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What does zeitgeist mean?
Zeitgeist literaly breaks down to "Spirit of the Time or Age". It is in reference to the preferances of the culture at large. All the things that the people put their faith in…to reflect the image of the zeitgeist of a people. In the current segment of this age one part of the zeitgeist is that information is power. Another contributing idea is that one can behave in a certain way and win favor with a spiritual diety who has human characteristics like anger and love, yet is all powerful and all knowing beyond the power of a human. Then there is the idea that money is power. The money in this country is not based on ANYTHING. The list of contributions is large. The zeitgeist is very obvious to those who are willing to see it. zeitgeist is the spirit of the age. It comes from German philosphy. more popularly we know of Geist which is a term coined by Hegel a German philospher in his phenemononlogy of geist however it cannot be accurately translated since it has many meaning some of which are spirit ghost motivation etc... Zeitgesit is suppose to be part of this as in a spirit of the age an idea whose proponents were the great Greek Philosphers mentioned. (MORE)