Election Frenzy

The air is filled with the energy of competition and opinions.  With defeat and success.  With hope and sorrow.  The election results have just been determined and we will begin again a new cycle of hoping for political intervention that will, somehow, make our lives better.  We know our lives won't really change that much and that the world is still full of problems too big to manage.  At least we are distracted...for the moment.  Looking at the bigger picture, which the Zeitgeist Movement is all about, is overwhelming for many.  How do you absorb that much information and not feel too little to make a difference?  How do you not fall into the world-weariness that is common from really looking at the crisis of the world?  Voting is so easy and simple.  Put a smudge on a check box and things may get better.

It's not so easy.  The Zeitgeist Movement's declared global mission is to raise awareness of the bigger picture.  That's all!  Yet, that is so difficult.  It is really a mission to provoke people to the point that they question their own conditioning, the deep and planet-pervasive conditioning that the monetary system is the only system of social organization.  The ZM has an enormous task ahead of it.  To de-condition an entire population of 6+ billion will require much dialogue and manifest many disturbed feelings.  Transformation is always this way.

I urge all ZM people to continue talking about these issues to their personal networks.  There is not a day that goes by that someone doesn't discuss an issue which is related to the problems ZM is constantly addressing.  Start there and explore those assumptions.

We may or may not survive our own term of office on this planet, but we don't really have much choice.  The more we steep ourselves in denial and ignorance, the more life comes violently rapping at these walls of enclosure.  Whether we get voted out by a tidal wave of our own violence or mother nature's, it will become increasingly uncomfortable for us to sit idly by.  An estimated 2 billion people are starving everyday.  That alone is enough to call upon yourself to change.