The continuation for Zeitgeist, the Movie, Zeitgeist: Addendum discusses the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, corporate America and others, concluding with the advocating of the Venus Project, created by social engineer Jacque Fresco. The documentary is separated into four parts:
Part I criticizes the practice of fractional-reserve banking and criticizes the way the Federal Reserve creates money. Their argument goes as following: Dollar bills get printed, or the money supply is increased, when the Fed buys Treasury Bonds. This money ends up in commercial banks. Then, once that money becomes a reserve in banks, it becomes “multiplied” through the fractional-reserve system, and then loaned to customers. The film claims that such a system is “absurd” because the Interest that must be paid for the money that was loaned does not exist; it was never created. The film compares this system to a game of musical chairs, in which a person will also be left-out. The film does not attempt to go in detail to explain all that is involved with money and banking, but tries to explain the most basic aspect of a money system. This subject is also touched in the first Zeitgeist film.
Part II is a documentary style interview with John Perkins, in which he describes his role as a self-described Economic Hitman (EHM). He claims he helped CIA and the ruling political/corporate elites who have worked to undermine legitimate foreign regimes that put the interests of their populations before those of transnational corporations.
Part III describes the Venus Project, a proposal created by Jacque Fresco. The film promotes the Venus Project as a sustainable solution for mankind on Earth. Its main goal is to produce a “resource-based economy” using modern technology.
Part IV states that everything wrong with the world is “fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality — the ‘emergent’ and ’symbiotic’ aspects of natural law.”
Source of the above:
Wikipedia contributors, “Zeitgeist: Addendum,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zeitgeist:_Addendum&oldid=249336614 (accessed November 3, 2008).
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“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”
A child, however, who had no important job and could only see things as his eyes showed them to him, went up to the carriage.
