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Back in 2010, Peter Joseph Merola did some lecture shows and now suddenly decided to finish up his series, but before I get to this one he did recently, I do want to recap on the shows he did last year and I’ll be brief since it was just rambling and no Q&A.
9/29/2010
The show begins with Peter Joseph Merola telling his listeners that Jacque Fresco was on his world tour, he got sick with a terrible cold and cancelled on Canada and went home to Venus, Florida. It’s a shame that so many were taken advantage of to be their salesmen by selling tickets and calling it activism while claiming to be anti-money getting people to attend an expensive event where you get to hear Jacque Fresco say the same shit over and over again that people coming to listen to him probably heard him say on youtube. Peter Joseph Merola talked about what the Z3 trailers [long and short] would be like stressing how much of an impact it will be and that people [in Chapters] will have to sign contracts to not release the film early before the release date he public states, but you can see that didn’t go so well. Peter Joseph Merola also said in this show that in the next 30 years, the world will go under “civil unrest”. He kind of quickly goes over the profile of the collapse ahead of time here. He also rambles on how he doesn’t like democracy and how the Constitution of the United States will be replaced by the Scientific Method. After that, he says that he met an 11 year old who supports the Zeitgeist Movement and probably attracted this sick person to join TZM. But for the rest of show, he goes over the internal structure & processes [explaining their pyramid] and plays around with the word “leadership“.
10/6/2010
Peter Joseph Merola gets a bit upset on this show by calling all economists philosophers and says that they are not scientists. He also promotes Dan Pink to defend RBE [Resource-Based Economy] when in the same video he talks about says that money is a motivator. On this show tho, he rambles on about the supposed Resource-Based Economic Model that he thinks he has.
10/13/2010
Peter Joseph Merola starts “talking at” people in his introduction and says that for economic survival, we’ll all have to wear Pokemon masks [mentioned twice] soon. He also reads this article to say technological unemployment is real by talking about how there are more fast food vendors, then concludes that the free market is wall street. So that’s how they view our social problems.
10/27/2010
Peter Joseph Merola starts off the radio show with Severn Suzuki and says when he talked to Jacque Fresco, in one of his first interviews, he said that children understand a RBE more, it’s something odd to say when you mention having an 11 year old in TZM as a rare thing from the first lecture show, so he debunks himself there. When talking about the transition, he says that people who question Jacque’s blueprints or say he doesn’t have a transition plan are arrogant, but a year later, he’s the one now questioning his former mentor if he has anything but still pushes the RBE concept without knowing if it’s actually solid or not as an idea. But while telling his listeners they should try to get out of debt personally, he says that “philosophically” they will always be in a transition, even tho supposedly TZM is anti-philosophical. Peter Joseph Merola makes it clear on this show tho that no one country can’t just be a Resource-Based Economy because RBE is based on the planetary management, so the whole world has to agree with them without any small-scale testing. He even admits as he’s talking about his transition fantasies and joking about sometimes wanting to get on a spaceship and leave to another planet that is non-monetary, that there are many holes in what he is saying and isn’t realistic.
9/29/10 - Peter Joseph Merola: Lecture #1: "The Zeitgeist Movement - Internal Structure & Processes" 10/6/10 - Peter Joseph Merola: Lecture #2: "A Resource-Based Economy" - The Economic Model 10/13/10 - Peter Joseph Merola: Lectures #3: "A Profile of Collapse" 10/27/10 - Peter Joseph Merola: Lectures #4: "The Transition"
You can listen to the old shows above. Now we get to what was said yesterday.
11/16/2011
I thought on this show he would try to explain with existing technology, what can be done now to solve problems now, stuff that us critics would give that TZM would consider as “patchwork” but no, I was fooled from the title of show, it was just a bunch of rambling. On this show, he opens up with a quote from Buckminster Fuller and says that a system we should live in should be efficient and how resources should be tracked in order for us to be sustainable. Even tho realistically, I think a global survey would be impossible, the cost to do such a thing on a planetary scale would cost more than what any of us would think. In the late 1960′s, the world game [Bucky's idea of planet inventory] would have cost him $30 million that never got funded, ironically, the same amount today the Venus Project will probably need to make a major motion picture film. Imagine how much money that would be considered today. It gets sad too when you hear Peter Joseph Merola put Jacque Fresco in the same light as Bucky if you listen to that 1980 radio documentary to find out how much of a copycat he is from Buckminster Fuller. I couldn’t help but wonder why he didn’t give his listeners an update with his connections with the president of the Fuller Institute like he mentioned on his Oct. 5th radio show. Peter Joseph Merola also says that technology should be respected, defines technology and praises Ray Kurzweil, as I am a little surprised that he wasn’t thrown under the bus yet fordisagreeing with the idea of “technological unemployment” which is like the core of their RBE belief system. At the end of the show tho, he says bluntly that there has to be a parallel government in order for his transition fantasy to come true.
To Be Continue
I wasn’t able to link a FAQ to each show that I thought was relevant one by one, but feel free to check it out since it’s new. For his future lecture shows, I will just make additions here and try to keep people updated on it. But these will be the future shows that Peter Joseph Merola listed for the last three.
Part 6: Profile of Sustainability [Peter Joseph Merola skips this show and goes into Structural Classism and decides not to talk about solar, wind, etc. energy, I guess talking about their "methodology" was more important]
Update: 12/28/2011
Peter Joseph Merola starts the radio show by playing a song by Rage Against The Machine and says how much he use to love them in high school and later called his production company “Gentle Machine Productions” ? He also says that 2012 will be an interesting year due to all the awareness that has been spreading, by awareness, I guess he means the Thrive Movement and OWS making TZM irrelevant and then ranting on how people fall into the “they” trap and says there is a “they” in the evil monetary system. While complaining about the monetary system, he rejects labels such as “Resource-Based Economy” and “Post-Scarcity” and “The Zeitgeist Movement” as TZM becomes more irrelevant as if it isn’t dead already and encourages his listeners to do so as well so that when they are talking about what they believe in, more people can be confused. So after that, he reads something from this book and says “scientific method” a lot and says we should find common ground through the process of reasoning, but wait, I thought human beings couldn’t be reasoned, well, that’s what Jacque Fresco says, as in the beginning was praised by Peter Joseph Merola on this show. Peter Joseph Merola talks about 2011 on how he was burnt out on January when preparing for ZMF that flopped compared to the first film, mentions the Venus Project conflict which he says was a good thing pretending as if the bitch slap from TVP didn’t bother him, then he brags about his new website [removing their forums] and blog site that no one cares about, the Global Redesign Institute thing which is suppose to be some mind blowing wiki, a parallel government fantasizing, but you know, if you want a better recap for the Zeitgeist Movement this year, you can watch this since it’s more accurate. Peter Joseph Merola says 2012 will be the year of everything collapsing too like he said in Zeitgeist: Addendum, rants about internet censorship probably because after the new site got up, the traffic went down some more, he also says Zeitgeist: Beyond The Pale will be released at the end of 2012 which will probably be extremely lame since he has nothing to talk about now since the public cult divorce and says he’s thinking about doing a series of videos from 20-30 minute clips about more shit without the Zeitgeist name on it. Yeah…. He will also be speaking at the Columbia University by the end of January for another film festival [to beg for an Artivist Award which I don't think he has yet for the 3rd film] showing Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and in early February, he will be speaking in Israel for some global peace arrangement, even after being bashed by the Venus Project Israel coordinator, funny, and also explains why he couldn’t make it to this event in December by saying because of their scheduling issues and supposedly, he made contributions there. He also says that the next ZDAY will be in Vancouver, I would be surprised if no one calls them out there like others have this year, they know how to piss of people in Canada very well.
This is where he says “structural classism” is racism from his previous show, I guess he thinks only white people are rich after saying he doesn’t recognize race ? He also doesn’t think it makes sense for someone to work harder to get paid more as he rants on about baboons with hate for the human nature argument, how he can’t get health insurance when he says all insurance companies are about business while bitching about his back, says felons can’t jobs because they are still in prison or else they are out of prison and no longer a felon as Peter Joseph Merola doesn’t seem to get, saying money is debt and says no one can be equal to a dentist, admitting that there will always be specialists, therefore, debunking a Resource-Based Economy. He also said for like the 3rd time that if you want more things, then you’re being violent, not wanting to blow up dams and kill 1,000 people, not wanting to kill people in Africa that might take food from some garden by Douglas Mallette, not trying to assassinate a politician and celebrate about it as great publicity for TZM and ZMF while hypocritically criticizing those celebrating Bin Laden being hunted down and killed, no, just wanting more stuff, but why is this violent ? If we have technology now to make abundance according to what Zeitards say, then wanting more isn’t hurting [using their logic] anyone. See, debunking their [or his] logic is easy.
Part 8 [Now Part 7]: Attacks And Grievances
This is where he’ll complain once again about the criticism he’s surrounded by like he did before and will say that no one has legit criticism. Probably even some more Cointelpro rants, maybe he will provide proof that we’re all getting paid to bash TZM. Maybe this will be something I’ll listen to in 2012, but for the most part, the Zeitgeist Movement is dead.
Update: 4/4/2012
I wasn’t going to even talk about this radio show, but I looked at the 2010 reviews I gave, and said to myself, I can try to narrow this down as short as possible. As anyone could predict, Peter Joseph Merola talked about how much of a success ZDAY was, and anyone can see that the shit flopped and the decrease [by attendance] has shown every year. He kind of says the same thing as he admits that he was confronted by the low amount of ZDAY events as someone questioned it to him after looking at their cult map activity. Peter Joseph Merola even surprisingly admits that he lost members, even coordinators and said they left because they really didn’t know what TZM was all about. But this doesn’t stop Peter Joseph Merola uploading failed events on the official youtube channel, he was officially beaten to that tho. As far as the review of the Vancouver ZDAY event itself, then I would recommend this article to read, it sums shit up in case you missed it, he did a lot of tweeting about it as well. So after that, Peter Joseph Merola declares the lecture series to be over and says that there is no criticism about what the Zeitgeist Movement or the Venus Project says, that’s it, then for the newcomers, he lists all the things people should watch by him, his lectures and then he recommends the orientation guide to read, as he did that, Peter Joseph Merola says that was written by himself, I guess this is his way taking another shot at Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows since both of their names are on it originally. Peter Joseph Merola even promoted POO [Paradise or Oblivion] and holds back on the criticism he admits to having about it. Once Peter Joseph Merola gets done with his pouting, he talks about taking over the radiowaves in California on AM, lets see what happens with that as he promises to try to keep his radio show on blogtalkradio rotating again, at the same time. With new projects, his mood keeps shifting from optimistic to pessimistic. He goes on to talk about that TZM may not be remembered and that Zeitards shouldn’t look at themselves as heroes, but only he can be the hero, because he tried to take credit for Occupy Wall Street. Yeah.. So after trying to take credit for that after saying people shouldn’t be egotistical and try to take credit for things, he then talks about the Chapter Guide, there’s going to be a new Orientation guide with a Chapter guide and it will come with a video and Peter Joseph Merola expects it to be viral as his other cult films. Like every radio show, Peter Joseph Merola mentions a book by someone that had one eye, I don’t remember why, the name I can’t pronounce for the life of me, but he recommended a book by the name of “Earth, Science, Alloys”, I can’t find it, he mentioned that Art is just like Science in some way and praised John Lennon some more and says that the next Zeitgeist Media Festival will be sometime in the first week of August, he didn’t list any names or anything, so he doesn’t sound prepared about it at all. Then he concludes the show by saying he needs a “army of people” to give lectures because no one’s good as him yet, I guess that’s his way of making fun of his current lecture team and then he puts on Cliff [a pre-recorded part of the radio show] that talks about their next cult holiday, assuming that will happen every year as well now, with the project called “One Planet Project” that will take place next month globally where I guess everyone goes outside and tries to collect people’s email addresses to spam the shit out of them and give them more of a chance to lie about their numbers, this was proof to me that they are trying to revive something that’s dead.
Thanks for reading.
Addendum:
justintempler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw