History
The name of the group comes from the word zeitgeist and implies a shift in the current spirit of the times. The Zeitgeist Movement's origin was a reaction to Peter Joseph's film Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008). The movement used to be the activist arm of The Venus Project (TVP), which featured in the films Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (January 2011) as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems, but in April 2011 the groups split and are no longer associated with each other.
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“To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)