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Jacque Fresco Talks about Jealousy and Love - Copenhagen, Denmark 27/09/09

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The most difficult thing to understand is jealousy.

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In the future (I'll use an example of Roxanne)

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if Roxanne fell in love with a younger guy than me

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or an older guy than me (there's nobody older than me)

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[audience laughter] but a younger/older guy

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if that's what she wants, it means that I'm not meeting her needs.

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If I love her, really love her

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I will help her pack, because that's what she wants.

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But in this country: "If you walk, damn it, you're breaking up the home!

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You're my wife, you're not going to leave me!

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I'll break your back if you leave this home!"

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That isn't love. What happens to love during divorce?

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The wife says "I want the kids and the house!"

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Where's all the love? Where's it gone? Is there really such a thing?

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No, there's not. Like I said, love fluctuates.

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People don't even know how to love.

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In the future the word love will be thrown out

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and replaced by another word called 'extensionality.'

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That means, if you're a pilot, and your right wing catches fire

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if you side-slip, you can burn the fire off the wing.

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A guy you meet will say

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"In case your building catches fire, wet a blanket

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and lower yourself, because smoke rises."

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That's extensional to you, REALLY extensional, not patriotism.

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"I swear to uphold the Constitution..."

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That is not any measure of patriotism.

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Patriotism and love is what you do

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to extend another person's mind or life.

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A girl is flattered today by you giving her jewelry.

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She says "Oh, how wonderful! You shouldn't have done that."

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Then take it back and see what happens. [laughter]

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It's all a 'bullshit' world

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so I'm saying "You know what extensionality means?"

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A person that can extend your ability to understand the world

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you live in. That's real love.

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So I say, I don't say, I think, I try to give everybody

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the best information I have unless it's commercial.

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A guy says "Your helicopter:

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I noticed you don't have an anti-torque-propeller."

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Do you know what that means? When a helicopter blade goes around the body

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it tends to turn the other way, so they have a propeller on the back

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that keeps it straight.

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If they say to me "Your helicopters don't have that; how come?"

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I don't tell them because that could be a commercial product.

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I don't want them to come to my meetings

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just to take all the wonderful ideas

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and patent them. That's what they did to me in the past.

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They used to come up to my table at the aircraft factory

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watch what I was working on, and take out patents on it.

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Do you understand? They had no conscience. - That's competition.

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- Well, it's crude I thought, and cruel

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and the aircraft company owns

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everything you think of, did you know that?

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When I go to work for Douglas and invent new things

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they own everything I think of.

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If some guy makes a new carburetor in his garage

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and sells it to General Motors

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they say "And now, General Motors brings you..."

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like General Motors did it.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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Inventors in the future will be taken care of like everybody else.

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They'll live well, drive the best cars

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the country knows how to turn out.

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There will be no junk equipment that breaks down

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because if it breaks down it's a burden on society.

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It's a burden on resources. Do you understand that?

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So by making-...  If you drive a Mercedes

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or some expensive car, and he drives a beat-up old Volkswagen

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if his brakes fail, you die.

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We don't want any old cars on the road.

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An old car weighs as much as a new car

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so we re-process it. Do you understand that?

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A guys says "Oh you guys are very nice!" No, not 'we're nice'.

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We don't want anything detrimental out there.

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We turn out the best equipment and make it available for everybody

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not because we're 'good Joe's.'

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If you work with less than the best you hurt people and yourself.

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Do you understand that?

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Kids will have any kind of books free of charge made available

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because the smarter the kids are...If they read 'Jack and the Beanstalk'

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it's not extension. If they read 'Cinderella'

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where she touches a white mouse with a wand

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and makes it into a horse... you know.

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If you bring up kids with that kind of shit

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they can't be extensional.

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If someone asks "Do you run faster than Billy?" and you nod 'yes'

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then Billy could resent it [laughter] do you understand?

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So what, if you run faster than Billy?

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When I was a kid in school, kids used to walk up to me and say

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"I can run faster than you."

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I'd say "You can probably run twice as fast as me!"

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[laughter]

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So what? That's competition. It doesn't do any good.

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Then there's a guy with a football that runs through the field.

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Everybody likes sports.

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It's the same fucking story over and over again, nothing new.

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You're running with a football and then you tackle him.

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As long as they keep you occupied with bullshit like that

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you don't move forward.

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In the future there's no game that's constant. It's always growing.

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When you play tennis against yourself, you get better

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but you don't try to get better to beat the other guy.

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You try to improve your judgment. Do you understand that?

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If a person is exceptionally creative, very inventive

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we put them out in schools to teach other kids how to invent

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because he has a method.

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I can teach anyone anything

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unless their hands are broken or their brain is damaged.

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I used to work with 50 kids. They'd all get 100.

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There were no variations in grade

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because I work differently.

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If you're trying to teach kids how to draw

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and they look at another kid's drawing, if it's much better than theirs

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they don't want to play that game. So I have a [separating] partition

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and I tell each kid he's doing well "You're doing very well"

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and they all move up slowly. Then in about 3 weeks they're all good

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then I take away the partition.

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See, you have to know that if I say to you

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"Why can't you be like your brother?" if I'm your father

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"He cleans everything up and you leave everything around."

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When your brother falls down the stairs you've got a grin on your face

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because you've been mistreated.

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You never, when you raise children

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hold up one kid as your favorite.

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Then you make jealousy and envy.

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When you give kids grades in school...I give you an F for failure

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he gets an A, he says "I got an A!"

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and everybody in school goes "What grade did you get?"

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You get bad feelings. It's all wrong.

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You never grade people. You upgrade those that are behind.

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You use the kids that know how to do things faster.

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If you ask people "How do you become creative?"

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they don't know. We know, so we make everybody creative.

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Jacque Fresco Talks Continues - Copenhagen, Denmark 27/09/09

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