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PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE CREATOR OF THE“ZEITGEIST FILM SERIES”, PETER JOSEPH:
RE: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ASSOCIATION CREATED BETWEEN “ZEITGEIST” AND THE TUCSON MURDERS.
It has come to my attention that various mainstream news organizations are beginning to run an association between my 2007 performance piece/film, “Zeitgeist: The Movie” and the tragic murders conducted by an extremely troubled young man in Tucson, Arizona. They are also slowly beginning to bleed the obvious line between my 2007 documentary work, my film series as a whole and The Zeitgeist Movement, which I am the founder. Frankly, I find this isolating, growing association tremendously irresponsible on the part of ABC, NBC and their affiliates - further reflecting the disingenuous nature of the America Media Establishment today.
It appears to have begun with a comment on NBC news referencing my film along with other “influential” films as well, such as Richard Kelly's film “Donnie Darko” and then spreading to ABC News where it singled out "Zeitgeist: The Movie" and the Series itself, stating: [...]
Dude's sister reminds us from time to time to check out the site for 'Zeitgeist: The Movie' and the related series by Peter Joseph. Updates have recently been added and she pinged us on it the other day. Checkin' it out I found this statement, and while I don't think Mr. Joseph owes anyone an explanation, and he, we, and Mr. Loughner would be best-served putting the responsibility for Mr. Loughner's actions squarely on his own shoulders as opposed to the shoulders of the Social System or any stream or streams of media, Mr. Joseph does make many good points in this missive, and in his films.
An aside, the 'social system' is created in our image; it reflects us. Change is inevitable, but we as humans pride ourselves on our ability to choose when and how change takes place and the most compelling reason to initiate it is that we don't like what we're seeing in the mirror. Right now in America we're busy shaking our fists and railing against whatever it is that irks us - government, religion, hippies, free love, global warming, Greenpeace, whatever we spend our energy fighting - which creates the likelihood that when change happens it will be completely random and uncontrolled, devastating for many or most, like yelling at the steering wheel with our hands in the air while we drive off a cliff. (Also, it's amusingly ironic that one of the things many are most bothered about is the US government's propensity for blowing lots of air without getting much accomplished. :))
People trained to survive shipwrecks know that their best bet is to form a circle, hugging one another for warmth and keeping as many survivors as possible linked, allowing each individual to expend the least amount of effort to stay afloat and the group the best chance of being seen and rescued. Hopefully our national and global social 'ships' will navigate the current rough waters safely, but it might be good for us to know how to stop hating one another and start hugging just in case we have to. (Ya know, not all the time. I mean, a world without hate would suck for haters and people who just like to hate various things and attitudes, right, or at the very least it's probably so unlikely as not to be worth trying for anyway, or so seems to go the opinion of most, but it would be a good skill to have for times like this when things are rough and changing and we'd be best-served gettin' through it together. 'Hate responsibly', is all I'm sayin'. :D)
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