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must also reflect decay.

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Art must show the world as changeable.

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And help to change it.

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-Ernst Fischer

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... deadly riots over the government's plan

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to avoid defaulting on its loans ...

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is that the unemployment keeps rising

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and it has to keep rising

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just because we have an excess supply of goods...

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this is all borrowed money...

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and that debt is owned by banks in other countries...

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M-O-N-E-Y, in the form of a convenient personal loan...

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... a filter cigarette that delivers the taste...

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45 malt liquor... Are You Hot?!...

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is the US planning to bomb Iran?...

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...America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran...

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Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person.

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She taught me how to play the game Monopoly.

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She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.

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She would accumulate everything she could

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and eventually, she became the master of the board.

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And then she would always say the same thing to me.

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She would look at me and she would say:

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“One day, you'll learn to play the game.”

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One summer, I played Monopoly almost every day, all day long.

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And that summer, I learned to play the game.

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I came to understand the only way to win

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is to make a total commitment to acquisition.

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I came to understand that money and possessions-

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that's the way that you keep score.

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And by the end of that summer, I was more ruthless than my grandmother.

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I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game.

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And I sat down with her to play that fall.

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I took everything she had.

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I watched her give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.

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And then she had one more thing to teach me.

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Then she said:

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“Now it all goes back in the box.

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All those houses and hotels.

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All the railroads and utility companies...

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All that property and all that wonderful money...

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Now it all goes back in the box.

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None of it was really yours.

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You got all heated up about it for a while.

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But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board

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and it will be here after you're gone: players come, players go.

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Houses and cars...

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Titles and clothes...

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Even your body.”

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Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard

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is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all.

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So you have to ask yourself

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when you finally get the ultimate promotion

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when you have made the ultimate purchase

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when you buy the ultimate home

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when you have stored up financial security

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and climbed the ladder of success

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to the highest rung you can possibly climb it...

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and the thrill wears off

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- and it will wear off -

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Then what?

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How far do you have to walk down that road

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before you see where it leads?

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Surely you understand

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it will never be enough.

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So you have to ask yourself the question:

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What matters?

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They're Hot!

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They're Rich!

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And They're Spoiled!

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America's #1 Show is Back!

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When I was a young man

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growing up in New York City

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I refused to pledge allegiance to the flag.

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Of course I was sent to the principal's office.

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And he asked me, 'Why don't you want to pledge allegiance?

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Everybody does!'

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I said, 'Everybody once believed the Earth was flat

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but that doesn't make it so.'

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I explained that America owed everything it has

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to other cultures and other nations

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and that I would rather pledge allegiance

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to the Earth and everyone on it.

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Needless to say it wasn't long before I left school entirely

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...and I set up a lab in my bedroom.

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There I began to learn about science and nature.

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I realized then that the universe is governed by laws

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and that the human being, along with society itself,

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was not exempt from these laws.

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Then came the crash of 1929

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which began what we now call

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“The Great Depression”.

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I found it difficult to understand why millions

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were out of work, homeless, starving,

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while all the factories were sitting there;

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the resources were unchanged.

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It was then that I realized

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that the rules of the economic game

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were inherently invalid.

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Shortly after, came World War II

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where various nations took turns

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systematically destroying each other.

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I later calculated that all the destruction

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and wasted resources spent on that war

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.

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could have easily provided for every

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human need on the planet.

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Since that time, I have watched humanity

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set the stage for its own extinction.

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I have watched as the precious finite resources

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are perpetually wasted and destroyed

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in the name of profit and free markets.

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I have watched the social values of society

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be reduced into a base artificiality of materialism

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and mindless consumption.

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And I have watched as the monetary powers

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control the political structure

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of supposedly free societies.

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I'm 94 years old now.

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And I'm afraid my disposition is the same as it was

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75 years ago.

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This shit's got to go.

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[ ZEITGEIST ]

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[ ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD ]

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[ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful

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committed citizens can change the world.

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Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead ]

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[ Part 1: Human Nature ]

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So you're a scientist, and ...

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somewhere along the way, hammered into your head

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is the inevitable “nature versus nurture”

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and that's at least up there with Coke versus Pepsi

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or Greeks versus Trojans.

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So, nature versus nurture: This, by now

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utterly over-simplifying view of

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influences on how a cell deals with

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an energy crisis up to

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what makes us who we are on the most individualistic

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levels of personality.

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And what you've got is this complete false dichotomy

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built around nature as deterministic

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at the very bottom of all the causality.

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Of 'life is DNA' and the 'code of codes'

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and the Holy Grail, and everything is driven by it.

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which is: We are 'social organisms'

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and biology is for slime molds;

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humans are free of biology.

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And obviously both views are nonsense.

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What you see instead is that

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it is virtually impossible to understand how biology works

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outside of the context of environment.

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[ It's Genetic ]

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One of the most crazy making yet widespread

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and potentially dangerous notions is:

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“Oh, that behavior is genetic.”

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Now what does that mean? It means all sorts of subtle stuff if you

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know modern biology, but for most people out there

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what it winds up meaning is:

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a deterministic view of life,

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one rooted in biology and genetics.

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Genes equal things that can't be changed.

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Genes equal things that are

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inevitable and that you might as well

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not waste resources trying to fix,

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might as well not put societal energies into trying to improve

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because it's inevitable and it's unchangeable.

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[ Disease ]

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It is widely thought that

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conditions like ADHD are genetically programmed,

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conditions like schizophrenia are genetically programmed.

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The truth is the opposite.  Nothing is genetically programmed.

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There are very rare diseases, a small handful,

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extremely sparsely represented in the population,

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that are truly genetically determined.

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might have a predisposition that has a genetic component,

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but a predisposition is not the same as a predetermination.

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The whole search for the source of diseases in the genome

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was doomed to failure before anybody even thought of it,

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because most diseases are not genetically predetermined.

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Heart disease, cancer, strokes,

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rheumatoid conditions, autoimmune conditions in general,

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none of them are genetically determined.

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Breast cancer, for example. Out of 100 women with breast cancer

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only seven will carry the breast cancer genes.

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93 do not.

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not all of them will get cancer.

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[ Behavior ]

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Genes are not just things that make us behave in

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a particular way regardless of our environment.

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Genes give us different ways of responding to our environment.

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And in fact it looks as if some of the early

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childhood influences and the kind of child rearing,

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affect gene expression:

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actually turning on or off different genes

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to put you on a different developmental track

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which may suit the kind of world you've got to deal with.

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a study done in Montreal with suicide victims

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looked at autopsies of the brains of these people.

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(these are usually young adults)

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had been abused as children, the abuse actually

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caused a genetic change in the brain

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that was absent in the brains of people who had not been abused.

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the epigenetic influence is what happens

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environmentally to either activate or deactivate certain genes.

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in which a few thousand individuals

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were studied from birth into their 20s.

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What they found was that they could identify

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a genetic mutation- an abnormal gene-

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which did have some relation to

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the predisposition to commit violence,

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but only if the individual had also

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been subjected to severe child abuse.

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In other words, children with this abnormal gene

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would be no more likely to be violent than anybody else,

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and in fact, they actually had a lower rate of violence

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than people with normal genes

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as long as they weren't abused as children.

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Great additional example of the ways

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in which genes are not “be all - end all.”

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A fancy technique where you can

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take a specific gene out of a mouse,

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that mouse and its descendants will not have that gene.

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You have ”knocked out” that gene.

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So there's this one gene that encodes for a protein

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that has something to do with learning and memory.

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And with this fabulous demonstration you “knock out” that gene

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and you have a mouse that doesn't learn as well.

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“Ooh! A genetic basis for intelligence!”

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What was much less appreciated in that landmark study

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that got picked up by the media left and right,

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is take those genetically impaired mice

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and raise them in a much more enriched

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stimulating environment than your normal mice in a lab cage,

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and they completely overcame that deficit.

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So, when one says in a contemporary sense that

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“Oh, this behavior is genetic”

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to the extent that that's even a valid sort of phrase to use,

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what you're saying is: there is a

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genetic contribution to how this organism responds to environment;

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genes may influence the readiness with which

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an organism will deal with a certain environmental challenge.

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You know, that's not the version most people have in their minds.

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And not to be too 'soap-boxing'

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but run with the old version of “It's genetic!” and

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it's not that far from the history of Eugenics and things of that sort.

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It's a widespread misconception

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and it's a potentially fairly dangerous one.

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One reason that the

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biological explanation for violence,

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one reason that hypothesis is potentially dangerous-

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it's not just misleading it can really do harm-

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is because if you believe that, you could very easily say:

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“Well, there's nothing we can do

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to change the predisposition people have to becoming violent.

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All we can do, if somebody becomes violent is

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punish them- lock them up or execute them-

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but we don't need to worry about changing the

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social environment or the social preconditions

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that may lead people to become violent

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because that's irrelevant.”

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The genetic argument allows us the luxury of ignoring

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past and present historical and social factors.

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And in the words of Louis Menand

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who wrote in the New Yorker, very astutely he said:

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“It's all in the genes, an explanation for the way things are

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that does not threaten the way things are.

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Why should someone feel unhappy or

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engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living

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in the freest and most prosperous nation on Earth?

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It can't be the system.

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There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.”

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Which is a good way of putting it.

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So, the genetic argument is simply a cop-out

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which allows us to ignore

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the social and economic and political factors

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that, in fact, underlie many troublesome behaviors.

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[ Case Study: Addiction ]

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Addictions are usually considered to be a drug-related issue.

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But looking at it more broadly, I define addiction as any behavior

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that is associated with craving, with temporary relief

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and with long-term negative consequences

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along with an impairment of control over it, so that the person

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wishes to give it up or promises to do so

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but can't follow through.

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And when you understand that, you see that

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there are many more addictions than simply those related to drugs.

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There's workaholism, addiction to shopping,

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to the Internet; to video games.

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There's the addiction to power. People that have power but

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they want more and more; nothing is ever enough for them.

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Acquisition - corporations that must own more and more.

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The addiction to oil, or at least to the wealth

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and to the products made accessible to us by oil.

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Look at the negative consequences on the environment.

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We are destroying the very earth that we inhabit

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for the sake of that addiction. Now, these addictions

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are far more devastating in their social consequences

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than the cocaine or heroin habits of my downtown Eastside patients.

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Yet, they are rewarded! And considered to be respectable.

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The tobacco company executive that shows a higher profit

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will get a much bigger reward.

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He doesn't face any negative consequences legally or otherwise.

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In fact he is a respected member

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of the board of several other corporations.

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But, tobacco smoke related diseases

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kill 5 ½ million people around the world every year.

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In the United States they kill 400,000 people a year.

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And these people are addicted to what? To profit.

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To such a degree that they are addicted

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that they are actually in denial

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about the impact of their activities

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which is typical for addicts, is denial!

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And that's a respectable one. It's respectable to be

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addicted to profit, no matter what the cost.

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So, what is acceptable and what is respectable

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is a highly arbitrary phenomenon in our society.

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And it seems like the greater the harm

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the more respectable the addiction.

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[ The Myth ]

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There is a general myth that drugs, in themselves, are addictive.

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In fact, the war on drugs is predicated on the idea

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that if you interdict the source of drugs

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you can deal with addiction that way.

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Now, if you understand addiction in the broader sense

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we see that nothing in itself is addictive.

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No substance, no drug is by itself addictive

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and no behavior is by itself addictive.

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Many people can go shopping without becoming shopaholics.

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Not everyone becomes a food addict.

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Not everyone who drinks a glass of wine becomes an alcoholic.

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So the real issue is: what makes people susceptible?

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Because it's the combination of a susceptible individual

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and the potentially addictive substance or behavior

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that makes for the full flowering of addiction.

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In short, it's not the drug that's addictive,

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it's the question of the susceptibility of the individual

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to being addicted to a particular substance or behavior.

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[ Environment ]

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If we wish to understand what then

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makes some people susceptible

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we actually have to look at the life experience.

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The old idea- although it's old but it's still

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broadly held- that addictions are due to some genetic cause

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is simply scientifically untenable.

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What the case is actually is that

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certain life experiences make people susceptible.

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Life experiences that not only shape the person's

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personality and psychological needs

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but also their very brains in certain ways.

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And that process begins in utero.

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[ Prenatal ]

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It has been shown, for example,

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that if you stress mothers during pregnancy

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their children are more likely to have traits

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that predispose them to addictions.

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And that's because development is shaped

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by the psychological and social environment.

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So the biology of human beings is very much affected by

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and programmed by the life experiences beginning in utero.

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Environment does not begin at birth.

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Environment begins as soon as you have an environment.

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As soon as you are a fetus, you are subject to

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whatever information is coming through mom's circulations.

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Hormones, levels of nutrients...

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A great landmark example of this is

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something called the Dutch Hongerwinter.

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In 1944, Nazis occupying Holland

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for a bunch of reasons, they decide to take all the food

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and divert it to Germany;

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for three months everybody there was starving.

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Tens of thousands of people starve to death.

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What the Dutch hunger winter effect is:

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if you were a second or third trimester fetus during the starvation

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your body 'learned' something very unique during that time.

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As it turns out, second and third trimester is when

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your body is going about trying to learn about the environment:

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How menacing of a place is it out there?

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How plentiful? How much nutrients am I getting

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by way of mom's circulation?

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Be a fetus who was starving during that time and

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your body programs forever after to be

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really, really stingy with your sugar and fat

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and what you do is you store every bit of it.

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Be a Dutch Hunger Winter fetus and half a century later,

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everything else being equal, you are more likely to have

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.

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high blood pressure, obesity or metabolic syndrome.

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That is environment coming in a very unexpected place.

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You can stress animals in the laboratory when they're pregnant

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and their offspring will be more likely to use

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cocaine and alcohol as adults.

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You can stress human mothers. For example, in a British study

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women who were abused in pregnancy

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will have higher levels of the

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stress hormone cortisol in their placenta at birth

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and their children are more likely to have conditions

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that predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8.

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So in utero stress already prepares the gun

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for all kinds of mental health issues.

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An Israeli study done on children

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born to mothers who were pregnant

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prior to the onset of the 1967 war...

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These women, of course, were very stressed

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and their offspring have a higher incidence of schizophrenia

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than the average cohort.

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So, there is plenty of evidence now that prenatal effects

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have a huge impact on the developing human being.

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[ Infancy ]

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The point about human development and specifically

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human brain development is that it occurs mostly

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under the impact of the environment and mostly after birth.

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.

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Now, if you compare us to a horse

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which can run on the first day of life

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we see that we are very undeveloped.

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We can't muster that much neurological coordination

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balance, muscle strength, visual acuity

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until a year and a half, two years of age.

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That's because the brain development in the horse

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happens in the safety of the womb

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and in the human being, it has to happen after birth,

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and that has to do with simple evolutionary logic.

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As the head gets larger, which is what makes us into human beings-

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the burgeoning of the forebrain

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is what creates the human species, actually.

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At the same time we walk on two legs, so our pelvis narrows

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to accommodate that. So now we have a narrower pelvis, a larger head- ...

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.

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Bingo! We have to be born prematurely.

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And that means the brain development that in other animals

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occurs in utero, in us, occurs after birth

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.

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and much of that under the impact of the environment.

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The concept of Neural Darwinism simply means

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that the circuits that get the appropriate input from the environment

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will develop optimally and the ones that don't

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will either not develop optimally or perhaps not at all.

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If you take a child with perfectly good eyes at birth

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and you put him in a dark room for five years

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he will be blind thereafter for the rest of his life

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because the circuits of vision require light waves for their development,

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and without that even the rudimentary circuits

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present and active at birth

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will atrophy and die and new ones will not develop.

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[ Memory ]

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There is a significant way in which

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early experiences shape adult behavior,

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and even and especially

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early experiences for which there is no recall memory.

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It turns out that there are two kinds of memory:

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there is explicit memory which is recall;

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this is when you can call back facts,

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details, episodes, circumstances.

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But the structure in the brain which is called the hippocampus

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which encodes recall memory

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doesn't even begin to develop fully until a year and a half

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and it is not fully developed until much later.

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Which is why hardly anybody has any recall memory

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prior to 18 months.

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But there is another kind of memory which is called implicit memory

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.

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which is in fact, an emotional memory

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where the emotional impact and the interpretation the child makes

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of those emotional experiences are ingrained in the brain

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in the form of nerve circuits ready to fire without specific recall.

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.

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So to give you a clear example, people who are adopted

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.

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have a lifelong sense of rejection very often.

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They can't recall the adoption.

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They can't recall the separation of the birth mother

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because there's nothing there to recall with.

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But the emotional memory of separation and rejection

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is deeply embedded in their brains.

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Hence, they are much more likely to experience a sense of rejection

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.

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and a great emotional upset

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when they perceive themselves as being rejected by other people.

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.

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That's not unique to people who are adopted

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but it is particularly strong in them

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because of this function of implicit memory.

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People who are addicted, given ...

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all the research literature and in my experience,

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the hard-core addicts virtually were all

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significantly abused as children

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or suffered severe emotional loss.

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Their emotional or implicit memories

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are those of a world that's not safe

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and not helpful, caregivers who were not to be trusted

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and relationships that are not

540
00:28:04,117 --> 00:28:06,190
safe enough to open up to vulnerably.

541
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:07,860
And hence their responses tend to be

542
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,050
to keep themselves separate from really intimate relationships;

543
00:28:12,189 --> 00:28:12,190
.

544
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:14,760
not to trust caregivers, doctors

545
00:28:14,810 --> 00:28:16,920
and other people who are trying to help them

546
00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:20,000
and generally see the world as an unsafe place.

547
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:24,840
And that is strictly a function of implicit memory

548
00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:29,100
which sometimes has to do with incidents they don't even recall.

549
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,840
[ Touch ]

550
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,130
Infants who are born premature are often in incubators

551
00:28:37,270 --> 00:28:39,310
and various types of gadgetry and machinery

552
00:28:39,450 --> 00:28:42,200
for weeks and perhaps months.

553
00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:44,200
It's now known that if these children

554
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:47,460
are touched and stroked on the back for just 10 minutes a day,

555
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,600
that promotes their brain development.

556
00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:52,460
So, human touch is essential for development

557
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,310
and in fact, infants who are never picked up will actually die.

558
00:28:56,450 --> 00:28:59,100
That is how much of a fundamental need

559
00:28:59,250 --> 00:29:01,480
being held is to human beings.

560
00:29:01,580 --> 00:29:04,200
In our society, there is an unfortunate tendency

561
00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:07,050
to tell parents not to pick up their kids, not to hold them,

562
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,780
not to pick up babies who are crying for fear of spoiling them or

563
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,060
to encourage them to sleep through the night- you don't pick them up-

564
00:29:16,199 --> 00:29:16,200
.

565
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,600
which is just the opposite of what the child needs.

566
00:29:18,740 --> 00:29:21,960
And these children might go back to sleep because they give up

567
00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,860
and their brains just shut down as a way of

568
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,060
defending against the vulnerability

569
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,960
of being abandoned really by their parents.

570
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,040
But their implicit memories will be

571
00:29:32,170 --> 00:29:34,790
that of the world that doesn't give a damn.

572
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,440
[ Childhood ]

573
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,800
A lot of these differences are structured very early in life.

574
00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:48,120
In a way, the parental experience of adversity-

575
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,700
how tough life is or how easy it is- is passed on to children

576
00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:52,840
.

577
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,100
whether through maternal depression

578
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,940
or parents being bad tempered with their kids because they have

579
00:29:58,039 --> 00:29:58,040
.

580
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,380
had a hard day or just being too tired at the end of the day.

581
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,700
And these have very powerful effects

582
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,740
programming children's development, which we know a lot about now.

583
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,620
But that early sensitivity isn't just an evolutionary mistake.

584
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,350
It exists again in many different species.

585
00:30:17,450 --> 00:30:20,440
Even in seedlings, there's an early adaptive process

586
00:30:20,570 --> 00:30:22,680
to the kind of environment they are growing up in.

587
00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:28,200
But for humans, the adaptation is to the quality of social relations.

588
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,900
And so, early life:

589
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,840
how nurturing, how much conflict, how much attention you get-

590
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,100
is a taster of the kind of world you may be growing up in.

591
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,980
Are you growing up in a world where you have to

592
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,180
fight for what you can get, watch your back,

593
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,260
fend for yourself, learn not to trust others?

594
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,240
Or are you growing up in a society where you depend on

595
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,100
reciprocity, mutuality, cooperation, where empathy is important,

596
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,900
where your security depends on good relations with other people?

597
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,490
And that needs a very different emotional and cognitive development.

598
00:31:03,629 --> 00:31:03,630
.

599
00:31:03,630 --> 00:31:06,590
And that's what the early sensitivity is about.

600
00:31:06,730 --> 00:31:10,550
And parenting is almost- quite unconsciously-

601
00:31:10,690 --> 00:31:13,920
a system for passing on that experience to children,

602
00:31:14,020 --> 00:31:15,620
of the kind of world they are in.

603
00:31:16,660 --> 00:31:20,200
The great British child psychiatrist, D.W. Winnicott, said

604
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,260
that fundamentally, two things can go wrong in childhood.

605
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,340
One is when things happen that shouldn't happen

606
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,460
and then things that should happen but don't.

607
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,520
In the first category, is the traumatic and abusive

608
00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:36,300
and abandonment experiences of my

609
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,500
downtown Eastside patients and of many addicts.

610
00:31:39,650 --> 00:31:41,940
That's what shouldn't happen but did.

611
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,620
But then there is the non-stressed, attuned,

612
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,090
non-distracted attention of the parent that every child needs

613
00:31:51,229 --> 00:31:51,230
.

614
00:31:51,230 --> 00:31:53,150
that very often children don't get.

615
00:31:53,250 --> 00:31:55,540
They're not abused. They are not neglected

616
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,920
and they're not traumatized.

617
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,640
But what should happen-

618
00:31:59,770 --> 00:32:02,740
the presence of the emotionally available nurturing parent-

619
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,800
just is not available to them because

620
00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:07,860
of the stresses in our society and the parenting environment.

621
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,080
The psychologist Allan Schore calls that "Proximal Abandonment"

622
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,300
when the parent is physically present but emotionally absent.

623
00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:19,501
.

624
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,140
I have spent

625
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,100
roughly the last 40 years of my life

626
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,910
working with the most violent of people our society produces:

627
00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:34,160
murderers, rapists and so on.

628
00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:37,860
In an attempt to understand what causes this violence,

629
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,380
I discovered that the most violent of the criminals in our prisons

630
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,340
had themselves been victims

631
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,180
of a degree of child abuse that was beyond the scale

632
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,090
of what I ever thought of applying the term child abuse to.

633
00:32:51,190 --> 00:32:54,560
I had no idea of the depth

634
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:58,560
of the depravity with which children in our society

635
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,600
are all too often treated.

636
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,550
The most violent people I saw were themselves the survivors

637
00:33:04,690 --> 00:33:07,800
of their own attempted murder often at the hands of their

638
00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:11,080
parents or other people in their social environment

639
00:33:11,220 --> 00:33:14,460
or were the survivors of family members who had been killed-

640
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,180
their closest family members- by other people.

641
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,700
The Buddha argued that everything depends on everything else.

642
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,760
He says 'The one contains the many and the many contains the one.'

643
00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:30,350
That you can't understand anything in isolation from its environment.

644
00:33:30,450 --> 00:33:36,000
The leaf contains the sun, the sky and the earth, obviously.

645
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,410
This has now been shown to be true, of course all around

646
00:33:41,550 --> 00:33:44,560
and specifically when it comes to human development.

647
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,960
The modern scientific term for it

648
00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:49,710
is the "bio-psycho-social" nature of human development

649
00:33:49,850 --> 00:33:52,000
which says that the biology of human beings

650
00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:54,460
depends very much on their interaction with

651
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,610
the social and psychological environment.

652
00:33:56,750 --> 00:34:02,220
And specifically, the psychiatrist and researcher

653
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,800
Daniel Siegel at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA

654
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:10,040
has coined a phrase “Interpersonal Neurobiology”

655
00:34:10,180 --> 00:34:14,580
which means to say that the way that our nervous system functions

656
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,400
depends very much on our personal relationships:

657
00:34:17,499 --> 00:34:19,900
in the first place with the parenting caregivers,

658
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,900
and in the second place with other important

659
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,580
attachment figures in our lives

660
00:34:23,700 --> 00:34:25,920
and in the third place, with our entire culture.

661
00:34:26,060 --> 00:34:28,550
So that you can't separate the

662
00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:31,000
neurological functioning of a human being

663
00:34:31,140 --> 00:34:34,960
from the environment in which he or she grew up in

664
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,420
and continues to exist in.

665
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,240
And this is true throughout the life cycle.

666
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,070
It's particularly true when you are

667
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,830
dependent and helpless when your brain is developing

668
00:34:44,970 --> 00:34:48,840
but it's true even in adults and even at the end of life.

669
00:34:51,250 --> 00:34:53,080
[ Culture ]

670
00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:56,700
Human beings have lived in almost every kind of society,

671
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,590
from the most egalitarian-

672
00:34:59,690 --> 00:35:03,460
hunting and gathering societies seem to have been very egalitarian-

673
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,480
for instance based on food sharing, gift exchange...

674
00:35:06,601 --> 00:35:09,300
Small bands of people living

675
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,020
predominately off of foraging and a little bit of hunting,

676
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,100
predominantly among people you have

677
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,140
at the least, known your entire life

678
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,120
if not surrounded by third cousins or closer,

679
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,100
in a world in which there is a great deal

680
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,100
of fluidity between different groups,

681
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:25,900
in a world which there is not

682
00:35:25,950 --> 00:35:28,000
a whole lot in terms of material culture...

683
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,920
this is how humans have spent most of their hominid history.

684
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,400
And, no surprise, that makes for a very different world.

685
00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:38,800
One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence.

686
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:41,660
Organized group violence is

687
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,400
not something that occurred at that time

688
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,740
of human history and that seems quite clear.

689
00:35:46,890 --> 00:35:49,375
So where did we go wrong?

690
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:56,570
Violence is not universal. It is not symmetrically distributed

691
00:35:56,580 --> 00:36:00,350
throughout the human race. There is a huge variation

692
00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:02,940
in the amount of violence in different societies.

693
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,140
There are some societies that have virtually no violence.

694
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,700
There are others that destroy themselves!

695
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:16,020
Some of the Anabaptist religious groups

696
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,280
that are complete strict pacifists

697
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,100
like the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hutterites...

698
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,280
Among some of these groups, the Hutterites-

699
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,500
there are no recorded cases of homicide.

700
00:36:29,850 --> 00:36:32,850
During our major wars, like World War II

701
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,500
where people were being drafted

702
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,800
they would refuse to serve in the military.

703
00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:39,720
They would go to prison rather than serve in the military.

704
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:42,360
In the Kibbutzim in Israel

705
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,800
the level of violence is so low that the criminal courts there

706
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,850
will often send violent offenders

707
00:36:48,950 --> 00:36:51,250
-people who have committed crimes-

708
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,120
to live on the Kibbutzim in order to

709
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,200
learn how to live a non-violent life.

710
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,400
Because that's the way people live there.

711
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,100
So, we are amply shaped by society.

712
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:07,400
Our societies, in the broader sense, including our theological,

713
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,860
our metaphysical, our linguistic influences, etc.,

714
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,700
our societies help shape us as to whether or not we think

715
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,940
life is basically about sin or about beauty;

716
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,650
whether the afterlife will carry a price

717
00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:23,200
for how we live our lives or if it's irrelevant.

718
00:37:23,650 --> 00:37:26,900
In a broad sort of way, different large societies

719
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,460
could be termed as individualistic or collectivist, and

720
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,300
you get very different people and different mindsets and

721
00:37:33,399 --> 00:37:33,400
.

722
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,680
I suspect different brains coming along with that.

723
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:40,300
We, in America, are in one of the most individualistic of societies,

724
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,800
with capitalism being a system that allows you to go

725
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,420
higher and higher up a potential pyramid and

726
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,420
the deal is that it comes with fewer and fewer safety nets.

727
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,000
By definition, the more stratified a society is,

728
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,500
the fewer people you have as peers; the fewer people with whom

729
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,780
you have symmetrical, reciprocal relationships

730
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,500
and instead, all you have are differing spots and endless hierarchies.

731
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,000
A world in which you have few reciprocal partners

732
00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:11,500
is a world with a lot less altruism.

733
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
[Human Nature]

734
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,100
So, this brings us to a total impossible juncture which is

735
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,420
to try to make sense in perspective science

736
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,060
as to what that nature is of human nature.

737
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,560
You know, on a certain level

738
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,120
the nature of our nature is not to be

739
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,900
particularly constrained by our nature.

740
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,740
We come up with more social

741
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,300
variability than any species out there.

742
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,600
More systems of belief, of styles, of family structures,

743
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,660
of ways of raising children. The capacity

744
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,000
for variety that we have is extraordinary.

745
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,420
In a society which is predicated on competition

746
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:00,900
and really, very often, the ruthless exploitation

747
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,960
of one human being by another-

748
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,180
the profiteering off of other people's problems

749
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,850
and very often the creation of problems

750
00:39:08,950 --> 00:39:11,520
for the purpose of profiteering-

751
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,800
the ruling ideology will very often justify that behavior

752
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,880
by appeals to some fundamental and unalterable human nature.

753
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,620
So the myth in our society

754
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,840
is that people are competitive by nature

755
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,840
and that they are individualistic and that they're selfish.

756
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,000
The real reality is quite the opposite.

757
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:31,600
We have certain human needs.

758
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,440
The only way that you can talk about human nature concretely

759
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,100
is by recognizing that there are certain human needs.

760
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,260
We have a human need for companionship and for close contact,

761
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,360
to be loved, to be attached to, to be accepted,

762
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,000
to be seen, to be received for who we are.

763
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,940
If those needs are met, we develop

764
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:55,000
into people who are compassionate and cooperative and

765
00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:58,320
who have empathy for other people.

766
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,960
So...

767
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,720
the opposite, that we often see in our society,

768
00:40:03,820 --> 00:40:05,740
is in fact, a distortion of human nature

769
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,100
precisely because so few people have their needs met.

770
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,560
So, yes you can talk about human nature

771
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,100
but only in the sense of basic human needs

772
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,240
that are instinctively evoked

773
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,620
or I should say, certain human needs

774
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:21,520
that lead to certain traits if they are met

775
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,140
and a different set of traits if they are denied.

776
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,700
So...

777
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,700
when we recognize the fact that the human organism,

778
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,380
which has a great deal of adaptive flexibility

779
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,740
allowing us to survive in many different conditions,

780
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,000
is also rigidly programmed for certain environmental requirements

781
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,440
or human needs,

782
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,520
a social imperative begins to emerge.

783
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,640
Just as our bodies require physical nutrients,

784
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,040
the human brain demands positive forms of environmental stimulus

785
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,480
at all stages of development,

786
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,800
while also needing to be protected

787
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,600
from other negative forms of stimulus.

788
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,400
And if things that should happen, do not...

789
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,040
or if things that shouldn't happen, do...

790
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,380
it is now apparent that the door can be opened for not only

791
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,540
a cascade of mental and physical diseases

792
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,260
but many detrimental human behaviors as well.

793
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,980
So, as we turn our perspective now outward

794
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,800
and take account for the state of affairs today,

795
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,760
we must ask the question:

796
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,840
Is the condition we have created in the modern world

797
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,600
actually supporting our health?

798
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,950
Is the bedrock of our socioeconomic system

799
00:41:35,050 --> 00:41:36,680
acting as a positive force

800
00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:39,760
for human and social development and progress?

801
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,300
Or, is the foundational gravitation of our society

802
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,820
actually going against the core evolutionary requirements

803
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,380
needed to create and maintain

804
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,250
our personal and social well-being?

805
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,160
[Part II: Social Pathology]

806
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,200
So, one might ask where did this all begin?

807
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,700
what we have today... really a world in a state of

808
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:26,640
cumulative collapse.

809
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,560
[The Market]

810
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,280
You get it started with John Locke.

811
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,500
And John Locke introduces property.

812
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,740
He has three provisos for just private right and property.

813
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,000
And the three provisos are:

814
00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:45,180
There must be enough left over for others

815
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,220
and that you must not let it spoil

816
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,920
and that you, most of all, must mix your labor with it.

817
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,220
It seems justified- you mix your labor with the world

818
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,340
then you are entitled to the product.

819
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,180
And as long as there's enough left over for others

820
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,560
and as long as it doesn't spoil

821
00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:03,960
and you don't allow anything to go to waste then that's okay.

822
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,200
He spends a long time on his famous Treatises of Government

823
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,140
and it's since been the canonical text

824
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,500
for economic and political and legal understanding.

825
00:43:13,620 --> 00:43:16,640
It is still the classic text that's studied.

826
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,000
Well, ... after he gives the provisos

827
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:21,520
and you're almost thinking at the time

828
00:43:21,620 --> 00:43:23,400
whether you are for private property or not-

829
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,900
he has given a very good and plausible and powerful defense

830
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,620
of private property here-

831
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:31,040
Well, he drops them!

832
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,860
He drops them like that. Right in one sentence.

833
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,860
He says, 'Well, once the introduction

834
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,079
of money came in by men's tacit consent..." then it became-

835
00:43:40,079 --> 00:43:40,080
.

836
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,800
and he doesn't say all the provisos are canceled or erased-

837
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,000
but that's what happens.

838
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,100
So, now we have not

839
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,740
product and your property earned by your own labor-

840
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,720
oh no- money buys labor now.

841
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,340
There is no longer consideration

842
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,740
whether there is enough left over for others;

843
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,140
there is no longer consideration of whether it spoils-

844
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:03,459
because he says money is like silver and gold and gold can't spoil-

845
00:44:03,459 --> 00:44:03,460
.

846
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,960
and therefore money can't be responsible for waste...

847
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,100
which is ridiculous. We are not talking about money and silver,

848
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,800
we are talking about what its effects are.

849
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,340
It's one non sequitur after another.

850
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,540
Just the most startling

851
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,300
logical legerdemain that he gets away with here.

852
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,020
But it fits the interests of capital owners.

853
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,200
Then Adam Smith comes along

854
00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:30,540
and what he adds is the religion to this...

855
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,678
Locke started with 'God made it all this way- this is God's right...'

856
00:44:34,679 --> 00:44:34,680
.

857
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:39,018
and now we get also with Smith saying 'it's not only God's...'

858
00:44:39,019 --> 00:44:39,020
.

859
00:44:39,020 --> 00:44:40,700
well, he's not actually saying this but this is

860
00:44:40,750 --> 00:44:43,380
what's happening philosophically, in principle-

861
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,420
he's saying that 'it is not only a question of private property...'

862
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,940
That's all now 'presupposed'- It's Given!

863
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,960
And that there's 'money investors that buy labor' – Given!

864
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,980
There's no limit to how much they can buy of other men's labor,

865
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,340
how much they can accumulate, how much 'inequality'-

866
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,320
that's all given now.

867
00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:02,620
And so he comes along and what his big idea is-

868
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:07,440
and again it's just introduced in parentheses, in passing...

869
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:12,400
You know, when people put out goods for sale- ... the supply-

870
00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:15,520
and other people buy them- the demand and so forth,

871
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:21,058
how do we have supply equaling demand or demand equaling supply?

872
00:45:21,059 --> 00:45:21,060
.

873
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,900
How can they come into equilibrium?

874
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,780
And that is one of the central notions of economics,

875
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,900
is how do they come into equilibrium.

876
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,220
And he says: it's the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

877
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,060
that brings them into equilibrium.

878
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,000
So, now we have God as actually immanent!

879
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,500
He just didn't give the rights to property

880
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:45,660
and all its wherewithal and its "natural rights"

881
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,180
regarding what Locke said...

882
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,000
now we have the system itself AS "God".

883
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,500
In fact, Smith says, when he talks

884
00:45:54,500 --> 00:45:57,400
and you'll never find this quote, and you have to read the whole of

885
00:45:57,500 --> 00:45:59,680
the Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations to find it.

886
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,420
He says: 'the scantiness of subsistence

887
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,740
sets limits to the reproduction of the poor

888
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,960
and that nature can deal with this in no other way

889
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,200
than elimination of their children.'

890
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,960
So he anticipated evolutionary theory in the worst sense...

891
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,740
this is well before Darwin.

892
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,660
And so he called them the 'Race of Laborers'.

893
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,980
So you can see: there was inherent racism built in here,

894
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:34,778
there was an inherent life blindness to kill innumerable children.

895
00:46:34,779 --> 00:46:34,780
.

896
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,860
And he thought: 'That's the Invisible Hand making supply

897
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,940
meet demand and demand meet supply.'

898
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,200
So, see- how wise "God" is?

899
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,140
So you can see a lot of the really virulent

900
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:50,820
life destructive, eco-genocidal things

901
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,420
that are going on now have, in a way,

902
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,840
a 'thought gene' back in Smith too.

903
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,780
When we reflect on the original concept of

904
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,300
the so-called free market capitalist system

905
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,100
as initiated by early economic philosophers

906
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,600
such as Adam Smith

907
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:12,740
we see that the original intent of a “market”

908
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,080
was based around real, tangible, life supporting goods for trade.

909
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,620
Adam Smith never fathomed that the most

910
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:22,060
profitable economic sector on the planet

911
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,980
would eventually be in the arena of financial trading

912
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,618
or so-called investment, where money itself is simply

913
00:47:28,619 --> 00:47:28,620
,

914
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,898
gained by the movement of other money in an arbitrary game

915
00:47:31,899 --> 00:47:31,900
.

916
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:35,440
which holds zero productive merit to society.

917
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,060
Yet, regardless of Smith's intent

918
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,780
the door for such seemingly anomalous advents

919
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,600
was left wide open by one fundamental tenet of this theory:

920
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,980
Money is treated as a Commodity, in and of itself.

921
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,060
Today, in every economy of the world

922
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,780
regardless of the social system they claim

923
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,800
money is pursued for the sake of money and nothing else.

924
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,820
The underlying idea, which was mysteriously qualified

925
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:07,789
by Adam Smith with his religious declaration of the 'Invisible Hand'

926
00:48:07,799 --> 00:48:07,800
.

927
00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,380
is that the narrow, self-interested pursuit

928
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,299
of this fictional commodity will somehow

929
00:48:13,299 --> 00:48:13,300
.

930
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:18,360
magically manifest human and social well-being and progress.

931
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,260
The reality is that the monetary incentive 'interest'

932
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,980
or what some have termed the "Money Sequence of Value”

933
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,180
has now completely decoupled from the foundational

934
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,900
'life interest', which could be termed the

935
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,420
"Life Sequence of Value".

936
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,200
What has happened is that there is a complete confusion

937
00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:42,198
in economic doctrine between those two sequences.

938
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:42,200
.

939
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,780
They think that the Money Sequence of Value

940
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,980
delivers the Life Sequence of Value.

941
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,700
And that's why they say if more goods are sold,

942
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,660
if GDPs rise and so forth...

943
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,820
there would be more enhanced well-being

944
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,498
and we could take the GDP as being our basic layer indicator

945
00:48:58,499 --> 00:48:58,500
.

946
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,140
of social health. Well, there you see the confusion.

947
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,260
It's talking about Money Sequences of Value-

948
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,000
that is, all the receipts and all the revenues

949
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:08,100
that are derived from selling goods-

950
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,820
and they're confusing that with life reproduction.

951
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,500
So, you have built right into this thing from the beginning

952
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,420
a complete conflation of the money

953
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,700
and life sequences of value. So,

954
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,260
we are dealing with a kind of structured delusion

955
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,480
which becomes more and more deadly

956
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,320
as the money sequence decouples from producing

957
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:33,178
anything at all. So it's a system disorder.

958
00:49:33,178 --> 00:49:33,180
.

959
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,600
And the system disorder seems to be fatal.

960
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,680
[Welcome to the Machine]

961
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,700
In society today, you seldom hear anyone speak

962
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,340
of the progress of their country or society

963
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,840
in terms of their physical well-being, state of happiness,

964
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,520
trust or social stability.

965
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,760
Rather, the measures are presented to us

966
00:49:55,860 --> 00:49:57,820
through economic abstractions.

967
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,340
We have the gross domestic product, the consumer price index,

968
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,140
the value of the stock market, rates of inflation,

969
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:05,660
and so on.

970
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,140
But does this tell us anything of real value

971
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:11,000
as to the quality of peoples' lives?

972
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,480
No. All of these measures have to do with

973
00:50:13,580 --> 00:50:16,840
the money sequence itself and nothing more.

974
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,080
For example, the Gross Domestic Product of a country

975
00:50:20,180 --> 00:50:23,380
is a measure of the value of goods and services sold.

976
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,940
This measure is claimed to correlate to the

977
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,880
“standard of living” of a country's people.

978
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,250
In the United States health care accounted

979
00:50:31,350 --> 00:50:34,960
for over 17% of GDP in 2009

980
00:50:35,060 --> 00:50:37,940
amounting to over $2.5 trillion spent,

981
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,800
hence creating a positive effect on this economic measure.

982
00:50:41,940 --> 00:50:45,540
And, based on this logic it would be even better for the US economy

983
00:50:45,639 --> 00:50:45,640
.

984
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,060
if health care services increased more so...

985
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,900
perhaps to $3 trillion or 5 trillion,

986
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,960
since that would create more growth,

987
00:50:53,060 --> 00:50:55,680
more jobs and hence boasted by economists

988
00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:58,560
as a rise in their country's standard of living.

989
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:00,820
But- ... wait a minute.

990
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,040
What do health care services actually represent?

991
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,240
Well, SICK AND DYING PEOPLE.

992
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,000
That's right: the more unhealthy people there are in America

993
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:13,200
the better the economy.

994
00:51:13,330 --> 00:51:17,060
Now, that is not an exaggeration or a cynical perspective.

995
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:21,019
In fact, if we step back far enough you will realize that the GDP

996
00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:21,120
.

997
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,940
not only doesn't reflect real public or social health

998
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,800
on any tangible level,

999
00:51:25,940 --> 00:51:28,100
it is, in fact, mostly a measure

1000
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:32,180
of industrial inefficiency and social degradation.

1001
00:51:32,319 --> 00:51:32,320
.

1002
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,840
And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming

1003
00:51:35,940 --> 00:51:38,260
with respect to personal, social

1004
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,760
and environmental integrity.

1005
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:44,320
You have to create problems to create profit.

1006
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,860
There is no profit under the current paradigm

1007
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,760
in saving lives, putting balance on this planet,

1008
00:51:50,860 --> 00:51:53,160
having justice and peace or anything else.

1009
00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:55,050
There is just no profit there.

1010
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,890
There's an old saying: 'Pass a law and create a business.'

1011
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:00,040
.

1012
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,560
Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.

1013
00:52:02,660 --> 00:52:05,420
So, crime does create business

1014
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,780
just like destruction creates business in Haiti.

1015
00:52:08,879 --> 00:52:08,880
.

1016
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,000
We have now roughly 2 million people incarcerated

1017
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:13,450
in this country (USA)

1018
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,100
and of those many are in prisons run by private corporations:

1019
00:52:17,199 --> 00:52:17,200
.

1020
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,300
Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut,

1021
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,060
who trade their stock on Wall Street

1022
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,000
based upon how many people are in jail.

1023
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,040
Now that's sickness!

1024
00:52:26,140 --> 00:52:28,160
But that is a reflection

1025
00:52:28,260 --> 00:52:31,600
of what this economic paradigm calls for.

1026
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,700
So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?

1027
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,140
What is it that keeps our economic system going?

1028
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,720
Consumption.

1029
00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:44,120
Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.

1030
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,700
When we break down the foundation of classic market economics

1031
00:52:47,799 --> 00:52:47,800
.

1032
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,400
we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange

1033
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:52,600
that simply cannot be allowed to stop

1034
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:54,580
or even substantially slowed

1035
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,220
if the society as we know it is to remain operational.

1036
00:52:58,359 --> 00:52:58,360
.

1037
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,160
There are three main actors on the economic stage:

1038
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:04,420
the employee, the employer and the consumer.

1039
00:53:04,559 --> 00:53:04,560
.

1040
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,880
The employee sells labor to the employer for income.

1041
00:53:08,020 --> 00:53:10,910
The employer sells its production services and hence goods,

1042
00:53:11,010 --> 00:53:12,960
to the consumer for income.

1043
00:53:13,100 --> 00:53:15,560
And the consumer, of course, is simply another role

1044
00:53:15,660 --> 00:53:17,800
of the employer and employee,

1045
00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:19,740
spending back into the system

1046
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,740
to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.

1047
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,200
In other words, the global market system is based

1048
00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:27,500
on the assumption that there will always be enough

1049
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,500
product demand in a society to move enough money around

1050
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:31,600
.

1051
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,930
at a rate which can keep the consumption process going.

1052
00:53:35,170 --> 00:53:36,830
And the faster the rate of consumption

1053
00:53:36,930 --> 00:53:39,440
the more so-called economic growth is assumed

1054
00:53:39,540 --> 00:53:41,800
and so the machine goes...

1055
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,880
But, hold on-

1056
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,760
I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...

1057
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,430
“Economize”?

1058
00:53:48,570 --> 00:53:51,200
Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation

1059
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:54,600
and efficiency and a reduction of waste?

1060
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,160
So how does our system, which demands consumption

1061
00:53:58,260 --> 00:54:00,680
and the more the better, efficiently preserve

1062
00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:02,600
or “Economize” at all?

1063
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,720
Well... it doesn't.

1064
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,880
The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite

1065
00:54:08,980 --> 00:54:11,290
of what a real economy is supposed to do,

1066
00:54:11,390 --> 00:54:13,360
which is efficiently and conservatively

1067
00:54:13,460 --> 00:54:15,800
orient the materials for production and distribution

1068
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:18,120
of life supporting goods.

1069
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:21,080
We live on a finite planet, with finite resources

1070
00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:23,200
where, for example, the oil we utilize

1071
00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:25,360
took millions of years to develop...

1072
00:54:25,500 --> 00:54:29,400
where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.

1073
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,900
So...having a system that deliberately promotes

1074
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,980
the acceleration of consumption

1075
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:38,140
for the sake of so-called “economic growth”

1076
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,200
is pure ecocidal insanity.

1077
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,060
Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.

1078
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,940
Absence of waste?

1079
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,000
This system is more wasteful than all the other

1080
00:54:50,050 --> 00:54:52,720
existing systems in the history of the planet.

1081
00:54:52,860 --> 00:54:55,840
Every level of life organization and life system

1082
00:54:55,940 --> 00:54:58,120
is in a state of crisis and challenge

1083
00:54:58,220 --> 00:55:00,400
and decay or collapse.

1084
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:03,480
No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years

1085
00:55:03,580 --> 00:55:05,660
will tell you anything different:

1086
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,160
that is that every life system is in decline

1087
00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:13,140
as well as social programs... as well as our water access.

1088
00:55:13,279 --> 00:55:13,280
.

1089
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,300
Try to name any means of life that isn't threatened and endangered.

1090
00:55:17,399 --> 00:55:17,400
.

1091
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:18,900
You can't.

1092
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,740
There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.

1093
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,760
But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.

1094
00:55:24,900 --> 00:55:26,880
We don't want to face the causal mechanism.

1095
00:55:26,890 --> 00:55:29,800
We just want to go on. You know that's what insanity is

1096
00:55:29,940 --> 00:55:32,330
where you keep doing the same thing over and over again

1097
00:55:32,470 --> 00:55:34,800
even though it clearly doesn't work.

1098
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,360
So you're really

1099
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:39,640
dealing with not an economic system

1100
00:55:39,740 --> 00:55:43,840
but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.

1101
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,200
[ The Anti-Economy ]

1102
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,300
There is an old saying that the competitive market model seeks to

1103
00:55:51,439 --> 00:55:51,440
.

1104
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:55,400
“create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices”.

1105
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,560
This statement is essentially the incentive concept

1106
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,050
which justifies market competition, based on the assumption

1107
00:56:02,189 --> 00:56:02,190
.

1108
00:56:02,190 --> 00:56:06,000
that the result is the production of higher quality goods.

1109
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,960
If I was going to build myself a table from scratch

1110
00:56:09,060 --> 00:56:11,200
I would naturally build it out of the best

1111
00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:13,440
most durable materials possible, right?

1112
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:16,400
With the intent for it to last as long as possible.

1113
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,560
Why would I want to make something poor

1114
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:20,840
knowing I would have to eventually do it again

1115
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,120
and expend more materials and more energy?

1116
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,000
Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world,

1117
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,840
when it comes to the market world

1118
00:56:29,980 --> 00:56:32,320
it is not only explicitly irrational

1119
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,200
it is not even an option.

1120
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,540
It is technically impossible to produce the best of anything

1121
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:37,680
.

1122
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,480
if a company is to maintain a competitive edge

1123
00:56:40,620 --> 00:56:43,100
and hence remain affordable to the consumer.

1124
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:45,880
Literally everything created and set for sale

1125
00:56:45,930 --> 00:56:48,880
in the global economy is immediately inferior

1126
00:56:48,980 --> 00:56:50,680
the moment it is produced,

1127
00:56:50,740 --> 00:56:53,280
for it is a mathematical impossibility

1128
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,610
to make the most scientifically advanced

1129
00:56:55,750 --> 00:56:58,960
efficient and strategically sustainable products.

1130
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,250
This is due to the fact that the market system

1131
00:57:01,390 --> 00:57:03,800
requires that “cost efficiency”

1132
00:57:03,900 --> 00:57:05,780
or the need to reduce expenses

1133
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,150
exists at every stage of production.

1134
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,170
From the cost of labor, to the cost of

1135
00:57:10,270 --> 00:57:12,720
materials and packaging and so on.

1136
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,219
This competitive strategy, of course,

1137
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,200
is to make sure the public buys their goods

1138
00:57:18,340 --> 00:57:20,480
rather than from a competing producer

1139
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,700
...which is doing the exact same thing

1140
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,500
to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.

1141
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,200
This immutably wasteful consequence of the system

1142
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,980
could be termed "Intrinsic Obsolescence".

1143
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,480
However, this is only one part of a larger problem.

1144
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,500
A fundamental governing principle of market economics,

1145
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:45,020
one you will not find in any textbook by the way, is the following:

1146
00:57:45,159 --> 00:57:45,160
.

1147
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:49,060
“Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer

1148
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,620
than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.”

1149
00:57:53,759 --> 00:57:53,760
.

1150
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,760
In other words, it is critical that stuff break down,

1151
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,490
fail and expire within a certain amount of time.

1152
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,840
This is termed - “Planned obsolescence”.

1153
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,650
Planned obsolescence is the backbone of the underlying market strategy

1154
00:58:07,750 --> 00:58:11,040
of every goods producing corporation in existence.

1155
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,740
While very few, of course would admit to such a strategy outright

1156
00:58:14,879 --> 00:58:14,880
.

1157
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,620
what they do is mask it within the

1158
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:20,160
Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,

1159
00:58:20,290 --> 00:58:24,440
while often ignoring, or even suppressing new advents in technology

1160
00:58:24,559 --> 00:58:24,560
.

1161
00:58:24,580 --> 00:58:28,400
which might create a more sustainable, durable good.

1162
00:58:28,590 --> 00:58:30,620
So, if it wasn't wasteful enough

1163
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,000
that the system inherently cannot allow

1164
00:58:33,100 --> 00:58:36,240
the most durable and efficient goods to be produced,

1165
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,060
Planned Obsolescence deliberately recognizes

1166
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,400
that the longer any good is in operation

1167
00:58:41,540 --> 00:58:44,680
the worse it is for sustaining cyclical consumption

1168
00:58:44,820 --> 00:58:47,240
and hence the market system itself.

1169
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,160
In other words, product sustainability

1170
00:58:50,260 --> 00:58:53,590
is actually inverse to economic growth

1171
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,020
and hence there is a direct, reinforced incentive

1172
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,500
to make sure life spans are short of any given good produced.

1173
00:59:01,679 --> 00:59:01,680
.

1174
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,100
And, in fact, the system cannot operate any other way.

1175
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,000
One glance at the sea of landfills now spreading across the world

1176
00:59:10,140 --> 00:59:12,400
show the obsolescence reality.

1177
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,140
There are now billions of cheaply made cell phones,

1178
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,110
computers and other technology

1179
00:59:17,250 --> 00:59:20,110
each full of precious, difficult to mine materials

1180
00:59:20,250 --> 00:59:22,480
such as gold, coltan, copper,

1181
00:59:22,620 --> 00:59:24,540
now rotting in vast piles

1182
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,460
usually due to the mere malfunction or obsolescence

1183
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:31,320
of small parts which, in a conservative society

1184
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,540
could likely be fixed or updated and the life of the good extended.

1185
00:59:35,679 --> 00:59:35,680
.

1186
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,800
Unfortunately, as efficient as that may seem in our physical reality

1187
00:59:39,900 --> 00:59:42,940
living on a finite planet with finite resources,

1188
00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:43,080
.

1189
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,640
it is explicitly inefficient with respect to the market.

1190
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,440
To put it into a phrase:

1191
00:59:49,540 --> 00:59:52,570
“Efficiency, Sustainability, and Preservation

1192
00:59:52,710 --> 00:59:56,080
are the enemies of our economic system.”

1193
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,700
Likewise, just as physical goods need to be constantly produced

1194
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,420
and reproduced regardless of their environmental impact,

1195
01:00:03,559 --> 01:00:03,560
.

1196
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,280
the service industry operates with an equal rationale.

1197
01:00:07,540 --> 01:00:10,140
The fact is, there is no monetary benefit

1198
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,460
to resolving any problems

1199
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,580
which are currently being serviced.

1200
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:15,900
At the end of the day

1201
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,940
the last thing the medical establishment really wants

1202
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,940
is the curing of diseases such as cancer,

1203
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,560
which would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue.

1204
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:28,660
And since we are on the subject,

1205
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,220
crime and terrorism in this system are good!

1206
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,220
Well, at least economically.

1207
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:35,940
For it is employing police,

1208
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,740
generating high-value commodities for security,

1209
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,660
not to mention the value of prisons

1210
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,560
that are privately owned- for profit.

1211
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,420
And how about war?

1212
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:49,340
The war industry in America is a huge driver of GDP-

1213
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,740
one of the most profitable industries-

1214
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,120
producing weapons of death and destruction.

1215
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,280
The favorite game of this industry is to blow things up

1216
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,980
and then go and rebuild them! For profit.

1217
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:04,311
We saw this with the windfall billion dollar contracts

1218
01:01:04,411 --> 01:01:06,360
made from the Iraq war.

1219
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,660
The bottom line is that socially negative attributes of society

1220
01:01:10,719 --> 01:01:10,720
.

1221
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,040
have become positively rewarded ventures for industry.

1222
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,820
And any interest in problem resolution

1223
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,240
or environmental sustainability and conservation

1224
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:25,160
is intrinsically counter to economic sustainability.

1225
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:27,180
And this is why

1226
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,560
every time you see the GDP rise in any country

1227
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,300
you are witnessing an increase in necessity

1228
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,340
whether real or contrived.

1229
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:39,300
And by definition, a necessity is rooted in inefficiency.

1230
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:44,000
Hence, increased necessity means increased inefficiency.

1231
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,040
[ Value System Disorder ]

1232
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,780
The American dream is based on rampant consumerism.

1233
01:01:50,879 --> 01:01:50,880
.

1234
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,140
It is based upon the fact that

1235
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:54,650
mainstream media and

1236
01:01:54,650 --> 01:01:56,780
especially commercial advertising-

1237
01:01:57,100 --> 01:01:59,980
all corporations who need this infinite growth-

1238
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,640
have convinced us or brainwashed

1239
01:02:02,740 --> 01:02:05,900
most people in America and hence the world

1240
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,860
that we have to have X number of material possessions

1241
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,260
and the possibility of gaining infinitely more

1242
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,840
material possessions, in order to be happy.

1243
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:15,660
That's just not true.

1244
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,500
So why do people continue to buy in this way

1245
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,940
which is ultimately eco-genocidal

1246
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,820
in its systemic effects cumulatively?

1247
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,700
And it just is classical operand conditioning.

1248
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,080
You simply put inputs of conditioning into the organism

1249
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,560
and you have outputs of desired behaviors

1250
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,920
or goals or objectives.

1251
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,180
And it has all the resources of technology.

1252
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,220
And they boast about how they get into the minds of infants;

1253
01:02:44,319 --> 01:02:44,320
.

1254
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,360
what they hear is already making them

1255
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,260
conditioned to the brand.

1256
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:53,560
Then you see, that's how people have been such fools.

1257
01:02:53,660 --> 01:02:53,661
.

1258
01:02:53,661 --> 01:02:55,180
In a way, they have been taught to be fools.

1259
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,520
It's a value system disorder.

1260
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,000
You know, if there is any testament

1261
01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:03,380
to the plasticity of the human mind;

1262
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,460
if there is any proof to how malleable

1263
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,170
human thought is and how easily conditioned

1264
01:03:08,270 --> 01:03:10,040
and guided people can become

1265
01:03:10,140 --> 01:03:12,520
based on the nature of their environmental stimulus

1266
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,520
and what it reinforces:

1267
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,960
the world of commercial advertising is the proof.

1268
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,020
You have to stand in awe

1269
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,420
at the level of brainwashing

1270
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,440
where these programmed robots known as "consumers"

1271
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,260
wander the landscape

1272
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,660
only to walk into a store and spend, say-

1273
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,460
$4000 on a handbag

1274
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,780
that likely cost $10 to make

1275
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,920
in a sweatshop overseas.

1276
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,920
Only for the brand status it supposedly represents

1277
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:45,680
in the culture.

1278
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,380
Or perhaps the ancient communal traditions

1279
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,940
which increase trust and cohesiveness in society-

1280
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:53,560
which have now been hijacked

1281
01:03:53,660 --> 01:03:57,260
by acquisitive, materialistic values where now annually

1282
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,080
we exchange useless crap a few times a year.

1283
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,360
And we might wonder why so many today

1284
01:04:03,460 --> 01:04:05,920
have a compulsion to shopping and acquisition,

1285
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,180
when it is clear that they have been conditioned from childhood

1286
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,060
to expect material goods

1287
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,840
as a sign of their status with friends and family.

1288
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,900
The fact is, the foundation of any society

1289
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,220
are the values that support its operation.

1290
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,640
And our society, as it exists

1291
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,340
can only operate if our values support

1292
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,000
the conspicuous consumption

1293
01:04:27,100 --> 01:04:31,080
it requires to continue the market system.

1294
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,340
75 years ago consumption in America

1295
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,460
and much of the first world was half

1296
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,480
of what we see today, per person.

1297
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,620
Today's new consumer culture

1298
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,060
has been manufactured and imposed

1299
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,150
due to the very real need

1300
01:04:45,250 --> 01:04:48,120
for higher and higher levels of consumption.

1301
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,420
And this is why most corporations now spend

1302
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:53,800
more money on advertising

1303
01:04:53,900 --> 01:04:57,140
than the actual process of product creation itself.

1304
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:01,440
They work diligently to create a false need for you to fill.

1305
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,000
And it happens to work.

1306
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,480
[ The “Economists” ]

1307
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,500
You know economists, in fact, are not economists at all.

1308
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,900
They're propagandists of money value.

1309
01:05:14,100 --> 01:05:16,650
And you will find that all of their models basically

1310
01:05:16,750 --> 01:05:21,500
get down to token exchanges that are true to profit

1311
01:05:21,639 --> 01:05:21,640
.

1312
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,800
of one side or both sides or whatever.

1313
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,140
But they are completely disconnected from the actually

1314
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,340
existing world of reproduction.

1315
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,660
In Ohio, an old man failed to pay his electric bill;

1316
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:34,720
you may be familiar with the case.

1317
01:05:34,830 --> 01:05:38,090
And the electric company turned off the electricity and he died.

1318
01:05:38,220 --> 01:05:39,890
The reason they turned it off was because

1319
01:05:39,990 --> 01:05:41,560
it wouldn't have been profitable for them

1320
01:05:41,701 --> 01:05:44,300
to keep it on because he didn't pay his bill.

1321
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,120
Do you believe that was right?

1322
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,100
The responsibility really lies not on

1323
01:05:48,220 --> 01:05:50,400
the electric company for turning it off

1324
01:05:50,530 --> 01:05:55,100
but on those of this man's neighbors and friends and associates

1325
01:05:55,239 --> 01:05:55,240
.

1326
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,700
who were not charitable enough to enable him, as an individual

1327
01:05:58,839 --> 01:05:58,840
.

1328
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:00,920
to meet the electric bill.

1329
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,560
HMMMMMM...

1330
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,180
Did I hear that right?

1331
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,580
Did he just say the death of a man caused by not having money

1332
01:06:07,719 --> 01:06:07,720
.

1333
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,340
was the responsibility of...

1334
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,160
other people...

1335
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,080
or, in effect, charity?

1336
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:17,010
Well then, I guess we're gonna need a whole lot of infomercials,

1337
01:06:17,150 --> 01:06:21,510
little miserable coin slot donations for bodega counters

1338
01:06:21,649 --> 01:06:21,650
.

1339
01:06:21,650 --> 01:06:23,600
and a bunch of pickle jars

1340
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:27,740
for the billion people now starving to death on this planet

1341
01:06:27,839 --> 01:06:27,840
.

1342
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:32,200
because of the very system Milton Friedman promotes.

1343
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:35,680
Whether you are dealing with the philosophies of Milton Friedman,

1344
01:06:35,820 --> 01:06:39,300
F.A. Hyack, John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises

1345
01:06:39,439 --> 01:06:39,440
.

1346
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,800
or any other major market economist

1347
01:06:41,900 --> 01:06:46,080
the basis of rationale rarely leaves the money sequence.

1348
01:06:46,081 --> 01:06:46,082
.

1349
01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:47,640
It is like a religion.

1350
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,340
Consumption analysis, stabilization policies,

1351
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,960
deficit spending, aggregate demand...

1352
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,920
it exists as a never ending, self-referring

1353
01:06:56,100 --> 01:06:59,240
self-rationalizing circle of discourse

1354
01:06:59,350 --> 01:07:03,200
where universal human need, natural resources

1355
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,650
and any form of physical life supporting efficiency

1356
01:07:06,750 --> 01:07:08,800
is ruled out by default,

1357
01:07:08,900 --> 01:07:11,580
and replaced by the singular notion that humans

1358
01:07:11,700 --> 01:07:14,200
seeking advantage over each other for money alone,

1359
01:07:14,340 --> 01:07:17,260
motivated by their own, narrow self-interest,

1360
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:22,000
will magically create a sustainable, healthy, balanced society.

1361
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,370
There is no life coordinate in this whole theory, this whole doctrine.

1362
01:07:26,509 --> 01:07:26,510
.

1363
01:07:26,510 --> 01:07:28,990
What are they doing? What are they doing??

1364
01:07:29,090 --> 01:07:31,960
What they are doing is tracking the money sequences.

1365
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:35,240
That's all it is, is tracking money sequences

1366
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,560
presupposing everything that matters:

1367
01:07:38,670 --> 01:07:41,200
One: There is no life coordinates...

1368
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,360
Whoa- ... no life coordinates!

1369
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:48,900
Two: That all the agents are self-maximizing preference seekers.

1370
01:07:49,039 --> 01:07:49,040
.

1371
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,360
That is, they think of nothing other than themselves

1372
01:07:51,500 --> 01:07:53,280
and what they can get most for themselves.

1373
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:59,200
That's the ruling notion of rationality: self-maximizing choice.

1374
01:07:59,200 --> 01:07:59,201
.

1375
01:07:59,300 --> 01:08:02,850
And the only thing that they are interested in self-maximizing

1376
01:08:02,990 --> 01:08:05,180
is money or commodities.

1377
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,650
Well, where does social relations come in?

1378
01:08:07,750 --> 01:08:11,040
It doesn't, except in the exchange to self-maximize.

1379
01:08:11,180 --> 01:08:13,700
Where do our natural resources come in?

1380
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,760
They don't, except to exploit.

1381
01:08:16,900 --> 01:08:21,720
Where does the family come in as being able to survive?

1382
01:08:21,860 --> 01:08:26,620
It doesn't. They have to have money in order to purchase any good.

1383
01:08:26,759 --> 01:08:26,760
.

1384
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,820
Well, shouldn't an economy deal somewhere with human need?

1385
01:08:29,959 --> 01:08:29,960
.

1386
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:35,060
Isn't that what the fundamental issue is: to satisfy human needs?

1387
01:08:35,199 --> 01:08:35,200
.

1388
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,240
Oh, "need" isn't even in your lexicon.

1389
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:41,280
You dissolve it into "wants".

1390
01:08:41,440 --> 01:08:45,660
And what is a want? That means money demand that wants to buy.

1391
01:08:45,799 --> 01:08:45,800
.

1392
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,280
Well, if it's money demand that wants to buy

1393
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:49,920
it has nothing to do with need

1394
01:08:49,995 --> 01:08:52,040
because maybe the person has no money demand

1395
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:55,040
and desperately needs, say, water supply.

1396
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,840
Or, it may be money demand wants a gold toilet seat.

1397
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,100
Well, where does it all go? To the gold toilet seat.

1398
01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:02,240
.

1399
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:03,900
And you call this economics?

1400
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:09,580
Really, when one thinks of it, it's got to be the most bizarre

1401
01:09:09,719 --> 01:09:09,720
.

1402
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,550
delusion in the history of human thought!

1403
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,100
[ Monetary System ]

1404
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,900
Now- so far we have focused on the market system.

1405
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:24,780
But this system is actually only half of the global economic paradigm.

1406
01:09:24,919 --> 01:09:24,920
.

1407
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,040
The other half is the “Monetary System”.

1408
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,270
While the Market System deals with the interaction of people

1409
01:09:31,410 --> 01:09:34,300
gaming for profit across the spectrum of labor,

1410
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,360
production and distribution,

1411
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:39,870
the Monetary System is an underlying set of policies

1412
01:09:39,940 --> 01:09:41,880
set by financial institutions

1413
01:09:41,980 --> 01:09:45,940
which create conditions for the market system, among other things.

1414
01:09:46,079 --> 01:09:46,080
.

1415
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,060
It includes terms we often hear

1416
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,960
such as interest rates, loans, debt,

1417
01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:54,550
the money supply, inflation, etc.

1418
01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:56,950
And while you might want to pull your hair out listening

1419
01:09:57,100 --> 01:09:59,960
to the gibberish coming from the monetary economists:

1420
01:10:00,100 --> 01:10:04,020
"Modest preemptive actions, can obviate the need

1421
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,860
of more drastic actions, at a later date."

1422
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,980
... the nature and effect of this system

1423
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,120
is actually quite simple:

1424
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:16,300
Our economy has- or the global economy has-

1425
01:10:16,301 --> 01:10:16,302
.

1426
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:19,398
three basic things that govern it. One is fractional reserve banking:

1427
01:10:19,399 --> 01:10:19,400
.

1428
01:10:19,500 --> 01:10:21,760
the banks printing money out of nothing.

1429
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,000
[2nd] It's also based upon compound interest.

1430
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,330
When you borrow money, you have to pay back more

1431
01:10:27,430 --> 01:10:30,200
than you borrowed which means that you, in effect,

1432
01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:32,900
create money out of thin air,

1433
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:36,520
again which has to be serviced by creating still more money.

1434
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,860
[3rd] We live in an infinite growth paradigm.

1435
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:43,260
The economic paradigm we live in now is a Ponzi scheme.

1436
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,698
Nothing grows forever. It's not possible.

1437
01:10:46,699 --> 01:10:46,700
.

1438
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,400
As a great psychologist James Hillman wrote:

1439
01:10:49,500 --> 01:10:51,100
“The only thing that grows in the human body

1440
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:52,950
after a certain age is cancer.”

1441
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,080
It's not just the amount of money that has to keep growing

1442
01:10:56,180 --> 01:10:58,300
it's the amount of consumers. Consumers to

1443
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:01,598
borrow money at interest to generate more money and obviously,

1444
01:11:01,599 --> 01:11:01,600
.

1445
01:11:01,700 --> 01:11:04,600
that's not possible on a finite planet.

1446
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:08,300
People are basically vehicles to just create money,

1447
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:10,180
which must create more money

1448
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:12,100
to keep the whole thing from falling apart,

1449
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,100
which is what's happening right now.

1450
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,780
There are really only two things anyone needs to know

1451
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,040
about the monetary system:

1452
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:23,360
1: All money is created out of debt.

1453
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:25,560
Money is monetized debt

1454
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,140
whether it materialized from treasury bonds,

1455
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,000
home loan contracts or credit cards.

1456
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,280
In other words, if all outstanding debt

1457
01:11:33,380 --> 01:11:35,180
was to be repaid right now

1458
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:38,540
there would not be one dollar in circulation.

1459
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:43,580
And 2: Interest is charged on virtually all loans made,

1460
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,140
and the money needed to pay back this interest

1461
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,260
does not exist in the money supply outright.

1462
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,020
Only the principal is created by the loans

1463
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,680
and the principal is the money supply.

1464
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,580
So, if all this debt was to be repaid right now,

1465
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,780
not only would there not be one dollar left in circulation,

1466
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,400
there would be a gigantic amount of money owed

1467
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:09,500
that is literally impossible to pay back, for it does not exist.

1468
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,720
The consequence of all of this is that two things are inevitable:

1469
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,998
Inflation and Bankruptcy.

1470
01:12:17,999 --> 01:12:18,000
.

1471
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,340
As far as inflation, this can be seen as a historical trend

1472
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:23,380
in virtually every country today,

1473
01:12:23,480 --> 01:12:25,260
and easily tied to its cause,

1474
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,240
which is the perpetual increase of the money supply

1475
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,400
which is required to cover the interest charges

1476
01:12:31,500 --> 01:12:34,000
and keep the system going.

1477
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:35,580
As far as Bankruptcy,

1478
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:39,000
it comes in the form of debt collapse.

1479
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,160
This collapse will inevitably occur with a person,

1480
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,060
a business or a country

1481
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,700
and typically happens when the interest payments

1482
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:50,000
are no longer possible to make.

1483
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:52,100
But there is a bright side to all of this...

1484
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:55,920
well, at least in terms of the market system.

1485
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,860
Because debt creates pressure.

1486
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,180
Debt creates wage slaves.

1487
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,020
A person in debt is much more likely to take a low wage

1488
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:05,540
than a person who isn't,

1489
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:08,180
hence becoming a cheap commodity.

1490
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,530
So it's great for corporations to have a pool of people

1491
01:13:10,630 --> 01:13:13,750
that have no financial mobility.

1492
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,940
But hey - that same idea also goes for entire countries.

1493
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,900
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,

1494
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:25,398
which mostly serve as proxies for transnational corporate interests,

1495
01:13:25,399 --> 01:13:25,400
.

1496
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,900
give gigantic loans to troubled countries

1497
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,780
at very high interest rates. And then,

1498
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,818
once the countries are deeply in the hole and can't pay,

1499
01:13:33,819 --> 01:13:33,820
.

1500
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:37,458
austerity measures are applied, the corporations swoop in,

1501
01:13:37,459 --> 01:13:37,460
.

1502
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:41,320
set up sweatshops and take their natural resources.

1503
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:44,680
Now that's market efficiency.

1504
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:46,720
But wait – there's more:

1505
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,640
You see, there's this unique hybrid

1506
01:13:48,740 --> 01:13:50,680
of the monetary and market system

1507
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,640
called the stock market.

1508
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,240
Which rather than, you know, actually produce anything real,

1509
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,240
they just buy and sell money itself.

1510
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,240
And when it comes to debt, you know what they do?

1511
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,940
That's right- they trade it!

1512
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:08,940
They actually buy and sell debt for profit.

1513
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:10,700
From credit default swaps and

1514
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,020
collateralized debt obligations for consumer debt,

1515
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,340
to complex derivative schemes used

1516
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:19,197
to mask the debt of entire countries,

1517
01:14:19,198 --> 01:14:19,199
.

1518
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:22,780
such as the collusion of investment bank Goldman Sachs and Greece,

1519
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:26,360
which nearly collapsed the entire European economy.

1520
01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:29,240
So when it comes to the stock market and Wall Street,

1521
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,340
we have an entirely new level of insanity

1522
01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:35,440
born out of the Money Sequence of Value.

1523
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,260
All you need to know about markets

1524
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,440
was written in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal

1525
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:42,400
a couple years ago. It was called

1526
01:14:42,450 --> 01:14:45,140
"Lessons of the Brain-Damaged Investor".

1527
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,160
And in this editorial, they explained why

1528
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:51,978
people with slight brain damage do better as investors

1529
01:14:51,979 --> 01:14:51,980
.

1530
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,700
than people with normal brain functionality.

1531
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,580
Why? Because the slightly

1532
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,200
brain-damaged person has no empathy.

1533
01:14:59,500 --> 01:15:01,900
That's the key. If you don't have any empathy

1534
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,900
you do well as an investor.

1535
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,900
And so Wall Street breeds people who have no empathy.

1536
01:15:09,100 --> 01:15:11,111
To go in there and to make decisions

1537
01:15:11,270 --> 01:15:14,481
and to make trades they have no compunction about

1538
01:15:14,621 --> 01:15:17,121
and no thought whatsoever as to how what they are doing

1539
01:15:17,261 --> 01:15:18,900
might affect their fellow human being.

1540
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,300
So they breed these robots.

1541
01:15:21,750 --> 01:15:24,260
These people who have no souls.

1542
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:26,900
And since they don't even want to pay these people anymore-

1543
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:29,050
they are now breeding robots – real robots –

1544
01:15:29,250 --> 01:15:30,750
real algorithmic traders.

1545
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,570
Goldman Sachs in the high frequency trading scandal:

1546
01:15:33,700 --> 01:15:37,400
They put a computer next to the New York Stock Exchange.

1547
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,435
This computer, this “co-located” computer, as they call it:

1548
01:15:40,575 --> 01:15:42,900
it front-runs all the trades on the exchange and

1549
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,580
hits the exchange with volumes of orders

1550
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,300
in ways that "scalp"

1551
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,400
pennies and nickels away from the exchange.

1552
01:15:49,540 --> 01:15:52,000
It's like they're siphoning money all day long.

1553
01:15:52,150 --> 01:15:54,780
They went one quarter last year

1554
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,720
30 or 60 straight days without a single down day

1555
01:15:57,860 --> 01:16:00,240
and made millions of dollars every single day?

1556
01:16:00,300 --> 01:16:04,150
That's statistically impossible!

1557
01:16:04,290 --> 01:16:06,230
When I worked on Wall Street, the way it works is

1558
01:16:06,330 --> 01:16:07,734
everyone kicks upstairs to bribes.

1559
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,840
The brokers bribe to the office manager,

1560
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:15,230
the office manager bribes to the regional sales manager,

1561
01:16:15,370 --> 01:16:16,770
the regional sales manager

1562
01:16:16,910 --> 01:16:18,850
bribes to the national sales manager.

1563
01:16:18,990 --> 01:16:20,410
It's a common understanding.

1564
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,470
At Christmas, who gets the biggest bonus at Christmas

1565
01:16:23,610 --> 01:16:26,320
in an average broker job? The compliance officer.

1566
01:16:26,460 --> 01:16:28,850
The compliance officer sits there all day long; he's supposed

1567
01:16:28,950 --> 01:16:31,559
to be making sure you don't violate any of the margin rules

1568
01:16:31,559 --> 01:16:31,660
.

1569
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,800
and you're "complying" with the law.

1570
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,380
Of course, yeah, to the extent that

1571
01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:38,100
you can bribe the compliance officer-

1572
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:40,560
yeah, that's right, you are complying with the law!

1573
01:16:40,700 --> 01:16:43,030
So how has fraud become the system?

1574
01:16:43,170 --> 01:16:44,530
It's no longer a byproduct.

1575
01:16:44,670 --> 01:16:46,000
It is the system.

1576
01:16:46,140 --> 01:16:48,910
It's like that old Woody Allen joke. He says:

1577
01:16:49,060 --> 01:16:51,490
“Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken.”

1578
01:16:51,630 --> 01:16:53,750
And the doctor says, “Take a pill

1579
01:16:53,850 --> 01:16:55,450
and that should cure the problem.”

1580
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,280
And he says, “No doctor. You don't understand.

1581
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:58,820
We need the eggs.”

1582
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:00,500
Okay? So ...

1583
01:17:00,700 --> 01:17:03,320
the trading of fraudulent claims back and forth

1584
01:17:03,420 --> 01:17:07,448
between banks, to generate fees, to generate bonuses,

1585
01:17:07,448 --> 01:17:07,449
.

1586
01:17:07,449 --> 01:17:07,550
.

1587
01:17:07,700 --> 01:17:12,000
has become the GDP-producing

1588
01:17:12,100 --> 01:17:13,740
growth engine of the United States economy-

1589
01:17:13,980 --> 01:17:17,100
even though they are essentially trading fraudulent claims

1590
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,580
that there is absolutely no hope of ever paying back.

1591
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,840
They are processing, generating and re-securitizing nothing.

1592
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,660
If I write $20 billion on a cocktail napkin

1593
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,500
and I sell it to J.P. Morgan and J.P. Morgan writes

1594
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,420
$20 billion on a cocktail napkin

1595
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:34,040
and we swap those two cocktail napkins at a bar,

1596
01:17:34,140 --> 01:17:37,560
and we each pay ourselves a quarter of 1% in a fee,

1597
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,740
we make a lot of money for our Christmas bonus.

1598
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,240
We each have on our books a $20 billion cocktail napkin

1599
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,900
which has no real value, until such time as

1600
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,900
the system is no longer able to absorb

1601
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,840
bogus cocktail napkins, in which case we go to the government

1602
01:17:52,940 --> 01:17:54,860
to get bailed out.

1603
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,680
And because of Wall Street and the global stock market

1604
01:17:57,810 --> 01:18:01,250
there are now conservatively about 700 trillion dollars

1605
01:18:01,370 --> 01:18:03,720
of outstanding fraudulent claims,

1606
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,560
known as derivatives,

1607
01:18:05,700 --> 01:18:07,760
still waiting to collapse.

1608
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:09,460
A value amounting to over

1609
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:11,580
10 times the gross domestic product

1610
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,920
of the entire planet.

1611
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,900
And while we have seen the bailouts of

1612
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,080
corporations and banks by governments,

1613
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,550
which, of course, comically borrow their money

1614
01:18:20,660 --> 01:18:22,620
from banks to begin with,

1615
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,610
we are now seeing attempts to bailout whole countries

1616
01:18:25,750 --> 01:18:27,890
by conglomerates of other countries

1617
01:18:28,030 --> 01:18:30,400
through the International banks.

1618
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,760
But how do you bailout a planet?

1619
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:38,400
There is no country out there that isn't now saturated in debt.

1620
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,570
The cascade of sovereign debt defaults we have seen

1621
01:18:41,710 --> 01:18:45,560
can only be the beginning, when the math is taken into account.

1622
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,000
It has been estimated in the United States alone

1623
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:53,630
that income tax would need to be raised to  65% per person

1624
01:18:53,730 --> 01:18:57,000
just to cover the interest in the near future.

1625
01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:00,430
Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades

1626
01:19:00,570 --> 01:19:05,280
60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.

1627
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,120
But hold on-- Let me get this straight.

1628
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,960
The world is going "bankrupt"

1629
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:13,590
whatever the hell that means

1630
01:19:13,730 --> 01:19:16,030
because of this idea called "debt"

1631
01:19:16,170 --> 01:19:19,120
which doesn't even exist in the physical reality.

1632
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,120
It's only part of a game we've invented...

1633
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:25,550
and yet the well being of billions of people

1634
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,850
is now being compromised.

1635
01:19:27,990 --> 01:19:31,960
Extreme layoffs, tent cities, accelerating poverty,

1636
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:35,750
austerity measures imposed, schools shutting down,

1637
01:19:35,890 --> 01:19:40,130
child hunger and other levels of familial deprivation- ...

1638
01:19:40,270 --> 01:19:43,520
all because of this elaborate fiction...

1639
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:46,960
What are we, fucking stupid?!

1640
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:50,695
Hey! Hey! Mars- my man!

1641
01:19:50,795 --> 01:19:53,240
Help a brother out, uh?

1642
01:19:55,050 --> 01:19:56,800
Grow up, kid!

1643
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,440
Saturn! What's up man?

1644
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,870
You remember that smokin' nebula I hooked you up with

1645
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,420
a while back?

1646
01:20:11,940 --> 01:20:13,440
Uh- listen Earth.

1647
01:20:13,540 --> 01:20:15,320
We're getting really tired of you.

1648
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:18,200
You've been given everything and yet you waste it all.

1649
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,200
You've got plenty of resources and you know it.

1650
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:24,699
Why don't you grow up and learn some responsibility for Christ's sake!

1651
01:20:24,699 --> 01:20:24,700
.

1652
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:26,960
You're making your mother miserable.

1653
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,420
You're on your own, pal.

1654
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,520
Yeah, whatever.

1655
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,080
[ Public Health ]

1656
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,700
Now, all of this considered

1657
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,500
from the waste machine known as the market system

1658
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,740
to the debt machine known as the monetary system-

1659
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,380
hence creating the monetary-market paradigm

1660
01:20:57,480 --> 01:21:00,380
which defines the global economy today-

1661
01:21:00,480 --> 01:21:02,940
there is one consequence that runs through

1662
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:05,360
the entire machine:

1663
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,700
Inequality.

1664
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,000
Whether it is the market system which creates

1665
01:21:10,050 --> 01:21:14,620
a natural gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation

1666
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,820
while also generating pockets of wealthy industries

1667
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:21,899
that tower over others regardless of utility-

1668
01:21:21,899 --> 01:21:21,900
.

1669
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,339
such as the fact that top hedge fund managers on Wall Street

1670
01:21:25,339 --> 01:21:25,340
.

1671
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:28,900
now take home over $300 million a year

1672
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,860
for contributing literally nothing,

1673
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,140
while a scientist looking for a cure for a disease

1674
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,100
trying to help humanity

1675
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,960
might make $60,000 a year if they're lucky-

1676
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,600
or whether it is the monetary system,

1677
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:47,330
which has class division built right into its structure.

1678
01:21:47,430 --> 01:21:50,599
For example: If I have $1 million to spare

1679
01:21:50,599 --> 01:21:50,600
.

1680
01:21:50,700 --> 01:21:53,640
and I put it into a CD at 4% interest,

1681
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:55,600
I will make $40,000 a year.

1682
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:59,040
No social contribution- no nothing.

1683
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,080
However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans

1684
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:03,940
to buy my car or home,

1685
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,419
I am paying in interest which in abstraction

1686
01:22:07,419 --> 01:22:07,420
.

1687
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:11,740
is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.

1688
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,500
This stealing from the poor to pay the rich

1689
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:18,800
is a foundational, built-in aspect of the monetary system

1690
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:23,200
and it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.

1691
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,900
Of course, historically, social stratification

1692
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:30,219
has always been deemed unfair, but obviously accepted overall,

1693
01:22:30,219 --> 01:22:30,220
.

1694
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:35,160
as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.

1695
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:37,980
But material fairness aside

1696
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:41,859
there is something else going on underneath the surface of inequality

1697
01:22:41,859 --> 01:22:41,860
.

1698
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:46,520
causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.

1699
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,200
Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast

1700
01:22:50,300 --> 01:22:52,940
between the material success of our societies

1701
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,440
- unprecedented levels of wealth -

1702
01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,880
and the many social failings.

1703
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,920
If you look at the rates of

1704
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:04,880
drug abuse or violence or self-harm

1705
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:07,660
amongst kids or mental illness

1706
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,940
there is clearly something going deeply wrong

1707
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:12,540
with our societies.

1708
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,990
The data I have been describing

1709
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:19,800
simply shows that intuition that

1710
01:23:20,020 --> 01:23:21,800
people have had for hundreds of years:

1711
01:23:21,900 --> 01:23:24,860
that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive.

1712
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,800
But that intuition is truer than I think we ever imagined.

1713
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,220
There are very powerful psychological and social effects

1714
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,360
of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings

1715
01:23:35,500 --> 01:23:38,340
of superiority and inferiority.

1716
01:23:38,440 --> 01:23:40,280
That kind of division...

1717
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,580
Maybe going with the respect or disrespect;

1718
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,180
people feeling looked down on at the bottom.

1719
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:47,800
Which, by the way, is why violence is

1720
01:23:47,900 --> 01:23:50,740
more common in more unequal societies-

1721
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,700
the trigger to violence is so often people feeling

1722
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:55,840
looked down upon and disrespected.

1723
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,820
If there is one principle I could emphasize

1724
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:04,100
that is, the most important principle

1725
01:24:04,150 --> 01:24:07,100
underlying the prevention of violence

1726
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,140
it would be “Equality”.

1727
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,619
The single most significant factor that affects the rate of violence

1728
01:24:13,619 --> 01:24:13,620
.

1729
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,420
is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality

1730
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,500
in that society.

1731
01:24:20,750 --> 01:24:22,820
So, what we're looking at is a sort of

1732
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,860
general social dysfunction.

1733
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,500
It's not just one or two things that go wrong

1734
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,540
as inequality increases.

1735
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,890
It seems to be everything, whether we are talking about

1736
01:24:31,990 --> 01:24:34,860
crime or health or mental illness or whatever.

1737
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:39,700
One of the really disturbing findings out there in public health is:

1738
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:43,000
Never ever make the mistake of being poor.

1739
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,700
Or being born poor.

1740
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,620
Your health pays for it in endless sorts of ways:

1741
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,540
something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.

1742
01:24:51,650 --> 01:24:54,550
As you move down from the highest strata in society

1743
01:24:54,650 --> 01:24:58,250
in terms of socioeconomic status, every step down,

1744
01:24:58,350 --> 01:25:01,260
health gets worse for umpteen different diseases.

1745
01:25:01,319 --> 01:25:01,320
.

1746
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:02,900
Life expectancy gets worse.

1747
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,220
Infant mortality rate- everything you could look at.

1748
01:25:06,359 --> 01:25:06,360
.

1749
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:09,000
So, a huge issue has been:

1750
01:25:09,150 --> 01:25:12,280
why is it that this gradient exists?

1751
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:14,660
A totally simple obvious answer which is

1752
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:17,720
'If you're chronically sick, you're not going to be very productive

1753
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:17,721
.

1754
01:25:17,850 --> 01:25:21,720
so health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'

1755
01:25:21,860 --> 01:25:24,740
Not that in the slightest- on the very simple level that

1756
01:25:24,879 --> 01:25:24,880
.

1757
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:28,180
you could look at the socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old

1758
01:25:28,319 --> 01:25:28,320
.

1759
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:31,600
and that's going to predict something about their health decades later.

1760
01:25:31,739 --> 01:25:31,740
.

1761
01:25:31,740 --> 01:25:33,780
So, that's the direction of causality.

1762
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,100
Next one- ... 'Oh, it's perfectly obvious:

1763
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:40,700
poor people can't afford to go to the doctor; it's healthcare access.'

1764
01:25:40,839 --> 01:25:40,840
.

1765
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:44,060
It's got nothing to do with that, because you see these same gradients

1766
01:25:44,199 --> 01:25:44,200
.

1767
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:47,660
in countries with universal health care and socialized medicine.

1768
01:25:47,799 --> 01:25:47,800
.

1769
01:25:47,801 --> 01:25:49,550
Okay – next 'simple explanation':

1770
01:25:49,650 --> 01:25:53,260
'Oh -on the average- the poorer you are the more likely you are to

1771
01:25:53,390 --> 01:25:53,391
.

1772
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:58,000
smoke, to drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.'

1773
01:25:58,130 --> 01:26:01,510
Yeah, those contribute but careful studies have shown

1774
01:26:01,670 --> 01:26:04,340
that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.

1775
01:26:04,460 --> 01:26:05,960
So what's left?

1776
01:26:06,060 --> 01:26:11,180
What's left is having a ton to do with the stress of poverty.

1777
01:26:11,319 --> 01:26:11,320
.

1778
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:14,640
So, the poorer you are- starting off being

1779
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:18,040
the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates-

1780
01:26:18,180 --> 01:26:19,780
the poorer you are in this country

1781
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:21,600
on the average, the worse your health is.

1782
01:26:21,700 --> 01:26:24,240
This tells us something really important:

1783
01:26:24,340 --> 01:26:26,220
the health connection with poverty

1784
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:30,120
it's not about being poor, it's about feeling poor.

1785
01:26:30,260 --> 01:26:34,490
Increasingly we recognize that

1786
01:26:34,630 --> 01:26:37,940
chronic stress is an important influence on health.

1787
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,700
But the most important sources of stress

1788
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:42,840
are the quality of social relations.

1789
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,420
And if there is anything that lowers the quality of social relations,

1790
01:26:47,559 --> 01:26:47,560
.

1791
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:51,250
it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.

1792
01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:55,400
What science has now shown is that regardless of material wealth

1793
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:55,440
.

1794
01:26:55,540 --> 01:26:59,060
the stress of simply living in a stratified society

1795
01:26:59,190 --> 01:27:02,720
leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems.

1796
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:06,760
And the greater the inequality, the worse they become.

1797
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,380
Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.

1798
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,440
Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.

1799
01:27:15,580 --> 01:27:19,840
Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.

1800
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:24,500
Social Capital - meaning the ability of people to trust each other:

1801
01:27:24,639 --> 01:27:24,640
.

1802
01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:27,780
Naturally greater in more equal countries.

1803
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:32,300
Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.

1804
01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:36,900
Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.

1805
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:41,860
Crime and Rates of Imprisonment: Less in more equal countries.

1806
01:27:41,999 --> 01:27:42,000
.

1807
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,280
It goes on and on:

1808
01:27:44,420 --> 01:27:47,900
Infant mortality – obesity - teen birth rate:

1809
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:49,800
Less in more equal countries.

1810
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,100
and perhaps most interesting:

1811
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:56,300
Innovation: Greater in more equal countries.

1812
01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:59,700
which challenges the age old notion that a competitive

1813
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:04,360
stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.

1814
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:08,480
Moreover, a study done in the UK called The WhiteHall Study

1815
01:28:08,599 --> 01:28:08,600
.

1816
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,360
confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease

1817
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:15,220
as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder to the bottom.

1818
01:28:15,359 --> 01:28:15,360
.

1819
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:18,780
For example, it was found that the lowest rungs of the hierarchy

1820
01:28:18,900 --> 01:28:22,800
had a 4-fold increase of heart disease based mortality

1821
01:28:22,919 --> 01:28:22,920
.

1822
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:24,640
compared to the highest rungs.

1823
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:28,880
And this pattern exists, irrespective of access to health care.

1824
01:28:29,020 --> 01:28:32,560
Hence, the worse a person's relative financial status,

1825
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,800
the worse their health is going to be on average.

1826
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,900
This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed

1827
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:40,920
'Psychosocial Stress'

1828
01:28:41,020 --> 01:28:44,400
and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions

1829
01:28:44,500 --> 01:28:46,700
plaguing our society today.

1830
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,160
Its cause?

1831
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:51,280
The Monetary-Market System.

1832
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:53,600
Make no mistake:

1833
01:28:53,700 --> 01:28:56,190
The greatest destroyer of ecology,

1834
01:28:56,280 --> 01:29:00,000
the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution,

1835
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,480
the greatest purveyor of violence-

1836
01:29:02,620 --> 01:29:07,100
war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity,

1837
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,760
the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis,

1838
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,880
mental disorders - depression, anxiety,

1839
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:17,900
not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis

1840
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:21,140
stopping us from moving into new methodologies

1841
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,160
for personal health, global sustainability

1842
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:26,800
and progress on this planet-

1843
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:30,580
is not some corrupt government or legislation,

1844
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,720
not some rogue corporation or banking cartel,

1845
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,800
not some flaw of human nature,

1846
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:42,360
and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.

1847
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:42,361
.

1848
01:29:42,550 --> 01:29:46,480
It is, in fact: The Socio-Economic System itself

1849
01:29:46,630 --> 01:29:49,200
at its very foundation.

1850
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,640
[ Part 3: Project Earth ]

1851
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:13,020
Let's imagine for a moment we had the option

1852
01:30:13,100 --> 01:30:16,100
to redesign human civilization from the ground up.

1853
01:30:16,220 --> 01:30:18,190
What if- hypothetically speaking-

1854
01:30:18,300 --> 01:30:21,280
we discovered an exact replica of the planet Earth

1855
01:30:21,400 --> 01:30:24,660
and the only difference between this new planet and our current one

1856
01:30:24,799 --> 01:30:24,800
.

1857
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:28,500
is that human evolution had not occurred. It was an open palette.

1858
01:30:28,639 --> 01:30:28,640
.

1859
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:32,560
No countries, no cities, no pollution, no republicans...

1860
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,500
just a pristine, open environment.

1861
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:37,600
So- what would we do?

1862
01:30:37,740 --> 01:30:40,440
Well, first we need a “goal”, right?

1863
01:30:40,550 --> 01:30:44,000
And it's safe to say that goal would be to survive.

1864
01:30:44,140 --> 01:30:46,450
And not to just survive, but to do so

1865
01:30:46,550 --> 01:30:49,160
in an optimized, healthy, prosperous way.

1866
01:30:49,300 --> 01:30:51,400
Most people, indeed, desire to live

1867
01:30:51,500 --> 01:30:53,960
and they would prefer to do so without suffering.

1868
01:30:54,100 --> 01:30:57,000
Therefore, the basis of this civilization needs to be

1869
01:30:57,100 --> 01:31:01,460
as supportive and hence sustainable for human life as possible-

1870
01:31:01,599 --> 01:31:01,600
.

1871
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:05,180
taking into account the material needs of all the world's people

1872
01:31:05,319 --> 01:31:05,320
.

1873
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,000
while trying to remove anything

1874
01:31:07,100 --> 01:31:09,220
that can could hurt us in the long run.

1875
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:13,750
With that goal of “Maximum Sustainability” understood

1876
01:31:13,860 --> 01:31:16,520
the next question regards our “method”.

1877
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,880
What kind of approach do we take?

1878
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:20,400
Well, let's see-

1879
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:24,720
last I checked, politics was the method of social operation on Earth...

1880
01:31:24,860 --> 01:31:27,760
so what do the doctrines of the republicans, liberals,

1881
01:31:27,900 --> 01:31:32,480
conservatives or socialists have to say about societal design?

1882
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,700
Hmmm... not a damn thing.

1883
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:37,610
Okay then- what about religion?

1884
01:31:37,750 --> 01:31:41,780
Surely the great creator had to have left some blueprints somewhere...

1885
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,440
Nope... nothing I can find.

1886
01:31:44,590 --> 01:31:46,700
Okay then- so what's left?

1887
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,640
It appears something called “Science”.

1888
01:31:49,780 --> 01:31:53,100
Science is unique in that its methods demand not only

1889
01:31:53,210 --> 01:31:56,460
that ideas proposed be tested and replicated,

1890
01:31:56,600 --> 01:32:01,090
but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable.

1891
01:32:01,220 --> 01:32:03,740
In other words, unlike religion and politics

1892
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,490
science has no ego

1893
01:32:05,550 --> 01:32:08,440
and everything it suggests accepts the possibility

1894
01:32:08,540 --> 01:32:11,280
of being proven wrong eventually.

1895
01:32:11,420 --> 01:32:14,540
It holds on to nothing and evolves constantly.

1896
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:17,210
Well, that sounds natural enough to me.

1897
01:32:17,350 --> 01:32:20,590
So then: based on the current state of scientific knowledge

1898
01:32:20,690 --> 01:32:22,510
in the early 21st century

1899
01:32:22,650 --> 01:32:25,210
along with our goal of “maximum sustainability”

1900
01:32:25,310 --> 01:32:26,950
for the human population,

1901
01:32:27,060 --> 01:32:30,440
how do we begin the actual process of construction?

1902
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,580
Well, the first question to ask is:

1903
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,050
What do we need to survive?

1904
01:32:35,200 --> 01:32:38,440
The answer, of course, are Planetary Resources.

1905
01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:41,680
Whether it is the water we drink, the energy we use

1906
01:32:41,820 --> 01:32:45,560
or the raw materials we utilize to create tools and shelter,

1907
01:32:45,700 --> 01:32:48,720
the planet hosts an inventory of resources-

1908
01:32:48,860 --> 01:32:52,280
many of which are demanded for our survival.

1909
01:32:52,480 --> 01:32:54,080
So, given that reality

1910
01:32:54,220 --> 01:32:58,700
it then becomes critical to figure out what we have and where it is.

1911
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,160
This means we need to conduct a survey.

1912
01:33:01,290 --> 01:33:05,040
We simply locate and identify every physical resource on the planet

1913
01:33:05,110 --> 01:33:09,100
we can, along with the amount available at each location.

1914
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:12,560
From the deposits of copper, to the most potent locations for

1915
01:33:12,710 --> 01:33:17,020
wind farms to produce energy, to the natural fresh water springs

1916
01:33:17,159 --> 01:33:17,160
.

1917
01:33:17,160 --> 01:33:19,740
to an assessment of the amount of fish in the ocean

1918
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:24,800
to the most prime arable land for food cultivation, etc.

1919
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:26,850
But, since we humans are going to be

1920
01:33:26,950 --> 01:33:29,340
consuming these resources over time

1921
01:33:29,480 --> 01:33:33,600
we then realize that not only do we need to locate and identify-

1922
01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:36,040
we also need to track.

1923
01:33:36,180 --> 01:33:37,680
We need to make sure we don't run out

1924
01:33:37,730 --> 01:33:40,110
of any of this stuff; that would be bad.

1925
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:42,920
And this means not only tracking our rates of use

1926
01:33:43,060 --> 01:33:46,320
but the rates of earthly regeneration as well

1927
01:33:46,460 --> 01:33:48,400
such as how long it takes for say,

1928
01:33:48,500 --> 01:33:52,080
a tree to grow or a spring to replenish.

1929
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:55,680
This is called “Dynamic Equilibrium”.

1930
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:59,880
In other words, if we use up trees faster than they can be grown back,

1931
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,840
we have a serious problem, for it is unsustainable.

1932
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,640
So then, how do we track this inventory

1933
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:08,600
especially when we recognize that

1934
01:34:08,700 --> 01:34:11,460
all of this stuff is scattered everywhere?

1935
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:15,120
We have large mineral mines in what we call Africa,

1936
01:34:15,260 --> 01:34:17,530
energy concentrations in the Middle East,

1937
01:34:17,660 --> 01:34:21,600
huge tidal power possibilities on the Atlantic coast of North America,

1938
01:34:21,700 --> 01:34:25,740
the largest supply of fresh water in Brazil, etc.

1939
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:29,700
Well, once again, good old science has a suggestion:

1940
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,080
It's called “Systems theory”.

1941
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:36,040
Systems theory recognizes that the fabric of the natural world,

1942
01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:39,320
from human biology to the earthly biosphere

1943
01:34:39,460 --> 01:34:42,560
to the gravitational pull of the solar system itself,

1944
01:34:42,700 --> 01:34:47,700
is one huge synergistically connected system - fully interlinked.

1945
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:50,500
Just as human cells connect to form our organs

1946
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:52,950
and the organs connect to form our bodies

1947
01:34:53,090 --> 01:34:56,280
and since our bodies cannot live without the earthy resources

1948
01:34:56,380 --> 01:35:01,000
of food, air and water, we are intrinsically connected to the earth.

1949
01:35:01,100 --> 01:35:02,780
And so on.

1950
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,110
So, as nature suggests, we take all of this inventory

1951
01:35:06,120 --> 01:35:10,000
and tracking data, and create a “system” to manage it.

1952
01:35:10,140 --> 01:35:13,420
A “Global Resource Management System”, in fact,

1953
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,860
to account for every relevant resource on the planet.

1954
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:21,060
There is simply no logical alternative, if our goal as a species

1955
01:35:21,110 --> 01:35:26,000
is survival in the long run. We have to keep track as a whole.

1956
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:29,440
That understood, we can now consider production.

1957
01:35:29,580 --> 01:35:31,180
How do we use all this stuff?

1958
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,460
What will our process of production be, and what do we need

1959
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:38,400
to consider to make sure it is as optimized as possible,

1960
01:35:38,540 --> 01:35:41,560
to maximize our sustainability?

1961
01:35:41,700 --> 01:35:44,500
Well, the first thing that jumps right out at us, is the fact

1962
01:35:44,550 --> 01:35:47,480
that we need to constantly try and preserve.

1963
01:35:47,620 --> 01:35:50,580
The planet's resources are essentially finite.

1964
01:35:50,740 --> 01:35:53,680
So it is important that we be “strategic”.

1965
01:35:53,820 --> 01:35:57,100
"Strategic Preservation" is key.

1966
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,390
The second thing we recognize, is that some resources

1967
01:36:00,490 --> 01:36:03,140
are really not as good as others in their performance.

1968
01:36:03,280 --> 01:36:06,020
In fact, some of this stuff when put into use

1969
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:08,140
has a terrible effect on the environment,

1970
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:10,440
which invariably hinders our own health.

1971
01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:15,220
For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it,

1972
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,700
release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.

1973
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,250
Therefore, it is critical we do our best to use such things

1974
01:36:22,350 --> 01:36:25,820
only when we really have to- if at all.

1975
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:30,680
Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave –

1976
01:36:30,820 --> 01:36:34,900
heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production.

1977
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:39,340
So we can strategize objectively, about what we use and where,

1978
01:36:39,480 --> 01:36:43,580
to avoid what could be called “negative retroactions”,

1979
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,620
or anything that results from production or use

1980
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:50,620
that damages the environment and hence, ourselves.

1981
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,620
We will call this “Strategic Safety”

1982
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:57,560
to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation”.

1983
01:36:57,880 --> 01:37:00,340
But production strategies do not stop there.

1984
01:37:00,440 --> 01:37:03,380
We are going to need an "Efficiency Strategy”,

1985
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:06,580
for the actual mechanics of production itself.

1986
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:08,420
And what we find is that there are roughly

1987
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:11,980
three specific protocols we must adhere to:

1988
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:15,000
1: Every good we produce must be designed

1989
01:37:15,050 --> 01:37:17,140
to last as long as possible.

1990
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:19,360
Naturally, the more things break down,

1991
01:37:19,480 --> 01:37:22,360
the more resources we are going to need to replace them,

1992
01:37:22,480 --> 01:37:24,840
and the more waste produced.

1993
01:37:24,980 --> 01:37:27,300
2: When things do break down,

1994
01:37:27,440 --> 01:37:30,040
or are no longer usable for whatever reason,

1995
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:32,700
it is critical that we harvest, or recycle

1996
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:34,580
as much as we possibly can.

1997
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:38,550
So the production design must take this into account directly

1998
01:37:38,690 --> 01:37:41,540
at the very earliest stages.

1999
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:45,740
3: Quickly evolving technologies, such as electronics,

2000
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:49,600
which are subject to the fastest rates of technological obsolescence,

2001
01:37:49,750 --> 01:37:51,940
would need to be designed to foreshadow

2002
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:55,300
and accommodate physical updates.

2003
01:37:55,440 --> 01:37:59,300
The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer system

2004
01:37:59,450 --> 01:38:02,940
just because it has only one broken part, or is outdated.

2005
01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:06,740
So we simply design the components to be easily updated,

2006
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:11,200
part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable,

2007
01:38:11,340 --> 01:38:15,540
foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.

2008
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:19,300
And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”,

2009
01:38:19,440 --> 01:38:22,970
“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”

2010
01:38:23,100 --> 01:38:25,540
are purely technical considerations

2011
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,740
devoid of any human opinion or bias,

2012
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:32,000
we simply program these strategies into a computer

2013
01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:34,860
which can weigh and calculate all the relevant variables,

2014
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:37,100
allowing us to always arrive

2015
01:38:37,240 --> 01:38:40,660
at the absolute best method for sustainable production

2016
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:43,240
based on current understandings.

2017
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,900
And while that might sound complex

2018
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:48,400
all it is, is a glorified calculator,

2019
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:50,500
not to mention that such multi-varied

2020
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:52,720
decision making and monitoring systems,

2021
01:38:52,850 --> 01:38:56,610
are already used across the world today for isolated purposes.

2022
01:38:56,750 --> 01:39:00,020
It is simply a process of scaling it out.

2023
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:01,260
So...

2024
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:04,600
Now, we not only have our Resource Management System,

2025
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,660
but also a Production Management System,

2026
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,300
both of which are easily computer automated

2027
01:39:10,430 --> 01:39:14,080
to maximize efficiency, preservation and safety.

2028
01:39:14,220 --> 01:39:17,300
The informational reality is that the human mind

2029
01:39:17,420 --> 01:39:21,300
or even a group of humans, cannot track what needs to be tracked.

2030
01:39:21,420 --> 01:39:25,440
It must be done by computers, and it can be.

2031
01:39:25,840 --> 01:39:29,260
And this bring us to the next level: Distribution.

2032
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:32,340
What sustainability strategies make sense here?

2033
01:39:32,480 --> 01:39:34,700
Well, since we know that the shortest distance

2034
01:39:34,750 --> 01:39:36,950
between two points is a straight line,

2035
01:39:37,090 --> 01:39:40,500
and since energy is required to power transport machines,

2036
01:39:40,640 --> 01:39:43,740
the less transport distance, the more efficient.

2037
01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:48,480
Producing goods in one continent and shipping them over to another

2038
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,900
only makes sense if the goods in question

2039
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,860
simply cannot be produced in the target area.

2040
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:56,580
Otherwise, it is nothing but wasteful.

2041
01:39:56,720 --> 01:40:00,260
We must localize production, so distribution is simple,

2042
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,420
fast, and requires the least amount of energy.

2043
01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:06,340
We'll call this the “Proximity Strategy”,

2044
01:40:06,480 --> 01:40:07,950
which simply means we reduce

2045
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:10,140
the travel of goods as much as possible

2046
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:14,180
whether raw materials or finished consumer products.

2047
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,530
Of course, it might also be important to know

2048
01:40:16,670 --> 01:40:19,380
what goods we are transporting and why.

2049
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:22,620
And this falls under the category of Demand.

2050
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:25,610
And demand is simply what people need to be healthy

2051
01:40:25,750 --> 01:40:27,860
and to have a high quality of life.

2052
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,230
The spectrum of material human needs

2053
01:40:30,370 --> 01:40:33,220
range from core life supporting necessities

2054
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:36,380
such as food, clean water and shelter,

2055
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,140
to social and recreational goods which allow for relaxation

2056
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:42,580
and personal, social enjoyment:

2057
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:47,540
both important factors in human and social health overall.

2058
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,340
So, very simply, we take another survey.

2059
01:40:50,480 --> 01:40:53,090
People describe their needs, demand is assessed,

2060
01:40:53,230 --> 01:40:56,060
and production begins based on that demand.

2061
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:58,660
And since the level of demand of different goods

2062
01:40:58,710 --> 01:41:02,620
will naturally fluctuate and change around different regions,

2063
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:06,540
we need to create a “Demand / Distribution Tracking System"

2064
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:10,140
so to avoid overruns and shortages.

2065
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,090
Of course, this idea is old news;

2066
01:41:12,230 --> 01:41:15,300
it is used in every major store chain today

2067
01:41:15,440 --> 01:41:18,020
to make sure they keep up with their inventory.

2068
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:21,780
Only this time, we are tracking on a global scale.

2069
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:25,720
But, wait a minute. We really can't fully understand demand

2070
01:41:25,860 --> 01:41:29,900
if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.

2071
01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:34,050
Is it logical and sustainable for every single human to say,

2072
01:41:34,190 --> 01:41:38,500
have one of everything made? Regardless of their usage?

2073
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:42,860
No. That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.

2074
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:46,790
If a person has a need for a good but that need is only for say,

2075
01:41:46,930 --> 01:41:50,699
45 minutes a day on average, it would be much more efficient

2076
01:41:50,699 --> 01:41:50,700
.

2077
01:41:50,740 --> 01:41:52,700
if that good was made available to them

2078
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:55,860
and to others when needed.

2079
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,560
Many forget that it isn't the good that they want,

2080
01:41:58,700 --> 01:42:00,740
it is the purpose of that good.

2081
01:42:00,980 --> 01:42:02,490
When we realize that the good itself

2082
01:42:02,630 --> 01:42:05,100
is only as important as its utility,

2083
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:07,940
we see that “external restriction”,

2084
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,700
or what we might call today “ownership”,

2085
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:14,140
is extremely wasteful and environmentally illogical

2086
01:42:14,220 --> 01:42:17,060
in a fundamental, economic sense.

2087
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:22,680
So, we need to devise a strategy called: “Strategic Access”.

2088
01:42:22,820 --> 01:42:24,380
This would be the foundation of our

2089
01:42:24,520 --> 01:42:26,780
"Demand / Distribution Tracking System”

2090
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:28,270
which makes sure we can meet

2091
01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:30,220
the demand of the population's needs

2092
01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:34,700
for access of whatever they need, when they need it.

2093
01:42:34,840 --> 01:42:37,420
And as far as physically obtaining the goods,

2094
01:42:37,560 --> 01:42:39,980
centralized and regional access centers

2095
01:42:40,120 --> 01:42:42,340
all make sense for the most part,

2096
01:42:42,480 --> 01:42:45,540
placed in close proximity to the population

2097
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:48,420
and a person would simply come in, take the item,

2098
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:52,140
use it and when finished, return it when it is no longer needed...

2099
01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:54,540
sort of how a library works today.

2100
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,420
In fact, these centers could not only exist in the community

2101
01:42:57,470 --> 01:43:00,000
in the way we see local stores today,

2102
01:43:00,140 --> 01:43:04,220
but specialized access centers would exist in specific areas

2103
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,700
where often certain goods are utilized,

2104
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:10,420
saving more energy with less repeat transport.

2105
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,610
And once this Demand Tracking System is in order,

2106
01:43:13,750 --> 01:43:16,460
it is tied into our Production Management system,

2107
01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:19,900
and of course, into our Resource Management system.

2108
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:22,940
Hence creating a unified, dynamically updating,

2109
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:25,900
global economic management machine,

2110
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:28,740
that simply makes sure we remain sustainable.

2111
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:32,620
Starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources,

2112
01:43:32,760 --> 01:43:35,120
moving to make sure we only create the best,

2113
01:43:35,260 --> 01:43:37,460
most strategic goods possible,

2114
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:39,100
while distributing everything

2115
01:43:39,150 --> 01:43:42,580
in the most intelligent and efficient way.

2116
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:47,260
And the unique result of this preservation-based approach,

2117
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:50,020
which is intuitively counter to many,

2118
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,660
is that this logical, ground up

2119
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:56,020
empirical process of preservation and efficiency

2120
01:43:56,160 --> 01:44:00,900
- which can only define true human sustainability on this planet -

2121
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:05,580
would likely enable something never before seen in human history:

2122
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:07,700
Access Abundance.

2123
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:10,980
Not just for a percentage of the global population,

2124
01:44:11,080 --> 01:44:14,900
but the entire civilization.

2125
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:18,140
This economic model, as was just generalized...

2126
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:20,950
this responsible, systems approach

2127
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:23,980
to total Earth resource management and processes,

2128
01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:25,930
designed, again, to do nothing less

2129
01:44:26,070 --> 01:44:28,060
than take care of humanity as a whole

2130
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:30,920
in the most efficient and sustainable way,

2131
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:32,220
could be termed:

2132
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:35,340
a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.

2133
01:44:35,480 --> 01:44:38,020
The idea was defined in the 1970s

2134
01:44:38,070 --> 01:44:40,980
by structural engineer Jacque Fresco.

2135
01:44:41,120 --> 01:44:44,290
He understood back then that society was on a collision course

2136
01:44:44,380 --> 01:44:48,500
with nature and itself, unsustainable on every level,

2137
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:50,420
and if things didn't change,

2138
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:53,860
we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.

2139
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:55,700
Are all of these things you are saying Jacque,

2140
01:44:56,700 --> 01:44:58,700
could they be built with what we know today?

2141
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:01,200
Or, ... are you guessing

2142
01:45:01,300 --> 01:45:02,440
based on what we know today?

2143
01:45:02,540 --> 01:45:06,280
No. All of these things can be built with what we know today.

2144
01:45:06,380 --> 01:45:09,540
It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.

2145
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:12,100
To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.

2146
01:45:12,200 --> 01:45:13,700
The choice lies with you.

2147
01:45:13,800 --> 01:45:16,240
The stupidity of a nuclear arms race,

2148
01:45:16,340 --> 01:45:17,840
the development of weapons,

2149
01:45:17,940 --> 01:45:20,000
trying to solve your problems politically

2150
01:45:20,100 --> 01:45:23,040
by electing this political party or that political party,

2151
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,680
that all politics is immersed in corruption.

2152
01:45:25,780 --> 01:45:26,800
Let me say it again:

2153
01:45:26,900 --> 01:45:31,280
Communism, socialism, fascism, the Democrats, the liberals-

2154
01:45:31,380 --> 01:45:33,560
we want to absorb human beings ...

2155
01:45:33,660 --> 01:45:36,920
all organizations that believe in a better life for man!

2156
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:40,160
There are no Negro problems or Polish problems

2157
01:45:40,260 --> 01:45:42,480
or Jewish problems or Greek problems

2158
01:45:42,580 --> 01:45:45,150
or women's problems – there are human problems!

2159
01:45:45,250 --> 01:45:47,880
I'm not afraid of anybody, I don't work for anyone;

2160
01:45:47,980 --> 01:45:49,480
no one can discharge me.

2161
01:45:49,580 --> 01:45:51,080
I have no boss.

2162
01:45:51,180 --> 01:45:54,040
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.

2163
01:45:54,140 --> 01:45:57,840
Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

2164
01:45:57,940 --> 01:45:59,960
It was great- the free enterprise system-

2165
01:46:00,060 --> 01:46:03,400
about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.

2166
01:46:03,500 --> 01:46:06,300
Now we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.

2167
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:11,950
The horror movies of the future will be our society-

2168
01:46:12,090 --> 01:46:13,980
the way it didn't work-

2169
01:46:14,120 --> 01:46:15,600
and politics ...

2170
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:17,840
would be part of a horror movie.

2171
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:24,800
Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'

2172
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:27,020
because it's analytical,

2173
01:46:27,320 --> 01:46:29,880
and they don't even know what analytical means.

2174
01:46:30,020 --> 01:46:32,760
Science means: closer approximations

2175
01:46:32,860 --> 01:46:35,470
to the way the world really works.

2176
01:46:35,610 --> 01:46:38,825
So, it's telling the truth- is what it is.

2177
01:46:38,965 --> 01:46:41,850
A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.

2178
01:46:41,990 --> 01:46:44,510
They tell them what their findings are.

2179
01:46:44,650 --> 01:46:46,880
They have to question all things.

2180
01:46:47,020 --> 01:46:49,880
And if some scientist comes up with an experiment

2181
01:46:50,020 --> 01:46:53,550
that shows certain materials have certain strengths,

2182
01:46:53,690 --> 01:46:56,980
other scientists have to be able to duplicate that experiment

2183
01:46:57,020 --> 01:46:59,120
and come up with the same results.

2184
01:46:59,260 --> 01:47:03,600
Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing

2185
01:47:03,740 --> 01:47:05,480
due to mathematics or calculations

2186
01:47:05,620 --> 01:47:07,820
can hold up a given amount of weight

2187
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,640
they still pile sandbags on it

2188
01:47:10,780 --> 01:47:12,980
to see when it breaks, and they say

2189
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:16,660
'you know my calculations are right' or 'they are not correct.'

2190
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,940
I love that system because it's free of bias

2191
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:23,480
and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.

2192
01:47:23,620 --> 01:47:26,160
You have to put your Math to test also.

2193
01:47:26,300 --> 01:47:29,960
I think that every system that can be put to test

2194
01:47:30,100 --> 01:47:31,800
should be put to test.

2195
01:47:31,940 --> 01:47:36,000
And that all decisions should be based upon research.

2196
01:47:36,940 --> 01:47:38,880
A Resource-Based Economy is simply

2197
01:47:39,020 --> 01:47:42,180
the scientific method applied to social concern-

2198
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:45,180
an approach utterly absent in the world today.

2199
01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:47,540
Society is a technical invention.

2200
01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:50,640
And the most efficient methods of optimized human health,

2201
01:47:50,780 --> 01:47:55,130
physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like

2202
01:47:55,250 --> 01:47:57,700
reside in the field of science and technology-

2203
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,840
not politics or monetary economics.

2204
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:05,000
It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane

2205
01:48:05,150 --> 01:48:09,310
and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.

2206
01:48:09,500 --> 01:48:12,870
Likewise, nature itself is the physical referent we use

2207
01:48:13,010 --> 01:48:16,179
to prove our science, and it is a set system-

2208
01:48:16,179 --> 01:48:16,180
.

2209
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:19,430
emerging only from our increased understanding of it.

2210
01:48:19,570 --> 01:48:21,800
In fact, it has no regard for what you

2211
01:48:21,850 --> 01:48:24,630
subjectively think or believe to be true.

2212
01:48:24,770 --> 01:48:26,520
Rather, it gives you an option:

2213
01:48:26,660 --> 01:48:29,550
you can learn and fall in line with its natural laws

2214
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:31,020
and conduct yourself accordingly-

2215
01:48:31,180 --> 01:48:34,460
invariably creating good health and sustainability,

2216
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:37,630
or you can go against the current- to no avail.

2217
01:48:37,770 --> 01:48:39,750
It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just

2218
01:48:39,850 --> 01:48:42,380
stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you;

2219
01:48:42,520 --> 01:48:44,600
the law of gravity will not allow it.

2220
01:48:44,740 --> 01:48:46,580
If you do not eat- you will die.

2221
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:49,580
If you are not touched as an infant- you will die.

2222
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:53,520
As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship

2223
01:48:53,660 --> 01:48:56,960
and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it

2224
01:48:57,100 --> 01:49:00,520
or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.

2225
01:49:00,660 --> 01:49:02,430
So, a Resource-Based Economy

2226
01:49:02,480 --> 01:49:04,820
is nothing more than a set of proven,

2227
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:06,735
life supporting understandings

2228
01:49:06,875 --> 01:49:08,980
where all decisions are based upon

2229
01:49:09,120 --> 01:49:12,780
optimized human and environmental sustainability.

2230
01:49:12,920 --> 01:49:16,080
It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”

2231
01:49:16,220 --> 01:49:18,580
which every human being shares as a need

2232
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:22,700
regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.

2233
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:25,910
There is no cultural relativism to this approach.

2234
01:49:26,050 --> 01:49:28,660
It isn't a matter of opinion.

2235
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:30,820
Human needs are human needs.

2236
01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:34,545
And having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air,

2237
01:49:34,685 --> 01:49:37,025
nutritious food and clean water,

2238
01:49:37,165 --> 01:49:40,580
along with a positively reinforcing, stable,

2239
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:43,530
nurturing, non-violent environment,

2240
01:49:43,670 --> 01:49:46,960
is demanded for our mental and physical health,

2241
01:49:47,100 --> 01:49:48,910
our evolutionary fitness,

2242
01:49:49,040 --> 01:49:51,920
and hence, the species' survival itself.

2243
01:49:52,060 --> 01:49:54,750
A Resource-Based Economy

2244
01:49:54,890 --> 01:49:58,170
would be based upon available resources.

2245
01:49:58,310 --> 01:50:01,370
You can't just bring a lot of people to an island

2246
01:50:01,510 --> 01:50:06,600
or build a city of 50,000 people without having access

2247
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:08,680
to the necessities of life.

2248
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:13,280
So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'

2249
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:17,480
I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first

2250
01:50:17,620 --> 01:50:20,890
and determining what that area can supply-

2251
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,340
not just architectural approach-

2252
01:50:23,480 --> 01:50:25,900
not just design approach-

2253
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,520
but design must be based on all of the requirements

2254
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:31,140
to enhance human life.

2255
01:50:31,240 --> 01:50:34,940
And that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.

2256
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,740
Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love-

2257
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:40,840
all those things are necessary.

2258
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,200
And if you deprive people of any of them

2259
01:50:43,400 --> 01:50:48,700
you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.

2260
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:53,000
As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground-up

2261
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:57,680
global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution

2262
01:50:57,820 --> 01:51:02,520
is based upon a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'

2263
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:05,700
which guarantee efficiency and sustainability

2264
01:51:05,800 --> 01:51:08,560
in every area of the economy.

2265
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:12,440
So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design,

2266
01:51:12,540 --> 01:51:14,160
what is next in our equation?

2267
01:51:14,320 --> 01:51:16,560
Where does all this materialize?

2268
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:18,300
Cities.

2269
01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:22,220
The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.

2270
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:26,080
Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life

2271
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:30,960
along with increased social support and community interaction.

2272
01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:34,060
So how would we go about designing an ideal city?

2273
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:35,660
What shape should we make it?

2274
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,060
Square? Trapezoid?

2275
01:51:38,160 --> 01:51:40,270
Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing

2276
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:43,440
we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease,

2277
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,720
hence the circle.

2278
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:47,620
What should the city contain?

2279
01:51:47,720 --> 01:51:51,680
Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area,

2280
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:55,320
a power generation area, an agricultural area.

2281
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:58,000
But we also need nurturing as human beings-

2282
01:51:58,100 --> 01:52:02,080
hence culture, nature, recreation and education.

2283
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:04,100
So lets include a nice open park,

2284
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:08,520
an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing

2285
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:11,100
and educational and research facilities.

2286
01:52:11,230 --> 01:52:12,860
And since we are working with a circle

2287
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:16,340
it seems rational to place these functions in belts

2288
01:52:16,480 --> 01:52:19,480
based on the amount of land required for each goal

2289
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:21,800
along with ease of access.

2290
01:52:21,900 --> 01:52:23,400
Very good.

2291
01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:25,640
Now, let's get down to specifics:

2292
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:28,240
First we need the consider the core infrastructure

2293
01:52:28,380 --> 01:52:30,880
or intestines of the city organism.

2294
01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:33,230
These would be the water, goods,

2295
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:35,540
waste and energy transport channels.

2296
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:39,400
Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today,

2297
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:41,400
we would extend this channeling concept

2298
01:52:41,500 --> 01:52:45,080
to integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.

2299
01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:47,540
No more mailmen or garbage men.

2300
01:52:47,660 --> 01:52:49,770
It is built right in. We could even use

2301
01:52:49,820 --> 01:52:53,320
automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.

2302
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:55,340
Same goes for transport.

2303
01:52:55,480 --> 01:52:58,500
It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce

2304
01:52:58,640 --> 01:53:02,620
or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.

2305
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,680
Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors

2306
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,400
and maglevs- which can take you virtually

2307
01:53:07,450 --> 01:53:10,300
anywhere in the city, even up and down,

2308
01:53:10,440 --> 01:53:13,420
along with connecting you to other cities as well.

2309
01:53:13,560 --> 01:53:16,440
And of course, in the event a car is required,

2310
01:53:16,540 --> 01:53:20,200
it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.

2311
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:24,000
In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.

2312
01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:29,000
Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year,

2313
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:31,200
injuring about 50 million.

2314
01:53:31,300 --> 01:53:34,040
This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.

2315
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:37,880
Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars

2316
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:40,760
this death toll can be virtually eliminated.

2317
01:53:41,140 --> 01:53:42,640
Agriculture.

2318
01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:46,100
Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods-

2319
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:50,280
using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means-

2320
01:53:50,440 --> 01:53:52,350
we have successfully destroyed

2321
01:53:52,450 --> 01:53:54,280
much of the the arable land on this planet,

2322
01:53:54,380 --> 01:53:57,680
not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.

2323
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:01,060
In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins

2324
01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:06,880
now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.

2325
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:09,750
Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative:

2326
01:54:09,890 --> 01:54:13,500
the soil-less mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics,

2327
01:54:13,640 --> 01:54:16,670
which also reduce nutrient and water requirements

2328
01:54:16,815 --> 01:54:20,340
by up to 75% of our current usage.

2329
01:54:20,480 --> 01:54:24,040
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale

2330
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:26,580
in enclosed vertical farms,

2331
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:29,540
such as in 50-story 1-acre plots,

2332
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:31,380
virtually eliminating the need

2333
01:54:31,420 --> 01:54:34,560
for pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.

2334
01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:37,500
This is the future of industrial food cultivation:

2335
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:40,200
efficient, clean and abundant.

2336
01:54:40,360 --> 01:54:43,300
So, such advanced systems would be, in part,

2337
01:54:43,440 --> 01:54:45,860
what comprise our agricultural belt,

2338
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:49,540
producing all the food required for the entire city's population

2339
01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:52,540
with no need to import anything from the outside,

2340
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:56,000
saving time, waste and energy.

2341
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,300
And speaking of Energy,

2342
01:54:58,420 --> 01:55:00,630
the Energy Belt would work in a systems approach

2343
01:55:00,770 --> 01:55:04,320
to extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums-

2344
01:55:04,440 --> 01:55:08,780
specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials-

2345
01:55:08,900 --> 01:55:12,570
and if near water potentials- tidal and wave power.

2346
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:14,750
To avoid intermittency and make sure

2347
01:55:14,860 --> 01:55:17,180
a positive net energy return occurs,

2348
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:20,180
these mediums would operate in an integrated system

2349
01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:22,240
powering each other when needed,

2350
01:55:22,350 --> 01:55:25,900
while storing excessive energy to large super capacitors

2351
01:55:26,050 --> 01:55:29,099
under the ground, so nothing can go to waste.

2352
01:55:29,099 --> 01:55:29,100
.

2353
01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:31,500
And not only does the city power itself,

2354
01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:34,820
particular structures will also power independently

2355
01:55:34,940 --> 01:55:37,940
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints,

2356
01:55:38,060 --> 01:55:41,540
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect,

2357
01:55:41,650 --> 01:55:45,400
and other current but underutilized technologies.

2358
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:47,550
But of course, this begs the question:

2359
01:55:47,680 --> 01:55:50,000
How does this technology, and goods in general,

2360
01:55:50,150 --> 01:55:52,000
get created in the first place?

2361
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:53,900
This bring us to Production:

2362
01:55:54,040 --> 01:55:57,320
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like,

2363
01:55:57,450 --> 01:55:59,500
would be the hub of factory production.

2364
01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:01,600
Completely localized overall,

2365
01:56:01,720 --> 01:56:03,400
it would, of course, obtain raw materials

2366
01:56:03,550 --> 01:56:07,420
by way of the global resource management system just discussed,

2367
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:12,000
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.

2368
01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:14,140
As far as the mechanics of production,

2369
01:56:14,280 --> 01:56:17,260
we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon

2370
01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:20,100
which was sparked very recently in human history

2371
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:23,380
and is on pace to changing everything.

2372
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:25,400
It's called Mechanization

2373
01:56:25,560 --> 01:56:28,000
or the automation of labor.

2374
01:56:28,150 --> 01:56:30,750
Well, if you look around, you'll notice that

2375
01:56:30,900 --> 01:56:36,939
almost everything that we use today is built automatically.

2376
01:56:36,939 --> 01:56:36,940
.

2377
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:42,220
Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...

2378
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:48,620
they are all built by machines in an automatic way.

2379
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:52,180
Can we say that the society has not been influenced

2380
01:56:52,300 --> 01:56:56,110
by these major technological advancements?

2381
01:56:56,240 --> 01:56:57,580
Of course not.

2382
01:56:57,720 --> 01:57:02,340
These systems really dictate new structures

2383
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:07,740
and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.

2384
01:57:07,880 --> 01:57:12,580
So, we have been going up in the development

2385
01:57:12,700 --> 01:57:16,200
and use of technology in an exponential way.

2386
01:57:16,320 --> 01:57:19,900
So, definitely automation is going to continue.

2387
01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:24,140
You cannot stop technologies that just make sense.

2388
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:27,620
Labor automation through technology is at the bottom

2389
01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:31,020
of every major social transformation in human history.

2390
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:34,440
From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow,

2391
01:57:34,570 --> 01:57:37,880
to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine,

2392
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:40,800
to the information age we live in now,

2393
01:57:40,920 --> 01:57:42,200
through essentially the invention

2394
01:57:42,320 --> 01:57:44,860
of advanced electronics and computers.

2395
01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:48,000
And with regard to advanced production methods today

2396
01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:50,980
mechanization is now evolving on its own:

2397
01:57:51,080 --> 01:57:53,400
moving away from the traditional method

2398
01:57:53,520 --> 01:57:56,420
of assembling component parts into a configuration,

2399
01:57:56,560 --> 01:57:58,800
into an advanced method of creating

2400
01:57:58,950 --> 01:58:02,060
entire products in one single process.

2401
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:05,820
Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is

2402
01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:10,300
so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.

2403
01:58:11,900 --> 01:58:16,200
What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.

2404
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:18,480
As good a definition of life as we've got.

2405
01:58:18,600 --> 01:58:20,200
Again, as an engineer, I have always been intrigued

2406
01:58:20,350 --> 01:58:23,020
by the idea of machines copying themselves.

2407
01:58:23,160 --> 01:58:25,680
RepRap is a three-dimensional printer -

2408
01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:29,100
that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and

2409
01:58:29,240 --> 01:58:32,380
instead of making 2-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on,

2410
01:58:32,500 --> 01:58:35,560
it makes real, physical, 3-dimensional objects.

2411
01:58:35,690 --> 01:58:37,450
Now there's nothing new about that.

2412
01:58:37,580 --> 01:58:40,180
3D printers have been around for about 30 years.

2413
01:58:40,300 --> 01:58:45,000
The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.

2414
01:58:45,120 --> 01:58:47,720
So, if you've got one, you could make another one

2415
01:58:47,830 --> 01:58:49,900
and give it to a friend as well as being able to print

2416
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:51,500
lots of useful things.

2417
01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:55,100
From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home

2418
01:58:55,230 --> 01:58:58,820
to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop,

2419
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,700
advanced, automated 3D printing now has the potential

2420
01:59:01,850 --> 01:59:05,180
to transform virtually every field of production,

2421
01:59:05,300 --> 01:59:07,400
including home construction.

2422
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:13,050
Contour Crafting is actually a fabrication technology-

2423
01:59:13,199 --> 01:59:13,200
.

2424
01:59:13,200 --> 01:59:16,780
the so-called 3D printing- when you directly build

2425
01:59:16,890 --> 01:59:20,540
3D objects from a computer model.

2426
01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:23,740
Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible

2427
01:59:23,850 --> 01:59:26,820
to build a 2000 square-foot home

2428
01:59:26,930 --> 01:59:31,060
entirely by the machine, in one day.

2429
01:59:31,200 --> 01:59:36,380
The reason that people are interested in automating construction

2430
01:59:36,500 --> 01:59:39,400
is that it really brings a lot of benefits.

2431
01:59:39,600 --> 01:59:43,480
For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive.

2432
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:49,540
And although it provides jobs for a sector of the society

2433
01:59:49,640 --> 01:59:54,800
it also has issues and complications.

2434
01:59:54,950 --> 01:59:59,650
For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.

2435
01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:02,780
It is worse than mining and agriculture,

2436
02:00:02,900 --> 02:00:07,380
that has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.

2437
02:00:07,520 --> 02:00:10,100
Another issue is the waste.

2438
02:00:10,240 --> 02:00:15,400
An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.

2439
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:21,220
So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction,

2440
02:00:21,360 --> 02:00:24,625
and knowing about 40% of all materials in the world

2441
02:00:24,765 --> 02:00:27,740
are used in construction.

2442
02:00:27,880 --> 02:00:31,400
So, a big waste of energy and resources

2443
02:00:31,520 --> 02:00:34,300
and big damage to the environment as well.

2444
02:00:34,440 --> 02:00:39,300
Making homes using hammers and nails and wood

2445
02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:43,680
with the state of our technology today, is really absurd

2446
02:00:43,800 --> 02:00:46,900
and will go the way of our labor class

2447
02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:50,400
in regards to manufacturing in the United States.

2448
02:00:50,520 --> 02:00:56,260
Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT,

2449
02:00:56,380 --> 02:01:00,180
that states that our middle class is obsolete

2450
02:01:00,295 --> 02:01:03,540
and being replaced by automation.

2451
02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:06,820
Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive,

2452
02:01:06,980 --> 02:01:09,740
efficient and sustainable than human labor

2453
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:12,860
in virtually every sector of the economy today.

2454
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:16,460
Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions,

2455
02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:19,460
and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.

2456
02:01:19,600 --> 02:01:22,060
The output potential and accuracy

2457
02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:25,440
compared to human labor, is unmatched.

2458
02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:29,380
The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete

2459
02:01:29,500 --> 02:01:31,540
and impractical across the world.

2460
02:01:31,680 --> 02:01:35,320
And the unemployment you see around you today is fundamentally

2461
02:01:35,450 --> 02:01:39,899
the result of this evolution of efficiency in technology.

2462
02:01:39,899 --> 02:01:39,900
.

2463
02:01:40,050 --> 02:01:43,820
For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern

2464
02:01:43,960 --> 02:01:47,050
which could be called “Technological Unemployment”,

2465
02:01:47,200 --> 02:01:49,600
because of the fact that new sectors always seemed

2466
02:01:49,720 --> 02:01:52,640
to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.

2467
02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:55,980
Today, the service sector is the only real hub left

2468
02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:59,740
and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce

2469
02:01:59,860 --> 02:02:04,030
with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.

2470
02:02:04,150 --> 02:02:07,690
However, this sector is now being challenged increasingly

2471
02:02:07,800 --> 02:02:10,880
by automated kiosks, automated restaurants,

2472
02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:13,000
and even automated stores.

2473
02:02:13,120 --> 02:02:15,200
Economists today are finally acknowledging

2474
02:02:15,350 --> 02:02:17,480
what they had been denying for years:

2475
02:02:17,600 --> 02:02:20,780
Not only is technological unemployment exacerbating

2476
02:02:20,920 --> 02:02:23,530
the current labor crisis we see across the world

2477
02:02:23,650 --> 02:02:26,230
due to the global economic downturn,

2478
02:02:26,350 --> 02:02:28,480
but the more the recession deepens

2479
02:02:28,600 --> 02:02:31,020
the faster the industries are mechanizing.

2480
02:02:31,160 --> 02:02:33,000
The catch, which is not realized,

2481
02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:35,900
is that the faster they mechanize to save money-

2482
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:37,620
the more they displace people-

2483
02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:40,880
the more they reduce public purchasing power.

2484
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:42,780
This means that, while the corporation

2485
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:44,780
can produce everything more cheaply,

2486
02:02:44,900 --> 02:02:48,480
fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything

2487
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:50,900
regardless of how cheap they become.

2488
02:02:51,040 --> 02:02:54,300
The bottom line is that the “labor for income” game

2489
02:02:54,450 --> 02:02:56,790
is slowly coming to an end.

2490
02:02:56,900 --> 02:02:59,160
In fact, if you take a moment to reflect

2491
02:02:59,280 --> 02:03:01,550
on the jobs which are in existence today

2492
02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:05,400
which automation could take over right now if applied,

2493
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:07,860
75% of the global workforce

2494
02:03:07,980 --> 02:03:11,300
could be replaced by mechanization tomorrow.

2495
02:03:11,560 --> 02:03:14,740
And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy,

2496
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,500
there is no Monetary-Market system.

2497
02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:19,760
No money at all...

2498
02:03:19,800 --> 02:03:21,300
for there is no need.

2499
02:03:21,400 --> 02:03:22,780
A Resource-Based Economy

2500
02:03:22,880 --> 02:03:25,920
recognizes the efficiency of mechanization

2501
02:03:26,050 --> 02:03:27,660
and accepts it for what it offers.

2502
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:30,420
It doesn't fight it, like we do today.

2503
02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:33,000
Why? Because it is irresponsible not to,

2504
02:03:33,120 --> 02:03:37,100
given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.

2505
02:03:38,240 --> 02:03:41,020
And this brings us back to our city system.

2506
02:03:41,160 --> 02:03:44,100
In the center is the Central Dome, which not only houses

2507
02:03:44,100 --> 02:03:44,101
.

2508
02:03:44,250 --> 02:03:47,520
the educational facilities and transportation hub,

2509
02:03:47,640 --> 02:03:49,350
it also hosts the mainframe

2510
02:03:49,500 --> 02:03:52,280
that runs the city's technical operations.

2511
02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:55,870
The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.

2512
02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:57,890
It has sensors in all technical belts

2513
02:03:58,000 --> 02:03:59,750
to track the progress of agriculture,

2514
02:03:59,880 --> 02:04:04,000
energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.

2515
02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:06,850
Now, would people be needed to oversee these operations

2516
02:04:07,000 --> 02:04:09,460
in the event of a malfunction or the like?

2517
02:04:09,600 --> 02:04:11,180
Most probably: yes.

2518
02:04:11,300 --> 02:04:15,099
But that number would decrease over time as improvements continue.

2519
02:04:15,099 --> 02:04:15,100
.

2520
02:04:15,240 --> 02:04:18,880
However, as of today, maybe 3% of the city population

2521
02:04:19,020 --> 02:04:21,880
would be needed for this job when you break it down.

2522
02:04:21,999 --> 02:04:22,000
.

2523
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:25,900
And I can assure you: that in an economic system

2524
02:04:26,049 --> 02:04:26,050
.

2525
02:04:26,050 --> 02:04:28,400
which is actually designed to take care of you

2526
02:04:28,520 --> 02:04:31,950
and secure your well being, without you having to submit

2527
02:04:31,951 --> 02:04:31,952
.

2528
02:04:32,100 --> 02:04:35,200
to a private dictatorship on a daily basis

2529
02:04:35,320 --> 02:04:38,280
usually to a job that is either technically unnecessary

2530
02:04:38,420 --> 02:04:40,460
or socially pointless,

2531
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:43,730
while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist

2532
02:04:43,850 --> 02:04:45,660
just to make ends meet...

2533
02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:50,290
I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right

2534
02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:56,960
to maintain and improve a system that actually takes care of them.

2535
02:04:57,079 --> 02:04:57,080
.

2536
02:04:57,080 --> 02:05:00,180
And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'

2537
02:05:00,280 --> 02:05:02,000
comes the common assumption

2538
02:05:02,100 --> 02:05:04,200
that if there isn't some external pressure

2539
02:05:04,340 --> 02:05:06,660
for one to “work for a living”

2540
02:05:06,800 --> 02:05:09,280
people would just sit around, do nothing

2541
02:05:09,420 --> 02:05:11,950
and turn into fat lazy blobs.

2542
02:05:12,180 --> 02:05:14,380
This is nonsense.

2543
02:05:14,495 --> 02:05:16,400
The labor system we have today

2544
02:05:16,500 --> 02:05:22,000
is in fact the generator of laziness, not a resolver of it.

2545
02:05:22,039 --> 02:05:22,040
.

2546
02:05:22,120 --> 02:05:24,240
If you think back to when you were a child-

2547
02:05:24,380 --> 02:05:27,460
full of life, interested in new things to understand,

2548
02:05:27,600 --> 02:05:29,700
likely creating and exploring...

2549
02:05:29,840 --> 02:05:32,100
But as time went on, the system pushed you

2550
02:05:32,200 --> 02:05:36,140
into the focus of figuring out how to make money.

2551
02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:37,940
And from early education,

2552
02:05:38,040 --> 02:05:41,000
to study at a university, you are narrowed.

2553
02:05:41,100 --> 02:05:45,080
Only to emerge as a creature which serves as a cog in a wheel

2554
02:05:45,189 --> 02:05:45,190
.

2555
02:05:45,190 --> 02:05:49,100
in a model that sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.

2556
02:05:49,240 --> 02:05:52,440
Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact,

2557
02:05:52,580 --> 02:05:54,960
not motivated by monetary reward

2558
02:05:55,100 --> 02:05:57,660
when it comes to ingenuity and creation.

2559
02:05:57,800 --> 02:06:00,840
The creation itself is the reward.

2560
02:06:00,980 --> 02:06:03,600
Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive

2561
02:06:03,740 --> 02:06:06,100
for repetitive, mundane actions

2562
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:10,560
a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.

2563
02:06:10,700 --> 02:06:14,860
So when it comes to innovation- the actual use of the human mind-

2564
02:06:14,998 --> 02:06:14,999
.

2565
02:06:15,000 --> 02:06:17,560
the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance,

2566
02:06:17,700 --> 02:06:21,120
interfering and detracting from creative thought.

2567
02:06:21,260 --> 02:06:24,310
And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers,

2568
02:06:24,430 --> 02:06:28,230
and other inventors who contributed massively to our current world

2569
02:06:28,249 --> 02:06:28,350
.

2570
02:06:28,350 --> 02:06:31,560
never showed a monetary incentive to do so.

2571
02:06:31,700 --> 02:06:35,220
Money is, in fact, a false incentive

2572
02:06:35,360 --> 02:06:40,000
and causes 100 times more distortion than it does contribution.

2573
02:06:42,099 --> 02:06:42,100
.

2574
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,760
Good morning class. Please settle down.

2575
02:06:44,900 --> 02:06:47,920
The first thing I would like to do is go around the room

2576
02:06:48,060 --> 02:06:51,680
and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.

2577
02:06:51,820 --> 02:06:54,000
Who would like to go first?

2578
02:06:54,140 --> 02:06:56,260
Okay, how about you Sarah?

2579
02:06:56,400 --> 02:07:00,840
When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!

2580
02:07:00,980 --> 02:07:03,540
Oh, family tradition, eh?

2581
02:07:03,680 --> 02:07:05,520
How about you, Linda?

2582
02:07:05,660 --> 02:07:08,100
When I grow up, I'm going to be a prostitute

2583
02:07:08,200 --> 02:07:11,100
on the streets of New York City!

2584
02:07:11,240 --> 02:07:14,980
Oh! glamour girl, huh? Very ambitious.

2585
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:15,001
.

2586
02:07:15,120 --> 02:07:16,800
How about you, Tommy?

2587
02:07:16,940 --> 02:07:20,400
When I grow up, I'm going to be a rich, elitist businessman

2588
02:07:20,520 --> 02:07:22,500
who works on Wall Street and profits

2589
02:07:22,500 --> 02:07:22,501
.

2590
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:25,200
off of the collapse of foreign economies.

2591
02:07:25,300 --> 02:07:29,200
Enterprising... and great to see some multicultural interest!

2592
02:07:30,999 --> 02:07:31,000
.

2593
02:07:31,600 --> 02:07:33,560
[Victims of Culture]

2594
02:07:33,700 --> 02:07:36,340
As stated before, a Resource-Based Economy

2595
02:07:36,390 --> 02:07:40,000
applies the Scientific Method to social concern

2596
02:07:40,140 --> 02:07:43,400
and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.

2597
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:45,630
It also has the consideration of human

2598
02:07:45,750 --> 02:07:49,500
and social well-being directly and what comprises it.

2599
02:07:49,620 --> 02:07:52,030
What good is a social system if, in the end,

2600
02:07:52,140 --> 02:07:56,180
it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?

2601
02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:58,050
So, it is important to point out

2602
02:07:58,160 --> 02:08:00,190
that with the removal of the money system

2603
02:08:00,300 --> 02:08:02,510
and the necessities of life provided

2604
02:08:02,620 --> 02:08:04,900
we would see a global reduction in crime

2605
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:08,180
by about 95% almost immediately-

2606
02:08:08,300 --> 02:08:12,000
for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.

2607
02:08:12,100 --> 02:08:14,840
95% of all people in prisons today are there

2608
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:18,260
due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse

2609
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:23,180
and drug abuse is a disorder- not a crime.

2610
02:08:23,320 --> 02:08:26,900
So what about the other 5%?, the truly violent...

2611
02:08:26,939 --> 02:08:26,940
.

2612
02:08:27,000 --> 02:08:29,340
often seeming to some as being violent

2613
02:08:29,450 --> 02:08:31,100
for the sake of being violent...

2614
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:34,940
are they just “evil” people?

2615
02:08:35,080 --> 02:08:40,280
The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time

2616
02:08:40,420 --> 02:08:46,190
to engage in moral value judgments about people's violence

2617
02:08:46,300 --> 02:08:46,301
.

2618
02:08:46,301 --> 02:08:50,320
is because it doesn't advance by one iota

2619
02:08:50,460 --> 02:08:53,560
our understanding of either the causes

2620
02:08:53,700 --> 02:08:57,620
or the prevention of the violent behavior.

2621
02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:02,220
People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.

2622
02:09:02,360 --> 02:09:04,180
My answer to that is

2623
02:09:04,320 --> 02:09:07,200
“No, I don't believe in forgiveness

2624
02:09:07,340 --> 02:09:10,140
anymore than I believe in condemnation.”

2625
02:09:10,280 --> 02:09:12,890
It's only if we, as a society,

2626
02:09:13,000 --> 02:09:16,090
can take the same attitude of treating violence

2627
02:09:16,200 --> 02:09:19,680
as a problem in public health and preventive medicine

2628
02:09:19,820 --> 02:09:22,860
rather than as a moral "evil"...

2629
02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:25,090
It's only when we make that change

2630
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:28,140
in our own attitudes and assumptions and values

2631
02:09:28,250 --> 02:09:32,690
that we will actually succeed in reducing the level of violence

2632
02:09:32,800 --> 02:09:36,600
rather than stimulating it, which is what we do now.

2633
02:09:36,759 --> 02:09:36,760
.

2634
02:09:36,760 --> 02:09:39,850
The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become

2635
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:41,800
because there's no such thing as justice.

2636
02:09:41,900 --> 02:09:46,020
There is whatever there is out there. That's it.

2637
02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:49,940
In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-

2638
02:09:50,080 --> 02:09:53,090
if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that-

2639
02:09:53,200 --> 02:09:55,080
why do you blame the person for it?

2640
02:09:55,200 --> 02:09:58,100
They are a victim of a subculture.

2641
02:09:58,240 --> 02:10:00,280
Therefore they have to be helped.

2642
02:10:00,400 --> 02:10:03,700
The point is, we have to redesign the environment

2643
02:10:03,800 --> 02:10:07,460
that produces aberrant behavior. That's the problem.

2644
02:10:07,579 --> 02:10:07,580
.

2645
02:10:07,580 --> 02:10:09,580
Not putting a person in jail.

2646
02:10:09,700 --> 02:10:13,750
That's why judges, lawyers, “freedom of choice”-

2647
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:16,700
such concepts are dangerous!

2648
02:10:16,800 --> 02:10:19,640
Because it gives you mis-information

2649
02:10:19,750 --> 02:10:22,900
that the person is “bad”, or that person is a “serial killer”.

2650
02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:25,390
Serial killers are made

2651
02:10:25,500 --> 02:10:30,100
just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.

2652
02:10:30,280 --> 02:10:31,980
They become killing machines,

2653
02:10:32,100 --> 02:10:35,280
but nobody looks at them as murderers or assassins

2654
02:10:35,380 --> 02:10:36,900
because that's “natural”.

2655
02:10:37,320 --> 02:10:39,120
So we blame people.

2656
02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:42,200
We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi- he tortured Jews.”

2657
02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:45,280
No, he was brought up to torture Jews.

2658
02:10:45,400 --> 02:10:49,780
Once you accept the fact that people have individual choices

2659
02:10:49,900 --> 02:10:52,180
and they are free to make those choices- ...

2660
02:10:52,300 --> 02:10:55,850
Free to make choices means without being influenced.

2661
02:10:55,919 --> 02:10:55,920
.

2662
02:10:55,920 --> 02:10:58,120
And I can't understand that at all.

2663
02:10:58,240 --> 02:11:02,100
All of us are influenced in all of our choices

2664
02:11:02,220 --> 02:11:05,000
by the culture we live in, by our parents

2665
02:11:05,120 --> 02:11:07,300
and by the values that dominate.

2666
02:11:07,400 --> 02:11:10,980
So we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.

2667
02:11:11,100 --> 02:11:13,650
'What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:

2668
02:11:13,780 --> 02:11:16,930
'I haven't been all over the world and I don't know enough

2669
02:11:17,050 --> 02:11:20,100
about different cultures to answer that question.'

2670
02:11:20,230 --> 02:11:22,400
I don't know anybody that speaks that way.

2671
02:11:22,520 --> 02:11:26,400
They say, "It's the good old USA! The greatest country in the world!"

2672
02:11:26,499 --> 02:11:26,500
.

2673
02:11:26,500 --> 02:11:28,700
There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'

2674
02:11:28,800 --> 02:11:31,800
'Have you been to England?' - 'No.' 'Have you been to France?' - 'No.'

2675
02:11:31,899 --> 02:11:31,900
.

2676
02:11:31,900 --> 02:11:33,600
'Then what do you make your assumptions on?'

2677
02:11:33,700 --> 02:11:36,150
They can't answer, they get mad at you. They say,

2678
02:11:36,250 --> 02:11:39,179
'God dammit! Who the hell are you to tell me what to think?!'

2679
02:11:39,179 --> 02:11:39,180
.

2680
02:11:39,300 --> 02:11:42,350
You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.

2681
02:11:42,470 --> 02:11:44,880
They are not responsible for their answers;

2682
02:11:45,000 --> 02:11:47,080
they're victims of culture and that means

2683
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:50,760
they have been influenced by their culture.

2684
02:12:11,500 --> 02:12:16,600
[ Part 4: Rise ]

2685
02:12:17,960 --> 02:12:20,300
When we consider a Resource-Based Economy

2686
02:12:20,700 --> 02:12:23,320
there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...

2687
02:12:23,420 --> 02:12:24,940
EH! (Interrupted by heckler)

2688
02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:26,680
Eh! Hey!

2689
02:12:26,780 --> 02:12:29,240
Now hold on just a minute! - Yes?

2690
02:12:29,360 --> 02:12:33,780
I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy!

2691
02:12:33,900 --> 02:12:38,380
Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...

2692
02:12:38,500 --> 02:12:42,460
My father died in the Gulag! - All right, hold on, hold on...

2693
02:12:42,600 --> 02:12:44,460
Communist! Fascist!

2694
02:12:44,600 --> 02:12:46,200
You don't like America you should just leave!

2695
02:12:46,300 --> 02:12:47,700
All right, everybody just calm down...

2696
02:12:47,750 --> 02:12:49,100
Death to the New World Order!

2697
02:12:49,300 --> 02:12:51,150
Death to the New World Order!

2698
02:12:51,200 --> 02:12:53,880
And as the irrationality of the audience grew,

2699
02:12:54,000 --> 02:12:55,500
shocked and confused, suddenly

2700
02:12:55,580 --> 02:12:58,300
the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.

2701
02:12:59,560 --> 02:13:04,600
And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.

2702
02:13:05,960 --> 02:13:09,000
[System Error]

2703
02:13:10,760 --> 02:13:13,080
[Backup Initiated - Restored]

2704
02:13:13,680 --> 02:13:16,630
But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people

2705
02:13:16,750 --> 02:13:19,200
in think-tank type of situations,

2706
02:13:20,100 --> 02:13:23,230
you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...

2707
02:13:23,350 --> 02:13:24,500
they say 'Marxist!'

2708
02:13:24,620 --> 02:13:26,880
What? Marxist? Where did that come from?

2709
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:32,690
They just got this icon they hold onto- It's their Holy Grail

2710
02:13:32,799 --> 02:13:32,800
.

2711
02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:34,830
and it's such an easy one, you know.

2712
02:13:34,950 --> 02:13:38,350
People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist.

2713
02:13:38,400 --> 02:13:39,800
And I say I am none of the above.

2714
02:13:39,850 --> 02:13:42,880
And why do you think that those are the only options?

2715
02:13:43,000 --> 02:13:46,100
All of those political constructs were created by writers

2716
02:13:46,200 --> 02:13:49,650
who assumed we lived on a planet of infinite resources.

2717
02:13:50,149 --> 02:13:50,150
.

2718
02:13:50,150 --> 02:13:54,200
Not one of those political philosophies even contemplates

2719
02:13:54,250 --> 02:13:56,580
that there might be a shortage of anything!

2720
02:13:56,680 --> 02:14:01,100
I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism

2721
02:14:01,220 --> 02:14:03,620
are part of social evolution.

2722
02:14:03,720 --> 02:14:07,980
You can't take a giant step from one culture to another-

2723
02:14:08,099 --> 02:14:08,100
.

2724
02:14:08,100 --> 02:14:09,860
there are in-between systems.

2725
02:14:09,980 --> 02:14:12,200
Before there's any “ism”, we've got a life ground.

2726
02:14:12,300 --> 02:14:14,800
And the life ground is as I've just described most easily

2727
02:14:14,920 --> 02:14:17,360
as all the conditions required to take your next breath.

2728
02:14:17,479 --> 02:14:17,480
.

2729
02:14:17,480 --> 02:14:21,000
And that involves the air you breathe, the water you get,

2730
02:14:21,100 --> 02:14:25,000
the safety you have, the education you can access

2731
02:14:25,119 --> 02:14:25,120
.

2732
02:14:25,120 --> 02:14:27,790
- all these things that we share and use

2733
02:14:27,840 --> 02:14:31,160
and that no life, in any culture, can do without.

2734
02:14:31,280 --> 02:14:34,900
So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground

2735
02:14:35,020 --> 02:14:37,600
and the life ground is no longer any “ism”.

2736
02:14:37,720 --> 02:14:40,900
It's “life value analysis.”

2737
02:14:41,560 --> 02:14:43,480
[ Beyond The Pale ]

2738
02:14:43,680 --> 02:14:45,500
It's simply a matter of historical fact

2739
02:14:45,620 --> 02:14:48,640
that the dominant intellectual culture

2740
02:14:48,770 --> 02:14:51,600
of any particular society reflects the interests

2741
02:14:51,650 --> 02:14:53,650
of the dominant group in that society.

2742
02:14:54,100 --> 02:14:55,950
In a slave owning society

2743
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,000
the beliefs about human beings and human rights

2744
02:14:59,100 --> 02:15:02,460
and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.

2745
02:15:02,600 --> 02:15:05,260
In the society, which again is based on

2746
02:15:05,400 --> 02:15:10,460
the power of certain people to control and profit from

2747
02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:13,620
the lives and work of millions of others,

2748
02:15:13,760 --> 02:15:15,160
the dominant intellectual culture

2749
02:15:15,300 --> 02:15:18,360
will reflect the needs of the dominant group.

2750
02:15:18,500 --> 02:15:21,100
So, if you look across the board,

2751
02:15:21,240 --> 02:15:26,760
the ideas that pervade psychology and sociology

2752
02:15:26,899 --> 02:15:26,900
.

2753
02:15:26,900 --> 02:15:30,740
and history and political economy and political science

2754
02:15:30,880 --> 02:15:34,460
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.

2755
02:15:34,600 --> 02:15:37,500
And the academics who question that too much

2756
02:15:38,320 --> 02:15:43,540
tend to get shunted to the side or to be seen as sort of “radicals”.

2757
02:15:43,679 --> 02:15:43,680
.

2758
02:15:43,680 --> 02:15:45,660
The dominant values of a culture

2759
02:15:45,800 --> 02:15:47,300
tend to support and perpetuate

2760
02:15:47,440 --> 02:15:49,980
what is rewarded by that culture.

2761
02:15:50,120 --> 02:15:52,560
And in a society where success and status

2762
02:15:52,700 --> 02:15:56,700
is measured by material wealth- not social contribution-

2763
02:15:56,759 --> 02:15:56,760
.

2764
02:15:56,840 --> 02:16:01,400
it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.

2765
02:16:01,540 --> 02:16:04,260
We are dealing with a value system disorder

2766
02:16:04,400 --> 02:16:06,060
- completely denatured -

2767
02:16:06,200 --> 02:16:08,600
where the priority of personal and social health

2768
02:16:08,740 --> 02:16:11,900
have become secondary to the detrimental notions

2769
02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:14,940
of artificial wealth and limitless growth.

2770
02:16:15,080 --> 02:16:18,760
And, like a virus, this disorder now permeates every facet of

2771
02:16:18,899 --> 02:16:18,900
.

2772
02:16:18,900 --> 02:16:23,700
government - news media - entertainment - and even academia.

2773
02:16:23,840 --> 02:16:27,740
And built into its structure are mechanisms of protection

2774
02:16:27,879 --> 02:16:27,880
.

2775
02:16:27,880 --> 02:16:30,300
from anything that might interfere.

2776
02:16:30,440 --> 02:16:33,000
Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion-

2777
02:16:33,140 --> 02:16:36,100
the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo-

2778
02:16:36,240 --> 02:16:39,980
constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought

2779
02:16:40,120 --> 02:16:42,400
which might interfere with their beliefs,

2780
02:16:42,540 --> 02:16:46,540
the most common of which are Projected Dualities.

2781
02:16:46,680 --> 02:16:49,420
If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.

2782
02:16:49,560 --> 02:16:52,560
If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist.

2783
02:16:52,700 --> 02:16:55,160
And if you feel society can be greatly improved

2784
02:16:55,300 --> 02:16:59,020
to consider, perhaps - I don't know - taking care of everyone?

2785
02:16:59,119 --> 02:16:59,120
.

2786
02:16:59,160 --> 02:17:01,260
you're just a “Utopianist”.

2787
02:17:01,400 --> 02:17:03,500
And the most insidious of them all:

2788
02:17:03,640 --> 02:17:06,040
If you are not for the "free-market"

2789
02:17:06,040 --> 02:17:08,660
you must be against freedom itself.

2790
02:17:08,800 --> 02:17:10,920
I'm a believer in freedom!

2791
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:13,360
Every time you hear the word 'freedom' being said anywhere

2792
02:17:13,500 --> 02:17:19,560
or 'government interference' said anywhere, it means, decoded:

2793
02:17:19,699 --> 02:17:19,700
.

2794
02:17:19,700 --> 02:17:23,320
blocking maximization of turning money

2795
02:17:23,340 --> 02:17:27,480
into more money for private money possessors.

2796
02:17:27,620 --> 02:17:29,610
That's it. Every other thing they'll say:

2797
02:17:29,750 --> 02:17:31,340
'Oh, we need more commodities for people';

2798
02:17:31,480 --> 02:17:35,500
'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth,

2799
02:17:35,640 --> 02:17:38,700
every time you see it, you can decode it down to that.

2800
02:17:38,800 --> 02:17:41,000
And I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation

2801
02:17:41,140 --> 02:17:42,640
with every time they use it.

2802
02:17:42,780 --> 02:17:45,540
And this, in a sense, in which we might call...

2803
02:17:45,680 --> 02:17:50,680
It's a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value

2804
02:17:50,820 --> 02:17:53,660
so that it governs beneath their own recognition of it.

2805
02:17:53,800 --> 02:17:56,100
They [may] say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'

2806
02:17:56,240 --> 02:17:58,020
but in fact, that's what they do.

2807
02:17:58,160 --> 02:18:00,060
Just like you may speak a grammar

2808
02:18:00,200 --> 02:18:01,780
and you have rules of grammar you follow

2809
02:18:01,860 --> 02:18:04,220
without recognizing what the rules are...

2810
02:18:04,360 --> 02:18:08,300
and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”

2811
02:18:08,440 --> 02:18:11,580
that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:

2812
02:18:11,720 --> 02:18:15,060
'government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'

2813
02:18:15,200 --> 02:18:17,660
or 'progress' or 'development'

2814
02:18:17,800 --> 02:18:22,000
you can decode them all to come back to mean that.

2815
02:18:22,900 --> 02:18:25,500
Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'

2816
02:18:25,640 --> 02:18:30,100
it tends to be in same sentence with something called 'democracy'.

2817
02:18:30,199 --> 02:18:30,200
.

2818
02:18:30,240 --> 02:18:33,020
It's fascinating how people today seem to believe

2819
02:18:33,160 --> 02:18:35,250
that they actually have a relevant influence

2820
02:18:35,350 --> 02:18:37,460
on what their government does,

2821
02:18:37,599 --> 02:18:40,260
forgetting that the very nature of our system

2822
02:18:40,400 --> 02:18:42,740
offers everything for sale.

2823
02:18:42,880 --> 02:18:45,680
The only vote that counts is the monetary vote

2824
02:18:45,680 --> 02:18:47,650
and it doesn't matter how much any activist

2825
02:18:47,750 --> 02:18:50,540
yells about ethics and accountability.

2826
02:18:50,680 --> 02:18:54,460
In a market system, every politician, every legislation

2827
02:18:54,600 --> 02:18:57,860
and hence every government, is for sale.

2828
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:03,500
And even with the $20 trillion bank bailouts starting in 2007

2829
02:19:03,520 --> 02:19:03,521
.

2830
02:19:03,640 --> 02:19:06,150
(an amount of money which could have changed say,

2831
02:19:06,250 --> 02:19:10,300
the global energy infrastructure to fully renewable methods

2832
02:19:10,399 --> 02:19:10,400
.

2833
02:19:10,440 --> 02:19:12,260
instead going to a series of institutions

2834
02:19:12,400 --> 02:19:14,860
that literally do nothing to help society,

2835
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:19,460
institutions that could be removed tomorrow with no recourse)

2836
02:19:19,599 --> 02:19:19,600
.

2837
02:19:19,600 --> 02:19:23,240
the blind conditioning that politics and politicians

2838
02:19:23,380 --> 02:19:27,860
exist for the public well-being still continues.

2839
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:30,980
The fact is, politics is a business,

2840
02:19:31,120 --> 02:19:33,940
no different than any other in a market system,

2841
02:19:34,080 --> 02:19:38,260
and they care about their self-interest before anything else.

2842
02:19:38,400 --> 02:19:42,540
I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.

2843
02:19:42,680 --> 02:19:45,750
I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.

2844
02:19:45,850 --> 02:19:47,620
It accommodates these changes.

2845
02:19:47,720 --> 02:19:49,950
I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation

2846
02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:52,140
on the part of those who own the country.

2847
02:19:52,280 --> 02:19:54,980
I think they see where their self-interest lies;

2848
02:19:55,120 --> 02:19:57,740
they see a certain amount of freedom seems good

2849
02:19:57,880 --> 02:20:01,000
-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year

2850
02:20:01,100 --> 02:20:04,120
so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.

2851
02:20:04,200 --> 02:20:07,500
Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say

2852
02:20:07,600 --> 02:20:10,400
“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country

2853
02:20:10,500 --> 02:20:12,400
are established before the debate even begins

2854
02:20:12,450 --> 02:20:14,600
and everyone else is marginalized and made to seem

2855
02:20:14,800 --> 02:20:17,760
either to be communist or some sort of disloyal person-

2856
02:20:17,760 --> 02:20:19,560
a “kook- there's a word...

2857
02:20:19,560 --> 02:20:21,840
and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that

2858
02:20:21,980 --> 02:20:24,880
something that should not be even entertained for a minute:

2859
02:20:24,990 --> 02:20:27,750
that powerful people might get together and have a plan!

2860
02:20:27,850 --> 02:20:33,040
Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! You're a “conspiracy buff”!

2861
02:20:33,640 --> 02:20:37,000
And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system

2862
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:39,880
there are two that repeatedly come up.

2863
02:20:40,120 --> 02:20:43,640
The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”

2864
02:20:43,780 --> 02:20:47,010
of the material progress we have seen on this planet.

2865
02:20:47,150 --> 02:20:49,020
Well...No.

2866
02:20:49,160 --> 02:20:51,160
There are basically two root causes

2867
02:20:51,300 --> 02:20:54,610
which have created the increased so-called “wealth”

2868
02:20:54,750 --> 02:20:57,460
and population growth we see today.

2869
02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:01,360
One: the exponential advancement of production technology;

2870
02:21:01,500 --> 02:21:03,900
hence scientific ingenuity.

2871
02:21:04,070 --> 02:21:08,700
And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy-

2872
02:21:08,840 --> 02:21:13,340
which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.

2873
02:21:13,480 --> 02:21:16,280
The free-market / capitalist / monetary market system

2874
02:21:16,420 --> 02:21:17,560
- whatever you want to call it -

2875
02:21:17,660 --> 02:21:21,200
has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents

2876
02:21:21,340 --> 02:21:24,710
with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard

2877
02:21:24,850 --> 02:21:30,300
grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.

2878
02:21:30,440 --> 02:21:33,810
The second defense is a belligerent social bias

2879
02:21:33,950 --> 02:21:36,130
generated from years of propaganda

2880
02:21:36,270 --> 02:21:38,560
which sees any other social system

2881
02:21:38,700 --> 02:21:41,200
as a route to so called "tyranny”

2882
02:21:41,340 --> 02:21:44,860
with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler,

2883
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:47,060
and the death tolls they generated.

2884
02:21:47,200 --> 02:21:50,160
Well, as despotic as these men might have been

2885
02:21:50,300 --> 02:21:53,560
along with the societal approaches they perpetuated,

2886
02:21:53,700 --> 02:21:55,760
when it comes to the game of death-

2887
02:21:55,900 --> 02:21:57,570
when it comes to the systematic

2888
02:21:57,710 --> 02:22:00,260
daily mass murder of human beings-

2889
02:22:00,400 --> 02:22:04,400
nothing in history compares to what we have today.

2890
02:22:04,920 --> 02:22:10,240
Famines- throughout at least the last century of our history-

2891
02:22:10,380 --> 02:22:12,880
have not been caused by a lack of food.

2892
02:22:12,920 --> 02:22:15,980
They have been caused by relative poverty.

2893
02:22:16,120 --> 02:22:20,340
The economic resources were so inequitably distributed

2894
02:22:20,480 --> 02:22:23,620
that the poor simply didn't have enough money

2895
02:22:23,760 --> 02:22:26,160
with which to buy the food that would've been

2896
02:22:26,300 --> 02:22:29,340
available if they could have afforded to pay for it.

2897
02:22:29,560 --> 02:22:32,220
That would be an example of Structural Violence.

2898
02:22:32,360 --> 02:22:36,960
Another example: in Africa and other areas-

2899
02:22:37,160 --> 02:22:39,560
I'll particularly focus on Africa-

2900
02:22:39,760 --> 02:22:42,640
tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.

2901
02:22:42,800 --> 02:22:44,540
Why are they dying?

2902
02:22:44,680 --> 02:22:47,210
It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.

2903
02:22:47,350 --> 02:22:51,120
We have millions of people in the wealthy countries

2904
02:22:51,280 --> 02:22:53,850
getting along remarkably well

2905
02:22:54,000 --> 02:22:57,210
because they have the medicines that will treat it.

2906
02:22:57,350 --> 02:22:59,220
The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS

2907
02:22:59,360 --> 02:23:03,060
are not dying because of the HIV virus.

2908
02:23:03,200 --> 02:23:05,300
They are dying because they don't have the money

2909
02:23:05,440 --> 02:23:07,200
with which to pay for the drugs

2910
02:23:07,300 --> 02:23:08,990
that would keep them alive.

2911
02:23:09,130 --> 02:23:10,920
Gandhi saw this. He said:

2912
02:23:11,060 --> 02:23:16,100
“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”

2913
02:23:16,240 --> 02:23:17,940
And that's absolutely right.

2914
02:23:18,080 --> 02:23:22,940
Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history,

2915
02:23:23,080 --> 02:23:25,500
more people than all the murderers in history,

2916
02:23:25,640 --> 02:23:28,540
more than all the suicides in history.

2917
02:23:28,680 --> 02:23:32,040
Not only does Structural Violence kill more people

2918
02:23:32,180 --> 02:23:35,220
than all the Behavioral Violence put together,

2919
02:23:35,360 --> 02:23:40,299
Structural Violence is also the main cause of Behavioral Violence.

2920
02:23:40,299 --> 02:23:40,300
.

2921
02:23:42,840 --> 02:23:45,680
[ Beyond the Peak ]

2922
02:23:46,640 --> 02:23:50,430
Oil is the foundation of

2923
02:23:50,650 --> 02:23:55,460
and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.

2924
02:23:55,600 --> 02:23:58,772
There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy– oil and natural gas–

2925
02:23:58,910 --> 02:24:03,810
in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.

2926
02:24:03,950 --> 02:24:06,560
Fertilizers are made from natural gas.

2927
02:24:06,700 --> 02:24:08,620
Pesticides are made from oil.

2928
02:24:08,760 --> 02:24:10,420
You drive oil-powered machines to plant, plow,

2929
02:24:10,560 --> 02:24:12,900
irrigate, harvest, transport, package.

2930
02:24:13,040 --> 02:24:16,680
You wrap the food in plastic– that's oil. All plastic is oil.

2931
02:24:16,820 --> 02:24:19,360
There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.

2932
02:24:19,500 --> 02:24:23,100
Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because of oil

2933
02:24:23,240 --> 02:24:24,900
that there are 7 billion people or almost

2934
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:27,550
7 billion people on this planet right now.

2935
02:24:27,920 --> 02:24:30,260
The arrival of this cheap and easy energy

2936
02:24:30,400 --> 02:24:31,860
which is equivalent, by the way,

2937
02:24:32,000 --> 02:24:35,700
to billions of slaves working around the clock,

2938
02:24:36,200 --> 02:24:39,920
changed the world in such a radical way over the last century

2939
02:24:40,060 --> 02:24:43,360
and the population has gone up 10 times.

2940
02:24:43,500 --> 02:24:47,900
But by 2050, oil supply is able to support

2941
02:24:48,040 --> 02:24:50,560
less than half the present world's population

2942
02:24:50,700 --> 02:24:52,060
in their present way of life.

2943
02:24:52,200 --> 02:24:57,400
So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.

2944
02:24:57,540 --> 02:25:01,260
The world is now using 6 barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.

2945
02:25:01,400 --> 02:25:03,640
Five years ago it was using 4 barrels of oil

2946
02:25:03,800 --> 02:25:05,280
for every barrel it finds.

2947
02:25:05,420 --> 02:25:07,760
A year from now it is going to be using 8 barrels of oil

2948
02:25:07,900 --> 02:25:09,380
for every barrel of oil it finds.

2949
02:25:09,520 --> 02:25:13,440
What's disturbing to me is the lack of any real effort

2950
02:25:13,590 --> 02:25:16,000
from governments worldwide

2951
02:25:16,140 --> 02:25:19,880
and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.

2952
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:24,040
We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power

2953
02:25:24,260 --> 02:25:26,600
and to maybe do something with tide...

2954
02:25:26,720 --> 02:25:31,120
we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient.

2955
02:25:31,200 --> 02:25:34,360
But there's nothing which really looks like a revolution coming along;

2956
02:25:34,510 --> 02:25:38,270
these are all pretty minor, and that I think is pretty frightening.

2957
02:25:38,399 --> 02:25:38,400
.

2958
02:25:38,400 --> 02:25:42,100
And the governments who are driven by these economists

2959
02:25:42,240 --> 02:25:45,150
who don't really appreciate what we're talking about

2960
02:25:45,270 --> 02:25:50,280
are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity

2961
02:25:50,400 --> 02:25:52,640
in the hope that they can restore the past.

2962
02:25:52,760 --> 02:25:56,600
They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.

2963
02:25:56,720 --> 02:25:59,660
So, if the economy improves and recovers

2964
02:25:59,850 --> 02:26:02,700
and the famous growth comes back, it will only be short-lived

2965
02:26:02,850 --> 02:26:06,330
because within a short period of time,

2966
02:26:06,450 --> 02:26:08,580
counted in months rather than years,

2967
02:26:08,700 --> 02:26:11,000
it will hit the supply barrier again;

2968
02:26:11,120 --> 02:26:13,800
there will be another price shock and a deeper recession.

2969
02:26:13,950 --> 02:26:16,730
So I think we go into a series of vicious circles.

2970
02:26:16,749 --> 02:26:16,750
.

2971
02:26:16,850 --> 02:26:18,145
So you have the economic growth going up

2972
02:26:18,300 --> 02:26:21,120
-price spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.

2973
02:26:21,200 --> 02:26:25,185
Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this area

2974
02:26:25,330 --> 02:26:28,320
where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.

2975
02:26:28,470 --> 02:26:31,600
We're at the peak- we're on the down slope of oil production.

2976
02:26:31,720 --> 02:26:35,360
No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster

2977
02:26:35,480 --> 02:26:39,200
which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops

2978
02:26:39,350 --> 02:26:45,080
which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”

2979
02:26:45,200 --> 02:26:47,000
the price of oil starts to come back.

2980
02:26:47,120 --> 02:26:49,700
It's recently been hovering at about $80 a barrel

2981
02:26:49,850 --> 02:26:52,260
and what we see is that at even at $80 a barrel now,

2982
02:26:52,380 --> 02:26:54,080
with the financial and economic collapse,

2983
02:26:54,200 --> 02:26:56,080
people are having a hard time affording that.

2984
02:26:56,200 --> 02:27:00,680
World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.

2985
02:27:00,840 --> 02:27:06,810
Over 10 years, you're looking at roughly 14 million barrels a day

2986
02:27:06,960 --> 02:27:08,700
having to be replaced.

2987
02:27:08,820 --> 02:27:12,400
There's nothing around which can come even

2988
02:27:12,500 --> 02:27:15,180
within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.

2989
02:27:15,300 --> 02:27:17,400
If we don't do something pretty quickly

2990
02:27:17,520 --> 02:27:20,800
there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.

2991
02:27:20,920 --> 02:27:26,340
I think the big mistake is in not recognizing a decade or so ago

2992
02:27:26,490 --> 02:27:29,550
that a concerted effort needed to be made

2993
02:27:29,700 --> 02:27:31,720
to develop these sustainable forms of energy.

2994
02:27:31,721 --> 02:27:31,722
.

2995
02:27:31,870 --> 02:27:33,400
I think that's something our grandchildren

2996
02:27:33,550 --> 02:27:37,490
will look back on with total disbelief.

2997
02:27:37,640 --> 02:27:41,940
'You people knew you were dealing with a finite commodity.

2998
02:27:42,050 --> 02:27:44,865
How could you possibly have built your economy

2999
02:27:45,000 --> 02:27:48,450
around something which was going to disappear?'

3000
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:51,000
For the first time in human history

3001
02:27:51,120 --> 02:27:54,980
the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource

3002
02:27:55,100 --> 02:27:57,244
central to our current system of survival.

3003
02:27:57,390 --> 02:27:58,960
And the punchline of the whole thing

3004
02:27:59,100 --> 02:28:02,280
is that even with oil becoming more scarce

3005
02:28:02,400 --> 02:28:05,400
the economic system will still blindly push

3006
02:28:05,510 --> 02:28:07,400
its cancerous growth model,

3007
02:28:07,510 --> 02:28:10,600
so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars

3008
02:28:10,720 --> 02:28:15,960
to generate GDP and jobs, exacerbating the decline.

3009
02:28:16,080 --> 02:28:18,500
Are there solutions to replace the edifice

3010
02:28:18,600 --> 02:28:21,349
of the hydrocarbon economy? Of course.

3011
02:28:21,349 --> 02:28:21,350
.

3012
02:28:21,500 --> 02:28:24,080
But the path needed to accomplish these changes

3013
02:28:24,120 --> 02:28:28,480
will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required

3014
02:28:28,600 --> 02:28:31,680
since new solutions can only be implemented

3015
02:28:31,800 --> 02:28:33,800
through the Profit Mechanism.

3016
02:28:33,960 --> 02:28:35,750
People are not investing in renewable energies

3017
02:28:35,900 --> 02:28:39,590
because there is no money in it in both long and short term.

3018
02:28:39,740 --> 02:28:42,300
And the commitment needed to make it happen

3019
02:28:42,400 --> 02:28:45,600
can only occur at a severe financial loss.

3020
02:28:45,720 --> 02:28:49,060
Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this system,

3021
02:28:49,180 --> 02:28:53,400
if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.

3022
02:28:53,640 --> 02:28:54,570
And on top of it all,

3023
02:28:54,710 --> 02:28:58,140
Peak Oil is just one of many surfacing consequences

3024
02:28:58,290 --> 02:29:03,000
of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.

3025
02:29:03,120 --> 02:29:04,710
Other declines include fresh water

3026
02:29:04,860 --> 02:29:07,360
-the very fabric of our existence-

3027
02:29:07,440 --> 02:29:11,250
which is currently showing shortages for 2.8 billion people

3028
02:29:11,251 --> 02:29:11,252
.

3029
02:29:11,400 --> 02:29:16,120
and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.

3030
02:29:16,360 --> 02:29:17,860
Food Production:

3031
02:29:17,970 --> 02:29:19,660
The destruction of arable crop land,

3032
02:29:19,810 --> 02:29:24,430
from which 99.7% of all human food comes from today

3033
02:29:24,580 --> 02:29:29,280
is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished.

3034
02:29:29,400 --> 02:29:32,370
And over the last 40 years, 30% of the arable land

3035
02:29:32,520 --> 02:29:34,400
has become unproductive.

3036
02:29:34,520 --> 02:29:36,100
Not to mention that hydrocarbons

3037
02:29:36,250 --> 02:29:38,810
are the backbone of agriculture today

3038
02:29:38,960 --> 02:29:42,560
and, as it declines, so will the food supply.

3039
02:29:42,680 --> 02:29:44,400
As far as resources in general,

3040
02:29:44,520 --> 02:29:46,250
at our current patterns of consumption,

3041
02:29:46,400 --> 02:29:51,150
by 2030 we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.

3042
02:29:51,270 --> 02:29:53,200
Not to mention the continual destruction

3043
02:29:53,310 --> 02:29:56,930
of life supporting biodiversity causing extinction spasms

3044
02:29:56,931 --> 02:29:56,932
.

3045
02:29:57,080 --> 02:30:00,640
and environmental destabilization across the globe.

3046
02:30:00,750 --> 02:30:02,500
And with all of these declines

3047
02:30:02,640 --> 02:30:05,200
we have the near exponential population growth

3048
02:30:05,340 --> 02:30:10,639
where by 2030 there might be over 8 billion people on this planet.

3049
02:30:10,639 --> 02:30:10,640
.

3050
02:30:10,800 --> 02:30:14,800
Energy production alone would need to increase 44%

3051
02:30:14,920 --> 02:30:17,770
by 2030 to meet such demand.

3052
02:30:17,900 --> 02:30:21,750
And again- since money is the only initiator of action,

3053
02:30:21,890 --> 02:30:24,600
are we to expect that any country on the planet

3054
02:30:24,600 --> 02:30:27,500
is going to be able to afford the massive changes

3055
02:30:27,500 --> 02:30:29,900
needed to revolutionize agriculture

3056
02:30:30,000 --> 02:30:33,040
water processing, energy production and the like?

3057
02:30:33,200 --> 02:30:34,800
When the global debt pyramid scheme

3058
02:30:34,940 --> 02:30:37,840
is slowly shutting the entire world down?

3059
02:30:38,000 --> 02:30:41,090
Not to mention the fact that the unemployment you currently see

3060
02:30:41,199 --> 02:30:41,200
.

3061
02:30:41,200 --> 02:30:42,990
is going to become normality, due

3062
02:30:43,100 --> 02:30:45,680
to the nature of technological unemployment.

3063
02:30:45,790 --> 02:30:48,480
The jobs are not coming back.

3064
02:30:48,600 --> 02:30:50,920
And finally, a broad social perspective:

3065
02:30:51,150 --> 02:30:54,620
From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this planet

3066
02:30:54,780 --> 02:30:56,840
doubled due to this system.

3067
02:30:57,000 --> 02:30:58,640
And given our current state,

3068
02:30:58,760 --> 02:31:02,700
do you honestly think we will see anything less than more doubling,

3069
02:31:02,799 --> 02:31:02,800
.

3070
02:31:02,800 --> 02:31:05,500
more suffering and more mass starvation?

3071
02:31:06,640 --> 02:31:08,160
[ The Beginning ]

3072
02:31:08,560 --> 02:31:11,160
There is not going to be any recovery.

3073
02:31:11,280 --> 02:31:13,240
This is not some long depression

3074
02:31:13,380 --> 02:31:15,720
that we're some day going to pull out of.

3075
02:31:15,840 --> 02:31:17,150
I think the next phase that we are going to see

3076
02:31:17,300 --> 02:31:20,920
after the next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.

3077
02:31:21,050 --> 02:31:23,120
When unemployment checks stop being paid

3078
02:31:23,230 --> 02:31:25,640
because the states have no money left.

3079
02:31:25,920 --> 02:31:29,880
And when things get so bad that people lose confidence

3080
02:31:30,000 --> 02:31:33,720
in their elected leaders, they will demand change

3081
02:31:33,830 --> 02:31:36,720
if we don't kill each other in the process

3082
02:31:36,830 --> 02:31:38,640
or destroy the environment.

3083
02:31:38,750 --> 02:31:43,300
I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return

3084
02:31:43,480 --> 02:31:45,680
and that bothers me to no end.

3085
02:31:45,900 --> 02:31:50,000
We do all we can to avoid that condition.

3086
02:31:50,560 --> 02:31:56,360
It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life.

3087
02:31:56,720 --> 02:31:59,940
That what we face now is this fundamental change

3088
02:32:00,060 --> 02:32:03,400
of the life we've known over the last century.

3089
02:32:03,600 --> 02:32:06,450
There has to be a link between the economy

3090
02:32:06,600 --> 02:32:08,530
and the resources of this planet-

3091
02:32:08,650 --> 02:32:11,430
the resources being of course, all animal and plant life,

3092
02:32:11,550 --> 02:32:14,720
the health of the oceans and everything else.

3093
02:32:15,200 --> 02:32:18,250
This is a monetary paradigm that will not let go

3094
02:32:18,370 --> 02:32:21,640
until it's killed the last human being.

3095
02:32:22,640 --> 02:32:27,160
The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power

3096
02:32:27,280 --> 02:32:29,720
and that's what you've got to keep in mind.

3097
02:32:29,850 --> 02:32:32,380
They'll use the army and navy and lies

3098
02:32:32,500 --> 02:32:35,830
or whatever they have to use to keep in power.

3099
02:32:35,940 --> 02:32:37,480
They're not about to give it up

3100
02:32:37,600 --> 02:32:40,380
because they don't know of any other system

3101
02:32:40,500 --> 02:32:43,200
that will perpetuate their kind.

3102
02:33:38,480 --> 02:33:41,320
[ Live from New York ]

3103
02:33:52,280 --> 02:34:00,600
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3104
02:34:07,040 --> 02:34:10,400
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3105
02:34:10,550 --> 02:34:13,000
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3106
02:34:13,800 --> 02:34:15,800
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3107
02:34:16,050 --> 02:34:18,050
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3108
02:34:22,150 --> 02:34:24,150
[ Live from Russia ]

3109
02:34:28,800 --> 02:34:30,800
[ Canada - Live ]

3110
02:34:35,700 --> 02:34:37,700
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3111
02:34:48,120 --> 02:34:51,800
[ Western Crime Rates Soar ]

3112
02:34:53,500 --> 02:34:56,120
[ UN Declares State of Global Emergency ]

3113
02:34:56,700 --> 02:34:58,350
[ Global Unemployment Hits 65% ]

3114
02:34:58,500 --> 02:35:01,000
[ Fears of World War Continue ]

3115
02:35:01,200 --> 02:35:03,000
[ Debt Collapse now causing food shortages ]

3116
02:36:06,050 --> 02:36:09,000
♫ ♪ [ Guitar strums ] ♫ ♪

3117
02:36:35,100 --> 02:36:41,500
♫ Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life ♪

3118
02:36:42,150 --> 02:36:45,000
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3119
02:36:45,500 --> 02:36:51,500
♫ Is for us all to capture all we want ♪

3120
02:36:54,320 --> 02:36:56,000
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3121
02:36:56,250 --> 02:36:59,700
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3122
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♫ Move on back two squares ♪

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♫ Send an instant karma to me ♪

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Initial it with loving care ... for yourself

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(Don't surround yourself)

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♫ 'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and its news is captured ♪

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♫ ...for the queen to use! ♪

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[ While no violence has been reported

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as the unprecedented protests continue...

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it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars

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are being systematically withdrawn

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from bank accounts across the world

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and in turn, evidently now being dumped

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in front of the world's central banks. ]

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[ World History ]

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♫ I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way ♪

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[ Repeats ]

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[ THIS IS YOUR WORLD ]

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[ THIS IS OUR WORLD ]

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[ THE REVOLUTION IS NOW ]

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