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If we live to ourselves,
I can assure you we'll die of ourselves.
[Jacque Fresco]
Because if the Russians do nuclear testing
and they dump radioactive stuff into the sea,
or the Japanese,
the world's one big place and the air moves around
and the waters move.
Therefore living to yourself, your little isolated colony,
your little culture that you want to build,
your little city that you want to build,
of people with like-mindedness -
all of that has no basis for survival.
Because in the event of catastrophic failure
you will be invaded by the minorities
if they don't have food, water, or the wherewithal to live.
You can't find the answers
by declaring a society democratic.
You can only find the answers by research and development.
You can't find the answers by
putting people of high moral character in government.
You can only find the answers by innovation,
by studying the systems and the problems,
and working on methods of alleviating those problems,
not through law.
Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem.
If people steal or hurt one another,
you say "it's against the law to hurt somebody."
Well, if a person doesn't have the means to live by,
he's going to hurt somebody to get the money or whatever they need.
So, that isn't dealing with the problem.
Law is really avoiding problems.
It's just merely a proclamation on the wall
saying "You: don't do this."
You see, it doesn't work.
In the long run, you might cause people to
consider an action before they take it.
But all laws come into existence because of scarcity.
Always difficult to imagine that.
When there's scarcity of water,
people will steal it, remove it,
if not for themselves, for their children.
So, all the laws in the world-...
But if you don't want people to steal water, you build a non-electric fence around the water.
And that's the way you say-...
You don't need to put up a sign "Don't steal water."
But those people will die.
So, we don't want to do that.
We don't want to build a fence around our country and say
"This is the greatest country in the world; we're gonna keep it that way."
We depend on other countries.
The scientific method, if applied socially, will work.
Look, it does not attain perfection.
It's just a far better system than any other system
that we know of today.
In other words, I'm not talking about Utopian societies,
where everybody is happy; there's no such condition.
All social systems are in a state of evolution.
That is, an established society is one that has found
a way that worked for the people in control of that society.
Whereas all societies are emergent, constantly evolving.
There's no such thing as attaining a sane world.
Sanity depends on the acquisition of information
and applying that information to the well-being of all people
and protecting the environment.
That's what I mean when I use the word "sanity."
We live in an environment that's so loused up,
it's very difficult to generate good feelings between people
because they come from different places
with a different value system
and different needs.
In the society of the future, someone asked me,
"Would everybody be alike in your society?"
Yes, in certain areas. They will love the Earth and take care of it,
stick their hands out when they meet another person from a different culture
and say "Your values are different than mine,
I'd like to learn more about your way of thinking."
They will be the SAME in that way.
They will be open to new ideas, learn to listen to new ideas,
ask relevant questions about ideas-
Yes, in those areas, they will be alike.
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