[P2P-F] New release Zeitgeist movie big success

[Michel Bauwens]

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 <krobillard at 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
>
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