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[_] Anonymous 07/27/12(Fri)19:50 No.1729868
>> [_] Anonymous 07/27/12(Fri)21:41 No.1729941
I like the video, but please, it's not a 'cult' which usually has some mysterious/mystical pseudo
spiritual aspect to it.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/27/12(Fri)22:11 No.1729953
>>1729941
actually it is, somewhat close to a malthusian cult
>> [_] Anonymous 07/27/12(Fri)22:25 No.1729960
> which usually has some mysterious/mystical pseudo spiritual aspect to it
That's not a necessary component of what makes a cult a "cult." If you trace definitions around,
it includes ethical or philosophical groups which are fractional compared to the larger religious
culture. The term "religious" can also mean any sort of highly motivated belief system. In the
case of Zeitgeist, they are the cult sprung in response to the dominant market-based economy and
loose-structure society belief system, e.g., modern culture.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/27/12(Fri)22:35 No.1729967
When I hear about Zeitgeist, the first thing that comes to mind is the movie "Things to Come"
(the movie of an H.G. Wells book, though most similarity comes in theme). While the message it
actually tries to convey is different what I perceived the first time I saw it, what I got from
the movie was that people can get really really unhappy when society keeps changing around them,
they have no control over the changes. Makes me happy proponents of the movement advocate passive
"let them come to us" tactics.
>>1729953
At least, a positive spin Malthusian cult. Zeitgeist seems to be trying to work around the
catastrophe inevitability, which I believe is one of its major shortcomings since that is
mitigating away the key aspect of Zeitgeist: it's about the people. And people how people
actually behave doesn't seem to be something the movement takes into account very often.
