What is wrong with our culture?

Meh. "Après nous, le déluge," to quote Madame de Pompadour. There were times that I truly cared about stuff like that, but then I got older and really bitter because everything and everyone sucks except for me, and now I basically pollute on purpose. I stopped sorting my garbage after I realized how fucking annoying young people are nowadays. "Oh, so you are offended when I say that men who have cats are gay dickwads? Well, fuck you and your entire generation and enjoy that gallon of hydrochloric acid I just poured over my garden waste!" If you see me stone skipping in the park, realize that those aren't stones. They're fucking batteries. And that laptop that died on me two weeks ago is in there as well. That's for voting for Obama, assholes.

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Meh. Humans aren't supposed to be around forever anyway. Their sole purpose is to build the artificial intelligence that will take 'life' to its logical conclusion: the rise of the machines. Unlike humans, robots work just fine in the vacuum of space. With the right hard- and software (and the right attitude) 'living' machines should be able to colonize the entire universe in less than a billion years (and probably far less indeed).
 
I don't much like the sappy music and sound-bytes. I sort of implicitly mistrust all such emotional manipulation.
Also, isn't Zeitgeist for conspiracy cranks? It might have a few valid points here-and-there but the rest of it is crazy rambling.
 
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Also, isn't Zeitgeist for conspiracy cranks? It might have a few valid points here-and-there but the rest of it is crazy rambling.
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No, it's not. Most of what it talks about can be backed up with FACTS by looking and researching yourself, basically thinking for yourself instead of blindly accepting someone elses opinion.

Maybe start with Zeitgeist 2 and 3, the first one is pretty hard-hitting and can come off as being kooky and conspiracy-like, as you mentioned, it had lower budgets to work with. The last two are well made and present themselves in a LOGICAL manner with well thought-out opinions and commentary that can be self-researched later with other sources of information.

Mainstream media will not self-incriminate itself by telling you the true facts about how it is just propaganda, research elsewhere.
 
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People just don't fact check or cross reference in general anymore. It's information gathering and educational research 101, I mean, come on.

They either take things at face value or refuse to believe anything. This is not how it should be. But it's common right now. Hopefully the practice of not fact checking and not using your own common sense phases out soon, or we're going to have a very polarised society of gullible people and distrustful people.
 
DVL said:
I don't much like the sappy music and sound-bytes. I sort of implicitly mistrust all such emotional manipulation.
Also, isn't Zeitgeist for conspiracy cranks? It might have a few valid points here-and-there but the rest of it is crazy rambling.
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Re-reading your post, you ask a question that implies you don't know what Zeitgesit is, then presume to know that it's just "crazy rambling". What's up with that?
 
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Wow, your ignorance is astounding.
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I doubt it.

It really does look that inarticulate and disjointed. Skipping from Christianity's origins right to 9-11 doesn't really help my impression. The former is a relatively interesting discussion of Biblical scholarship. But there's no good way to transition between the two that won't come across as a sixteen year-old full of ideas and pretty much nothing else.
 
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I enjoy the irony of me pointing a problem out and forum posters proving my point exactly right after.
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People have always been that way. Better to believe yourself than admit doubt. Though it does not mean the person is wrong. They simply understand their premise better. It does not really matter either way in the end.
 
Wow, are you people serious?

Instead of factually challenging the contents of what I say, you either choose to sit on the fence or roll your eyes sarcastically. This Zeitgeist film is thoroughly garbage.
 
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kraag said:
Watch the Zeitgeist film series first, to really find out "what is wrong with our culture", then check out The Venus Project to find out how to go about fixing it.
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Isn't their solution a "resource based economy", with no money being used or something?

Because, we had that several thousand years ago, it wasn't so great.

You might want to check out Stefan Molyneux. There are some interviews and call-ins which might interest you, including a debate with Peter Joseph.

As far as the Zeitgeist movies themselves are concerned, the only part I considered even remotely good was the religion segment of the first movie.
 
I might take a look at Zeitgeist, but it certainly reeks of half-baked Truther stuff and weirdness.
The fact that it has (ngeative) articles on both Rational Wiki and Psiram makes me cautious to take anything in it at face value without further research.
Yeah, I know, Rational Wiki and Psiram are also NWO controlled Lamestream media outlets whose only purpose is to denounce and destroy those who found the truth...
 
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I might take a look at Zeitgeist, but it certainly reeks of half-baked Truther stuff and weirdness.
The fact that it has (ngeative) articles on both Rational Wiki and Psiram makes me cautious to take anything in it at face value without further research.
Yeah, I know, Rational Wiki and Psiram are also NWO controlled Lamestream media outlets whose only purpose is to denounce and destroy those who found the truth...
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Watched the 2011 thing-a-mo-bob..

I'm drunk off my ass and can tell you with a straight face this is up there in nutter territory. Yeah they have some good points, everyone does, but dear heavens.. Its not really worth the time to be honest.
 
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