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@Worldmind: Thank you so much for the amazing reply.
So true.
I believe its a process of self-realization and accepting only that is 'truth'. We have long been wooed away from the truth.
'Self-realization is the root of all beneficial change. If the model we have in our minds is not true, then we will not behave in survivable ways.
But, the truth is, to me, what is discovered by science and experience, and it seems pretty relative. The idea of Truth as something fixed, passed down from 'on high' or suchlike, seems to be a justification for ignorance and slaughter. Science has been looking for the 'truth' for centuries, and has found that everything we come up with as a 'high truth' is overturned by new data that describes something far more wonderful. We will have to wait and see what we learn as time goes on, if we make it through this current crisis.
What will be your comment on Mr. Jacque Fresco being termed 'utopian'?
Aren't all ideas a step towards making things utopian aka 'towards perfection'?
'Utopian' is a meaningless grunt, which means whatever the person using it and the person hearing it thinks it is, which is probably very different. A complete variable that just causes confusion and jumping to mistaken assumptions. A great many words in our world are meaningless grunts, used in that way, often to justify slaughter and destruction.
To me, Universe is the definition of 'perfection' so I'm not sure what you mean. I mean that every atom is 'perfect', etc. As far as I can tell, only the human mind and it's virtual model of reality in our heads can be corrupt and imperfect... does not correspond with reality on a 1:1 basis. That ability to accept bad information as 'truth', imho, is the reason we got into this situation. Every massive chronicle of historical writings is a huge mess of information, disinformation, and misinformation, and sorting that out is part of what 'self-realization' is all about.
Like bioramani said, Zetigeist has to start at our home. Zeitgeist by definition is 'the spirit of our times', but putting it quite bluntly, it looks to me as the need of our times.
I agree. We are all on the sinking boat together, and people on a sinking boat, regardless of their differences, all think the same thing... Where's the lifeboats?'. lol. And it seems obvious that the situation is of our own making as a species, there are no lifeboats, and the situation can be overcome only by our species working together to survive. It cannot be forced or coerced or it will just speed up our extinction, mainly because of a thousand years of applying science to weaponry. Now it's time for Livingry. I see no other way, and to do that, much of the old paradigm will have to be discarded as the misinformation it is. All the scales of reality will have to be addressed, from our personal thoughts to how we behave en mass all over the planet. But it cannot be imposed in any way whatsoever... only a good means can create a good result. 'Do No Harm' This will be the biggest change in Humanity ever, without a doubt. If it is impossible, then Earth may become like Mars, apparently dead. And radioactive to boot.
I want to point out, btw, that there is no common assumptions in the Zeitgeist Movement, especially since it went from a couple of people to half a million in such a short time... the majority of people in the Movement have probably not realized that they are thinking in old unworkable terms and may not really even understand the goal of the Movement or that it is simply one part of a much larger movement that has no name, which is all the people working on new ways to generate power, find ecological harmony, clean up the pollution, etc, and prevent 30,000 people from starving to death every day.
This is the biggest educational movement in history, will take decades, at least, and it has just begun.