The Choice is Ours

[Terring 6,473]

 

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 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 & 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the values, behaviors, and consequences of our social structures, and illustrates how our global monetary system is obsolete and increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people.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 (to be released later this year) will explain the methods and potential of science. It will propose solutions that we can apply at present to eliminate the use of non-renewable sources of energy. It will depict 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. 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.

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, I am sorry but I don't have an hour to kill right now watching that video.  Maybe I'll find the time later in the day.

 

Anyway, man chooses, but nature disposes.  No matter what we do, the ecology will eventually catch up to us.

[Fantozzi 4,064]

Well, I am sorry but I don't have an hour to kill right now watching that video.  Maybe I'll find the time later in the day.

 

Anyway, man chooses, but nature disposes.  No matter what we do, the ecology will eventually catch up to us.

 

I'd like to discuss this sentence (= made me thinking = I like it), but I'm afraid, it's the wrong place. My first question would be: what is the difference between 'man' and 'nature'? Isn't mankind itself (a quite funny) disposition of nature? So - maybe - free will (choice) is an illusion in the sense that it is only giving rational arguments - a justification of your own nature: appetite, lust etc.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, if you take nature to mean the geoecology as a whole, you get the picture.  Man is like an ant farting in an ant farm.