Nurtured In The Environment

FAQ 82. What about deviant behavior in The Venus Project’s society?

James Harvey Robinson believed that the proper study of man was man. There is no evidence to support this statement. A plant cannot grow of its own accord. It requires an environment of soil, nutrients, sunlight, etc. Any plant moved to the polar region, no matter how genetically well endowed, will not grow. Human beings are subject to the same physical laws which govern the entire evolutionary process. Human behavior and values are not self-generating; they are byproducts of culture.

Perhaps future historians will look upon us as deviants, with our artificialities, violence, and superstitions; a society which spends a great deal of its income on military expenditure, when the methods of science could be applied to bridge the differences between nations. Deviant and socially offensive behaviors are byproducts of deprivation, or the fear of it.

The Venus Project proposes the redesign of education in which people will be provided with the interrelationship of living systems as a symbiotic whole. People brought up without bigotry, racism or greed will no longer manifest patterns of behavior which are socially offensive – the southern U.S. mass lynchings in the past as well as today’s police shootings of young black men, for example. These are conditions of bio-social pressure and are byproducts of indoctrination.

The question which remains is, “How much of our value system, programmed by our society’s values, is designed to perpetuate existing and established institutions?”

It is not human nature but rather human behavior which must concern us. And that can easily be changed with appropriate and relevant education and environment which meets the carrying capacity of the earth.

If you elect honorable, ethical people to office, but there is no support of the environment to implement the decent laws passed, the laws cannot be obeyed. For example, if there is not enough arable land to grow food, then behavior will revert to stealing and corruption, to attain any remaining food.

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