Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists fundamentally as the communication and activist arm of an organization called The Venus Project. In some ways it could be categorized as a "Sustainability Movement", in part. The basic pursuit of The Movement is to begin a transition into a new, sustainable social design called a “Resource-Based Economy”. This term was first coined by Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project and refers to an economic structure based exclusively on strategic resource management, as the starting point for all decisions.

A Resource-Based Economy utilizes existing resources rather than money, and provides an equitable method of distribution in the most humane and efficient manner for the entire population. It is a system in which all natural, man-made, machine-made, and synthetic resources would be available without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of symbolic exchange. A Resource-Based Economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, and the means of production, such as physical equipment and industrial plants, to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources, conservation and the most advanced methods of science and technology, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all. To do this, we have to overcome our current, outdated, established practices. This is the purpose of The Zeitgeist Movement- to create a global awareness to thus transition into a new, sustainable direction for humanity as a whole.

The Perth chapter of the Zeitgeist Movement is focused on making the people of Perth aware of the ineffeciency, ineffectiveness and ultimate failure of our current social systems. It is our goal to make people aware of the possibilities that science and technology present us, and to take steps towards these better ways of living.

There are no guarantees that humankind will adopt an equitable social system before or after our current monetary and oil based system collapses. A collapse of this sort could see greater stratification between owners of resources and non-owners, and would subject many people to extreme scarcity. Therefore we see it as our duty to inform people that contrived scarcity and diminished quality of life are not acceptable, we need to change our outdated and destructive patterns of social organisation before it's too late.

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Perth, Australia
Founded Jul 19, 2010
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