..but not Shopping, ok?
The Venus Project claims to be “a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.”
Top of the drop down list of ways to ‘Get Involved’? Why, through the Store of course, where you can purchase DVDs and other Venus Project goodies (including T-Shirts).
Sorry if I this sounds critical, but is there anyone else out there who thinks that the first thing we might need to lose in a total redesign of our culture is our attachment to selling each other stuff? Hmmm?
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe social media and online shopping can fix the world. What do you think?
What really matters is that people needs to get familiar with the Venus Project. Their aim is to address all the basic problems of today’s society, to make accessible all the needs for a prosper life.
They propose free energy solutions, self sustaining houses and non polluting production of goods and services.
It’s a non-profit organization, they do not sell their licenses to big companies to abuse their inventions.
I don’t know is this selling of T-shirts and DVD-s really necessary, but if it helps then why not.
Thanks, Robert. I’m all for changing the world (like we have any choice in the matter??!).
When people aren’t congruent, I don’t trust them.
If you claim your project is about evolving beyond normal day-to-day consumerism but then try to sell me merchandise, you’re saying one thing and doing another. That’s incongruence.
I’ve seen a number of wholesome, spiritually sound ideas turned into shit online. Eckhart Tolle TV is one.
Why does it happen? Maybe because the person behind those ideas has no idea about the online world and feels they need to collaborate with web-savvy people to get their message out. In doing so, their piritual ideas get mixed up with the web developer’s need for online ‘monetization’.
Result? A project that talks one thing, does another – and more tellingly, doesn’t seem to notice there’s a problem with that.
Maybe, you should write an email to Jaque and Roxanne, and ask them directly, instead of writing critique. I’m also interested in their response, so be kind enough to share both your message and their response with us.
Thanks, Wizek. Maybe I will ask them why. And if you ask them before me, let me know too, eh?
I’d like a bold new direction for humanity, wouldn’t you?
What would yours look like? In mine, I hope we’d put some kind of spiritual wellbeing at the heart of it. Would money, business, consumerism or any of the things that are so familiar to us now survive that change? Maybe not.
What I do believe is that designing the material world of the future and its systems (buildings, commerce, politics etc) is probably the wrong way around.
I’m more for putting the spiritual wellbeing first and letting the environment of the future emerge from that.
I’m also more for focusing on the quality of ‘now’, more than focusing on the quality of a notional ‘future’ that will never actually happen (since we only ever can be here and now).