Monday night the Abby Pub hosted a meet and greet with members of the Illinois chapter of the Zeitgeist Movement. It was relatively full with around 30 people in attendance. Right after arriving I met the Illinois chapter coordinator, David Simeone. Also in attendance was the former Illinois chapter coordinator and now coordinator for the entire US, Jen Wilding. There was about an hour of meeting and greeting followed by a screening of "The Venus Project - Key Concepts" - a 40 min. edit taken from "Zeitgeist: Addendum" and "Future by Design" which was put together by some other zeitgeist members. Although it was much shorter than the other movies or presentations, it didn't seem to get it's points across very clearly. In my opinion it would have been better to watch the last 2/3 of Addendum or "The Zeitgeist Movement: Orientation".
After the screening they opened up to Q and A. I was very impressed with the patience of David and Jen during the Q and A. The crowd basically broke down into 2 groups: people who are totally on board and have watched, listened and read everything related to zeitgeist and people new to this information. One girl asked the same question three times until she got the answer she liked. My favorite part of that was listening to this awesome old man inadvertently make fun of her for it. Another guy who worked at the bar betrayed his ignorance about poverty and starvation so blatantly I had to leave. I know patience is a huge part of teaching people new things, but I couldn't deal with that. That's something I'll need to work on if I plan on teaching this to people.
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