After watching Zeitgeist Addendum (it's on Google Video Free and I highly recommend it), I was interested in learning more about Jacque Fresco's ideas. I just saw "The Future By Design" and find it thought-provoking as well.
Reason, Rationality and Love are essential to our survival.
Although Fresco trusts in a future automated system to manage our community affairs, and he apparently sees no use for human intervention in such systems, I personally believe that a free press and publicly transparent oversight of such automated systems would be essential. I also think a fundamental flaw in Ayn Rand's reasoning, and that of the libertarian right in general, is the idea that a rational society could function without public transparency and oversight.
It is naive to believe that an "automated government" wouldn't be tampered with, like the recently - disclosed republican / Ohio / Chattanooga 2004 computer election theft, without PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY and OVERSIGHT.
I would venture to say that Public Transparency and Oversight should characterize our government, starting now. This requires re-activation of the Fairness Doctrine in any/all monopolized media markets.
An aside: one solution to a disgraceful United States situation, this situation being our lost honor, will be the impeachment and fair trials of certain war criminals soon, now that the Democrats don't have to worry about winning the executive branch. Just thought I'd mention it. We should now PUT IMPEACHMENT SQUARELY ON THE TABLE. We don't have a lame duck to contend with. We have a CORNERED RAT.
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