Holistic Change
Posted by Roberto Enamorado on Saturday, April 16, 2011
Under: Activism
"Jacque Fresco is an engineer, a designer and an innovator, that deals with physical structures, towards an attainable future! Jacque Fresco does not and has not shown the capacity, to understand the role of the social cultural movement, in this period, of our history, his comments amplifies it, in fact, his mechanical view impedes him, to grasp the oneness of this project!"
- Hans Roy
As some of you already know, that has been one of my concerns. The lack of understanding not just from Jacque Fresco but, from other coordinators who not only do not know the work of people on "the ground" and more so have little capacity to show genuine appreciation for others. Many of these reasons why people are concerned now are similar to why I stopped coordinating (since January) and no longer advocate the movement but, simply share the ideas and I continue to work with those who embrace a sense of community or as mentioned, "oneness". Although I feel that’s a crucial part of change, I understand that this “oneness” concept was only implied in some of the methodology behind a holistic approach to possibly resolving our social issues via The Venus Project but, this subjective and abstract beauty that some felt and had translated that into how well we treated each other is not something that was pushed by the movement by definition of its coordinating manuals.
This is an example of why The Venus Project and ideas like these are a part of what is needed to make change more so from a technical standpoint but, what happens to the relevance of emotional motivations or what I consider the focus of energy and the perpetuation of "oneness" that some of us bring up regularly and addressing the “fan” mentality? This is not the movement for those concepts and has been considered counter to the movements efforts. As some of you may have heard over and over again "we are not here to make friends" meanwhile Peter Joseph has stated that its "real" relationships that will really bring change. So you have an artist (Peter Joseph) and as an artist one develops methods of evoking reactions and actions that are usually without directly stating they wish to have you feel in that manner and not needing credentials to be good at it, which is the reason most of us know of The Venus Project. Meanwhile who have Jacque Fresco who's analogies are often technical and clearly do not relate to most of our realities.
The very foundation of this was conflicting - the emotions and opinions of an artist to serve as a bridge for change meanwhile, you have the stigmatizing of opinions and the disconnect of a technician towards the advocates and a disconnect between online coordinators and those who have a better capacity to regurgitate whats on The Venus Projects websites and manuals of The Zeitgeist Movement, who embrace this disconnect as a method towards progress absent of emotion towards those who are interacting in real life with real people with real emotions.
Now its being seen on a global scale, issues that have been present since the beginning of this but, often that as been ignored or dismissed as irrelevant, since often what is considered as important to a movement like this one, is if its coming from someone who is recognized as having a valid opinion or is more relevant due to some form of credentials/proof or popularity amongst the movements leaders...in a leaderless movement (not coincidentally another contradiction) and now the dismissing of these opinions and the “little” voices has blow up in the movements face. Although in words/text, this was a horizontal structure, it is clear that in action, it is a vertical one and one that was generated on the emotions it evoked through creative expression, not proof or a scientific method. I hope some of you will see that The Venus Project’s concepts and ideals like these are part the tools that can be used to create a better society but, clearly not all of the tools. The relevance of human energy (emotions), oneness, critical thinking, mass empowerment, embracing of the abstract/ideas/opinions and real science - this is a more holistic and a more all inclusive approach towards a better tomorrow...in my opinion.
- Hans Roy
As some of you already know, that has been one of my concerns. The lack of understanding not just from Jacque Fresco but, from other coordinators who not only do not know the work of people on "the ground" and more so have little capacity to show genuine appreciation for others. Many of these reasons why people are concerned now are similar to why I stopped coordinating (since January) and no longer advocate the movement but, simply share the ideas and I continue to work with those who embrace a sense of community or as mentioned, "oneness". Although I feel that’s a crucial part of change, I understand that this “oneness” concept was only implied in some of the methodology behind a holistic approach to possibly resolving our social issues via The Venus Project but, this subjective and abstract beauty that some felt and had translated that into how well we treated each other is not something that was pushed by the movement by definition of its coordinating manuals.
This is an example of why The Venus Project and ideas like these are a part of what is needed to make change more so from a technical standpoint but, what happens to the relevance of emotional motivations or what I consider the focus of energy and the perpetuation of "oneness" that some of us bring up regularly and addressing the “fan” mentality? This is not the movement for those concepts and has been considered counter to the movements efforts. As some of you may have heard over and over again "we are not here to make friends" meanwhile Peter Joseph has stated that its "real" relationships that will really bring change. So you have an artist (Peter Joseph) and as an artist one develops methods of evoking reactions and actions that are usually without directly stating they wish to have you feel in that manner and not needing credentials to be good at it, which is the reason most of us know of The Venus Project. Meanwhile who have Jacque Fresco who's analogies are often technical and clearly do not relate to most of our realities.
The very foundation of this was conflicting - the emotions and opinions of an artist to serve as a bridge for change meanwhile, you have the stigmatizing of opinions and the disconnect of a technician towards the advocates and a disconnect between online coordinators and those who have a better capacity to regurgitate whats on The Venus Projects websites and manuals of The Zeitgeist Movement, who embrace this disconnect as a method towards progress absent of emotion towards those who are interacting in real life with real people with real emotions.
Now its being seen on a global scale, issues that have been present since the beginning of this but, often that as been ignored or dismissed as irrelevant, since often what is considered as important to a movement like this one, is if its coming from someone who is recognized as having a valid opinion or is more relevant due to some form of credentials/proof or popularity amongst the movements leaders...in a leaderless movement (not coincidentally another contradiction) and now the dismissing of these opinions and the “little” voices has blow up in the movements face. Although in words/text, this was a horizontal structure, it is clear that in action, it is a vertical one and one that was generated on the emotions it evoked through creative expression, not proof or a scientific method. I hope some of you will see that The Venus Project’s concepts and ideals like these are part the tools that can be used to create a better society but, clearly not all of the tools. The relevance of human energy (emotions), oneness, critical thinking, mass empowerment, embracing of the abstract/ideas/opinions and real science - this is a more holistic and a more all inclusive approach towards a better tomorrow...in my opinion.
- Roberto Enamorado
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