Earth Hour 2010 Toronto

The story of bottled water and the $10,000 sandwich.

Be the Change You Want to See In the World.

That famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi has been running in my head for some time now. Over and over like a broken record or a dripping faucet, just when I think it has stopped or gone away, POP! it reappears. So, I figured that must be for a reason, and have been giving it a great deal of thought. Simply, what does that phrase mean, what does it mean to me? Simply understood, I take it to mean, behave like you have already arrived at your destination. Become the person you want to be, simply by "being so".

After all, who would we be waiting for to make us who we want to be? Do we leave it up to someone else? The ones that are only interested in knowing us so they can better market their products and services to us? They are not going to look out for us. We have to look out for ourselves and each other.

Let's not sit back and wait for others to do. To those in the Zeitgeist movement with me, both internationally and locally, let's start being the change we want to see. Let's start implementing the Venus Project ideals today. Here and now, let's start living the dream. We can't sit back and wait for Jacque, Roxanne and Peter to do all the hard work and hand it to us ready to go. They are but three people, they can only do so much. Not to mention that Jacque is nearing the century mark.

You know what needs to be done, you have the brains and resources to start doing it. Time is our biggest "enemy". Let's commit to working together to provide all of humanity an alternative for when the excrement interfaces with the rotating blades, and it has already started to, so that we're not left at the mercy of the power elite. They will create a void in order to come along and offer a "solution" to fill that void. We can be an alternative, but in order to do so, we must be as organized and committed as those that would seek to keep us on our knees.

To those that are not in the Zeitgeist movement, I say, do whatever you can to educate yourself in order to be better prepared for what is coming. Shortages, long lines, hyper inflation, job loss, uncertainty and instability. The more reliant you are on your purchasing power to attain the basics of life, the more you will be at the mercy of those that control those commodities. If you're mostly self reliant, living primarily off the grid, or very low maintenance and upkeep, good for you, now go out and help teach others. We will need to work together to not only survive, but thrive our way into the Venus Project.

Therefore, before we can start focusing on the machines and how they will build this and that for us, and how a resource based economy is the only real future alternative we have, we need to start changing how we think and therefore how we conduct ourselves and how we work together. We can't afford to sit around and wait for "government" to do this or that or really, to make any meaningful changes to our lives. Nothing in a positive realm anyway, historically speaking, the only direction government takes the people, is down. But that doesn't have to be the case this time.

It's like George Carlin said, "what if they declared war, and no one showed up?" Well? What if we just ignore the powers that be and their agenda, and start living the life we all agree is the only sane way to go into the future? What are the powers that be going to do then?

There was the French revolution, what a bloody mess that was. There was the Russian revolution, another costly uprising. The Velvet and 1848 and Matrix revolution. We've tried them all, but notice one thing they all have in common? They all just basically shift power and money, from one group to another. But the fundemental structure remains. They are all monetary based.

I guess that might be the biggest challenge for most of us, how to start thinking about getting things done without money. We first need to change our hearts and minds and how we feel about money. What it really means to us, and how we will deal with not having it as a means to and end.

4 Easy Steps to Brainwashing a Nation

1 - Demoralization

2 - De-stabilization

3 - Crisis

4 - Normalization

Where do you think we currently fit?

Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - ZDay 2010 NYC

Z Day coming March 12-14, 2010

There are alternatives to oil consumption.

I have a feeling...

and depending on one's point of view, it might be good, or not so much.
I think I figured out how the collapse is going to happen. I have been pondering the question, "how do you reset the system?" In essence, how would a worldwide, collective, massive, "do-over" happen?

Well, you're sure not going to get the "haves" to give up anything they have. You can't expect the "have-nots" to have the energy or resources in general, to force the "haves" to share nicely. So? How else can it happen? How can it be forced on everyone? How indeed.

And then, a bit like the discovery of displacement, it hit me while watching the news about the latest natural disaster, this one in Chile. Ding!!! It's forced on us by nature.
What happens to the status quo, in this case the monetary system, when you have millions upon millions more people homeless, jobless and basically undergoing a life "do-over' due to natural geological events? Like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and so on. What happens to the monetary system when it can't keep up with the overwhelming demand of the people on this planet?

Never mind (and by that, I do not mean to diminish the plight or suffering of those already greatly impoverished) but think about it, never mind those already barely making it, what happens when you add millions upon millions more? How will an already shaky monetary system, keep up with the demands of millions or billions more people needing food, housing and the basics of life?

The US treasury is already up to it's eyeballs in debt to China and Japan. The US is spending endless resources fighting two very costly, losing wars. The Euro and the entire European Economic Union is being threatened by Greece's debt and deficit. Basically, from every corner, the monetary system is starting to collapse under the weight of it's own inherit fault lines. A house of cards build on a pile of rubbish, it's coming down on its own, but Greece, Italy, Portugal and others will help speed that process along.
That's two of the three of the world's biggest economic systems, as for the east, well, China will only tell you what suits its agenda and Japan would rather fall on its collective sword then admit that its teetering on the brink. Considering how interconnected all three are, when you have 2/3 fail, the third cannot maintain integrity. It's basic physics.

So....that's the current state of the monetary system in and of its own. Now add to it Haiti's rebuilding, Chile's reconstruction, Hawaii's damages and the rest of the pacific damage left behind. Then there will be others. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and all intensified by climate change. Add these two things together and what do you get?

Perhaps I am wrong and the monetary system can prevail through all of these challenges. Time will be the judge. But it appears the signs are already visible.