On Facebook, Jared Paquette is trying to introduce me to the Venus Project.

The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life.

I have been resistant to looking into it, for reasons I won’t prejudice you with. Finally, Jared introduced a video Jacque Fresco’s Self Search on Human Behavior -… that convinced me not to be so hasty in my judgment. He introduced this video to help me overcome the idea that Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project was too naive about human nature.

Jared has finally cast enough doubt in my mind about my preconceived notions about this project, that I now think it is worth learning more about. That’s why I have posted these links on my blog. When I have the time to do further reading, I’ll have the links handy right here.

One of my contentions to Jared had been that Jacque is focusing on the monetary system as a key problem,, unnecessarily. Here is an excerpt from The Venus Project about page that might confirm my concern.

Throughout history, change has been slow. Successive groups of incompetent leaders have replaced those that preceded them, but the underlying social and economic problems remain because the basic value systems have gone unaltered. The problems we are faced with today cannot be solved politically or financially because they are highly technical in nature. There may not even be enough money available to pay for the required changes, but there are more than enough resources. This is why The Venus Project advocates the transition from a monetary-based society to the eventual realization of a resource-based global economy.

We realize to make the transition from our present culture, which is politically incompetent, scarcity-oriented and obsolete, to this new, more humane society will require a quantum leap in both thought and action.

The issue is whether our monetary system has enough money to finance this effort even though there may be enough resources. If you understand how, at least for the USA, our “money” is created by the Federal Reserve System, then this may not be such an issue after all. The FED creates more money by saying an entity’s account with the Federal Reserve has more money in it, and they use a few computer key strokes to credit that account with more money. That’s all it takes. So there is no shortage of money that could be created. In fact, the only limit on money creation should be what actual resources are available, and not being productively used because of a momentary shortage of “money”. If enough people understood this, then the monetary system we have (not the Euro used by a bunch of countries not sovereign in their own currency) may not be the problem.

We may have to adopt our system for the entire world, though. Of course that may be, sort of what the invention of the Euro was intended to do, but how it was done was very ill conceived. They didn’t seem to understand how important the sovereignty issue was. While the sovereignty issue may be devilishly complex to figure out how to fix, it is no harder than what The Venus Project proposes.

At this point, I don’t really know enough about The Venus Project to know all that they have said and all that they understand. It could be hogwash, or it could be the real deal. It will take much more investigation to know, but it is intriguing enough to warrant some time on my part on that investigation.

Yes, I have already thought of the idea killing things that can be said about the above video, but I will resist the temptation to spout them until I become more educated on all that the Venus Project has done and said already.

I think the best I can say about The Venus Project, not having learned too much more about it, is that it goes off in a direction that I don’t find worthwhile for me to pursue. I much prefer the actions of the speaker in my previous post of the video of Andrew Mcafee’s TED talk What will future jobs look like?.