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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hi,<BR>
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Just picking up some emails after a bit of a holiday from electronics.<BR>
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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 can’t see a way out of the fog.<BR>
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Jacques Fresco:<BR>
“Industrial 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.”<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Background and lots of links here:<BR>
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<a href="http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-build-a-better-future/27800">http://www.heralddeparis.com/the-zeitgeist-movement-practical-advices-to-build-a-better-future/27800</a><BR>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venus_Project">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venus_Project</a><BR>
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Best wishes<BR>
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Sally :)<BR>
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On 4/8/09 4:00 pm, "Barry Fineberg" <barry@fineberg.co.uk> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">Mark,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Willll be out of circulation until late August when I shall look forward to more dialogue.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Cordially,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Barry Fineberg.<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Mark Barrett <a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com"><mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com></a> <BR>
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<B>To:</B> campaignforrealdemocracy@lists.aktivix.org <BR>
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<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:42 PM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [Campaignforrealdemocracy] Statement about Economics & RealDemocracy<BR>
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Dear Robin<BR>
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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?<BR>
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Thanks <BR>
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Mark<BR>
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