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.