[Campaignforrealdemocracy] A resource based global democracy - Jacques Fresco

[Sally Wood]

Hi,

Just picking up some emails after a bit of a holiday from electronics.

Inspired to share this more widely following the suggestions made by Barry
about defining structure through social mapping. I mentioned the Venus
Project to a few of you after the last meeting. It is the work of Jacques
Fresco and is growing very rapidly into a global movement. Goes to show how
powerful a well designed, researched and presented alternative can be in
changing peoples perspectives. All so easy to get lost if you can¹t see a
way out of the fog.

Jacques Fresco:
³Industrial designer and social engineer, author, lecturer, futurist,
inventor who has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of
fields spanning from biomedical innovations to totally integrated social
systems.²

The Venus Project provides detailed reasoning through to implementation of
how we could live in a world without money. It is a broader look at how a
global democracy might work based on the mapping and sharing of real global
resources not money. If you read deeply into the mechanics and reasoning
behind this truly democratic model of a well functioning global community
you will find pure wisdom that might help when thinking about smaller scale
structure. It will take you through some really fundamental flaws of our
current system and may help to define the bigger picture of what needs to be
done / what we need to be focusing on more clearly.

Background and lots of links here:

http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-bui
ld-a-better-future/27800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venus_Project

Best wishes

Sally :)


On 4/8/09 4:00 pm, "Barry Fineberg" <barry at fineberg.co.uk> wrote:

> Mark,
>  
> This is all good stuff and must develop. The separately expressed
> visions/aspirations (political, economic, social etc) cannot be mutually
> exclusive but must be essentially complementary, the key question being how to
> bring them together, in common focus.
>  
> Which refers to my prescriptive paradigm for a 'spatial order' through social
> mapping, the necessary frame of reference to which I allude, in which natural
> hierarchies of local sovereignty enable bringing seemingly disparate issues
> more manageably together in local public arenas - the wholistic perspective.
>  
> The hypothesis is unquestionably determinist, underpinning and overarching,
> but not of my invention. It is rooted instead in natural organisational
> principles increasingly obscured to the point now of invisibility by the
> greater, global scale of industrial/modernist institutional development. Its
> validation, rediscovery and readoption seems to me a necessary though
> practicable precondition for bringing coherence and good sense to this
> virtually disordered world.
>  
> Willll be out of circulation until late August when I shall look forward to
> more dialogue.
>  
> Cordially,
>  
> Barry Fineberg.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From:  Mark Barrett <mailto:marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
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>> To: campaignforrealdemocracy at lists.aktivix.org
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>> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:42  PM
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>> Subject: [Campaignforrealdemocracy]  Statement about Economics &
>> RealDemocracy
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>> 
>>  
>> Dear Robin
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>>  
>>  
>> Please can we start drafting a statement about economics and land value,
>> here, as you see it, in relation to how this will make for a really
>> democratic society?
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>>  
>> Thanks 
>>  
>> Mark
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