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"Zeitgeist": a German word which can be translated as Spirit-Of-The-Time. The word is
often used to describe the cultural and
intellectual climate of a certain time.
"Zeitgeist": the name of a recently released
Internet Documentary perfectly capturing the
Spirit-Of-The-Time in this post-modern era. An
era, wherein plain logic and truthful
reasonings are anathema even though this is not
acknowledged by those who follow the Zeitgeist.
The makers of the movie Zeitgeist, for
example...
Claiming to fight the Zeitgeist, in reality they
are promoting it big-time in a video that is full
of errors, psychological manipulations,
rhetorics and hollow sound bytes.
In fact, it's almost impossible to believe
how the movie can ever be taken seriously...
But Zeitgeist is (to be) taken seriously!
On the movie's website, we find the
announcement of a "Z-Day" somewhere in March
2008. On "Z-day" the video will be screened at
countless of places all over the world. (LINK)
Obviously, there's money behind the Zeitgeist
Movie. Big money, even, money that is donated
rather than invested: the movie is
professionally produced and promoted, while the
multi-million downloads at Google Video didn't
bring the makers much money either.
Someone obviously has a message to get
across. Someone obviously has the money to back
up the many claims in the video as well, but do
the facts back up the claims, too? |
