The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It’s about a way of thinking.
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?
Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature.
One may reasonably ask: Why do people cling to the values and practices of the past, when they so obviously no longer work? Long-standing thought patterns are hard to overcome because they often appear to serve the interests of the individual, and old ways of thinking are simpler and easier to handle. In a two-valued way of thinking, as in good and bad, right and wrong, love and hate, cause and effect, very little logical analysis is involved.
Most churches make people feel guilty about natural human inclinations, making them feel dependent on the church for forgiveness. Religion focuses on unresolved human problems of insecurity, shame, fear, and wish fulfillment, and offers hope for a better life in the next world. Science offers people the tools of reason and knowledge to help build self-reliance and free people from mythology and simple wish fulfillment.
Either we learn to live together in full cooperation or we will cause our own extinction.
The only limitations on the future of the humankind are those we impose upon ourselves.
Unfortunately, we tend to support basic values and traditions that reflect the past, without questioning their appropriateness to the present or the future.
We can build rockets to explore outer space and enhance the quality of life on Earth, or we can use them to destroy other nations.