Zeitgeist 3

Dear Sheep,

If you don't know about the Zeitgeist films, check that junk pile in your brain called 'conspiracy theories and other communist propaganda'. Perhaps you heard Zeitgeist mentioned by ABC News as the dangerous inspiration for Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner killing spree but mistook it for a faction of Al Qaeda.

If you have managed to ignore the films thus far, watch out because there are three of them now.



The films highlight a bunch of "conspiracy theories" or "fundamental world problems" depending on who you ask. As the author of the article linked above noted they are indeed anti-religious, anti-nationalist, and anti-capitalist but they are about as dangerous as a granola festival. Seriously, unless you are allergic to hemp and pontification, these films pose no more threat than can be withstood by your epic levels of denial.



This third installment runs 2 hours and 44 minutes. I wrote an in-depth review on my other blog, but it contains a lot of big words so I'll sum it up for you;

Humans are cool. Money is whack. Fuck that shit, lets build utopia.

If you are feeling a sudden need to go out and shoot people I'd make an appointment with your neurologist first to see if there isn't somebody else in there with you, perhaps a gun-toting, bible clutching, republican. Oh wait, that is you.

It could be worse, you could be a snobby, pseudo-intellectual, socialist liberal, that thinks they know what is best for the entire world.

Is it a good film? Should I watch it?

This isn't Roger Eberts' blog and I'm not gonna tell you what to do. But if you are going to spend 3 hours watching something, you could at least watch something relevant. I bet you sat through 9 hours of Lord of The Rings movies and unless you live in the Shire, they told you nothing about the world around you.

Is it all true?

The third film has some simple points that the filmmaker spends hours trying to prove scientifically. Some people insist upon being burdened by proof. The stuff in these films is about as true as anything anyone can tell you. You have check your facts and trust your sources. Do your own research. And yes, it's true.

Will it make me a homicidal maniac?

A nice suit doesn't make a homeless man less homeless. If you decide to kill people after watching this film, it's because you were a homicidal maniac to begin with, you just needed an excuse.

If you are still worried about it, look at a butter knife; it's meant to spread butter, but in the right hands it becomes a deadly weapon. If you remove the butter knives people will kill each other with spoons. The question you should ask is 'why do they want to kill each other in the first place?' Don't say "human nature" because you aren't humans, you're sheep.

Stop hypothetically asking me questions and just watch it on youtube. It will be up on youtube January 25th before midnight.

K