October report

October 17th 2009

Jacque Fresco receives 2009 International Design Award, updates, and thoughts.

Today Jacque Fresco is receiving the 2009 International Design Award at the Life Loves Design Conference in Ixtapa Mexico.

Peter Joseph in the latest radio address indicated that he isn't going to be doing anymore full Q&A's at least for a while, this is a relief for me because it has seemed like the questions were beginning to be repeated.

As time goes on those who haven't read the materials and done their own research to arrive at the same conclusion are going to bog us down.It is my hope that we reach out to those who have heard and agree so that we can build a community that can then begin to function as a local movement. Right now we have about a dozen people registered here, we need to meet to discuss everyone's interest and abilities, to start a plan.

The long term

It is important to know that we are in for a long journey, I'm in it for a long haul 8 years at least, so the thing we are trying to build is something that is going to last. We can deal with the folks who are very exited about getting going by helping them direct their energies so they don't burn out. We don't need superstars or cheerleaders, we need minds who connect with what is the best in all of us, we will have flashes in the pan, and people raining on our parade but in the end slow and steady finishes the race.

What we should want to do is begin building connections with people, emphasizing where we connect is a powerful way to build rapport, it's deeper then anything we can do as far as promoting is concerned. Fostering negativity in the form of controversy over government actions or inability to handle the issues is not a high energy place to communicate from, it's good as far as a slap in the face to wake people up but not a good tool to keep people interested.

 We all want things to happen right now, I understand this but let's step back a minute,The Zeitgeist Movement as a concept is only about a year old, the Chapters idea is only 6 months old, the NJ Chapter was started August 28th 2009 almost 7 weeks ago. I guess it's helpful for me to look back and see how quickly things happen, we have 14 members of this site currently, so if we maintain growth at 2 a week, by March 15th we should have 46 members. In a year 118, more then likely after the third movie we will see exponential growth.

The short term

In the mean time I think over the next 6 weeks we should all meet together and collect our ideas. I'm very accessible by phone, I've spoken to several of you already and it's been awesome. So let's not be so far sighted that we don't take care of the 7 week old baby we have here, or so short sighted that we get frustrated about taking care of the small stuff. We are moving we are grooving, and we can have fun while we try to communicate this very serious message to people.

Seth

If you haven't noticed our site is listed on the gateway page. This is a good start for New Jersey I'm so happy to be at this level of activity in The Zeitgeist Movement.

Please feel free to suggest any improvements, and get started posting in the forums

Seth