Paradise or Oblivion (The Venus Project)

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Imagining a World Without Money



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A 10 minute clip from the movie Zeitgeist: Addendum.

**Watch/Download Zeitgeist for FREE in the following link.**

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Visionary and self-taught architect, Jacques Fresco explains his ideal world that incorporates a resource-based system. No money, or other form of bartering exchange. A world without money is more than just imagination; it is very possible. Jacque Fresco believes if we decide to do this today, all things about this world can be achieved within only 10 years!

Look at our world and all the unnecessary suffering at the hands of the monetary system. Money is a flawed system that is holding humanity back. Just watch this. I'm sure you will all agree.

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Jacque Fresco - Are we educated yet? 



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We lie to our kids, and then we expect them to be honest.
Including Spanish subtitles. Con subtítulos en español.

This journey tries to relate Fresco's observations to the theorems of Nobal laureate Konrad Lorenz who, together with Nikolaas Tinbergen, is considered the pioneer of modern ethology. It ends with excerpts from another great work of observation. Two years before his death in 1996, Carl Sagan laid out a choice for humanity in "The Pale Blue Dot - A Vision of Human Future in Space". Check it out.

This is part two of a series composed of excerpts from a lecture Jacque Fresco gave in Graz, Austria. Thank you again, Leo da Silva, for organizing this event.

camera / editor: Nick Gruber
Spanish subtitles: Javiera Castillo Arze

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Paradise or Oblivion (The Venus Project)



公開日: 2012/03/31

Paradise or Oblivion

*This is NOT the "major motion picture" that The Venus Project is working towards but rather is a 48 min. documentary to introduce the aims and proposals to new people.

A free online documentary created by The Venus Project. Original music by Carly Paradis (http://www.carlyparadis.com/) from her album "They Have Been Watching".

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy.

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world's people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.

Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to benefit human civilization. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled, and scarcity-oriented environment, which we find ourselves in today.

If you would like to help with the creation of a translation for this and/or other TVP videos, please write to LinguisticTeam@thevenusproject.com

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Obama is AWARE!!!The Venus Project and Jacque Fresco



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The elite attempt to solve problems by destroying views and cultures that differ from their own’ -The Venus Project

Published January 26, 2013

Grant J. Kidney — The following is my exclusive interview with the Venus Project, a group dedicated to ending war, poverty, and politics via the intelligent application of humanity’s best technologies.
For over 75 years, Venus Project director Jacque Fresco has spearheaded an effort that would see the Earth declared as the common heritage of all people.
Fresco, along with Roxanne Meadows and a dedicated team of Venus Project activists, work hard to steer the world away from the present woes of totalitarianism, racism, elitism, and environmental degradation by championing a global, moneyless economic structure coined a ‘Resource Based Economy’.
Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows each took the time to answer my questions below.
GJK: The world is fast heading off track and into oblivion. Wars, environmental ruin, and extreme poverty threaten the very survival of our species. In a summed up sense, explain how the Venus Project intends to put a stop to what can only be described as an era of mass human suffering?
TVP: People talk of change but they usually want to change the other person, not themselves. Unfortunately, significant change often requires what scientists call “bio-social pressures.” These include immediate threats to large numbers of people such as war, overpopulation, epidemics, shortages of food or water, natural disasters, technological displacement of people by machines, and more. The major threat is that people do not have access to necessary resources for their survival. What perpetuates this is the inability of their leaders to overcome this inequity. Today these problems are beginning to confront everyone and many are starting to realize this, though slowly, but hopefully before it is too late.
Our challenge is what to do about them. This needs more than empty notions of Peace, Brotherhood, Harmony, Reason, and Sustainability. I say empty because without the methodology of how to achieve these concepts, words are meaningless. What is needed is a completely different approach to how we conduct human affairs along with a change in direction and purpose. The Venus Project offers an alternative vision for a sustainable civilization, unlike anything that has gone before, and has methods of utilizing our technologies to organize society efficiently and equitably so that all may benefit from them. What makes The Venus Project different is that it addresses the root causes of social ills; more precisely, the monetary system itself and the values it generates.
For over 75 years its founder, Jacque Fresco, has been working on comprehensive methodologies and processes through empirical research and study to arrive at this alternative direction. He calls it a Resource Based Economy. His comprehensive work covers total city systems, clean sources of energy, efficient transportation, and many other technologies to enable us to pursue these aims. Most important, he includes a value system that would support this truly sustainable social design.
In order to accomplish this, we must work toward declaring all the earth’s resources the common heritage of all people. Anything less will not work. All the nations of the world must ultimately be joined together in a common enterprise: overcoming scarcity, restoring the environment, and making goods and services, education, and healthcare available to all without a price tag. This may sound like a daunting task because of the many different nationalities, philosophies, political, and religious beliefs, but we all need the same thing: clean air and water, nutritious food, heath care, and a relevant education. This can be accomplished with the intelligent management of earth’s resources directed toward the well being of people.
Cybernated systems would assist in defining the most humane and appropriate ways to manage environmental and human affairs. This is basically the function of government. With computers processing trillions of bits of information per second, existing technologies far exceed the human capacity for arriving at equitable and sustainable decisions concerning the development and distribution of physical resources. With this potential, we can eventually surpass the practice of political decisions being made on the basis of power and advantage.

“In place of political systems we use engineering principles and the scientific method to… meet the needs of all people.” -The Venus Project

In place of political systems we use engineering principles and the scientific method to efficiently meet the needs of all people. It must be stated that engineers do not run people’s lives, control them, or interfere in any way. They merely help initiate and provide a better method of getting things done efficiently. Politicians of today, on the other hand, generally have no special training in the management of resources or human affairs. Don’t take our word for it. Simply ask a politician how to prevent war, obtain a higher yield per area, supply a safer transportation system, or develop a sustainable living environment. Our problems are technical in nature, not political, and solving them requires applying science and technology to the social system.
Physical resources, not money, enable a society to sustain its people. Competition and scarcity create an atmosphere of mistrust and jealousy between people and nations. Patents and competition prohibit the free exchange of information.
Some think all we need are ethical people in government and more laws. If we had the most ethical people in government but ran out of resources, we would still have stealing, lying, and aberrant behavior. Laws do not prevent criminal behavior, the dumping of toxic waste, or war crimes. Nor do moral or religious beliefs enable us to act ethically to achieve the high ideals religions aspire to. When people are deprived and abused, their behavior will reflect the stresses they are subjected to. No matter how many laws you have against stealing if a family is hungry a man may steal, if not for himself, then for his children. Laws are byproducts of the inadequacies of a society of scarcity.
The only workable laws that will dominate the future are natural laws. We must learn how we relate to nature and one another and live in accordance with what we find. We cannot violate natural law. No matter how many laws politicians may make against gravity, it has no effect on the real world. If we do not eat good nutritious food we suffer the consequences.
The monetary system promotes and is based on maintaining scarcity. Its bottom line is profit at the expense of anything or anybody else. Money determines if one has food, medical care, education, housing, and in many cases, whether one lives or dies.
Let us digress briefly and describe some of the detrimental aspects of money.
1. Money is just an interference between what you need and what you’re able to get. People want a job in order to get money to fulfill their needs. But if they thought about it, it’s really not a job or money they want but access to the necessities of life.
2. The use of money results in social stratification and elitism. We say that all people are equal, but most can’t buy the kind of car or home they want, but only what they can afford.
3. Many cultures tell their people they are “free”, but they are really only as free as their purchasing power. How can someone have freedom when they can’t get the best medical care or education for themselves or their children?
4. Most people are slaves to jobs they don’t like, but do them only because they need money. Time, effort, and minds are wasted on the pursuit of money in occupations that contribute nothing to the human intellect or condition.
5. Many laws are enacted for the benefit of corporations that have the money to lobby or bribe government officials to make laws that serve their own interests.
6. People say that the monetary system produces incentive, which may be true to a limited extent. But we have to look at the entire picture because it also produces greed, corruption, crime, war, poverty, and tremendous unnecessary human suffering. If we had relevant education, we would have incentives to solve our problems rather than acquiring money for our own needs or shallow personal ambitions.
7. The monetary system is based on artificial scarcity. For example food products are sometimes destroyed just to keep prices up.
8. There is an enormous waste of resources and energy because of frequent superficial design changes in order to create perpetual markets. Our social system is based on the need to continuously buy. You and I in this system are merely consumers.
9. Earth is being plundered for profit.
10. One of the greatest wastes of resources and lives is the military. How shameful that it is one of the biggest industries in the world. The armament industries make their money by arming all sides. They have no loyalty to anything or anybody other than to the desire to make money.
11. It is little understood just how much our values are shaped by our monetary society. How do we get our values and whom do they really serve?
At a very early age it is pumped into us that we are individuals, but every word, expression, mannerism, notions of good, bad, right, wrong, beauty, and evil, are all given to us. We don’t create our own language or thoughts; they’ve given to us from our culture and our experiences within it.

The Venus Project envisions a redesigned global culture without money, politics, and war.

 

Our values are greatly influenced by the media for the benefit of the establishment. By the establishment I mean the corporations, the military, many religious leaders, and the bankers. They have tremendous influence on the social system in order to serve their own narrow self-interests.
What we have all over the world is managed news by and for the establishment. They also influence books, newspapers, TV shows, movies, entertainment, and education. This in turn shapes much of our behavior and values. They perpetuate the illusion that society’s values come from the ground up by using such meaningless words as Freedom, Patriotism, and Democracy. I think it was Einstein who said Patriotism was a disease.
In other words, we have an established society that works for the benefit of a few. They influence values and behavior in order to keep things as they are for their own advantage. They also perpetuate the myth that people have a set nature that keeps us warring, greedy, jealous, and deceitful. This is used to account for human behavior rather than examining the environmental conditions that generate these behaviors.
In other words we have an established society that works for the benefit of a few. They influence our values and behavior in order to keep things as they are for their benefit.
12. Most important, when a corporation’s bottom line is profit all decisions are made, not for the benefit of people or the environment, but for the acquisition of wealth, property, and power.
It is quite obvious that our existing means of allocating resources through money is not working and keeps people and nations in artificial and perpetual debt. We can do better than this and we have to if we are going to make it into the future.
Science is the best method we have for solving problems. Our future depends on society using the methods of science and technology for the well being of all and the preservation of the environment. Science isn’t perfect, but it enables us to generate clean sources of energy, transport ourselves from one place to another, communicate with one another, provide medical care, and do everything else that permits a high standard of living. Think about it – does any politician have the knowledge to contribute to these essential things?
So briefly, this is how society would be managed. In a global resource-based economy as previously stated, all resources become the common heritage of all people. Everyone has free access to the necessities of life without a price tag. Eventually, the arbitrary boundaries that separate nations become irrelevant. In order to achieve this, we must know exactly what we have to work with. We need to know where the technical personnel are, the industries, the resources, the arable land, and how many people there are on the Earth.
One of the first things needed is a survey to gather data regarding the status of Earth’s resources. From this statistical data we can determine where cities can be built, crops grown, what medical care is needed, transportation routes, and so on. This is very different from the monetary system because decisions are based on real quantifiable data, the needs of people, and the preservation of the environment.
The important difference here is that the steps we take are based on the carrying capacity of the planet’s resources- not opinions, folkways, or differential advantage.
Then it is a matter of applying appropriate procedural systems on a global scale to carry out these aims. Teams of competent personnel using automation oversee their areas of competence. For instance, if the survey committee determines that a bridge is needed in a certain location, those with experience and knowledge follow the technical procedures for building that bridge.
The main aim is to make the necessities of life available as soon as possible for everyone so they can access the amenities that a highly technological society can provide. In order to do this, we cannot maintain the energy and resource wasting, polluting, and stressful existing cities. We have to design cities so they are efficient, clean, and pleasant places to live with redundancy for safety. For goods to be used wisely, they are distributed like public libraries where one can access whatever is needed and then return it so others can do the same when necessary. This way you don’t have to store, insure, maintain, upgrade and transport what materials are needed. If you go to a golf course, you can check out the highest-grade clubs at the clubhouse, use them, and then bring them back when finished. Cities would manufacture only the highest quality goods so there would be less maintenance. There is no advantage in planned obsolescence. Today, products are deliberately made to wear out or break down so that people will continuously buy to maintain the economy.
Most importantly, we use resources directly to solve our needs without the interference of money, barter, debt, or credit of any kind. Imagine how quickly we could solve our problems with this approach! What’s necessary is not just supplying resources to everyone, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind, enabling people to participate and contribute to the well being of all. We must enable people to become problem solvers.
Briefly stated, these are some of the aims of The Venus Project. We know that anything less than this will perpetuate the problems of war, poverty, hunger and aberrant behavior.
Patchwork within our present system will never resolve our problems. It is grossly inadequate to fight every inch of the way for individual issues like the depletion of forests, saving the whales, woman’s rights, racial rights, and numerous other issues generated by the desire for profit. In a Resource-Based Economy, a society designed to be in balance with nature where everyone has equal access to goods and services, we will not have to fight for human rights any longer- it will be an integral part of the design. We will then understand that the well being of all means a higher standard of living and a more fulfilling life for oneself.
GJK: Will it take a global catastrophe to cause the world’s elite powers to give up all they have accumulated in exchange for a culture redesigned according to what the Venus Project envisions?
TVP: Yes, unfortunately, it will take a global catastrophe for them to reexamine their values. Without that it may be impossible to shake their complacency. We do not feel that the elite will come on board with the direction of The Venus Project. What is needed is to bypass the old unworkable established order. The countries that cannot envision the future will be caught in the trappings of old world values and will inevitably fail.
Automation is replacing millions of people in industries and will continue to do so because it is less expensive and necessary to maintaining a competitive edge. This puts more people out of work so fewer people will have the purchasing power to buy products turned out in order to sustain the old monetary system. All things change including social systems, just as all evolution surpasses those less able to survive.
The elite attempt to solve problems by destroying views and cultures that differ from their own through military methods and propaganda designed to perpetuate their static system of power. They are not planning to change themselves, but only others in order to perpetuate their established way of life.
The Venus project offers an emergent system that works for the protection of the environment and which supports living systems and the well being of all as opposed to the monetary system, which esteems wealth, property, and power above all. The two are incompatible.
Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature. Our values, beliefs, and behavior are as much a part of natural law as any thing else. We are all an integral part of the chain of life.
At present we have little control as to how TVP will come about. We are working to educate people about this direction so as to convince a majority of them before we reach a point of no return. This may enable us to facilitate this new advocacy. The alternative is not acceptable when we feel we have something positive to offer as a way out of our present dilemma which causes so much violence and unnecessary suffering.
GJK: The Venus Project proposes a sensible use of the best available technologies in the shaping of a world of total abundance. In the realm of science fiction however, authors and filmmakers will often warn of ‘technological take-overs’ wherein advanced robotic beings enslave the whole of the human population. How does the Venus Project respond to such fears and suspicions?
From Jacque Fresco’s book The Best That Money Can’t Buy:
“A few computer designers today harbor the irrational fear that machines will eventually dominate people, since their designs are beginning to manifest human attributes. This is the unfounded fear of the technophobe. Machines actually care nothing about whether they turn out five thousand cars a month or five hundred. They merely function as they are designed to. They make no complaints as they toil in the hot sun harvesting crops and planting seeds without rest. They have no sweat glands or physical need for sleep.
It is because they do not have emotions that they will not conspire to enslave humans. Technophobes, with unfounded fears that computers and robots will enslave the human race and take over the world, are simply attributing human characteristics to machines. Machines do not posses human and animal characteristics like feelings, which come from hunger, thirst, sensory stimulation, experience, and internal secretions. When a computer is destroyed in the presence of another computer, there is no anger, resentment, or lust to “get even” on the part of the surviving computer. Many humans, particularly science fiction writers, project these characteristics onto machines of the future. Even when machines simulate emotions they are not genuine; they do not feel one way or another about any issue.

 

Jacque Fresco: The rebel genius

 

The fears that machines will increasingly regulate our lives, rob us of our natural instincts, and eventually threaten our most cherished values, such as our family and spiritual beliefs, are erroneous. Even though machines may provide us with rapid transportation, prefabricated abundance, and artificial intelligence, people still harbor these fears
Some individuals distrust a computerized society and the possible failure of the machines. They feel this technology makes us more like machines, driving us towards uniformity, resulting in the loss of individuality and that which we cherish most, freedom of choice and privacy.
In defense of machines, perhaps we would be better off if people did behave more like them. There is no question that some machines are poorly designed, but the flawed natures of human beings in high places surpass, by far, the illusion of the destructiveness of machines.
There is no evidence of machines acting against human beings of their own accord, except in naïve science fiction stories. Humans program machines and direct their use. It is not machines that are to be feared; it is the misuse and misdirection of these machines by people that threaten humankind. We must not forget that the bombing of cities, the use of nerve gas, prisons, death camps, and torture chambers have all been managed and operated by human beings, not machines. Even atomic weapons and guided missiles are built and directed by people. People pollute the environment, our air, oceans, and rivers. The use and sale of harmful drugs, the distortion of truth, bigotry, and racial hatred are all part of flawed human systems and false indoctrination.
Machines are not the danger: we are. As long as we fail to take responsibility for our relationship to fellow human beings and the intelligent management of our planetary resources, we remain the greatest danger to the planet. If there were ever a conflict between men and machines, we can be fairly certain about who would start it! It is time we acknowledged that, while there may be a moral high ground, none of us are currently standing on it. The most powerful testimony to our ignorance comes from the very scapegoats we blame for our social ills: too much technology, foreigners and minorities, “position of the planets,” demonic influences, and subjective moral standards. None of these are relevant; they only serve to divert attention away from the real problems.
Science and technology have created none of our problems. Our problems arise from human abuse and misuse of other people, the environment, and technology. Downsizing is not due to machines displacing people. In a more humane civilization, machines would be used to shorten the workday, increase the availability of goods and services, and lengthen vacation time. If we utilized new technology to raise the standard of living for everyone, then machine technology would benefit all.
Many writers and literary people who perpetuate the myth of cold science exhibit technical illiteracy and ignorance of the meaning of science. This may be due to their feeling excluded, and their being unable to grasp the real significance and sensitivity of science.
The technological revolution is here to stay and will eventually, whether we support it or not, free people from the never-ending struggle for security. Computers have already invaded our schools, churches, and the highest offices of government, but they do not intend to enslave or regiment the human race. They do not inquire into their user’s color, creed, sexual orientation, politics, or religion. They are in some respects kinder to us than we are to ourselves.
We need more technology, not less. But we need a new kind of application of technology. It is up to us to devise more effective and practical applications to harness nature while still protecting the environment and helping to support human life. If technology were managed intelligently and with human concern, it could be used to overcome scarcity and liberate millions of human beings from the scourges of poverty and social insufficiency.
Rather than consign humanity to eternal slavery to machines in a monetary wage system, we should allow machines to free human beings from dangerous, boring, or meaningless jobs. Far from being the threat feared by technophobes, machines could be liberators, providing us the time and the resources to help us learn what it means to be a human being and a member of the world community.”
GJK: In order to get to the world of the Venus Project, several important stages in the development of human culture must first occur. Advocates of your organization will often label these stages as steps of ‘transition’. What is the single most important step humanity must take when transitioning into the healthier future of the Venus Project?
They have to first understand exactly what The Venus Project is advocating and the value system it promotes. Education is of prime importance since The Venus Project is unlike anything that has gone before. It is not socialism, communism, fascism, or the free enterprise system.
To go further than the single most important step, we must harness the latest proven disciplines to carry out the procedural systems to achieve the end goals of The Venus Project. The end goals are:
1. Realizing the declaration of the world’s resources as being the common heritage of all people.
2. Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
3. Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
4. Stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control in accordance with the carrying capacity of the resources of the planet.
5. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
6. Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all .
7. Outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management. This can eventually be achieved by computers connected to the environment.
8. Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all.
9. Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
10. Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
11. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
12. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.
13. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
14. Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
15. Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
16. Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
17. Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
18. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.
We invite you to learn more about this direction from our website www.thevenusproject.com, which is very extensive with photos and videos of possible operational procedures for the world of tomorrow – over a hundred questions and answers, many free downloads and e-books with lots of information. If you identify with this direction we invite you to join one of our many chapters worldwide, or to start one and get to know others within The Venus Project. Sign up on our technical database of over 4700 people, participate in one of our many teams, check out our Venus Expressions site or many of the other activities The Venus Project is involved in. Check us out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheVenusProjectGlobal. There is also a lot to see on our youtube channel
GJK: In many conspiracy theory circles, it is often pondered whether or not the Venus Project is affiliated with the United Nations’ ‘Agenda 21’ program. Members of your organization will often counter such claims however, suggesting that what the Venus Project actually proposes is a world free of the top-down, command and control structure characteristic of today’s totalitarian milieu. Explain to the confused and misguided why it is that they have nothing to fear of the Venus Project- and how the Venus Project actually translates to greater freedom for the oppressed masses.
The Venus Project is in no way affiliated with Agenda 21 of the United Nations. People who project this association are those who do not know that much about The Venus Project.
Totalitarianism is someone or some group that serves their own self-centered goals or whims. There is none of this type of control group as such. What determines what is done are the end goals. These are carried out first through a survey of what resources; technical personal, and industrial plants are available for the needs of all people. Then it is a matter of using the latest scientific methods to achieve these goals.
What most don’t understand is that even those in positions of power and wealth would have a much higher standard of living and a more fulfilled lifestyle than they have today. Sustainability today seems to mean sustaining things as they are for the benefit of a few.
As long as the system uses money to determine who gets what and how much while those in political office do the bidding of wealthy corporations where those entities come before people- this is not sustainability to The Venus Project.
They simply use patchwork over this system, which is the cause of the problems in the first place. Putting trees in decaying cities, making gardens on rooftops, and green architecture will not solve our problems. These efforts do not even touch the underlying causes, which are the basic monetary system we live under, and the inoperable values it generates.
Remember, ‘one world’ to The Venus Project does not mean a one-world corporation with an elite in control while everyone else is subservient. It means organizing the entire planet using a ‘systems approach’ to assure that everyone has freedom of equal access to the earth’s resources while protecting the environment. It aspires to the highest standard of living that a technologically advanced society can obtain to enable all people to reach their highest potential. The environment will continuously improve when people are educated and contributing to the well being of all.

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THE VENUS PROJECT - Inside the New Cities | via TVPD



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Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project | London Real



公開日: 2012/09/02

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Futurist and Legendary Creator Jacque Fresco travels from Florida to London to discuss The Venus Project, his candid conversation with Albert Einstein as a young boy, what happened with Peter Joseph and The Zeitgeist Movement, how the Great Depression developed his mindset, and what he would do if elected President of the United States.

"Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in different ways." - Jacque (01:55)

"There are no good or bad people, people are shaped by culture or subcultures that they're part of." - Jacque (02:49)

"I spoke at Princeton and I titled the lecture 'Man Can't Think or Reason', that made everybody angry and they all wanted to come." - Jacque (04:10)

"They say people invented language to communicate. That's strictly B.S., bad science." - Jacque (05:50)

"When I was a kid I met Einstein and I said, 'Do you believe in God?' and he said, 'Which one?'" - Jacque (07:08)

"So for the Venus Project that means you didn't invent anything?" - Brian (08:36)

"Today they say this man is good, this man is autistic, this man is gifted. All bullshit." - Jacque (14:39)

"Are there leaders in The Venus Project?" "No there are people that are studying various aspects of it." - Brian & Jaque (18:37)

"Is there an ideal world The Venus Project sees one day?" "There's a better world, never ideal." - Brian & Jacque (22:48)

"Was there a pivotal incident that caused you to feel that way?" "Yes, my Grandfather." - Nic & Jacque (28:33)

"I saw an interview with you and Larry King in 1974." "Larry King was a nice guy he was honest." - Brian & Jacque (30:57)

"You said modern civilisation wasn't sustainable and now 30-40 years later it is." " Unless we go to war I said." - Brian & Jacque (32:39)

"In your lifetime in what way have you seen the world deteriorate, anything that really shocked you." "The first depression, 1929, the market crashed." - Nic & Jacque (34:22)

"All of us are prostitutes when we work in this culture. The minute we do to work in any industry when you punch that time clock you're in a dictatorship." - Jacque (33:17)

"What do you think of the Zeitgeist Movement and what do you think of Peter Joseph?" - Brian (37:10)

"Your work was featured in two of the Zeitgeist movies." "People said to Peter Joseph the system is corrupt what can we do about it?" - Brian & Jacque (38:28)

"Would you consider making amends with Joseph?" "I can't let anyone go off in their own direction." - Brian & Jacque (40:37)

"So to summarize you want to keep your ideas your own?" "No, not true." - Brian & Jacque (43:55)

"He said he would make the Zeitgeist movement the activist arm of The Venus Project but he never consulted me." - Jacque (44:35)

"Are we any closer to a resourced-based economy (RBE) now than say 30 years ago." "Not really." "Do you think the transition can be made from capitalism?" - Brian & Jacque (49:25)

"You're 96 years old, you've done so much work in your life, what's left for you to do?" "To train other people in this way of thinking and teach them how to approach people with a different way of thinking." - Brian & Jacque (54:07)

"Is there anything you have been completely wrong about?" "In the old days yes." - Nic & Jacque (57:30)

"What if we elected you President this year, what would you do?" "I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the worlds people and get them to join and become one nation." - Brian & Jacque (59:20)

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Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American self-educated structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist.^[3] Fresco writes and lectures his views of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernated technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society. With his colleague, Roxanne Meadows, he is the founder and director of The Venus Project^[4] Fresco promotes changes to society through a global implementation of a socioeconomic system predicated on his views of social cooperation, technological automation, and scientific methodology, which he refers to as a 'resource-based economy.'

Youth
Born on March 13, 1916,^[5] Jacque Fresco grew up in a minority neighborhood of Bensonhurst in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.^[6][7] Precocious as a child, Fresco's interests did not pertain to the topics presented to him at school.^[8][9] Unwilling, or unable, to conform with a setting of formal education, he sought a self-directed education throughout his later teen years.^[10] Fresco spent many days of his youth at the local library where he investigated subjects of his own interest.^[7] At this early time, Fresco had a talent for acting and this won him the first prize at a prominent drama competition in New York.^[9] Fresco also exercised artistic abilities in painting and sketching.^[9] Atop the roof of his home at 67th and 20th Ave., Fresco spent time with his fellow comrades discussing Darwin, Einstein, science, and the future.^[8][9]
While mostly impoverished during the Great Depression, Fresco claims that it was during this time of hardship he developed the sensitivity and ambition to concern himself with the function of society and the future of humanity.^[11][12]

For a short time, Fresco took an interest in attending the Young Communist League wherein he caused commotion. After brief discussion and disagreements with the League president, Fresco was physically removed.^[6][13] Thereafter, Fresco turned his attention to Technocracy.^[7][8] In the travels of his youth, one destination was Florida where he developed an affinity for the tropics, a place to which he would return later in life.^[8] In the mid-1930s, Fresco traveled west to Los Angeles where he began his career as a structural designer.

Aircraft industry, South Seas hiatus
In California, Fresco found employment at the Douglas Aircraft Company^[6] after presenting many of his early alternative aircraft designs.^[14] Fresco had long taken an interest in designing flying wings^[15] as well as flying saucers, and attempted to interest the aircraft industry at a time when experimental construction was underway.^[16][17] Eventually, Fresco demonstrated such designs in 1938.^[18] However, Fresco quickly encountered resistance to his proposals and design changes,^[19] and thereafter resigned from Douglas due to design disagreements.^[6][19] He soon after traveled to Hawaii in late 1939.^[20] From Hawaii he traveled to the South Sea Islands where he interacted with native islanders.^[21] Fresco claims that his visit to these islands effectively helped shape his understanding of cultural relativism and the flexibility of human values in alternate environments.^[22][23] After returning to California, Fresco took residence at various locations in Hermosa Beach and throughout Los Angeles,^[8] meanwhile continuing industrial design projects for various companies.^{[citation needed]}

Army Air Force, Wright Field
In 1942, Fresco was drafted into the United States Army.^[8][24] He was soon given technical design duties for the Army Air Force at Wright Field design laboratories in Dayton, Ohio.^{[8][16][19][25]} There he would produce up to forty designs a day,^[19] of which one was a "radical variable camber wing with which he attempted to optimize flight control by allowing the pilot to adjust the thickness of the wings during lift and flight.^[26] It received a patent^[27][28] and was thereafter given to the Army Air Force.^[19][28] After difficulties with Army life, he was discharged.^[8] Fresco had many advanced ideas for airplane aviation and this gained him a reputation in the aircraft industry for being "a man twenty years ahead of his time"^[16][19][29]

3D technology
In 1949, Fresco was commissioned by Hollywood producers Jack Moss and Irving Yergin to develop technology for viewing three-dimensional images without the use of eye glasses.^[40] The technology developed was for both theater audiences and home television.^[40] Novel in its simplicity, it was relatively cheap and required little modification of the projection systems used at the time. The technology also had prospects for being used in medical x-ray units and surgery.^[40] It was demonstrated in the summer of 1949 in California.^[41]

Scientific Research Laboratories

Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, Fresco was director of Scientific Research Laboratories^[25] at two locations. First located near Elysian Park in Los Angeles, it was operated with associates Eli Catran and Henry Giaretto.^{[citation needed]} It later moved to a location in Los Feliz, near Hollywood,^[42] where Fresco lived, lectured, and taught technical design,^[6] meanwhile researching^[43] and working on inventions as a freelance inventor and scientific consultant.^[21] This was Fresco's most prolific period of invention.^[44][45]
As a freelance operation, Fresco asserts that many of his inventions were unconditionally sold to his clients, thereby excluding his name from many of the patents.^[21][46] Fresco also claims that many of his inventions were usurped by other associates. During these years, Fresco struggled to get his research funded^[21] and encountered setbacks due to financial difficulties, in at least one case, resulting in the repossession of his lab equipment.^[45][47]

Science fiction, film industry
During Fresco's later years in Los Angeles, he also worked as model designer for science-fiction movies^[8][25] such as the television show Ring Around the Moon which became the film Project Moonbase based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein.^[48] Fresco was noted for his high quality models and special effects despite the low budgets of the B-movie productions,^[49][50] receiving offers from such filmmakers as Roger Corman.^[51][52] Fresco also worked as technical adviser in the film industry, most notably for Lou Stoumen's 1956 documentary The Naked Eye.^[53] Fresco's reputation in Los Angeles eventually earned him a guest appearance on Art Baker's nationwide television show, You Asked For It as the "man of tomorrow" in the early 1950s.^{[citation needed]}
Eventually, in 1955, Fresco left California after his lab was commandeered to build the Golden State Freeway.^[6][14]

Later life

In 1994, Fresco created a new image for Sociocyberneering Inc. renaming it The Venus Project.^[4] By this time, Fresco had accumulated a large quantity of designs and models that could represent a general outline of how his vision may look and operate, and were used to gain exposure for the organization through educational films and literature distributed to teachers and universities.^[12] Aside from their educational materials, Fresco and Meadows continued to support the project throughout the '90s through freelance inventing,^[82] industrial engineering, conventional architectural modeling,^[23] and invention consultations.^[23] In the process, some of Fresco's futuristic designs succeeded in inspiring some development companies.^[83] In 2002, Fresco published his main work The Best That Money Can't Buy. In 2006, William Gazecki directed the semi-biographical film about Fresco, "Future by Design"^[45] In 2008, Peter Joseph featured Fresco in the film Zeitgeist Addendum where his ideas of the future were presented for the societal and environmental crisis expounded in the film. Peter Joseph then developed The Zeitgeist Movement. The two groups later split and are no longer affiliated.
In 2010, Fresco attempted to trademark the phrase "Resource-Based Economy"^[84] The phrase was reviewed and found to be too generic to qualify. The action to trademark Fresco's specific meaning was therefore blocked.
Throughout 2010, Fresco traveled with Meadows on a worldwide tour in response to growing interest in The Venus Project.^[85][86] On January 15, 2011, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward was released in theaters, again featuring Fresco.^[87] Currently, Fresco holds lectures and tours at The Venus Project location^[88][89] and has initiated the funding of a major motion picture that may be made which will depict The Venus Project future.^[23] In November, 2011, Fresco spoke to protestors at the "occupy Miami" site at Government Center in Miami.^[90] In April, 2012, Roxanne Meadows released a film, Paradise or Oblivion, summarizing the goals and proposals of the Venus Project.^[91] In June, 2012, Maja Borg screened her film, Future My Love, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival featuring the work of Fresco and Roxanne Meadows.^{[92] [93]}

The Venus Project
Main article: The Venus Project

The Venus Project is a culmination of Fresco's life work and serves as a foundation that represents his vision of a future without poverty, crime, war, or corruption. It was founded in 1980 and took its name in 1994. It is located in central Florida near west Lake Okeechobee about fifty miles northeast of Fort Myers. On its 21.5-acre lot, there are ten buildings designed by Fresco. It is partly a research center for Fresco and Roxanne Meadows, and partly an educational center for supporters of the project.^[94] They produce videos and literature depicting and explaining their envisioned future and the goals to actualize it. Among these goals, the salient are to produce a major motion picture portraying the future world the project promotes; constructing a theme park with the intention of exhibiting technologies and the ideas of the Venus Project; and constructing an experimental city in an attempt to test Fresco's hypotheses. Its ultimate aim is to improve society by moving towards a global, sustainable, technological social design that is termed a "resource-based economy".^[95]

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The Venus Project - Designing The Future (World Lecture Tour Edition - Deutsch



アップロード日: 2011/01/13

In diesem Kurzfilm geht es um die Vision einer möglichen Zukunft, in der Nachhaltigkeit, größtmögliche Effizienz und intelligente Planung an erster Stelle stehen, um eine fantastische Zukunft ohne Krieg, Hass und Arbeitszwang zu ermöglichen.

Weitere Infos:
www.thevenusproject.com
www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

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The Venus Project - Future By Design - Full documentary



アップロード日: 2011/10/01

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The Greatest Talk of Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project (subs)



アップロード日: 2011/09/05

The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm, 2010

Official site http://www.thevenusproject.com

Videos we recommend:
* This shit's got to go! http://youtu.be/t7PZVYG57UQ
* Visiting The Venus Project Part 1 http://youtu.be/In55SZDDxQ4
* Visiting The Venus Project Part 2 http://youtu.be/bTpvfrVAoPM

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The Venus project. Self Erecting Structures 1/2

アップロード日: 2009/06/19

Self-Erecting Structures presents the fantastic future of the intelligent and humane use of AI and cybernation as they construct our cities, bridges, tunnels, factories, and more - while protecting the environment.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hktVF...

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The Venus project. Self Erecting Structures 2/2



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Jacque Fresco _ The Venus Project _ 2009 London Lecture 1_6(18).mp4 



アップロード日: 2009/12/01

Jacque in lectura

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The Venus Project London Lecture - October 2009 - Part 2 of 2



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Freedomain Radio Debates The Venus Project/Zeitgeist Moving Forward (Peter Joseph) 



アップロード日: 2011/02/07

Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FDR1847 - Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, engages the Venus Project in a passionate debate about the future of the world - http://www.freedomainradio.com

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