"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin"

This always seems to begin with the formation of policies which justify stripping the rights of the collective to be able to participate directly within the formation of policy, using a context twisted "flag of freedom" that "these rules will keep us from anarchy, so this is necessary" so that people will remain complacent.

This is how "well intended groups" become "group-think band wagons" rather than the platforms of civil rights that they were originally designed as.

With that said, I have some "very unpopular opinions" which risk offending the egos of those who might dare to assume that their will is so much more important than the will of the people, that they've decided to take actions against the rights of the people to participate within the democratic processes that we all so hypocritically claim to value.

It all started with this [link] where you will find a Blog Entry for #TZM-Official which is a sub-division of the overall movement which extends well beyond that of merely just "deviantART".

They have made several online movies which are popular across the planet and the message these movies make, is an important one.

The latest in the series of acts of elitism and fascist lock-down from this establishment, has been the stripping of the peoples rights to be able to decide what deviations and blogs to vote into the group or not. Replaced by authoritarian rules which have been created by the few and not consented to by the collective.

Of course, we see the usual complacency thing happening: "i don't see why there would be a non-TZM related deviations in a TZM related group. so i agree on this." ... "Agree with this. Some form of control is always needed. What we need is educated and mature and not abusive control. As long as you can explain and try to guide someone on a better path, some works will need to be rejected." ..

As has been seen over and over again throughout history, as long as you begin with a very light and polite introduction of fascism in the most civil and logical sounding way that provides the illusion of seeming reasonable, you're going to get most people on board with you. Once this becomes the most popular opinion, the under-dog will be ridiculed as always.

This is what the main stream has been doing to society and it absolutely works like a charm. Our task is to decide to be wise enough to not give a fuck that it works like a charm and to speak out anyways

I will be pleasantly in SHOCK if my blog entry which you can find on this [link] ends up approved by those at the top of #TZM-Official because I am the under-dog within this scenario

I would also like to add that I am by no means complaining about anything. Pissing and moaning and trying to force tzm into complying with us would be doing THE EXACT SAmE THING to them as they are doing to us. What my intention here is simply, is to encourage everyone to start thinking for themselves and begin to escape from this dualistic nonsense of "needing to take one side against the other".

How about unity, fuck taking sides. Eh?

Take your own fucking side and co-create and co-operate with others and respect the rights of others to do as they see fit for themselves, even if they're being an ass clown. Know that your opinion to think them to be an ass clown is merely your lack of preference towards their actions and your lack of desire to be drawn into that sort of thing. Use this as an opportunity to take response ability and not see one side as right and the other as wrong but go into directions beyond the imagined borders of duality. Do your own thing and march to the beat of your own drummer. When a lot of people can do this at once and then the uniqueness and individuality of those people can be respected instead of seen as a threat -- this is when co-creation and co-operation happens. This is when we make the paradigm shift. And it won't fucking happen a second sooner than it takes to move beyond dualistic thinking and escape the societal box, provided we as individuals decide we want to escape from our familiar safe prison within the walls and jail bars of the comfort zone society has programmed us to be terrified of stepping out side of.


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SIDE NOTE:
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Just in case anyone ever decides to get the idea that "nuking the blog entry =paradigm-shifting submitted will shut everyone up" -- here is a COPY of that blog entry, below.


"My intention is not to complain, but rather inspire you all to a shift in your thinking which is non-dualistic and does not compartmentalise.

From my perspective, as per the latest and greatest in what in my opinion I consider to be the fiasco of policies which promote segregating within TZM as well as TVP; the increasingly-strict guidelines which have been surfacing in TZM and TVP at large have now officially begun to make their way into deviantART. This is not at all surprising to me and I would have been shocked if it had not happened.

I've been getting feedback personally such as "this sounds like elitism, it does not jive with me" and things to that effect. Though I agree that all of this is symptomatic of a crisis within both groups as they are starting to become less motivated towards their original ideology and far more authoritative and embracing views and outlooks which both groups had always advocated against -- I would like to remind you all, that not only do TZM and TVP reserve the RIGHT to go in this direction if they so choose to; but their doing so need not segregate us but rather, inspire us.

Crisis breeds opportunity and this, is an opportunity for UNITY.

Think of the primary branches of TZM and TVP as if they were houses. Well, when you are in someone else's house, you do not put your feet on the table or rearrange the furniture. Either you are respectful of the rules of the house while inside of the house, or you simply choose not to enter the house at all.

Any and all sub-divisions of TZM or TVP are their own "houses" and are under no obligation to accept any orders because this was never intended to be an authoritarian command hierarchy, but a model of RESOURCE BASED ECONOMICS, lest we all forget that.

So instead of becoming offended and outraged by what TZM and TVP do have the right to do within their own perspective houses -- why not UNITE all of the OTHER HOUSES who do not approve of these changes into a single unified coalition? It can still be inspired by TZM and even still referred to as branches of this movement. Just as not all Christians are Catholic, not all branches are required to see "eye to eye" on everything, yet can still be parts of the whole, as it were.

These other "houses" do NOT have to accept any policy handed down from the Forefathering House, especially in regards to how TZM and TVP ought to be promoted. Attempts to force the subsidiary houses to "fall in line, or else!" can simply be laughed at and IGNORED. No one need get into any heated battled. No one needs "daddy's approval" when you are "your own man" if you get the metaphor.

Some might say "Well, Jack and Peter both legally own their perspective copyrights to the names of these things and very well could attempt to use legal strong-arming to force us to comply with orders from the top" and yes, they in fact COULD try to do EXACTLY THAT if they feel so inclined. Again however, this would merely only be yet another opportunity if it happened, nor a burden.

Seeing as the actual multimedia has been released under the Creative Commons License as far as I'm aware, no one can legally force you into anything in regards to the movies or any of the other content you might use to promote the movement. I could make a poster that says "Bunnies are cute, so check out TZM!" with a big picture of a rabbit with the TZM logo on its chest and theres really nothing anyone could do about it.

The real legal conundrum if it really came down to it, would be that all of the sub-groups of TZM are using the name of TZM to represent THEMSELVES (similarly with TVP) and so the House at the top can say "our name is copy-written and you are not simply doing as you wish to promote our group, you are making claims of official representation of our group which falls under our copyright and thus we reserve the right to grant or deny any and all permissions as we see fit under the letter of the law".

This is what makes the sub-groups assume they must comply with the top even though to my knowledge, no one at the top has actually threatened anyone. It is merely the fear of the potential of the possibility of a threat, which is what has people bickering and bitching worse than a room filled with tired kindergartners.

IF it were to come down to fascist nazi strong arming and I feel that this is a huge and not very likely IF:  all sub-groups being legally harassed could merely split off and unite under an entirely different name. What is REALLY more important? A fucking NAME? Or the GOALS of the group?

Zeitgeist is a word in the German Language and thus, can not be copy-written nor patented anymore than I could go make a copyright claim on the word "dog".

So if a new name were required to preserve the continuity of the ideals and goals that TZM started out with, you could have for example:

The Zeitgeist Coalition.
The Zeitgeist Alliance.
The Zeitgeist RBE Foundation.
Etc...

Similarly for the name "Venus" which is a PLANET and can not be copy-written nor patented:

The Venus Coalition.
The Venus Alliance.
The Venus RBE Foundation.

And there is no law against admitting in a sub-heading "formerly a subsidiary of TZM" or "formerly a subsidiary of TVP".

RBE is all about the will of the people and if we are not willing to invoke that will by taking response ability as opposed to reacting in a panic, then what right do we even have to claim we know one goddamn about how to usher in an RBE Civilization?

Function in that civilization NOW. You don't need the Mega-Cities and Maglev Trains to do this. Technology is just an idea and can not become invented until the dreams the dreamers dream are put into action and that action begins with the will of the people.

So stop complaining and start unifying. Respect each others rights as sovereign individuals and co-create and co-operate together.

That is all, thank you."