Zeitgeist, The Movie
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Bombastic Propaganda, Amateur Mistakes
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Yes, it's the video that's taking the internet by storm. The one with the scary music and seemingly endless photos of corpses, bloodied screaming people and clips from Network, while an angry narrator rails against religion, government and banks? That's the one!
Yes, I've seen it, and let me tell you as a critical scholar of religion (esp early Christianity) I was scribbling notes every two seconds throughout part 1. The entire "Jesus was just a Myth" is a fringe theory, rejected by mainstream scholarship (it's based largely on a "copycat hypothesis" promoted by 19th century amateurs like Kersey Graves and promoted by modern day pulp writers like "Acharya S" (D.M. Murdoch, who is not a historian or biblical scholar). So while the first third of this "documentary" was a pseudo-scholarly attack on Christianity (it's all copied from astrology! that would sure be a shock to the Jesus Seminar!) and a denial of the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth, part 2 imitates "Loose Change" and proclaims that 9/11 was an "inside job" (this conspiracy theory was debunked by Popular Mechanics, and their debate with the "Loose Change" kooks is available to view on youtube). Part 3 attacks the world bankers, the federal reserve, and the US government, tying together a vast world wide conspiracy that will supposedly end with microchips implanted in every person to monitor them 24/7 in the ultimate Orwellian nightmare police state.
If the filmmaker's intention was to scare people, he's succeeded. Thousands of people all over the internet are now terrified that religion and the government are out to get them because of this movie. Many conspiracy nuts have had their beliefs reinforced by it. I don't know about part 3 (that's outside my area of expertise), but part 1 is unscholarly nonsense. Part 2 has been answered by a credible source. Watch it and judge for yourself.
However I would leave Zeitgeist defenders with a parting thought... if the filmmaker is right, and the media, government, religion, etc all conspire to keep the masses "in fear" and believing what they are told, then how is the massive uncritical support of this film any different? Maybe the filmmaker was ironically trying to point out just how gullible the average American tv watcher/internet surfer is...
Skip this and watch "Network" instead if you want a Libertarian anti-media rant that's entertaining to watch. Read Ehrman, Crossan, Fredricksen, Hurtado, and the historical Jesus scholars if you want to know the latest on the carpenter from Nazareth. But skip this one, unless you just want to see a few hours of indie propaganda. |
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