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If There's A Group Like Amish People, That Want To Live Their Own Lifestyle – They Don't Want To Live In Our City – They Want To Live Out In The Country, With Their Own Projects. We’ll Put Up The Buildings For Them, Design The Buildings For Them, Design The Food Production Systems For Them – If They Want Us To. But We Don’t Control Them.

When You Think, You Think In Terms Of Your Culture.

Living Through The 1929 Great Depression Helped Shape My Social Conscience. During This Time, I Realized The Earth Was Still The Same Place, Manufacturing Plants Were Still Intact, And Resources Were Still There, But People Didn’t Have Money To Buy The Products. I Felt The Rules Of The Game We Play By Were Outmoded And Damaging. This Began A Life-long Quest Resulting In The Conclusions And Designs Presented In The Venus Project.

Anthropology Studies Different Cultures; Mainly Primitive, But It Doesn't Think Its Own Culture Is Primitive, Unfortunately. There Is No Field That You Can Study Today That Isn't Trapped In The Culture In Some Way. It's Hard To Escape Your Culture.

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.