Okay.
Briefly.
Jacque is an industrial designer but mostly a social engineer.
He lived through the great depression in 1929 and came out of it thinking that there was
still goods in store windows, things in ca..cars in car lots but people just didn't have the
money to buy things.
So he realized it was the rules of the game that we play by that were so screwed up...
and from when he was very young, he set out to find an alternative social design to take
care of the problems that we have today.
This is what's very different between Jacque and other protestors and people who..who understand
that the system is not working but they do not pose an alternative.
I don't know of anyone else who tries to find the root causes of the problems and understands
that things cannot be fixed within the monetary system and the system that we live by today.
So, Jacque has worked..
He's 95 years old.
He's worked since he was very young to..working with people: drug addicts, alcoholics..
changing them, joining the Klu Klux Klan and changing them.
Putting his educational processes to test.. and understanding if he needs to change the
world, he needs to be able to change peoples values as well.
So, he's arrived at a totally new social design and he backs it up technically!
These are not just words that he's talk about.
If you go to our website: "THEVENUSPROJECT.COM" You'll see what this..this new world civilization,
this sustainable future would look like.
Jacque Fresco: So I see, eventually, whether The Venus Project gets off the ground or not,
this is what I see: I see machines displacing people... and if you displace people in the
automotive industry, where the machine picks up the car, puts the wheels on.. you're displacing
millions of people.
You don't need air conditioning.
You don't need to pay em' for vacations.
You don't need to take out insurance on their health.. and you don't need all the lights
you need with people working there.
So, industry will put in machines, wherever they can.. but here's the downfall: If you
keep doing that all over the country, people will not have the money to buy vacuum cleaners,
electric fans, or refrigerators.
If you displace most people by machines, "How are they gonna buy things?"
So, it's a self-contradictory system... and THIS is the basis of understanding: That politics
was good 100 years ago but it's obsolete today.
Everything that you have in your own, those of you that have a home...
Your television set, your washing machine, your refrigerator, your electric lights are
all technical!
There's nothing political about that.
It's all technical.
If you took away the technology today, you'd have people pulling boats along the river.
Do you understand that?
It's technology that frees you from things.
It's electric air-conditioning that makes your house tolerable.
So, we don't want to put the technicians in control anymore than they're in control today.
All the technicians do is build bridges if you're a bridge designer.
If you're an air plane designer, you can work on air plane designing but you don't tell
people what to do.
It isn't that technicians will rule the world.
I'm against that!
I'm against scientist ruling the world!
I don't see any real scientist protesting against the exploitation of young kids when
they work in factories.
We use to hire children that were 12 years old and put them in factories and work em'
saturday and sunday.
It's when people march to free those kids from those conditions.
"Why do women have to fight for women rights?"
"Why did women have to march years ago for a public library?"
I don't know why JUST women did but they did march and they wanted a public library so
if people couldn't afford books, they could have access to books.
Then there's the metaphysician who really believes that everybody has goodness within
themselves.
They really don't have anything within themselves.
If you were brought up in Nazi Germany as a baby, after Hitler burned most the books,
you'd be a Nazi.
If you're brought up in Australia, you'd say, "How are ya' mate?!"
That would be normal to the way you speak.
If you're brought up in Germany, "Deutschland Ÿber alles!"..Germany above all.
If you're brought up that way.
So you musn't hate anybody because their all brought up.
"What are American soldiers?"
They are killing machines.
They're not taught anything..anything else.
If I had anything to do with it, I would take ALL the soldiers, send em' back to the university
to become problem solvers.
We have allot of problems that aren't solved... and that's what we need.
Problem solvers!
For every Edison we found, imagine all the Edison's we never found.
I don't say Edison was good either.
He was a crook also.
Crowd Question: "Don't scientist usually rely on statistics to make a decision?
It seems, uh, usually, its, you know, statistical analysis and then they draw a conclusion from
that and then, you know, as science evolves and as we make new sciences, we will again
have like better kinds of statistics or whatever and then we'll apply those to the new technology
that we develop.
So how do we develop a language that's not subject to interpretation.. or statistical
interpretation?!"
Jacque Fresco: "Scientist today are commercially rewarded for being chemist or working for
the drug companies or working for the aircraft companies.
They're just as corrupt as anyone else...
and scientist, if they were scientist, they'd say, "What makes war?
Why are we going to war with Germany?
What's the problem?
What makes a man the way they are?"
They wouldn't stay in their field.
Today their chemist.
They're scientific in chemistry.
Then there's structural engineers that are scientific in structures...
but they're not scientific in human relation.
They know nothing about it or little about human behavior.
So, I'm saying there's no such thing as a scientist, YET!
Otherwise, they'd be out here in the protest.
Do you understand?
I'm not talking about a world managed by scientist... but a world managed by scientific method!
That means first you do a survey of Texas, "How much air able land do you have?"
"How much water do you have underground?"
After you do that survey, you can estimate how big a city can be built in that region.
If it doesn't have the resources, it won't work.
If you have a population far above 7 billion, there will not be enough food to go around
and there's gonna be territorial disputes.
Territorial disputes are not made by bad people or fascists or communists or socialists free
enterprises.
They're made by social conditions called, "The March of Events".
In other words, if a meteor were coming toward the Earth, I can assure you that all nations
would stop their armies and navies and share ideas with one another to try to divert that
meteor away from the Earth.
Not because they're good but because they're all threatened.
All nations will join together on any common threat if they realize it.
Crowd Question: "I'm a mother of 7 children.
Which of my 5 children should not be here so that way it would reduce the population
of the Earth?!"
Jacque Fresco: "Well, all i can say, if you want a world without war, without hunger,
without poverty, it has to be in accordance with the carrying capacity of the Earth's
resources.
If you go beyond that, you're going to have trouble.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Crowd Question: "It seems to me what you're saying is, that you want fewer people but
who are you to designate who the people that should and should not be here?!"
Roxanne: No, he's not saying that at all.
Crowd Question: "I'm asking for clarification!"
Roxanne: You'd have to listen to know more about the system.
What he's proposing is a system based on the methods of science to..to produce abundance
for everyone in the quickest time..without polluting the earth.
He's talking about a system based on..on the well-being of people AND the environment.
He's talking about a system that does not use money.
As long as you use money, you'll have corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement.
So he's trying to get rid of the root causes of the problem.
We have enough have goods and resources to take care of the entire population and even
more if we use it wisely... but what we're doing today, we're doing mass killings by
starvation... and we're against that.
We're saying we have enough resources if we use science and technology to the best of
our ability without the monetary system to feed, house, and clothe everyone on earth.
We can do that today.
That's what he's talking about.
Jacque: "I'm not against you.
Sometimes a person comes up to me and he says, "I have 10 children."
and then I say, "What are they for?"
"What are they for?"
Just having children is not wisdom!
No, I don't believe in depopulation, I believe in educating the public.
"Why don't you put 10,000 people on the boat?"
Cause it'll sink!
The displacement of the boat determines how many people you can put on it, not Fresco...
and if you wanna take a..take 400 people and put em' in a spaceship, it won't get off the
ground.
You have to figure what the thrust is.
How much thrust you can develop in a spaceship... and when the government came up to scientist
and said, "Can you put a man on the Moon?", the first thing they said was, "I don't know."
So i'm saying there is other ways of thinking about things but you need help.
When a man takes his belt off and whips his kids, "Is he bad?"
No!
He doesn't know any other way to get to them.
He says, "Do what your Daddy says!"
The kid doesn't so he whips him because his Daddy whipped him.
He doesn't know!
Now protesting the stock exchange will not change anything!
I hate to tell you this.
I wish it did.
I'm gonna try to tell you what we have to do.
To live in a world without war, without poverty, without hunger and without most crimes...
all criminals are made by this society, by the monetary system and scarcity and burdens
that are too big for the average person to handle.
There will be no armies, no navies, no prisons, and no police in a Resource-Based Economy.
Whyyy?
Because it's just like the public library.
You can access any book you want to.
Next door to the public library, we have a camera center, where anybody in the community,
a 7-year old kid can walk in and say, "I've come to check-out a camera."
Free!
No fee involved.
Do you understand that?
Just like the public library.
Next door to that you'd have musical instruments, where anybody, like the public library, can
check out any musical instruments.
The Venus Project is sharing all the world's resources with all the world's people.
A Resource-Based Economy is using resources rather than money.
Making all things available to all people... and if you don't do that, you'll have wars,
robbery, crimes of all kinds.
Even every criminal is made by this culture.
Once you make things available, that's the end of crime.
Do you understand that?
Not say, "Don't steal!"
As long as you understand that people are made that way.
When you're brought up in Australia, you say, "I'm Australian and i'm proud of it."
"I'm a Greek and i'm proud of it."
That divides people.
If you divide people, you can conquer them.
So what the politicians say is things the public likes to hear.
Scientists, not all them, some of them.
When they discovered that the Earth is round, they don't say to the public, "It's a little
round and a little flat."
So they get along with everybody.
No.
They say, "You're wrong.
It's not flat.
Here's the evidence we have to show that it's round."....
and what you have to do is change people.
Roxanne: "We built everything ourselves.
Put in all the windows.
Instill the doors.
We Built over 400 models of the future.
We didn't have any outside capital to do that.
I did..had a full-time job in order to support that.
I put all the money towards that.
We've put all the money that we've made in The Venus Project towards that as well.
If anybody knows us, we work 7 days a week on...on promoting this direction.
So we do have a non-profit organization now.
We are collecting donations for a major motion picture that we want to do to show what a
re..what life in a Resource-Based Economy would be like.
And we live in a monetary system.
Because we are working towards a Resource-Based Economy the coun..county does not say, "You're
doing a great job.
You don't have to pay taxes.
You don't have to pay your electric bill.
So.."
Crowd Comment: "THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THAT!"