Soon, I will start a project at least similar to Venus Project, and thanks to Jaques Fresco ... he's project is a Message , not just a local project.
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Before building a new city, maybe there is a way to test the concept on a much smaller neighborhood area scale, using the appropriate technology, with like-minded people, but IDK. Example: Only needing 1 lawnmower for the area instead of everyone having their own and cycling mowing times that are beneficial to the environment and animals/insects and using natural pesticides that are safer for said environment. Document the results and compare with other areas.
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I can’t help thinking that many of the Venus Project design drawings looks like a World Economic Forum’s wet dream of a 15 minute city.
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Hi Guys, I thought I’d drop in and say hi. I’m 'The Commoner'—and amongst other things, I’m an ancient historian. I went to uni briefly years ago, but I had one of those moments where the dots didn’t line up. I realized pretty quickly that what I was being taught wasn’t the full story. So I dropped out. But I didn’t stop digging. I’ve spent my life deep in books—real sources, not just mainstream regurgitations. I focus on the true origins of the financial system and the spiritual worldviews that surrounded it. And many years ago, I stumbled on something that turned everything I thought I knew upside down. What I’m about to share might sound wild at first. That’s OK. I’d just ask that you stick with it, because this is real history—based on records, archaeology, and logic. The problem is, we’ve been lied to for so long that the truth now sounds like heresy. So here it is. --- 🧱 Two Systems: Temple Economy vs Palace Economy In the ancient world, there were two competing systems of managing society and resources: The Temple Economy was run by priesthoods. These were elite families who owned massive land tracts, controlled storehouses, and enforced debt obligations. People had to “pay the gods” (really the priests) in silver, grain, or labor. They weighed silver on scales—this was pre-coin money, and it allowed wealth to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands. Sound familiar? The Palace Economy, by contrast, was state-run. The king was the steward of land and food. Resources were managed collectively: grain, land, and labor were distributed according to needs. There was no coinage. No banking class. No silver-weighing marketplace. It was, in effect, a kind of resource-based economy—and it actually worked. Most people don’t realize it, but Assyria was the greatest example of this second system. --- 🦁 The Golden Age of Assyria (Hidden in Plain Sight) Around 1225 BC, after Babylon collapsed into internal chaos, Assyria rose. Not through banking. Not through slavery. But through logistics. Their palace economy allowed them to: Build massive cities like Nimrud and Nineveh Manage vast road systems and postal networks Construct some of the earliest libraries and scientific observatories in history Run a bureaucracy that tracked workers, rations, livestock, and supply chains All of this was done without coins. Without banks. Without markets of silver exchange. It’s mainstream history—but they never explain what it means. You can find this in books by Mario Liverani, Karen Radner, and others if you dig—but they never say the words: This was a functional resource-based system. Why? Because it shatters the myth that “capitalism is natural.” --- 🏛️ The Babylonian Comeback – And the Beginning of the End In 626 BC, Babylon, led by a man named Nabopolassar, rebelled. He rebuilt Babylon with help from the Medes and Scythians and launched a war against Assyria. Over the next 20 years, they slowly wore the Assyrian system down. 612 BC: Nineveh falls. 609 BC: Egypt tries to save what’s left of Assyria. They’re intercepted by Josiah, king of Judah, at Megiddo. Josiah is killed. Egypt pushes forward, but too late. Later that year, Harran, the last Assyrian capital, falls. That’s Armageddon. That’s what the word originally referred to—Har-Megiddo, the battle at the hill of Megiddo. And that was the end of the Assyrian palace economy. It didn’t collapse because it failed. It was taken down. --- ⚱️ A New World Order: From Temples to Taxation After the fall: Babylon took over—but it preserved the priesthood system. In 586 BC, they destroyed Solomon’s Temple, taking the Judean elite into exile. During this time, books like Daniel and Ezekiel were written—full of visions about empires, beasts, and political/spiritual corruption. These weren’t just religious—they were commentaries on the trauma of economic and cultural collapse. Then came Persia. In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great took Babylon. But instead of tearing down the temple system, he embraced it. He spared the oligarchs and temple priests He made himself their liberator He introduced the Daric, the first standardized imperial gold coin This was the true birth of monetary imperialism. Now soldiers could be paid. Taxes could be demanded. Markets could be regulated by weight, coinage, and debt. And the title “King of Kings,” once used by Assyrian rulers to mean “steward of the people under heaven,” was now a brand name for empire. --- 🧠 Why You’ve Never Heard This Because the victors write history. Assyria was smeared as cruel and oppressive—even though Babylon did worse. The idea of a functional, centralized resource economy was buried. The temple system became the spiritual model for empire: "pay the gods, obey the priests, accept your debts." This isn’t conspiracy. It’s history—just read the source texts without the modern filters. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. --- 💡 The Takeaway Armageddon 609 BC wasn’t the end of an empire. It was the assassination of a system that dared to organize the world differently. A system without coins, banks, or profit lords. And the birth of the one we live under
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The Venus Project
What is The Venus Project's relationship with startup cities or micro cities?
The concept of a 'startup city' or 'microcity' has emerged in recent years in the tradition of startup culture for technology but scaled to human settlements. This is a natural progression of human knowledge and technology. The concept itself has much affinity with how The Venus Project has imagined implementing experimental prototypes to test its hypotheses about economics and governance in the real world. However, many proposals for such startup cities are conceived to serve priorities of a for-profit market system and although these will be new environments at smaller scales, they continue the danger of perpetuating the same social and environmental problems. What will make the difference is the values and beliefs that determine the design of such cities. The Venus Project follows from a value system and body of evidence that informs its priorities and design methodology. We believe this will make the difference.
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