Jacque Fresco - Oct 10, 2010
It's very hard for a traditional person
to step out of their tradition
and investigate with the means that they never had.
Influence of Background
If you don't have the background to investigate
you don't know what to check with; you check with another metaphysician
and he's bound to sing your song.
So you say "I agree completely with you."
You don't say
"Do you have evidence to support that point of view?"
Free Will
The free will assumption, that there's nothing that causes it,
it's just a terrible assumption - that there's nothing responsible for it,
it's self determined.
"Self" meaning without cause.
Free will means "without cause."
Try thinking of something without an influence.
Blame
It makes it easier, much easier,
for society to flourish by blaming people
rather than taking into account
the physical factors responsible for the behavior.
Cause
And if you don't know what the cause is,
the greatest thing you can do is say
"I don't know. I'm gonna try to look into it."
But, how do you look into it?
There are laws that govern how you look into it.
Are you going to study those laws?
or are you going to look into it with the old value system?
The old value system will reveal nothing.
What you want
People are not that precise in their language.
Say "What do you want?" "I want access to the necessities of life."
They can't say that.
They've never been taught that.
They've been taught a roundabout way
of talking about things.
Values & Habits of Thought
So The Venus Project does not concern itself
with habits of thought or "success" as used today.
It concerns itself with the physical factors
that are responsible for our values.
If you want a better world you have to make it better.
You have to be...
this is what you must use: "ruthlessly honest."
Otherwise you can't make it.
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