Jacque Fresco - Attaining Sustainability - RT News (2013)

Jacque Fresco on Breaking the Set, RT News, with Abby Martin. Aug. 7, 2013.

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Hey guys, i’m Abby Martin, welcome to Breaking The Set.

Well, the government has been scrambling recently to keep any more potential leakers under wraps.

And now we know that the software they are using help pinpoint the troublemakers within their ranks.

It’s the test called the cyber awareness challenging,

and that is used it’s easy determine whether or not federal employees or contractors are considered to be a threat.

Deaths gauges workers on several factors,

how often they travel, their views on the government,

and even their driving behavior.

At you complete the test, the program terms if you’re considered a low, medium, or high-level threat.

Well, while I’m glad I’m not one of the millions that works for the government.

Is that pretty sure that the test i wouldn’t pass.

As you can see right here, not only, by frequently travel outside the United States,

but i’m facing hundreds of dollars in fines and speed trap tickets in DC,

and i think we all know that I could just be slightly critical the US government.

Look, this program is basically forcing workers to implicate themselves

based on their personal beliefs and driving habits.

But the real issue here is that this is just another tactic being used

to squash any kind of dissent among workers.

Thereby discouraging people to speak up or ever blow the whistle on government wrongdoing.

But hey, what is exactly what the government wants?

In fact, i wouldn’t be surprised to learn personal pilot program,

was experimental one may be used to recognize and categorize

every American in a different threat levels.

Doesn’t quite feel like we are that far off from that being a reality.

And that means there is lots of work to be done, guys.

So join me, i’m just breaking the set.

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The revolutionary Albert Einstein once said,

“We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.”

Meaning, that we have to keep reinventing the wheel if we want a better society.

And that is the driving force behind an organization called The Venus Project.

It’s a movement offering architectural plan for human beings,

technology, and nature to coexist a greater sustainable future.

The man behind the project is Jacque Fresco.

Is a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist,

who truly believes the ills of society can be cured

only if we throw away the rules that govern it and ourselves.

Fresco poses a question for us all:

“or Humanity create the Paradise we know is possible,

or will it drive itself into oblivion. The choice is ours.”

And i spoke to him earlier, and i first asked him what drives this system into greed and war,

and why have political social institutions evolved along with technology.

Scarcity, or fear of the scarcity.

Some might make people want to grab as much territory as i can,

as much arable land as i can, as much water as i can.

So, the needs of people have to do with their behaviour.

A more scarcity, the more aberrant behaviour.

What does the Venus Project proposed to redesign society in a way that is possible today?

It’s the bringing all the nations together as one nation.

And agreed to take care the earth. And everything on the earth.

And then, the nature, to restore nature as near a natural condition as possible.

And goes no dumping of toxic materials in the rivers or the oceans.

Can you break down some of the specifics about the transportation and energy capabilities in said society?

I would say the energy capabilities would be based on geothermal energy,

to natural heat of the earth.

When you rely on solar,

if there are clouds on the way, you know there is much electric generator.

But geothermal energy is a natural fuel under the ocean, and on the land.

Now we can tap those, make steam,

and it steams can turn the turbines, and generate power continuously,

without worrying about whether sun is down or not.

And what about transportation?

Transportation would be like monorail.

In other words, about 30 feet off the ground,

so it doesn’t have to stop at every corner.

I thought that something was really interested in one of your presentations talking about sea cities.

Can you describe what those would look like?

The city is circular, it is like a series of reems,

emanating out from a central dome.

The central dome will have the socially integrated computer.

Which has it’s tenticles way out into the agricultural belt.

And deep into the soil.

So, if the water table drops, that unit can pump water on that.

Where is man has to take too much time to decipher the conditions.

Jacque, if all of these amazing technologies exist today,

what is prohibiting them from flourishing right now?

The established institutions.

Once you’ve invested 10 million in oil platforms, you don’t want the electric car.

You don’t want anything that interfere with your income.

So we become self-centered that way.

Is there anywhere in the world that is practicing a society

such as the one that you are proposing right now?

I would say that 90% of the societies are corrupted by scarcity.

Now i can say there is any decent society in the world.

Maybe, maybe Iceland might be okay.

You said that all world systems thus far,

communism, socialism, fascism and free-market enterprise evolved

failed to eliminate racism, elitism and scarcity. Yes.

Can you explain how your vision would eliminate those things?

I’m trying. First of all,

and money corrupts people on the, in all areas.

You can pay off judges, senators, politicians, with the use of money.

We must outgrow the need for money, and go on to a resource-based economy.

We will make things available to people just like the public library.

If you have difficulty understanding that, you can check out any book in the library,

without payments of any kind, or going into debt of any kind.

That isn’t the truth of whole society.

The society generates debt and obligations, which people cannot fulfil.

Jacque, you said that greed and an endless war

are based on aberrant behavior, based on social conditioning alone.

Would you say that the need for competition after reward

is also based on our societal conditions? Yes.

And that it is not innate with the human nature?

No, there’s no such thing as human nature.

Human nature, or human behavior, is shaped by culture.

After all, what makes a person a patriot?

The nazis were just as patriotic as the Americans.

Propaganda makes them all aligned.

I hate Americans and we hate the germans before the war.

And the Japanese used the same technique,

a propaganda, to get them again to want to do away with the Americans.

It’s all environmentally determined.

Every word you use you learn.

Your mother said cup, table, like, papa, mama.

Every word you use, and all the facial expressions come from movies,

books that you read, role models that you look up to, and so.

It seems to be nothing that humans can say.

That doesn’t reflect that culture.

When you are brought up in the south,

and you hear all day long the same thing,

I’m all get me in ?, and i am going to hang them up with ?.

That is not inborn, that is learned in the south.

So, there in areas of the south, uneducated regions of the south.

Where do you think prejudice comes from?

It isn’t inborn. Children will play with anybody.

Afro-americans, chinese, japanese, filipinos,

until mother says you are ?, you don’t play with catholics.

She means well, but she doesn’t understand what he is doing.

Jacque, i commend you for actually presenting solutions

to the multitude of problems that we face in the world,

the scarcity, the all the problems that we are facing,

it seems really overwhelming,

and I think it’s amazing that you’ve actually produce something that could be a solution.

However, how can we insure that putting full trust in one concentrated planning system of society

will work and not become corrupted?

Because i missworried that we are not there yet,

and that, i feel like that’s how socialisms failed in the past.

If you do away with a scarcety, number one, and you do away with money,

and make things available like a public library,

make sure that the public library we have a camera center,

where anyone can go in and check out the camera.

Make sure there is camera center, there is music instruments,

you can check out a violin, a saxophone, just like the public library.

No payments of any kind.

Now we have all those buildings around the central building.

And that makes it impossible

for people to take bribes or a break in the house, and steal anything.

If you made goods and services available to people, they do not steal.

There is no need for it.

We need to reinvent our value system

in order to share the resources of this planet.

How much would you say that language

and mental trappings of the social orders that have failed in the past,

trap us, prevent us from being able to progress with the revolutionary ideas?

Well, our language was designed hundreds of years ago.

And that can not communicate with people.

We know that because we have democrats, republicans, socialists, lutherans, catholics,

and language is a terrible thing.

It’s never been invented,

so that people can drawn the same conclusions.

You see language is subject to interpretation.

When you read the bible, somebody says this is what Jesus amend.

And the other person all know he meant something else.

And a third person says you are both wrong, this is what he meant.

That is why you have the lutheran, the 7th day adventists, the catholics,

all only because the bible is subject to interpretation.

And our language is terrible, because it is subject to interpretation.

But there is a language that is not subject to interpretation.

And that is the language used by engineers.

When they talk to each other,

they don’t say believe me, this is a song ?erial.

They give you the specifications of what is in that metal,

how much torsion load it can take, how much tension, how much compression.

So engineers, when they talk to each other,

they don’t say i think he means this or i think he means that.

When you talk to normal people,

they interpreted it in relation in relation to their background.

That is a major problem.

Yes. Math and science and these things are not really open for interpretation.

That is mind-blowing to see the technologies that do exist that are available to us right now.

Jacque Fresco, thank you so much for coming on explaining a little bit more about The Venus Project,

everyone check it out.

I’m taking a quick break, guys, but still had will talk about the tragic nuclear legacy of Japan, say 10.