They want to create a Hollywood-budget film explaining the Venus Project and the Resource Based Economy. Now if you aren't able to spot the problem right from the start, let me enlighten you with some bullet points:
- A Hollywood movie in average costs more than 10 million dollars.
- One of the Venus Project's objective is to abolish money.
- Donations have been asked for previously, but now that the Zeitgeist movement has gained more popularity, they seem to be willing to create a high-budget film, completely disregarding any other pro-sustainability projects, and sometimes even going against them, just because their 'competitors' were 'plagiarising' the term Resource Based Economy.
- Somebody smells fish?
- Jaques Fresco is certainly not going in a luxury vacation with that money, but either he is deceiving himself regarding the true outcome of that film(which will more likely be taken as a Star Wars with peace in its main subject), or he is down right broke and needs the money for maintenance.
- Very few people give a damn about the world's current state of affairs, much less about a sci-fi film.
- There are literally millions of people starving to death, probably much saner to allocate resources to those people, while the monetary system collapses to its knees and the Resource Based Economy becomes the de-facto standard for society.
- But then again, when has money solved anything once and for all?
- Very disappointed with the lack of out-of-the-box thinking from The Venus Project.
- Jaques Fresco is an excellent social/industrial engineer/designer, not a film maker.
- Everybody (at the Zeitgeist movement) seem to be following Jaques' ideas too closely. Almost to the point of blind belief.
But then again, if money is all The Venus Project can think of for solutions, they can count me out of their trusted followers.
