1 00:00:00,505 --> 00:00:03,175 That's all your house is. It's a place to keep your stuff 2 00:00:03,315 --> 00:00:06,465 while you go out to get more stuff. 3 00:00:06,605 --> 00:00:09,801 Now sometimes, you've got to move. 4 00:00:09,941 --> 00:00:14,237 You've got to get a bigger house. Why? Too much stuff. 5 00:00:14,377 --> 00:00:16,780 You've got to move all your stuff, 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,280 and maybe put some of your stuff in storage. 7 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:22,020 Imagine that. There's a whole industry 8 00:00:22,220 --> 00:00:25,500 based on keeping an eye on your stuff. 9 00:00:27,346 --> 00:00:29,970 Sometimes you go on vacation; 10 00:00:30,110 --> 00:00:32,185 you've got to bring some of your stuff with you. 11 00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:34,420 Let's say you're going to go to Honolulu. 12 00:00:34,550 --> 00:00:35,630 You're going to go all the way to Honolulu. 13 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:37,570 You've got to take two big bags of stuff, 14 00:00:38,199 --> 00:00:41,968 plus your carry-on stuff, plus the stuff in your pockets. 15 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:44,327 You get all the way to Honolulu, and you get in your hotel room, 16 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:45,850 and you start to put away your stuff. 17 00:00:46,030 --> 00:00:48,410 That's the first thing you do in a hotel room, is put away your stuff. 18 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,240 Got to put some stuff in here, put some stuff down there. 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,550 Here's another place for stuff here. I'll put some stuff over there. 20 00:00:52,610 --> 00:00:54,200 You put your stuff over there. I'm putting my stuff over here. 21 00:00:54,434 --> 00:00:54,970 Here's another place for some stuff. 22 00:00:55,279 --> 00:00:58,600 Hey, we've got more places than we've got stuff. 23 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:01,500 We're going to have to buy more stuff! 24 00:01:04,804 --> 00:01:08,401 The monetary system wastes limitless amounts of resources 25 00:01:08,541 --> 00:01:12,185 in replication, duplication of products that are not necessary. 26 00:01:12,325 --> 00:01:14,970 They change the style of automobiles, 27 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:18,345 put a fin on the end every year, or make it look different. 28 00:01:18,485 --> 00:01:21,850 So the whole idea is they get you to get a new refrigerator, 29 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:28,355 a new television set, the necessity of you purchasing more goods. 30 00:01:28,495 --> 00:01:31,488 Have you ever wondered why women's shoe heels go from fat one year 31 00:01:31,628 --> 00:01:34,929 to skinny the next, to fat to skinny? It's not because there's some debate 32 00:01:35,069 --> 00:01:37,950 about which heel structure is the most healthy for women's feet. 33 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:40,919 It's because wearing fat heels in a skinny heel year 34 00:01:41,059 --> 00:01:44,574 shows everybody that you're not as valuable as that person in some ad. 35 00:01:44,714 --> 00:01:48,537 It's to keep us buying new shoes. 36 00:01:48,677 --> 00:01:51,384 How many of you know what planned obsolescence is? 37 00:01:51,524 --> 00:01:54,961 Engineers today design electric bulbs 38 00:01:55,101 --> 00:01:59,639 and motors, electric motors, to die out at a certain time. 39 00:01:59,779 --> 00:02:04,645 They deliberately withhold efficiency so things will wear out 40 00:02:04,785 --> 00:02:07,581 and break down so you'll have to buy new things. 41 00:02:07,721 --> 00:02:09,550 The products that they sell you 42 00:02:09,870 --> 00:02:12,964 are deliberately designed to wear out, 43 00:02:13,104 --> 00:02:16,566 break down, so you have to continually service those things. 44 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:19,015 You notice that your telephone is pretty reliable? 45 00:02:19,155 --> 00:02:21,187 Well, we here in America can think. 46 00:02:21,327 --> 00:02:24,715 We can design things that don't wear out and don't break down 47 00:02:24,855 --> 00:02:27,730 and don't require maintenance at all. 48 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,400 There used to be one thing that people had in their home 49 00:02:32,030 --> 00:02:35,046 that never broke down, and it didn't belong to you. 50 00:02:35,186 --> 00:02:39,320 That's the telephone, in the old days, made by the phone company. 51 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,800 It was designed not to break down because then they'd have to service it, 52 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:46,558 so you could drop it on the floor. It was heavy. 53 00:02:46,698 --> 00:02:49,032 You buy these cellphones today, junk! 54 00:02:49,172 --> 00:02:54,320 They run a little beyond the warranty. It takes good engineering to do that 55 00:02:54,569 --> 00:02:56,890 to design things to wear out and break down 56 00:02:57,490 --> 00:03:00,174 after the warranty. Do you understand what I'm saying? 57 00:03:00,214 --> 00:03:03,380 -Yeah, the instrument, the phone, that stays forever. -You bet. 58 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:06,160 If the automobile companies had to maintain their car, 59 00:03:06,170 --> 00:03:06,700 it would be a forever unit. 60 00:03:06,710 --> 00:03:08,597 - You mean the phone company has to maintain the phone. - You bet. 61 00:03:08,737 --> 00:03:11,539 - That's why it's good. That's why your units hold up. 62 00:03:11,679 --> 00:03:13,520 - I never thought of that. - I know. 63 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:16,740 - I mean, you know, operators can be bad, the system can be bad, 64 00:03:17,170 --> 00:03:20,151 but the phone itself... - It's the same for your TV sets, by the way. 65 00:03:20,291 --> 00:03:23,435 - You mean if RCA, if everybody had to maintain their own... - You bet! 66 00:03:24,575 --> 00:03:26,880 There ought to be an automatic system which you pull out, 67 00:03:26,950 --> 00:03:28,811 shove in a replacement unit. If your engine breaks down, 68 00:03:28,951 --> 00:03:31,693 they pull out the engine, shove in a courtesy engine, and you take off. 69 00:03:31,833 --> 00:03:34,463 Why hold up the whole car when you need a battery job? 70 00:03:34,603 --> 00:03:37,850 If you did that in the Army, Air Force, you couldn't operate at all. 71 00:03:38,270 --> 00:03:40,865 Your society is really comprised of very stupid men. 72 00:03:41,070 --> 00:03:41,740 Let me say it again. 73 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,940 All politicians, all lawyers, all businessmen will be phased out. 74 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:48,630 I'm not going to do it. 75 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:51,380 It's not going to be a revolution. You don't need it. 76 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,929 Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency. 77 00:03:55,380 --> 00:03:58,780 It was great, the free-enterprise system, about 35 years ago. 78 00:03:59,150 --> 00:04:00,570 That was the last of its usefulness. 79 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:05,100 What is happening to man is that his technological society, 80 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:10,020 the newer value systems that dominate our times, that are pressing onward, 81 00:04:10,190 --> 00:04:13,142 are just leaving behind hundreds of thousands of people 82 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:15,494 that cannot make the transition. 83 00:04:15,750 --> 00:04:20,029 (Man with Megaphone)- Consume, consume, consume until we have no planet left to consume. 84 00:04:20,510 --> 00:04:23,060 What you need to do is buy things that you don't need. 85 00:04:23,770 --> 00:04:25,710 That's the best way to support the economy! 86 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,760 Sir, please move swiftly to your next shopping experience. 87 00:04:29,860 --> 00:04:33,540 Get back inside and get back to work. That's what you should be doing. 88 00:04:33,687 --> 00:04:36,110 Stop putting your head out of there. Never mind your lunch hour. 89 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:37,410 The more you work, the better, 90 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:40,080 because when you die, you'll regret that you haven't worked more! 91 00:04:40,430 --> 00:04:43,950 - [If] you go to your parks, there are statues of warriors on horses. 92 00:04:44,390 --> 00:04:49,440 No Madame Curie, no Louis Pasteur, all the people that conquered disease. 93 00:04:50,170 --> 00:04:54,440 Greed, stupidity: we admire all the wrong people. 94 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,340 We can knock all of the fluid off clothing today, by vibration. 95 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,980 We can knock fluids off clothing. 96 00:05:00,220 --> 00:05:02,050 In other words, if you could move a piece of fabric 97 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:06,300 from position A to position B rapidly enough, the fluid will remain behind. 98 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,490 Ultrasonically vibrating the fabric can remove the fluids, 99 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:11,670 and you need not contaminate your waters. 100 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:13,362 You don't have to use any of the systems today. 101 00:05:14,450 --> 00:05:16,200 - You see that when you take off in an airplane, and you look down, 102 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:18,140 and you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. 103 00:05:18,490 --> 00:05:20,230 Everybody's got their own pile of stuff. 104 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,010 That's all your house is. Your house is just a place for your stuff. 105 00:05:24,811 --> 00:05:27,445 If you didn't have so much goddamn stuff, you wouldn't need a house. 106 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:30,490 (J. Fresco) - You don't want records, tape recorders, 107 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,530 all this junk that requires continuous maintenance. 108 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,150 All you want is the music you like. You dial it, and you get the music. 109 00:05:37,323 --> 00:05:39,060 You don't need to pick up records or store them. 110 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,011 You live in an insane culture where we duplicate things. 111 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:48,210 In our society, that is a Resource-Based Economy, machines free people. 112 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:50,259 You see, we can't imagine that. 113 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:53,350 because we've never known that kind of world. 114 00:05:53,830 --> 00:05:56,920 All repetitious jobs will be phased out. 115 00:05:57,310 --> 00:06:01,310 We feel that machines ought to do the filthy or the repetitious 116 00:06:01,670 --> 00:06:06,830 or the boring jobs, that man has to be free to pursue the higher things, 117 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:11,360 the higher possibilities of man. - What jobs that we now know 118 00:06:11,901 --> 00:06:16,030 will not be present in this concept? - Well, most. - Garbage men gone, right? 119 00:06:16,350 --> 00:06:18,403 - Yes. All repetition. All people working in fact[ories]. - Mailmen? 120 00:06:18,543 --> 00:06:23,532 - No mailmen, no waitresses, no waiters, no cooks. 121 00:06:24,432 --> 00:06:26,690 There'll be no jobs. - When you go out to eat how will you get your food? 122 00:06:26,790 --> 00:06:27,970 - Well, there are beautifully designed 123 00:06:29,340 --> 00:06:32,380 areas for eating in which you have all kinds of food: 124 00:06:32,763 --> 00:06:36,380 Japanese, French food, organic food and the standards if you like it. 125 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,110 - And how would it get to you? - The way the food gets to you, 126 00:06:38,210 --> 00:06:41,890 what we do is monitor the behavior of the cook. 127 00:06:41,990 --> 00:06:46,410 That is, we do a multi-channel tape on the best cooks we know of, 128 00:06:46,630 --> 00:06:50,110 and as they prepare their food, as they prepare their food, 129 00:06:50,144 --> 00:06:53,160 we tape every move they make and how they handle food 130 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:58,650 and how they dice the carrots, the way you like it. Then you dial 2736 131 00:06:58,878 --> 00:07:03,210 and you get the kind of food you want, Chef Molony style or individualized. 132 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,052 You can even tape your own cooking. 133 00:07:05,180 --> 00:07:06,840 I remember five years ago I used to laugh at you, 134 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:09,680 and now all this is very believable. 135 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,280 - It's a very different system, and it's very hard to talk about 136 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,750 because the public is not that well enough informed 137 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,475 as to the state of technology. 138 00:07:21,940 --> 00:07:23,380 We're going to do this thing, 139 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,240 just as the automobile phased out the stagecoach, 140 00:07:26,830 --> 00:07:30,560 just as television stepped in and phased out the old vaudeville 141 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,050 and the old motion pictures. 142 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:35,340 That history and technology is respecters of no society, 143 00:07:35,567 --> 00:07:37,339 no individual opinions, but it moves on, 144 00:07:37,479 --> 00:07:41,372 and we've got to be prepared to face the future. 145 00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:46,060 If you turned off Boulder Dam all the food would spoil, 146 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,424 the lights would go out, 147 00:07:47,524 --> 00:07:50,810 traffic would stop, trains would stop, planes would stop. 148 00:07:51,029 --> 00:07:52,900 Everything you've got is technical. 149 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,873 There's nothing politicians give you. They can't. 150 00:07:58,170 --> 00:08:01,020 If you don't believe me, go to any supermarket. 151 00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:05,330 You'll see a lot of food, hardware, wrenches, machines. 152 00:08:05,367 --> 00:08:07,350 We can churn out things in abundance. 153 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,320 What the hell are you selling things for? 154 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,182 People should have access to these wonderful gifts that people have. 155 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,620 If you took all of the gold and all of the wealth of this country, 156 00:08:17,789 --> 00:08:21,000 all of the certificates of debt and all of the land ownership, 157 00:08:21,290 --> 00:08:24,920 all of the diamonds and rings, and dumped them off the coast of Japan, 158 00:08:25,015 --> 00:08:28,400 as long as you didn't touch our way of thinking, our technology 159 00:08:28,610 --> 00:08:32,030 and our resources, we would not be impoverished at all. 160 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:36,230 America's wealth is not its gold, is not its banking institutions. 161 00:08:36,570 --> 00:08:40,460 These are false institutions. The entire monetary-structured 162 00:08:41,020 --> 00:08:44,270 and materialistic-oriented society is a false society. 163 00:08:44,980 --> 00:08:48,550 Ten or 15 years from now, our society will go down in history 164 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,790 as the lowest development in man. 165 00:08:51,150 --> 00:08:54,150 We have the brains, the know-how, the technology, 166 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,960 and the feasibility to build an entirely new civilization. 167 00:09:01,340 --> 00:09:04,710 People don't know what machines can do today. They have no idea! 168 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,390 Kids will ask their parents "Didn't you see the necessity of the machines?" 169 00:09:12,787 --> 00:09:15,920 "Dad, couldn't you see that war was inevitable 170 00:09:16,020 --> 00:09:19,100 when you produced scarcity? Isn't it obvious?" 171 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:22,660 Of course, the kid will understand that you were pinheads, 172 00:09:22,820 --> 00:09:24,951 raised merely to serve the established institutions.