Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today’s high tech society.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
You don’t see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we’re free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
We are all victims of culture.
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?
In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.
You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
We found out that you can’t pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That’s all learned in your culture or your sub-culture.
Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography – they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.
The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.
It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
Our problems are technical, not political.