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The Zeitgeist Movement advocates the Venus Project, which is simply a name used to describe the work and ideas of Jacque Fresco. The emphasis, rather than on Fresco, or worrying about names, labels, and fallible individuals, is on the overarching observations and hence criticisms of the monetary system as a whole, rather than any local, ecological, or timely concern.
Unlike many still valuable causes, the emphasis here is on the system itself, as the predominant source and underlying root cause of many and most of the world's increasingly crippling problems, from technological retardation, waste and unchecked pollution, to wholesale starvation. Furthermore, money and power are inextricably linked, and as Harvard professor Niall Ferguson stated, it functioned as portable power, the accumulation of wealth ran directly with the accumulation of power, and as I would add, this fact has historically permitted an ouroborus effect, in which both compliment one another and permit the other's perpetuation.
Rather than declaring money to be evil, this is rather about a rational acknowledgment of its historical contingency, and emphasizing transitioning into a new paradigm that is able to function without it. This is the economic equivalent of the evolution of computation, in which vacuum tubes were continually shrunk down until, finally, they encountered a brick wall, and a paradigm shift occurred by moving on to transistors.
Something called a Resource Based Economy is proposed, and part of this is what is often referred to as a 'central database' component of what we currently know as 'governance'. This is NOT to be mistaken with political ideologies. It refers to something very much like the internet, except with a level of artificial intelligence. Like Wolfram Alpha, this is an engineered artifact that uses language understanding and directed algorithmic computation. We propose a 'system's approach' in which this computational knowledge base, accessible via the internet, is connected with all known technical processes, operations and resources, achieved via an Earth wide autonomic sensor system that generates industrial feedback: a principle used in your computer, inkjet printer, and central nervous system. It is now employed in Hewlett Packard's 'CeNSE' technology (Central Nervous System for the Earth).
This is hence NOT a political ideology, but a scientific proposition applying the intimate combination of system's engineering and cybernation. It is also crucial to point out that the cybernation of domestic infrastructure, including the transport, energy, telecommunications and financial sectors of current, first world nations has been accelerating for decades.
Decrying this proposal as 'totalitarian' by associating the word centralized with the historical political ideology of Communism is not relevant, no more relevant than using the same argument when reviewing the blueprints of a load-bearing structure with a central core, or, more aptly, the system's engineering used in various sanitation, irrigation, telecommunications systems, and so on.
The irony of this concern is the fact that the evolution of the monetary system has lead to increasing centralization of power, and the development of monopolies, cartels, oligopoly, and eventual 'plutonomy', aside from the plain fact that almost all systems of current government incorporate a considerable degree of centralization throughout them, and of course understanding that in science the only 'tyranny' and 'dictatorship' is, for instance, of natural laws like gravity. Hence the language of tyranny is childish, and moot.
Perhaps the most important points to drive home here is that this proposed system is based upon scientific reference and applications, and a true economic law of parsimony rather than the contrived Rube Goldberg Machine of our current socioeconomic system, particular that of the monetary system itself, and the plain and simple fact that this centralized, interactive database component, rather than being tyrannical in any way, shape or form, would in fact act as a conduit for true inclusive participation. It would hence act as an interactive interface between you and the technical operations of society, generating a true, modern democratic phenomenon, a lateral relationship rather than a top-down dictatorial one.
If you are still unsure what I mean when I say 'applying the scientific method to society as a whole' I will put it to you in the most direct terms. System's engineers already do this with bringing water, electricity, and communications to people's homes. We are talking about upgrading to our current level of technical capability.
Please check out the original source at V-Radio:
v-radio.org
The Zeitgeist Movement advocates the Venus Project, which is simply a name used to describe the work and ideas of Jacque Fresco. The emphasis, rather than on Fresco, or worrying about names, labels, and fallible individuals, is on the overarching observations and hence criticisms of the monetary system as a whole, rather than any local, ecological, or timely concern.
Unlike many still valuable causes, the emphasis here is on the system itself, as the predominant source and underlying root cause of many and most of the world's increasingly crippling problems, from technological retardation, waste and unchecked pollution, to wholesale starvation. Furthermore, money and power are inextricably linked, and as Harvard professor Niall Ferguson stated, it functioned as portable power, the accumulation of wealth ran directly with the accumulation of power, and as I would add, this fact has historically permitted an ouroborus effect, in which both compliment one another and permit the other's perpetuation.
Rather than declaring money to be evil, this is rather about a rational acknowledgment of its historical contingency, and emphasizing transitioning into a new paradigm that is able to function without it. This is the economic equivalent of the evolution of computation, in which vacuum tubes were continually shrunk down until, finally, they encountered a brick wall, and a paradigm shift occurred by moving on to transistors.
Something called a Resource Based Economy is proposed, and part of this is what is often referred to as a 'central database' component of what we currently know as 'governance'. This is NOT to be mistaken with political ideologies. It refers to something very much like the internet, except with a level of artificial intelligence. Like Wolfram Alpha, this is an engineered artifact that uses language understanding and directed algorithmic computation. We propose a 'system's approach' in which this computational knowledge base, accessible via the internet, is connected with all known technical processes, operations and resources, achieved via an Earth wide autonomic sensor system that generates industrial feedback: a principle used in your computer, inkjet printer, and central nervous system. It is now employed in Hewlett Packard's 'CeNSE' technology (Central Nervous System for the Earth).
This is hence NOT a political ideology, but a scientific proposition applying the intimate combination of system's engineering and cybernation. It is also crucial to point out that the cybernation of domestic infrastructure, including the transport, energy, telecommunications and financial sectors of current, first world nations has been accelerating for decades.
Decrying this proposal as 'totalitarian' by associating the word centralized with the historical political ideology of Communism is not relevant, no more relevant than using the same argument when reviewing the blueprints of a load-bearing structure with a central core, or, more aptly, the system's engineering used in various sanitation, irrigation, telecommunications systems, and so on.
The irony of this concern is the fact that the evolution of the monetary system has lead to increasing centralization of power, and the development of monopolies, cartels, oligopoly, and eventual 'plutonomy', aside from the plain fact that almost all systems of current government incorporate a considerable degree of centralization throughout them, and of course understanding that in science the only 'tyranny' and 'dictatorship' is, for instance, of natural laws like gravity. Hence the language of tyranny is childish, and moot.
Perhaps the most important points to drive home here is that this proposed system is based upon scientific reference and applications, and a true economic law of parsimony rather than the contrived Rube Goldberg Machine of our current socioeconomic system, particular that of the monetary system itself, and the plain and simple fact that this centralized, interactive database component, rather than being tyrannical in any way, shape or form, would in fact act as a conduit for true inclusive participation. It would hence act as an interactive interface between you and the technical operations of society, generating a true, modern democratic phenomenon, a lateral relationship rather than a top-down dictatorial one.
If you are still unsure what I mean when I say 'applying the scientific method to society as a whole' I will put it to you in the most direct terms. System's engineers already do this with bringing water, electricity, and communications to people's homes. We are talking about upgrading to our current level of technical capability.
