Obama’s The Technological Politician
In the movie Zeitgeist, Jacques Fresco says that politicians cannot solve problems because unlike engineers, they are not trained to solve problems. The Venus Project, who is behind Zeitgeist, is a new solution civilization – a redesign of civilization by scientists. Discussing the implications of this is another discussion for another time. The point I want to make right now is that Barack Obama is doing a wonderful job of using technology to communicate with the people.
Just the fact that he is using the internet to send updates to the people (i.e. his weekly addresses) and to receive questions and ideas from the people (i.e. his town hall meeting) is impressive. The idea that he is pushing for innovation in technology is just above and beyond anything we could have asked for in a president. He wants the US to be the leader in renewable energy. That is incredible, forward thinking, respectable, beneficial, and economical.
Every person wants to find a job that they love. In other words, they want the ability to do what they love at the same time that they are winning bread. Use the same actions to create things as to supply yourself with necessities.
Obama is saying, lets improve energy technology, but lets create jobs and fix the economy in the process. Do what we as a country love – innovating, and at the same time do what we need – create jobs, so that people can spend and reinvigorate the economy.
I still believe that Zeitgeist and the Venus Project are wonderful movements with the best intentions of humanity in mind. Unfortunately, the solutions they recommend will take time to implement on a grande scale. In the meantime, it is good to know that we have a leader who is focusing his energy in a positive and innovative direction.
Check out Obama’s Weekly address here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/weekly_address/
I found the RSS feed for the White House Weekly Addresses here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/speeches.xml
Here is a link to the “experimental” White House Town Hall Meeting:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/26/Wrapping-Up-Open-for-Questions/
(That’s right, an experiment… Its when you try new things – generally because there is a problem with no currently viable solution. And don’t try to tell me that militarily attacking Iraq was a useful experiment.)