ZEITGEIST THE MOVIE

The film Zeitgeist has been available on the internet for several months now as zeitgeistthemovie.com. However, on Saturday March 15th it was shown at various private locations in 70 countries and apparently hundreds of thousands of people saw it. In essence it portrays a negative picture about how our country and also Western society is run, while giving credence to various conspiracy theories. It breaks the negativity into three components: religion, government, and banking.

I pondered the merits of commenting on this film, for I am focusing on writing and speaking the message of Men’s Action and creating a following, rather than wasting my energies on writing about the wrongdoing of society. The film does however, have aspects that warrant our consideration, which I will expound upon as this article progresses.

The first part of the film addressed religion, or at least the Western concept of religion, which is Christianity. It made no mention of Buddhism, Hinduism, or various other currently practiced religions. This act I felt warrants my first comment; what Western man didn’t create does not warrant his mention. So, according to the film there is only one religion, and it is not good.

The section on religion goes on to show the founders of many other past religions were born on December 25th, had 12 disciples, were crucified, and uttered the same dogma. They fail to show the negativity of those aspects. In my book Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility, I indicate that the words, “Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” were said by Jesus, Bipai of India, The Buddha, and Amenhotep IV of Egypt. The truth is the truth, and it is contained in most religious texts and repeated by most prophets. There was nothing in that film that affected my beliefs. It did provide interesting information of earlier religious influences such as Horas of Egypt.

Next the film went on to show that the United States and its allies provoked World Wars I and II. I have known this since my teens, and have found additional corroborating evidence as the years have passed. So what? The events can’t be undone. What is the significance today? The film gives it significance in the sense that 9/11 was part of a conspiracy as well. Suppose they’re right. What’s the significance? The film presenters asked the audience to sign a petition reopening an examination of the causes of 9/11. Do they actually believe that the government will find itself at fault and suggest punishment? How naive.

Lastly the film addressed the influence of the Federal Reserve, large banks, and people of extreme wealth, and showed that they have an undue influence on our individual lives and on the direction of our nation. What’s the surprise? The measure of success in the Western culture is the amount of material wealth a person accumulates. Those who have accumulated the most wealth have the most power—a very natural consequence in a society that fosters making money as an end in itself.

The film offered no course of action to bring about change, nor did it suggest a change. Western man made the film about Western religion, Western government, and Western banking, and true to his feminine materialistic psyche, he offered no solutions. He offered no solutions because he was blind to the causative factor of the conditions portrayed in his film. I thought about the words of Isaiah 6 as he described the end of times.

“The People’s wits are dulled, their ears deafened and their eyes blinded.”

For those who did not understand the message it is repeated in Isaiah 56

“Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them unaware. They are dumb dogs who cannot bark”

How long will this blindness, ignorance and impotence last? The word given to Isaiah is as follows:

“Until cities fall in ruins and are deserted, houses are left without people, and the land goes to ruin and lies waste……”

We are in the midst of that condition now. This is the time to awaken and rally to the cause. It is the time to prepare and “build once more on ancestral foundations and be called the Rebuilders.”

That is the call of Men’s Action to Rebuild Society—to rebuild on the old foundations.
Unseen, masculine, and spiritual values comprise the old foundations. Let us stop dwelling on what is wrong and instead take steps to do what is right. You can do this by giving of your time, talents, and treasure to Men’s Action. You can awaken and start living outside of the system that is collapsing before your eyes.

BEDFELLOWS DOBSON AND ZUCKERMAN

In a newsletter dated November 19, 2007 Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family praised publisher Mortimer Zuckerman of U.S. News & World Report for his support of the family. I have waited these few months to respond to the article because of my respect for Dr. Dobson; however, I do not feel that I can ignore his comments any longer and still be true to the mission of our organization.

The quote from Mr. Zuckerman that Dr. Dobson admires follows:

“The stable family of two biological parents—surprise, surprise!—turns out to be the ideal vessel for molding character, for nurturing, for inculcating values, and for planning for a child’s future. By comparison, the children of single parents or broken families do worse at school and in their career[sic]. Marriage, or the lack of it, is the best single predictor of poverty, greater even that race or unemployment.”

That is a true statement and is in accord with our message as well. However, in a blog on mensnewsdaily.com in an article entitled The Boy Crises I pointed out that U.S. News and Newsweek consistently played down boys and men on the cover stories of their publications. I wrote:

The emphasis on the female and the relative absence of the male on the covers of these major news magazines is not coincidence or oversight; it is a concerted effort on the part of the media to eliminate the masculine influence, breakdown the family, and establish a completely socialistic government. US News provided proof of this viewpoint in an article written by Jodie T. Allen entitled, “Are men obsolete?” that appeared in the June 23, 2003 issue. Some of her statements are; men are a perennial and perhaps deepening problem; boys dominate in such dubious categories as remedial education, stimulant-drug prescriptions, and suicide; and there remains, to be sure, one large sector in which men retain unquestioned domination: crime. She asks, “What shall we do with all the men? Jodie T. Allen was not some disgruntled reader who wrote a letter to the editor, but a paid member of the staff of US News & World Report. She is on the Zuckerman payroll. Thee Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News, owner of The New York Daily News, real estate magnate, and billionaire. A man with these credentials cannot claim ignorance; he knows the effects of lambasting the male in his national news magazine. All the cover stories and this article written by Jodie T. Allen are part of a strategy to breakdown the family. Mr. Zuckerman is evil. He is a power among those who would destroy our way of life.

In light of the above it seems strange that Dr. James C. Dobson considers Zuckerman’s comments to be worthy of a special letter of appreciative acknowledgement. However, upon reflection I realized that for all the many years that I have been reading Dr. Dobson’s newsletters, I do not recall that he ever addressed manhood. His organization will try to lay claim to their interest in manhood by their suppport of the Promise Keepers, a well funded impotent organization that needed Biblical direction to figure out why they were men, and then didn’t undertand it. This well funded organization went into backruptcy; the fate of all organizations that lose their virility.

In his concern for the family Dr. Dobson refers to fatherhood, as though it were a job clasification such as plumber or accountant. He neglects to go through the chain beginning with manhood, then being a husband, and then finally a father. Everything begins with manhood. Everything.

The readers of MND frequently commented that Dr. Dobson never addresses the men who are in jail because of false allegations of rape, sexual harrassment or spousal abuse. He does not address the men who are in the equivalent of debtors prison because they cannot keeep up with child support payments, not infrequently for children that are not theirs. He does not address the men that have not seen their children for years and for no wrongdoing on their part.

Dr. Dobson is too busy worrying about Muslims and homosexuals to address the needs of men, those whom God gave the authority and direction to care for his world. I think Dr. Dobson’s main interest is to promote his religion through government fiat, and all else takes second place. Consequently, efforts to preserve the family have failed on all fronts; the rate of marriage has fallen, and the rates of divorce and adultery have increased. The takeover of the administration of child care has reached the point where biological parents are merely the custodians of the governments children.Apparently Mr. Zuckerman and Dr. Dobson do have one major commonality of thought; neither of them promote the development of real men. The former by design and the latter thorugh ignorance. By ignorance I do not mean the lack of intelligence, for Dr. Dobson is a brilliant man; however, he does not have any knowledge of the principle of gender and how it affects the lives we were ordained to live. He accepts the concept of the equality of the sexes in the workplace, as though the development of the workplace was the objective of human existence. The objective of all existence including human, is the propagation and preservation of the species. The masculine principle provides the environment and means for the feminine principle to bring forth life and nurture it. Only men can provide that environment. Real men.

Since men of such diverse careers as Mr. Zuckerman and Dr. Dobson fail to support the development of manhood it is only natural that society has become impotent. The government has stepped in to fill the void that resulted from the suppression of male authority and has reached its tentacles into every area of our lives. Focus on the Family is also affected by this same malady and its receipt of contributions has fallen off, its staff has decreased, and its influence has waned. Bye bye Dr. Dobson—Mr. Zuckerman is laughing at you.

INFLATION AND THE LOSS OF FREEDOM

The Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to maintain stable purchasing power by fighting inflation. When inflation goes up the FR tightens credit by raising interest rates, when inflation goes down, the FR loosens credit by lowering interest rates.

Now the Federal Reserve has changed direction and lowered interest rates while inflation has increased. Factories hiked prices on wholesale goods in January at an annualized rate of 12%. The people who live on fixed income retirement are seeing the value of their incomes diluted by inflation. The stock market on the other hand, which Mr. Bernanke seems so concerned about, witnessed a rise in the Dow-Jones average from 3,000 during the middle of the housing slump of 15 years ago to an average of more than 12,000 today. That’s a four-fold increase for the investor. No job classification increased in salary four-fold since then; not even baseball players have seen incomes increase at that rate. Whose interests does Fed Chief Ben Bernanke serve?

Mr. Bernanke’s discount rates are designed to help the bankers, those same bankers who engineered and supported the high-risk real estate boom that has collapsed everywhere. He is doing this at the expense of the populace, especially those on fixed incomes.

Before Mr. Bernanke took over his job as Fed Chairman I read an assessment of him that indicated he would favor inflation over recession, and he is indeed doing just that. Lowering interest rates as inflation climbs reduces the purchasing power of people and makes them increasingly dependent upon government largesse. Whether thorough intent or ignorance, inflation serves as vehicle to take away from people what they earned. It is an evil practice that those who believe in a one-world government have no difficulty in supporting.

Inflation results from an uncontrollable desire to accumulate material possessions, whether through capitalism or socialism. When people work solely for the purpose of making money greed and evil are bound to ensue. The purpose of employment is to provide a means for the propagation and preservation of the race. When it becomes an action for personal gain and aggrandizement excess cannot be avoided and booms and busts in the economy will occur. Also fraud, cheating, misrepresentations, and theft will follow. We have seen during the past few years CEO’s of various companies imprisoned for their greed. We are in the process of seeing that happen to sports figures. It happens on a frequent basis to our politicians. Since ethics do not exist to guide people in their conduct, the government enacts increasing numbers of laws to regulate the making of money. These laws in conjunction with the inflation that eradicates the purchasing power of people and makes them increasingly dependent upon the state, serves to enslave them further.

There is no way to “fix” a materially oriented society to make it work better. Materialism is un-natural and always destroys itself. Only the spirit is eternal. Western society is in the midst of its collapse; however, before the collapse finalizes there will be a continued infringement on our liberties through economic and legal means. Be prepared for the worst but live secure in the knowledge that spirit will prevail.

I had originally concluded this article with a request that you contact your congressmen about inflation, but I realized that would be asking you to take steps to “fix” what I said was unfixable. Better to use that same amount of time to read the scriptures of your liking. If you use the Bible I recommend the book of Jeremiah. Perhaps you would find a meditation on 5:25-31 better spent than writing to a politician.