If you’re
not familiar with The Venus Project, then you’re in for a treat! Imagine living in a
world of abundance and prosperity without the need for money. Imagine
using space age technology in the next few years. Imagine living in a
world with clean air, fresh water, and healthy, non-GMO food?
It’s within
reach right now!
Aims
and goals of the The Venus Project
Realizing
the declaration of the world’s resources as being the common heritage of all
people.
Transcending
the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
Replacing
money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
Assisting in
stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth
control.
Reclaiming
and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
Redesigning
cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants
so that they are energy-efficient, clean, and able conveniently to serve the
needs of all people.
Gradually
outgrowing corporate entities and governments (local, national, or
supra-national) as means of social management.
Sharing and
applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
Developing
and using clean, renewable energy sources.
Manufacturing
the highest-quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
Requiring
environmental-impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
Encouraging
the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.
Outgrowing
nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
Eliminating
elitism—technical or otherwise.
Arriving at
methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
Enhancing
communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical
conditions of the world.
Providing
not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate
the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
Finally,
preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges
that lie ahead.
Part I of
this three-part documentary series explores the determinants of behavior
to dispel the myth of “human nature” demonstrating that environment shapes
behavior. Part II illustrates how our social structures impose our values and
behaviors demonstrating that our global monetary system is obsolete and
increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people. Part III, to be
released this year, will depict the vision of The Venus Project to build an
entirely new world from the ground up, a “redesign of the culture” where all
enjoy a high standard of living, free of servitude and debt, while also
protecting the environment.
We want to
send a heartfelt thank you to all of our Kickstarter donators & The Venus
Project supporters who made it possible for us to produce Part I & II of
The Choice is Ours.
The
following video will give you a tour of the Venus Project
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Architectural
designer and futurist, Jacque Fresco, is considered an inspiration by many for
his innovative ideas and his blueprint for a sustainable society and planet. It
is known as the Venus
Project. While some of his ideas are considered radical and far-fetched, we
are now reaching a point in technology where it may be time for a reappraisal.
The
Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we
apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world
civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which
the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human
suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable.
Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalogue of problems
inherent in today’s world. Today many people believe what is needed is a higher
sense of ethical standards and the enactment of international laws to assure a
sustainable global society.
Fresco’s
idea advocates for a society that runs on socio-cooperation, and uses science
and the advancement of technology in clean and efficient ways. He calls
this system a “resource-based economy”, and it would involve reconstructing the
entire planet’s infrastructure. The planet would need to work together as one,
“eliminating the false borders that separate continents and countries and
looking at our planet as an open trading highway system.”
Because our
current system is based on mass consumerism, which promotes environmental
neglect, we are not living in a sustainable society, and it’s only a matter of
time before we drain the planet of its resources. Fresco suggests that the
answer is to automate as much as possible in the shortest period of time. By doing
so, we can use technology to produce and distribute resources for the entire
world in a clean and efficient manner. In this way, technology can work for
everyone.
Two common
concerns at this point are whether or not there would be enough resources for
everyone, and whether or not mass automation will have a negative effect on the
job market. The first thing to take into consideration is that the Venus
Project would terminate the need for a monetary system, thereby having no
effect on the job market, and if we can get to a point where the level of
production is high enough (which Fresco claims is more than possible), scarcity
will no longer exist. The theory is that with most jobs automated, and
resources in abundance, the average person will only have to work a couple
hours a day, and they would have everything they could possibly need.
Fresco also suggests
that computers can be used to benefit humankind by using a global intelligence
network to oversee things such as the production and distribution of goods, and
to ensure there would be no shortages or overruns of resources. “Decisions
being made in this innovative society would be based around the needs of the
people and the conservation of the planet, not corporate interests.” Our
corporate-run society uses the monetary system to stress a need for vast
resources that don’t have to be used—it promotes waste.
Fresco has
numerous ideas for this new system, all of which are outlined in the
documentary provided at the bottom of this page. From clean, renewable
energy, to transportation, it seems Fresco has thought of nearly everything.
Fresco’s
system would also eliminate the need for a government. As of yet, “none of
the world’s economic systems—socialism, communism, fascism, or the free
enterprise system—have eliminated the problems of elitism, nationalism, racism,
and most of all scarcity.” These government-run systems are centered primarily
on economic disparity.
When
money is used to regulate and distribute resources for profit, people and
nations are out for themselves. They will seek advantage at any cost. They do
this by maintaining a competitive edge, or through military intervention. War
represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a
strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and
resources ever conceived.
Fresco
believes that people are good at heart, and that negative ideals are taught. It is his belief
that when people are provided with everything they need, from the necessities
required to survive, to the things that give us pleasure, the need
for greed and corruption evaporates. There is no need for a governing body
or military in a world where everyone is provided for. There is no need for
police if greed and desperation, and ultimately crime, are not present.
In the world
Fresco is suggesting, technology can be used to advance mankind in positive
ways. Rather than using science to advance our weapons technology, we can
concentrate on the true necessities, such as the medical field. Fresco believes
that with medical care available to all, as well as advancements in technology,
those conditions and disorders that cause violent reactions in people can be
detected and treated from an early age, without the need for a prison system.
This has
nothing to do with those who want to form an elite world order with themselves
and large corporations in control and the rest of the world subservient to
them. On the contrary, a global resource-based economy enables all people to
reach their highest potential where they can thrive and grow in a society that
works on their behalf. A society that protects and preserves the environment as
well—one that understands we are a part of nature, not separate from it.
Controversy
There have
been a few arguments against the Venus Project, with some even
claiming that Scientology, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin all pale in comparison. This
mainly seems to be due to the fact that there would be no need for currency,
police, prison systems, or a government in Fresco’s vision.
Some have
commented that a system such as the one Fresco is suggesting would eliminate
competition, and without competition humans would lose their creativity and
imagination. It should be noted that the desire for competition is not a human
trait, but rather a cultural trait, and there was no direct link found between
competition and the ability to create or imagine:
Mainstream
culture in the United States emphasizes assertiveness and individuality, so many
Westerners are competitive and reluctant to give in to others. In more communal
societies, people have less individualistic perspectives and are less likely to
focus on winning conflicts (Ting-Toomey, 1991; Van Yperen & Buunk, 1991).
Similarly, in Japan and many other Asian cultures, open disagreement is
strongly condemned (Gangwish, 1999). Great effort is made to avoid winning at
the cost of causing another person to lose face. In Japanese sports, the ideal
is not for one team to win but for a tie to occur so that neither team loses
face. When there is to be a winner, Japanese athletes try to win by only a slim
margin so that the losing team is not humiliated (“American Games, Japanese
Rules,” cited in Ferrante, 2006). (Wood, 2013).
The most
common argument, however, is that the Venus Project is another form of
communism or socialism, though it appears to be difficult for skeptics to make
a solid connection. For example in one critic’s study it was noted that the Venus Project opposes the
Leninist Bolshevik brand of communism, and openly rejects the George Sorel
approach of “ongoing blood riots and violence”, therefore meaning that the
Venus Project is not a form of revolutionary communism. A connection was
immediately made afterwards to socialism though, due to the fact Fresco’s
system rejects police, prisons, and military.
“The
state will ‘wither away’. In the socialist commonwealth of the future there
will be neither judges and policemen nor prisons and gallows.”
The critic
also states this does not conclusively prove that the Venus Project is
socialist.
There are
other similar comparisons made between the Venus Project and communism, as well
as socialism, however these details seem minute in comparison to the major
differences. When asked directly how Jacque Fresco’s system compares to
communism, those at the Venus Project responded:
Communism
being similar to a resource-based economy or the Venus Project is an erroneous
concept. Communism has money, banks, armies, police, prisons, charismatic
personalities, social stratification, and is managed by appointed leaders. The
Venus Project’s aim is to surpass the need for the use of money. Police,
prisons and the military would no longer be necessary when goods, services,
healthcare, and education are available to all people.
In a report
from Collective-Evolution:
Some
argue that Jacque Fresco’s plans are idealistic and crazy, and that our world
is too far away from such a utopia. However, if we take a moment to observe our
current state, it is easy to see that people are not content with the way the
world is currently run. Countries all around the world are standing up to their
governments with hope of reconstructing a future which provides equal and
harmonious living standards for all. We are aware that we need to create
something new, and perhaps Jacque Fresco’s blueprints hold the key to the new
Earth we’ve been waiting for all along.
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