# What is The Venus Project?

Very Briefly, The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change; one that works toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are not only paper proclamations but also a way of life.

The Venus Project presents a vision not of what the future will be, but what it can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old problems of war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems found in today's world.

The Venus Project presents an alternative vision for a sustainable world civilization unlike any political, economic or social system that has gone before. It envisions a time in the near future when money, politics, self and national-interest have been phased out. Although this vision may seem idealistic, it is based upon years of study and experimental research. It spans the gambit from education, transportation, clean sources of energy to total city systems.

Many people believe what is needed is a higher sense of ethical standards and the enactment of international laws and treaties to assure a sustainable global society. Even if the most ethical people in the world were elected to political office, without sufficient resources we would still have many of the same problems we have today. As long as a few nations control most of the world's resources and profit is the bottom line, the same cycle of events will prevail.

As global challenges and scientific information proliferate, nations and people face common threats that transcend national boundaries. Overpopulation, energy shortages, global warming, environmental pollution, water scarcity, economic catastrophe, the spread of uncontrollable disease, and the technological displacement of people by machines threaten each of us. Although many people are dedicated to alleviating those conditions, our social and environmental problems will remain insurmountable as long as a few powerful nations and financial interests maintain control of and consume most of the world's resources and the monetary system prevails.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems, we must declare Earth and all of its resources the common heritage of all of the world's people.

Earth is abundant and has plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities. We could easily create a world of abundance for all, free of servitude and debt based on the carrying capacity of Earth resources. With the intelligent and humane application of science and technology, the people of the earth can guide and shape the future together while protecting the environment. We don't have enough money to accomplish these ends but we do have more than enough resources. This is why we advocate a Resource-Based Economy.



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“We of this mighty western Republic have to grapple with the dangers that spring from popular self-government tried on a scale
incomparably vaster than ever before in the history of mankind, and from an abounding material prosperity greater also than anything
which the world has hitherto seen.

As regards to the first set of dangers, it behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern
themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. If from lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self-indulgence, they refuse
to govern themselves then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside. They can prevent the need of
government from without only by showing they possess the power of government from within. A sovereign cannot make excuses for
his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise of power that inheres in him; and where, as is true in our Republic,
the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose if they are to preserve that
orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest.”

-President Theodore Roosevelt; Opening of the Jamestown Exposition; Norfolk, VA, April 26, 1907



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It is my intent and will that all who read this understand what it means. Because if you are able to understand it, then you can finally
move forward in understanding why things today are exactly why they are. This is very important. We must recognize our defect and
rejection of that which the government has provided to us. To understand that the governments of this world, though seemingly, corrupt
and out of control, is merely a reflection of the people in which it has to govern. That we are the problem. I'm the problem and you are the
problem. We have refused to govern ourselves. Due to that refusal we are left with the best that the government can literally provide.

We as a dependent of the government are a disruption and a burden because we refuse to govern ourselves. They have stepped in to try
to control us, to keep us from hurting ourselves and one another so that some semblance of society might still exist. It's not pretty and not
what people think they want but it is what it is because that appears to be exactly what we want.

Like I said before, the government is merely (merely; meaning ONLY) a reflection of the people in which it governs. The more out of control
the people who have submitted themselves to it, the more out of control the government appears to be out of control to control it. It's actually
pretty simple. Cause and effect. We are the cause by the choices we make and the government, in all of it's choices, are the effect. We the
people make this so. We are the problem.

On the other hand, if we were to stop looking to the government for our every need, for currency, for trade, for everything commercial, to
deliberate fairness and equality, there would be none who find themselves holding the short end of the stick. For there would be no stick that
any would want to hold.

Every government of this world will be united. Know that. Their cause will be to subdue all of those who are the problem. Know that. They will
rule with a "rod of iron". They will either force us to all grow up by making us understand that we indeed are the problem or they will have to simply
put an end to those that will not except the responsibility for their own actions, intents and understandings.

For those of you who think that government has enslaved you, by whatever means, know that you did agree to be governed, by and through
your personal acts and actions. Do not be fooled. It is you that is the problem and your unwillingness to accept that responsibility is the problem
at hand.

They'll get you by your claim of ownership. Understand that they have taken steps to relieve you of ownership. Most governments accomplished
this in the 1930's. By doing so, they have made it possible for you to live your life here, now, in abundance. Yet because your intent is to own
that what you cannot possibly own, you have caused scarcity instead of abundance. They see you fighting for the right of ownership. Those who
fight to own something that cannot be owned is merely keeping others from the benefit of that which they make claim to. That is not love. That is
not community. That is not being your brothers keeper. That is not you looking out for the best interest of others. That is not being in service to others.
All in all, ownership of any kind today is selfish, thoughtless and the source and cause of every single problem you can point your finger at. Bar none.

Ownership is the problem. A man's claim of ownership is a man claiming to be owned. We were sent here to be in the world, not to be of the world.
To make a claim of ownership, you are being claimed by that which you claim and are therefore of the world and no longer merely in it.

"The powers that be" know this to be the truth of the matter. They understand that simple fact of ownership. You say they want claim and ownership
of everything and I say that is a lie. They make no claim of ownership, the only ones making a claim of ownership are those pointing their finger at
these "powers that be" and saying, "they are trying to own everything." When in fact they are merely controlling it.

Who said, "Own nothing and control everything"? That was a very wise man. That was someone who understands what destruction ownership causes.
That is a man trying to show others the right way. Those who misunderstand the logic of non ownership are lost in illusions of grandeur and that is the
product of the illusion of ownership.

You truly own nothing. Your claim of ownership is causing the hungry to starve, the thief to steal and the murderer to kill. You who claim ownership of
anything and everything, even your own family and loved ones, you are killing them and their future, in a world of abundance that already exists.

If you claim ownership, you are the problem. If you refuse to understand that you are the cause of the problems that you see in the world today, your
experience will not only be unpleasant for you but for your prodigy also. Everything you try to hold in the form of ownership, you WILL lose, including
but not limited to your life.

Do read this more than once. Understand what it says. Ask for help in understanding if you don't understand. Do not let this opportunity slip away into
eternity.

Those of you who wish to continue by arguing for the "right of claim and ownership" don't bother to respond. I'm not here to change your mind for you,
I'm here to assist you to change your own mind, if change is what you seek. I have no time nor energy to reason with you and your intent of continued
claim of ownership. Let your will be done in that instance. Mine is "fair warning". The "powers that be" also, have given you fair warning. Do you really
think I came up with all of this on my own?

A final word taken from the last line of the Declaration of Independence, do understand it… ..."with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,
we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Notice: No claim of ownership, it's ALL been pledged.

Know thy self, for your only enemy is the one within.

jimmy

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This post has been edited by rahizan: Apr 18 2011, 11:58 AM