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Jacque Fresco - Oct 10, 2010

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It's very hard for a traditional person

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to step out of their tradition

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and investigate with the means
that they never had.

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Influence of Background

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If you don't have the background to investigate

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you don't know what to check with;
you check with another metaphysician

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and he's bound to sing your song.

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So you say "I agree completely with you."

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You don't say

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"Do you have evidence
to support that point of view?"

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Free Will

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The free will assumption,
that there's nothing that causes it,

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it's just a terrible assumption -
that there's nothing responsible for it,

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it's self determined.

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"Self" meaning without cause.

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Free will means "without cause."

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Try thinking of something without an influence.

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Blame

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It makes it easier, much easier,

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for society to flourish by blaming people

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rather than taking into account

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the physical factors
responsible for the behavior.

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Cause

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And if you don't know what the cause is,

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the greatest thing you can do is say

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"I don't know. I'm gonna try to look into it."

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But, how do you look into it?

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There are laws that govern
how you look into it.

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Are you going to study those laws?

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or are you going to look into it
with the old value system?

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The old value system will reveal nothing.

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What you want

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People are not that precise in their language.

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Say "What do you want?"
"I want access to the necessities of life."

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They can't say that.

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They've never been taught that.

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They've been taught a roundabout way

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of talking about things.

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Values & Habits of Thought

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So The Venus Project does not concern itself

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with habits of thought
or "success" as used today.

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It concerns itself with the physical factors

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that are responsible for our values.

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If you want a better world
you have to make it better.

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You have to be...

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this is what you must use:
"ruthlessly honest."

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Otherwise you can't make it.

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