I don't know if I'd call myself a debunker, but I certainly didn't buy that tripe. I watched both excruciating hours of bad editing and public domain filmstrips and I feel a bit dumber now. I took notes. They aren't what anyone might consider good (I never could take useful notes in school), and I sort of lost it near the end. I will be honest, though, I didn't recognize anything particularly antisemitic, but I'm not sure how well I'd notice it unless it was blatent (like "jews are evil, EVIL!!!"). I wrote it as it went, occasionally pausing to type or take care of something else.
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Part one: Basically comes off as a sinister, though naive, attempt to explain the US's economy, but ignores many important aspects of the economy (like its need to grow constantly to meet the growing population). Overly sinister, but probably not exactly lying. I get the impression that it isn’t trying to be as much deceitful as just what the author actually believes.
Part Two: Starts off with multinationals and economic super powers using their economic position to influence small countries (privatization and what not). Seems to suggest that corporations acting out of self interest and greed is evidence of evil scheming to control the world’s population. Rather silly, I think. Then talks a bit about CIA assassinations of third world leaders who wouldn’t play ball. Says Al-Qaeda is fictional. Shows that the American government has weird budgetary priorities (more money to fight terrorism than heart disease), and accuses corporations of being the “real terrorists”. Everyone loves opium! “False flag terrorist attacks” “Covert institutions such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group” Not very convincing.
Part Three: Societal indoctrination, pretty normal. Governments want to stay in power? Shocking. Apparently corruption is just not changing how a government works. Moving on to capitalism and its faults, mostly selfishness. Says competition leads to limited technology, exploitation, class, rich ruling elite, wealth gap, corruption. A bit redundant, I think. Money = power, amazing! McCain and Obama are predecided to be acceptable by the “established financial powers”. The “same broad social view” is, of course, middle America, the political extremes may be far different but to that large swath the only difference between who is elected is sound bites. “Honest, ethical politicians” while showing a Ron Paul ’08 graphic. Subtle. Dear god, this thing has been on for an hour. An hour of public domain video from the 60s (which can be fun) and black screens (which are just dull)… Moving on.
Technology is important. I agree, but I’m a techie. Cool, it appears to be pushing a Star Trek federation like utopian socialism, do we get space ships too? Hmm, economics 101 type logic about scarcity. Who does that man remind me of? Now that’s going to bother me. Second person from this “Venus Project”, I wonder if that’s going to be important anywhere. I believe we actually are born with a certain of bigotry, a natural dislike of things that are different than ourselves (like insects), and it becomes focused on people by our culture. Gasp! The Venus Project! And all I’m seeing is Star Trek CG rejects. Yeah, this sounds like someone has been watching way too much star trek. It’s delving into the economic philosophy and it seems far too… weak. Resource based economy? He who controls the resource controls the economy. Sounds like a very poor understanding of solar and wind technology. Not wholly impressed with the video’s understanding of, well, anything. Cars should be electric, yes, but I don’t think battery tech is as advanced as they claim. Somehow I don’t see trains being used for intercontinental travel anytime soon.
The video implies that the “Venus Project” is about the technology, but the people they interview who are a part of it are only talking about the philosophy of it. They argue that as automation increases the workforce will always decrease, suggesting this will lead to massive unemployment. There will always be an equilibrium. If no one is working then no one will be able to afford the products being produced by machines, and companies won’t be able to afford the machines, and so forth. I think they are being intellectually lazy. There was a bit about crime and poverty that was sort of true, but the solution is naïve. When you take money out of the equation a barter system will probably fill its place, eventually leading back to a monetary system. Yes, better education is one of the best solutions. This video would be so very different if the author had been watching the terminator films. I think I’ve thought up a more thorough utopian socialist society than this advocates. Ain’t gonna happen.
Part Four: The old technology appears to be magic argument. Ooh, pretty flower (1:34:22, coolest part of the video). It says that people tend to feel insulted when shown to be wrong when they should be grateful (the video says “celebrate”) being shown truth. Something about that is very, very funny to me, considering some of the silliness in the rest of the video. Mentions sheep, but not sheeple. Now it’s delving into atheistic arguments, no real pattern here. I think only part 1 was singularly topic in its entirety. Strange focus on Christianity. Wow, I think these people have taken high school level earth science. If they had the rights to it they could totally play “Circle of Life” over this part. Err, weird, its like a bit of new age spirituality thrown in for fun. I think the video’s editor had a seizure or something, it went a bit wonky. Co-opting Carl Sagen for a weird new-age oneness type thing. Are “Weapons of Mass Creation” like the GECK? To recap: Capitalism = bad, Utopian Socialism = good. Don’t support the system? Oh, that’s just funny. As I see it, the worst thing that would happen is the collapse of the economy (yes, very, very bad) and a new country and a new economy will grow out of it.
Ooh, “suggestions”: Expose the fed cartel, and “boycott”. Oh, dear god. If you have an account with one of the bad banks, move it to another bank, because that bank is obviously less bad. You don’t boycott the banking system by using the banking system.
Boycott the news networks and use independent interweb news sites. But no suggested news sites, what a bummer.
Boycott the military. War is bad and soldiers and vets suffer. That’s pretty much the gist of it.
Boycott energy companies. If you are using energy, stop! You don’t really need heat in the winter, that’s just energy company propaganda!
Reject the political system. Dems and Reps are more or less the same, at least to those on the extremes.
Go to our website, cause we rawks!
But I love vain entertainment and materialistic garbage.
The first revolution is the one inside you. Stop being a douche and do what we tell you!
Overly dramatic ending. “You blew it up!” moment. Followed by girl meets crazy man moment. And a guy remembering a Chicago song. I was hoping it was going somewhere, so of course it didn’t. And now the earth is about to explode.
