Paul Miller/Sean McPherson e-mail

Good day,



My name is Paul Miller and please forgive the impropriety, however I have a request. I am a member of the South Eastern Michigan Chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com - the activist arm of The Venus Project http://www.thevenusproject.com . The Venus Project which constitutes the life long work of industrial designer and social engineer, Jacque Fresco presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems.





My purpose for contacting you is quite simply to ask permission to hold a 2 hour presentation as well as open discussion of which will attempt to shine a sliver of light upon some of the most socially crippling and blindly accepted indoctrinations in human history. The reason I am contacting the Sociology department of your fine institution is simply that Sociology is often defined as "The study of society; human social interaction".



[From the www.zeitgeistmovement.com]



“This field considers social structures, both Cognitive and Material. An example of a Cognitive Social Structure is the established institution of religion and how its operation affects the collective awareness. For instance, Prolife Christians share a disposition that human"life" is a separate element of nature and that killing an unborn fetus is wrong. Concurrently, the competition based monetary system has proponents putting forth ideas such as how competition is the most productive social state that humans can engage in.

Material Social Structures, on the other hand, are very obvious and they exist in the form of corporations and governments, each having a strong influence on society. Of course, all Material Social Structures bleed over into the Cognitive realm, for they always have an ideology behind them.

Now, a common sociological issue has to do with "Human Nature" and its effect in a collective sense. For instance, most people have been taught that human beings are naturally competitive with each other, along with the assumption that social stratification or hierarchy is also a "natural human tendency".

This is a fallacy.

If you look to, say, a pack of lions, you will see social hierarchy and violent competition for food in most cases. This comparison is what leads people to think it is a natural occurrence in human society as well (war, greed, ego, etc.). What is overlooked however, are the Environmental Conditions present in each case. The pack of Lions exist in a world of Scarcity. They do not have the ability to create traps for food, nor is food accessible in an 'on demand' basis. They have to hunt and fight with each other. This creates competition naturally, for in order to survive, the lions MUST be aggressive with each other. In turn, hierarchy is developed for the strongest of these lions wins the most, and in turn exert their dominance in a stratified way.

Likewise, in our current Human Society, the exact same thing is going on. Humans have been living in the same sort of scarcity since the dawn of existence. However, as time has gone on, we have become more and more "civilized" due to our ability to Create. Unlike the Lions, humans are able to create tools and set in motion processes that free the human being from a particular chore or problem, reducing Scarcity.

Given this "insight" we then see that on a fundamental level that if scarcity could be eradicated, then human behavior would undergo a dramatic change, moving away from competition, dominance and stratification.

Likewise, outmoded ideologies that do not stand up to the test of time, such as theistic religion, compound this myth that humans/society are built a certain way. For example, the Catholic ideology states that humans are "born with sin".

This is absurd, outmoded and based on a primitive understanding of human behavior.

There is no difference between a Ghandi baby or a Hitler baby... it is the environment that shapes the person and hence the society (and vice versa).

Therefore, true Sociological change will come from removing the conditions that cause the aberrant behavior patterns which pollute our societies. Prison, Police and Laws are mere patchwork and, in fact, tend to make things worse over time.

Ultimately, it is going to take a redesign of our culture to change human behavior for the better.”





We implore you to allow us a couple of hours to show our presentation, and perhaps learn from one another. Or at the very least take off the blindfold for a few hours and have a frank discussion about the social and monetary driven political climate across this planet.



P.S. I have attached the Orientation Guide of our presentation in the form of a PDF. file.





Respectfully,

Paul Miller and Sean McPherson

The Zeitgeist Movement (SE Michigan Chapter)

586-214-8056

http://zeitmi.blogspot.com

First Meeting!

The first Tri-City Zeitgeist meeting and many more to come will be at the Alice & Jack Wirt Public Liberary @1-1:30pm, Saturday, March 20th. Each meeting will be on the third Saturday of each month. Updates will be posted in the event of schedule change or venue change.

Well be discussing,
-Local Zeitgeist projects to further awearness
-Paul Miller & Sean McPherson e-mail and presentation
-Possible future public presentations
-New Ideas
-Interview Ideas/Proposels

Hope to see you all there!

"Be the change you with to see in the world".