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March 17, 2019
Creating Utopia
By lila york
The Venus Projectis a program for replacing a monetary society based on false scarcity with a resource-based society based on abundance, where technology serves people and not profit.
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Many years ago I posted a link to Peter Joseph's film, Zeitgeist and only recently stumbled on a sequel titled Zeitgeist Addendum made in 2010 and updated to address humanity's current predicament.
The first hour features John Perkins of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man fame describing how corporations came to control the world's people.
The second hour, beginning at 54 minutes in, elaborates on the solution: The Venus Project, a program for replacing a monetary society based on false scarcity with a resource-based society based on abundance, where technology serves people and not profit. It eliminates all menial labor and also eliminates money and therefore inequality. In other words, it is the opposite of our current social structure. It is the kind of structure I always imagined more advanced alien societies would have constructed for themselves.
The spokesperson for The Venus Project claims that the technology already exists to realize such a goal - but patents protected by the elite prevent it being used. For instance, geothermal energy could power the entire planet; for free, At the end of the film Joseph gets to the spiritual aspects of universal abundance - "we are all interdependent - with each other and with all life on earth ", and refers to 'the zeitgeist movement'' - teaching people how to stop supporting the current system.
It all sounds like a mammoth undertaking, overwhelming and dis-empowering the current money and power structure. One unlikely to succeed. But the sliver of possibility I find at this moment in history is showing up in the resistance to the extremes the current white house has brought us to. Even European allies are fed up. European populations are refusing to lie down for the enslavement being legislated for them. So yeah.....maybe.
"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby (Former CIA Director)
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, CIA Director (first staff meeting, 1981)
"'Conspiracy theory' is something that, if true, you couldn't handle it." Mark Crispin Miller