Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #9

It is politics?

All politicians can do is create laws,

establish budgets, and declare war.

Is it religion?

Of course not, religion creates nothing except

intangible emotional solace for those who require it.

The true gift that we as human beings have,

which has been solely responsible for everything

that has improved our lives, is technology.

What is technology? Technology is a pencil,

which allows one to solidify

ideas on paper for communication.

Technology is an automobile, which

allows one to travel faster than feet would allow.

Technology is a pair of eye glasses,

which enables sight for those who need it.

Applied technology itself is merely

and extension of human attributes,

which reduces human effort,

freeing humans from a particular chore or problem.

Imagine what your life would be like today without

a telephone, or an oven, or a computer, or an airplane.

Everything in your home, which you take for granted;

from a doorbell, to a table, to a dishwasher is technology

generated from the creative

scientific ingenuity of human technicians.

Not money, politics, or religion.

These are false institutions.

and writing your congressman is fantastic. They tell you,

Write your congressman if you want something done.

The men in Washington should be at the forefront of technology.

The forefront of human study. The forefront of crime.

All the factors that shape human behavior.

You dont have to write your congressman.

What kind of people are they

that are appointed to do that job?

The future will have great difficulty and the question

thats raised by politicians is: How much will a project cost?

The question is not: How much will it cost?, but:

Do we have the resources? And we have

the resources today to house everyone,

build hospitals all over the world,

build schools all over the world,

the finest equipment in labs for

teaching and doing medical research.

So you see, we have all that, but were in a

monetary system, and in a monetary system theres profit.

And what is the fundamental mechanism that

drives the profit system besides self-interest?

What is it exactly that maintains

that competitive edge at its core?

Is it high efficiency and sustainability?

No. That isnt part of their design.

Nothing produced in our profit based society

is even remotely sustainable or efficient.

If it was, there wouldnt be a multi-million dollar

a year service industry for automobiles.

Nor would the average lifespan for electronics

be less than three months before theyre obsolete.

Is it abundance? Absolutely not.

Abundance, as based on the laws of

supply and demand, is actually a negative thing.

If a diamond company finds ten times the

usual amount of diamonds during their mining,

it means the supply of diamonds has increased,

which means the cost and profit per diamond drops.

The fact is; efficiency, sustainability,

and abundance are the enemies of profit.

To put it into a word, it is the

mechanism of scarcity that increases profits.

What is scarcity?

Its based on keeping products valuable.

Slowing up production on oil raises the price.

Maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high.

They burn diamonds at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.

Theyre made of carbon. That keeps the price up.

So then, what does it mean for society when scarcity,

either produced naturally or through

manipulation is a beneficial condition for industry?

It means that sustainability and abundance

will never ever occur in profit system.

For it simply goes against the

very nature of the structure.

Therefore, it is impossible to have

a world without war, or poverty.

It is impossible to continually advance

technology to its most efficient and productive states.

And most dramatically, it is impossible to expect

human beings to behave in truly ethical or decent ways.

People use the word instinct because

they cant account for the behavior.

They sit back and they evaluate

with their lack of knowledge,

and they say things like Humans are built a certain way.

Greed is a natural thing. as though theyd worked for years on it.

And its no more natural than wearing clothing.

What we want to do is to

eliminate the causes of the problems.

Eliminate the processes that produce

greed, and bigotry, and prejudice,

and people taking advantage of one another,

and elitism. Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare.

We have always had these problems because

we have always lived within scarcity, and barter,

and monetary systems that produce scarcity.

If you eradicate the conditions that generate

what you call socially offensive behavior, it does not exist.

A guy says Well listen,

are they in-born? No its not!

There is no human nature, theres human behavior,

and thats always been changed throughout history.

Youre not born with bigotry, and greed, and corruption,

and hatred. You pick that up within the society.

war, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery,

human suffering will not change in a monetary system.

That is, therell be very little significant change.

Its going to take the redesigning of our culture, our values,

and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth,

not some human opinion or some politicians

notions of the way the world ought to be.

Or some religions notion of

the conduct of human affairs.

And thats what The Venus Project is about.

The society, that we're about to talk about,

is a society that is free of all the old superstitions,

incarceration, prisons, police cruelty and law.

all laws will disappear

and the professions will disappear,

that are no longer valid,

such as stockbrokers,

bankers, advertising.

Gone! Forever!

Because it's no longer relevant

When we understand that it is technology

devised by human ingenuity

which frees humanity and increases our quality of life

we then realize, that the most

important focus we can have

is on the intelligent management

of the earth's resources

For, it is from these natural

resources, we gain the materials

to continue our path of prosperity

Understanding this we than see,

that money fundamentally exists

as a barrier to these resources

for, virtually everything has a financial cost.

And why do we need money

to obtain these resources?

Because of real or assumed scarcity.

We don't usually pay for air and tap water,

because it is in such high abundance,

selling it would be pointless

So then, logically speaking

If resources and technologies, applicable

to creating everything in our societies

such as houses, cities and transportation

were in high enough abundance,

there would be no reason to sell anything.

Likewise, if automation and machinery

was so technologically advanced,

as to relieve human beings of labor

there would be no reason to have a job

And with these social aspects taking care of,

there would be no reason to have money at all.

So the ultimate question remains:

Do we on earth have enough resources

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