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Jacque Fresco - Dec. 19, 2010
"Relation to Academia"
www.thevenusproject.com

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The American Psychological Association,

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people who deal with mental problems,
stress, all that sort of thing,

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as far as I know

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have not written books on the
effects of environment upon behavior

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and criticizing the way
government operates.

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It's unsane, and I've never found them
to talk about government that way.

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Maybe they'd lose
appropriations if they did.

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But I don't know whether they're
interested in appropriations

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or understanding human behavior.

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I know of no group of psychologists
that advocated social change

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in order to avoid most stresses and
most of the problems that people have.

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I've never known neurologists
that laid out a plan

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for informing people with
better methods of evaluation,

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so that they don't have
the stresses they have.

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Therefore, all their books
seem to be maps of the brain

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and what region of the brain
controls what pattern of behavior,

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which is all right anatomically

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but does not describe
or alleviate problems.

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Knowing the anatomy of
the brain will tell you

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that a tumor in a given
location will cut out speech

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or visual; that's all good information.

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But that's not what The
Venus Project is about.

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The Venus Project is about
finding solutions or workable ways

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of influencing people to
modify their behavior,

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to fit the circumstances of the world,

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not the opinions, or reactions,
or emotions of an individual.

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So when a person says to me

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"Let's have input from
the scientific community,"

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the reason I don't go for that,

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because the scientific
community never came up and said

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"Why go to the moon when
the earth is falling apart?

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Let's solve those problems first."

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They don't participate;
they don't seem to suggest a direction.

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They merely describe the
anatomy of the brain,

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which is all right,
I have nothing against it,

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but they have no direction.

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I've never known The American
Association of Architects

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to lay out a whole city system.

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They say the 'green' rooftop.

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Well, the greening of a building
does not change society.

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So the reason I do not seek
information from the academic world

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is because they don't take it far enough.

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They deal with limited
aspects of human behavior

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and limited functions of the brain.

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They study the brain, I would imagine...
Like I said before,

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if I fly over a village of thatched huts

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which are up on stilts in water,

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I can tell you that the
people probably live on fish,

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and their values are
related to the coconuts

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and the food available on the island

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and the problems they
have with other islanders

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wanting to take their women
or their food away from them.

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So their philosophy would be a simple one.

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It would not be high level communication.

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So you don't need to go there and study
the people. Just take a photograph.

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A photograph of New York City,
Chicago, LA, any city,

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shows every building a different size,
which means every man for himself,

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which means it's a selfish,
self-centered culture.

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I don't need to ask what
people are like in Chicago.

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I know by looking at the city

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and the fact that they
tolerate what exists.

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I haven't heard school teachers

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say "Let us make education
relevant to the needs of people."

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I've never heard a descriptive
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or any elaborate organization.

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The democratic concept, for example,

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where everybody participates
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I believe they can only contribute that
which they have learned from the culture.

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And they can't be that different and
be a member of a standard organization.

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Now if a person says "There are
lots of aspects of The Venus Project

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that Jacque doesn't cover,"

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you haven't asked those questions.

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How do you know that?

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So you have to say "Andrew,
what are his views on child nurturing?"

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"What are his views on family?
What are his views on education?"

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and get that down then compare
it with the academic world.

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You'll find that it's very
different except the anatomy.

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When a doctor says this is the knee
reflex, this is the temporal lobe,

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he's right, frontal lobe,
all that stuff, a map.

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There's nothing the matter with that,
but it doesn't deal with any problems.

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I find most architects self-centered,

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designing buildings and being
proud of what they design

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and sharing rooftops of green,
which is all right,

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but that isn't the answer to the problems.

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So, I thought if the academic
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they'd be in confrontation
with established views.

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I do not find that. So, I do not find ...

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Even B.F. Skinner did not go into
the anatomy of a new culture,

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how it works,
what type of education for children.

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I asked Skinner whether he
thought man was a machine,

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meaning reasonably connected.

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By machine I mean, you can't roll
your eyes in a given position,

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unless there's a muscle
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That's what I mean by mechanistic.

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You can't see unless the visual
system is supplied with light

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and the back of the brain is
supplied with enough associations

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to interpret the forms around them.

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So, education comes from the environment

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and as you pointed out,
all cultures are primitive

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because they're in a state of evolution.

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Primitive compared to what?

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Compared to what there IS to know
about people, we are primitive.

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As long as we have prisons and
military solutions, we are primitive.

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I will never listen to military
people for their solutions to problems

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unless they have outgrown that
and have come to new conclusions.

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Like General Westmoreland,
if it was General Westmoreland,

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or Eisenhower when he said

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"Beware of the
military-industrial complex."

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I wish he elaborated more on
that and spent more time on that.

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But he didn't.

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Apparently he felt by saying that,

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he would alert people to
be conscious of that area.

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Judgments are based on cultural systems,

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otherwise no one would ever go to a movie

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because it has nothing to offer.

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No one would watch soap operas,
because it has nothing to offer.

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It's a repeat of the same story.

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Jealousy, our present-day concepts of love

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and family are always uniform.

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If they weren't,
it would not become popular.

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If a person's elected to be
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they do not have the ability

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to judge a person's
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They do not have the kind of training

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to nominate the proper
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Neither do the educators.

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But when you take a course in engineering,

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as long as they deal with structures

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and torsional loads and compressional,
it's okay.

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But how is it to be used?
Engineers don't give a shit.

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If it's a fascist culture
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they make engineering
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Engineers do not collectively,
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step out of engineering and say
"What is this for? How is it to be used?"

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"I refuse to work on
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I'd rather work on studying the
culture that we disagree with

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and see if we can find areas of agreement,
not destruction."

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So I do not personally

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find evidence to align
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I never met a scientist,

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just like I said, I never met a Christian

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that upheld the Christian doctrine.

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A scientist to me would be into sociology,
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engineering to some extent,

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electronics to some extent,
you know what I mean?

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To whatever extent they can be,
they would be interested

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and say "I don't know enough about

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decision-making and different
cultures to want to destroy them.

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I'd like to understand them before.

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I'd like to talk to their leaders."

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Even if he talked to the leaders,
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he could not hear them.
Do you understand what I'm talking about?

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You can't talk things over
if you speak a different language

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and have a different reaction to words.

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If people do not understand
The Venus Project ...

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It isn't that Fresco
likes to dictate the ways.

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I'd like to understand what they
have to offer to alter society.

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I'm not interested in
three views to an airplane

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unless I know what that plane is for.
Do you understand what I'm saying?

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I hope this answers the question

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as why I do not usually
join scientific committees,

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because I do not find
them to be scientific

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nor oriented to be able to handle
the wide range of problems.

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So I consider almost
every society primitive,

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and if you disagree with me,

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what I'd like to do is put forth areas

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that enable me to see the shortcomings.

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But don't say "I don't agree with him."

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Point out the area of disagreement
or what you think you disagree with.

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But without a conversation,
without attending the tours,

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without sitting down and sharing ideas,

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it'd be very difficult to know
exactly how I mean certain words.

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There are many semantic problems

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that can be resolved
with a personal meeting.

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I don't know how to resolve
problems with scientists in general

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unless I meet with them as individuals
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I can't give a guy in 20
minutes what I believe,

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even if he's a scientist.

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There are some scientists that will
take to this right away, I know that.

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Because they're looking for answers
and they don't have the tools.

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I've met many scientists, but I've
only had brief encounters with them,

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like 10 minutes, 20 minutes,

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but never a long period
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so far.

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This is the reason I do not seek
answers from the academic world.

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If they are academic it means they accept,

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or they accept to a large portion,
what goes on.

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That's my reason.

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What has to be done is
people should investigate

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the educational system of The
Venus Project, what it offers.

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They must then look into the environmental
aspects of The Venus Project:

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how we intend to support and
restore the damaged environment.

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Then, what different types of vehicles
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how WE solve the transportation problems.

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If they find shortcomings in it, say

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"Present your recommendations."

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But don't say "I don't like that system."

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Present your recommendations
or alternatives.

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If you want people to be safe in swimming,
safe from sharks ...

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You really don't have to make a
swimming pool any deeper than 5 feet.

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You can swim in 5 feet of water;
it's hard to drown.

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If you can't make it,
you can reach bottom.

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And children's pools would be shallow,
and you can swim in them,

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you can't drown in them.
It isn't that I like shallow pools.

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If children have difficulty,
you can't always see it.

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I think our friend's child was drowned

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because mother couldn't
watch over her in the ocean.

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And she blamed the old man, the old
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and then they both blamed the lifeguard.

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You know, it's inadequate systems
is what you're dealing with.

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Do you understand? I don't find
lifeguards who submit new ways

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of watching over people on the beach.
They're always a lifeguard.

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They never seem to innovate, or make
a life preserver connected to a cable

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that goes out to the drowning person.

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That's what they need,
not the lifeguard grabbing them.

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They need the thing getting there faster.

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The lifeguard can only get
there at a certain speed.

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So I would design a life raft
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stops by proximity mechanisms,

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and then moves slowly toward
the person so they can grab it.

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And if they can't grab it, you send human
assistance on a vehicle out that way.

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Anyway,
I've never heard of lifeguard associations

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making recommendations, except binoculars
for the lifeguard to look around,

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but limited, very limited.

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Lifeguards are not trained as innovators.

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But if you bring innovators
to the system and say

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"How can you innovate that system
to make it more efficient?"

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If a man is mechanical, he might make
a life preserver connected to a cable.

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If he's into electronics,

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he would pick up distress in the water.

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You know, whatever it is.

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But I don't find academia to be
critical of a political system.

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I don't find many opinions coming
forth on how to modify our system

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so that we have less
problems. I don't find that.

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Now in books on politics,

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I don't think George
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at the decision-making today,

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because it's not that different.

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Benjamin Franklin or anybody else.

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Our political system is based on opinions,

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projections, inadequacies, incompetence.

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That's why I say they would
feel at home in this society.

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But they would not feel at
home in The Venus Project.

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No politician would know
how decisions are made.

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They wouldn't understand why our
schools are the way they are.

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They wouldn't!
Even if they came and visited the schools

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they wouldn't understand.

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They wouldn't understand

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the nature of environmental
reclamation, why it's done.

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And they wouldn't understand
where you get the money

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to do environmental reclamations.

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If the Earth is declared common heritage,

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that's the only way you can
have access to anything.

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I can't understand,
if you have based all your decisions on

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"How much will it cost?"
well you wouldn't do anything,

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because everything costs a lot of money,
except war -

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it MAKES a lot of money.

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It isn't that I want to
direct the whole thing.

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I haven't gotten assistance from others

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on how to put up buildings
faster that were that new.

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So I had to innovate all this shit,
because I didn't get anything from others.

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I'm not interested in doing all that.

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I'd rather have people capable
of knowing when they see a ship,

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what is it you want? You want the
whole cargo unloaded at a given place.

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You don't want to take off
one container at a time.

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That's okay if different
containers go different places,

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and we've got one ship.
But in the future, you must design

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automobile manufacturing
in a certain region,

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so you deliver metals to that region,
not all over Detroit

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or wherever you have auto factories.

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You have automotive
production in a given region.

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You know what I mean?
With production lines.

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So you deliver more stuff, the same kind
of stuff, to all the auto producers.

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Cows and farming would be in a region
with farming canning factories nearby

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the farm and not 50 miles away.
Do you understand what I'm saying?

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I don't know any other system.
I've never heard of a food producer

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that said
"I'm going to open a cannery on my grounds

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so I can can the string beans."

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And besides they wouldn't rot
if they did that right away.

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I never heard of an undertaker
making recommendations

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for the use of usable
organs before the burial.

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A kidney, whatever it is you could get.

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And you don't ask people whether they
want to give their kidney if they're dead.

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If they're dead they say
"I wanna be buried whole."

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The Jews do not permit dissection.

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But the Jews won't ever know what
the inside of the body is like

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if they don't permit dissection.
You know what I mean?

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But people will die due
to their belief systems.

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But, if you wanna go with that
belief system, you can go,

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but I can assure you,
you won't live as long as other systems.

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And if our system can't make
the appropriate decisions

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we'll be surpassed by
China or North Korea,

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or some other country that
can make those decisions.

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I don't say they will,

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but we will be surpassed if we can't
make the appropriate decisions.

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So nature is a final eliminator,
not Fresco.

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I don't eliminate people.

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If their insufficiency is
"every man for himself"

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then that society will run as long
as evolution will permit it to run,

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until the system is automated
and they fall on their face.

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That doesn't mean social
change will be made.

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It means people might die fighting
each other and killing each other

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and riots because of different values,

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unless there's something put out
there that people can understand.

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I think I could sell the package, if not
[to] all the people, a great many people,

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enough to influence them.
Because I don't come there as an American,

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to get them to accept our
value system as the only one.

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And you don't attack their customs.

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You wait till evolution passes
the need for customs of that kind.

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There are a group of Israelis that
are interested in The Venus Project.

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But if I went to Israel I'd
be booed off the platform.

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The majority does not believe,

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does not lean towards science.

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I would try if I were invited,
don't misunderstand me.

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If there were a big enough group in Israel

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I would go there and talk to that group

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and tell them how to reach the other
group. If I talk to the other group,

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I need three days, not a one-hour lecture.

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I never came up with ideas because
academicians approved them.

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I came up with them trying
to find a working solution.

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Academia doesn't know how to stop wars.

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Academia doesn't know how to ask
"What is the bomber for?"

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They don't seem to do that.
That's why I don't respect them.

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If they understand my direction,
that's more important

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than being a member of academia.

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And people would say to me

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"Are there any great people
that accept The Venus Project?"

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There's something the matter with them,
they have a low self-sufficiency.

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If a great man says "It's a good idea,"
they'll follow it.

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I don't want that kind of shit.
Do you understand?

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If you say "Are there any famous
people that accept The Venus Project?"

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Not that I know of.

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But you would then go along because
Einstein said it was okay. What about you?

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If you understand what I'm talking about,
you say it's okay,

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even though the world
doesn't agree with you.

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The guys in the old days that believed
the Earth was round must have had a very

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rough time with academia.

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I think it was academia that burnt them.

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It's academia today that can cut you off,

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that can say "The man is completely
unqualified, never went to MIT,

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has no record of achievement in
this world." This is all true,

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but that doesn't mean anything.

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What means something
is if people understand

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that if you don't take care of
the environment, you lose it.

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That isn't difficult. But it may be:

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"I guess the experts
know what they're doing.

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Let's leave it to politicians.
At least they know what they're doing."

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I don't believe they even
know what they're doing.

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I don't believe they have the
slightest idea of what they're doing.

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I believe there are academicians that
believe one opinion is as good as another.

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How many Catholics visit a Lutheran

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or Presbyterian church to
get their point of view?

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To go feel which one is closest?
Some do, I don't doubt that.

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There are many religious people
that go to different churches

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and stop at the one
nearest to their values.

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That's what all people do.

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And if they all pick primitive things,
your culture needs an overhaul.

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If we still go to war, you know...

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I think in the motion picture
'Things To Come'

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somebody said to Dr. Cabal,
or the guy in charge,

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that they're at war.
He said "Still at it, eh?"

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There were some comments

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which normal people did not
react to in the film, at all.

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They couldn't react to it.
They had no background to react to it.

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They found a bunch of
scientists running things

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and it just didn't look right.

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It looked [like] the answer was-...

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H.G. Wells' friend said
"It sounds like fascism."

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Now this system would sound
like fascism because Fresco

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lays out the schools,
the buildings, the cities,

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only because not enough
people are into that yet.

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But there will be more people
laying it out as they get into it.

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Edison taught people how to use the
electric light, how to build generators.

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Or people that made generators for Edison,
taught people to make generators.

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But the average person
did not get up and say

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"I don't want any generators,
they're not God given."

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There were some people that said that,
that never used generators.

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They're out of business.

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So, presenting ideas is not the answer.

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Preparing people's attitude

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to be able to hear new ideas,
so when they listen to you they say

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"I don't know enough about the
subject to make a decision.

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I think I'm going back and read
up on it and come back next week."

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Very few people do that.

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Sure you'll find evidence
among some academicians

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to support some of the concepts,
but not enough.

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I hate to use academicians, because
they climb up on the back of innovators.

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But I do understand reliance on
academicians to help support the project.

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But that isn't real.

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I think people had to learn
from the Wright Brothers

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how to build airplanes.

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After they built the first flying machine,
the Army said-...

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The Army was the first
to order five airplanes

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from the Wright Brothers,
for surveillance.

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They thought that a war
tank is better for shooting.

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Airplanes could only carry,
they used to carry a rifle.

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Before that they threw bottles and
stones at one another in the air.

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Did you know that? in the old days?

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Because airplanes couldn't carry a cannon,
it could only carry a rifle.

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The guy would stand up from cover,
and try to shoot the other plane down.

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And then they had a gun way above the wing

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so that it would clear the propeller.

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00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:10,860
Then somebody invented a
synchronous machine gun

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that shoots between the
rotation of the blades.

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Do you know what I'm talking about?
You don't?

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There's a bump on the camshaft.

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You know what that means?
The camshaft turns the propeller

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and that bump operates the machine gun ...
between where the blade is.

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00:25:28,770 --> 00:25:32,467
Otherwise they shot off the propeller.
Do you understand that?

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So, it's the invention of the
machine gun at the pilot's eye view

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that enabled him to
shoot down more planes.

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When the guns are on top, it's only
an approximation. Do you understand?

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They were on the top wing,
above the height of the propeller

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or out on the wings,
which didn't give you a good view.

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So, invention compensates
for human insufficiency.

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00:26:03,940 --> 00:26:08,412
But we have a lot of inventors
making things that are useless too.

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A house should be a public library,
a school,

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intercommunications systems,
not just a home!

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With the laptop,
the house is becoming more

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than just a place to sleep and eat.

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In the future it'll be a
place with your built-in gym

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and everything else, if you can afford it.

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Or, if society can make a house-...

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The better integrated people are and
interconnected, the richer society.

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People say "Would everybody be uniform?"

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00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,516
If they were technically
uniform it would be useful.

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Non-technically it would not be useful.

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00:26:47,570 --> 00:26:49,612
There's nothing the
matter with uniformity.

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All architects and all engineers

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have to pass a standard exam,
which is okay

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for competence, you know.

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00:27:00,710 --> 00:27:03,210
But if you know of
technicians that advocate

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aspects of The Venus Project, great!

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00:27:06,570 --> 00:27:08,990
Technicians eventually will do that.

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00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,240
But remember, they bring with
them some of the primordial slime.

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Because they don't come
from an environment

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that's objective or scientific, yet.

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00:27:22,170 --> 00:27:26,781
The scientific world is in the early
phases of the scientific method.

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Academia is not The Venus Project.

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00:27:32,820 --> 00:27:35,833
Nor is it science as it's used today.

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00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:39,846
They wouldn't work on bombers if
they were part of The Venus Project.

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00:27:40,380 --> 00:27:43,876
They wouldn't work on weapons.
They wouldn't be patriotic

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if there was such a thing as a science.

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00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,550
I'm sure there are.
I'm sure they're having a tough time too.

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00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,710
I'm sure that some scientists must
come to some conclusion similar

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but not all joined together.

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00:28:01,150 --> 00:28:05,495
It's very rare for someone to have
this identical environment I had.

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00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:09,900
Very rare. No,
they don't come to the same conclusion.

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00:28:10,430 --> 00:28:13,532
They believe- most scientists
believe in free will.

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00:28:14,070 --> 00:28:17,704
I asked them.
Don't forget, I met a lot of scientists.

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00:28:18,770 --> 00:28:20,756
"Do you believe in free will?"
"Of course...

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I scored high in my school."

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And that means something else.
It means they have a different environment

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00:28:30,190 --> 00:28:32,227
but they don't look at it objectively.

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00:28:32,830 --> 00:28:34,707
They feel they're achievers.

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00:28:35,353 --> 00:28:39,033
If they get a Nobel Prize,
they feel good about it

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rather than share it with other labs.

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00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,738
They don't have a scientific attitude yet.

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00:28:47,766 --> 00:28:49,316
It isn't here yet.

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00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,267
And if somebody advocates it,
then you build a following.

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00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:56,010
And the following does not give

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00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,310
an interpretation of
Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

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00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:03,530
There are people that do that too,
[they] say "There's no evidence."

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00:29:03,670 --> 00:29:06,732
There's lots of evidence.
They don't know what evidence means.

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00:29:08,258 --> 00:29:10,270
The evidence is that the trees

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00:29:10,430 --> 00:29:13,280
of a million years ago were
different than the trees today.

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00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,003
They evolve, they change,
not necessarily for the better.

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00:29:19,070 --> 00:29:22,221
There were poisonous snakes,
I'm sure, at the time of dinosaurs.

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00:29:22,580 --> 00:29:26,086
I'm sure they were different
than the snakes of today.

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00:29:26,580 --> 00:29:29,846
But all animals seem to undergo change

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00:29:30,090 --> 00:29:33,526
according to digging into the ground.

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00:29:34,850 --> 00:29:38,030
I don't think the people will
study too much of the past

474
00:29:38,170 --> 00:29:43,230
except that nations took over
other nations, took their wares.

475
00:29:43,370 --> 00:29:46,516
But no speeches by Patrick
Henry or anybody else

476
00:29:47,170 --> 00:29:49,470
because they couldn't
say anything relevant.

477
00:29:50,430 --> 00:29:54,923
I don't listen to most political
speeches because they don't say anything.

478
00:29:55,450 --> 00:29:59,070
They rarely say
"We can improve automotive production

479
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:04,732
by sharing ideas with different
companies." They don't say that.

480
00:30:07,950 --> 00:30:12,840
I don't find enough evidence
to identify with peer groups.

481
00:30:14,836 --> 00:30:16,510
I'm not saying they don't exist.

482
00:30:16,650 --> 00:30:19,686
I'm sure there are people out
there in the scientific world

483
00:30:19,820 --> 00:30:21,341
that would jump onto this.

484
00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:27,120
But some scientists may say
"Have you heard about The Venus Project?"

485
00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:29,335
- "Oh, that guy is self-made.

486
00:30:31,027 --> 00:30:33,163
Never heard of him making
any contributions."

487
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,123
You know, they might do that.
I don't know what they do,

488
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,600
but I can't concern
myself with what they do.

489
00:30:40,970 --> 00:30:43,040
So here am I proposing something:

490
00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:47,900
I wish that a lot of doctors at the
same time said "Wash your hands."

491
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,073
It was only one guy. And they said
"What's your basis for that?"

492
00:30:52,420 --> 00:30:55,144
They didn't all have
microscopes in the old days.

493
00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:57,815
So he showed them germs on the skin.

494
00:30:58,260 --> 00:31:01,593
That was when the real change came,
with the microscope.

495
00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:06,424
But, there were people that even said

496
00:31:07,090 --> 00:31:10,461
"Well how do you know they cause
disease?" They were always present

497
00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:13,378
when a person had eruptions on the skin,

498
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,980
that type of bacteria.
When they had visual problems

499
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,600
and they found bacteria
that was responsible

500
00:31:20,713 --> 00:31:24,080
they always found similar
bacteria on the eyes,

501
00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:28,840
on the hands, on the genitals.
Sexually transmitted bacteria

502
00:31:28,950 --> 00:31:31,581
were the same.
Do you understand what I mean?

503
00:31:32,050 --> 00:31:34,150
But it wasn't until the microscope

504
00:31:34,344 --> 00:31:37,250
that uniform agreement
could be established.

505
00:31:37,380 --> 00:31:39,624
It could not be established by debate.

506
00:31:41,110 --> 00:31:44,664
No matter how.
Unless the doctor was very important

507
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:50,086
most doctors listened to the
established leader of a system.

508
00:31:50,930 --> 00:31:53,046
We have no established leaders.

509
00:31:54,660 --> 00:31:57,710
All I'd like to do is get the
ball rolling, take it from there.

510
00:31:58,050 --> 00:32:03,040
But before I get the ball rolling,
I want to get the ideas out on education,

511
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,393
on learning theory, on how the
brain is influenced by environment.

512
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,129
If I can get that out

513
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:17,107
it's a good safety measure
to control values, moreso.

514
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,501
I'd like to get "I don't know"
out there too, moreso.

515
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,930
"I don't know.
I don't know enough about it

516
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,756
to make a decision."

517
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,973
www.thevenusproject.com

518
00:32:32,741 --> 00:32:35,800
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