ZEITGEIST: The Movie........ A manufactured and fraudulent zeitgeist indeed

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by Thorin Teague

The more I think about Zeitgeist, the more I realize how ironic it is; Zeitgeist is more a symptom (and a fairly malignant one) of its subject matter than an antidote. The entire documentary purports to be inviting you to open your mind and educate yourself, yet when you do so all you find out is how hypocritical Zeitgeist is. So... we don't want to be unkind or cause hurt feelings, but we want to be academically correct. Yes, sir.

Here are just a few factual errors; this is by no means extensive.

The Crux was indeed visible from the Mediterranean 2000 years ago (in modern day it is only visible from the southern hemisphere), but it was not called the Southern Cross. It was referred to as Centaurus and was part of a larger constellation. Only the Australians referred to it as Southern Cross, and it's impossible that Australia's indigenous peoples were in contact with the people of the Mediterranean at this point in history.

Egyptian mythology simply cannot be distilled down to a bulleted list of character traits about two of its myriad of Gods. If you bother to educate yourself about Egyptian mythology, you will quickly realize that all of their gods traded roles and changed from dynasty to dynasty, pharaoh to pharaoh. Throughout Egypt's existence, Set's role was revised repeatedly. In fact, he was occasionally HELPFUL to Horus--he ferried Re through the underworld every night! This is among the most basic and simple facts about Egypt and it blows my mind that Zeitgeist got it THAT wrong.

The Egyptians did not have a concept of good and evil as you & I understand it. This is important, people. I implore to burn this concept into your mind if you take nothing else from this review. Good and evil were probably invented by Christians or some form of Judaism to help garner followers. Applying ideas of good and evil to ancient pre-Judean cultures is folly....... (Keep reading, and as Diddy would have you believe, Vote or Die)