Jacque Fresco's speech 3/3

In the islands you couldn't give away a magazine on nude women. They'd say "What the hell is that?" You understand? It would have no meaning. So all you people that think "I guess that's human nature." It isn't! All our values, everything we believe in, "Good morning, how are you sir!" in the army, and if you're Irish you say: "A fine Irish lad sittin there." or if you live in Austrailia you say: "How are ya mate!" Because even your language, your facial expressions reflect your culture. If you lived in Germany ten years, and then moved to France and lived there ten years, you'd speak with a German-French accent. Do you understand that? Ok. So whenever people say: "Well I make my own decisions!" You don't make your own decisions! Because the movies, magizines, tell you what kind of furniture you want, what kind of refrigerator to buy, what kind of drink, coca-cola, or whatever the hell it is. So all your decisions are forced by advertising on TV. There will be no advertising in the future, only information on your TV. Then there are so called "good people", who don't want to cut down the forest, because the forest we need, for oxygen, so they walk with signs: "Please don't cut down the forest!" And then there are other people who go to Home Depot and they buy lumber. As long as they buy lumber they'll cut down the forest. So you're walking with signs: "Womens rights" Men don't give a damn about that, that's your problem! So everybody is selfish, interested in their own works. "What's in it for me?" And all countries are that way. US goes to other countries for cheap labor, oil or something they want. They don't go to bring humanity to a country. And a preacher goes to another country to see if he can get more catholics, or more presbyterians to donate more to the church. So the catholic church says "Have as many children as you want, the Lord will provide." And I say to them, "Are you sure the Lord will provide?" - "I know it!" "Then sign here, if he doesn't, YOU will provide!" They never sign. Do you understand? If you really believe in something, back it up. Ok? So the Venus Project to me, will enlighten all people. No matter what you are, Italian, Greek, you all need the same thing: Clean air, clean water, decent home, medical care and a relevant education. A relevant education means no lawyers, no business men, no investment bankers. No one that is parisitic. Parisistic means that does nothing to make the world a better place. When everybody is educated to improve agriculture, language, communication ... That's wonderful! So everybody you meet will be your friend in the future. Today, you meet a person, "I got just the car you're looking for!", "I got just the house you're looking for!" All sales people! Eveybody makes a buck on human misery! If you can't see too well, somebody sells you eye glasses. If you've got a dental infection, some dentist makes fourteen hundred bucks on a root canal. So misery supports a lot of the culture. Our job is to build research labs and give them whatever the hell they need! No more digging up dimes and nickels for heart disease, and cancer. We give the lab whatever the hell they need. And no more money appealing: Going out to Hollywood and trying to get a job as an actress and the producer pinches your ***. And if you let him do that you might get a job in the next picture. If you go to bed with him you'll surely get a job in the next picture. We don't want any of that crap anymore! And you can't make laws that say, "Say No to Drugs", because once you can't make money selling drugs, no one's going to say: "No to drugs" Don't you see? Sometimes, if you're a dishwasher, and you earn minimum wage, and people bring more dishes in than you can imagine everyday, and someone says: "You'll never get out of that. Why don't you sell drugs?" "You could make a thousand bucks a week." And he says, "But I'd be poisoning people!" -"They don't give a *** about you! What do you care about them for?" So what is a criminal to me? A judge, a lawyer, are criminals. They can take words and turn them around. Make you look bad or good depending on how much you pay them. So I can't stand lawyers, judges, politicians. They will all be considered criminal. If you don't understand me: king Solomon had a thousand wives. Today he'd be arrested as a bigamist, but everybody admires king Solomon. And they all admire Jesus Christ but they don't know that Jesus Christ, just before they crucified him, he said, "Father forgive them." He insulted God. Now, then he also said, "Father, why has thou forsaken me?" That means: "Why didn't you do something about this horrible situation?" Nobody seems to understand that! They read their bible and they don't know what the hell they're reading about. They really don't! I've never met a priest that understood religion that was kind and good, and forgiving, and if a guy punched him, he'd turn the other cheek. I've never met a christian. Would you believe that? I heard about them. I've never seen any. I've never been into a church where they personified the teachings of Christ, We want to educate people to restore nature. or Mohammed, or any other church. Now a lot of Arabs believe that the Arabs need ten wives because man is always looking. Well in their world where everybody's covered up, it wouldn't matter if you were walking down the street with your wife. You could be walking with somebody else! So the whole thing is insane. Don't dump toxic materials in the rivers. So you don't have to tell people that, if you have science and technology that maintain the intelligent management of the earths resources. So what I'm saying is: use religion as a "big thing", but get the people to come into The Venus Project because we DO what religion talks about! We don't have any paper proclamations. "Equal rights to all people." That's ***! George Washington, the president of the United States, the first president, had three hundred slaves. Did you know that? He'd be a bum and arrested today. So all the people your taught to admire: the rich, the wealthy, and the powerful. You don't even know who improved agriculture for you. His name isn't anywhere. You go into a park today, there are cannons, war tanks, all the wrong things. There should be statues of people that made the world a better place. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's what has to be done. I don't think I have more time. I'd give some more details but do not have the time. Is there any other procedural things you want to get them to do, or not? Organize to do what I said: go to different corporations and tell them: "There are 15 million people that now know about The Venus Project." "Will you make a contribution to The Zeitgeist Movement here?" And get that information out to all the other Zeitgeist people! Don't hope that you can do it alone! They will do it if they fear that their system will not last forever. There is no way you can design a city and say, "This is the best city." It's the best you know of up till now. The kids of the future will design their own cities. So the city I designed is not Utopian. People say, "Well Fresco's a utopian." "He thinks there are final frontiers." He doesn't! Any city I design is the best that I know how, with what I know up till now. But ten years from now the kids will be different. So no one can design the best laptop. You can do the best laptop you know how to do up till now. But ten years from now it will be smaller, lighter, take pictures ..... ..... send them, all kinds of information. So don't ever think that there are final frontiers. There are none. Men will keep inventing and changing, inventing and changing. So the distant future, people may live to be two hundred years old or more. So there's no limit to what man can do if you take him off destructive weapons. That's about it. Thank you!