Paradise or Oblivion
2012 · 48 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 969 VOTES · DIR. Roxanne Meadows
Overview
Paradise or Oblivion is a free online documentary produced by the Venus Project. This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. The film advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacques Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy. Paradise or Oblivion by the Venus Project introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to hhuman civilisation. This alternative surpasses the need for a monetary-based, controlled scarcity environment we find ourselves in today.
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00:00:13 The entire money-structured and materialistic-oriented society
00:02:52 are viewed not only as avoidable but totally unacceptable.
00:05:08 Socialism, communism, fascism or the free enterprise system
00:07:03 (you put up your life for this country)
00:09:12 I would say that if you have a better brain
00:11:27 Let's discuss scarcity as a system.
00:13:21 But even if the most ethical people were elected to high positions
00:15:44 where employment is that, production is this
00:17:28 The debt has been piling up so fast lately they had to drop the dollar sign
00:19:56 but only if managed intelligently.
00:21:56 so that all can live fully and constructively
00:24:13 (Narrator) Some question what would happen to incentive if needs were met
00:25:56 They've got their housing, clothing, motion pictures and entertainment.
00:27:50 Only in this way can we use our technology to overcome resource shortages
00:29:34 That means operating everything at the highest potential
00:31:30 Their function would be to coordinate a balance between production and distribution
00:33:27 That all the cities of the future will be university cities
00:35:31 The outer shells of these efficient structures serve as photovoltaic generators
00:37:20 There is no way of segmenting or making this system just or equitable.
00:39:30 heat concentrators, piezoelectric, wave, temperature differentials
00:41:34 that produce products while en route to their destinations.
00:43:33 This undersea observation station permits people
00:45:22 whatever constructive field of endeavor he or she chooses
00:47:26 to a wider audience through the goal of a major motion picture.