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Paradise or Oblivion Trailer



Coming in March 2012

Paradise or Oblivion

A free online documentary created by The Venus Project. Original music by Carly Paradis (http://www.carlyparadis.com/) from her album "They Have Been Watching".

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy.

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world's people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people.

Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to benefit human civilization. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled, and scarcity-oriented environment, which we find ourselves in today.

*This is NOT the "major motion picture" that The Venus Project is working towards but rather is a 52 minute documentary to introduce the aims and proposals to new people.

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Event Update

The Venus Project - Tampa Convention Center
On Saturday May 19th, beginning at 10am, Jacque Fresco will be presenting for 2-4 hours with a lunch break included at the Tampa Convention Center. For more information please visit: http://venus.ibabar.com/

The Venus Project

The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any socio-economic system that has gone before. It calls for a straightforward redesign of a culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.

An Introduction to The Venus Project

The Venus Project

The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life.

We operate out of a 21.5-acre Research Center located in Venus, Florida.

When one considers the enormity of the challenges facing society today, we can safely conclude that the time is long overdue for us to re-examine our values and to reflect upon and evaluate some of the underlying issues and assumptions we have as a society. This self-analysis calls into question the very nature of what it means to be human, what it means to be a member of a "civilization," and what choices we can make today to ensure a prosperous future for all the world's people.

At present we are left with very few alternatives. The answers of yesterday are no longer relevant. Either we continue as we have been with our outmoded social customs and habits of thought, in which case our future will be threatened, or we can apply a more appropriate set of values that are relevant to an emergent society.

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.

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Major Motion Picture Fund

The Venus Project is seeking donations to help further development of a serious major motion picture depicting life in a resource based economy. This film is designed to reach the general public throughout the world to introduce an exciting, sustainable new social direction, depicting a vision of what our future can be if we intelligently apply science and technology with environmental and human concern. A future where war, poverty and hunger could be but a distant memory.

Today we face very trying times where economies and countries are teetering on the brink of chaos; our resources are being depleted through waste and irresponsible management. Technology is displacing jobs that are not coming back. Most of our energy needs are obtained through methods that are destructive to the environment and ourselves through the plundering of finite resources which are being consumed at an alarming rate. Existing social institutions are not taking the consequences of this same course of action seriously. These and many more problems will be culminating in the near future and we are not prepared to deal with what is coming.

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The Venus Project Seminars / Tours

Response to Occupy Wall Street

The Venus Project realizes the significance of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together movements and offers a positive solution for their grievances.

We at The Venus Project fear that any acquiescence to the protestor’s demands will do very little if the processes that cause the problems are left in place. In this case whatever laws or regulations are made will be eventually bypassed or overturned and conditions will revert back. This has almost always been the situation historically.

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Aims and Proposal

È comune presso i nostri mass-media, leggere e ascoltare giornalisti parlare del numero di problemi sociali che abbiamo di fronte oggi, come il riscaldamente globale, la distruzione ambientale, la disoccupazione, la crimininalità, la violenza, la povertà, la fame e l'esplosione demogragfica. Eppure, quante volte sentiamo parlare di piani realizzabili per alleviare molti di questi problemi sociali? È relativamente semplice per la gente criticare la società, mentre è molto più difficile identificare e attuare piani per risolverne i problemi

The Venus Project is a veritable blueprint for the genesis of a new world civilization, one that is based on human concern and environmental reclamation.

I piani del Venus Project offrono alla società uno spettro di scelte più ampio, basato sulle possibilità scientifiche orientate verso una nuova era di pace e sostenibilità per tutti. Attraverso l'attuazione di un'economia basata sulle risorse e l'implementazione di una multitudine di tecnologie innovative ed ecocompatibili direttamente applicate al sistema sociale, le proposte del Venus Project ridurranno drasticamente la criminalità, la povertà, la fame, la mancanza di fissa dimora e molti altri pressanti problemi comuni a tutto il mondo di oggi.

Una delle pietre miliari dei risultati di ricerca dell'organizzazione è il fatto che molti dei comportamenti disfunzionali della società di oggi derivano direttamente dall'ambiente disumanizzante di un sistema monetario. Inoltre, l'automazione ha portato alla sostituzione tecnologica del lavoro umano da parte delle macchine e alla fine risulterà che la maggior parte delle persone non avrà il potere d'acquisto per comprare prodotti e servizi.

The Venus Project proposes a system in which automation and technology would be intelligently integrated into an overall holisticsocio-economic design where the primary function would be to maximize the quality of life rather than profits. This project also introduces a set of workable and practical values.

Tutto ciò è in perfetta armonia con l'aspetto spirituale e gli ideali presenti nella maggioranza delle religioni nel mondo. Ciò che contraddistingue il Venus Project, a ogni modo, è che esso propone di tradurre questi ideali in una realtà funzionante.

Phase One

The first phase of The Venus Project's long-term plans is already underway. Jacque Fresco, futurist, inventor, industrial designer and founder of The Venus Project and his associate Roxanne Meadows have completed the construction of a 25-acre research center in Venus, Florida to help present the proposals of The Venus Project. Videos, CDs, posters, pamphlets, models, renderings and books such as "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War", have been created to help raise awareness about this project and its many proposals.

Phase Two

La fase due include la produzione di un intero film che illustrerà come un mondo aderente alle proposte avanzate dal Venus Project funzionerebbe. Il film fornirebbe una visione positiva di una società pacifica nella quale tutti gli esseri umani formano una famiglia globale sull pianeta Terra. Una civiltà nella quale tutte le persone sono dedite alla ricerca di una migliore comprensione del mondo che condividono. Il film è stato progettato per essere un'esperienza gradevole ed educativa sia per adulti che per bambini.

Phase Three

To test its designs and proposals, The Venus Project is working towards putting its ideals into practice by the construction of an experimental research city. Blueprints for most of the initial technologies and buildings have begun. Fund-raising efforts are currently under way to help support the construction of this first experimental city. This new experimental research city would be devoted to working towards the aims and goals of The Venus Project, which are:

  1. Realizing the declaration of the world's resources as being the common heritage of all people.
  2. Transcending the artificial boundaries that currently and arbitrarily separate people.
  3. Replacing money-based nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.
  4. Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.
  5. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
  6. Redesigning cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries, and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.
  7. Gradually outgrowing corporate entities and governments, (local, national, or supra-national) as means of social management.
  8. Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
  9. Developing and using clean renewable energy sources.
  10. Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.
  11. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.
  12. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavour.
  13. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice through education.
  14. Eliminating elitism, technical or otherwise.
  15. Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
  16. Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.
  17. Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
  18. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

Within the experimental city, a theme park is also planned that will both entertain and inform visitors about the possibilities for humane and environmentally friendly life-styles planned by The Venus Project. It will feature intelligent houses; high-efficiency, non polluting transportation systems; advanced computer technology; and a number of other innovations that can add value to the lives of all people - in a very short period of time.

A circular city would be a transitional phase and could evolve from a semi-cooperative money-oriented society to a resource based economy. This could be the prototype for a series of cities to be constructed in various places throughout the world. The rate of progress will depend on the availability of funds raised during the early stages and the people who identify with , participate in, and support the aims and direction of The Venus Project.

As these new communities develop and become more widely accepted, they may very well form the basis of a new civilization, preferably through the process of evolution rather than revolution.

Nessuno può pronosticare il futuro. Noi possiamo solo estrapolare su presenti informazioni e tendenze. Crescita della popolazione, cambiamento tecnologico, condizioni ambientali globali e risorse disponibili sono il criterio primario per future proiezioni.

Non c'è una singola filosofia o punto di vista sia religioso, politico, scientifico o ideologico, con cui qualcuno non possa entrare in disaccordo. Noi siamo certi, comunque, che gli unici aspetti del Venus Project che potrebbero apparire minacciosi sono quelli che altri progettano su di esso.

Il Venus Project non è né Utopistico né Orwelliano, e non riflette nemmeno i sogni di idealisti privi di senso pratico. Invece, presenta obiettivi raggiungibili che richiedono solamente l'intelligente applicazione di quanto già conosciamo. Le uniche limitazioni sono quelle che noi imponiamo su noi stessi.

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