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The wests demise to the sidelines of history as it’s outpaced by the east and technology

November 18, 2017 Seth Lievense 20

The world is changing, but the west is clinging on to a unipolar vision of the world that has passed. It’s attempts to discard this changing reality in exchange for a western worldview expressed in their politics and media are so ungrounded, it’s comical as it is dangerous. This western […]

Social entrepreneurship as a potential for social change and emancipation, The Zeitgeist Movement

August 30, 2016 Seth Lievense 0

This research paper, “contributes to SE literature on emancipation, defined as ‘breaking free’ when further developing the method in the direction of world-making, defined as ‘creating new worlds’. This study suggests that transition theory can be useful for the study of the impact of social entrepreneurial movements.”

Ukrainian tensions: Russia may ‘have gas’, but the US has the dollar

August 18, 2014 Seth Lievense 8

To begin to understand the tensions that come with the Ukrainian crises we will have to zoom out and begin looking critically towards not just Russia, but also the west. From monetary policy to the political arena, ending with you.

identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings and motives

The value of love for social change

February 9, 2014 Seth Lievense 3

NEDERLANDSE VERSIE Our society seems to harden and love for our peers harder to give. We amaze ourselves over it, disapprove of it and place blame with the mad individual. Imagination however teaches us to take in to account the conditions of the environment -parents, school, friends, societal structure- and […]

Our technical reality: how cleantech and the internet will bring us the third industrial revolution

January 4, 2014 Seth Lievense 3

change not by persuasion, but inspiration,
not by appeal, but by personal change

Zeitgeist: moving on

September 1, 2013 Seth Lievense 0

As of today I will no longer be the national coordinator for zeitgeist Netherlands; I resign. Seeing the trust that was given to me by so many and my need for a proper closure comes the need to explain this further. It’s been great years and a great learning curve. […]

The times they are a-changing

October 11, 2012 Seth Lievense 0

16/10/2011 (English translation 11/10/2012 by Josefien Bruijn) – In a world where the laws of the monetary-economic game brings us debt and the artificial necessity of profit, these laws leave us with real or perceived scarcity, harsh social inequality, segregation and ecological breakdown; each of which will have its own […]

The value of the individual within the zeitgeist movement

March 27, 2012 Seth Lievense 1

(Text from the speech at the Townhall Meeting in Amsterdam. August, 2011.) (Republished from blog.thezeitgeistmovement.com) Hello everybody. It’s great to see so many people gathered here with interest in the ideas of the Zeitgeist movement. It’s great to see such awareness of a need for fundamental change. The need for […]