I don't claim to have at my disposal anything that verifies a single fact in the movie. I also don't have at my demand anything to verify the mainstream point of view. Most ordinary people don't, and even if they try, they'll find themselves mired in a slew of references that are just as subject to bias and twisting of the facts as any propaganda. I know, because I've tried. Nothing you haven't seen, literally, with your own eyes can be believed, and even that needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

My beef is that whenever anyone points out supposedly erroneous information, they also fail to provide iron-clad sources for their "factual" information. I'm sick of things being debunked with statements like "this is preposterous." I'm supposed to nod my head and agree as long as the "that's preposterous" is coming from a mainstream source.

The point of the movie is to make it clear that we have given up our autonomy to a system over which we, as individuals, have very little (if any) control, yet we placate ourselves by pretending our little contributions make a difference in the over-all scheme of things. We comfort ourselves with gadgets and t.v. rather than educating ourselves and expanding our horizons. We believe we know what's really going on, but if you pick apart the sources of our information, you'll see that nothing those sources give us can be believed. Nothing. (Hence the "don't take this movie as the truth" statement.) Everything is biased. Everything has a spin.

You have to ask yourself what YOU believe. What is your gut feeling? Do you feel comfortable with the way things are going? Why or why not? Are you uneasy? What can you do about it?

You have to do your own searching. Movies like this serve to motivate people to look into it, to discuss it. Which is what we are doing here. It wants to put us out of our comfort zone.

Do I believe that there are a few "elite" who control most of what goes on in this country? Hell yes, I do believe that. Do I believe that human beings are walking around in a dream (or more likely a nightmare)? Yes. I don't believe that we are headed for anything that is in our best interest as individuals or as a society. But I have believed these things instinctively for a long time, and movies like Zeitgeist only prove to me that I'm not the only person out there asking "What the hell is going on??"