There is something extraordinary happening on a 21.5 acre Research Center located in Venus, Florida. It’s called The Venus Project.
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems.
As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
Experience tells us that human behavior can be modified, either toward constructive or destructive activity. This is what The Venus Project is all about – directing our technology and resources toward the positive, for the maximum benefit of people and planet and seeking out new ways of thinking and living that emphasize and celebrate the vast potential of the human spirit. We have the tools at hand to design – and build – a future that is worthy of the human potential. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. What follows is not an attempt to predict what will be done – only what could be done. The responsibility for our future is in our hands, and depends on the decisions that we make today. The greatest resource that is available today is our own ingenuity.
While social reformers and think tanks formulate strategies that treat only superficial symptoms, without touching the basic social operation, The Venus Project approaches these problems somewhat differently. We feel we cannot eliminate these problems within the framework of the present political and monetary establishment. It would take too many years to accomplish any significant change. Most likely they would be watered down and thinned out to such an extent that the changes would be indistinguishable
The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any social system that has gone before. Although this description is highly condensed, it is based upon years of study and experimental research by many, many people from many scientific disciplines.
The idea of emergent culture is fascinating. A Resource-Based Economy is interesting too, but I wonder if our selfishness and greed can actually be overcome? I hope so, otherwise it will destroy us and our planet sooner or later. Humanity has so much potential. I wonder if we will ever relinquish enough control to actually realize it. I’m hopeful, I think. Endeavors like The Venus Project offer much hope.
Go, explore the Project’s website. It’s full of fascinating an challenging ideas and visions.
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Been there. Done that. BrasÃlia was OK, didn’t quite work, it didn’t have much soul. In 30 years the marble tiles will be falling off the 50% of the fancy buildings nobody uses and Venus will start looking like Pyongyang. The hallways will smell like piss.