On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Karl Robillard
<krobillard@san.rr.com> 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