The Future and Beyond by Jacque Fresco

[Peace of Mine]

Reply to Elilren:

"Did they share with you the technological basis or so to speak the blueprints of the projects they aim to fulfill? I am just curious if they are a subcontractors or the real deal themselves and if they believe in teaching people how to fish then rather giving them two fishes for their 'solution'."

Subcontractors? The real deal? Jacque Fresco is a FUTURIST - one who envisions how social and technological developments shape the future. His specialty is Industrial Design and Human Factors Engineering. He built a research facility on the 25 acres THAT INCLUDES WORKING MINATURES of everything from the special extruders to build low-cost housing (with built-in choice for the family who would occupy the home) to planning how the environment of the city could work with humans to maximize well-being for both.

Does the Venus Project "teach people how to fish?" As in, the current system, where TPTB force people to work at a Wal-Mart, or Arby's, or Camping World, for less than survival wages so they can "participate" in a system that guarantees that if they work hard while on earth they can have their reward in the afterlife? Is two weeks of vacation a year your idea of "quality of life?" Or maybe your kid is one of the "lucky" ones who works 36 hours a week without benefits. And takes another job to pay the rent.

Is that what you mean by teaching them how to fish? Dangle "higher education" and "The American Dream" in front of folks so they believe if they work harder, longer, somehow the current system will provide anything more than a debt-laden existence with no time to enjoy any of it?

What is the "two-fish" solution? Is it possible to stretch your thinking beyond what currently DOES NOT WORK to envision a society designed for maximum quality of life for EVERYONE rather than for the "chosen few" only at the top?

That's what The Venus Project did for me. It helped me envision a kinder, gentler world not ruled by The Money Game. Yes, WE, THE PEOPLE can create it if we can imagine it. Seems like there was a precedent set by a wise man who threw the money-changers out of the temple.

It is possible to mix your metaphors and come up with a wholly unexpected "new way of doing business." Get ready. We're in for some major - and very welcome - mind-blowing changes.