Zeitgeist Project

Note. The website claims no connection with "Zeitgeist the Movie" so the previous deletion is irrelevant.

The Zeitgeist Project is a global initiative examining the current Zeitgeist. It seeks to create a critical mass of influencers to address root cause address for the betterment of particular nations and the world at large. It is based on the premise that ideas have consequences and that actions are born from ideas.

The focal point of this initiative is the National Zeitgeist Assembly which will convene once every three years. The Zeitgeist Project seeks to bring together under one roof a society’s most influential leaders, thinkers, and artists not only to celebrate the Zeitgeist but also to address viral ideologies.

By impacting the influencers of a society the Zeitgeist Project hopes to achieve long term results. The philosophy of the Zeitgeist Project is that energy and time spent addressing root causes of national and global issues provides more significant results than merely treating the effects.

Terminology
The etymology of the word "zeitgeist" derives from two German words Zeit “time” and Geist “spirit” . According to Merriam-Webster Online, Zeitgeist speaks to the “general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era”. In the entry on Zeitgeist in the History of Ideas, “Geist der Zeiten meant originally the sum total of the spirit of generations through the ages. Gradually the meaning of this expression was contracted so as to describe the principle of a certain historical period as it conceives of itself (Karl Löwith). As such this shift is representative of the modern idea of historical self-consciousness and to some extent of severing the ties of continuity between generations”.

Quotations

* Opinions that deviate from the ruling Zeitgeist always aggravate the crowd. ~ Germaine de Staël
* The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. ~Johann Georg Hamann
* Today we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation. We enjoy all the achievements of modern civilisation that have made our physical existence on this Earth easier in so many important ways. Yet, we do not know exactly what to do with ourselves, where to turn. In short, we live in Postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. The abyss between the rational and the spiritual, the external and the internal, the objective and the subjective, the technical and the moral, the universal and the unique, constantly grow deeper. ~ Vaclav Havel, first President of the Czech Republic, quoting Jimmy Long in Generating Hope
* We have withdrawn ourselves so that we have as little emotional attachment to the world as possible. What we see is not very comforting. We find it far simpler to not be engaged with the outside world. ~ Huston Smith
* The accidental truths of history can never become the proof of the necessary truth of reason. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
* Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. ~ Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”
* When modes of music change, do the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. ~ Plato, The Republic
* Whoever marries the Zeitgeist will be a widower soon or in the near future. ~ August Everding
* There is an uneasiness that has spread throughout intellectual and cultural life. It affects almost every discipline and every aspect of culture. ~ Richard J. Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

Concepts
* Empathy
* Compassion
* Anomie
* Dukkha
* Foresight
* Futurology
* Idea

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