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.
We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It’s about a way of thinking.
We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers.