“I really think that this Zeitgeist documentary had a profound impact upon Jared Loughner’s mindset and how he views the world that he lives in.”– Zach Osler, friend of Tucson gunman

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

The movie is a bramble of conspiracy theories involving Sept. 11, the international monetary system, and Christianity.   “There are people guiding your life and you don’t even know it,” the trailer for the movie intones.

“He wanted to watch it all the time,” Osler said. “It was cool at first. But then it got weird. It was all he wanted to do.”

As of noon Sunday, there were 39 search results on Google News for “Loughner+Zeitgeist.” Most of those were passing mentions. Meanwhile, a Google News search for “Loughner+Palin” returned 10,395 results. There were 595 results for “Loughner+Limbaugh.”

By comparison, so far as I have been able to determine, by Sunday noon there had been exactly five substantial articles devoted specifically to the Loughner-Zeitgeist connection.“

It appears quite possible that Zeitgeist was to Loughner what the Beatles’ ‘White Album’ was to Charles Manson.”

Venus, Florida is also the home of world-renowned futurist and social designer Jacque Fresco and his partner, Roxanne Meadows. Fresco is the founder of The Venus Project, the name derived from the town, a project dedicated to the transformation of the world from a monetary-based economy into a resource-based economy. The Venus Project is the foundation behind the international

Zeitgeist Movement,which the director Peter Joseph popularized in his two documentaries,

Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum.