The Choice is Ours (2016) Official Full Version



https://www.thevenusproject.com Intro: 0:00 Part 1 6:16 Part 2 23:28 Part 3 47:03 Part 4 1:19:09 Produced/Directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt Script by Roxanne Meadows Editor Joel Holt, assisted by Roxanne Meadows & Nathaniel Dinwiddie Original Score by Kat Apple This film series explores many aspects of our society. To rethink what is possible in our world, we need to consider what kind of world we want to live in. Although we refer to it as a civilization, it is anything but civilized. Visions of global unity & fellowship have long inspired humanity, yet the social arrangements up to the present have largely failed to produce a peaceful and productive world. While we appear to be technically advanced, our values and behaviors are not. The possibility of an optimistic future is in stark contrast to our current social, economic, and environmental dilemmas. The Choice Is Ours includes interviews with notable scientists, media professionals, authors, and other thinkers exploring the difficulties we face. Part I provides an introduction and overview of cultural & environmental conditions that are untenable for a sustainable world civilization. It explores the determinants of behavior to dispel the myth of “human nature” while demonstrating how environment shapes behavior. The science of behavior is an important - yet largely missing - ingredient in our culture. Part II questions the values, behaviors, and consequences of our social structures, and illustrates how our global monetary system is obsolete and increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people. Critical consideration of the banking, media, and criminal justice systems reveals these institutions for what they really are: tools of social control managed by the established political and economic elite. If we stay the present course, the familiar cycles of crime, economic booms & busts, war, and further environmental destruction are inevitable. Part III explains the methods and potential of science. It proposes solutions that we can apply at present to eliminate the use of non-renewable sources of energy. It depicts the vision of The Venus Project to build an entirely new world from the ground up, a “redesign of the culture”, where all enjoy a high standard of living, free of servitude and debt, while also protecting the environment. Part IV explains how it is not just architecture and a social structure that is in desperate need of change, but our values which have been handed down from centuries ago. They too need to be updated to our technological age, which has the potential to eliminate our scarcity-driven societies of today. Our problems are mostly of our own making, but we can still turn things around before the point of no return. It’s not too late for an optimistic outlook on the fantastic possibilities that lie before us. Jacque Fresco-Futurist, Industrial Designer, Social Engineer, Founder of The Venus Project Jeffery A. Hoffman Ph.D. - Prof. Aeronautics & Astronautics MIT, Former NASA Astronaut Henry Schlinger, Ph.D., BCBA-D - Prof. Psychology CAL State University Abby Martin - Journalist & Host "The Empire Files" Karen Hudes - Economist, Lawyer, World Bank Whistleblower Erin Ade - Reporter & Host "Boom Bust" – RT Paul Wright - Founder & Director of Human Rights Defense Center, Editor of Prison Legal News, Author Dylan Ratigan - Author & TV Host "The Dylan Ratigan Show" Mark Jacobson, Ph.D. - Prof. Civil & Env. Engineering, Stanford University. www.thesolutionsproject.org Erik Brynjolfsson, Ph.D. - Prof. of Management-MIT Sloan School of Management, Dir. MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Author Lawrence M. Krauss, Ph.D. - Foundation Prof. School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of Origins Project, Arizona State University. Author "A Universe from Nothing". Paul Hewitt - Author "Conceptual Physics" Roxanne Meadows - Co-Founder The Venus Project *special thanks also to Alexander "Obraz" ...Obraz.io who created the many 2d motion depictions (plus the sound fx!) of concepts such as the "hamburgers and fried chicken" segment and many others which are Alexander's inimitable work style and attention to details where we needed very specific illustrations of key points. The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future 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 inadequacies 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 inherent in today's world. Learn more at http://www.thevenusproject.com Support/donate to the project: https://www.thevenusproject.com/donations/ Become a volunteer:https://www.thevenusproject.com/become-a-volunteer/

Comments

  1. It's circular not because you like circles.. What can you do with a circle that you can't do with a square? America's current blocks are more square/rectangle shaped, It seems more logical to go squares to me.
  2. i like his ideas ( most of it is elementary marxism) but the problem is the idea that the people in power would just allow this world to be created. They will fight it with everything they have.
  3. i like his ideas ( most of it is elementary marxism) but the problem is the idea that the people in power would just allow this world to be created. They will fight it with everything they have.
  4. I find a lot of things explained in this documentary hard to understand
  5. Amazing. Thank you
  6. The beauty part, I think someone born in a different place can like a different type of women/male because it's a different type of human that physically evolved different than me. For example, if I grew up in an island with smaller, darker, and physically different people than me, and then at 20 years old I return to my native land (Europe), I'm positive I would like a busty blonde than.. you know.. ;)
  7. I bet this comment section alone has made you lose a lot of hope for the Venus Project. I promise you, i will do my part throughout my life to distribute all the technology i create to as many people as possible. To share all i can with as many as i can. And speak in a direct and honest way without fear of hurting someones feelings, in some warped sense of respect. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to invent my own creations for humanity.
  8. How can we consume the said resources? What does the human race meaning of life? Are we gonna live to maintain rhe high standard living? What is the contribution of the human race? Does having family allowed? What is the way of relaxation for the human race? What about work? What about education? What will happen to social environment will be? This only lectured me that the system now sucks, but everybody already knows that! So pls lecture me on how this can be possible!
  9. We're corporatards!
  10. if only Terence McKenna ruled the world in the 50's
  11. we are fucked !
  12. It's funny, you know? I've always known and felt, from a young age, that our current system is totally, and undeniably flawed. Human greed is the biprodoct of currency! I want to be proud of the world we live in. I would give my life to see these ideals come to fruition! Anything is possible. I am now an advocate. Thank you, Jaque! BY THE WAY, there is another who holds stellar ways of thinking!...Watch Manoj Bhargava- Billions in Change... In the wise words of Atmosphere, rooted in a song called Fortunate...

    "If everybody on this comet agreed, we could set the clock to whenever we want it to be."
  13. I love how the video is entitled "The Choice is Ours," and yet Jacque Fresco basically tells us choice is an illusion.
  14. There is a suspicious lack of information as to how the economy would actually function here. I suspect that is because you don't really know how goods would be allocated efficiently.
  15. 20:27, that's scary, reminds me of Hannibal!
  16. 1:13:55 "I like circles..." LOL!
  17. Thank you!
  18. An open source style world would be ideal taking in ideas from the many and filtering out the gold to produce a truly amazing world.
  19. You're an amazing visionary and have one of the most intellectual minds of the population. I would actually love to just live in a Venus project style world. I would donate all my money and move in now to start building the new world if that was an option you guys spread awareness but, I just want to live it and experience it now. Build the world you see I would work for free.
  20. thanks


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