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What The Venus Project proposes is that

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we bring all the nations together

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and take care of everything on Earth.

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We pledge allegiance to the environment and all the world's people

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the end of the separate nations

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the end of the artificial boundaries that separate people

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and the sharing of all the world's resources

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by all the world's people.

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If few nations control most of the earth's resources

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you're going to have territorial disputes. You're going to have war.

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You're going to have all the problems you've always had.

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That's why most people think it's human nature.

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They think Man is basically greedy

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and that this is why you have problems.

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That is not true.

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A banker, a serial killer, and a gangster, and a priest

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are made by environment. It's not human behavior.

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It's the environment we come from which generates behavior.

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We are victims of culture, all of us.

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That's why we have a distorted view.

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We believe that some people are good, some are bad

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some are creative, some are less creative: all that's bunk.

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Everyone can be creative.

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Now, they tell you in your school that plants grow. That's a lie.

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They need water, sunshine, soil, moisture, gravity

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all those things. Without them, the plant doesn't move.

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There is nothing in the Earth today

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that is not acted upon by resident forces

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and your language was designed hundreds of years ago.

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That's why we can't talk to each other.

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We talk at one another, not to one another.

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A lawyer is a guy that takes language

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twists it around, to anyway he wants to.

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If he's skilled at it, he can knock you out, put you in jail.

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A lawyer would be considered a criminal in the future.

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So would all bankers and all business men, and all politicians.

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Don't forget you're brought up to believe that King Solomon was a great guy.

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He had a thousand wives. He'd be arrested today as a bigamist.

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So all the things that you're taught

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they teach you to fit in with this culture.

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There's no such thing as "thinking things over."

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You think within the context of the way you were brought up.

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So it's very hard for so called "normal people"

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to step outside of the environment.

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Now in the early days, in the Roman Empire

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I am told that they used to feed Christians to lions.

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Now, the family would come Saturday and Sunday

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to see Christians being fed to the lions.

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And the kids would say, "Daddy, can we come next week

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to see Christians being fed to lions?"

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Daddy would say, "If you behave yourself."

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Are these kids sick? No. They are normal to that culture.

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There are no good or bad people.

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There are no corrupt people or dishonest people

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creative people, lazy people: all that's bunk.

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If you're raised in a society that understands human behavior

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you don't have those variations.

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You can block them through education.

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You must design for human comfort, and you must design cities

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with art centers, music centers, cultural centers.

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I can only talk a little bit about America because that's where I'm from.

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I don't like our country, it's completely corrupt.

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And that's for most civilizations today.

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They're all corrupt. I'm sorry to say that.

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I don't like what I'm saying. I wish it were otherwise.

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We are brought up in a system called "established".

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Established means it serves the interests of the lead group:

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the control group.

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What we really need is an emergent society.

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There are no great men, no great women.

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All people are creative, but they are not

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brought up to know what that means.

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So, when they tell you that your government likes you

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they're working for you: all that's bunk.

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When I say people hardly know what they are talking about

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it's because they are not brought up to be sane.

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They're brought up to fit in with the establishment.

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National loyalty is really a form of stupidity.

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All people need: clean air, clean water

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arable land and a relevant education.

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That means no businessmen no advertising, no investment bankers.

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I used to work for Ernst Udet and I said:

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"How did you shoot down 70 airplanes?"

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And he said to me: "I would fly above aerial combats and watch

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the rookies that couldn't handle the planes well, and knock 'em off."

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Now, what kind of a person is that?

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"He's a war hero. Great man."

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They are bums, stupid people

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brought up by an arrogant society

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that doesn't give a shit about anyone else

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but the established institutions.

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Man - this includes me - cannot think or reason.

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When your car veers to the right, you don't kick it and beat it up.

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Either your tire pressures aren't even

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or something is wrong with the steering column. You try to understand.

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When people, when children beat up other people

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and hurt other people, like a bully

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that's part of their conditioning, their associative memory

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the system they live under, which doesn't correct that.

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Schools do not teach you much. They're mostly concerned with propaganda.

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Most schools don't teach you how to live, find meaning in your own life

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how to disagree without getting angry.

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What is really needed is the intelligent management

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of the Earth's resources for the benefit of everyone.

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The only way you can do that is through technology.

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Everything that you have, your lights, your air conditioning

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your automobiles, your airplanes: all technology.

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Politicians can't give you that.

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Politicians don't know what to do.

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They make laws. "Say no to drugs."

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Well, that's not going to stop a person from selling drugs

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as long as there's money in it. But if you do away with the money system

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and build access centers where anyone

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can have access to the necessities of life

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without filling out a million forms or appealing to Fresco

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it's all available to everyone.

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Go to your big department stores

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or your food stores. You'll see lots of stuff.

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We are now capable of producing an abundance.

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ABUNDANCE

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People say to me: "I know two people from the same environment.

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One turned out to be a priest, the other a gangster.

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If environment is everything, how do you get those differences?"

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You get those differences by playing with the youngest child

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4 years old, while the 7 years old is with a rolled lip out like this.

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That's where jealousy comes from.

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It comes from poor manipulation of the variables.

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If you grade children in school, you hurt the other kids.

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"I got an A, what did you get? F, Failure."

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All of us, by the way, are prostitutes in this system.

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If you sing and you sell toothpaste, you're a prostitute.

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If you get up and you say, "I got just the house you're looking for,"

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you're a prostitute for the establishment.

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So, there's no good or bad people.

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We are perfect reflections of the culture we live in.

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Again, I'm sorry about that.

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How can you pray to a god? How can you talk to god?

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They think, due to ego problems that they are 'specially selected'.

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The Jews are "God's chosen people."

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The Germans are the master race.

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All these little egocentric people think that they're put here

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to lead the world into a better direction.

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Galileo found seashells on the mountain top.

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He took it to the Catholic Church, and he said:

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"Maybe the mountain was once under the water and was pushed up."

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The Church said, "No, the devil put that stuff there to confuse you."

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So the world you live in is as full of shit, as a Christmas turkey.

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And you're not about to talk to people and turn them around.

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You have to demonstrate it. So I don't say science is perfect

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but it's closer to our problems than any other system.

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People really don't know what to do, so they put up a sign

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"Thou shalt not steal." Don't steal.

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Don't be dishonest. That doesn't change people.

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All money systems, as they begin to collapse

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and change, they move towards fascism.

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It's part of the history of civilization to move in that direction.

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The wealthy people try to protect what they have.

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Fascism

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I went to the South Seas when I was 21.

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Everybody on the island was nude, except when men climbed trees.

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They wore a kind of a jockstrap

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to prevent their balls from being caught in the branches.

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So, everybody walked around nude

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and the interesting thing about it is

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I never saw a native staring at a girl's body

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only her eyes, when he talked to a woman.

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"Hey, get a load of that chick!"

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That's what you get in civilization: you cover the girl.

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If people swam nude when they were this high

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you couldn't sell pictures of a nude girl. Do you understand that?

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I get to know the natives so well, I watch them make love.

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They stroke the whole female, the top of the head all the way down.

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They had no fetishes. There were no titmen, legmen, assmen

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all that's made by culture.

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And if you don't use that kind of language around women

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you can't become equal to one another.

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So you have to tell them how men think.

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That isn't how they think, that's how they're brought up.

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When a guy is poking, "Hey, get a load of that chick!"

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That is learned within the culture. In the islands they never did that.

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It's like you, stroking a dog: you stroke the whole dog.

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You don't stop at the balls. You stroke the whole dog!

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Do you understand?

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I'm not your enemy. I'm not trying to hurt you.

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I'm trying to tell you that if we use science and technology

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everyone will be given the best opportunity

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so that we can bring out the best in every human being.

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Original Footage - The Venus Project UK Lecture - October 3rd, 2009

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Camera - Ian Pleasance - Eerie Investigations

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Graphics and Editing - Cristian Kirk

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Music - Cristian Kirk