Skeptic Project

This post is about some TZM member writing a letter to David Suzuki, he's some sort of big activists. Some more info below about him.

David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D LLD (born March 24, 1936), is a Japanese Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department of the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki</p>

I found Peter Merola's response to the letter to be again hilarious and someone who is obviously detached from society and at that reality. This is my favorite quote from Dr. Peter Joseph Merola "So, I am saddened to see such blind dismissal, especially from people who claim to want real change. No -- they do not want real change.". His attitude is so fucked it's pretty sad even though I was laughing throughout his rant it's come to my attention that the guy has even a bigger ego than before and I also noticed if your not agreeing with what he's saying he instantly goes on the attack and just completely makes himself look like an ass.

Like this other quote from Dr. Peter Joseph Merola as well which is "The activism community on this planet is dead. They are locked into the box and do not see beyond it. They are angry puppies neatly kept in their state run kennel." Peter pretty much denounces activists and says they do nothing and infers indirectly that his Zeitgeist Movement is the only thing that does anything. what an ego...

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http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=99999&func=view&catid=229&id=301902#301935

People often ask me still why we do not "collaborate" so to speak with other activists/ environmental organizations. This is because all of the protocols / traditional approaches of the current activist community, on all levels, are based on an establishment worldview that has and will continue to fail. Mr. Suzuki's response is a case in point of an individual who holds a tremendous amount of weight and hence established view of social change... and hence any thing that challenges that view is like challenging a religion. Most activist groups act like corporations at this stage.

Now, with regard to David's exact points it is an immature and irresponsible refutation which makes no sense whatsoever. First of all, the first "chapter" of the orientation guide which I assume he was referring to since the first chapter of the movie is only about the fractional reserve system, only lays out the patterns of the economic system and says nothing about what a resource-based economy is. So from that point alone he obviously has taken zero time to understand anything.
As far as his statement about a "dismissal of knowledge"...Where did he even get that? what does that even mean? if anything, it's the absolute opposite.

So, I am saddened to see such blind dismissal, especially from people who claim to want real change. No -- they do not want real change. They want the change that they assume is correct and since most of the highly revered activists have successfully acquired a great deal of income support for their work, it is a natural propensity for them to think that the monetary system is okay since they are being supported by it by their so-called activist initiatives. This is the paradox. The bottom line is that the change needed will not come from the pre-existing activist establishments. They are detached from any reference to the wholistic system. This goes for the entire spectrum as I see it. Greenpeace -- Michael Moore -- Annie Leonard and all the other heavily revered social and environmental activists of our time continue to refuse to look at the system from the broadest perspective and see the fatal flaw... either that or they just don't understand it. But frankly believe most blinker it out due to their monetary success.

The activism community on this planet is dead. They are locked into the box and do not see beyond it. They are angry puppies neatly kept in their state run kennel. Even more, all activism over the past five decades has failed time after time. nothing has changed in any substantial way. The civil rights movement while helping over all was replaced by an economic form of violence/ segregation. voting rights for women and minorities was overcome by the propaganda machine of the state and the patterns/values of voting have not changed at all. the environmental community pretends it has progress when it is a fact that every life-support system is (still) in decline on this planet and getting worse.

So, I challenge any activist group to tell me where their true progress is both from a broad social and environmental standpoint- long term. They use the legal system and the legal system is open for perpetual change based on the whims of any new politician. It doesn't matter how many ships Greenpeace boards -- it doesn't matter how many slave labor camps are shut down -- it doesn't matter how many antiwar protests emerge on the streets of Washington-- it is simply a matter of time before new methods of abuse and exploitation and advantage crop up... just like roaches coming out from under a refrigerator because the spoiled food/socioeconomic system is still there.

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The orientation guide is not very well written, so the reaction doesn't surprise me. I'm actually thinking about going back to university, so I don't end up writing on an amateur level for the rest of my life. Maybe he should consider doing the same, doesn't seem like he has a lack of time, considering the length of his post.

I wonder how his family is reacting now that PJ has a nice little outlet to show his ugly side.

I wonder if Merola's parents realize that their son has finally gone batshit crazy.

Dr Phil isn't a doctor either.

Like Dr. Phil's "therapy," that is a pretty gross over simplification.