Zeitgeist Addendum, Joseph, Peter, 2008
This film revolves around the state of the world that is corruption. The main reason or cause of this corruption is the monetary system. Our society, work, and power rely on one thing and that is money. This film/documentary also offers a solution, which is a system that is resource-based and not money-based. “This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other ‘establishment’ notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part”-IMDb. Basically, this solution offers an economy, or system where there are no poor people, because of the destruction of money.
Part one of this documentary shows how money corrodes the traditions, and cultures. It also puts light on the different policies of money in the United States. With the reference of “Modern Money Mechanics,” This part illustrates how the creation of money the government imposed on the Federal Reserve can create a constant cycle of inflation and interest rates. This has much to do with the market circulation. In the market circulation, the government is in the center and has the outflow of subsidies towards the firms but also has an inflow of tax from firms, households, etc., which creates the cycle of inflation and interest.
Part two of this film shows an interview with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. From the word “Hitman,” we know that money, economy, politics, and control was involved. In this part, Latin-American countries had leaders who strived to improve their country’s economy. Big corporations even the United States confronted these leaders in an effort to control their resources or source of money then subjugate them through loans. Some of the leaders refused the offer then the hitman comes in. These countries were Iran 1953, Ecuador 1981, Panama 1981, and Iraq 2003. There were