Hey Nitegazer, thanks for your interest.
There isn't really a lot of information on what the government systems would consist of because eventually government will be phased out. Our current governmental systems are too out-dated and slow to respond to the rapid changes our society is currently undergoing.
Here are a few entries taken from the
FAQ and the
Essay about governments and how they relate to TVP.
FAQ #4 wrote:Isn't it just decent people that we need in government?
It is not enough to criticize, point out the shortcomings of society, or advocate that people of high moral character be elected into office; this would do little to advance civilization. What is needed is the intelligent management of the world's resources, and a comprehensive and workable arrangement of environmental and social affairs that are in strict accord with existing resources and the carrying capacity of our planet. Even with the election of men and women of impeccable character into government, without available resources and advanced technology, war, poverty, and corruption will prevail no matter how many new laws are passed or treaties signed. It is not democracy that elevated our standard of living, it is our resources, water, arable land, and new technology. Rhetoric and paper proclamations are irrelevant in the management of human and social affairs.
FAQ #51 wrote:Will there be a government?
As to the need for government, only during the transition from a monetary based society to a cybernated high-technological resource based economy of common heritage would it be necessary to utilize the services of systems analysts, engineers, computer programmers, etc. They will not dictate the policies or have any more advantage than other people. Their job will be to carry out the restoration of the environment to near natural conditions as possible on land and in the sea. They will also economically layout the most efficient way to manage transportation, agriculture, city planning, and production. This too is always in the process of modification and updating to fit the needs of an ever-changing civilization. There are no final frontiers.
And a few entries from the Essay:
TVP Essay wrote:
This new experimental city would be devoted to working towards the aims and goals of The Venus Project, which are:
1. Conserving all the world's resources as the common heritage of all of the Earth's people.
2. Transcending all of the artificial boundaries that separate people.
3. Evolving from a monetary-based economy to a resource-based world economy.
4. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
5. Redesigning our cities, transportation systems, and agricultural and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.
6. Evolving towards a cybernated society that can gradually outgrow the need for all political local, national, and supra-national governments as a means of social management.
7. Sharing and applying all of the new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
8. Using clean, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power, etc.
9. Ultimately utilizing the highest quality products for the benefit of all the world's people.
10. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
11. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.
12. Assisting in stabilizing the world's population through education and voluntary birth-control to conform to the carrying capacity of the earth.
13. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry and prejudice through education.
14. Eliminating any type of elitism, technical or otherwise.
15. Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
16. Enhancing communication in the new schools so that our language and education is relevant to the physical conditions of the world around us.
17. Providing not only the necessities of life but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind, emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
18. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the possible changes that lie ahead.
Like all other innovative social proposals, it starts out with a few devoted people that dedicate their time to informing others of the humane benefits of this new direction. People are invited to participate in whatever capacity they can to help carry out the initial design phases of this new experimental city. An interdisciplinary team of systems engineers, computer programmers, architects, city planners, sociologists, psychologists, educators and the like would also be needed. The design of The Venus Project does not regard environmental conditions as fixed or static. We must allow for adaptation and change within the system as a continuous process. This would avoid the tendency to perpetuate temporary arrangements beyond their period of usefulness.
TVP Essay wrote:The prime conditions that would really effect social change will come about when conditions have deteriorated to such an extent that governments, politicians, and social institutions no longer have the support and confidence of the people. What once worked is acknowledged to be no longer relevant. If the public were better informed, only then would it be possible to introduce a new and improved social arrangement.
TVP Essay wrote:We must emphasize here that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of a corporate elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations in control, and the vast majority of the world's population subservient to them. Globalization in a resource-based economy empowers each and every person on the planet to be the very best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.
TVP Essay wrote:To better understand the meaning of a resource-based economy consider this: If all the money in the world were to suddenly disappear, as long as topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we chose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need, but rather it is freedom of access to most of their necessities without ever having to appeal to a government bureaucracy or any other agency. In a resource-based economy money would become irrelevant. All that would be required are the resources, manufacturing, and distribution of the products.
There are a few other entries in the Essay relating to government but I believe I included the most relevant and important information here.
Jacque has a book available called
The Best That Money Can't Buy available on their store. There might be a copy available for download but I haven't looked. There should also be some more information in this PDF,
Designing The Future.
I hope this helps to answer what you are looking for.
As it stands in our current government, we have a bunch of politicians which are glorified talking heads as far as I'm concerned. They haven't been trained on how to deal with the social and economic problems we're faced with. They are trained in lip service and how to make the people believe that they know what they are talking about. In reality, they don't.
Take for example Hurricane Katrina and what it did to New Orleans. They flew the President out there and he said "Yup, we've got a big mess out here" and that was pretty much it. He wasn't trained on how to deal with those types of problems.
Who
did solve the problems? Engineers did.
This is the basis of government in the future.
Instead of allowing a bunch of ignorant bastards who have no idea how to solve problems to fake it and make matters even worse... We figure out who is properly trained on how to deal with the issue at hand and we arrive at decisions based on facts and data, the scientific method and by proper testing techniques to ensure we really are heading in the desired direction. We will seek out the most qualified people and have them go to the drawing board and decide the best course of action.
As it stands now, we put far too much value in people's opinions instead of really looking at the hard facts. Opinions in the future won't hold much water just like they don't hold much water here on the Nexus. We will start asking "Why is this the best way?" instead of just blindly following political puppets who obviously don't give a damn about "The People".
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