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The viral movie “Zeitgeist” was released in 2007, and brought a few obscure theories into mainstream debate, thanks to the internet - and mostly Google video. Now the second part to the movie has been released, in the form of another 2 hour movie.

The original Zeitgeist movie covered 3 main topics: Religion (mostly Christianity), War on Terror (mostly 9/11) and the Federal Reserve. Most of that information was patched together from other works, but served as a great introduction to various topics, hence the name Zeitgeist.

The newly released Zeitgeist: Addendum is split into 2 main topics: the monetary system, and “The Venus Project.” The monetary system covers inflation, fractional reserve banking, interest, the difference between greenbacks, resource-based economies, and a few other areas - all of which lead to the conclusion that all money is inherently founded on debt, therefore any system which uses money will inevitably lead to people in debt, and eventually all fractional-reserve baking systems will bankrupt those who take out any debt (use money).

The second part of the movie attempts to explain an alternative society, which sounds like a blend between global socialism, except nobody has to work because technology has replaced all jobs. I’m not sure I have much confidence in relying on technology to the point where people forget / become obsolete in their counter-part functions to said technology.

Anyways, withholding further opinions on the movie, I still recommend anyone that enjoyed the first one (or didn’t) to watch the addendum, for a more complete view of the filmmakers’ intentions.

We all have friends that can be good influences. I have a friend that is a great influence on me, in terms of coding. Whereas I may have taken some dark alley through spaghetti-coded php/html/css looking for a quick fix, he introduced me to design patterns via suggestions to look into projects such as pureMVC, and Ruby on Rails.

I picked up a few good books on design patterns, sharpened my skills on OOP and went through a detox period, which involved setting up Ruby/Rails and cakePHP among other things on my local development server. During this process, I also went back through lots of my old code, and realized that I was always striving to implement these concepts in my projects, but ignorant to any polished methods such as MVC, Iterator pattern, factory pattern, etc.

All of a sudden, Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3.0 came to mind, and I re-read the entire thing over the course of a day, as though it were an Anthony Burgess novel. Just as in Clockwork Orange, at first the new Nadsat-like syntax of AS3 didn’t make much sense. All I saw was a missing underscore, and a package file. What did these new functions have to do with anything? And what happened to root? Why was it acting strange. Why did I need o use “navigateToURL” instead of “getURL” now? What was the meaning of it all?

But then, there it was. As an unmuddied lake. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer, after becoming aware of design patterns, the new syntax of ActionScript 3.0 made perfect sense. I recognized the facade for what it truly was. It was quite the horrorshow revelation (well, except for the lack of getURL, which still puzzles me).

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