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It's Time to Change
And We Have a Plan
Science and Technology
- They take a group of scientists and engineers
and they work on flying machines...
You give them flying machines, they use it to bomb cities.
You give them dynamite, which can be used for many different purposes,
and they use it to blast people to pieces...
So how can a person be scientific, if they have allegiance to their country
rather than to the Earth and everyone on it,
and the intelligent use of resources.
This would be a scientist, to me.
- And just think of a world where all the science and technology
instead of going to destructive purposes
and how to blow somebody up better, quicker,
more efficiently and more destructively
goes to towards how to create a much better life for everyone on Earth.
It doesn't eliminate anyone.
And how to create a pristine environment at the same time.
So it would be quite a different world when you put science in that direction.
Then why don't we use scales of scientific performance,
when it comes to planning our societies.
Transportation systems, agriculture, health care
and so on, as a total integrated systems approach.
- The nearest thing to what you would call honesty
is science, because the system itself checks things out constantly.
You come up with an idea, they put it to test.
And more so than any other system.
Yes, technology makes mistakes,
buildings collapse, bridges fall...
but compared to any other system,
it's by far the most outstanding system
and the only system that we know of that transports people around,
electrical power, give us refrigerators to keep food in storage...
In other words, science and technology has given us and freed more people
from hard labor
than any philosopher and "do-gooder".
Jacque Fresco (thevenusproject.com)
Roxanne Meadows (thevenusproject.com)