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19Jun/23


NEW WAYS OF THINKING GLOBALLY & ACTING LOCALLY.

19/06/2023Brisbane, EventsBrisbanesimonc

The Zeitgeist Movement Queensland became Movements for Global Sustainability,
using MeetUp as a platform for advertising itself. It is now Movements for
GLOCAL Sustainability, and in this revival meeting, I’ll be introducing myself
as the new organizer and how I plan to take it in a new direction that I hope
you will find inspiring.

One reason this group ran out of steam is, in my opinion, the focus on global
change. We can talk about big changes that are beyond our power to influence
until we’re blue in the face.

From now on, we’ll be looking at practical things we can do in our lives that
are informed by the big picture. The maxim ‘think global, act local’ is one I
live by myself and I’m happy to show you what I do. I’d love you to share your
journey, too.

The first half hour will be introductions followed by a presentation about the
predicament we face as a species and where we need to go from here, as
individuals and as a nation. The floor will then be opened up for questions and
discussion. You can answer a survey about Australia’s population here to get you
thinking about the many interesting issues we face to being a more sustainable
country.

Please RSVP to the Zoom meeting – if you don’t have Zoom, you’ll need to
download it before hand. Give yourself 15 minutes before the meeting to get set
up. Note the meeting is at 8pm AEST Friday 30th. I am overseas atm, so there may
be a discrepancy in the times showing due to time zones.

I look forward to meeting you online soon.

Simon Cole




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01Sep/18


ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT AUGUST NEWSLETTER

01/09/2018What's NewMichaelK


TZM NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2018



Here’s a small summary of what’s been happening in The Zeitgeist Movement and
related groups.

 


ARGENTINA CHAPTER TO HOST THE 2019 GLOBAL ZDAY EVENT

After the success of the 10th Annual Zeitgeist Movement event in Frankfurt,
Germany it was decided to have the next global Zday in Latin America. The
passionate Paulina took up the torch and after some searching the Argentina
chapter has put up their hand to run the next global Zday with help from other
chapters such as Chile.

For those that are interested you can contact Paulina by emailing
konstancja.tzm@gmail.com

We are also working on a Zday document for helping those who want to run a Zday
event get some ideas of what has happened with previous ones.

 


TEAMSPEAK SERVER BEING REPLACED WITH MUMBLE AND DISCORD.

The existing TeamSpeak server is being switched off. For those wanting to do
large scale 100+ voice chats like before the Zeitgeist.Earth team are donating
their Mumble server to the cause. There is however an existing TZM community on
Discord which has a lot of chat and occasional International meetings.

Address: mumble.zeitgeist.earth
Password: heavenlyblue

How to setup mumble:
https://wiki.zeitgeist.earth/doku.php?id=tutorial:mumble&s[]=mumble

For those interested in more general text chat then checkout The Zeitgeist
Movement Discord server.


THE TZM WEBSITE HAS HAD THE ZDAY GLOBAL EVENTS MERGED IN



The Zday global site is being merged with the main www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
website. It’s likely most of you haven’t seen the site in a while and it’s since
been replaced with a more sleek version, so have a look.

 


TZM IS LOOKING FOR CONTENT

We are looking for articles and posts for the website, Facebook, Twitter and
other feeds. If you have any quality TZM materials or something Zeitgeist
Movement related you can email tzmbot@thzeitgeistmovement.com with your article
and preface the email subject with [TZM content]

 


TEMPLATE FOR CHAPTER SITES

In more techy news there’s a request for anyone who’s interested in web design
and development to help out with a Jekyll based TZM chapter theme. The project,
run by Juuso is designed to make it easier for TZM chapters to create a simple
website. The idea is to make it easy to update the theme and have people use
Github pages and similar version control systems to easily add content whilst
sharing designs.



It’s still under active development with an initial example page available. The
Github repo is https://github.com/TZMCommunity/rbe-edu

For those that don’t know Jekyll is a system for converting plain text into HTML
websites. Because the output is straight HTML5 and it doesn’t need a database it
can very easily be hosted with minimal requirements.

Contact the Finland coordinator juuso@vilmunen.net for more information.


LATEST VIDEOS

The latest videos released on the TZM official YouTube channel are:

Peter Joseph & Friends “The Viable System”



Based on Peter Joseph’s Zday 2018 presentation on Cybernetics and The Viable
System, this was filmed in Toronto in May.

https://youtu.be/AFZjZa5ZAyY

 

Anna Brodskaya : Happiness in a Time of Uncertainty, Zday 2018

Anna Brodskaya gives some advice on how to negate anger and experience
happiness, for anyone – from those on the frontline of political activism to
those simply in the pursuit of a considered life.

https://youtu.be/W_BnQgUh4p8

 


ZEITGEIST (DOT) EARTH



The Zeitgeist.earth project is introducing a number of digital tools and
services for communities involving technology, hacking and open source culture,
as well as art and storytelling.

Zeitgeist Moving Forward opens with perhaps one of the most appropriate quotes
to be highlighted in our generation: “In a decaying society, art, if it is
truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its
social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
— Ernst Fischer

In this spirit, while perhaps not obvious to everyone, it could be noted that
memetic associations with the Japanese artform anime, currently underpin many of
the Internet’s subcultures and younger generations. The Zeitgeist .earth project
is taking that spirit and has been hard at work creating an image board and
wiki, are hosting the high capacity Mumble server mentioned as a TeamSpeak
replacement. They are also running project management tools like taiga.io and
gitea a self hosted equivalent to github to help developers create the digital
tools needs to transition to an RBE.

 

The team has been hard at work and the professional graphic designers have been
redesigning the Zeitgeist logo and are working on the image board design with
both light and dark themes. However the project is still under heavy
development.

More information check out https://zeitgeist.earth/newletter_01.html

You can also join the .earth Telegram group: https://t.me/zeitgeistearth or
visit https://zeitgeist.earth once the team is ready to reveal more content.

 


ZEITGEIST SURVEY PROJECT

Want a project to sink your teeth into and you aren’t good at web development
but are interested in psychology?

The Zeitgeist survey project needs some help. The idea is to create a survey
which can work out what the global Zeitgeist is. What is the general
population’s intellectual, cultural and moral spirit of the time, across the
world? By repeating the survey every year we can see what direction it is headed
in as a feedback mechanism.

Firstly we need help creating the survey itself. Working out the questions and
how they’ll be used. Once the survey is created we’ll need the help of all ZM
chapters to get the 16,000+ randomly distributed survey responses needed to have
an adequate result. Hopefully we can then do a world wide poll every year and
see which the places are most ripe for transition.

The briefing document is here and you can email survey@zeitgeist-info.com if
you’d like to contribute.

 


FREE WORLD ONE

Free World One is the new, hybrid for-profit initiative that was launched by
Colin Turner at Z-Day 2018. FW1 is a company designed to leverage the existing
market system to promote RBE ambitions through monetizing various activities in
education, awareness and prototyping. Profits raised by the company’s ethical
and sustainable projects will then be used to support other projects.

Colin, who founded The Free World Charter in 2011, is doing a great job at
getting support and the company is now well into its first round of funding with
over 270 investors. They are about to embark on an exciting educational project
called LifeGames which promotes skills and traits like compassion, cooperation
and critical thinking through fun classroom activities for kids. Books and apps
of the LifeGames project are expected to go on sale to schools next Spring.

Free World One’s mission statement is:


“We believe that free access to basic living requirements is now a fundamental
human right of all twenty-first century citizens. We see the existing method of
controlling resources through money, markets and labour as outdated and unfair
to the majority of people. We recognise that by combining the power of community
with available technology, we can meet everyone’s needs easily and create
happier communities.

“Free World One creates, supports and funds a wide variety of projects that
promote our ethos of creating a free and sustainable planet for all.”

If you’re interested in helping kickstart transition through this hybrid
approach and have some money to invest, then check out:

https://freeworldone.com/

https://www.facebook.com/freeworldone

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Want to contribute to the newsletter? Email newsletter@zeitgeist-info.com with
any news or updates.  If there’s enough requests we can create a more automated
solution and notice board.

 

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02May/17


Z-DAY GLOBAL 2017 – BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

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Newactout, anticapitalism, artagainstapathy, bitcoin, blockchain, cameronreilly,
caseydavidson, caseyzeitgeist, deadlettercircus, dlc, eleanorgoldfield,
federicopistono, futurethinkers, futurethinkerspodcast, global,
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pj, podcast, rbe, resourcebasedeconomy, richpenney, thezeitgeistmovement, tvp,
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zdayglobal2017, zdaymainevent, zdaypanel, zeitgeistday, zeitgeistmovieCasey

DAY ONE

Zeitgeist Movement supporters started pouring in from chapters all around the
world as the doors opened to the very appropriately named New Globe Theatre in
Brisbane, Australia, Saturday morning on the last weekend of March.

Organisers scurried excitedly, setting up the various areas, including: the
merchandise space; the questions for PJ booth; the vegan food buffet; the bar;
the workshop space, scattered with comfy chairs and recommended readings; and of
course, the main stage, where presentations would be continuously running over
the first two-day Z-Day main event.

Check out this great overview of Z-Day – Day One – by one of the very talented
New Zealand coordinators, Wiri Te Moni.



The volunteer technicians, and chapter coordinators – Jason Lord from LA and
Michael Kubler from Adelaide, worked tirelessly, making sure we had quality
recordings of each presentation for later viewing on the TZMGlobal YouTube
Channel. Audience members got comfortably acquainted and seated. (Links to
presentation recordings will be added to this post as they are uploaded.)



Photos by Michael Kubler @kublermdk, Renee McKeown, and Jason Lord



As soon as everything was ready to go, Z-Day Global kicked off, starting with my
opening presentation, where I spoke about the theme of this year’s Z-Day:
Towards Global Unity and Abundance, as well as advice on creating a sustainable
and successful chapter, the amount of work involved in making Z-Day happen, ways
to avoid economic bigotry, and concluding with a certain framing of encouraging
a unified quest to understand the nature of reality rather than personal
ambition to win over your perceived opponents.



Casey Davidson, Australian National Coordinator



This was followed by the very knowledgeable and insightful Franky Müller,
National Coordinator of the German chapter. Franky shared TZM Understandings –
important information about The Zeitgeist Movement, refreshing our minds and
filling in important gaps in knowledge for those still learning about the tenets
and train-of-thought.



Franky Müller, German National Coordinator



See Franky’s presentation here.



 

After Franky, the second of our presenters, Cameron Reilly entertained the crowd
with a tongue-in-cheek questionnaire asking the audience about their own
psychopathic tendencies and giving them the opportunity to measure it according
to their results. He talked about the specific traits of psychopaths, touching
on the idea that people who fit into this personality type are not changeable
and will always be born. Additionally, the system we have created actually
encourages people with these tendencies to acquire positions of power, hence the
title of his presentation, the Psychopath Economy.



Simultaneously, we had set up a workshop space in the adjacent room for Z-Day
participants who were more interested in being involved in activities and
discussions. The first of these workshops came from Caroline Rentel, author and
activist, who shared ideas about a relatively new writing genre, Solarpunk,
basically based in a future society beyond scarcity and hierarchy, where
humanity, nature and technology are integrated.





Caroline Rentel, Solarpunk author



Caroline and Cameron’s presentations lead into lunch time, where a selection of
delicious vegan foods were provided as part of the Z-Day ticket. Curries, cakes,
sushi, burgers and snacks were available for all participants served on
eco-friendly plates with serviettes and cutlery. Thanks to the lead food
volunteer coordinator, Vicky Syme and everyone else who worked so hard to make
food available for everyone. For future Z-Day organisers, I would suggest that
having food available at the venue is very important in keeping the audience
members together to collaborate and be on time for the presentation straight
after lunch.



Vegan chefs Vicki and Margarita





Lunch time!



Our first presentation after lunch came from Rich Penney, who we flew in from
Toronto, Canada. Rich has attended several Z-Days as one of the most intruiging
and informed presenters within the Movement. This year he shared the very clear
Contradictions of Capitalism, in a way that allowed us some insight into Rich’s
life living with disability, as well as intellectual gifts that can’t be easily
monetised in this society. This is a fantastic introductory presentation to help
people understand the core problems of the way we have structured society.



We were next graced with the presence of two of the very talented guys from
acclaimed Aussie band, Dead Letter Circus, Kim Benzie and Luke Williams. As I
have personally been a long-time fan of DLC with their unique sound, emotionally
evoking and incredibly conscious lyrics which fall in line beautifully with the
tenets of the Zeitgeist Movement, it was amazingly awe-inspiring to hear Luke
and Kim talk about their personal experience and journey as artists against
oppression. The uplifting conclusion of their presentation of their song ‘While
You Wait’, together with lyrics and the comically-titled ‘anti-establishment
drum solo’ moved the audience to a standing ovation.



Luke Williams, Dead Letter Circus Drummer





Kim Benzie, Dead Letter Circus Vocalist, Z-Day 2017



While these presentations were going on, Oliver Koslik from Canada presented
interactively in the workshop space on Emotional Suppression: A short course on
how to recognise and deal with gas-lighting/ambient abuse.



Oliver Koslik



The fun continued on the main stage as we introduced the next of our
international guests, Euvie Ivanova from the Future Thinkers Podcast. As a
co-host of the Future Thinkers Podcast, Euvie promotes technology, science and
consciousness for social concern.

Here is a quick overview of the premise of the Future Thinkers Podcast.



Euvie’s presentation was particularly focused on consciousness development, as
she spoke pragmatically about ways in which we can explore our consciousness
using methods from a variety of doctrines. This was particularly interesting to
the audience as something that hasn’t been discussed in detail in regards to
TZM.



Euvie Ivanova Future Thinkers Z-Day



The other half of the Future Thinkers Podcast, Mike Gilliland, followed Euvie’s
presentation. Mike shared his thoughts on the potential of blockchain
technology, beyond the limitations of bitcoin. Topics such as decentralisation,
security and developing intelligent management systems were explored.



Mike Gilliland from Future Thinkers at Z-Day 2017



During Euvie and Mike’s presentations, the Melbourne chapter coordinators Brad
Cini and Sonny Vice sat with an intrigued group in the workshop space as they
spoke about their upcoming Zero Waste/Minimalisation project they are in the
process of creating, and hopefully recreating in cities outside of Melbourne.



Sonny Vice and Brad Cini from the Melbourne Chapter



Everyone was ready for another break to debrief and snack, before moving into
the final presentation of the day from ex-Italian coordinator and futurist
author Federico Pistono. Federico presented Ethics of Technology, sharing an
alternative look at the world’s state of affairs, suggesting ways in which
technology is already shifting humanity forward, and new ethical considerations
that need to be taken into account regarding this. He shared some controversial
topics for discussion that lead into his concluding statement about exponential
empathy.



Federico Pistono at Z-Day 2017 Brisbane Australia



Just before the panel, Gilbert Ismail shared a brief update on the global
chapters administration and new website. Mark Enoch shared his method for
marketing the RBE message in the workshop space, followed by Matt Peddie and
Vera L Te Velte from the CryptoParty who showed audience members ways to make
their devices more secure.

After all the presentations, I was fortunate enough to lead the Day One Panel,
where audience members had the opportunity to ask the speakers questions from
the first day’s presentations on the main stage. This included a lively
discussion where panellists authentically shared their thoughts on activism
within TZM, as well as a range of social, economic and environmental concerns
and ideas for consideration.



Panel from left:
Casey Davidson, Franky Muller, Rich Penney, Luke Williams, Kim Benzie, Euvie
Ivanova, Mike Gilliland, Federico Pistono, Gilbert Ismail





Day One Z-Day 2017 Panel At front: Casey Davidson Back from left: Franky Muller,
Rich Penny, Luke Williams, Kim Benzie



Z-Day 2017 in Brisbane was the first Global event to have presentations as well
as workshops. It was also the first with evening performances. A big thanks to
the beautiful Anita Diamond for MCing and organising the evening’s performances.
Roger Smith shared his spontaneous outbreaks of reason, with his passionate
funk/blues/rock sound, bringing urgency to the message of the Zeitgeist
Movement. This was followed by other local artists including Aceso and The Duke.
The evening was complete with DJ SAMARI, coming in from Auckland, New Zealand
who shared his Zeitgeist Anaglyph.



Aceso



DAY TWO

Enthusiastic minds entered the New Globe Theatre for the second and final day of
the Z-Day weekend with presentation and Q & A from Zeitgeist Movement founder
and Zeitgeist film creator Peter Joseph. For a quick overview of the second day,
check out Wiri’s vlog below.



 

Californian coordinator Jason Lord, kicked off Day 2 with his presentation,
Defining Root Causes – a short tour through common surface associations where
people fall victim to seeing “persistent problems” as individual outcomes that
need fighting or resisting. Jason’s presentation explored how to see these
problems as symptoms – pointing to a systemic problem and helping people see how
the system view can help shape your actions when it comes to activism and
discussion with peers.



Jason Lord, California TZM Coordinator



Jason then introduced Peter Joseph, TZM Founder, who started with his concise
presentation titled “Train of Thought” before delving into questions I took from
the PJ booth and the audience. Just some of the topics discussed include
adapting to natural laws, the victims of our structure – particularly our social
system, human nature, white imperial self indulgence, biodiversity, how every
life support system is in decline, abundance producing mechanism, corporations,
techno-capitalist apologists, structural violence, discussion about the
Interreflections trailer, managing the Movement and its role in activism,
philanthropy and consciousness.

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Watch Peter’s Q & A in the video below.



 

After Peter, the audience once again enjoyed a delicious vegan lunch, before
coming back for the final presentations, which were focused around the fight and
the build towards the Zeitgeist Movement’s ultimate vision of a Resource-Based
Economy (RBE). Richard Ostmason of the Money Free Party New Zealand, shared the
work he has been doing within the political establishment to engage people into
thinking about the potential of actually seeing an RBE in the short-term,
particularly in New Zealand.



Richard Ostmason, Money Free Party NZ, presenting at Z-Day 2017



Next, Adelaide coordinator, Michael Kubler’s presented about the Price of Zero
Transition, making a very important point that we can’t wait for collapse and
then expect to grow the world we want to see out of the ashes (coined the
Phoenix Model). Rather, we need to start making systemic changes now in a
variety of ways if we truly want to see an RBE.



Michael Kubler presenting at Z-Day 2017



This was followed by Ziggy Tolnay of the Sydney chapter, who shared a concept
called the RBE10K project, about creating a physical community in which people
could participate in as a transitionary method towards a global RBE.



Ziggy Tolnay presenting at Z-Day 2017



By this stage, the crowd was growing exceedingly weary after two full days of
learning and sharing, but were very fortunate to be jolted back to the present –
with the very talented and insightful Eleanor Goldfield, with her emotionally
evoking and painfully accurate spoken word performance about capitalism and
activism. This was followed by her presentation, which rounded up the whole two
days worth of events as she shared her very honest and authentic thoughts on the
importance of the fight and the build that needs to happen as we work towards a
post-capitalist society, making clear that capitalism will die, but whether we
die with it is up to us.

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During the main stage presentations, a generous portion of the audience had made
their way into the workshop space to engage with a very interesting and
important presentation with one of the most experienced, thoughtful and
knowledgeable ethics and systems designers, Richard Mochelle. Richard shared his
thoughts on a tangible way to acquire land for a Resource-Based Economy, outside
of the current methods of land acquirement, which requires submission to the
current economic paradigm. Richard suggested that this land could be acquired
through creating an RBE trust, in which baby boomers ultimately give their land
to a cause in which promises are made to care for their land and not sell it
back to the banks.



Richard Mochelle and Casey Davidson



The audience had another quick break before joining us again for the final panel
with Day 2 presenters, including Peter Joseph. A range of topics were once again
discussed including UBI, as well as other concerns and questions regarding
transition.



Day 2 Panel Z-Day 2017



I’d like to put out a big thanks to Vince and JV, who have attended every Z-Day
Global since its incarnation, and have worked on the door every year, providing
a significant help to coordinators, including myself.



JV and Vince Z-Day 2017 Brisbane Australia



A big thanks also to my wonderful local chapter team who managed the merchandise
stand, who helped set up and pack up the venue, who managed the workshop space,
and generally made everything run smoothly. Particularly to James Pauly, Karl
Hansen and Lara Jordan. Thanks also to the New Globe Theatre for providing the
wonderful space.



James Pauly





TZM Merchandise



Thanks also to the lovely vegan activists who spent two full-days at the event
sharing their knowledge about the environmental and personal benefits of a
direct active change Zeitgeist Movement advocates can make towards ethical
consumer choices, including a vegan lifestyle.



Vegan Stall at Z-Day 2017



Thank you also to all of the other people behind the scene who found the power
within yourself to volunteer your time and energy and provide assistance without
any expectation of personal gain, but purely for the message of TZM. This
includes those who lent and donated needed funding, anyone who bought a ticket,
anyone who was offered a free ticket due to your circumstances, anyone who asked
a question, participated in any way, who offered an idea, a question, who bought
merchandise or a drink, who offered their assistance in any way shape or form,
or even sat passively as an audience member. Bums on seats count, and matter
particularly to organisers, presenters and performers. Thanks also to our global
online audience who made a weekend of it by participating in the online
streaming from afar.





Paul Doyle from Frequencies TV Life Streaming for ZDay Global Brisbane



Another big thanks to Jason Lord, Michael Kubler and Paul Doyle who made sure
the video content including streaming and videos for later viewing would be
available to our global audience who couldn’t make the big trip to Brisbane.
This is a significantly huge job and anyone with technical skills is always
encouraged to help in this regard to make sure our content reaches a larger
audience and forever into the future.



Jason making sure everything is running smoothly





Michael Kubler, usually behind the camera



I’d also like to extend my gratitude to all of the other people behind the scene
who found the power within yourself to volunteer your time and energy and
provide assistance without any expectation of personal gain, but purely for the
message of TZM.



Z-Day 2017 Group Photo





Z-Day 2017 Setting up for Group Photo



A special mention to Zac Syme for your support – as well as opening your home
for the presenter social night and providing a home for so many people leading
up to, and over the event. Thanks to others who opened their home to travelling
guests, including Simon Cole, Caroline and Karl, Ricky, Grant, Anita and Tim,
James, Lara and Jack.



Zac Syme, Queensland TZM Coordinator and Federico Pistono, Author, ex-Italian
Coordinator Photos by Michael Kubler



Thanks again to Paul Doyle for offering your studio ‘Frequencies TV’ where we
recorded podcasts with coordinators and the Future Thinkers Podcast hosts Mike
and Euvie, as well as for the public social night on Friday night before the
event. More photos of the Pre-Z-Day Party here.



2017-03-24th Pre ZDay global public event at Frequencies TV, Brisbane Photos by
Michael Kubler @kublermdk



Regardless of how far the Movement may or may not have come, we still have
significant momentum, and your support however much or little you can give makes
a differences to our ability to spread the message. I’m eternally grateful for
all of the support and truly believe with the mindset of the participant’s in
this year’s Z-Day we can make the drastic change we need to see to truly create
a unified, abundant world.

More photos by Michael Kubler and others here.



Peter Joseph (TZM Founder) and Casey Davidson (TZM Australia Coordinator)
Article by Casey Davidson



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19Dec/16


ZEITGEIST MEDIA FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2016

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mediafest, zeitgeistmediafestival, ZMF, zmfauAnita

Another year had come again for the Zeitgeist Movement Brisbane to put on our
annual Zeitgeist Media Festival for 2016. This year, the festival was in the
awesome New Globe Theatre in the trendy Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.



The New Globe very kindly gave us their awesome venue for the whole day and we
certainly enjoyed every moment of our being there. The day began at 11am,
although many of us were already there bright and early at 10am to set up for
the day, putting up thought-provoking and evocative art and posters around the
place, creating an atmosphere for the Zeitgeist spirit of change and awareness.



Groups of lively, friendly faces started to walk in and I was thrilled to see
some of the familiar supporters, along with some new faces who looked excited to
be there.



We kicked off the festival with an opening speech, where I thanked the
traditional owners of the land we were standing on, recognising that it too had
always been a place of music, festivals and community gatherings. I explained
what the festival was all about, reminding everyone of the power that artists,
musicians and poets can have for creating change and creating awareness.



Without further ado, we had our first musician, the lovely Patch Feeney get on
stage to magnetise us with his funky 12 string guitar and deep sardonic voice.
We were blown away by his talent and his humble attitude. Up next we were
serenaded by the beautiful Aceso who played some heart-warming indie-jazz tunes.
She is truly a visionary artist who is clearly inspired by everything she sees,
hears and feels and her lyrics had spoke to a powerful reminder of the
corruption that exists in our world, created by money.



Followed by these powerful messages, we then moved towards a new style of art in
the form of slam poetry, delivered by the talented Claire Ellison. Claire’s
poetry was powerful and very much slammed the door in the face of all the
preconceptions we’d had of poetry by making us see her raw feelings come alive
on issues that spoke of gender equality, love and social norms. It was truly
eye-opening and we’d love to hear more from this talented poet.



In line with the spoken word form, we had rapper Tu appear on stage next who
brought to light powerful socio-political issues that face our world and our
country, such as immigration, detention centres and the recent Trump election.
It was funny, intelligent and truthful. We were lucky to have artists like this
deliver messages that are so relevant for what the Zeitgeist movement is about.



Following Tu, I selfishly took to the stage, with my guitarist Barry Kopittke,
in my cover-band duo Beautiful Noise. We enticed the audience with our cover
songs from artists such as Nirvana, Amy Winehouse, The Eurythmics and Bob Dylan,
all talking about problems with the system and the darkness that can creep into
humanity if we let it.



We then took the liberty of having a lunch break, and it was wonderful to see
everyone mingling and having deep conversations, particularly in the art corner
where drawings and discussions were being had on what our values are and the
direction humanity can go in. It was so inspiring and amazing that our festival
provoked this.



After our lunch break, the very talented and soulful Jan Rainbow joined the
stage and played us some heart-felt melodies on acoustic guitar and vocals which
were comprised of her originals as well as the moving Teardrop song by Massive
Attack. It was so calming and beautiful to listen to and reminded me of what it
would be like to live in a more connected community, with musicians who sang
from the heart like this and roused such emotion.



Following the beautiful Jan, we had psychedelic Rock and Roll Blues poet, known
as The Duke, take to the stage whose talented original songs demonstrated what
it is like to see modern society through a distorted reflection of a pessimistic
youth in disarray. It was provocative, raw and catchy and definitely got
everyone in the mood.



Following The Duke, we had the headlining big band for the day, Fugitive & the
Vagabond take to the New Globe main stage. Fugitive were a real treat to the
ears and soul with their unique folky sound which spoke to troubles that face us
all in this modern age of wealth disparity and social division. We look forward
to hearing more from these talented musicians.



And last, but certainly not least we closed the day with sounds from the very
talented and very enigmatic Beauregard Chambers on acoustic-electric guitar and
vocals. His brooding voice and compelling guitar playing made us all astounded
as we listened to his pleasant mix of folk, funk, rock and metal. We were so
happy to have him close the day for us and look forward to hearing more from
him.



And with that it was all over, the festival drew to a close at last by 5:00pm,
it was such a fantastic day, I had so much fun that I couldn’t believe it was
all over so quickly. But none of this could be achieved without the help and
support of the New Globe Theatre for giving us their venue for the day, their
staff and sound technician, the generous donations we received at the door and
the hard-working Zeitgeist volunteers who gave their time in providing yummy
vegan food and help throughout the day where it was needed.



It was obvious to me that everyone was here because we all agree that we want a
better world and want a future where there is peace, abundance, collaboration, a
clean environment, positive technologies, improved health, sharing and respect
for all. I think it is important, now more than ever, that we get thinking about
how we can fix the broken mess that our world finds itself in and we focus on
our commonalities and not our differences, and start to do whatever little we
can to inspire change. Events like this are just the start, and I believe that
we can start to work together to create a better future for us all. I cannot
wait to see what happens and I look forward to working with more like-minded
people and to create another festival that will inspire this type of change!
Until next year – peace out!



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05Oct/16


THE ZEITGEISTER GOING TO MARS

05/10/2016Brisbane, Critical thinking, Science, Sustainability, What's
NewBrisbane, brisbanechapter, carlsagan, evidence, logicalfallacies, mars,
marsone, natalielawler, population, tzm, tzmaustralia, tzmbrisbane,
tzmcommunity, vegan, veganism, zeitgeist, zeitgeistmovementCasey

We have been exploring beyond the Earth’s surface for more than half a century. 
We have sent spacecraft to near and distant planetary objects.  And man has
travelled to the moon.  It seems logical that the next place beyond Earth’s
orbit to explore is our neighbouring planet, Mars.



And although the non-profit foundation based in the Netherlands, Mars One has
faced some public scrutiny for its methods in establishing a permanent human
settlement on Mars, they have succeeded in bringing some very important
questions to the focus of public attention, and some very inspirational and
thoughtful people to the general public. One of those people, Natalie Lawler, a
38-year-old healthy, intelligent and positively energetic woman who supports The
Zeitgeist Movement, has volunteered for this courageous one-way mission. Natalie
has been selected as a top-100 candidate in the mission.



The next stage of the selection process will reduce that number to twenty-four
candidates who will receive formal, full-time training for the next decade
before the first planned manned mission departs. We asked Natalie to share a
little about herself, her enthusiasm for space exploration, and why she supports
the Zeitgeist Movement.



When did you first hear about The Zeitgeist Movement?

I was introduced to the first two Zeitgeist films in 2010 and attended the
official screening of Zeitgeist Moving Forward in Lygon St, Melbourne in 2011. 
Since moving to Brisbane in 2013 I have been an active member of the Brisbane
chapter.



How did you hear about the Mars One program? 

I first read about Mars One in 2013 on a science website and thought that it may
be a hoax.  After doing some research I found that Mars One has some prominent
ambassadors and advisers. I then volunteered for the one way mission.



What made you decided to volunteer?

If we imagine the 4 ½ billion years of Earth’s history compressed into a 24 hour
day, humans emerge 1 minute and 17 seconds before midnight.
Archaeological evidence suggest our place of origin was Sub-Saharan Africa and
that we dispersed from Africa over the past 100,000 years.  We have been
exploring the planet ever since.  And now we find ourselves here, in this
fraction of Earth’s history, where our curiosity and nature to explore makes
leaving Earth to live on another planet a very near reality.

We can chose not to stand around and say….why didn’t someone go, because we are
someone!  We have the knowledge and the resources to become a multi
planetary species now.  And I put myself forward to help make it happen.



What do you think the benefits of going to Mars will be? 

Search for life; We apparently have microbes on Earth that can withstand vacuum
pressure, freezing temperatures and even survive when bombarded with radiation. 
Yet conditions on Earth don’t require them to sustain this.  Could life have
started on Mars and spread to Earth after an asteroid impact, or is it just
inevitable given the right conditions?  Are we all descendants of Martians, or
could we find new life forms that don’t share our DNA? Discoveries await,
including the very real possibility of finding life on Mars.



Technological advancement; Many technologies used on Earth were first pioneered
in space exploration. Technological knowledge generated for a Mars mission,
would yield many innovations that could benefit the public.



Inspiration; People remember seeing the first steps on the Moon but very few got
excited about the landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover.  Humans on Mars will
inspire generations of young learners to invest in the knowledge of science and
the wonder of space.



Sustainability; Mars One aims to be self-sustainable by producing oxygen and
water, recycling all waste, using solar energy and growing food.  It will
however take significant time to create an entire supply chain on Mars to become
sustainable – but if we can prove we can live on Mars sustainability perhaps
it’s possible to live sustainably on Earth too.



Unity; A famous quote by an air Force pilot who flew aboard a space shuttle
mission reads; “The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third
or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were
aware of only one Earth.”  Perhaps it won’t be until we leave Earth to settle on
another planet that humanity can come together and see ourselves as one.



Understanding; We aren’t separate from each other as we were all formed from
stars.  We are part of our universe yet we know very little about it.  What sort
of value can you put on gaining a better understanding of the Universe?  Robotic
missions have shown that Mars has characteristics and history similar to Earth. 
When humans read the history of the rocks on Mars, and build on the knowledge,
we may discover far more than we even want to about future of our home planet.



Destiny; Mars has a solar day a little over 24 hours.  It has polar ice caps and
an axial tilt giving it seasons.  It has mountains and canyons, volcanoes, and
evidence of ancient rivers and lakes. We know it has water, critical for life. 
Whilst it is cold it is far more liveable than Venus and there is enough
sunlight to power solar panels.  Gravity on Mars is 38% that of Earth which is
predicted to be sufficient for the human body to be able to adapt to.  Since the
Apollo program we have been dreaming of the next giant leap and our neighbouring
planet awaits.



What are your beliefs?

I don’t normally accept or have confidence in something without scientific
evidence. I believe in current scientific findings or consensus’ until new
evidence is presented and tested.  Do I believe in gravity?  Yes.  Do I believe
in Unicorns?  No.   But I may change my belief that Unicorns don’t exist if you
can present me some proof.

The theory of God cannot be tested.  Scientists can’t prove a god doesn’t exist
and religion can’t prove that it does.  I accept the power and value of logic
and rational consideration of evidence in forming the belief that supernatural
beings, including God, don’t exist.



Do you follow a vegan diet and if so why?

When I eat something I ask myself three things;

1) Is it good for me?

2) Is it good for the planet?

3) Is it good for the animal?

I don’t eat meat, eggs or dairy products because I cannot answer “Yes” to all
three questions.

Take a piece of bacon;

1) Is it good for me?  There is enough scientific evidence for the World Health
Organization to classify processed meat (including bacon) as a human carcinogen
― in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

2) Is it good for the planet?  A large amount of energy and water goes into
raising pigs.  Then there is the production and distribution of the bacon that
also adds to the carbon footprint along with environmental pollution from
piggeries.

3)  Is it good for the animal?  Piggeries I have visited were inhumane. 
Pregnant sows were locked up in tiny stalls to breed the bacon that people eat. 
The pigs never got to see daylight.  And I believe an animal shouldn’t have to
die just so I can have a snack.



What Zeitgeist principles do you want to take to Mars?

The sort of home Mars may become will depend upon the first settlers and I would
like to influence that and implement decision making models based on minimal
opposition voting rather than majority rules and ensure that any economy that
develops is a Resource Based Economy.



What legacy do you hope to leave behind in doing this?

I don’t aspire to leave a legacy.  This mission is not about any individual.  It
is about all humanity taking the next step in our evolution.



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