RE: Why Technocrats LOVE The "Green New Deal"
The Venus Project - Beyond Politics Poverty and War https://www.thevenusproject.com/ is now in initial stages of planning and design https://www.resourcebasedeconomy.org/ by an all volunteer team (no one is getting paid to do this work). "The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in today's world." The Venus Project advocates a Resource-Based Economy (RBE) https://www.thevenusproject.com/resource-based-economy/. What is RBE? "In a Resource Based Economy all goods and services are available to all people without the need for means of exchange such as money, credits, barter or any other means [of servitude]. For this to be achieved all resources must be declared as the common heritage of all Earth’s inhabitants. Equipped with the latest scientific and technological marvels mankind could reach extremely high productivity levels and create abundance of resources. Resource Based Economy concerns itself with three main factors, namely Environmental, Technological and Human." I invite all of you Corbett Report members to investigate further into these factors and discover more about The Venus Project and Resource Based Economy to determine for yourself if this effort falls into the category of Technocracy. If so, write about it. If not, write about it.
He did write about it here: https://www.corbettreport.com/against-utopia/ excerpt "Remarkably, even now, long after the 20th century technocrats and their vision of the industrial nirvana have been so thoroughly discredited, after hundreds of years of utopian socialist fantasies have shown to lead to nothing but suffering and bloodshed, there is a new class of technocrats who are rising up to once again offer the masses a technological utopia which will provide for all their needs.
Once again we are being told that in this coming utopia an army of benevolent machines will provide for all our needs. There will be no need for money or property, no need for violence or coercion of any kind ever again. In fact, we are told, this technological revolution will not only transform our society, but human nature itself. Freed from the shackles of want by the machines that will provide for all our needs, humans will no longer be violent or selfish or greedy.
This system, we are told, will be “rational” and “logical.” The machines will know what resources are needed, how to acquire them, and how to distribute them. The machines will be able to calculate our needs and provide for them better than we ever could. The machines will be programmed by scientists, and, we are led to believe, they will always know how many toothbrushes to make.
There is no need to worry about who owns the machines, we are told, no cause for concern about how they are programmed or how they make calculations about things we don’t know. In this utopia, the proponents of this movement tell us, there will be no evil people, no elite class that tries to control others, no one at all who tries to control the system, because human nature itself will no longer allow for it.
Ultimately, perhaps it is not surprising that such utopian fantasies can still attract acolytes. "