1. The Zeitgeist Movement
All India Meet
At
Krishi Teerth
Bajwada, M.P

2. An Insight Into
Sustainability V/s. Profit Motive

3. The one thing we all share…

4. Our
NEEDS

5. SURVIVAL

6. Physical Survival
The Body

7. Psychological Survival
The Identify of Self
(Self-Importance)

8. When
SURVIVAL
is at
STAKE

9. You
TRY to
Take
CONTROL

10. SURVIVAL CALLS FOR CONTROL!

11. Money can buy our needs,
it keep our survival safe!

12. MONEY = CONTROL = SECURITY

13. PROFIT

15. Man Imitates Nature

16. So called intellectual Evolution

17. Profit In Nature

18. It is an exchange based on needs and not other motives
and thus PROFIT in nature is equalized making it
Sustainable.

19. What made Profit Dangerous for us?

21. We have
destroyed
The ecology
within just
70 years…

22. If we don’t change our society, we will
destroy ourselves & other life forms.

23. We need to stop the wrong system of
Profit and Reckless Growth.

24. We need to
END DISPARITY

25. We need to create a better model for
society without monetary system.

26. We need to adopt positive science in
harmony with ecology & nature.

27. Change Economic System

29. To have Control Over Resources & Social
Systems to gain Power we created
PROFIT.

30. “No man can profit except by the loss of others and by this
reasoning all manner of profit must be condemned.”
Quote by --Michel Dey Montaigne
15th century French Philosopher & Essayist

31. When Profit comes through an exchange of a resource
while one party befitting out of other's loss.
1. If the number of people fall in debt increases,
IT IS PROFITABLE FOR BANKS.
2. If the number of patients increases,
IT IS PROFITABLE FOR MEDICAL COMPANIES AND
DOCTORS.
4. If there are competing students,
IT'S PROFITABLE FOR A TUTOR.
5. If hundreds of people die every day,
THE COFFIN MAKERS WILL BE HAPPY.

32. Our economic system is based on
Competition for Survival.

33. Goods such as foods are sometimes destroyed
to keep prices up; when things are scarce prices
increase.

35. There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime,
embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money.
Profit motive and its disadvantages

36. Competition in long run is not Sustainable

37. PROFIT MOTIVE
has become the
very DNA of our
human
civilization and
our entire society
runs on this DNA
of FEAR!

38. Operating System called MONEY

40. MONEY
Creates Disparity
Centralizes Power
Brings Social Vices
Perpetuates Slavery
Feeds Manipulation
Feeds Consumerism
Controls Resources
95% Crimes are money
or property related

41. Exposing The Monetary System
and Looking at Possible
Solutions
MOVIES
The Zeitgeist Addendum
The Zeitgeist Moving Forward
Paradise or Oblivion

43. PROFIT MOTIVE MAKES OUR
Food Adulterated
Health Risked
Art and Entertainment Degraded
Learning Commercialized
Work Stressful
And Relationships Conditional

44. DISPARITY
“Food, Shelter, Education, Health care are our
essential elements of survival and thus they should
be our fundamental rights and thus should be
available to each individual without any disparity
and profit motive However, it is not so today…….”

46. PROFIT MOTIVE MAKES OUR
Law Corrupt
Politics Immoral
Education Commercialized
Defense Profitable
Religion Degraded
Trade Ruthless

47. PROFIT MOTIVE
v/s
SUSTAINABILITY

48. We failed to create a holistic sustainable social
model because Profit motive was always there in
all the structures inherently.

49. Centralization of Power

50. Wars Are Done For Profit

52. Can we create a truly sustainable society?

53. Yes, by eliminating PROFIT MOTIVE

54. Jacque Fresco who proposed a model called
Resource Based Economy

55. The Venus Project

56. The Venus Project

59. No disparity, no exploitation, no fear & no survival in question

61. Peter Joseph Founder of
The Zeitgeist Movement

62. Today TZM is functional in many countries
including India
and the movement is spreading the message
of Resource Based Economy, Sustainable way
of living.

63. How can we do the transition from here
to
Resource Based Economy?

64. Spreading Awareness
Today, The Zeitgeist Movement which is an
explicitly non-violent, global sustainability
advocacy group is currently working in over 1000
Regional Chapters across 70 countries spreading
awareness on these issues. You can join them.
In the view of The Movement, the society today has
become increasingly detached from the physical
world, with techniques of production, distribution
and social ordering that have little to no
relationship to the environment, or the current
state of scientific knowledge with respect to public
health and sustainability.

65. What are our problems today at
global level?

66. •Cyclical Consumption
•Infinite Growth
•The Value of Scarcity
•Problems/Inefficiency = Profit.
•Cost Efficiency & Irresponsible
Obsolescence
•Waste & Oppression of the Human
Resource

67. What solutions does The Zeitgeist
Movement propose?

68. •No Money or Market System
•Automation of Labor
•-Technological Unification of
Earth via "Systems" Approach.
•Access over Property.
•Self-Contained/Localized City and
Production Systems.
•Science as the Methodology for
Governance

69. Practical Actions - 1
•Group up/Team up
•Become producers and become less dependent on monetary
markets
•Start Cooperative ventures without hierarchical models
•Cooperative Resource Sharing through building community
resource library
•Support ecological sustainability with low carbon foot prints
•Build strong security model inside the group or community
rather being dependent on financial security model

70. Practical Actions - 2
•Build a like minded people’s community/action group
•Build and intentional community for living together with like
minded life style
•Escape education system encouraging slavery of market
systems
•Build in-house learning center for open learning
•Consume Consciously
•Non-cooperation to pesticides, GMO, branded products/big
corporations; buy local

71. Suggested links:
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
Visit www.thevenusproject.com to understand the concept of
Resource Based Economy and Automated City Planning with approach of
ecological sustainability
Join the movement in India through www.tzmindia.com
Face Book Presence
https://www.facebook.com/groups/tzm.india/
Join Google email group: tzmindia@googlegroups.com

72. By
Rashminder Kaur Bhamra
&
Sushant Roy

Thank You!