1 00:00:00,707 --> 00:00:03,660 They tell you that everything begins... 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,494 The tree begins as a seed. How do you know the seed is the beginning? 3 00:00:07,634 --> 00:00:10,686 How do you know it's not the end product? 4 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:15,060 Now you don't get that in school; 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,601 they have to make you alike, then they can control you. 6 00:00:18,741 --> 00:00:21,333 When war comes they make you patriotic. 7 00:00:21,473 --> 00:00:24,429 The Venus Project Tour 8 00:00:24,651 --> 00:00:28,140 There is no 'you'. People say "What about individuality?" 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,200 That's all bullshit. When you're very young, they pump crap into your head: 10 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:35,300 Cinderella, Christianity. 11 00:01:03,803 --> 00:01:06,405 I want to tell you something about infants. 12 00:01:06,545 --> 00:01:10,270 They can learn technology right away: electronics, 13 00:01:10,410 --> 00:01:14,049 continental drift, agriculture. Kids can learn anything, 14 00:01:14,189 --> 00:01:17,234 just as soon as they can learn 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. 15 00:01:18,588 --> 00:01:23,158 On the way, he met a cow "Moo moo," said the cow, "Bah bah," said the sheep. 16 00:01:23,298 --> 00:01:27,980 You fill kid's heads with that shit, and you want them to grow up sane? 17 00:01:28,979 --> 00:01:31,154 Whatever they pump into your head, 18 00:01:31,294 --> 00:01:33,229 then they say to you as a baby 19 00:01:33,369 --> 00:01:37,122 "Who loves you more than anyone in the world?" "I don't know." 20 00:01:37,262 --> 00:01:38,893 "Your mommy and daddy!" 21 00:01:39,033 --> 00:01:41,845 "What is the greatest country in the world?" "I don't know." "This country!" 22 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:47,703 Creativity is taking known elements, 23 00:01:47,843 --> 00:01:50,967 and putting them together in unique ways. 24 00:01:51,107 --> 00:01:53,155 I'm trying to give you back your brain, 25 00:01:53,295 --> 00:01:57,485 which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. 26 00:01:57,625 --> 00:01:59,886 I'm trying to show you how the world works. 27 00:02:00,026 --> 00:02:02,050 If you want a better world, you have to 28 00:02:02,190 --> 00:02:04,164 get up off your ass and make it better. 29 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,590 The future is going to be very different than what it is today. 30 00:03:28,730 --> 00:03:30,700 The Venus Project 31 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,237 is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking. 32 00:03:35,525 --> 00:03:40,861 I want you to understand that man reflects his culture, his language. 33 00:03:41,001 --> 00:03:45,363 No Chinese baby was ever born speaking Chinese 34 00:03:45,503 --> 00:03:48,100 without being exposed to the language. 35 00:03:48,696 --> 00:03:54,337 We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, 36 00:03:54,477 --> 00:03:59,865 prejudice or greed. That's all learned in your culture or your subculture. 37 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,673 The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. 38 00:04:05,121 --> 00:04:10,970 That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises lots of questions. 39 00:04:11,961 --> 00:04:14,683 We have no natural instincts. 40 00:04:14,823 --> 00:04:17,163 All that's bullshit. It's learned. 41 00:04:17,303 --> 00:04:21,987 It's hard to believe because I feel I make my own decisions. 42 00:04:22,127 --> 00:04:24,314 I don't feel I've been conditioned to make them 43 00:04:24,454 --> 00:04:26,855 because it's happened ever since I was this high; 44 00:04:26,995 --> 00:04:29,252 I don't even know what I'm doing. 45 00:04:29,679 --> 00:04:34,013 I asked myself years ago, I said "Gee, how are we going to change the world 46 00:04:34,153 --> 00:04:38,600 with all these different values, different people thinking differently?" 47 00:04:38,961 --> 00:04:40,700 I said "I don't know." 48 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:44,027 That's the first thing you have to learn how to say: I don't know. 49 00:04:44,644 --> 00:04:47,660 [If] we don't know how to get to different people, 50 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,251 how we going to build a saner world? 51 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,388 I realized that the rules of the game, the way society operates, 52 00:04:56,528 --> 00:04:59,112 didn't make sense, because there was products 53 00:04:59,252 --> 00:05:01,809 and people wanted things, but they didn't have the money. 54 00:05:01,949 --> 00:05:04,629 I figured it was the old rules of the game 55 00:05:04,769 --> 00:05:07,625 that were at fault, that were aberrated, 56 00:05:07,765 --> 00:05:11,500 so I began to work on the redesign of society. 57 00:05:12,001 --> 00:05:15,310 Reason and logic is not the way to get to people. 58 00:05:15,450 --> 00:05:18,675 You have to get to them in a way they understand, 59 00:05:18,815 --> 00:05:21,605 and if you fail, come at it in another way. 60 00:05:21,950 --> 00:05:25,900 If you demonstrate it, they know what you're talking about. 61 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:29,504 So, I began to say "How do you know what you think is true? 62 00:05:29,644 --> 00:05:33,467 That may be your own projection. You have to look at the whole picture." 63 00:05:33,607 --> 00:05:37,611 They say "God put the fingernails on so if insects get on, you can scratch." 64 00:05:37,751 --> 00:05:41,375 Why did He make the goddamn insects? Then He wouldn't have to make the fingernails. 65 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:43,830 You understand? It becomes confusing. 66 00:05:44,151 --> 00:05:47,263 They say "I believe in nature. Nature is harmonious." 67 00:05:47,403 --> 00:05:50,099 Every big fish is eating every smaller fish. 68 00:05:50,239 --> 00:05:54,708 Every organ in your body is fighting constantly invading bacteria. 69 00:05:54,848 --> 00:05:56,783 Is that what you mean by harmony? 70 00:05:56,923 --> 00:05:59,319 There are planets that are exploding out there, 71 00:05:59,459 --> 00:06:03,276 meteorites that hit one another and blow up. What's the purpose of that? 72 00:06:03,416 --> 00:06:06,147 What's the purpose of floods? To drown people? 73 00:06:06,287 --> 00:06:08,790 In other words, if you start looking for purpose, 74 00:06:08,930 --> 00:06:11,774 you've got to look all over, take in the whole picture. 75 00:06:12,097 --> 00:06:16,289 So, man projects his own values into nature. 76 00:06:23,853 --> 00:06:26,555 It's hard to be decent in a money world. 77 00:06:26,695 --> 00:06:30,934 We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, 78 00:06:31,074 --> 00:06:34,327 free people. That's the government of the future. 79 00:06:34,467 --> 00:06:38,617 No people, because people fucked up every time they were in government. 80 00:06:38,757 --> 00:06:43,062 They all become corrupt. They get payed off. They go to war again. 81 00:06:43,202 --> 00:06:46,286 You have depression. It'd never put an end to anything. 82 00:06:46,734 --> 00:06:49,064 A machine has no ambition. 83 00:06:49,204 --> 00:06:53,050 It doesn't want to take over. It doesn't have a gut reaction, 84 00:06:53,391 --> 00:06:59,400 because it's the only thing that can handle a global system. Man can't. 85 00:07:00,159 --> 00:07:04,184 It would take 10 years to change the Earth into a second Garden of Eden, 86 00:07:04,324 --> 00:07:06,900 if you get rid of hand labor. 87 00:07:15,339 --> 00:07:19,196 Politicians do that; they speak to win approval. 88 00:07:19,336 --> 00:07:22,988 The scientist: If everybody believes the Earth is flat, they move right in. 89 00:07:23,128 --> 00:07:26,960 They say "You're wrong. It's round, and this is the evidence." 90 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:30,000 So, don't speak to win approval. 91 00:07:30,258 --> 00:07:34,085 When you learn to surrender your ego for sharing ideas, 92 00:07:34,225 --> 00:07:36,800 that's the beginning of real progress. 93 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:40,641 They don't want you to be smarter than they are. 94 00:07:40,781 --> 00:07:44,188 Don't forget when you run into an egotist (what they call an 'egotist') 95 00:07:44,328 --> 00:07:47,786 they try to maintain their position of leadership. 96 00:07:47,926 --> 00:07:51,876 When you say "I'm just a plain, old American and I love this country, 97 00:07:52,016 --> 00:07:54,554 if you don't like it, get the fuck out!" 98 00:07:54,694 --> 00:07:57,212 See it's easy to understand, isn't it? 99 00:07:57,352 --> 00:08:02,211 That's why most people are simplistic, because it is easy to grasp. 100 00:08:03,117 --> 00:08:06,397 "Do the right thing; that's all." What's the right thing? 101 00:08:06,537 --> 00:08:09,498 A guy said "Every time I ask you a question, I get a lecture! 102 00:08:09,638 --> 00:08:11,508 I want an answer!" 103 00:08:11,648 --> 00:08:16,060 There are no answers. It's very complex, every question a person asks. 104 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,834 "How come some people work really hard, and others don't work at all?" 105 00:08:19,974 --> 00:08:23,132 "It's because he is lazy." "Ah OK, that's clear," 106 00:08:23,272 --> 00:08:27,286 but if you go into the background of a person, how he gets to be that way, 107 00:08:27,426 --> 00:08:29,282 why he avoids work, 108 00:08:29,422 --> 00:08:33,677 you go into the nature of the factors that shape human behavior. 109 00:08:33,817 --> 00:08:37,300 You know what I mean? That's too complicated. 110 00:09:47,524 --> 00:09:49,000 Do you know what I mean?