1 00:00:13,819 --> 00:00:17,170 I want to thank all of you for coming 2 00:00:17,310 --> 00:00:21,713 and doing the work you're doing to inform other people. 3 00:00:22,516 --> 00:00:26,249 I'm going to say a lot of things that may bother some of you, 4 00:00:26,389 --> 00:00:30,137 but please be patient. I'm not your enemy. 5 00:00:30,277 --> 00:00:32,219 I'm going to tell you things 6 00:00:32,386 --> 00:00:35,981 about your society that you may or may not know. 7 00:00:36,121 --> 00:00:37,738 I want to say first 8 00:00:37,878 --> 00:00:42,933 that the language we speak was designed hundreds of years ago. 9 00:00:43,073 --> 00:00:46,990 It's almost impossible to talk to one another. 10 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:49,705 Although we think we talk to one another, 11 00:00:49,845 --> 00:00:54,124 we really repeat a language that's highly insufficient. 12 00:00:54,264 --> 00:00:58,034 Whatever you say to other people, it goes in their heads 13 00:00:58,174 --> 00:01:01,291 and comes out to fit their society. 14 00:01:01,431 --> 00:01:05,701 You don't always communicate with people. The problem is: 15 00:01:05,841 --> 00:01:11,542 Can we develop a language that has consistent meaning? 16 00:01:12,014 --> 00:01:14,185 If you still don't understand me, 17 00:01:14,325 --> 00:01:17,577 sometimes I might say "Have a nice weekend." 18 00:01:17,717 --> 00:01:22,296 Why don't we say "Have a nice life"? Why just a weekend? 19 00:01:22,969 --> 00:01:25,470 Our language is old. 20 00:01:25,610 --> 00:01:30,941 Is it possible to devise a language that's not subject to interpretation? 21 00:01:31,081 --> 00:01:33,970 When you read the Bible, if you do, 22 00:01:34,110 --> 00:01:37,350 it says "Jesus meant this." (Somebody says that.) 23 00:01:37,490 --> 00:01:39,352 "Oh, no. He meant that." 24 00:01:39,492 --> 00:01:42,997 The third person says "You're both wrong. This is what he really meant", 25 00:01:43,137 --> 00:01:47,478 so you have the Lutherans, the Seventh Day Adventists, the Catholics 26 00:01:47,618 --> 00:01:50,946 because it's subject to interpretation. 27 00:01:51,127 --> 00:01:56,313 The language of chemistry, mathematics, science, engineering 28 00:01:56,453 --> 00:01:58,740 is not subject to interpretation. 29 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,123 When a chemist writes a formula, 30 00:02:01,263 --> 00:02:05,524 no matter what country it goes to they interpret it the same way. 31 00:02:05,664 --> 00:02:09,579 I'm trying to tell you, it's possible to develop a language 32 00:02:09,719 --> 00:02:12,124 that's not subject to interpretation. 33 00:02:12,264 --> 00:02:16,522 We really talk at each other rather than to one another. 34 00:02:16,662 --> 00:02:20,297 That's a major problem. That's why lawyers exist. 35 00:02:20,486 --> 00:02:23,784 They can take language, mold it, reshape it, 36 00:02:23,924 --> 00:02:25,695 but you can't do that. 37 00:02:25,835 --> 00:02:28,946 Those of you who do want to know how to communicate, 38 00:02:29,086 --> 00:02:34,999 there are books such as 'Science and Sanity' by Alfred Korzybski; 39 00:02:35,179 --> 00:02:38,430 'Language in Thought and Action' by [S. I.] Hayakawa; 40 00:02:38,570 --> 00:02:41,933 'The Tyranny of Words' by Stuart Chase; 41 00:02:42,073 --> 00:02:45,090 You don't even know this, but the words you use 42 00:02:45,230 --> 00:02:47,782 have no communication value. 43 00:02:47,922 --> 00:02:50,509 Take junior grade school for example. 44 00:02:50,649 --> 00:02:53,996 When a teacher says to a child "That's wrong" 45 00:02:54,136 --> 00:02:56,725 that doesn't tell the child anything. Think about that. 46 00:02:56,865 --> 00:03:00,601 "That's wrong." What does that tell you? Nothing in particular. 47 00:03:00,787 --> 00:03:03,491 If a teacher says "That's not what I told you!" 48 00:03:03,631 --> 00:03:05,756 that doesn't tell the child anything. 49 00:03:05,896 --> 00:03:08,663 Most of our language is empty. 50 00:03:08,803 --> 00:03:12,339 There's another bullshit word, and that's 'love'. 51 00:03:12,519 --> 00:03:15,626 Don't get mad at me. Hear me out. 52 00:03:15,954 --> 00:03:19,709 Most of us don't like everything we've done in life. 53 00:03:19,902 --> 00:03:24,565 I'm sure we don't. We've made mistakes. We've made false judgments. 54 00:03:24,705 --> 00:03:26,849 Sometimes you like yourself. 55 00:03:26,969 --> 00:03:30,163 Sometimes a little bit. Sometimes not at all, 56 00:03:30,303 --> 00:03:32,743 so love is a fluctuating thing. 57 00:03:32,883 --> 00:03:35,409 Even if you marry somebody and love them, 58 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:39,080 you'll find sometimes you love them very much, little less. 59 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:42,687 Sometimes "How did I ever get in this situation?" 60 00:03:42,961 --> 00:03:46,635 Love is a fluctuating thing, not a fixed thing. 61 00:03:46,775 --> 00:03:50,122 That's why we don't understand what's happening. 62 00:03:50,508 --> 00:03:53,997 Sometimes a guy is conditioned by society 63 00:03:54,190 --> 00:03:57,586 to like a girl of a particular configuration, 64 00:03:57,770 --> 00:04:00,710 but he marries a girl of a different configuration; 65 00:04:00,850 --> 00:04:04,933 and he's always looking at different configurations. 66 00:04:05,073 --> 00:04:07,553 You think "What the hell is the matter with this guy?" 67 00:04:07,693 --> 00:04:10,756 Nothing is the matter with him. He was brought up that way. 68 00:04:10,896 --> 00:04:13,570 There are not good or bad people. 69 00:04:13,710 --> 00:04:16,756 There are no creative people or lazy people. 70 00:04:16,896 --> 00:04:20,619 All that is bullshit put out by your country. 71 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:22,960 I am going to tell you a little bit about it. 72 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:26,676 If you were raised by the headhunters of the Amazon, 73 00:04:26,816 --> 00:04:28,574 you'd be a headhunter, 74 00:04:28,714 --> 00:04:33,052 and if I said to you "Doesn't it bother you to have 5 shrunken heads?" 75 00:04:33,192 --> 00:04:36,529 you'd say "Yes, my brother has twenty." 76 00:04:37,278 --> 00:04:41,661 So, is he nuts? No. That's normal to his culture. 77 00:04:41,801 --> 00:04:45,841 If you were brought up in ancient Rome, assuming you were Christian, 78 00:04:46,039 --> 00:04:49,249 the Romans believed in many different gods, 79 00:04:49,429 --> 00:04:52,390 and you come up with one god, you must be nuts; 80 00:04:52,530 --> 00:04:57,284 so they put you in an arena with a lot of hungry lions, 81 00:04:57,468 --> 00:05:01,319 and they'd starve the lions for a week to put on a good show. 82 00:05:01,503 --> 00:05:04,260 Then they take the clothes off the Christians 83 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:06,643 so the lions can tear at them easy. 84 00:05:06,783 --> 00:05:09,591 The whole family would come Saturday and Sunday 85 00:05:09,731 --> 00:05:12,844 to see Christians fed to lions, 86 00:05:12,984 --> 00:05:15,909 and the kids would say "Daddy, can I come next week 87 00:05:16,049 --> 00:05:18,007 to see Christians fed to lions?" 88 00:05:18,147 --> 00:05:20,604 Dad says "If you behave yourself." 89 00:05:20,744 --> 00:05:25,788 Now, are these people nuts? No. That's normal to that culture. 90 00:05:25,928 --> 00:05:28,465 Just as we go to prize fights 91 00:05:28,605 --> 00:05:31,738 and watch men punch the heads of other men. 92 00:05:31,878 --> 00:05:36,529 All the things we do are stupid and far beyond civilization. 93 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:42,055 We are not civilized yet. That's why you have prisons, police, war 94 00:05:42,615 --> 00:05:46,193 and all the problems you have, unnecessary human suffering 95 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:49,525 because people don't understand yet. 96 00:05:49,665 --> 00:05:52,110 Their schools do not educate people. 97 00:05:52,250 --> 00:05:56,839 They teach you to become a cog in a wheel, as Roxanne pointed out. 98 00:05:56,979 --> 00:06:01,531 They teach them to become a carpenter, an engineer, an architect. 99 00:06:01,711 --> 00:06:03,914 All these are false fields. 100 00:06:04,054 --> 00:06:07,565 They have to teach you how to become a generalist. 101 00:06:07,705 --> 00:06:10,375 How to understand the history of civilization 102 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:13,241 which is lacking in all our universities. 103 00:06:13,381 --> 00:06:15,440 They will be shut down in the future 104 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,497 and people will be brought up to become generalists 105 00:06:18,637 --> 00:06:20,794 so they understand human behavior, 106 00:06:20,934 --> 00:06:23,170 they understand what makes a person, 107 00:06:23,310 --> 00:06:25,485 what gives a person drive. 108 00:06:25,625 --> 00:06:27,706 All of us are brought up to believe 109 00:06:27,847 --> 00:06:30,972 there are different kinds of people, which is a lie: 110 00:06:31,112 --> 00:06:34,712 that the Japanese mind can't grasp technology, 111 00:06:34,852 --> 00:06:37,529 that the Chinese can't understand certain things, 112 00:06:37,669 --> 00:06:41,471 and always get a dumb Polack to clean out your cellar, 113 00:06:41,611 --> 00:06:46,741 and the damn Italians are Wops. They brought the Mafia to this country. 114 00:06:46,881 --> 00:06:50,635 All that hatred comes from cheap labor. 115 00:06:50,826 --> 00:06:54,424 When the Irish first came to this country [America], 116 00:06:54,615 --> 00:06:57,746 they worked for one half the amount Americans worked for. 117 00:06:57,886 --> 00:07:01,978 "So let's get rid of those damn Irishmen. They're no good." 118 00:07:02,118 --> 00:07:05,684 They took our jobs away. That's why we got mad at them. 119 00:07:05,824 --> 00:07:10,424 During the Depression if a factory put up a sign 'Help Wanted', 120 00:07:10,564 --> 00:07:14,320 everybody lined up to get a job, hundreds of people, 121 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:17,421 and normal Americans (normal means fucked up) 122 00:07:17,561 --> 00:07:21,803 would say "Let's get the god damn Wops out of the line." 123 00:07:21,943 --> 00:07:24,539 "Let's get the god damn Filipinos out of the line" 124 00:07:24,679 --> 00:07:27,163 because they threaten our jobs. 125 00:07:27,303 --> 00:07:31,657 That's why they do that. Racial hatred is tolerated 126 00:07:31,797 --> 00:07:34,546 and brought about, but I want to tell you this: 127 00:07:34,686 --> 00:07:38,813 If a normal American baby or Greek baby or French baby 128 00:07:38,953 --> 00:07:41,259 were brought up in Nazi Germany, 129 00:07:41,399 --> 00:07:45,523 and all they see is "Heil Hitler! Deutschland über alles!" 130 00:07:45,663 --> 00:07:48,775 (Germany above all) they become Nazis! 131 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:52,083 If you're brought up in America you become "Yes, sir. I'm an American 132 00:07:52,223 --> 00:07:55,479 and proud of it." Most Americans don't know 133 00:07:55,619 --> 00:08:01,125 that George Washington, the first President, had 300 slaves. 134 00:08:01,265 --> 00:08:04,413 Today he'd be arrested as a nut. 135 00:08:04,671 --> 00:08:09,003 And most of the people... Harry Truman, President Truman 136 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:12,914 was a hat salesman, a real jackass 137 00:08:13,105 --> 00:08:15,474 in Presidential position. 138 00:08:15,756 --> 00:08:19,989 Now, who are these people in government? What is a politician? 139 00:08:20,261 --> 00:08:22,234 I don't want you to take my word. 140 00:08:22,374 --> 00:08:26,277 I want you to walk over to any politician you know 141 00:08:26,417 --> 00:08:28,371 (or do not know) and ask them 142 00:08:28,511 --> 00:08:32,727 "How can you grow food faster without exhausting the soil 143 00:08:32,867 --> 00:08:35,792 and feed the hungry?" "I don't know." 144 00:08:35,932 --> 00:08:40,124 "How can you make automobiles that don't hit each other?" "I don't know." 145 00:08:40,264 --> 00:08:43,195 "How can you make highways safer?" "I don't know." 146 00:08:43,335 --> 00:08:47,212 They don't know anything! Don't take my word for it. Ask them! 147 00:08:47,547 --> 00:08:49,763 They really don't know a damn thing, 148 00:08:49,903 --> 00:08:52,940 and I mean politicians all over the world. 149 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,893 All countries, all, are basically corrupt. 150 00:08:57,033 --> 00:08:59,121 If you don't understand what I'm saying, 151 00:08:59,261 --> 00:09:02,145 where do you think America got America from? 152 00:09:02,285 --> 00:09:04,935 You think the Indians said "Come on over, enjoy yourself. 153 00:09:05,075 --> 00:09:10,074 Take all the land you want." No, we killed thousands of Indians. 154 00:09:10,284 --> 00:09:14,869 We starved 50 million buffalo to make it tough for the Indians; 155 00:09:15,059 --> 00:09:17,882 and the Indians that fought back 156 00:09:18,697 --> 00:09:23,735 really tried to take some land back, 157 00:09:23,917 --> 00:09:26,135 but the government decided 158 00:09:26,275 --> 00:09:28,822 that they wanted to get rid of those aggressive Indians 159 00:09:28,962 --> 00:09:32,314 that wouldn't conform to what we wanted; 160 00:09:32,454 --> 00:09:36,047 so they offered 10 bucks for every Indian you killed, 161 00:09:36,187 --> 00:09:39,316 and the guy walked over and said "I just killed 10 Indians." 162 00:09:39,456 --> 00:09:41,805 The government said "How do we know that? 163 00:09:42,001 --> 00:09:43,998 Bring back a piece of the Indian." 164 00:09:44,138 --> 00:09:48,145 So they started scalping: Americans, not the Indians, 165 00:09:48,285 --> 00:09:51,340 and we brought back 10 scalps to collect 10 bucks 166 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,416 for every Indian you killed. 167 00:09:53,556 --> 00:09:57,832 Americans are no good, the French are no good, the Greeks are no good. 168 00:09:57,972 --> 00:09:59,806 All nations are corrupt. 169 00:09:59,946 --> 00:10:02,521 They say "The sun never sets on England." 170 00:10:02,661 --> 00:10:05,292 Where do you think England got all that land from? 171 00:10:05,432 --> 00:10:09,166 They took it by killing thousands of people. 172 00:10:09,306 --> 00:10:11,901 So, if you don't like the guy next door, 173 00:10:12,041 --> 00:10:16,067 if you shoot him and miss by one inch you're not a murderer. 174 00:10:16,207 --> 00:10:18,897 If your aim is a little better, you're a murderer, 175 00:10:19,034 --> 00:10:20,651 if you hit the guy. 176 00:10:20,791 --> 00:10:24,860 Today they have guns, machine guns with the laser beams. 177 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,710 When it's on you and you pull the trigger, bullets come out. 178 00:10:27,850 --> 00:10:30,192 If it's a little off, no bullets come out. 179 00:10:30,332 --> 00:10:33,734 The guns are getting smarter; soldiers are getting dumber, 180 00:10:33,874 --> 00:10:37,264 and they are killing. They are killing machines. 181 00:10:37,474 --> 00:10:41,970 We would train soldiers to be problem solvers, send them back to school. 182 00:10:42,110 --> 00:10:44,822 How do you bridge the difference between nations? 183 00:10:44,962 --> 00:10:46,821 How can we improve agriculture? 184 00:10:46,961 --> 00:10:49,589 How can we fight hurricanes, heart disease? 185 00:10:49,729 --> 00:10:52,508 This is the real problem, not killing! 186 00:10:52,648 --> 00:10:57,633 When you kill people and bomb cities...Consider the abortionist. 187 00:10:57,817 --> 00:10:59,832 Some people say "Jeez, it's terrible. 188 00:10:59,972 --> 00:11:02,367 They commit abortion. They take a life." 189 00:11:02,507 --> 00:11:05,579 If these people were consistently educated, 190 00:11:05,719 --> 00:11:10,194 when you have war you kill pregnant women, children, everybody! 191 00:11:10,334 --> 00:11:13,720 Why don't they fight against war? Why just abortionists? 192 00:11:13,916 --> 00:11:17,890 There is something dreadfully wrong with all our schools. 193 00:11:18,091 --> 00:11:21,116 They have better equipment than ever (the universities), 194 00:11:21,256 --> 00:11:24,182 the best, and the wars are getting worse. 195 00:11:24,322 --> 00:11:29,130 The atom bomb is considered nothing today compared to the cobalt bomb 196 00:11:29,270 --> 00:11:31,570 that would kill many more people. 197 00:11:31,710 --> 00:11:34,006 Each submarine (I'm talking about America. 198 00:11:34,146 --> 00:11:36,599 It's the only country I have information on.) 199 00:11:36,739 --> 00:11:39,169 [America] has 300 submarines. 200 00:11:39,309 --> 00:11:44,014 According to the Navy, each one has more destructive power 201 00:11:44,154 --> 00:11:47,431 than all the wars in history. 202 00:11:47,617 --> 00:11:50,298 What can you accomplish with that? 203 00:11:50,494 --> 00:11:53,607 Then they tell you other things. 204 00:11:53,793 --> 00:11:57,448 They tell you things like: be good, be kind. 205 00:11:57,634 --> 00:11:59,319 How can you be kind or good? 206 00:11:59,459 --> 00:12:02,632 Suppose I have a factory and I turn out things 207 00:12:02,772 --> 00:12:06,820 ten times faster than your factory? Same product. 208 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,680 If I share that with you, I lose the competitive edge. 209 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:14,899 If I have patents, I deprive people all over the world 210 00:12:15,039 --> 00:12:17,606 from making things that make life better. 211 00:12:17,746 --> 00:12:19,514 So, how can you be decent? 212 00:12:19,654 --> 00:12:22,686 You go to church on Sunday and what do you do there? 213 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,800 You look at the clothes of other people. 214 00:12:24,915 --> 00:12:28,528 Everybody dresses to outface the other person. 215 00:12:28,668 --> 00:12:33,690 When they go to church, what do they do mostly? Bother God. 216 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:36,623 "We need a new car. My wife needs a car. 217 00:12:36,763 --> 00:12:40,933 I'd like a home in the country. I'd like this. I'd like that." 218 00:12:41,073 --> 00:12:43,404 They say that God knows everything. 219 00:12:43,544 --> 00:12:45,974 That's what they teach you in church. 220 00:12:46,260 --> 00:12:49,966 God knows everything. He made every planet, every galaxy. 221 00:12:50,106 --> 00:12:53,042 When I went to church, I insulted 222 00:12:53,366 --> 00:12:56,583 the minister by saying "If God knows everything 223 00:12:56,723 --> 00:12:58,970 why did Jesus insult God?" 224 00:12:59,110 --> 00:13:01,830 He said "I don't remember Jesus insulting God." 225 00:13:01,970 --> 00:13:06,077 Well, they crucified Jesus. Just before they crucified him 226 00:13:06,217 --> 00:13:08,830 he looked up and said "Father, forgive them 227 00:13:08,966 --> 00:13:11,063 for they know not what they do." 228 00:13:11,203 --> 00:13:14,267 And God said "Gee, I didn't know that, thanks!" 229 00:13:14,468 --> 00:13:18,563 If he knows everything what is Jesus talking to him about? 230 00:13:18,782 --> 00:13:21,809 What are you talking to him about if he knows everything? 231 00:13:21,949 --> 00:13:25,551 "Aunt Minnie is sick. She is suffering. Please ease the pain." 232 00:13:25,691 --> 00:13:29,686 [God] "Well, I didn't know that about Aunt Minnie, OK!" 233 00:13:29,826 --> 00:13:33,163 You see, man makes God in his own image: 234 00:13:33,303 --> 00:13:35,892 Some jerk that gets angry and says "Noah, 235 00:13:36,032 --> 00:13:39,698 build yourself an ark. I'm going to flood the whole area. 236 00:13:39,838 --> 00:13:43,540 I don't like the products I turned out." He wants to kill everybody, 237 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:46,506 so Noah is to build an ark. 238 00:13:46,646 --> 00:13:51,753 If he took two kinds of every animal the ark would be about a mile long. 239 00:13:52,049 --> 00:13:54,785 Who cleans the shit out of that boat? 240 00:13:56,250 --> 00:14:00,454 The stories are so ridiculous they are not even sensible. 241 00:14:00,594 --> 00:14:04,148 So, I read the Bible instead of the comic strips 242 00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:08,834 because there is nothing in it that makes sense. God sits on a throne. 243 00:14:08,974 --> 00:14:12,592 He makes a man and a woman, puts them in a beautiful garden 244 00:14:12,732 --> 00:14:15,658 and then he has a snake that walks upright 245 00:14:15,798 --> 00:14:17,866 (according to the Bible, not me), 246 00:14:18,006 --> 00:14:22,526 and the snake says "Eat of the fruit of knowledge" and Eve did that, 247 00:14:22,666 --> 00:14:25,900 and he kicked them both out and slammed the gates shut. 248 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,749 All loving, all kind God! 249 00:14:28,889 --> 00:14:31,525 The contradictions are so thick in the Bible, 250 00:14:31,665 --> 00:14:34,848 it's amazing that everybody doesn't see it! 251 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:39,536 Now in the Bible, if you're religious, it says "Thou shalt not kill." 252 00:14:39,676 --> 00:14:42,970 It doesn't say "You can kill Wednesdays and Thursdays." 253 00:14:43,110 --> 00:14:45,654 It says "Thou shalt not kill." 254 00:14:45,794 --> 00:14:48,071 Then it says "Love thine enemy" 255 00:14:48,211 --> 00:14:51,415 meaning if a man strikes you, turn the other cheek. 256 00:14:51,678 --> 00:14:54,371 What happens in times of war? 257 00:14:54,511 --> 00:14:56,741 What's the matter with these Christians? [that kill] 258 00:14:56,881 --> 00:15:00,941 Larry King once said "What do you think of Christianity, Fresco?" 259 00:15:01,081 --> 00:15:05,334 I said "It's a great idea, when are they putting it into practice?" 260 00:15:05,915 --> 00:15:11,151 [Laughter, then applause] 261 00:15:11,394 --> 00:15:14,797 Frankly, I've never met a Christian 262 00:15:15,113 --> 00:15:17,664 that forgives people, 263 00:15:17,804 --> 00:15:21,285 that loves their enemy, that turns the other cheek, 264 00:15:21,425 --> 00:15:23,495 that has no locks on the door. 265 00:15:23,635 --> 00:15:27,002 When a hungry person knocks, they bring them in and say 266 00:15:27,142 --> 00:15:30,438 "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." 267 00:15:30,578 --> 00:15:32,644 I never met a Christian [like that]. 268 00:15:32,784 --> 00:15:36,224 Never found one anywhere I've traveled. 269 00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:40,724 The point is, all of us need security. 270 00:15:40,864 --> 00:15:43,048 All people, all over the world 271 00:15:43,188 --> 00:15:49,081 need clean air, clean water, arable land and a relevant education. 272 00:15:49,221 --> 00:15:53,016 What does relevant education mean? To study agriculture, 273 00:15:53,245 --> 00:15:57,766 nature, how we relate to nature, how we relate to one another, 274 00:15:57,971 --> 00:16:03,503 to give us the tools to live in accordance with what we want, 275 00:16:03,643 --> 00:16:05,867 not what they want you to be. 276 00:16:06,007 --> 00:16:10,250 They want you to be patriotic. That means they want to control you. 277 00:16:10,390 --> 00:16:14,474 "Patriotism" Einstein said "is a disease," 278 00:16:14,817 --> 00:16:17,023 but he couldn't say that publicly. 279 00:16:17,163 --> 00:16:21,685 When he came to this country, he was a socialist to America, 280 00:16:21,802 --> 00:16:23,802 and they said "Don't talk socialism! 281 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:26,406 They will ship your ass back to Germany." 282 00:16:26,546 --> 00:16:28,460 So he wouldn't talk about it. 283 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,175 Einstein, I once asked him whether he felt 284 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:38,130 that social design would be prevalent for all people, useful. 285 00:16:38,270 --> 00:16:40,725 He said he was a socialist. He really didn't know 286 00:16:40,865 --> 00:16:43,234 the anatomy of social design. 287 00:16:43,374 --> 00:16:46,143 He said "Are you interested in mathematics?" 288 00:16:46,283 --> 00:16:48,205 I said "Yes, as a tool." 289 00:16:48,345 --> 00:16:51,900 He didn't really know the process of social design. 290 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,827 I asked Communists "How will you prevent corruption in the future?" 291 00:16:56,967 --> 00:17:00,863 They said "Well, when that time comes (this was in the Great Depression) 292 00:17:01,003 --> 00:17:03,030 we'll work on it." 293 00:17:03,170 --> 00:17:06,169 I asked them "How will you house millions of people?" 294 00:17:06,309 --> 00:17:09,732 "Well, ah, when that time comes, we'll work on that." 295 00:17:09,872 --> 00:17:12,653 I said "Let's start a technical branch 296 00:17:12,793 --> 00:17:16,986 of the Communist Party or Socialist Party or any party 297 00:17:17,126 --> 00:17:22,146 to make life secure for all people, so no one can become corrupt." 298 00:17:22,286 --> 00:17:24,875 They said "You are deviating from the teachings of Marx. 299 00:17:25,015 --> 00:17:26,565 You'll have to leave." 300 00:17:26,705 --> 00:17:29,904 I wasn't trying to deviate or disrupt Communists. 301 00:17:30,044 --> 00:17:33,350 I was trying to give them a method of solving problems. 302 00:17:33,490 --> 00:17:36,909 I joined at that time, during the Depression, 303 00:17:37,049 --> 00:17:39,157 I joined Technocracy [the movement] 304 00:17:39,297 --> 00:17:42,870 because they talked about using science in government, 305 00:17:43,010 --> 00:17:45,982 but there were no blacks in the organization. 306 00:17:46,122 --> 00:17:48,240 I said "How come there's no blacks?" 307 00:17:48,380 --> 00:17:51,348 They said "Well, let them start their own section." 308 00:17:51,488 --> 00:17:53,653 I said "What about Orientals?" 309 00:17:53,793 --> 00:17:57,576 They said "The Oriental mind can't grasp technology." 310 00:17:57,771 --> 00:18:02,565 Of course, as you know today, they lead the world in robotics. 311 00:18:02,789 --> 00:18:06,574 All our thoughts about different kinds of people are lies. 312 00:18:06,714 --> 00:18:08,222 They are not real. 313 00:18:08,362 --> 00:18:12,437 We have to understand that all people tend to love their kids. 314 00:18:12,577 --> 00:18:15,613 All people want their kids to be better educated. 315 00:18:15,753 --> 00:18:18,491 All people want to know about nutrition. 316 00:18:18,631 --> 00:18:21,886 So, let's say the drug companies were really sincere, 317 00:18:22,026 --> 00:18:26,010 and they found out that celery juice lowers blood pressure. 318 00:18:26,150 --> 00:18:29,514 You can't make any money selling celery juice, could you? 319 00:18:29,654 --> 00:18:32,359 But you can get two bucks for every pill you sell. 320 00:18:32,546 --> 00:18:35,055 There was a book written many years ago. 321 00:18:35,195 --> 00:18:38,213 I'd also like to know how many people ever heard of it: 322 00:18:38,353 --> 00:18:41,110 'A Hundred Million Guinea Pigs'. 323 00:18:41,250 --> 00:18:43,307 How many of you have heard of that book? 324 00:18:43,447 --> 00:18:46,763 It should have been in every library. It's not. 325 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:49,789 What did 'A Hundred Million Guinea Pigs' talk about? 326 00:18:49,929 --> 00:18:53,152 The lies put out by the drug companies. 327 00:18:53,292 --> 00:18:55,128 The people of America... 328 00:18:55,268 --> 00:18:58,948 (it was a bestseller by the way in America, years ago) 329 00:18:59,088 --> 00:19:02,930 They demanded that the government put in a Pure Food and Drug Administration 330 00:19:03,195 --> 00:19:06,326 to check the claims of the drug companies, 331 00:19:06,466 --> 00:19:08,356 and they did. They got that in. 332 00:19:08,496 --> 00:19:12,643 Now it's run by people of the drug companies. 333 00:19:13,154 --> 00:19:17,370 Everything becomes corrupt. Everything we touch. 334 00:19:17,510 --> 00:19:19,850 So Oppenheimer 335 00:19:19,990 --> 00:19:23,342 went to visit Harry Truman (President Harry Truman) 336 00:19:23,482 --> 00:19:26,827 and said "Now that we have an atom bomb 337 00:19:26,967 --> 00:19:31,304 why don't you demonstrate it about 30 miles out at sea 338 00:19:31,444 --> 00:19:33,610 so the Japanese can see it? 339 00:19:33,750 --> 00:19:38,146 You won't have to drop it over Japan. Give them a chance to surrender." 340 00:19:38,286 --> 00:19:40,377 Harry Truman said "Get out of my office! 341 00:19:40,517 --> 00:19:42,760 I never want to see you guys again." 342 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:46,534 They dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 343 00:19:46,674 --> 00:19:51,191 because he was a jackass. Most Presidents are very stupid people. 344 00:19:51,331 --> 00:19:55,242 They know nothing about ecology, evolution of the society, 345 00:19:55,382 --> 00:20:01,067 or have ever. No politician has ever increased the agricultural yield, 346 00:20:01,207 --> 00:20:04,599 made automobiles safer, airplanes safer. 347 00:20:04,739 --> 00:20:06,876 What the hell are they doing there! 348 00:20:07,016 --> 00:20:08,864 How did they get the job? 349 00:20:09,004 --> 00:20:12,109 There is something dreadfully wrong with education. 350 00:20:12,249 --> 00:20:14,137 The people in Washington... 351 00:20:14,277 --> 00:20:18,815 (I can only talk about them. I believe all countries are similar.) 352 00:20:18,955 --> 00:20:22,727 The people in Washington should know more about human behavior, 353 00:20:22,867 --> 00:20:24,700 the latest technologies... 354 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,758 They tell you "If you want freedom, write your congressman." 355 00:20:27,898 --> 00:20:32,008 Why do you have to write him? He should know all those things. 356 00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:35,302 When you fly on an airplane, you don't have to write the pilot. 357 00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:39,497 Say "You've been flying at an angle for a half hour. Straighten up!" 358 00:20:39,693 --> 00:20:41,473 They know their business! 359 00:20:41,613 --> 00:20:44,508 The same for government. They should know everything 360 00:20:44,648 --> 00:20:48,057 about modern technology, human behavior. 361 00:20:48,197 --> 00:20:54,050 When you put a man in prison: Say he stole a watch that cost $150 362 00:20:54,407 --> 00:20:57,171 and it's the 4th time he committed that crime, 363 00:20:57,311 --> 00:21:00,215 so you put him in jail for 7 years. 364 00:21:00,355 --> 00:21:02,928 That's a hell of a lot of watches you can give him. 365 00:21:03,068 --> 00:21:06,983 Figure the costs of that: feeding him, medical care for 7 years. 366 00:21:07,123 --> 00:21:09,591 Let him have the watch! 367 00:21:09,839 --> 00:21:15,374 It's much cheaper to give people things they need than to kill them. 368 00:21:15,514 --> 00:21:20,069 Think of a man in jail for life. Do you know how much that costs? 369 00:21:20,209 --> 00:21:23,840 They're worried about the fact that he tried to rob a jewelry store 370 00:21:23,980 --> 00:21:26,905 of maybe three or four hundred dollars? 371 00:21:27,291 --> 00:21:29,816 It's always cheaper to feed people. 372 00:21:29,956 --> 00:21:32,394 When they go to jail, I can assure you, 373 00:21:32,534 --> 00:21:34,469 they don't come out any better. 374 00:21:34,609 --> 00:21:36,697 They call them correctional institutes. 375 00:21:36,837 --> 00:21:39,524 They don't even know how to correct people. 376 00:21:39,664 --> 00:21:42,328 They are not people trained in that area. 377 00:21:42,657 --> 00:21:45,781 Then, you have a bunch of people they call psychologists 378 00:21:45,921 --> 00:21:47,960 (I hope there is none here today) 379 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:52,932 and psychiatrists, that adjust you to this fucked up culture. 380 00:21:53,072 --> 00:21:56,665 How can you adjust people to this culture if you're sane? 381 00:21:56,805 --> 00:22:00,315 Do you understand what I mean? So even psychologists 382 00:22:00,455 --> 00:22:02,970 and psychiatrists are part of the culture. 383 00:22:03,110 --> 00:22:04,679 So is religion. 384 00:22:04,819 --> 00:22:08,181 "Jesus needs money." Jesus doesn't need anything. 385 00:22:08,321 --> 00:22:10,186 God doesn't need anything. 386 00:22:10,326 --> 00:22:14,509 They also try to tell you that God so loveth the world, 387 00:22:14,649 --> 00:22:17,173 that he gave his only begotten son. 388 00:22:17,313 --> 00:22:19,578 According to the Bible, it says 389 00:22:19,718 --> 00:22:23,903 they crucified Christ, he arose and ascended into heaven. 390 00:22:24,043 --> 00:22:26,509 Where is the sacrifice? 391 00:22:26,914 --> 00:22:28,482 Think about it. 392 00:22:29,164 --> 00:22:31,330 So, we don't think about what we read. 393 00:22:31,470 --> 00:22:34,338 We just read and we just yack. 394 00:22:34,677 --> 00:22:39,174 When we're asked to vote for somebody, we vote for somebody 395 00:22:39,314 --> 00:22:43,291 that fits the patterns we've been brought up to accept. 396 00:22:43,506 --> 00:22:48,215 Now, during the question period, please don't be polite. 397 00:22:48,355 --> 00:22:52,060 If I say anything you don't understand, say "I don't get it." 398 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,221 If I fail to answer your question, 399 00:22:54,361 --> 00:22:57,576 say "You didn't answer my question." Don't be polite. 400 00:22:57,716 --> 00:23:02,530 At the question period, we will examine some of the ideas, 401 00:23:02,670 --> 00:23:06,106 and I want you to ask all kinds of naughty questions. 402 00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:10,128 Don't accept a thing I say. I don't want you to follow me. 403 00:23:10,268 --> 00:23:13,575 I want you to listen to what I say. If it makes sense, do it. 404 00:23:13,715 --> 00:23:17,100 If you like The Venus Project, when you leave here 405 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,756 if you don't talk to other people about it, nothing will happen. 406 00:23:21,971 --> 00:23:25,682 If you like what we stand for...Look, it's not perfect. 407 00:23:25,822 --> 00:23:28,719 It's just a lot better than the society you live in, 408 00:23:28,859 --> 00:23:32,893 and it will continue to get better. There are no final frontiers. 409 00:23:33,033 --> 00:23:35,300 People think I am a Utopian, 410 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,710 [that] I believe you can make the best of all possible worlds. 411 00:23:38,850 --> 00:23:42,899 I don't. Even If I design a city that works, 412 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:46,736 that city will be a strait jacket to the kids of the future. 413 00:23:46,876 --> 00:23:48,881 They will design their own cities. 414 00:23:49,021 --> 00:23:54,192 If you make a statue of me and put it in the city, that holds people back! 415 00:23:54,783 --> 00:23:57,820 In order to move forward you have to look at things, examine it, 416 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,122 improve it and move on. 417 00:24:00,546 --> 00:24:04,804 History is very poor. You don't learn much from it. 418 00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:10,663 If you study history exclusively you won't come up with new ideas. 419 00:24:10,803 --> 00:24:14,499 We want to move on. There is no such thing as Utopia. 420 00:24:14,639 --> 00:24:19,952 Every city I design would be the best I know up to now, 421 00:24:20,092 --> 00:24:23,421 and as time goes on, you learn more, and the city changes. 422 00:24:23,561 --> 00:24:27,110 Nothing can be frozen and kept that way. 423 00:24:27,250 --> 00:24:31,137 Everything keeps changing. There are no final frontiers. 424 00:24:31,277 --> 00:24:34,243 That's what the matter with heaven: It's fixed. 425 00:24:34,444 --> 00:24:37,055 Everything is the same way. Consider this: 426 00:24:37,195 --> 00:24:39,442 If you went to heaven and you looked down 427 00:24:39,582 --> 00:24:42,792 and saw starving kids in Africa, war on Earth, 428 00:24:42,932 --> 00:24:47,468 would heaven be a peaceful place for you? Absolutely not! 429 00:24:47,608 --> 00:24:50,859 There were a bunch of angels that turned against God 430 00:24:50,999 --> 00:24:54,323 so he kicked them all out. They are called 'the fallen angels'. 431 00:24:54,463 --> 00:24:58,480 If he didn't have peace up there, how the hell are you going to have it down here? 432 00:24:58,723 --> 00:25:02,946 You have to read your Bible, you have to be ruthlessly honest! 433 00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:07,773 [Applause] 434 00:25:07,956 --> 00:25:10,591 If you're not honest, it won't work. 435 00:25:10,731 --> 00:25:15,485 It says in the Bible "Judge not, lest ye be judged." That means 436 00:25:15,625 --> 00:25:19,575 don't judge anybody. You don't know enough about what made him that way. 437 00:25:19,715 --> 00:25:25,458 It also says in the Bible "Therefore by the grace of God, go I." 438 00:25:25,598 --> 00:25:28,855 That's anybody you see in a wheelchair, blind, 439 00:25:28,995 --> 00:25:32,069 all of us. That can happen to all of us. 440 00:25:32,185 --> 00:25:34,185 They don't know what to do about it. 441 00:25:34,302 --> 00:25:39,619 In 1927, I came up with a little idea which I got from bats. 442 00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:43,514 Bats can fly at night and not hit anything. 443 00:25:43,654 --> 00:25:45,699 How do they do it? By sound. 444 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:49,219 So, I made a little gadget that would fit over a person's ear 445 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,055 and generate sound waves, 446 00:25:51,195 --> 00:25:54,217 so you can hear an open door even though you're blind. 447 00:25:54,357 --> 00:25:57,695 You can hear an object in front of you by sound feedback. 448 00:25:57,835 --> 00:26:00,248 We can build things in all cities 449 00:26:00,388 --> 00:26:05,212 so the blind don't need that white stick or a dog or anything like that. 450 00:26:05,352 --> 00:26:09,432 In a meantime, we'll work on artificial systems of vision. 451 00:26:09,572 --> 00:26:13,136 I think that human beings can solve any problem. 452 00:26:13,276 --> 00:26:17,429 If you don't understand me, I am not upholding Germany this time 453 00:26:17,569 --> 00:26:19,360 (some people think I do). 454 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,451 We formed a blockade to prevent the Germans from getting rubber, 455 00:26:23,591 --> 00:26:27,430 but they had enough technicians to make synthetic rubber; 456 00:26:27,570 --> 00:26:30,097 so they made all the rubber for their airplanes and everything 457 00:26:30,237 --> 00:26:32,490 out of their own chemistry. 458 00:26:32,713 --> 00:26:36,537 So, with technicians... not in charge! 459 00:26:36,859 --> 00:26:41,122 Understand: I don't want to see science in charge of government 460 00:26:41,262 --> 00:26:42,850 or technicians. 461 00:26:42,990 --> 00:26:46,973 What I want to see is their assignment to problems 462 00:26:47,113 --> 00:26:49,382 such as agriculture. 463 00:26:49,522 --> 00:26:55,272 When you can grow food twice as fast on the soil, you exhaust the soil. 464 00:26:55,412 --> 00:26:59,958 We want to know how to grow food faster without exhausting the soil. 465 00:27:00,098 --> 00:27:05,517 The United States Army dumped 65 tons of nerve gas 466 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:09,885 into the ocean off the coast of Miami near the Gulf Stream. 467 00:27:10,025 --> 00:27:12,829 How can you love the country if the army did that? 468 00:27:12,969 --> 00:27:14,700 They don't know what they're doing. 469 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,807 "We want you to dump nerve gas." "Yes, Sir." 470 00:27:17,947 --> 00:27:20,245 We don't want obedient people anymore. 471 00:27:20,385 --> 00:27:22,500 We want you to understand what's happening. 472 00:27:22,844 --> 00:27:26,210 We don't want you to vote for a senator or some other jackass. 473 00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:28,874 They are incompetent! All of them! 474 00:27:29,014 --> 00:27:33,126 I want you to understand, everything that you have today 475 00:27:33,266 --> 00:27:36,489 (your electric lights, your airplanes, your automobiles), 476 00:27:36,629 --> 00:27:38,621 you had nothing to do with them. 477 00:27:38,761 --> 00:27:43,302 You got them just being born in a country that had that technology. 478 00:27:43,442 --> 00:27:44,978 You got it for nothing. 479 00:27:45,118 --> 00:27:47,852 I don't think any of you here worked on the electric light 480 00:27:47,992 --> 00:27:51,513 or radio or television, very few people. 481 00:27:51,653 --> 00:27:55,519 You got all that for nothing. Does it hurt you? Of course not. 482 00:27:55,659 --> 00:27:58,905 They say "Well, you don't want to give people things for nothing, do you?" 483 00:27:59,045 --> 00:28:01,802 This kid said that to me at Princeton University. 484 00:28:01,942 --> 00:28:04,429 "Fresco, you want to give people things for nothing." 485 00:28:04,569 --> 00:28:07,113 I said "Are you paying your way through college?" 486 00:28:07,253 --> 00:28:10,745 He said "No, my dad is." I said "Does that hurt you?" 487 00:28:12,038 --> 00:28:14,539 This kid said to me he still doesn't believe 488 00:28:14,679 --> 00:28:17,247 anybody ought to get things for nothing. 489 00:28:17,533 --> 00:28:20,544 So I said to him "Well, as I understand, your father is wealthy. 490 00:28:20,684 --> 00:28:24,779 If he dies, you want his money to go to the heart fund 491 00:28:24,919 --> 00:28:27,304 and the cancer fund, but not to you, 492 00:28:27,444 --> 00:28:30,714 because you don't believe anybody ought to get anything for nothing." 493 00:28:30,854 --> 00:28:33,344 He said "Just a minute now!" 494 00:28:33,998 --> 00:28:37,141 Everybody wants things for nothing. You got the earth for nothing. 495 00:28:37,281 --> 00:28:39,951 You were born here. Beautiful scenery, clouds. 496 00:28:40,091 --> 00:28:43,640 You didn't make any of that. Does it hurt you? Of course not, 497 00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:46,099 but when you're born in a polluted world 498 00:28:46,239 --> 00:28:49,303 with smog in the air and automobile pollution, 499 00:28:49,443 --> 00:28:52,381 then "I guess that's the way it is." It isn't that way! 500 00:28:52,521 --> 00:28:57,511 It's because the people in charge of government are totally incompetent. 501 00:28:57,750 --> 00:29:00,571 What you really want is a world free, 502 00:29:00,711 --> 00:29:05,122 free of burden, pain, prisons, police, crime. 503 00:29:05,262 --> 00:29:09,434 Can we do that? The church has been trying to do it for years. 504 00:29:09,574 --> 00:29:12,744 They don't know how. They have no idea how to do it. 505 00:29:12,884 --> 00:29:16,364 They say "Be kind, be good." How do you do that? 506 00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:20,625 I wanted my children, two of them, 507 00:29:20,835 --> 00:29:23,558 to learn how to read. 508 00:29:23,749 --> 00:29:25,794 I never taught them how to read. 509 00:29:25,934 --> 00:29:29,716 I would open a book at night and I would read to them in bed. 510 00:29:29,984 --> 00:29:32,853 I'd read to them about things kids are interested in. 511 00:29:32,993 --> 00:29:36,393 This happened to be my son. He was about 4 years old. 512 00:29:36,533 --> 00:29:38,939 I was reading about dinosaurs, 513 00:29:39,173 --> 00:29:42,622 and I said "When the two dinosaurs met... ahh [yawn]." 514 00:29:42,966 --> 00:29:45,199 I said "That's all for tonight." I close it. 515 00:29:45,339 --> 00:29:48,029 He said "What happened when the dinosaurs met?" 516 00:29:48,169 --> 00:29:52,202 I said "Look, if you learn to read, you can figure it out for yourself." 517 00:29:52,402 --> 00:29:57,026 I gave him a reason to want to read! Don't just teach them to read. 518 00:29:57,166 --> 00:30:00,451 Teach them a reason to want to learn mathematics. 519 00:30:00,591 --> 00:30:05,642 Teachers teach you how to read "The Dickie Dare and his sheep. 520 00:30:05,782 --> 00:30:10,758 On the way he met a cow. 'Moo moo' said the cow." What is that crap? 521 00:30:11,352 --> 00:30:14,515 They have in America (I don't know how much you have it here) 522 00:30:14,655 --> 00:30:18,199 the Mickey Mouse Club! Now, what the hell happens 523 00:30:18,339 --> 00:30:21,646 if you condition kids to join the Mickey Mouse Club? 524 00:30:21,786 --> 00:30:24,433 You make a bunch of pinheads! 525 00:30:24,667 --> 00:30:27,582 Do you understand? Kids want to know everything. 526 00:30:27,722 --> 00:30:30,683 How do airplanes fly? "Daddy, what makes the light go on?" 527 00:30:30,823 --> 00:30:34,092 He says "I don't know that." Daddy usually doesn't know anything. 528 00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:37,046 And congressmen know less. 529 00:30:37,186 --> 00:30:41,677 I'm saying, everything that you have is technical. Think about it. 530 00:30:41,817 --> 00:30:46,372 If we took away technology, if you shut down Boulder Dam, tomorrow, 531 00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:48,694 all the food in all the refrigerators 532 00:30:48,834 --> 00:30:53,617 from LA to San Francisco would fail. 533 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:55,775 All the food would rot away. 534 00:30:55,915 --> 00:30:58,261 Everything that you have is technology. 535 00:30:58,401 --> 00:31:04,108 If you shut down the power projects, men would have to pull cars and boats. 536 00:31:04,521 --> 00:31:08,204 They did it on the Volga River. They had to pull freighters. 537 00:31:08,344 --> 00:31:11,304 Men (slaves) were whipped to do that. 538 00:31:11,444 --> 00:31:15,349 Slavery was normal in the old days, 539 00:31:15,489 --> 00:31:19,670 and kings felt that they were put here to rule over people. 540 00:31:19,810 --> 00:31:22,500 People in my position like to think 541 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,558 that they are here to try to make the world a better place 542 00:31:25,698 --> 00:31:28,149 [that] 'divine wisdom' guides them. 543 00:31:28,521 --> 00:31:33,059 Look, divine wisdom doesn't guide anybody. 544 00:31:33,199 --> 00:31:36,871 When Christians were fed to lions, they prayed like hell. 545 00:31:37,011 --> 00:31:41,225 The Jews in concentration camps prayed, and they were burned. 546 00:31:41,365 --> 00:31:43,420 In Salem, Massachusetts, 547 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,551 if a woman spoke up and she didn't quite agree with everything, 548 00:31:47,691 --> 00:31:50,216 she was burned alive as a witch. 549 00:31:50,356 --> 00:31:52,243 Now here is what you didn't know. 550 00:31:52,383 --> 00:31:55,056 I'm talking about the United States. 551 00:31:55,414 --> 00:31:58,643 Women, hundreds of them, were burned alive 552 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:02,502 because they thought about things just a little different, 553 00:32:02,642 --> 00:32:06,223 but then what you didn't know is for every witch you found 554 00:32:06,363 --> 00:32:09,390 you inherited their bank account and their land. 555 00:32:09,530 --> 00:32:12,957 It was a good job looking for witches in the old days. 556 00:32:13,097 --> 00:32:17,045 The more you can find, the more money you got, and free. 557 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:21,060 Here you have a world that is sicker than shit! 558 00:32:21,337 --> 00:32:23,352 When I say that I mean it: 559 00:32:23,492 --> 00:32:27,363 I mean that the world you live in is consisting of the stupid people, 560 00:32:27,503 --> 00:32:29,514 including the military. 561 00:32:29,654 --> 00:32:34,117 The Pentagon and Washington think that they are there to defend the country. 562 00:32:34,257 --> 00:32:36,178 Whatever a man can think of, 563 00:32:36,318 --> 00:32:39,037 some other-body can think of a way around that. 564 00:32:39,177 --> 00:32:40,958 You can't secure yourself. 565 00:32:41,098 --> 00:32:44,368 You think that you go to an airport, you put your luggage down 566 00:32:44,508 --> 00:32:46,516 they X-ray it and you're all right. 567 00:32:46,656 --> 00:32:51,247 I can design clothing that gives off nerve gas. 568 00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:54,581 There are other ways around anything a person could think. 569 00:32:54,721 --> 00:32:56,635 I wouldn't do that, of course. 570 00:32:56,775 --> 00:32:58,667 I wouldn't work on weapons. 571 00:32:58,807 --> 00:33:01,839 When I was drafted in the Army, the first thing they said was 572 00:33:01,979 --> 00:33:06,033 "Can you make a bomb, Fresco, that goes sideways instead of up?" 573 00:33:06,173 --> 00:33:08,614 I said "I have no idea how to do that." 574 00:33:08,754 --> 00:33:12,058 It says [in the Bible] "Cast ye not pearls before swine." 575 00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:14,191 People are not educated yet. 576 00:33:14,331 --> 00:33:17,697 They should not have weapons of mass destruction. 577 00:33:17,837 --> 00:33:19,453 They don't know how to use it. 578 00:33:19,593 --> 00:33:24,223 They should have technology that enhances all human life. 579 00:33:24,363 --> 00:33:27,013 This is what religion tries to do. 580 00:33:27,153 --> 00:33:31,032 I would say that The Venus Project is the nearest thing 581 00:33:31,172 --> 00:33:33,815 to the brotherhood of humanity. 582 00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:37,982 I want to try to tell you a little more about people. 583 00:33:38,122 --> 00:33:41,026 If you were raised in Nazi Germany as a baby, 584 00:33:41,166 --> 00:33:44,506 if you never saw anything else, it would be "Heil Hitler!" 585 00:33:44,646 --> 00:33:47,693 If you're raised in France "La Tour Eiffel!" 586 00:33:47,803 --> 00:33:49,803 Your facial expressions, everything. 587 00:33:49,915 --> 00:33:54,019 If you're raised in the South in America you speak with a Southern accent. 588 00:33:54,353 --> 00:33:57,497 If I say "Stop speaking with it," you can't. 589 00:33:57,712 --> 00:34:01,379 You say "Well, I'm gon' get me a nigga and I'm gon' kick his ass!" 590 00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:05,513 Is that you speaking? Or is that picked up from your environment? 591 00:34:05,693 --> 00:34:07,617 If you take a normal boy 592 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:12,278 and bring him up with six or ten very effeminate women... 593 00:34:12,479 --> 00:34:16,159 Women speak differently than men. They move their hands a lot. 594 00:34:16,299 --> 00:34:20,062 Facial expressions are different, more like I'm moving now. 595 00:34:20,249 --> 00:34:22,519 If you were just brought up with those women, 596 00:34:22,659 --> 00:34:25,339 a boy would move just like a woman. 597 00:34:25,479 --> 00:34:29,481 If you're brought up in Italy you say "Come on, eat, itza gooda food!" 598 00:34:29,686 --> 00:34:32,362 because even that is reflection. 599 00:34:32,502 --> 00:34:36,641 If you're brought up in Germany, again, it's "Deutschland über alles." 600 00:34:36,781 --> 00:34:40,771 If you're brought up in any other country, 601 00:34:40,911 --> 00:34:43,680 you might say you know where the person was brought up from 602 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:45,692 by the way they speak. 603 00:34:45,832 --> 00:34:49,396 "How are ya, Mate?" You know now that guy comes from: Australia. 604 00:34:49,536 --> 00:34:51,298 "How are ya, Mate!" 605 00:34:51,438 --> 00:34:54,832 You'd speak that way, your facial expressions would be that way, 606 00:34:54,972 --> 00:34:59,032 and you use words like 'individuality'. There's no such thing. 607 00:34:59,172 --> 00:35:01,610 Everybody reflects their culture. 608 00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:05,757 If you lived in France 10 years, you moved to Germany, lived there 10 years, 609 00:35:05,897 --> 00:35:09,888 you'd speak with the German-French accent. Not a thing you can do about it. 610 00:35:10,028 --> 00:35:13,113 We reflect our culture, all of us. 611 00:35:13,253 --> 00:35:16,448 When they say "Think for yourself", you can't, 612 00:35:16,588 --> 00:35:18,916 because you think as an American or a Frenchman 613 00:35:19,056 --> 00:35:22,283 or a German or a Greek or an Italian. 614 00:35:22,423 --> 00:35:27,752 When Germans speak when they come to this country, 615 00:35:27,892 --> 00:35:32,243 they speak and say "Well, I give you zom idea vot happened." 616 00:35:32,383 --> 00:35:34,888 That's the way they speak. They pick it up. 617 00:35:35,028 --> 00:35:37,508 It's a cross between German and English. 618 00:35:37,648 --> 00:35:40,540 I worked for a guy named Ernst Udet, 619 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:46,406 who was an ace of World War I. He shot down 71 planes. 620 00:35:46,546 --> 00:35:51,447 Since I worked for him, I said "How did you shoot down 71 airplanes?" 621 00:35:51,587 --> 00:35:55,332 Maybe if he shot down 5 or 6, that's possible, 622 00:35:55,472 --> 00:35:59,408 but how can you shoot down 71 airplanes? 623 00:35:59,548 --> 00:36:03,368 He said [German accent] "Eetz very easy, Fresco." That's the way he spoke. 624 00:36:03,508 --> 00:36:08,773 He said "I would fly above the squadrons 'und' I'd look for a rookie 625 00:36:08,913 --> 00:36:12,880 (a bad pilot, that didn't know how) and I'd pick him off." 626 00:36:13,081 --> 00:36:15,310 So, is he a good man? 627 00:36:15,450 --> 00:36:18,000 Is he kind? Is he human? 628 00:36:18,196 --> 00:36:22,207 Same with Eddie Rickenbacker. They always fly above the squadron 629 00:36:22,347 --> 00:36:25,568 and look for guys who can't fly too well and pick them off. 630 00:36:25,708 --> 00:36:30,211 That gives you a lot of medals, a lot of X's on your fuselage. 631 00:36:30,351 --> 00:36:32,568 So when you're brought up 632 00:36:32,759 --> 00:36:36,570 ... a lot of people go to church that says "Thou shalt not kill," 633 00:36:36,710 --> 00:36:39,911 and so it's hard to get people to enlist in the army. 634 00:36:40,051 --> 00:36:44,502 So they give Japanese or Chinese Americans false teeth, 635 00:36:44,642 --> 00:36:48,835 and they make a movie by Frank Capra called 'Why We Fight.' 636 00:36:48,975 --> 00:36:53,693 It shows these Japanese kids raping a woman 637 00:36:53,833 --> 00:36:56,511 and the enlistment goes up 75 percent. 638 00:36:56,651 --> 00:37:02,299 You have to teach hatred to have war to be a working system, 639 00:37:02,439 --> 00:37:05,015 and army men unfortunately, 640 00:37:05,155 --> 00:37:09,021 10 years after the war, that's the most exciting time of their life. 641 00:37:09,161 --> 00:37:12,337 They always go back and join The American Legion. 642 00:37:12,477 --> 00:37:14,723 They talk about the days they shot these 643 00:37:14,863 --> 00:37:17,136 god damn slanty-eyed bastards. 644 00:37:17,276 --> 00:37:20,617 The Germans were called Krauts, not human beings. 645 00:37:20,757 --> 00:37:22,816 We shot them too. 646 00:37:22,956 --> 00:37:25,256 Soldiers are killing machines, 647 00:37:25,396 --> 00:37:27,696 and if you want a world without war, 648 00:37:27,836 --> 00:37:30,748 people have to be educated to understand 649 00:37:30,888 --> 00:37:34,125 that all people need the same thing: good food, 650 00:37:34,265 --> 00:37:36,810 healthy living, a relevant education. 651 00:37:36,950 --> 00:37:38,479 Not killing, 652 00:37:38,619 --> 00:37:41,981 because war only produces hatred over the years. 653 00:37:42,121 --> 00:37:45,248 They remember that you killed their kids, their parents. 654 00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,891 and they want to get even with you. Some people say to me 655 00:37:49,031 --> 00:37:51,238 "I'm just imitating them. 656 00:37:51,378 --> 00:37:54,911 Why are these god damn north Koreans building rockets? 657 00:37:55,051 --> 00:37:58,429 Why are these Chinese building big armies? 658 00:37:58,569 --> 00:38:00,314 They are a threat to us!" 659 00:38:00,454 --> 00:38:03,407 Again, I don't want you to take my word for this. 660 00:38:03,547 --> 00:38:07,594 There's a newspaper in England called 'The Telegraph', 661 00:38:07,811 --> 00:38:09,585 the London 'Telegraph', 662 00:38:09,725 --> 00:38:12,849 and in that newspaper they ran a headline 663 00:38:12,989 --> 00:38:15,037 about 7 years ago [Sunday Telegraph, 10 Mar 2002]: 664 00:38:15,177 --> 00:38:18,532 'The US intends to bomb seven countries.' 665 00:38:18,672 --> 00:38:22,796 Nuclear bomb, sneak attack, on seven countries! 666 00:38:22,936 --> 00:38:27,672 It names North Korea, China, all the countries we don't like. 667 00:38:27,812 --> 00:38:31,325 Headlined in the 'Telegraph'. You haven't seen that, 668 00:38:31,465 --> 00:38:34,019 so write for it. Don't take my word for it. 669 00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:38,198 When you do that, if China said "We intend to bomb England, France, 670 00:38:38,338 --> 00:38:42,220 United States and other countries," we would arm to the tooth. 671 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,705 That's why they are all building nuclear weapons. 672 00:38:44,845 --> 00:38:47,950 They are afraid of us, afraid of America. 673 00:38:48,132 --> 00:38:50,144 You didn't know they ran that, so you say 674 00:38:50,284 --> 00:38:52,300 "Why are these damn Chinese doing that?" 675 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,845 "Why are these damn Koreans doing that?" 676 00:38:54,985 --> 00:38:58,211 They are doing it because they're scared of the United States, 677 00:38:58,351 --> 00:39:00,156 and the United States: 678 00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:04,077 Are their intentions good? They may be, but they are stupid people. 679 00:39:04,217 --> 00:39:08,001 Even if they intended to do that, they should not have released it. 680 00:39:08,141 --> 00:39:10,599 It was released by the Pentagon, 681 00:39:10,739 --> 00:39:12,387 according to the 'Telegraph'. 682 00:39:12,527 --> 00:39:14,433 So, there is your reason. 683 00:39:14,573 --> 00:39:19,141 People behave as they've been conditioned, as they manage news 684 00:39:19,281 --> 00:39:23,093 and turn you off from things they think you ought not to hear. 685 00:39:23,233 --> 00:39:27,359 Like the theory of evolution was held back for a long time, 686 00:39:27,499 --> 00:39:31,410 and in all the parks in America, or most of them, 687 00:39:31,550 --> 00:39:34,246 there are canons, war tanks, airplanes. 688 00:39:34,386 --> 00:39:37,857 There should be statues of people that increased food, 689 00:39:37,997 --> 00:39:40,095 that did wonderful changes in medicine. 690 00:39:40,235 --> 00:39:44,730 "Wash your hands, retain cleanliness." They used to cut cadavers 691 00:39:44,870 --> 00:39:48,938 and then they go right on and do child birth with surgery. 692 00:39:49,078 --> 00:39:52,110 The women would die of childbirth fever. 693 00:39:52,250 --> 00:39:55,097 That was because they did cutting with cadavers, 694 00:39:55,237 --> 00:39:59,220 never washed their hands, and the doctor that told them to wash their hands 695 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,164 was kicked out of the university, 696 00:40:02,421 --> 00:40:04,816 because he told them to wash their hands. 697 00:40:04,956 --> 00:40:07,930 [They said] "Who the hell are you to tell us what to do?" 698 00:40:08,070 --> 00:40:12,044 So, everything new was fought: women's rights, 699 00:40:12,184 --> 00:40:14,920 child labor (there used to be children in factories). 700 00:40:15,060 --> 00:40:17,272 Of course, it's a little before your time, 701 00:40:17,412 --> 00:40:20,772 but people marched to get the children out of the factories, 702 00:40:20,882 --> 00:40:22,882 and they had rotten eggs thrown at them. 703 00:40:22,993 --> 00:40:24,974 When you fought for women's rights, 704 00:40:25,114 --> 00:40:27,635 the same thing, they had rotten eggs thrown at you. 705 00:40:27,775 --> 00:40:31,245 "What do you mean 'women'? Women are only good for two things," you know. 706 00:40:31,385 --> 00:40:33,453 They had notions about women. 707 00:40:33,593 --> 00:40:37,356 "You know, women can't learn to be architects and engineers. 708 00:40:37,496 --> 00:40:41,509 Women are just good to produce babies and cook for the old man." 709 00:40:41,649 --> 00:40:44,358 Well, all this crap is disappearing, 710 00:40:44,498 --> 00:40:49,236 but every inch of the way of progress was fought, just remember that. 711 00:40:49,376 --> 00:40:51,272 Nothing comes easy. 712 00:40:51,412 --> 00:40:54,895 People are now producing articles about The Venus Project, 713 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:56,948 because we're better known now. 714 00:40:57,088 --> 00:41:01,959 They say "Fresco gets his money from the Vatican or the Rothschild family 715 00:41:02,099 --> 00:41:05,057 or this banking institute." I don't have any money. 716 00:41:05,197 --> 00:41:09,532 "Fresco has two Mercedes." I don't even have a car. 717 00:41:09,672 --> 00:41:14,755 Anyway, they will spread whatever rumors they have to, to keep in power. 718 00:41:14,895 --> 00:41:18,687 That's what you're up against. Whenever you do anything new 719 00:41:18,827 --> 00:41:22,194 or different, instead of people saying "You know, that's interesting, 720 00:41:22,334 --> 00:41:24,106 let me think about it", you know, 721 00:41:24,246 --> 00:41:28,575 they get mad at you, because you're upsetting the apple cart. 722 00:41:28,715 --> 00:41:33,344 That's what it's about. We have a tough job ahead, all of us. 723 00:41:33,484 --> 00:41:37,413 If you wish to live in a world without war, poverty, 724 00:41:37,553 --> 00:41:40,560 unemployment, hunger, human suffering, 725 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,699 you have to talk to other people. If you do nothing, 726 00:41:43,839 --> 00:41:46,574 I can assure you nothing will happen. 727 00:41:47,823 --> 00:41:51,569 I think I can open this portion to questions. 728 00:41:51,709 --> 00:41:56,051 Roxanne and I will take questions from any one of you. 729 00:41:56,191 --> 00:41:58,008 Thank you again. 730 00:41:58,148 --> 00:41:59,178 [Applause]