My name is Jeremy, I'm 26 and I consider myself a student of TVP and have spent considerable time learning and reading from the Zeitgeist resources, debating on the ZM forums and volunteering for ZM technical projects.
I'm writing to let people know of a few projects that I've been volunteering time for. At the moment I'm tackling them solo, but if anybody has XX hours per week then I could easily throw up some topics that people can help with. Let me explain what we are doing.
Localisation of ZM Addendum to address the Australian Reserve Bank and Australia's Politics
How will TVP benefit from developing communications to Australia that are relevant and localised?
Firstly, let me clarify that the current volunteer work ZM members are doing that utilises the existing messages are great and a benefit to humanity. In this report I will merely suggest that we can reach the interest of more Australian's if we localise some key issues so they are relevant and interesting.
To illustrate my point, take for example Radio, or say Daily news from TV or Newspaper. You will observe a trait that current affairs are generally local unless they are 'big news'. Sports are more interesting because you can participate in them, Murders are more interesting because they are in your area and affect perceived risk, and so forth.
To explain this phenomena in another way, and in a single sentence, you might say this is a conditioned trait we have developed to want to connect and relate to things, and our perception of belonging and home.
Obviously YOU, and all of the poeple already active in promoting TVP identified with and feel connected to the strong humanism message in the ZM documenties, aside from the fact that it is not at all relevant to Australia on some key issues.
However, not everybody will respond the same way you do. Some people will only be motivated to learn about TVP if they connect and relate to it. I believe we can increase the penetration of this occuring through localisation.
What are the key areas to redress and localise for Australians?
I'm going to hastily throw down some concepts so that they are digestible. Please keep in mind that this short spiel does not do justice to analyse the complexities of TVP.
Monetary system
Firstly, an analysis of the communications regarding the fail of America's Monetary system, and how this affects Australia's monetary system.
The first key point to make is that Australia does not currently have a long term debt problem the way America does. When I say this, please dont jump to the conclusion that I am pro capitalism. I dont think anybody in the world can argue that an RBE isnt a better place if you can get it going. What I am saying is that when America's national debt reaches a level that is not managable, and the world starts going in to chaos, Australia will have minimal debt and will still have resources the world needs. This means the level of job loss and crash of society are two totally different paradigms.
Further, because the way our reserve bank works is different, Australia's shouldnt buy in to the same conspiracy theory about our reserve. Of course, the sound argument which remains is that the very nature of a capitalist society is corrupting, but the key premise is lost. We already know the system is corrupt. Honestly, who didnt know that before ZM. Just we believed it was futile and we couldnt do anything about it before we met ZM.
Unfortunately, Jacque Fresco is more inclined to believe our system will collapse, rather than Peter Josephs plan of rallying all the worlds governments will come to fruition, and I generally tend to agree.
It is my opinion that many American TVP members are (at their core), motivated by the following facts from ZM Addendum.
1) That the nation is currently in massive debt and a lot of the tax they pay goes to pay off the debt
2) That the nations debt will continue to grow because it is in an endless cycle
3) That this growth in national debt will lead to more and more tax going to pay rich and not for the betterment of humanity
4) That the government has no plan to reverse debt
5) That eventually the system will fail and mass poverty will occur.
Hereby, the fact this is the major motivating factor for Americans, but this DOESNT EVEN APPLY to us the same way, causes a big disconnect.
Of course Australia's markets will 'collapse' when America's does, but as it stands Australia forecasts to be out of debt in the near future, and to be realistic, when that happens, Australian's will be MUCH better off than Americans due to the world still needing our resource commodities. Let me clarify that means when America crashes, immediately a LOT less of a percentage of Australians are affected by poverty, not that we are all okay.
Now, an intelligent observer will perform further analysis, over a much longer term, and find that:
1) As technology replaces resources their value will be marginalised and we may start to incur debt
2) As countries like China gain more ownership over African and other countries resources, they will bully the price of our commodities out of the market and we will start to incur debt.
Etc
In summary, Our Australian based communication on TVP has the contention to reach critically thinking intelligent Australians, and it will do so by accurately identify Australia's economic problems. These problems include an extension that explains Australia's "Reserve Bank", and the fact that although it is different, it to a lesser extent manipulated by world bankers. The communication will further acknowledge the strength of our economy based on resources and to a lesser extend agriculture, and the weakness which is a lack of entreprenuership and other exports. It will accurately define the long term demise of our economy.
I'm going to time out for a moment because there might be a whole bunch of people thinking. "this guys a moron, economics are useless to society according to JF". Well your right, however 'moronic economics' are a premise of the film JF communicates tot he public, and we need to get the facts right if we want to be persuasive while this system still exists.
You will note ironically this issue was just in the news this week with regard to taxation 04/05/2010. Surprise, surprise, Australia has boosted resource tax to 40%. Why is that? Because the whole world knows America will crash again and it will be worse, and our government is wisely BETTER utilising our resources which are increasingly being foreigner owned by China and other's. However, intelligent analysis would yield the message that in the long term this is futile.
An addendum for the Australian Monetary system should be created with a persuasive analysis on exactly WHY and HOW our system doomed in the long term, just long Peter Joseph did for Americans. If you have been following TVP for a while you will note they usually shun affiliation with these kinds of projects without consultation so of course PJ would be in the loop to ensure benchmarks are met.
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Political System
- Analysis and extension of JF's messages on the problems with political systems relating to Australia. Again, the strong emphasis on corporate corruption and buying politicians certainly works different in Australia.
Do the research, you are not going to find out that John Howard was like George Bush, where there are allegations his family has ties to defense and makes money out of world conflict. This whole, 'the leaders are in a conspiracy' thing is going to be refuted as ridiculous by any rational Australian on somebody like John Howard/Kevin Rudd. (I personally don't like either, I'm just referring to the financial interests). Of course, if rational Australian's did research on American they might find that that much of what is said about America's system is in fact true. Even so, it is still less relevant to us.
An addendum for Australian Political System is added with an analysis of the last several decades, even 100 years, including observations and ultimately leading to a contention of stagnate progress for our country. The analysis will show that interest only in the short term, vastly inefficient with our countries management doing everything all over again every 4 years. EG:
- Workplace Reform
- Education
Need i go on. Not to mention that we waste even more money doing things differently for every state.
This will culminate to a communication with persuasive, evidence based projection on how our system will fail (this projection obviously utilises TVP's core philosophies).
Other Localisation Projects
In addition to these things. I would love to see a day when we could 'ease' people in to JF's concepts. For instance if somebody is greatly attached to religion, they will probably walk out of JF's lecture.
This is why I am working on segmented and structured presentation of TVP which will be sent to them for approval before being utilised.
JF wants us to carry on his work, and in order to do that we need to communicate it in ways that are more accessible to Gen Y/Z. This is why JF is so attached to PJ.
The third major project I am working on, is redeveloping some content to that it is 'mass market' friendly. This involves the following:
-Removal for the time being of religious insults.
-Removal for the time being of 'the government is out to get us'.
-Removal for the time being of conspiracies which are too great and in-depth to percieve in a short period of time. These will be structured in a methodical staggered approach involving multiple media's. IE, Iraq is for oil.
-Redevelopment of Military are useless, Most jobs are useless, to "miltary is better served in negociation", somebody in business and marketing is better served in human communication and management, etc.
I'd just like to clarify that I actually love Jacque Fresco and he is my favourite humanist of the whole world. I like his candid commentary on these kinds of social and political issues, but unfortunately they are not an effective sales tool for the whole public.
In summary, I mean developing TVP to concentrate communicating as many of the core philosophies as we can (to ensure the integrity of TVP is maintained), WITHOUT isolating the audience.
For instance, TVP was humiated on JJJ and the largest chance for exposure to Australia was, in my opinion, wasted. Considering WHAT TVP is I was very shocked by our public relations management. I think the problem is that we have a trend where only PJ and JF are able to articulate the complexity of ideals behind an RBE in a small session. In fact JF himself admits that 5 minutes generally wont cut it.
This task is rather complicated and will involve presentations to TVP and then many redevelopment cuts. I am currently working on it alone. I noticed that there is a group involved with movie production, you are welcome to email me.
Conclusion
So anyway, if anybody believes I have a valid point then get on board. I already volunteer for other not-for-profits so I'm currently fitting in about 4 hours per week for TVP. Even with this I am making considerable progress. You don't need economic knowledge to get on board either, just the ability to Google search and and interesting in learning and research.
Some other thoughts
In addition to studies in business, I also work with technology and multimedia. For some time Ive done some work with search engine optimisation to create successful online projects. The last thing I would like to do is the following:
Apply cutting edge technology projects like domination of the search engines of specific keywords for anybody who searches given words within Australia (GEO based SEO). This is much easier to achieve in Australia than in America and within 1 year a significant opportunities could arise of up to 10% of Australia's population through search alone. With a significant team of volunteers that understand technology like myself the penetration could be much larger.
Australian VEO (video engine optimisation), would be a phase two project with smaller penetration but a larger impact on the end user.
Social bookmarketing projects should also be considered, if you are technology savvy you will notice these have already been undertaken, but localisation of our marketing can create the opportunity to undertake a massive Australia oriented ZM marketing strategy that can have a large penetration to technology users.
That's all
Thank you for reading this far. If you know anybody interested in volunteer work let me know.
Warm Regards
Jeremy
