Jacque Fresco - Excerpt about - The mechanistic point of view

People have a name for things. If they see a child draw pretty pictures right away, they think the child is gifted. That means "I haven't the slightest idea how a six-year-old could draw a profile of a human being that looks so accurate." That's what they're saying when they say he's gifted. "I have no idea how that occurs." When the fish migrates thousands of miles to the spawning grounds as if a mother fish opens up a map of the world showing a fish how to get to spawning grounds. They invented a word for that: 'instinct'. It means "I haven't the slightest idea of how these fish do that." Instinct is a dead word, noise. It tells us nothing. But a word that says "I'm gonna try to find out how it is that fish can do that." They studied the magnetic current under the Gulf Stream which fish follow. Once you begin to know that birds can follow Earth's magnetic current because if you strap a small magnet to the bird's head it doesn't migrate. It becomes confused. It was called years ago 'A Mechanistic Point of View' and people hated that word. "Mechanistic! I'm not a machine. I'm flesh and blood. I'm thinking, feeling. " They loved that and they moved away from the mechanistic point of view which hurt society no end. It's a mechanistic point of view. All that it says is, look: You can't roll your eyes to the right unless there is a muscle and the nerve cells that feed that muscle. You can't twist your arm unless muscles run in that direction. That's all that a mechanistic point of view illustrated. The mechanistic point of view states that nothing is self-activating. That's the most difficult thing for people to grasp. I'll try to simplify that. A sail boat cannot sail. It is moved by the wind. A plant cannot grow, all that nonsense, still exists today. A plant requires warmth, temperature, moisture, gravity all of those things. Although you don't see the connection they are all connected. Living beings do not acquire knowledge or information through ethereal means. They acquire it by banging their heads against the wall slipping on ice and then designing anti-slips systems. First, you have to slip on the ice. No government to my knowledge ever anticipated the future. "This is the direction we're heading in let's prepare for social change." No, they try to keep things as they are.