excellent film guys - thanks so much!
exciting to see so many different communities working online together like that. god if we're lucky we
could live in a much more user satisfaction society some day 🙂
good to see the net being used for something other than advertising and porn
i loved the bit where the politician got too confused to figure out how to criticise community
decision making
he was typical of the ivy league/english public school idiots that sneak up the ladders of government
i appreciate you putting this movie up where everyone can see it! very "what would google do?" i
loved the banking company (uk.zopa.com), but of course when you click on it for the us you get a
stinkin credit union that carries none of the brilliance of zopa in the uk. seriously, the thought of
individuals offering money towards their own lending decisions and setting their own rates must scare
the crooks here...i mean banking system here, to their very core. (if you want to know the truth about
how the middle class was eliminated by rich people stealing everyone's money, go see "capitalism: a
love story" in the movie theater....or wherever.
as far as government, i never realized how crooked our city government was until they all voted to
throw buddhist monks out of their house in the middle of the worst housing market in the history of our
time. they did this because some snooty christian woman got up and made a stink and they didn't
want to offend pat robertson...probably from the same group that decided the only way they could get
rid of them from where they were before in the city by taking over their land in the name of public
domain. if we all had a vote, things like people getting thrown off their land for trumped up zoning
violations wouldn't have a rats ass chance in hell of happening.
i want to live in the utopia of this movie. couchsurfing reminds me of all the books in the early 1900s
when there used to be boarding houses, or even back to the last 1700s, early 1800s when people would
share there home or barn with a traveler and have no worries about getting killed. (of course, back
then it took a week to travel by horseback what we can do in half a day by car.)
this movie spawns such great ideas. everyone should watch it.
its very interesting, it's a new (old) paradigm. you know, "by the people, for the people". a new type of
government is like a new lock, it's just a new challenge for lock pickers. not that i want to be pessimist,
but lets face it, we already have an electoral system were every citizen can have his/her voice heard. the
problem is that we, as citizen, are not doing our job, we don't vote for the best party or the best man, we
vote for the best liar. the reason is simple, politics is out of reach for most of us, we are occupied with
making a comfortable place for ourselves, we simply don't have the time or desire to be informed. if this
new paradigm shift contributes to citizen being by enlarge more informed then maybe we have a chance,
but this new lock will only last till the lock pickers...
when voting for politicians how do you discern the best liar from the best man when all of them are
lying. carear politicians are killing our country. i think we need stricter term limits. how do all
these 60 and 70 year old really know what we as the people want when most of the country is younger
than them and grew up with different values than they did.
zeitgeist is based on this but it was used to propagate some form of globalist technocratic society,
and characterizes religion as purely a control mechanism discounting the spirituality and community.
future by design is a more unadulterated version of this ideology, albeit altruistic and utopian. it
fails to address the psychology of human ego and greed as it assumes that elimination of scarcity
will suppress these human drives and point it in a new direction. it does however, put forward some
concrete ideas for shaping the future technologically, economically and socially.