"International Student Movement"

Edward wrote: "Some of the key figures in the Zeitgeist movement include Lyndon LaRouche"

i've been in the Zeitgeist Movement from the beginning, i'm the chapter coordinator for Austria, and i'm very much involved in the movement internationally, but i have never heard about "Lyndon LaRouche"... who is he supposed to be?

and in any case, the Zeitgeist Movement is not concerned with "key figures" or anything like that... TZM and the Venus Project are about an IDEA... an idea that exists without any connection to specific personages... it's the idea that every human being should have free access to clean water, healthy food, a roof over their head, education, medical care and any other necessity of a healthy and civilized life, and that dangerous and monotonous tasks should be done by machines as much as technically possible... this idea has existed in my own mind for at least 25 years, as it has in the minds of most other members of TZM, so we're not just stupidly following the ideas of some other person, but rather we're gathering together in this movement, because we all have very similar ideas about how a peaceful, sustainable and reasonable society can be designed for all of mankind

of course, there is Jacque Fresco who has specified and researched this IDEA almost his entire life, resulting in what is today called The Venus Project and the Resource Based Economy. and there is Peter Joseph, who has made the ZEITGEIST films and has introduced millions of people to the Venus Project through ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM. so these are two of the many people who have done great work to raise awareness about the IDEA. but it is not their idea, it is the idea of everyone who joins the Zeitgeist Movement as well as millions of other people in other groups or movements and countless other people who have the same idea but have until now believed to be pretty much alone with that idea.

we are showing the people of the world that they are NOT ALONE with this idea.

so if you share the same idea, but you think you're alone and there's nothing you can do, become part of the Zeitgeist Movement or a similar movement. help spread this idea.

we live in a time that is so different to anything the world and the human race have ever seen, that basically the only given thing is that NOTHING you have learned is necessarily true. any comparison of the idea of a Resource Based Economy to old or failed ideas like communism or socialism or behaviorism or positivism or any other isms doesn't mean anything. we shouldn't concern ourselves with personages in an ad hominem kind of way, but rather look at the world with open eyes and an open mind, draw the logical conclusions (even if they are hard to accept because of what we have learned before), and act accordingly.

each of us alone is powerless. but together we can change the world into anything we want it to be (of course within the limits of physical reality).

Tom