Zeitgeist Global Premiere--My Reaction and Questions

I volunteered for the Saturday Premiere of Zeitgeist Moving Forward.  I was slightly disappointed by the number of people who arrived after 7pm, even though the movie started at 7!  I began watching the film at 730pm.

It was a full house and the audience applauded and laughed throughout the presentation.  Peter Joseph devoted a large part of the film to genetics and their relevance to what is commonly referred to as, "human nature."  Most of the findings reported were not surprising to me since I've long been interested in plasticity, and there is quite a bit of flexibility/adaptability in the brain.  The one finding that astounded me was the finding that human infants who are not cuddled will die.  I knew that the impulse to be physically comforted was strong (as demonstrated in a primate study in which the monkeys preferred to hold on to the fluffy soft monkey shape instead of the wire monkey, despite the fact that it was the wire monkey that provided sustenance), but I did not realize it's absence was fatal.

The case goes on to speak more generally about the implications of a society in which we are all treated rather abusively.  We learn that we are to be exploited, ruthlessly enslaved to some job in order to earn a living.  You must earn your living; society will not conspire to generously support you to live.  This is a simple understanding which all of us recognize.  The roots of this system run deep and wide, so the contrast of this very real circumstance against that which the Zeitgeist Movement proposes compels the audience to respond.  They are brightened by the vision of a more sane world, but the gap between the two seems insurmountable.  The gap is both large and small.  The gap is in understanding.  Just as we've all collectively given money its value (like we used to give "the rain dance"), we can collectively dismiss it.

The big problem, as I see it, is that of the years of abuse.  It is the adult population that must dispatch money's value, not children.  The adults are abused, however, so it will indeed take a kind of collective therapy to work through those wounds, traumas, and sense of victimization/entitlement.  The questions about loss of property, wasted effort (I worked so hard for $, and now it's meaningless?), and mistrust (we have grown up in an atmosphere of whoever is master at deceit is a master of all) are all signs of that abuse.

So, what is the process of this therapy?  A film may kick-start the process, but what are the ways it can be continued?

Any ideas?