[P2P-F] New release Zeitgeist movie big success

Sun Feb 6 22:59:46 CET 2011

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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