Its a terrible sign of our times that things that seem at first glance so sparklingly wonderful and positive, on closer look turn out to be the exact opposite. And simultaneously the genuinely innovative and good suffer smear campaigns and negative propaganda as a matter of course. So how do you know what's real and what to believe any more? The Venus Project is a great example of the former...
The utopian vision of the Venus Project certainly presents a beautiful alternative and sustainable future for humanity. However, there are some very serious problems with the vision. The central control it necessitates is doomed to corruption; history has proven that all power corrupts (and "absolute power corrupts absolutely").
Rather than the "top down" approach expounded in the Zeitgeist movement-supported Venus Project, a safer alternative is the "bottom up", empowering, grassroots practice of Permaculture by ordinary people.
This video argues that the Zeitgeist movement, while claiming to be non-violent and non-coercive, could never become established without becoming a murderous, totalitarian dictatorship.
Others that the Zeitgeist movement is a UN front, and the Venus Project supported as part of its eugenic psuedo-environmentalist agenda.
Here's evidence of that here:
Here Stephan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio gives a critique of the essential flaws of Zeitgeist and the Venus Project:
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While some of the philosophical aspects of similar systems were discussed, the technical aspects were almost completely left out. The reason past centralized economies failed was 1) because people do become corrupt with power and 2) technology was not as advanced as it is today. With a closed system like a planet the most efficient decisions can be calculated without any bias and means to enacting this decision can also be done through the same mechanism automation. While having no currency may have had horrible ramification I think the main message of Zeitgeist is to unite as a planetary civilization and solve our problems together. If people aren't ready for no currency perhaps a new global currency can meet both parties in between while solving current economic problems.
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