ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE

-Gestural statement by J. Maxwell, from his work “Matrix of Power”. This provocative quote is provided to challenge the
common viewer’s sense of normality.
(71) “We’re in a lot of trouble! Because you people, and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now. Because
less than 3% of you people read books. Because less than 15% of you read newspapers. Because the only truth you know is
what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole and entire generation that never knew anything that didn’t come out
of this tube! This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.
This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world and woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the
wrong people!”
“And when the largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless
world who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network! So you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the
truth. Television’s a goddamned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troop of acrobats, storytellers,
dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business.”
“But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe
the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You
do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even
think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! We are the illusion!”
From the movie NETWORK, 1976.
(72) The last thing the power establishment wants is a conscience, informed public capable of critical thinking.
This is why a continually fraudulent zeitgeist is output via religion, the mass media and the educational system. It
is their interest to keep you in distracted, naive bubble. And they are doing a damn good job of it.
-Gestural conclusion, reflecting the self-serving nature of the system we live in. History shows that collective human betterment
is a detriment to the segregated power elite.
(73) This is Aaron Russo, a film maker and a formal politician. To his left is Nicholas Rockefeller of the Council on
Foreign Relations. After maintaining the close friendship with Nicholas Rockefeller, Aaron eventually ended the
relationship appalled by what he had learned.
Nicholas Rockefeller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the
Advisory Board of RAND, the Corporate Advisory Board of the Pacific Council on International Relations, the Board of the
Western Justice Center Foundation, and the Central China Development Council and has served as a participant in the
World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute. He also serves as a director of the Pacific Rim Cultural Foundation, and
is a member of the boards of visitors of the law schools of the University of Oregon and of Pepperdine University. 1
The Relationship between Nick and Aaron is expressed on screen with a photo provided by Aaron Russo, coupled with
the extensive video testimony by Aaron who discusses he relationship with Nick. 2
(74) “I got a call one day from an attorney woman I knew and she said, “Would you like to meet one of the Rockefellers?” I
said, “Sure, I’d love to.” And we became friends. And he began to devulge a lot of things to me.”
So he said to me one night- he said: “There’s gonna be an event, Aaron. And out of that event you’re gonna see we are going
to go into Afghanistan so we can run the pipelines from the Caspian Sea, we are going to go into Iraq to take the oil and
establish a base in the Middle-East, and we are going to go into Venezuela and try to get rid off Chavez.” And the first two
they’ve accomplished, Chavez they didn’t accomplish. And he said ‘ you’re gonna see guys going into caves, looking for
people that they’re never gonna find’. You know, he’s laughing about the fact that you have this war on terror and there’s no
real enemy. He’s talking about how by ‘having this war on terror you can never win it ‘cause it’s an eternal war, so you can
always keep taking people’s liberties away’. I said, “How are you gonna convinced people that this war is real?” He said, “By
the media. The media can convince everybody it’s real. You know, it’s just that you keep talking about things, you keep saying
it over and over and over again and eventually people believe it.” You know you created Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies,
you created 9/11 which is another lie, through 9/11 then you’re fighting a war on terror and now all the sudden you go into Iraq
which was another lie... and now they’re gonna do Iran. And it’s all one thing leading to another, leading to another, leading
to another. And I would say to him, “what are you doing this for? What’s the point of this thing? You have all the money in the
world you’d ever want, you have all the power.” I said, “You know, you’re hurting people, it’s not a good thing.”
And he would say, “What do you care about the people for? Take care of yourself, and take care of your family.”
And then I said to him, “What are the ultimate goals here?”
He said, “The ultimate goal is to get everybody in this world chipped with an RFID chip.” And to have all the money to be on
those chips, and everything on those chips. And if anybody wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we just turn
off their chip.”
-Audio testimony taken from a 2006 GCN radio network broadcast.
1 http://www.nicholasrockefeller.net/
2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1263677258215075609#