I'm not sure that that's what he's saying.
Myself, I can see some short comings in the Venus Project, but I agree with their principles, I think some of the goals could be achievable, and I think it would be much, much better than the way things currently are now.
Money poisons everything. That sounds quite hyberbolic, but when you really think about it, is there any big problem in today's society that ultimately isn't about greed and power?
Money has corrupted government almost completely. Lobbyists donate many millions to politicians so that politicians will back whatever position the lobbyists want. Everything from weapons manufacturers to banks to pharmaceutical companies. In turn, this means government will spend billions on contracts with the big weapons manufacturers in times of war (which conveniently seems abundant), that pharmaceutical companies get to keep drugs that are better than their drugs out of the market, and banks get away with betting and losing the public's money. Why do companies make sub-standard equipment that breaks down? So you'll have to buy more. Why do news organizations run Miley Cyrus twerking as their big headline on their website rather than informing the public on the actual important topics of the world? Because running the Miley Cyrus story will generate more advertisement revenue.
Why do people steal? Most of the time because of scarcity. Why are people starving and dying of curable diseases in the third world? Scarcity, lack of education. Why should it be this way when in reality there is plenty to go around?
The wars in the Middle East (according to this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey_of_Iraq_War_casualties - the casualties in Iraq are over 1
million) are about controlling resources. It isn't any coincidence that there are billions at stake in the control of oil pipelines in Syria as the war rhetoric picks up (
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines ), its entirely naive to believe the US engages in what is essentially imperialism out of some sense of doing good for the civilians on the ground. Ultimately its about getting rich! Look at how transparent the excuses are of the Obama administration. They claim its common sense that Assad used chemical weapons, though Assad would have nothing to gain from doing so, and even though there are reports that the rebels have used sarin in the recent past. They claim to have evidence but won't present this evidence, Putin has called their bluff, asking them to present this evidence to the UN security council. The UN inspectors haven't even finished examining the evidence, so what evidence could the US possibly have? And the US and UK have been funding the rebels and giving them weapons the last few years, some of the rebels aren't even from Syria but from elsewhere, like Saudi Arabia, and the rebels have known connections to Al Queda. In the face of all of this information, that the US is so keen to attack Assad and destabalize the secular government there, is it really out of concern for the people of Syria? Who is naive enough to believe that?
There needs to be radical changes to our way of thinking about things. Our biggest obstacle is all of these moneyed interests. One day, it may inevitably all collapse in on itself, at which point other people can step in and establish a society that shares resources and does not have the moneyed interests in the way of building cities that run on clean energy, a society in which there is plenty for everyone, that are built intelligently and in which all of the manual labour is automated, in which people are truly free, instead of constantly being indebted to the government if they want a decent standard of higher education or if they want the basics of what it takes to live.