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Stefan Claudiu
The Zeitgeist Movement - Orientation Guide
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First of all, the most powerful contributions to
society
did not come from corporations seeking
profit
. Nikola Tesla did not establish alternating current electric power because he was out to make a buck. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, the Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton did not make their massive contributions to
society
because of material self-interest. While it is true that useful inventions and methods do come from the motivation for personal gain, the intent behind those creations typically have nothing to do with human or social concerns, for detached self-interest and survival are really the true motivations.
Profit interest almost always comes before human concern, and a simple glance at the cancer causing preservatives in our foods, the planned obsolescence of nearly everything manufactured, along with a health care industry that charges $300 for a single antibiotic pill, will indicate that `Profit Based Incentive' is actually detrimental, for the true incentive is not to contribute to
society
in a meaningful way, but merely to exact wealth from it in any way possible. Profit is actually a false incentive. Problems in our monetary based
society
will only have a resolution if
profit
can be made from solving those problems.
Consequence: The psychological/sociological ramifications resulting from the priority of
profit
are of grave proportions when it comes to the conduct of human beings. In fact, an entire structure of imposed control has been created in order to deal with the never-ending problems associated with the need for survival by way of gain/
profit
/income - The Legal System. While non-monetary related
crime
s, often born from ego, jealousy, emotional deprivation and other psychological issues are currently a problem, the frequency of non-monetary related
crime
s are nothing in comparison to the
crime
s committed that are motivated by the acquisition of money and property. In fact, if we define "Crime" as `Corruption' and define "Corruption" as "Moral Perversion; Dishonesty", then an entirely new perspective comes into play, for, if you look closely enough, you will see that nearly every act of strategic monetary gain is corrupt by its very construct...it is just accepted as `normal' by the conditioned culture to whatever degree is deemed tolerable by consensus. For example, when you go to the grocery store and buy a box of cereal, 9/10 times the amount of cereal occupies only 60% of the space within the box. This `advertising strategy' as the producing company would call it, is actually just a blatant, wasteful lie. The advertising agencies, with all of their tactics of social manipulation, are likely one of the most corrupt institutions on the planet. Sadly, we have been conditioned to call it `promotion' or `strategy' instead. More on the social distortion created by advertising will be presented in the "Distortion of Values" section of this chapter. Now, to put the spectrum of monetary derived corruption into a workable perspective, we will divide this aberrant behavior into 3 classifications: General Crime Corporate Crime Government Crime.
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