Peace

R.E.M. has a song, Cuyahoga, with the lines about start a new country up.   It’s a song that’s stuck in my head for some time.   The idea that we could rebuild things, make them better, make them WORK for us…

That’s the same idea behind the latest Zeitgeist movie, called “Zeitgeist: Addendum” .   The two-hour long video goes through our current economic system, including the Federal Reserve, and tries to come up with a better solution.   Their solution is based off the Venus Project‘s Jacque Fresco’s work.   (You might have seen another move about Fresco called  “Future by Design“.)

Instead of our current monetary-based system, which invites competition, greed, and corruption, the proposed new system is an “Resource Based Economy“. In this new vision, resources are precious and must be conserved, while we must invest in technology to help improve our lives.

“if all the money in the world were destroyed, as long as topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we choose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need; rather, it is free access to the necessities of life. In a Resource Based Economy , money would be irrelevant.”

Will this Resource Based Economy system work? What would it take to implement such a system? What would the rules of this system be?

If those questions sound interesting to you, I encourage to watch “Zeitgeist: Addendum” and learn more. You can watch it on Google Video for free.