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Knee Deep Productions Presents

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A film by MGT

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Global population

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October 2011: 7,000,000,000

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Global poverty

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13 million people die from poverty every year

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36,000 a day

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50% of the global population live on $2.50 а day or less.

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Global pollution. 10,000,000 tons of toxic chemicals released every year

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7-8 months is the estimated cost to UK lifespan due to air pollution

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Global war

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170,000,000 people have died due to war in the 20th century

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global military costs in 2010 were estimated at $1,630,000,000,000

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HUMANITY OVERDUE

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(Announcer) The profit motive which draws Fudsy to accomplish so much

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may bring out the evil

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as well as the good.

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[Phone ringing]

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- Hello! - Fudsy old boy, I've got a great idea!

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Between us we can control 70% of the country's sales. - Yeah, but...

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- Quiet! Let's see what's cooking. - I smell trouble.

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- We'll clean up... - Terrific! We'll make millions!

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- Mean you! - Quiet!

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Okay Sam, it's a deal!

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- You'll be sorry.

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(Public speaker) We are for the occupations:

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the Occupy Oakland, Occupy the Stock Exchange.

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We are against the occupations of Palestine, Haiti

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and the other myriad of occupations in the world.

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[Cheering]

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What's the most important part of any structure?

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What's the most important part of structure? Look at this church.

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The rest of the structure wouldn't be there

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if it wasn't built on a solid foundation.

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The most important part of any structure is the foundation

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and if the foundation of the structure gets up and walks away

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the rest will have the choice of either following or crumbling.

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We stand in solidarity with the globally oppressed

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and we call for an end to the actions of our government and others

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in causing this oppression. (Occupy London)

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Тахеs are going up! University fees going up!

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Let's bring the troops home from the war!

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Have peace. Why waste money?

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(J. Friend, Occupy London) We've got to become aware of the fact that

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we have generated, our forefathers up to us, have generated

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a position of instability that needs sorting out.

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We've got a massive debt

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and instead of pointing the finger at each other

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and blaming each other for the state of the world

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we can make things happen and we can stop things happening

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by the language that we use.

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They should see what's happening. There are people

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who can't leave their houses because their mobility allowance has been cut.

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There are people who cannot afford legal representation.

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For me, these are rights of human beings

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who live in a democratic society and they're being taken away

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to support 1% of the population who live like kings already.

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Everything we need is already here.

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We've stripped the earth of so much of its material wealth

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but we've put it into a way that profits me as an individual

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but shits on everything, including me.

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As long as I don't look at the destructive attitude

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the destructive habits that that money has generated

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as long as I don't look at that, if I can keep the blinkers on

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and just look at money, then I'm all right.

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You can't put a money figure on life

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but we do. As a race we do.

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If you look at things like gold, diamonds, money, shit

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put them on the floor and watch them.

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The gold never even tarnishes.

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It will always stay gold, bright and shiny.

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The diamonds are forever. They won't change form or anything.

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The money might corrode a little bit but, thousands of years

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and it will still be exactly the same shape as it was.

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It won't do anything for you. Now the shit, that will turn into soil.

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Seeds and things will blow into it.

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They'll germinate and they'll spring up from it

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and you'll notice that life will come out of shit

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but it won't come out of money and it won't come out of gold

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or out of diamonds.

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Only one of those things is vital or viable, and that's the shit.

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(Announcer) We are builders

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builders of new freedoms and more power for a new age.

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We stand on the edge of that new age even now

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and the pioneering spirit, flowering in the air of freedom

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will dream and build new ways to put electric power to work.

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Welcome to the Eden Project

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(M. Paterson) The Eden Project is a unique destination.

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To different audiences, it is different things

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but first and foremost it's a public attraction.

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It's a botanic garden with the largest single collection

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of ethnobotany that are plants for human use, some 5000 species

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through 3 different climate zones

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and that's part of the unique display and message of Eden.

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We have a temperate bio, the outside temperate landscape.

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We live in a temperate climate here in the United Kingdom.

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There are also two very impressive geodesic domes, biomes as we call them

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housing plants from two different climate regions of the world:

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warm temperate climate regions and tropical

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and, to a certain extent, subtropical regions of the world.

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We are... It's a phrase that we've heard time and again, but no less true:

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we are living in very interesting, admittedly, also exciting times.

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31st of October [2011], apparently, was the first time

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that this planet had 7 billion human beings living on it at any one moment

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and if we're going to be able to, not only allow the existing 7 billion

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including ourselves to have a happy, enjoyable life

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with the resources that we need for that

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and allow that for the existing 7 billion

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plus the expected population increase by 2050

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that may take us up to as many as 10 billion people on this planet

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then practices and principles of sustainability

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have to be, not just maintained, but augmented.

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One of the perhaps more important elements for us is harvestable rain water.

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The core building, our educational resource center

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both covered biomes, have very large surface areas

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and we use them for rainwater-harvesting/rainwater-catchment.

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Some of that rainwater is stored, cleaned

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and we then use it site-wide for various purposes.

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A project that we hope will be starting to come online early next year

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is indeed a geothermal project. Geothermal is not a new technology.

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Indeed in some parts of the world, it doesn't involve drilling at all.

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It involves walking to the place and there's hot water bubbling to the surface

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and Iceland is a classic example for that.

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We are at the extremes, end of the line, so to speak

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of energy transfer, energy production in this country.

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If this country through wave energy, wind power, now geothermal

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can become both a leader and also an exemplar of what is possible to generate,

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that would be very favorable and very exciting.

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Water, precious liquid treasure. Water, running out.

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The message has to be at, I think, all three standard levels:

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at local, national and international

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and recognizing that we don't all have to pursue goals individually

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often sharing resources, sharing ideas

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is not just exciting and helpful but very pleasant.

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Lower taxes? Higher taxes? Record employment? Unemployment? Peace?

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War? Highest wages? Lower pay? States rights? Centralization of government?

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- Whoa, stop!

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I've tried. I've listened to everybody, on TV and radio

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I've read the papers and magazines.

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I've tried but I'm still confused.

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Who's right? What's right?

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What should I believe? What are the facts? How can I tell?

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The whole goal of an economy, of a society that runs very well

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is to completely minimize this kind of inefficiency.

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There's a way to go around this poverty

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this presupposition that poor people

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should somehow be served less by society than the rich.

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Tens of thousands of kids are dying every year because they can't get clean water.

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Regular people here (in Britain) that are being put out of work every day

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families that are hungry and children that are being abused physically

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emotionally and just through neglect, and clinging on

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and holding some illusion over that life's OK

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so, it's pretty chaotic at the moment.

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(B. Mcleish, The Zeitgeist Movement) The Zeitgeist Movement is a global

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decentralized, volunteer organization

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that tries to spead sustainable values;

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tries to educate people about what it means to live in a society

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that's actually sustainable, that literally can go on.

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At the moment we've got what people are starting to refer to

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as a multi-dimensional collapse.

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We're running out of lot of different resources at the same time.

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Slowly we're running out of clean water, our air is getting more polluted.

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Slowly we're coming to the end of the hydrocarbon era.

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All of that is a product of the fact that we are, at the moment

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unable to solve the problem unless it makes money

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and there is no money to be made in being sustainable.

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(W. Dixon, The Zeitgeist Movement) If you just look for a moment at what the word economy means

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it's about economizing.

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It's about doing things sensibly. It's about how we manage our resources

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At the moment we have this middle man which is money

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and that's the go-between that we use to manage our resources.

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A Resource-Based Economy is about getting rid of that

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that corrupt 'money-middle-man' and going directly to the resources

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and managing those intelligently but sustainably as well.

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To understand what you have, where you have it, and then to build a society

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that has open-access, free life goods

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in the sense of the best health care possible, the best kind of housing

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which means that the housing is free

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that you can live anywhere, and free, integrated transport.

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A human being is a human being and it needs to be looked after

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in the best possible way or you're going to create a very sick individual.

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People always say "Well, in a system where everything's free

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and where it's all homogenized

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and everything looks the same apparently

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people would just be lazy. People wouldn't do anything.

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It's actually the other way round, because the more you do a job you hate

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the more you're not interested in doing anything else when you get home.

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You just want to withdraw into yourself and do nothing, go to sleep

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and hate the fact that you've spent most of your day

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of which you have limited number

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in something that you have no emotional investment in

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that you're only doing for the money. That's the only reason you do it.

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It's just a form of social control. We still live in the days of empire.

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Hard and fast, stand by that. They just don't do that with a sword anymore.

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They do it with money.

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Either way you're being forced to work in jobs that are belittling

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meaningless and, in lot of cases, very dangerous for us

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environmentally and socially.

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At the moment we are in the process of trying to communicate this

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to as many people as possible because to enact this kind of change

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requires everyone to understand what's happening in this society.

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Most just vote for it and hope it'll get better and, of course, it doesn't.

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We already have the technology in place to do all this stuff.

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We understand how things work. They can't be put into place

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because they're being competed against by the society.

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So, you have to fight to free that to produce almost money-less projects

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where you just damn well build it. You showcase and demonstrate this

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so people can come to see a museum of the future

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or multiple museums of the future, city systems like The Venus Project

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like stuff that Buckminster Fuller talks about

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that's been spoken about by great many theorists.

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That's one of them, but there's many other things as well.

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The biggest move of all is really going to be global revolution.

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It's going to be a combined opting-out of the current system.

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The world does change and it will keep changing.

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It's just which way you want that change to go is the question.

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We must become the change we want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

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Well, you said something about "Why worry now?"

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I'm worrying all right.

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The continuing wastes of life and vitality present a serious problem.

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Sometimes a relatively small improvement can mean the difference

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between success and failure.

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Fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city.

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Ask yourself:

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Is this the time to change?

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There are things to do: learn responsibility

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learn to work with people...

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And you, your life, will be affected by it.

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You know this.

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Can we gamble when the stakes are so high?

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Now is the time to begin.