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I'm just trying to show you that the need

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is that we'll always have human beings to do the work- we don't.

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There will be a time when

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very few people can operate everything in the continental United States,

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and the rest of the people go on vacation, swim, yachting, camping,

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shoot pictures, study chemistry, go back to school, music,

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travel, anthropology, conferences, you see what I mean?

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So that work, we find, would be boring, repetitive,

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and you don't learn anything at work, because it's uninteresting.

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And so what I am trying to say to you [is] that

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if you understand these mechanisms that are coming,

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the future-... the present doesn't look too good. The present only looks good

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because we don't know what the potential of the future is.

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It's just like your grandfather, when he got his little sewing machine

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that he worked with his feet, and the pump that brought the well water up,

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he re-lit his cigar and said "This is it!"

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You had to go down before that and get the water from the river,

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bring it into the buildings, and pails and the

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brace across your shoulder, you know?

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And when they made that thing somebody said

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"No, they've gone too far!" you know? Even with the pump.

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Though today you just turn on the faucet, you got the water right there.

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But where is all this going? What is this doing for man?

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And what enables us to get out of these ruts that we're in?

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By ... looking at the present world

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and say the present world has this, and so on,

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but it isn't the best of all possible worlds.

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Begin to get away from that idea, of utopia.

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That even if we went out out and built the world that I want to build,

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that would be the beginning of the next phase.

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Because, ten years into that world, the kids that grow up in that system,

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will look at that world and say "Woh woh, fucking Fresco and his buildings...

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that were round..." You know, they're out! "Here's the new way!"

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There's no utopia, no finality;

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that man has an infinite journey into change.

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And the idea of an ideal world where there is no war and all, that's good!

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That's only the beginning of the next phase, see what I mean?

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So people become very different, their values become very different,

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and that's what ought to be discussed in schools, a lot:

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about inquiry, about thinking things out, about changing your mind,

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about being-... In fact, we say that

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one measure of sanity is your ability to change your mind.

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You know what I mean by that, to be open enough to hear new things.

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And normal people who want to get married, and have a family,

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a little house in the country with chickens, that's a fixed set.

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And once you get that, you're dead.

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And once you get your house in the country with chickens,

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your two favorite horses if you like to ride,

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if this is the best of all possible worlds, from that day forth,

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you stagnate. Your kids undergo change and you never understand them.

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So I say get your house in the country with chickens, get your horses,

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but read, and listen to ideas; you see what I mean?

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So that you're programmed continuously; you're updated.

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That's why people become obsolete.

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They become obsolete because they arrive at a certain value system

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and they belong to the American Legion, or the Turkish American Club.

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Which - what does it do? Perpetuates Turkish-American values.

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