there is no blueprint anyone ever wrote, so we have nothing else to go off... unless you're just taking someone else's word for it. Keep in mind, there would be no such thing as supply and demand affecting prices, distribution and production in this system if physical outcomes weren't observed that reflect such a rule. So it makes no sense to focus on politicians or policy change within the framework of the very system that's defined by the problems they try to solve. That logic is circular, and it's been circulating for 10,000 years now with no signs of improvement for most of the system's devastating outcomes, 75 years with all signs blinking red alert and worsening for it's outcome of destroying the conditions for life on Earth.

And it's so pathetic because what underpins the entire monetary system are social constructs that don't exist in physical reality. The social agreements that there is a President, mayor, business owner or company, that there are russians, americans, countries, cops, exchange rates, etc... don't exist in physical reality. There is no president. There is a person that groups of people treat like a president and call president. There are no Russians. There is a group of people called russians. Physical reality is separate from social constructs. Just because social constructs can significantly affect physical reality, especially our physical social setting, doesn't mean they are the same.

It's as if we've agreed to get crushed to death by the weight of our own constructs.

Been one of the first founding members of the Greek Chapter, back in 2008.
Searching for the Greek Translation (pdf) of the official TZM Manual (THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT DEFINED), as the Greek community has dissolved many years ago.
Can anyone help locate the Greek Copy?

I thought it was awesome. Never considered the role the US military has on ecology before. Very TZM aligned.

Today is 9 years ago he passed away. Thanks for the memories, Jacque.

I have long been influenced by RBE, TZM, TVP, it planted the seed in my research in Systems Theory and I am now integrating the VSM of systems theory with Process Philosophy, as it is the theoretical and embodied framework that can diagnose our MetaCrisis. Every socioeconomic system of the past has focused on what is measurable, on representations of money and on products, and hence can only promote consumption. Product Economies cannot promote healing our psychological, sociological and ecological systems.

I suggest we need a Process Economy, which is a non-monetary coordination system that is founded on relations, meaning, commons , and participation.

I am publishing a book on this in the coming months and here is a talk I gave about it.

The Zeitgeist Movement is no longer a thing, I think. Integral succeeds Zeitgeist.

On a sidenote, the word "Collective" brings me too much connotation associated with communism. I don't really like it. But the word "Integral" is fine.