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Jacque Fresco: We call for a straightforward redesign of our culture
Jacque Fresco is my hero when it comes to social innovation.
An industrial designer and social engineer, Jacque Fresco has been promoting a general systems methodology in approaching and solving social problems. He recognises that unless everyone on Earth has access to the world's resources, there will continue to be inequality and poverty, which contributes to the increased likelihood of crime and war breaking out.
For the last thirty years, Fresco has headed an organisation called The Venus Project, which advocates the global shift from a monetary-based system to a resource-based one. A system where the Earth's resources are recognised as the common heritage for all the world's people, not just a small group of elites. One where the culture is redesigned so as to promote the human and environmental well-being and individual growth where the petty psychological and social distortions that we see today are gone, forever.
Even after thirty years promoting an idea that conflicts with an establishment, he has not lost heart. While it is easy to go along with the majority of the NGOs standing up for social justice and equality, organisations worthy of respect in their own merits, there is a need for someone who dares to stand up and question the functionality of our social system. Currently, his ideas are being promoted fervently, even in the mainstream, by a sister organisation called The Zeitgeist Movement that aims to realise Fresco's vision for the world.
Through The Zeitgeist Movement which hosts weekly radio addresses, occasionally fielding questions to Jacque Fresco, I have clarified certain questions I had about the The Venus Project. In addition, there is a saying that if you want to understand someone, you should try to read and experience all he or she has. Right now, I am reading the books which have shaped Jacque's understanding of the world and how he reached the radical conclusion, even in today's context, many decades ago.
As Fresco has stated: "We call for a straightforward redesign of our culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but also as totally unacceptable. Anything less simple results in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in the present system."
If you are interested to learn more about this man, you can visit www.thevenusproject.com or www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
An industrial designer and social engineer, Jacque Fresco has been promoting a general systems methodology in approaching and solving social problems. He recognises that unless everyone on Earth has access to the world's resources, there will continue to be inequality and poverty, which contributes to the increased likelihood of crime and war breaking out.
For the last thirty years, Fresco has headed an organisation called The Venus Project, which advocates the global shift from a monetary-based system to a resource-based one. A system where the Earth's resources are recognised as the common heritage for all the world's people, not just a small group of elites. One where the culture is redesigned so as to promote the human and environmental well-being and individual growth where the petty psychological and social distortions that we see today are gone, forever.
Even after thirty years promoting an idea that conflicts with an establishment, he has not lost heart. While it is easy to go along with the majority of the NGOs standing up for social justice and equality, organisations worthy of respect in their own merits, there is a need for someone who dares to stand up and question the functionality of our social system. Currently, his ideas are being promoted fervently, even in the mainstream, by a sister organisation called The Zeitgeist Movement that aims to realise Fresco's vision for the world.
Through The Zeitgeist Movement which hosts weekly radio addresses, occasionally fielding questions to Jacque Fresco, I have clarified certain questions I had about the The Venus Project. In addition, there is a saying that if you want to understand someone, you should try to read and experience all he or she has. Right now, I am reading the books which have shaped Jacque's understanding of the world and how he reached the radical conclusion, even in today's context, many decades ago.
As Fresco has stated: "We call for a straightforward redesign of our culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but also as totally unacceptable. Anything less simple results in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in the present system."
If you are interested to learn more about this man, you can visit www.thevenusproject.com or www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
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Comment by cameron michael keys on March 21, 2010 at 1:52pm
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Implementation, my friend -- implementation!
your story, and Jacques', becomes a story about transitions.
Transitioning from monetary-based culture to resource-based culture is not a trivial process.
It seems like the Venus Project and Zeitgeist Movement require a team of evidence-based technical engineers and systems analysts. If they could publish some detailed -- meaning thousands of pages -- proposals for technical implementation of a transition from a clearly defined state of affairs called "monetary-based" to a clearly defined state of affairs called "resource-based" this would benefit us greatly.
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Comment by Ezra Ho on March 26, 2010 at 7:24am
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Definitely, in time, that will be the priority of the movement. However, at present, the majority of the movements trying to achieve social justice, sustainability etc and the general public are not aware of this understanding, unique to TVP. Since its inception two years back, education has been the main focus of TZM.
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 1, 2010 at 2:35pm
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I've implemented this form of living already, with the simplest thing I've done being putting up a list of the things I have to offer (freely) and the things I'm requesting on my own website. It's a simple thing everyone can do, even just on a bulletin board at the local coffee shop, or grocery store, or park.
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Could you specify further? Maybe provide a link to your website? While this sounds unfamiliar to The Venus Project's ideas, it seems to be promoting a closely knit community.
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Here's my site. The "Gift Economy" list is over on the rightmost column. It's just a simple and honest way to very clearly communicate ourselves to the world.
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