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The Venus Project
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Abundance for all through elimination of money.
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Utopia or more?
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The incredible project of a californian architect,
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who is convinced, he has found an exit for the economic- and financial crisis.½
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- Hello to Newton
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Recalling the news of the past years
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two ever repeating core topix keep occurring
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on one hand the financial and economical crisis
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poverty, unemployment, everybody running short on money
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and the environmental crisis on the other
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How long will our planet keep enduring this?
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We could ask ourselves:
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Does it have to be like this,
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are there alternatives and if so, which?
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A californian (?) architekt proposes a radical cut.
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Since 40 years Jacque Fresco is working on an alternative model
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that shall bring abundance for all.
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Of course, such promises must always be handled with care.
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But as long as we do not have any alternatives to offer,
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good ideas are always in demand.
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Decide, if the architect's Venus Project would be one of those good ideas.
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The Venus Projekt
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is a plan for social change that is feasible.
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It works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization
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where human beings, technology and nature coexist.
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For the initiator it outlines an alternative to strive for
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where human rights are not only paper proclamations
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but a way of life.
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Jacque Fresco calls for a straightforward redesign of the culture in which
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war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable
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but totally unacceptable.
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because its becoming increasingly obvious
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that the problems we face today will continue in the future.
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The Venus Project's research center
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constructed by Fresco and Roxanne Meadows
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is located in Venus, Florida.
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(Jacque Fresco) If they draft you into the army to serve this country
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you put up your life for this country
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they should draft all the war industries:
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every cannon maker, machine gun maker
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automobiles, jeeps, warships - all drafted,
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so they're on the same basis of pay as the army.
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Then it's real. But if you make millions selling warships
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and machine guns to the army, then it's corrupt.
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If I had my way, if we had millions of men in the army
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I'd send them to school to become problem solvers
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how to get along with other nations.
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That's what we have to do, not kill.
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Soldiers are just killing machines; they're trained to kill.
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Social and environmental problems remain insurmountable,
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as long as only a few control the majority of the world's resources
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and profit is more important than the welfare of the people.
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Excessive profiteering leads to aberant behavior
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which is widely spread today.
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Some people assume
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that we simply need more and better laws,
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in order to solve our problems.
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We have many laws, thousands and thousands,
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they are just broken constantly.
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You can predict the shape of the future and the values if you know
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the trends of events in the ocean pollution, the scarcity of arable land.
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If you watch that degrading system grow
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I can predict the riots and killing and assassination.
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Human behavior is really generated by the surrounding environment.
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If there's a scarcity, say of water,
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it is prized and its price is high.
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Let's discuss scarcity as a system.
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Suppose it rained gold for about 3 days, gold dust.
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People would go out and shovel it in, fill their cellars, the attic,
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every drawer in the house. They'd throw out their clothing.
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If the rain kept up for a year so that gold was all over the place,
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people would sweep it out of the house,
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take their rings off, throw them away.
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And so human behavior undergoes change to that condition.
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There's only a policeman in front of something
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that people have need for, and don't have access to,
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so you put a guard there.
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But if lemon trees, orange trees and apple trees, grew all over the place,
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you couldn't sell it.
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If you landed on an island that was so abundant with resources,
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you had 10 people, there were a thousand fish for every person
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if you wanted it, there were 10 times the amount
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of breadfruit and bananas
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money would not come into existence. Private property would not come into existence.
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If the island was big enough:
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there were 10 people, there were 8000 acres
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no one would give a damn about staking out this particular area.
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So, we'd better take care of the environment, we'd better take care of one another
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and we'd better educate people to the highest possible levels of our ability
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in order to have a society."
