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In general, how credible are the Zeitgeist Movement's claims?

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This is for broading, sweeping judgements on the claims as a whole. To approve or rebutt specific claims, ask/an-2swer a different follow-up question.

They use only a few sources to back up ALL their claims: a few radical books

Original author: Tekee

Partly true, but the connections they draw between their different claims are fantastical

onedreamer says: some things are certainly true, and most have a basis of truth. Theonly problem is how they connect everything together... that's wheretheir "disturbed" minds (or should I say "beautiful" minds ?) are elaborating too much. Where they cross the border between matter of facts and theories.

The Zeitgeist Movement are ridiculous

  Cheezy the Wiz says: I remember someone posted their stupid movie about the supposedrecurring myth of Christ in ancient religions; it was so easyto prove wrong.

They may have some points; however other key points read like conspiracy theory nuts

This foolishness against fractional reserve banking needs to be crushed. That's Ron Paul-tard level craziness. Which brings up the point, why is the extreme right, the so called "libertarians" and other utopians all coming up with this lunacy at once?

Now if your goal is to make the people with money the owners of all property of all descriptions, then extreme hard money may make sense. If you want a successful economy, it does not.

Fractional reserve banking is not some new thing in the world being perpetrated as a fraud in the modern age. It was sanctioned by the kings of England 400 years ago. It was probably going on in Itally a couple centuries before that. It could have begun a 1000 years ago in Europe.

We would not today be the people we are without it.

The entire history of the industrial and capitalist part of world history is inexorably tied together with FRB. It made the modern era possible.

So, yeah, banks invent money out of thin air. What of it? They were doing so when Columbus discovered the Americas. And possibly when the Vikings did also.

Why are people suddenly so upset over it now?

They're a lazy and ignorant substitute for a genuine critique of capitalism

holy_king says: people who feel capitalism is bad and cant be bothered to really lookinto capitalism critique, so they come up with a few easy to grasp"concepts".
they're on the internet and behave like they are a movement, other people on the internet even buy it. I wouldnt spend too much time thinking about the "zeitgeist movement".

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