The original Zeitgeist movie was a brilliant series of questions and facts. It was mind opening and encouraged reflection on self, reflection on society and reflection on the universe. The addendum, on the other hand, tries to offer answers to the questions posed in the original. It drives relentlessly on a socialistic agenda, no longer sticking to the facts, but turning instead to pie-in-the-sky ideals without basis.

I would like to take a moment to point out one huge hypocrisy that came up in the last 1/2 hour of the addendum. They spend a lot of time and effort emphasizing that we are all one and that we are all connected. They say that therefor unconditional love is the only correct answer. They then proceed to attempt to use this as a reason to discard capitalism as corrupt. Their reasoning is that capitalism is selfish and therefor evil. They say that we should all be motivated by the well being of mankind, not by economic gains.

The problem with this line of reasoning is that if the 'true path' for humankind is to be motivated by the good of our fellow humans, then a free market capitalism allows for that. An economy is simply a way for people to express their needs and preferences. There is no inherent corruption here, simply that expression. The 'corrupt capitalists' will always be corrupt, regardless of the underlying system. The nice thing about free market capitalism is that it allows both for them to express their needs and preferences and for the rest of us to do so. If our preferences are massively different from theirs, things will change, because their profit motives _require_ us to demand what they are selling.

If, as the addendum suggests, we pull our funds, accounts and labor away from certain companies, the free market will drive a reduction in the power of those that we despise. In the planned, "resource driven" world proposed therein, there would be no way to express those preferences. So, by definition, it could never reflect the ever changing needs, wants and desires of all of us, as one, or as many.

Many of the action items proposed by the addendum are fine and consistent with the _questions_ and _facts_, but several are so clearly driving a socialistic agenda as to undermine open minded beauty from which it was spawned. I'm truly sorry to see that this movie did not continue the open ended, personal development based legacy of the original.