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.
The intelligent use of science and technology is the tool with which to achieve a new direction.
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
Don’t forget – you’re dealing with aberrated people. They’re not responsible for their answers. They’re victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.
People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
And you can’t find “love” because in order to find “love” you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving “love”, your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that’s not attainable...
There’s no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
Instead of a pentagon, you have a lot of people that are trained in bridging the difference between nations. The pentagon would serve as an intermediate organization to bridge the difference between cultures.
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species.
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It’s what you do to make the future.
The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth’s resources, not Fresco’s opinion.
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
We are all an integral part of the chain of life.
There’s no way to design a society that’s optimal or utopian. It’s better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth’s resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
There isn’t anything that is said that ‘someone’ won’t take issue with.
When somebody asks, ‘Whats the answer to all of these questions?’ that’s absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
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.
Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?