1 00:00:02,330 --> 00:00:06,560 The killing of Osama Bin Laden is a failure to me 2 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:10,700 because the negative retroactions of that will be enormous! 3 00:00:11,090 --> 00:00:13,120 It's the amount of hatred and people 4 00:00:13,220 --> 00:00:16,000 that will die as a result of that. 5 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:20,440 So the killing of one man never destroys a value system. 6 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:24,710 It destroys that person, but the value system goes on. 7 00:00:24,850 --> 00:00:27,980 Racism, bigotry, stupidity 8 00:00:28,130 --> 00:00:31,530 are part of the problem. Stupidity means 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,250 lack of information regarding certain types of problems. 10 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:38,590 When you read in a book that revenge is sweet, 11 00:00:38,730 --> 00:00:43,140 and if that takes as a system, it hurts people. 12 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,210 Therefore, all that type of literature has to go. 13 00:00:47,350 --> 00:00:50,280 To the extent that we raise our children 14 00:00:50,430 --> 00:00:54,950 with artificial values, that will produce harm in the future. 15 00:00:55,090 --> 00:00:57,420 You think "Well they're only children. 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,910 I don't think it's that necessary." 17 00:01:00,210 --> 00:01:05,230 Well, war, guns, possession of guns 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,270 are partly nurtured by our culture. 19 00:01:08,830 --> 00:01:12,450 And guns give people a sense of power, 20 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,990 a false sense of power. Real sense of power 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,990 is delivery of information that's relevant to people. 22 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:23,630 Of course you don't sense it right away. 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,980 You don't feel a glorious feeling doing that. 24 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,700 But really, it's a long term investment. 25 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:35,450 And all short term investments may appear to solve problems, 26 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,100 but they only perpetuate problems into the future. 27 00:01:40,290 --> 00:01:43,800 A major problem with the world's people today, 28 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:47,980 is they believe that human values and behavior 29 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,620 and decisions are made within a human being. 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,420 Actually this is not the case. 31 00:01:55,570 --> 00:01:59,850 That's a major cause of most the world's problems. 32 00:02:00,140 --> 00:02:02,540 It is the environment they are reared in. 33 00:02:02,930 --> 00:02:07,580 If you cannot understand that, think of the language you use 34 00:02:07,770 --> 00:02:12,880 and the values you have and the attitudes about a 'good old USA'. 35 00:02:13,030 --> 00:02:15,530 If you were brought up in Iran, your value system 36 00:02:15,670 --> 00:02:18,810 would be different. Your language would be different. 37 00:02:19,070 --> 00:02:23,870 Therefore, it is not within the human being to know the difference 38 00:02:24,020 --> 00:02:27,430 between what you would call operant behavior 39 00:02:27,570 --> 00:02:30,650 or useful behavior or useful values. 40 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:36,010 All your values are inculcated by environment: the books you read, 41 00:02:36,260 --> 00:02:39,730 the motion pictures you see, the role models you have. 42 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,860 Therefore, human beings are not, I repeat this, 43 00:02:44,090 --> 00:02:46,960 are not responsible for their values. 44 00:02:47,530 --> 00:02:49,350 They are learned. 45 00:02:49,530 --> 00:02:51,690 And if you don't understand that, 46 00:02:52,110 --> 00:02:54,830 you should become more familiar with the effects 47 00:02:54,970 --> 00:02:57,930 of environment on human behavior. 48 00:02:58,230 --> 00:03:02,770 The very fact that they used to burn witches in Salem, Massachusetts, 49 00:03:02,910 --> 00:03:05,850 might mean that within that area, 50 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:09,180 most people were brought up with such a value system. 51 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:14,270 The notions of heaven and hell come from books and other people. 52 00:03:14,410 --> 00:03:17,350 Your language comes from your environment. 53 00:03:17,540 --> 00:03:21,450 Possibly the difference between a Roman and a Greek 54 00:03:21,650 --> 00:03:24,010 would be the environment they are reared in. 55 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,340 If you don't understand that, 56 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:29,490 you need a lot of education, a lot of information, 57 00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:32,000 and you'll have to seek it. 58 00:03:32,190 --> 00:03:36,690 We have to seek information that's relevant to people, 59 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,440 not information based upon opinions, folkways, 60 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:45,100 hand-down values or feelings of 'good' and 'bad'. 61 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:50,130 All those feelings of good, bad, right and wrong are all learned. 62 00:03:50,290 --> 00:03:52,070 Everything is learned. 63 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:54,700 If you still don't understand that 64 00:03:54,930 --> 00:03:59,160 look back at the words you use, and you'll find 65 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:02,230 that they're words that you've picked up from your environment. 66 00:04:02,380 --> 00:04:05,120 An Englishman speaks with an English accent, 67 00:04:05,270 --> 00:04:08,550 not because he's English, but because he's been exposed 68 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:12,190 to that environment and those sounds of words. 69 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:15,060 An Australian speaks like an Australian 70 00:04:15,210 --> 00:04:20,150 because he's brought up in an environment that utilizes that dialog. 71 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:24,540 A southerner speaks different than a northerner. 72 00:04:24,990 --> 00:04:29,240 And if you still don't understand that, that's the best I can do. 73 00:04:29,630 --> 00:04:31,950 We reflect our culture. 74 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,190 Osama Bin Laden is dead. 75 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:39,370 But the value system that produced him is not. 76 00:04:39,670 --> 00:04:42,140 It is quite alive. 77 00:04:42,490 --> 00:04:45,280 That goes for the Nazis, 78 00:04:46,140 --> 00:04:50,070 the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Council. 79 00:04:50,350 --> 00:04:53,000 The value system is still alive. 80 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:56,490 What is needed is not assassinations, 81 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:59,260 not murder, not killing. 82 00:04:59,410 --> 00:05:02,950 No armies or navies to solve problems. 83 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,420 What is really needed is a change in our values. 84 00:05:07,830 --> 00:05:10,560 I believe in the Bible you'll find 85 00:05:10,710 --> 00:05:14,200 a section where Jesus Christ mentions, 86 00:05:14,450 --> 00:05:17,250 "He who is without sin, 87 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,400 let him cast the first stone." 88 00:05:20,590 --> 00:05:24,040 I don't know what the word 'sin' means, but I do know this. 89 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,340 Erroneous values can cause 90 00:05:27,490 --> 00:05:31,870 unbelievable suffering amongst people. 91 00:05:32,430 --> 00:05:35,640 And we, our nation, like other nations 92 00:05:35,790 --> 00:05:40,700 are mainly like children, that do not have answers, 93 00:05:40,930 --> 00:05:43,780 that do not have solutions to problems. 94 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:47,160 Whereby, many solutions are violent 95 00:05:47,310 --> 00:05:49,470 and they do not solve problems. 96 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:53,910 What is really needed is a change in values, 97 00:05:54,630 --> 00:05:58,850 not the election of this governor or that governor. 98 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,600 There's no change in values in that. 99 00:06:02,090 --> 00:06:05,660 By change in values I mean living in accordance with 100 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:08,560 the natural capacity, 101 00:06:08,710 --> 00:06:11,600 that is, the carrying capacity of the earth. 102 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:16,020 And if we violate that, there are all kinds of problems. 103 00:06:16,390 --> 00:06:19,430 When you violate the laws of nature, 104 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:21,830 which are really inviolable, 105 00:06:22,050 --> 00:06:25,200 they will produce other negative effects. 106 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,670 We don't study what the negative retroaction will be 107 00:06:29,820 --> 00:06:33,240 on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, 108 00:06:33,390 --> 00:06:37,800 but we're building a catalog of problems up ahead. 109 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,670 I think that the solution to problems take longer. 110 00:06:41,850 --> 00:06:45,660 Of course, a sane solution takes many years. 111 00:06:45,990 --> 00:06:49,850 And that is, to arrive at a value system 112 00:06:50,010 --> 00:06:52,530 that supports nature, the earth 113 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,480 and all the people that live on this earth. 114 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,480 If they all go off in different directions 115 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:01,390 and evolve different value systems, 116 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:03,490 there's got to be trouble, 117 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,990 and you cannot solve problems by killing people. 118 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:10,850 Although most of you believe that 'revenge is sweet'. 119 00:07:11,260 --> 00:07:16,290 It is only sweet to the naive and childlike attitudes 120 00:07:16,430 --> 00:07:20,570 whereby we feel good when we get rid of a certain person 121 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:22,960 identified with the problem. 122 00:07:23,110 --> 00:07:25,910 That does not solve the problem. 123 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:28,640 If you yourselves as Americans, 124 00:07:28,790 --> 00:07:32,940 were brought up in that country where those values are dominant, 125 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,260 you will support those values. 126 00:07:35,410 --> 00:07:38,370 It isn't killing people that solves problems. 127 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,080 It's outgrowing values that no longer work, 128 00:07:42,230 --> 00:07:45,180 and this is what we have to identify. 129 00:07:45,330 --> 00:07:48,920 If you cannot identify the values that do not work, 130 00:07:49,070 --> 00:07:51,600 you cannot undo them. 131 00:07:51,930 --> 00:07:57,020 Only through education can we change human values. 132 00:07:57,170 --> 00:08:00,450 And what we have to do is approach nations 133 00:08:00,790 --> 00:08:04,550 and share with them some of our values, if we can. 134 00:08:04,780 --> 00:08:07,640 And if you don't know how to do that, you have to find 135 00:08:07,770 --> 00:08:09,810 the means for doing that. 136 00:08:09,950 --> 00:08:13,940 It is absolutely essential that we find the means 137 00:08:14,110 --> 00:08:17,460 for bridging the difference between nations. 138 00:08:17,950 --> 00:08:20,700 And the nearest thing that I know of 139 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:23,420 that can solve those problems 140 00:08:23,580 --> 00:08:27,580 is to arrive at decisions, rather than make them. 141 00:08:27,790 --> 00:08:30,010 Arriving at decisions meaning 142 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,950 put all your decisions to test, see if they work. 143 00:08:34,330 --> 00:08:37,270 Use scientific scales of performance. 144 00:08:37,630 --> 00:08:41,240 And in that manner, we can probably arrive at 145 00:08:41,390 --> 00:08:44,300 closer agreements with nations. 146 00:08:44,470 --> 00:08:47,930 I believe that all nations need the same thing : 147 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,520 clean air, clean water, arable land, 148 00:08:53,410 --> 00:08:56,300 and medical and health security, 149 00:08:56,450 --> 00:09:00,430 and access to food and the necessities of life. 150 00:09:00,580 --> 00:09:03,090 If we fail to work together, 151 00:09:04,030 --> 00:09:06,450 attempting to solve these problems, 152 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:09,700 I feel the problems will continue 153 00:09:09,870 --> 00:09:12,520 in much more vicious ways, 154 00:09:12,670 --> 00:09:16,400 because we are not touching, or not addressing 155 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,490 the actual manifestation 156 00:09:19,630 --> 00:09:22,890 of how these values come into being. 157 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,610 And it's only through careful study, not feelings of revenge, 158 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,770 careful study, that will enable people 159 00:09:30,910 --> 00:09:35,480 to outgrow systems that are no longer relevant. 160 00:09:35,750 --> 00:09:38,490 What is needed is a value system 161 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:43,200 that coincides with the nature of human need. 162 00:09:43,870 --> 00:09:47,240 Now not only that, but humans are part of the environment. 163 00:09:47,380 --> 00:09:50,820 Therefore, the environment is part of human needs, 164 00:09:50,970 --> 00:09:53,330 whether we recognize it or not. 165 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,510 Another part of human need is the differences in values. 166 00:09:57,660 --> 00:10:00,860 If people all have multiplicity of values 167 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,770 that differ from one another, there will be conflict. 168 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,400 How do we go about selecting a value system that makes sense? 169 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:13,670 And how do we go about presenting a value system 170 00:10:13,810 --> 00:10:17,830 to people who know nothing about such a value system? 171 00:10:17,980 --> 00:10:20,320 I think the best way to do it 172 00:10:20,470 --> 00:10:23,390 is demonstration with films. 173 00:10:23,710 --> 00:10:28,660 In films, we can show how a person feels a volcano is angry. 174 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:30,960 We have to show those movies 175 00:10:31,220 --> 00:10:35,590 and the sincerity of the witchdoctor talking about the solution. 176 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,280 And we have to show the sincerity of Romans 177 00:10:39,430 --> 00:10:41,820 feeding Christians to lions. 178 00:10:41,970 --> 00:10:46,810 And we have to point out a group of people stoning a woman. 179 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:49,340 And when Jesus comes in, he says: 180 00:10:49,460 --> 00:10:53,280 "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." 181 00:10:53,420 --> 00:10:57,240 All of us are erroneous in our values 182 00:10:57,380 --> 00:11:01,260 due to the early part of our historical upbringing. 183 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,050 We are given a set of values that do not work. 184 00:11:05,190 --> 00:11:08,090 Proof: We have war, recession, 185 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,100 hunger, poverty, starvation, illness. 186 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,170 And if our society were oriented 187 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,240 toward the well-being of our fellow human beings, 188 00:11:19,390 --> 00:11:23,990 I cannot see these problems as being dominant, 189 00:11:24,220 --> 00:11:27,830 in a society where every man works for himself, 190 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,760 individual incentive, working for one's self. 191 00:11:33,110 --> 00:11:35,400 If people worked for one's self', 192 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,990 there wouldn't be the electric light. 193 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:41,860 There wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles. 194 00:11:42,150 --> 00:11:44,740 There wouldn't be electrification, 195 00:11:44,860 --> 00:11:47,600 and reservoirs and water purification. 196 00:11:47,770 --> 00:11:50,770 These are processes that help all people. 197 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,550 And processes that help single people 198 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,090 is a very primitive value system carried into this century 199 00:11:58,230 --> 00:12:00,360 which is really not necessary. 200 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,020 However, it appears that humans 201 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,220 do not seem to change or improve their value system 202 00:12:08,370 --> 00:12:12,020 until there is utter failure of that value system. 203 00:12:12,550 --> 00:12:15,500 People trained as a scientist tend to pause 204 00:12:15,630 --> 00:12:18,880 a little bit, before they accept an idea, 205 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:22,180 a little more than the average person. 206 00:12:23,030 --> 00:12:26,770 They try to evaluate and they figured: "Well, a man is using 207 00:12:26,910 --> 00:12:31,180 the scientific method. He probably draws the correct conclusions." 208 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,330 You know when you have faith in somebody, believe in somebody. 209 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,780 A scientist doesn't believe in anything, 210 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:42,630 neither accepts, rejects or holds in abeyance; 211 00:12:42,770 --> 00:12:45,030 that is, does not make a judgment 212 00:12:45,170 --> 00:12:49,750 until verifiable evidence is produced. 213 00:12:52,050 --> 00:12:55,850 So killing people is not the solution to any problem 214 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,450 at all. War is the maximum expression of ignorance. 215 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,300 'Good' and 'bad' is part of a value system. 216 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:12,680 It has nothing to do with something coming 217 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,300 from the inside of a human being. 218 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:20,880 It appears that all evidence shows that intuition does not, 219 00:13:21,540 --> 00:13:25,440 and is not based upon innermost feelings. 220 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:29,310 It's not based upon evidence. It's based upon 221 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,540 being exposed to erroneous value systems. 222 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:36,900 And where do you start most values? 223 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,040 Most human values are erroneous, 224 00:13:41,210 --> 00:13:44,950 except when it comes to mathematics, physics, chemistry. 225 00:13:45,290 --> 00:13:47,490 They are more appropriate. 226 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:52,180 So I would say if you become familiar with particular books, 227 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,870 literature that we have on our website, it may help you.