The Zeitgeist Movement frames ideas for human beings to reflect and restructure from the ground zero. Modern societies are structured around what is perceived available and what is supposedly scarce. To realize scarcity is a social construct to perpetuate inequalities prompts review of alternatives.
Consider the world you know can no longer function as it has. The environment is reaching limits os sustainability. Zeitgeist proposes a technical, resource-based system evolves to replace the existing scarcity-based monetary system. As it stands, the average person does not know what things truly cost. Controlling interests keep it hidden and forge reality. This fuels a wheel of marketing and buying needlessly. Turns out, widespread borrowing against debt is not self-sustaining.
In the current state of world economies, its foreseen that unemployment will steadily rise, resources will dwindle and survival comes into question. This brings shifting boundaries and the disappearance of traditional power and usefulness of how societies are run. The Internet is completely shifting power dynamics, dialogue and what is possible. Nothing is static. Transformation is imminent. Yet, in which directions?
Rather than view related predictions as problematic, you could view this as opening doors to liberate human beings from ingrained roles and mindsets. This would and free them to develop differently. Consider these ideas and others that would best serve you as a human being at this moment;
1) Extend product lifespans. Everything is produced with the longest lifespan possible. Machines are not made to break down so they must be replaced. Automation evolves to enable self-checks and repair. This idea is backwards to items which are now designed not to last. This perpetuates the illusion of dissatisfaction, and stimulates the will to buy and consume.
2) Increased transparency. Most people in society have no idea of what is truly possible. The current level of technological capability is hidden in part because of military strategy and information warfare. To move beyond the mindset of competition and war, to eliminate the need for self-interest, changes everything. Inadequacy, insecurity and power dynamics of hierarchies dissolve in favor of data-sharing for mutual gain. This presumes the fading of the ego mind.
3) Minimize redundancy. Rather than multiple entities producing the same thing in order to compete in price, the goal is to minimize redundancy and eliminate the need for competition. Distribution of items is organizedto satisfy basic human needs of everyone. Behind that is the desire to use resources in envirnonmentally-sustainable ways, that is, grow things in appropriate climates without creating a need for irrigation or growth in non-native areas.
4) Optimized recycling. The point of doing is no longer grounded in profit. All objects that become inoperable are made to be reused, recycled or otherwise applied in some meaningful or creative way. Inventions are inspired. Nothing is wasted.
5) Empower people to redefine identity. Human beings traditionally define self-image based on job and associated social role. What is the true occupational role? People recognize and react to observed patterns. They mentally reference what has been learned. This is a technical process. Its simply a matter of time before automation replaces technical roles. This frees people to dissolve illusion about who they are and get closer to the truth.
7) Delegate labour and decision-making. Ultilitarian roles are no longer only technical. Mental labour is increasingly delegated to machines. Logical reasoning is entirely a technical process based on the technical data we have at a given moment. Human minds are only capable of storing and processing a limited amount of information.Few areas of human operation is beyond the possibility of computers.
8) Moving beyond corruption & nation state. Governmental and corporate decisions are based on self-interest. So long as money exists, itactsas motivation, and possibility exists for corruption. The more information and variables taken into account, the more effective the decision. As traditional power dynamics are no longer useful, something new is evolving to replace them.
9) Centralize computerized databases. These worldwide networks contain all knowledge. Computers already focus all resources in a growing, earth-wide autonomic nervous system. Humans outgrow government as it stands. Former human roles in power structures are evolving to supervisory ones for machines. People are to be solely responsible for environmental management and resource distribution.
10)Embrace creativity & spirituality. Freedom from the confines of traditional human labour and roles gives beings opportunities to develop themselves as never before. The only constant is change. Everything one thinks one knows is evolving at a pace. Given this reality, humans continue to align with energy, attune to higher frequency and recall oneness with nature. Expanding the scope of self-understanding brings meaningful insight, shifts energy equilibrium and extends survival.
Consult: http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/