Zeitgeist, The Movie

I’ve been experimenting with new avenues to find inspiring blog posts, and last night I stumbled on Zeitgeist: Tactical Myths That Control the World.

The post features, Zeitgeist, a 2007 movie that I completely missed out on when I was abroad. It’s available online for free, looked interesting enough, so I took two hours out to watch it.

The movie is broken into three parts, the first connecting the story of Jesus and Judeo-Christian thought to astrology, the second concluding that 9/11 was a vast conspiracy, and the third that spooky “international bankers” are the secret driving force behind everything in our world.

All around, it’s a conspiracy nut’s wet dream.

Reviewers have complained that the film is too vague on how the three are connected, but it’s not that complicated: all three show how misinformation propagated by an elite few can be quickly built upon by others unwittingly, until everyone believes it for truth.

I was already familiar with the oft-repeated themes of the Jesus story, I remember watching a presentation in college about the various other myths from earlier religions that line up very well with the story of Jesus. I find the evidence quite convincing.

As for the rest of the movie however, I have my doubts.

For the second part, though I think a lot of weird data has been collected on those terrible attacks, I subscribe to Noam Chomsky’s view that a conspiracy is highly unlikely. For that, I recommend watching these videos: Noam Chomsky on 911 Conspiracy Part 1, and Part 2.

The final “international bankers” part reminded me of the Neptunati episode of Sealab 2021. So I guess their shrieking behind tattered sheets didn’t scare me.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the film does make you think, as long as you remember the creator’s statement:

That being said, It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.