hI Karl, I'm looking for good critical material on the topic, if you see anything pass by, thanks for letting me know, Michel On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Karl Robillard <[email protected]>wrote:
On Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:07:43 pm Eric Hunting wrote:
Still, overall this movie seems like real progress for this movement.
I've watched this movement for a couple years now. It has no legs because they are entirely committed to the specific goal of building a research city.
Mr. Fresco repeatedly makes the point that the Venus Project is about changing culture more than building cities, but he then goes and places his designs front and center in all of their media. During a talk in Slovenia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TwVs2nlUb0) Jacque told his audience to go solicit corporations for the means to build his city. I have never once heard him make reference to any of the existing commons movements, and Peter Merola only talks about them dismissively.
There are a lot of younger males attracted to the movement. When they find the leadership unreceptive to thier ideas, they start their own organizations (http://rbose.org/, http://rbefoundation.com/, http://www.atlasinitiativegroup.org/) where they flounder about looking for direction.
It would be great if we could organize to build some of these cool arcologies, but I suspect this will only be possible after a few generations of people have lived immersed in an open, P2P world.
-Karl
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