#zeitgeist project

[chicago-geniza]

i gotta dip my toe in the zeitgeist more often, damn, being obsessed with multiple actresses in a contemporary buzzy show during emmy FYC season makes me feel like i'm feasting in a time of plague. i'm gorging myself on content. the dishes just keep coming. the tables are groaning under their weight

[chicago-geniza]

ok so you know my zeitgeist project. there's "monitoring the situation," right, and then there are world-to-world connections (part of why i've been reading about the depression-era self-help boom), and then there are experiments in participatory culture, both mass & micro. and these enterprises are demanding a faculty of attention that i've allowed to atrophy since 2020. very strange but the exercise of "re-conditioning" my attention to the present as a kaleidoscope lens with aesthetic/social/historical/political/not quite economic because i don't understand economics enough yet but we're working on it facets has made me understand stefania's approach to constructivism and film in the interwar period so much better??? like from the inside???

[chicago-geniza]

part of the zeitgeist project is occasionally following algorithmic directives. i tell myself as i thirst follow a middle-aged sober polish dyke whose profile instagram suggested on my For You Page (TM)

[everybodyctfd]

I've just finished watching the series of Zeitgeist films which basically put forward conspriacy theories for almost all modern world warfare as well as solutions for the world's problems which center around a non-monetary based global system. I think its pretty telling that the first thing my sister had to say on it was 'it all sounds pretty leftist to me', it does seem  perhaps a little unrealistically socialist, but the research and solutions put forward with the 'Venus Project', for example, are the most viable answers I've ever been given to the questions of how to solve global poverty or the rapid consumption of finite global resources (issues which I believe, by the way, DO come under 'the things we should get worked up about' in the info section). It was all very compelling stuff, I think even if most people don't believe in the content they should at least give it a watch! Oh and to the Global Corporations of the World... CTFD.