The Venus Project/Zeitgeist ... Can It Be Trusted?

Have you been seduced by the Venus Project lately? It all sounds very grand at first glance. I really like the idea, for example, of designing efficient, sustainable "garden cities" of medium to high density central housing areas with green zones around them (that idea has been around for a long time and makes a lot of sense). No one could argue with such great planning.

And no-one would argue with the aims and goals of The Venus Project, which are set out below.

But the Venus Project has other, potentially ominous, objectives.

This video is a tongue in cheek warning about the Venus Project:



Let's take a critical look at some excerpts from their website promo:

• They propose a Resource-Based Economy defined as "a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. " In principle this sounds great. I am all for global equity (inequity and waste by the "haves" being a far bigger environmental and social issue than the population "bomb".) But this lovely sounding rhetoric is a promo for a new cashless society (complete with a microchipped, barcoded population?) - exactly what the New World Order is planning.

• Again from their website is a blatant call for One World Government that would manage the world's resources for the good of all: "In a resource-based economy all of the world's resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth's people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people. This is the unifying imperative."

• They advocate doing away with working for "wealth, property and power", allowing people to work towards "fulfillment of their personal pursuits". Hmmm... sounds like communism to me. Ask the Chinese how free they feel today!

• "Technology intelligently and efficiently applied, conserves energy, reduces waste, and provides more leisure time. " More great marketing... who wouldn't want more leisure time?

• Microchipping is not mentioned on their website, but this sure sounds like it advocates it to me: "In order to effectively and economically utilize resources, the necessary cybernated and computerized technology could eventually be applied to ensure a higher standard of living for everyone..... They will eventually lead us to large-scale computer-based methods of social operation."

Anyhow, I for one will be going along to the lecture in my city coming up at the end of the month... you gotta keep an open mind, eh?

Venus Project Aims and Objectives (copied from their website):

1. Conserving all the world's resources as the common heritage of all of the Earth’s people.

2. Transcending all of the artificial boundaries that separate people.

3. Evolving from a monetary-based economy to a resource-based world economy.

4. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.

5. Redesigning our cities, transportation systems, and agricultural and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.

6. Evolving towards a cybernated society that can gradually outgrow the need for all political local, national, and supra-national governments as a means of social management.

7. Sharing and applying all of the new technologies for the benefit of all nations.

8. Using clean, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power, etc.

9. Ultimately utilizing the highest quality products for the benefit of all the world’s people.

10. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.

11. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.

12. Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth-control to conform to the carrying capacity of the earth.

13. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry and prejudice through education.

14. Eliminating any type of elitism, technical or otherwise.

15. Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.

16. Enhancing communication in the new schools so that our language and education is relevant to the physical conditions of the world around us.

17. Providing not only the necessities of life but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind, emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.

18. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the possible changes that lie ahead.