You've got to know
when you take up this kind of thinking, you will be abused.
I told that to Roxanne. "You're more apt to be abused
upholding the values that I talk about. Do you want to get out?"
Anybody that comes to my sessions I tell them
"You will lose contact with this world. You will learn to dislike it.
You will be beaten by police if you march and protest the war."
And they will win
because they have control of the weapons, stinging equipment.
They control everything, the radio, and make you look like a bastard.
When you're released, your own people will beat you up
the un-appointed guardians I'm talking about
or the self-appointed guardians
or those that were persuaded to uphold this system.
Jesus says "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven"
and that's the way we see the Resource-Based Economy or The Venus Project:
that you can create all your spiritual aspirations
but make it a reality.
That's what we're trying to do.
People say "Is there life after death?"
but we think for so many people, there isn't life during life
that they take on old values that have been handed down to them.
They take on old aspirations of their parents and their parents' parents
and live a life that has been lived hundreds of years ago.
They used to pull kids into the army. They'd take the children.
That would be all right if they paid for the baby's birth
and they fed the baby all the way up to he's 18
and said "Now you have to join the army"
but mothers and individuals pay for their kids.
They take them through illnesses and everything else
then the government takes them from them
and says "That's the price you pay for freedom."
That's bullshit. It's the price you pay to support the established system.
We can house people. We can clothe people.
We can have abundance all over the world
if we use our technology wisely and maintain the environment.
We don't have to chisel off of one another. When in a monetary system
somebody gets a toothache, they make a thousand bucks.
Somebody dents a car, they make another two thousand bucks.
We're vultures after one another. We don't really need to live that way
because today, with the advent of technology and where technology's going
it could be used to improve everyone's lifestyle
in a Resource-Based Economy.
I wish we did have a democracy. I wish it could exist
and maybe that's why I became better informed
because I was checking out to see if we had a democratic system.
I found out we didn't, OK?