Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.