WEBVTT 00:00:00.136 --> 00:00:03.860 Hey guys, i’m Abby Martin, welcome to Breaking The Set. 00:00:03.860 --> 00:00:08.138 Well, the government has been scrambling recently to keep any more potential leakers under wraps. 00:00:08.138 --> 00:00:12.215 And now we know that the software they are using help pinpoint the troublemakers within their ranks. 00:00:12.215 --> 00:00:15.368 It’s the test called the cyber awareness challenging, 00:00:15.368 --> 00:00:19.239 and that is used it’s easy determine whether or not federal employees or contractors are considered to be a threat. 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:21.695 Deaths gauges workers on several factors, 00:00:21.695 --> 00:00:24.351 how often they travel, their views on the government, 00:00:24.351 --> 00:00:26.861 and even their driving behavior. 00:00:26.861 --> 00:00:31.092 At you complete the test, the program terms if you’re considered a low, medium, or high-level threat. 00:00:31.092 --> 00:00:35.599 Well, while I’m glad I’m not one of the millions that works for the government. 00:00:35.599 --> 00:00:38.953 Is that pretty sure that the test i wouldn’t pass. 00:00:38.953 --> 00:00:43.646 As you can see right here, not only, by frequently travel outside the United States, 00:00:43.646 --> 00:00:48.122 but i’m facing hundreds of dollars in fines and speed trap tickets in DC, 00:00:48.122 --> 00:00:52.786 and i think we all know that I could just be slightly critical the US government. 00:00:52.786 --> 00:00:55.944 Look, this program is basically forcing workers to implicate themselves 00:00:55.944 --> 00:00:58.962 based on their personal beliefs and driving habits. 00:00:58.962 --> 00:01:01.980 But the real issue here is that this is just another tactic being used 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:04.998 to squash any kind of dissent among workers. 00:01:04.998 --> 00:01:09.522 Thereby discouraging people to speak up or ever blow the whistle on government wrongdoing. 00:01:09.522 --> 00:01:12.307 But hey, what is exactly what the government wants? 00:01:12.307 --> 00:01:15.250 In fact, i wouldn’t be surprised to learn personal pilot program, 00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:18.193 was experimental one may be used to recognize and categorize 00:01:18.193 --> 00:01:21.384 every American in a different threat levels. 00:01:21.384 --> 00:01:24.799 Doesn’t quite feel like we are that far off from that being a reality. 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.799 And that means there is lots of work to be done, guys. 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.399 So join me, i’m just breaking the set. 00:01:32.276 --> 00:01:36.768 .. i want you to watch you can never seen anything like this, i’m on travel... 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.892 Breaking News - Breaking The Set 00:01:43.707 --> 00:01:46.107 The revolutionary Albert Einstein once said, 00:01:46.107 --> 00:01:51.000 “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.” 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.907 Meaning, that we have to keep reinventing the wheel if we want a better society. 00:01:54.907 --> 00:01:59.184 And that is the driving force behind an organization called The Venus Project. 00:01:59.184 --> 00:02:02.538 It’s a movement offering architectural plan for human beings, 00:02:02.538 --> 00:02:06.584 technology, and nature to coexist a greater sustainable future. 00:02:06.584 --> 00:02:09.261 The man behind the project is Jacque Fresco. 00:02:09.261 --> 00:02:12.686 Is a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist, 00:02:12.686 --> 00:02:16.111 who truly believes the ills of society can be cured 00:02:16.111 --> 00:02:19.537 only if we throw away the rules that govern it and ourselves. 00:02:19.537 --> 00:02:22.461 Fresco poses a question for us all: 00:02:22.461 --> 00:02:26.429 “or Humanity create the Paradise we know is possible, 00:02:26.429 --> 00:02:30.661 or will it drive itself into oblivion. The choice is ours.” 00:02:30.661 --> 00:02:36.015 And i spoke to him earlier, and i first asked him what drives this system into greed and war, 00:02:36.015 --> 00:02:41.276 and why have political social institutions evolved along with technology. 00:02:42.476 --> 00:02:46.538 Scarcity, or fear of the scarcity. 00:02:46.538 --> 00:02:51.737 Some might make people want to grab as much territory as i can, 00:02:51.737 --> 00:02:57.183 as much arable land as i can, as much water as i can. 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:03.122 So, the needs of people have to do with their behaviour. 00:03:04.660 --> 00:03:07.875 A more scarcity, the more aberrant behaviour. 00:03:07.875 --> 00:03:14.645 What does the Venus Project proposed to redesign society in a way that is possible today? 00:03:17.046 --> 00:03:21.491 It’s the bringing all the nations together as one nation. 00:03:21.491 --> 00:03:27.537 And agreed to take care the earth. And everything on the earth. 00:03:27.537 --> 00:03:34.520 And then, the nature, to restore nature as near a natural condition as possible. 00:03:35.414 --> 00:03:41.061 And goes no dumping of toxic materials in the rivers or the oceans. 00:03:41.061 --> 00:03:47.599 Can you break down some of the specifics about the transportation and energy capabilities in said society? 00:03:48.491 --> 00:03:54.259 I would say the energy capabilities would be based on geothermal energy, 00:03:54.259 --> 00:03:57.075 to natural heat of the earth. 00:03:57.075 --> 00:03:59.783 When you rely on solar, 00:03:59.783 --> 00:04:04.307 if there are clouds on the way, you know there is much electric generator. 00:04:04.307 --> 00:04:11.429 But geothermal energy is a natural fuel under the ocean, and on the land. 00:04:11.429 --> 00:04:15.046 Now we can tap those, make steam, 00:04:15.046 --> 00:04:19.414 and it steams can turn the turbines, and generate power continuously, 00:04:19.414 --> 00:04:24.014 without worrying about whether sun is down or not. 00:04:24.014 --> 00:04:26.584 And what about transportation? 00:04:26.584 --> 00:04:30.091 Transportation would be like monorail. 00:04:30.091 --> 00:04:33.322 In other words, about 30 feet off the ground, 00:04:33.322 --> 00:04:36.000 so it doesn’t have to stop at every corner. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.599 I thought that something was really interested in one of your presentations talking about sea cities. 00:04:41.599 --> 00:04:44.382 Can you describe what those would look like? 00:04:45.152 --> 00:04:49.906 The city is circular, it is like a series of reems, 00:04:49.906 --> 00:04:54.000 emanating out from a central dome. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.092 The central dome will have the socially integrated computer. 00:04:58.092 --> 00:05:03.004 Which has it’s tenticles way out into the agricultural belt. 00:05:03.004 --> 00:05:05.393 And deep into the soil. 00:05:05.393 --> 00:05:09.907 So, if the water table drops, that unit can pump water on that. 00:05:09.907 --> 00:05:16.075 Where is man has to take too much time to decipher the conditions. 00:05:17.013 --> 00:05:20.584 Jacque, if all of these amazing technologies exist today, 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.000 what is prohibiting them from flourishing right now? 00:05:25.092 --> 00:05:27.323 The established institutions. 00:05:27.323 --> 00:05:34.046 Once you’ve invested 10 million in oil platforms, you don’t want the electric car. 00:05:34.046 --> 00:05:37.969 You don’t want anything that interfere with your income. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.368 So we become self-centered that way. 00:05:42.368 --> 00:05:45.736 Is there anywhere in the world that is practicing a society 00:05:45.736 --> 00:05:49.106 such as the one that you are proposing right now? 00:05:49.491 --> 00:05:56.399 I would say that 90% of the societies are corrupted by scarcity. 00:05:57.630 --> 00:06:01.614 Now i can say there is any decent society in the world. 00:06:01.614 --> 00:06:08.276 Maybe, maybe Iceland might be okay. 00:06:08.276 --> 00:06:11.246 You said that all world systems thus far, 00:06:11.246 --> 00:06:16.660 communism, socialism, fascism and free-market enterprise evolved 00:06:16.660 --> 00:06:21.723 failed to eliminate racism, elitism and scarcity. Yes. 00:06:21.723 --> 00:06:25.138 Can you explain how your vision would eliminate those things? 00:06:26.014 --> 00:06:29.460 I’m trying. First of all, 00:06:29.460 --> 00:06:34.446 and money corrupts people on the, in all areas. 00:06:34.446 --> 00:06:39.429 You can pay off judges, senators, politicians, with the use of money. 00:06:39.429 --> 00:06:45.091 We must outgrow the need for money, and go on to a resource-based economy. 00:06:45.091 --> 00:06:49.984 We will make things available to people just like the public library. 00:06:49.984 --> 00:06:55.229 If you have difficulty understanding that, you can check out any book in the library, 00:06:55.229 --> 00:07:01.230 without payments of any kind, or going into debt of any kind. 00:07:01.230 --> 00:07:03.752 That isn’t the truth of whole society. 00:07:03.768 --> 00:07:10.414 The society generates debt and obligations, which people cannot fulfil. 00:07:11.523 --> 00:07:15.476 Jacque, you said that greed and an endless war 00:07:15.476 --> 00:07:20.076 are based on aberrant behavior, based on social conditioning alone. 00:07:20.076 --> 00:07:24.307 Would you say that the need for competition after reward 00:07:24.307 --> 00:07:29.996 is also based on our societal conditions? Yes. 00:07:29.996 --> 00:07:33.000 And that it is not innate with the human nature? 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.096 No, there’s no such thing as human nature. 00:07:36.096 --> 00:07:40.239 Human nature, or human behavior, is shaped by culture. 00:07:40.239 --> 00:07:43.491 After all, what makes a person a patriot? 00:07:43.491 --> 00:07:47.721 The nazis were just as patriotic as the Americans. 00:07:47.721 --> 00:07:50.522 Propaganda makes them all aligned. 00:07:50.522 --> 00:07:55.261 I hate Americans and we hate the germans before the war. 00:07:55.261 --> 00:07:58.446 And the Japanese used the same technique, 00:07:58.446 --> 00:08:03.261 a propaganda, to get them again to want to do away with the Americans. 00:08:03.261 --> 00:08:06.784 It’s all environmentally determined. 00:08:06.784 --> 00:08:09.969 Every word you use you learn. 00:08:09.969 --> 00:08:13.938 Your mother said cup, table, like, papa, mama. 00:08:13.938 --> 00:08:19.521 Every word you use, and all the facial expressions come from movies, 00:08:19.521 --> 00:08:24.692 books that you read, role models that you look up to, and so. 00:08:24.692 --> 00:08:27.615 It seems to be nothing that humans can say. 00:08:27.615 --> 00:08:30.000 That doesn’t reflect that culture. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.000 When you are brought up in the south, 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.707 and you hear all day long the same thing, 00:08:36.707 --> 00:08:40.363 I’m all get me in ?, and i am going to hang them up with ?. 00:08:40.363 --> 00:08:43.758 That is not inborn, that is learned in the south. 00:08:43.758 --> 00:08:49.134 So, there in areas of the south, uneducated regions of the south. 00:08:49.134 --> 00:08:51.635 Where do you think prejudice comes from? 00:08:51.635 --> 00:08:56.046 It isn’t inborn. Children will play with anybody. 00:08:56.046 --> 00:09:00.000 Afro-americans, chinese, japanese, filipinos, 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.676 until mother says you are ?, you don’t play with catholics. 00:09:04.676 --> 00:09:08.773 She means well, but she doesn’t understand what he is doing. 00:09:08.773 --> 00:09:13.885 Jacque, i commend you for actually presenting solutions 00:09:13.885 --> 00:09:16.998 to the multitude of problems that we face in the world, 00:09:16.998 --> 00:09:20.461 the scarcity, the all the problems that we are facing, 00:09:20.461 --> 00:09:21.984 it seems really overwhelming, 00:09:21.984 --> 00:09:26.809 and I think it’s amazing that you’ve actually produce something that could be a solution. 00:09:26.809 --> 00:09:34.203 However, how can we insure that putting full trust in one concentrated planning system of society 00:09:34.203 --> 00:09:36.566 will work and not become corrupted? 00:09:36.566 --> 00:09:38.799 Because i missworried that we are not there yet, 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:43.199 and that, i feel like that’s how socialisms failed in the past. 00:09:43.738 --> 00:09:48.892 If you do away with a scarcety, number one, and you do away with money, 00:09:48.892 --> 00:09:52.630 and make things available like a public library, 00:09:52.630 --> 00:09:56.122 make sure that the public library we have a camera center, 00:09:56.122 --> 00:09:58.953 where anyone can go in and check out the camera. 00:09:58.953 --> 00:10:02.706 Make sure there is camera center, there is music instruments, 00:10:02.706 --> 00:10:07.208 you can check out a violin, a saxophone, just like the public library. 00:10:07.208 --> 00:10:09.080 No payments of any kind. 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.599 Now we have all those buildings around the central building. 00:10:12.599 --> 00:10:14.999 And that makes it impossible 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:20.076 for people to take bribes or a break in the house, and steal anything. 00:10:20.076 --> 00:10:25.291 If you made goods and services available to people, they do not steal. 00:10:25.291 --> 00:10:27.388 There is no need for it. 00:10:27.388 --> 00:10:29.509 We need to reinvent our value system 00:10:29.509 --> 00:10:32.660 in order to share the resources of this planet. 00:10:32.660 --> 00:10:34.784 How much would you say that language 00:10:34.784 --> 00:10:38.645 and mental trappings of the social orders that have failed in the past, 00:10:38.645 --> 00:10:43.138 trap us, prevent us from being able to progress with the revolutionary ideas? 00:10:43.138 --> 00:10:47.178 Well, our language was designed hundreds of years ago. 00:10:47.178 --> 00:10:50.495 And that can not communicate with people. 00:10:50.495 --> 00:10:56.046 We know that because we have democrats, republicans, socialists, lutherans, catholics, 00:10:56.046 --> 00:10:58.446 and language is a terrible thing. 00:10:58.446 --> 00:11:00.723 It’s never been invented, 00:11:00.723 --> 00:11:04.999 so that people can drawn the same conclusions. 00:11:04.999 --> 00:11:09.153 You see language is subject to interpretation. 00:11:09.153 --> 00:11:13.583 When you read the bible, somebody says this is what Jesus amend. 00:11:13.583 --> 00:11:15.793 And the other person all know he meant something else. 00:11:15.793 --> 00:11:19.296 And a third person says you are both wrong, this is what he meant. 00:11:19.296 --> 00:11:24.952 That is why you have the lutheran, the 7th day adventists, the catholics, 00:11:24.952 --> 00:11:28.630 all only because the bible is subject to interpretation. 00:11:28.630 --> 00:11:33.046 And our language is terrible, because it is subject to interpretation. 00:11:33.046 --> 00:11:37.219 But there is a language that is not subject to interpretation. 00:11:37.219 --> 00:11:40.439 And that is the language used by engineers. 00:11:40.439 --> 00:11:42.336 When they talk to each other, 00:11:42.336 --> 00:11:45.707 they don’t say believe me, this is a song ?erial. 00:11:45.707 --> 00:11:49.029 They give you the specifications of what is in that metal, 00:11:49.029 --> 00:11:54.429 how much torsion load it can take, how much tension, how much compression. 00:11:54.429 --> 00:11:56.998 So engineers, when they talk to each other, 00:11:56.998 --> 00:11:59.885 they don’t say i think he means this or i think he means that. 00:11:59.885 --> 00:12:02.772 When you talk to normal people, 00:12:02.772 --> 00:12:05.661 they interpreted it in relation in relation to their background. 00:12:05.661 --> 00:12:07.736 That is a major problem. 00:12:08.752 --> 00:12:13.000 Yes. Math and science and these things are not really open for interpretation. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.123 That is mind-blowing to see the technologies that do exist that are available to us right now. 00:12:18.123 --> 00:12:23.045 Jacque Fresco, thank you so much for coming on explaining a little bit more about The Venus Project, 00:12:23.045 --> 00:12:24.892 everyone check it out. 00:12:26.153 --> 00:12:32.015 I’m taking a quick break, guys, but still had will talk about the tragic nuclear legacy of Japan, say 10.