I don't think so, if you use diagrams and motion pictures. They even have cellphones all around the world today. They have cellphones, photoelectric cells on the back of camels in the Arab world, they're ready to use anything new. And if you can demonstrate how it will enhance their lives, they will use it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It isn't open-source, what it really means is: Are people going to get the best advantage they can from a scientific government? If there is a government without money, where you can't pay off politicians, where you don't follow the decleration of free-business, or banks, or lending instituions it would be far better than a monetary system. We have to do away with the monetary system. The reason we have to do away with it, is that if you put up a half of a million dollars to get somebody elected to political office, they owe you a favor. Do you understand? Money can pay people off. With the use of money you can sell drugs, prostitution, gambling, (etc.). If you do away with money, there is no basis for selling drugs, there's no basis for buying anybody, a judge or a lawyer. You can't hire people to do your bidding if no money exists.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You don't need that. All you need to do is put up new cities with the great technological advances that science is capable of. You don't need to put everything out in the open. That means that the system isn't fully developed, if you have to do that.
The question was, "shouldn't TVP have an algorithm for all the resources that are out there..." We're not really in that position. We do advocate having a survey at a certain time, when we have the ability to use all the resources and do something with them. Right now, it really is too premature.
I would say that is fairly accurate.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They don't have control, they are assigned projects. I've said that many times. No one controls anything, they are assigned different tasks. If you want to build a bridge, you get bridge engineers together. If there are chemical problems in making a composite material for building that doesn't burn in air, you bring construction engineers and material developers together. You bring people that are familiar with that field, and it's not a privilege, it's hard work.
The people who are building and designing, they don't have control of the resources. They don't allocate resources to different people, or tell different people what they can do within the city.
Yes. If you own a factory, you will assign people different tasks. In the airplane industry some people work on the landing gear, some people work on the wings, some people work on remote control systems, some people work on instruments,(etc.) they are assigned those tasks by their background and their ability to perform. They do not dictate policy, they merely carry out their assignment. Bridge engineers build bridges, tunnel engineers excavate tunnels, but they don't tell people what to do. The job has to be done. The survey committee says, in order to maintain 50,000 people in the city, you have to have so much water, so much food available, so much air conditioning. That is determined by the amount of people, just like an ocean liner. If you have a thousand (1,000) passengers on an ocean liner, who decides how much food to carry? The people that have worked on the ocean liner, that know those problems. Who decides how many doctors and dentists you need? By the amount of people that complain about dental and medical problems.
It would be just like if you got mad at something, and then you wanted to cut off your own arm because you got mad. Sane people don't do things like that. You wouldn't want to hurt anything in the environment.
People who are brought up under TVP have a different outlook, completely different than the people of today. You are dealing with people with todays values. If you want to be an aeronautical engineer, you have to go to that environment. If you want to be a doctor, you have to go to a medical environment, and then you have to pass tests. You have to immerse the person in an environment that deals with the subject they are assigned, so you don't have a person who studies animal behavior become a dentist. He has to be in a dental environment to become a dentist. He has to know his dentistry. We don't have that, that is today you are talking about: People that get angry, that wont perform as well, that would want to shoot people or damage the environment. We do away with all that in the schools. We clean out all the old values that have no referents. People learn to read books differently than they do today. Their behavior is different than it was in the past. They don't respect people, like they do today, they respect your performance only.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, if you are ready to put up the funding for the blueprints, we would be glad to do that. We are working on finishing blueprints and we're showing them to people--we're making appointments and meeting with people who can follow it through. These are not prints that we're just putting out there because we do have a certain agenda. It's like Jacque used to design aircraft, prosthesis, used to work on drug addicts in the past, and he designed aircraft but they used them to go bomb faster and pollute more and destroy more, quicker more efficiently. This is not what we did the blueprints and designs for; we live in a world that is extremely abusive. And Jacque always talked about how the scientists who did the atom bomb should have never given it to the government--look what happened to it. So, we are very protective of the plans and the designs because we would like them to be followed through to the best of our ability to create a different type of world other than just giving it to the world as it is today.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
When Jacque mentioned it would take ten years to redesign the surface of the earth, I wanted to mention that he's talking about after the transition; he's talking about it in terms of a technical problem how-to feed, house, and clothe everyone, how-to rebuild cities. He's not so much talking about it would take ten years from now to put in a Resource Based Economy.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, every person comes up with different suggestions, that's only one. And I would say, use whatever methods you have to in order to get the ideas across. I find the methods I use seem to work ok; they're not perfect but they work. So if you find better systems, use them.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
...Outside of his culture. It is very difficult for people to give ideas that are very different than the way the culture works. They tend to reject ideas that do not support the free-enterprise system or capitalism. For example, I don't think anyone out there has ever seen the reasons why these so-called "disrupters of society" flew planes into the Trade Centers. We never heard their portion of the story. I think that in the future, instead of hating people, we will try to find out why they do certain things, and see if we can eradicate those conditions.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
In order for us to be functional in the TVP design teams, for example, in the 3D teams we need people that can do 3D unaided without a lot of support, time and effort into getting their models to the specifications we need in order to be able to put them out there in the public. So that is why in the 3D team I would get someone to send me samples of their 3D work. If they're good enough they are going to be in the team. If they're not, we would reply and say 'sorry, it's not at the standard we need' etc. The reason for doing this is to make sure that we can actually get these projects done. For example, with the the marketing team we need people who are quite experienced in Marketing, in Advertising and Public Relations etc. Ideally, we would have every single person on the planet contributing to this. Unfortunately, we're limited by the amount of time that we can put into doing volunteering. Most of us work and we've got family lives that we have to take care of . So it's a case of making sure we have the right people on the right teams with the right experience, the right knowledge to be able to get these products out there.
This is the only way at this time that we can judge the competence. They don't have to have a Resumé of school background or anything. We just need to see that they have the competence to do the work.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
First of all, we would have to do a survey to find out how many heart cases or diabetes there are and that determines how many hospitals we will build. But a hospital will treat everybody with the best equipment they have. There are no special privileged people and the hospitals will be given whatever equipment they need to operate with. In other words, there'd be no different qualities of hospital, it would be the best quality we can produce at the time, that includes service and equipment.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, everyone has access to resources whether they work or not. And everyone is cared for by the access centres, they can access anything they need or they can go back to school if they want to, or they can become instructors. It all depends on each individual.
There's really no need for a programme that's the equivalent to social security in the United States. I don't have all the details of what they do, but you have to pay into social security all through your life and then after the age 64, or sometimes 62 or if you're incapable of working, you can get certain amounts of funds equivalent to what you put into it. So, TVP has nothing like that. There would be social security your whole life in terms of equal access to all the goods and services that are available in a high energy system.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, I think that all people can help. I believe that there may be resources all over the world that have never been explored. I think there's tremendous potential out there.
But it doesn't take all people to make this happen. I think today we're on the backs of very few people who give us certain technologies to make things happen in the world. And for this to ultimately work, it would have to be a whole global system. One country couldn't exist making a RBE by themselves.
It would be much easier on a global basis and the standard of living would be higher for most people if we can get all nations to join in taking care of the environment and one another without the use of armies, navies or force of any kind. I also feel that, in sharing resources and invention, we can move the world further along very rapidly.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The details are not there. In other words, we've advanced technologically quite a bit beyond the teachings of Lenin. I think that today's technology is far different that concern for the working classes. In other words, if the working classes receive higher salaries, the price of a car goes up. In the future, there would be very few people working and the standard of living will go up, not the price of objects.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Not really, except that a certain area hasn't been worked on. I've never seen the details of housing, cities, transportation except within the context of the existing systems of the time. I never saw any projections of the future in detail so that we can build it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I don't think so, unless you study something about energy determinants: How much energy it takes to accomplish a given task. You can only compare things to the energy required to accomplish a given task.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I never really invested in the monetary system. I spent most of my time working on inventions, some that might be commercial at the time. I would sell those outright, to get the money to go back to my lab and do what I wanted to do. In other words, I would sell inventions and ideas to get the money to go back to the lab to investigate whatever I was interested in investigating.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The first priority is that the planners work on the first city, based on the designs of TVP. With that accomplished, we then translate the methods by the planners for putting up permanent cities automatically. We will try to design a system to put up 25 or 30 cities at a time, depending on how much is available.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
In France today, there are many "comfort stations" that are self-cleaning. It has been in use for years. So I think it doesn't take very much to design automated systems for cleaning and maintaining the washrooms. It doesn't take that long. In times of war, how come we build 90,000 planes a year? In times of war, we make machine guns for every person, we make uniforms for all people, very rapidly. We only do that in times of war, but in times of peace, there is no heavy endoctrination on fighting cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis, diabetes... We should put up funds for solving those problems too.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No. They would work on it because they believe in what they are doing. I think that all people that are doing research, say on cancer or heart disease, are just as sincere(they enjoy helping people, not for the money). We would work on those problems, and we would give labs whatever they need to do that kind of work, instead of trying to dig up nickels and dimes for research on cancer, which I think is "working backwards"(making the problems harder to solve than they have to be), because we have the resources today to provide every lab with whatever they need.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I would say with computer science today, you can go back to centralization, because you can have the "pulse"(statistical data) of every nation on your computer. It is no longer necessary to have decentraliztion. You can go back to centralization because the computer can give you answers that are relevant any where in the world within a few minutes. I think we can gather enough information from statistical data, about what people are chewing on, what people like to do, and if they are detrimental to human health we will point that out. I think that it is very necessary to point out the limitations and detrimental effects of tobacco and candy, and artifical coloring and flavoring, and genetic engineering. They have to be very carefully worked out before they are "launched at the public"(given/sold to people who do not understand the effects).
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, not at all. TVP is based upon a high energy civilization, so that people can eventually express themselves, and engage in studies that they are interested in. In other words, it's a very different system than any other system that has been proposed in the past.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
That is a question of morality. If you are brought up in an environment where you consider all life sacred, do you kill mosquitos? Do you fight invading bacteria? It seems that people devise systems to sustain their own life system. Sometimes in sustaining life you need to eat vegetables, and you can eat animal tissue and convert that tissue to human tissue. It's very hard to say, "Don't take a life," of even a bug or an insect of any kind. Well, I don't understand. When you eat plants you are taking plant life, when you eat animals you are taking animal life. According to Bose, some plants are more sensitive than human beings. I don't understand/accept that the culture your brought up in may give you a set of values that are not based upon physical evidence. Read 'Response In The Living and Non-Living', by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, if you want a different point of view.
I just want to make a comment on that. If you look at it in terms of how much resources it takes to feed and then eat an animal as opposed to raising plants, that might be a thing to consider as well. There has to be a lot of scientific research done on what the human body really needs...
...And can assimilate, also. A lot of work has to be done before any final conclusions. If you say, "I don't believe in taking a life," I think you are clinging to an ideal that hasn't been verified yet.
He mentions here, being "one with nature"...
Do you mean if you have an earthquake you can help the earthquake? What do you mean by "one with nature"? Some people call themselves "nature lovers". Does that mean you like earthquakes? hurricanes? tsunamis? tornados? All that's nature. A Rattlesnake is nature. There's also poisons in nature: Sulfur Dioxide from volcanic discharge is nature, so I don't believe that we like nature, we like certain things about nature. Some things about nature we don't like, that's disease, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, (etc.), so when a person says, "I'm a nature lover," I really don't know what they're talking about.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Communism has armies and navies, prisons and police, social stratification, and the use of money. As long as you have those things, you can not have a social system that's just for all people.
Communism was also concerned with the working class. We want to actually bypass the need for a working class, and automate as much as possible...
...To free people from obligation. When you work for a factory, the minute you punch the time-clock, you walk in to a dictatorship. They don't ask you what you would like to do, what you're interested in, they put you on an assignment. You either type, you're in the sales department or manufacturing, or you operate machines. That is not a democracy, that is a dictatorship. All private industry and all department stores, or anybody you work for, is a dictatorship. Think about it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
During the transition, there will be problems. The first people that get homes and apartments are the planners: the people that can plan cities, plan food production, the people that are necessary to carry us through the transition.
That is people teaching other people about this direction, as well.
They don't get a home, they get a place to live, and the place to live is temporary. You don't own anything in TVP. You are assigned different projects, and you live near the project. Your ability to perform in that area is what determines where you live.
I guess this question is, what if more people want a home rather than an apartment, who determines who gets those homes?
During the transition, your ability to perform in a given area determines where you live. You don't determine that during the transition. After the transition, things are different.
How so?
People learn different disciplines, and they are assigned different tasks. If your a pilot that flies commercial airliners, you fly commercial airliners.
I think this is the question: What if there are limited amounts of homes?
They will be rationed by the ability of the people who occupy those homes, their function in relation to society. If they can grow food, prepare mass-housing systems, (etc.) they will function. The people that are non-functional would go back to schools, study mass housing systems, or whatever is needed. People do not want the homes, they're assigned the homes by their ability to render service to society. If they can't render any particular service to society, then they are not assigned a home in a given region. If your home is near mass-production areas and your ability is in mass-production and automation, you are temporarily assigned that home in that region.
What if some people were given an apartment, but they want the home?
Nobody's given an apartment, they are assigned. If you don't know what that means, it means that people with the ability to function in a given area are assigned a living place.
Today people want homes, and to be isolated more so. However, I think eventually more people would want to live in apartments, because they have more things in the apartments. They are very close to gymnasiums, restaurants right near-by, or anything else that they might want within the apartments, because you can accommodate people more so. It would be sound-proof, and they would have very good accommodations. Also, It would be more efficient to have people in apartments rather than in seperate homes. I think when the standard of living is so high in the apartments, they would probably like that more.
Every apartment will have emergency medical services, dental services, shopping, access to resources. You don't have that in individual homes, you have to drive to the shopping center, you have to take your children to school, (etc.). In the future, what we call total-enclosure systems have schools, libraries, everything built in to the apartment, so it's more advantageous to live in an apartment. It wont be a question of "do the people want individual homes?", they won't want. They would want the maximum service they can get, and the way you get that is by following the assignment system: We assign people different areas depending on their background and their physical/mental capabilities.
It doesn't mean they would be assigned something lesser than other people.
No, never. If you are trying to ask whether there will be any kind of elitism, the answer is no. There will be no technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism. The people assigned projects will work harder than the average person.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The liberty of TVP, with a deeper understanding of nature and human behavior, the reason for war, the reason for anger and hostility, they would be so well informed that they would find a motion picture shot in our time as a horror movie. They would look back at our system as a horrible system to live in, due to their newer education. That is what happens to people that come here to the tour. They come one way and they walk out very different, because we really have a chance to ask all kinds of questions. We question motives, and grammar, and everything else. Really, the best way to learn about TVP is either to get the book, called 'The Best That Money Can't Buy', or come to our tours if you can. It's not really a tour, it's a cerebral enema where we clean out the old values.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
About 3 months, with motion pictures and control of the media. If you don't control the television, the newspapers, the magazines,(etc.), you can't do it. With control of the media, about 3 months.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Today, Washington doesn't know what's going on in Virginia, or Florida. In the future, all information will be accessible, and not varied to suit the mood of a person. Information will be available as to transportation, what the agricultural yield is, what the climate changes may be, (etc.). All information will be available to everybody, not any specialized group. However, I don't think the average person would exercise the ability to find out whether aircraft landing gear has been improved. They would only access information they are interested in. Remember, the public doesn't concern itself with new techniques in agriculture, agronomists concern themselves with that. Information will be available to those that have the knowledge to understand the information they are requesting.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They may do that. They have the power to do that. They have the power to eliminate me, or put me in jail, but they can't eliminate the ideas. They would like to control the internet, they would like to control all sources of information to keep people subject to their values. That, you gotta consider. They will delay whatever they can delay, and control whatever they can control, and eliminate whatever people they feel is a threat, but ultimately if we don't operate that way, we can not operate at all.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
In the beginning when we have the first city done, we can't afford to take on people who just can't participate. That, we hopefully will develop enough energy to take on later. We see the first city as the planners, the developers, people who will make media, who will help introduce this direction in many different ways. The planners who will be making the next city more efficient. The first city we might have to build a lot with what we have, instead of innovating new ideas, because that might take longer. If people can't function to do that, the first city I'm sure would not have enough energy to take on people who cannot particiapte and help. All the homes would be very comfortable, and very sufficient for whatever peoples needs are.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I mentioned this many times before--to do a survey first, and then have your labs work on overcoming shortages. They will give out estimated data for overcoming particular kinds of shortages. So people will be prepared and understand that it might take six weeks or six months to solve certain problems. We will get that estimate from the labs from people that work on those things. I can't tell you exactly what the conditions will be because I'm not sure.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, I would say, I can't answer that question because it depends on the kind of equipment we have in the future. It may take too much energy to propel that stuff to the Sun. We'd have to temporarily support it in an enclosed system of material that is not set to wear, such as Titanium. Titanium rusts 1/1000 in. in a thousand years in salt water. So we might contain it for some period of time in the deep ocean sealed in Titanium; later on when the chemistry and physics have evolved, we might be able to transmute that material into other kinds of materials.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
We would tell people that it might take another four months to develop sufficient resources; if we're short, we'd tell them. It might take two years to develop resources. But to put it out there so that people will understand that we don't have all the resources to immediately develop a Resource Based Economy. It's going to take some time; that time will depend on how much damage we do before we are ready to install a Resource Based Economy. Depends on how far along we go--how much damage we do--I can't answer that directly. It isn't the demand; it's the availability of resources and however long it takes to make those resources available would always be posted on the communication systems. And if there is a scarcity, that is where research would go to eliminate that scarcity or find an alternative.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Fortunately, it doesn't take an agreement of all people to change things. Very few people support this economy today. It's really the technicians that make the refrigerators, the washing machines, all the electric lights, all the power systems developed by technology--mass production. Those are the people, and it takes very few people to design everything on earth. You don't need to convince everybody.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You can't work with existing governments; they have a fixed set. Apparently, they don't have the necessary flexibility to understand a direction that is distinctly different from the present culture.
It's not realistic to go on as we are. You can learn as much about The Venus Project as you can--this direction, the values, the aims and start discussing them with people. Also, you can read the books on the recommended book list on the website.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You have to point out what other sources of energy there are; other than solar, wind, tidal, temperature differential--between the upper surface of the ocean and the depth of the ocean. The temperature on the upper surface of the tropics the water is warm, but deep down a mile or so you have very cold water and you can generate electricity. Then there is geothermal energy; there is wave power--wind power, all kinds of possible solutions to the energy shortage.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Yes, if you harness the temperature differential of natural volcanic energy, if you harness geothermal energy. This isn't my opinion; you can write to the government agency on geothermal energy and they said, "There's enough energy there to operate everything on earth for hundreds of years."
It also takes reorganizing how you use the resources, as well, and how your cities are run.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
To come here and study The Venus Project, or get our book 'The Best That Money Can't Buy' which gives you an overview of The Venus Project--become familar with it. Get the books, the videos, the tapes that we put out--come to the tour.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I would just suggest getting Jacque's book 'The Best That Money Can't Buy'--reading our website, first of all, if you want an introduction to what a Resource Based Economy is.
Get the books, the videos, the tapes that we put out--come to the tour.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Yes, because the music will be used in conjuction to help strengthen the memory of each presentation. Music just presented as a series of sounds, so arranged as to produce a pleasing effect is insufficient use of music.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The way you do that is through education. Not through standard systems of education, a new system of education on how to use the scientific method, how to surrender your ego in exchange for socially-constructive development. In other words, the kind of people that this system generates are not the kind of people that can operate a socially-integrated society.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The first priority is that the planners work on the first city, based on the designs of TVP. With that accomplished, we then translate the methods by the planners for putting up permanent cities automatically. We will try to design a system to put up 25 or 30 cities at a time, depending on how much is available.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The Venus Project would not exist under those conditions. It is only after the monetary system does not work, when they have lack of funds, and they begin to shut down. Not only General Motors, but most industries. The public will not have the purchasing power to buy the goods and services, and that's when the system comes to an end. Otherwise, TVP will not work during a monetary system.
We have talked to people who wanted Jacque to design cities, and we would take it as far as we could go. We would bring in the participation of the universities and students, and introduce them to this direction as much as possible. If we had the oppurtunity to do a city, that Jacque agreed to do, within this system, we would educate towards a RBE as much as possible. We would have as much say as we could within how the children would be educated, and what would be done in the city. For example, a theme park of the future. If we could do a theme park of the future in the first city, it could be used to bring in revenue for the city to exist more efficiently, so we did not have to go on the outside. Since we would be working within the monetary system, we would show more readily within the theme park, not just entertainment, but what a RBE would look like in the future, so we would use it as much as possible.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, the army will protect the government because that's the way they're brought up. The army is to serve the interests of the establishment not the majority of people. As witnessed, the police spraying mace or some other object into people's eyes when they were not fighting back. The police serve the interests of the establishment not the public.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I never said it was not a good translation tool; it's not the best; it's not updated. Socialism was great when it was designed, but today we have much better systems, much more effective to enhance the lives of people in a much faster way then the old-time socialist. Socialism was concerned with the working class. We're concerned with knowledge, and who were concerned with surpassing the need for work, in other words, we think machines could replace jobs that are monotonous and boring or dangerous that people think in terms of what to earn a living in the future you don't need to think in terms of work you'll be provided for and you can study anything you want to study in school. So I would say that most jobs will be phased out; most of the early professions will be phased out.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Because then they would say, "Well, that guy's a son of a bitch! He became a millionaire and then now he talks against the system. I don't trust him." Actually, Jacque did work within the system a lot when he was younger had many different inventions and ideas and just because you have good ideas that are better than what's out there does not mean it will take-on and make a lot of money with them. There's a lot of tremendous inventors that didn't get anywhere in the system for various reasons but whatever money Jacque did make we always turned it back into making more products and making the research center and perpetuating these ideas and introducing them others.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Machines can do almost anything a human can do except feel. Machines will never feel hate, love, "gee I did a good job, I'm going to try to do a better job next time", they will not have such a value system. Machines will not feel, they have no ambition, no sympathy, no love, no caring attitude. But you don't want machines to do that anyway, you just want machines to do a given job. Fill bottles with aromatics or shaving cream or on a production you want machines to build transportation units. They don't have to feel good about it, you don't need feelings in a machine. You need the ability to design machines to accomplish a given task, that's the problem. But to make machines feel things would serve no useful purpose.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
When it comes to anarchy, the basic difference is that anarchy says that there is an absence of a leader. The Venus Project creates the environment not to have any necessity of a leader.
Yes, that is true.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No single person. I would say many different books presented little bits of what is essential. Knowing the difference is the major problem, knowing what to expect as making sense.
They are asking about your concept of environment influencing behaviour. Did you get that from any particular person?
No, I got that from experience with different people in different environments. I've travelled around quite a bit and found the influences of behaviour has been obvious from different environments. I would hear people speaking in a Southern accent, and I would know they came from an area in the South. In England there are people who can tell you exactly what district people came from by their regional dialect and their values.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
If you have the time and the knowledge to do that, I'm all for it. But you have to also tell them the value systems of the dominant world today so that they don't become alienated completely. You have to teach them about the values that different people learn in different countries that are always relevant. And if you inform them well enough so that they understand, they'll be better-adjusted. If you just bring them up with the same value system they will clash with normal people.
A good way to look at it is, when you talk to someone for the first time about these ideas you normally get one of two reactions. One; totally against it, it's totally utopian, it'll never happen and it's completely unscientific. Or you will get people that are inquisitive and want to learn more about it. You'd get the same problem within a city. If the people aren't all with similar values there is a values clash and you'd get problems.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They can help by reading chapter one of “The Best That Money Can't Buy” and then discussing it. And read chapter two and so on. Discussing each chapter with each student or with the students that have questions.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They probably will evolve their own concept of sports and they will evolve newer types of what you call dancing. But I don't think that there will be any particular style that will dominate.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, not really. I think determinism is a form of a mechanistic point of view. By mechanistic I mean that you can't twist your arm to the right unless there is a muscle that does that. That you can't get up and walk unless you have muscles that let you do that. That plants do not grow, they depend on sunlight, temperature, soil conditions, moisture--they depend on many interacting variables. There is no single cause for human behavior; there are many interacting variables that shape human behavior.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It depends on your interpretation of quantum mechanics. All that mechanism says is that there's nothing that is self-activating. That a sailboat cannot sail; it's acted upon by the wind. That a ball does not roll down the hill; it's pulled down by gravity. All things are affected by different forces. It means that there's no self-generating unit that can generate its own energy without being fed. Human beings have to eat vegetable or animal tissue in order to grow; if they don't eat or consume life, they will die. All that a mechanistic system states is that things are not self-operating. A useful person depends on their education--how much they know about the physical world. And the more exposure they have to different systems, the broader their frame of reference. A person that just lived in Weehawken, NJ and never left that county can only remain a "Weehawk" at night. You have to be exposed to many different things in order to evaluate things. If you're just exposed to the Lutheran point of view, you don't have a broad enough frame of reference to engage in conversation about other forms and other viewpoints.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
There's no need to commit socially offensive behavior. If people have access to the necessities of life, they do not steal. If they have food, clothing, housing, and a relevant education, there's no need to offend anyone. Aberrant behavior is generated by scarcity or lack of opportunity.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Many semanticists have different interpretations, which is unfortunate. General semantics gives you some principles to work with but does not touch the economic system; it plays safe.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I asked him if he believed that human beings were a kind of physical/chemical/electrical mechanism. He said at the time it was too early to answer that question. He doesn't have enough experience in that area. No I did not because I would have to meet him in person and answer a lot of questions. I tried to set that up, but at the time it was not possible for him to get away.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No one yet; no one really touches or that I know of that touches the socio-economic influences on human behavior. If you're brought up in a culture like a Nazi culture, you produce more aberrant behavior. Therefore, the psychologists conform to culture. When a psychologist adjusts a person to a given culture, they are not scientific. A well-adjusted person in the economic system we have today would be considered mal-adjusted in a sane society.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They won't be available. In a RBE, detrimental things would not be available. You couldn't buy hot dogs or cigarettes, because they would not be made. People who are addicted to that, would be treated with the best knowledge we have for treating such addiction.
I'm just trying to help people understand what makes them act the way they do. Instead of getting angry at a person, I look at them differently: I say "They don't have the tools to understand," or "I am using tools that do not register with them." In other words, if I go to a Klu Klux Klan meeting, I can't come at them with my values, because they wouldn't understand it. I have to alter my values, and give very primitive examples, and then if they begin to understand, you can become more elaborate with the passing of time. The degree of information that you present, depends on how much they have learned.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
All people seek predictability. That means they would like to be able to predict the events of plants, of time... In art school, learning how to draw, they want predicitability. We feel that if we can give them predictability that they are satisfied with, they would utilize that system, giving them predictability. When you predict and all your predictions are wrong, you would say, "The world is all mixed up." No, It's your inability to predict. When somebody falls in love with another person they say, "They're wonderful!" Three months later you say, "How are you doing?",(they say,) "Oh, I left that person." They have very little predictability in behavior, so they have more abberated responses than reasonable responses. If you have predictability it will improve your self-image.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The self-image is generated by your lack of predictability, or your ability to predict. (mic cut-out)...product of either one of those factors, the self-image. If your predictability is accurate, you have a higher self-image. If it's inaccurate, you might blame the other person, rather than your inability to handle that situation.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I don't have those attitudes. I work on a person, and if they learn something, I use that system. If that system doesn't work on other people, then I have to devise systems that do work on various people with various backgrounds and different experiences. That can only come about by exposure.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I'm not quite sure I understand that question. If the cognitive functionality is different from the behavioural model, you would have to know what makes that difference. If you don't know what makes that difference, then you do research to try and find out. If you can't find out, then say, "I do not have information in that area," leave it alone.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
That would require a personal discussion. I can not give you an answer. There are really no answers to many questions, but there are descriptions of the variations in conditioning that produce those discrepancies.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
There will be a measuring system that determines the effectiveness of your ability to teach. That can be measured by the result of the pupil in the class, or the students. If most students seem to qualify, and are able to perform well, then that system will be used. If the system you use does not affect kids in the way you would like to, then the system would be modified.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It depends on how far along you are. The calendar only works in terms of its relevance to that new system. I can't discuss that with you because I don't know when and how far in to the future. I'm sorry, but I am unable to answer that question.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I used to read to children, very young, say 4 years old or so. Of course, I would read subject matter that I knew they would be interested in, not just anything. When it came to the most interesting part of the book, I would yawn, and close the book. The child would say, "What happened then?" then I'd say, "If you learn to read, you can find out yourself. You don't depend on me." Then the child would begin to ask me, "How do I begin to learn to read?", And then I would proceed with that.
The idea is to give them a purpose, a reason to want to read. Instead of just teaching them wrote things to read, give them something that they are interested in. They do it backwards today.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I would approach religious people by stating certain things in the bible, like, "Thou shalt not kill", "Love your enemy", and "If a man strikes you, turn the other cheek." That would mean that you do not participate in anything, any judgement. You would never do jury duty, because it says in the bible, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." You use the bible to alter their behavior. They don't seem to understand what they are reading, so you have to help religious people understand what they are reading.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
We did use it in the new documentary, in terms of "there would be a lot of individuality".
Yes, meaning that people would be brought up in different areas, and the areas that they seek would be different from one another, or modified slightly. That would produce a great deal of individuality. Individuality means unique exposure to different concepts.
In the future, it would be a much broader range of what types of oppurtunities that they would have. Jacque does use that word sometimes, to bridge the difference, or bridge the gap with people in a quick way.
They would have to write a report as to what they wish to investigate, and what they needed to do that investigation.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
That book never had the design of a system in there to do away with most of the problems. Many books talk about, and around the subject, but they don't really get into the real causes, and factors that shape human behavior.
I would say that in each of those books, there is a little bit that is relevant, but a lot of the books are very wordy. If you have a good background on this topic, by reading 'The Best That Money Can't Buy', you would be able to "wade through"(syn: filter/extract) what is relevant, and what is not.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, I do not think so. They have to learn all about TVP's approach to different problems, and to question it. Once they begin to understand how TVP operates, and its basis for making decisions, then they will be qualified. Until that time, no.
Could they learn about it?
Yes, they could learn how. We could submit to information that they lack.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Read 'The Best That Money Can't Buy' at least twice. Read that book, and that will give you a general overall view of our intentions, designs, and procedures.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
There are certain books on behaviorism, like Skinner, but it's not exactly about this. There is a section in Jacque's book, 'The Best That Money Can't Buy', on education. If you want to educate children, teach them what is going on in the real world, teach them the physical reality of the real world. It starts with...
Stay away from Mickey Mouse Clubs and all the fairy tales that children are given. Bring them up with reality. There is enough excitement in reality, you don't need fairy tales. It's tough enough to deal with the real world.
Children have to undo all of that, too, and it is very difficult. You will give them a real head start, if you teach them how nature works, how mechanics work, how machines work...
...And the theory of religion. That is a theory, because it is not based upon fact. The theory of evolution is based on findings. It's based on research. It's based on comparative anatomy of earlier people that lived long before us, it's based upon something. Religion is based upon superstition, feelings, convictions that people have within themselves, but it's not based on anything that can be demonstrated.
Teach them science, and teach them about this type of direction for the future, what an alternative could be for the future.
Don't forget, many people today are against abortion, because they feel that it takes a life. How come they don't line up when we go to war, which takes the lives of thousands of people, and millions of children, and pregnant women, and older people. War is the most horrible expression of humanity. Why don't they oppose war? Because they are very simple people, and they don't seem to understand the effectiveness of one system against another. They have no methods of evaluation. They are highly unqualified.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
If you know what "one-up-manship" means: to try to stand above the crowd and put yourself in the leadership position, and praise yourself, rather than community service, rather than working for the betterment of humanity. Ego is when a person says, "I can run faster than you." So what? If I can do math problems faster than you, that's ego. Sharing your ideas is cooperation. This is what will enable the future to evolve, the sharing of ideas, not privatization.
Does ego usually mean a low self-image, too?
Yes, or no self-image. Many scientists today understand that they are able to do what they do, because they stood on the shoulders of giants. Other people helped them, that's what they mean. Your ego is when you think that you are doing it all yourself, without the help of books, or other people that made contributions to your life. Any sane person would tell you that they were influenced by many different writers.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The person probably has brain damage, and they would call for help. There is no reason for a person to punch another person, because people are brought up not to hate, or disagree, or argue. They are brought up in a way that they say, "I don't know the answer to that problem. I am going to try and find out." They don't make value judgements abruptly. If a person behaves abbarently in the future,if that were to occur, either they have been hit on the head or damaged in some way, or have brain damage which manifests itself that way.
Is there a group of people that would take care of that situation in RBE?
Everybody would be qualified in knowing how to take care of that situation, and they would know who to contact for that. That would be the special contingencies group, which is designed to handle problems that are not typical.
What do you think the procedure would be in apprehending this person? For example, here in modern day times, we have the police, and they handcuff them. What would be the routine in a RBE?
First of all, if you understand the RBE, people are checked out in the schools when they are very young. We make sure thay they are in good shape, before they even go through the schools. When they go through the schools, they can answer all questions and they don't tend to get angry, they don't fight, they don't get in to arguments, because they are brought up differently than the way they are brought up today. You are asking about today's problems, and you are projecting them in to the future. It is very difficult for people to project in to the future, because they always project their own value systems in to the future. Those values do not exist. Most Americans don't go for bull fights or feeding Christians to lions. That behavior has been surpassed a long time ago.
Something to bear in mind is that during the transition you would still need some kind of police keeping force, like a civil court to take care of social problems such as that. We couldn't just go on with the values that we have today, and take away the police. It would be absolute chaos, because of the values that are currently held. What Jacque is talking about in regards to TVP's values, is that once we are in that situation, once children have started to go through that schooling and they understand more by the time they get into the age of adulthood, they wouldn't get in to the same kind of arguments that you get nowadays, because the values and the education would be very different. It's really only a transitional period where you would still have some kind of policing force that would be available to restrain people who were being violent, et cetera, and incarcerate them into mental hospitals or whatever hospital is needed to take care of those people. Once you get passed that transitionary step and people are starting to be educated in to a new set of values, those behaviors start to drop off, because you won't need them any more.
I have covered that many times on the air. I said that the transition will be painful, it will be violent, and there will be assassinations. Yes, it will be a terrible time, but we have to go through that in order to arrive at TVP or the RBE. That is accurate Andrew, what you just said makes sense. The transition will have temporary methods for dealing with all those problems, and there will be conventional methods used even as they are today, but only during the transition.
You don't see the police being the same as they are today?
No. They will be voluntary services, and they will be schooled in how to treat people.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
If they are neurologically criminals, for example, if something is mishapen in the brain or there is damage in the brain, they would be hospitalized, and we would use the best methods at the time to 'bring them around'.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I think all you can do is the best you can. You provide information to people, and if their ego manifests, they might say, "Oh, you won't see that for a 1000 years", that is an ego problem. Or if they say "It will never work", that is an ego problem, unless they point out specifics that they feel won't work, or question certain things, that's OK. However, saying "It will never work" is an ego problem, or "You'll never see that", that is an ego problem, or "I have got better ideas than you have", that is an ego problem.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I really can not answer that, because that would depend on how well educated/informed the public is then. If you continue this way, if people went on doing what they are doing, 1,000 years from now the whole Earth may become a graveyard.
Also, they are finding embalming fluid in all the big cities' reservoirs, in the drinking water, because we keep embalming people and burying them. That (embalming fluid) has to go down into the soil, and then we end up drinking it. So it is very detrimental, that practice.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No. My name Jacque Fresco, doesn't tell you anything about me. In the future, the J-A-C-Q-U-E will stand for something specific, the areas of interest or the areas that you function in. So when you meet a person in the future, the name assigned to that person will tell you exactly their range of performance, what they are interested in, and their contribution to society. A name today doesn't tell you a damn thing about the person.
In the future, a persons name could tell you right away, in many aspects, if you could share values with that person and speak to them in different areas. I think somebody thought that meant that names would be assigned like they are in the army, but no, not at all. The numbers in the army are just that, numbers to identify people. There would not be any armies in TVP, or Navys, or police, or prisons. Unless you call it, for example, an "army that helps people", but we would not use the word "army".
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Yes, because we haven't set up a school yet, to personify exactly what we mean. In other words, we don't have the funding to make films to show people identical structures and how they work. Therefore, everything you say is subject to interpretation, unfortunately. Unless it's in chemistry, physics, mathematics, (etc.). The scientific language is not as subject to interpretation as the every-day-language, which is mostly "gibberish" - meaningless.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It will give you information as to what's new, what the future prospects are, what we are running out of, what laboratories have developed, and they will tell you the state of nature as we understand it, not some opinion about anything. Everything will be put to test and verified to the best of our ability, and we will tell you that "this is not the truth, this is what we find out under these conditions. Have you any other suggestions?"
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Not only in conversation, but in reading a book, you will have to be able to decipher which is speculation from which is verifiable. There are a lot of books that have a lot of "jibberish"(nonsense) in it. In fact, it's 90 percent of the books. In fact 90 percent of what you read is opinionated and not based upon verifiable evidence. Unless you're talking about a text book, a scientific book, or a book on metallurgy. You see, scientific books tell you what they found out about things. When you read a novel, it really does nothing for you, except gives you a personal interpretation of the individual that wrote the book.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Yes it is, but there are certain things that give you gratification, and that's knowledge. The more knowledge you obtain, the more understanding you have of the world around you. However, if you study business administration, banking, poetry, art,(etc.) you don't come off with real knowledge, you come off with abstractions.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It isn't what I think about it, it's what the people who want an abortion think about it. If they want an abortion, they should be permitted to undergo that process.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I only picked that book to give people an idea of what H.G. Wells had in mind. I don't recommend it as a solution, I recommend it as reading, just to give you a different point of view than the one you are brought up to believe in.
(R) Did you feel that H.G. Wells had good social commentary or social ideas?
(J) He had better social commentary than the people of his time did. Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward' had very good comparisons to help people understand the benefits of a cooperative society, as against a competitive society.
(R) Yes, that's true too, because Bellamy's book has old technology. It's interesting to see his predictions even in technology at that time, but he did have interesting social commentary about how to solve things communally, and his fiction of what the world could look like to eliminate some of the problems we have.
(J) Yes, Edward Bellamy had a lot of good ideas. By reading that book you will have a different point of view than the one you get in school or a university today.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Not yet. We do not have a team working on that yet. There are other things that have to be done first: Teach the public about the scientific method and why it is a closer method to understanding the world we live in, that it is better than any other method at present.
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Yes, I do think there will be major shifts in scientific language.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They are assigned certain tasks. If they can not function in that task, they will immediately be replaced by people that can, just like you do in industry today. If you higher a man to design a bridge, and he doesn't know how to design a bridge, you get somebody that can. It isn't any different than today. If you want a person to design shoes that don't wear out, he has to understand material sciences. He has to understand what makes wear, (and) why things wear out. In other words, if he doesn't understand that, he can't be assigned the task. Anyone that can carry that function will be assigned the task. Male or female, no matter what race they are, they would be given the assignment if they can carry it out.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
We pay no attention to aesthetics; the main thing we pay attention to is how well the system works. That's an art consideration which is outside of our frame of reference.
Aestetics is really do to the location you're raised in, what they consider pretty or beautiful. When somebody comes along and says that they wouldn't want to live in a dome because it's not aestetically pleasing to them; if they understood the efficiecy and the consideration of using resources wisely and other things that the dome poses, then when they have knowledge about that, that becomes beautiful to them. Just like the example you (Jacque) always used, if you were male and you married a female that was quite beautiful but she treated you very badly that face becomes ugly.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
By the health of the people and the well-being of people, not only that but long-term effectiveness. In other words, you don't work on a short-term basis; you work on a long-term basis. The people are content with the changes that are occurring over a longer period of time, and the condition of health of people is better, and their love-life is better--then that system will be installed, but it has to be effective for the majority of people not a few people.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
We only have approximately those conditions worked out; they're not all worked out. It depends on how severely damaged the world is when we begin to install a Resource Based Economy. Depends on how much we damage the oceans by putting toxic materials in the oceans; it depends on how we damage the rivers and the air we breathe and the water table--it depends on a lot of things which I can't answer today. I don't know what they will do in the near future, but if I were in the control of those things I could answer those questions, or if we had a Resource Based Economy, the labs can supply those needs.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Oh yes, long before! In other words, a lot of conditions are visible, but you have to be trained in a way of examining new ideas without personal bias. It's a very difficult thing to attain. In other words, an egocentric person might say, "It'll never work," rather than point out the specific qualities that won't work. You can't say, "That building won't work." You have to point out that the beams are not strengthened properly to support the weight of that building; you have to point out the specifics. If you say, "People will always be greedy," that's an ego problem. "How do you intend to solve greed?" is the question.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I believe the genes are resposible for the color of eyes and maybe some reflexes but no values, like race prejudice is learned. Greed is generated by scarcity. Some geneticists were looking for the Republican gene; I don't think there is such a thing. I think that a Republican is raised in a Republican environment and picks up the views. I believe that environment is mostly responsible for human values and behavior. The genes do not control anything except maybe your taste buds, your reflexes, the eyelid reflex, or the genetic configuration, but the genes do not control values.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
By not spending most of our money on military systems--battleships, aircraft carriers, weapons of war--we spend most of our money on that. If we spent our money on behavior science or how to make life better for people, we'd be well ahead.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, this is not true. I agree with a lot of the work that Skinner, but he did not influence most of my ideas. He had nothing on city planning; he had nothing on how to educate children specifically to become creative. There were never any specific methods laid out for changing people, making them all creative in the arts and sciences; That was never laid out in detail. I've worked on that most of my life--how to do it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You make films that are animated, showing your conecpts in animation. Various types of animation, for various conditions that people "come under". In other words, if a person is not familiar with technology at all, then you have to make a series of films that lead up to that. You have to fill in the missing gaps.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
When the children are educated in the future, they begin to look at things with a very critical eye. They would say, "How can I improve this? or that?", for whatever subject they are exposed to. They are all curious in the future. All children are always curious, but they don't always have the ability to improve products. We will show them how to go about improving products: Learning more about it, the origin of the product, and knowing how the product is to serve. If you can think of more ways to make a product serve the needs of people, then that method will be used in the educational system.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
A behaviorist? I would say it's greatly modified today. Yes, I believe environment shapes behavior, but I'm interested in the specific aspects of the environment that shape particular kinds of behavior, whether it be serial killers, gangsters--whatever people are, they're shaped by their sub-culture--the culture they're exposed to, and the conditions and they're exposed to.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I would say that that's a very difficult subject to the answer. I can only say that animals behave with their limited receptors to whatever extent they're receptors tell them; they're receptors are not sophisticated and that's why they're called primitive. Human being is capable of a wide range of receptors or instruments to improve their ability to function, such as microscopes which extend their sensitivity into realms that they themselves cannot perceive visually. They can use instruments and the instruments serve as extensional devices, but human beings without instruments would be very primitive indeed. Also in terms of "evolved behaviors"--animals really react to their environment whatever receptors they have, if it doesn't work well within their environment whether you call them evolved or whatever--what other--whatever changed mechanisms or apparatus that they--if it doesn't work well in their environment they die out. So "evolved" is kind of a strange word--evolved behaviors.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
That means the study of the effects of environment upon behavior. To find the mechanisms that are the primary mechanism responsible for certain types of behavior. If you're brought up in a society where people have ten or fifteen wives that would be normal to your upbringing. If you're brought up in a society where a person has one wife, or if you're brought where religion dominates that will affect the value system of that society. So I'm a great believer in the effects of environment on human behavior; I don't think there's a republican gene or a democratic gene. I think all of the genes deliver is the color of the eyes, the shape of the head and the certain propensity, reflexes--yes, all that's controlled by genes, but values are learned.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Not all psychologists, some psychologists. Also when lawyers started coming to some of Jacque's lectures in the nineteen sixties or seventies, wasn't it? Then they brought judges and then the judges--there was one judge who worked with juveniles and instead of sending them to juvenile home they would send them to Jacque's lectures.
Yes, that's true.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No. Some newspaper reporter came to a couple of my seminars and he said, "What you say makes sense, if I can't get that out I'll kill myself. I believe I can get that out; I believe that what you say makes so much sense that people can be turned around." Well, HE was turned around but he was unable to turn people around and he killed himself because he really believed that I had the answers to questions and that all he had to do is write about it and people would understand it, but it's not that simple. He was not well enough equipped to handle that problem.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It was insufficient because the methods of building cities, the methods of dealing with problems were are not sufficient or sophisticated enough. There's another book that Jack Catran wrote called 'Walden Three' which was kind of chaotic but had a lot of references to Jacque's work and the main character was taken after Jacque and talked about a city in the future.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I would say emotions are the feelings you have about things. It's what you do about it that counts. If you feel that war is terrible and you do nothing to try to put and end to it, I would say it's useless. We don't put emotions in machines because we don't know how. No machines have ambition. No machines feel good. They just produce a lot of goods and services and they have no feelings nor are they concerned whether they produce cannons, submarines, bombers, or respiratory systems. The machines has no feelings and the machines cannot have feelings; they don't even know how to put feelings into the machines. Although you can make the machine that would verbalize as though it had feelings; it would be like a movie actor acting the part but it really don't feel. We don't really want machines to have emotions; we want them to take on action pattern. We don't want people sitting there emoting and being emotional without doing something about it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, first of all, I approached them with the Bible. By approaching them with the Bible it says in the Bible, at least the ten commandments, "Thou shall not kill. You shall not judge other people otherwise you will be judged," and I point out all the statements of the Ten Commandments and how far we've come from it. When we get mad at another country, we bomb the hell out of them, and we kill and we all join in that. And the churches bless the armies and they bless war tanks. Particularly the Catholic Church sprinkles holy water on the war tanks, and the Catholics in Italy bless the war tanks fighting Americans and the Catholics in America bless the war tanks in America. I would say that the church seems to conform to social institutions if they did not conform they would be poorly attended, and the church do not conform is not advocated as a method of social deliverance.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It depends on the kind of conditioning you want. I didn't have time to take care of all the raccoons that I captured so I made a turnstile in a continuous cage and in order to get food they had to get through a lot of turnstiles to get to the end cage. The turnstiles swept the floor of their cage and all the crumbs went down where the red ants ate them. I didn't have time to take care of all the animals so I conditioned some of the dogs to help feed the raccoons. They would help me and I would take on more animals by using clever techniques or devices to assist me. If you teach an animal to press a lever to get water, press another lever to get food and press another one to exit the cage, they will learn how to do that and the way you condition them all depends on what you want of the animal. To catch snakes, I would lift off heavy objects on the ground like heavy stones and there is usually a snake under a rock, stone or flat surface. And then I would use a fork stick that looks like a letter 'Y' and I would put it over its head so that I wouldn't be bitten if it were a poisonous snake. And I would wrap it behind the fork stick so I would control the direction of the head. Then I would drop it into a container or a box with a small opening. I caught snakes mostly with a fork stick.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Well, I have never written a book about that in particular because there is so much that a person has to learn before they even work with children. So, I can only make a tape, giving you the different approaches on working with children. I can make a DVD which will give you a better idea of how to raise children.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I'm not very much for placebos or pills. I would rather engineer the behaviour out of another person who is socially-offensive. Educate them out of that kind of behaviour, give them behaviour that is more advantageous in achieving the ends they wish to achieve by teaching them how to go about it. Most psychosomatic problems are based upon too much concern with the self. If you get out of yourself, like suicide, "what do I amount to? My life isn't going anywhere", it's all self-pity. If you get out of yourself and get to work on things, on other people, on helping other people, t hen you usually don't have those types of abberations.
And you are given so many erroneous values today that it's so hard to deal with anything. For so many people, when they rely on religion or a father figure to take care of problems, they just don't have any other alternatives to think about their problems. So it's hard to know if the person has some brain injury or if it's a value system injury, it seems to manifest the same way.
Mostly value system injury.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You have to ask yourself: Who are you talking to? What kind of society do they come from? Are they technical or non-technical? So you can frame your words so that they might understand you. Self-identity is what you indentify with. If you're brought up as an eskimo and you do nothing but hunt seals, your subject matter is limited to the lifestyle you live and you identify with that. If you are brought up in a high-tech society and you are familiar with mathematics, you can't talk to an eskimo about your mathematical interests or why you are interested in mathematics. You have to give them some form of reference so that they can understand what you're talking about, not everybody understands what you are talking about. Mostly we talk at people rather than to them. We say "good morning", we don't control the weather but we say "good morning, how's everybody?" "Very well thank you". But we really don't go into anything. These are automatic reactions.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
He was a very inventive person. What you'd call a very "original thinker". I asked him whether he had any social ideas, he said 'you're trying to change the world, Jacque, and I can't even get my car out on the market.' So, he wasn't very social at the time I met him, he didn't concern himself with it nor was he interested in it when I talked to him about the subject matter. He expressed no particular interest in Social Design at that time, it was a long time ago before he was famous, possibly after he wrote a book called "Nine Chains to the Moon".
He met him a few times but the first time he met him when he was working on his car.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Not until the world learns to live together. When you have one world directed towards protecting the environment and enhancing the lives of everybody, then I would love to go out into space as a joint venture. I fear nations going out into space before they have joined together because I think there will be nuclear and laser weapons up there. I don't feel secure with independent nations exploring space.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
That depends on the finances we have. If people make no contribution, we can't do anything.
Several people, in the past, have come to Jacque and asked him to design a building for somebody's business. He has refused a lot of that kind of thing, because it wouldn't serve a purpose for TVP or this direction, and he wasn't interested in just a piece of acrchitecture for his own ego. We don't have the oppurtunity right now, or the funding to build a larger research center. It seems that people do come to us pretty regularly, in regards to building a city or something like that, but for different reasons it just doesn't come through, mainly financial.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
A common threat. In other words, if a meteor were coming toward the Earth, say it was 10 years away, all nations would stop their armament programs, and they would all share ideas with one another on how to deflect that possible meteorite away from the Earth. A common threat is the only thing that would bring the nations together.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The trouble with space advocacy movements, is that there thinking of terraforming other planets that are not habitable. I would say our own planet is falling apart, so let's make this a liveable environment first.
You can be assured that as we go into space we will have our weaponry and our detrimental attitudes out in space as well. We have so much to do here, that has to be done first. People use that as a reason for going into space, that we get these "spin-offs"(bonuses), but if you took all that money that we used to go in to space, and used it in science and research here on Earth, you would see a lot more benefits.
I would add to that, and say that I am against the space program, until the nations of the Earth learn to live together in peace, and join in restoring the environment and taking care of one another. Once we learn to live in peace, let us go out in to space as a joint venture. But I am against single nations going out there, because they are going to build their own satellites, and they will have nuclear weapons out there, within a relatively short time. We are not sane enough yet to enter space, until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
It will state and show that there are no final frontiers, that no one can design utopia, that it's unattainable, because all things change. Throughout history, and throughout evolution, all life-forms changed. The palm trees of today are not like the palm trees of 40 million years ago. We know that you can not design the ideal laptop, you can design the best you know of up to now. In the future, we know that all things will continue to change, and that there are no final frontiers, no utopias, no best way to do anything. It's always in a state of change.
Yes, and in the theme park we want to show, more so, of what a RBE would look like in the future. We have always talked about that, when we do the first city, we would like to have a research center and a theme park, so that the things in the research center could be demonstrated in the theme park, and then implemented in different countries. Depending on how it's done, what stage we are at with the monetary system. That would have to be worked out at the time.
The theme park would also show the probable changes in the future, so we have no fixed notion of an ideal society.
We would show the benefits of a RBE, so that people are introduced to it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
You can't do that. In engineering you have to apply a certain principal. In a tubular design, you have to give the torsional strength, the compression strength, the tension strength,(etc.). In other words, engineers give you the specifications, and what the metal contains: cobalt, carbon, a certain amount of steel. Engineers always try to give you a descriptive point of view of the characteristics of the metal you are using. Chemists try to give you the structure of chemistry. They try to give you what they know about plants, or what they know about materials. When normal people talk about things, they don't go in to that kind of detail, so it's subject to interpretation. Chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, (etc.) is not subject to interpretation. It is subject to methods in testing.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
They don't concern themselves with who designed it, they concern themselves with how well the system works.
They are talking about a transitional city, the first city in the monetary system. If companies donated, would you credit them?
We can say that Dr. Johnson suggests this treatment for cancer, Dr. Benson suggests this treatment, and then another treatment, (etc.) We present all the different concepts that have never been fully verified.
Would that be true with products that people donate to enhance the city?
The people that donate things to the city are donating existing concepts, and you dont know for sure where those concepts came from. It may come from an underling in the city. It may come from a person that works for a company, but the company may present the idea, as though it were their idea. It's not necessarily that way, so we don't use that system. We use a different system: We say, "Here is a new way to filter water." "Here are several new ways for filtering water." "Here are several ways of converting salt water to drinking water." We present the methods, and we do not present the institute that developed it. Otherwise you would have to present, every bit of the way, every name of every person that was influenced by every other person, and it becomes very cumbersome.
Within the monetary system, if a company donates, say, "their" new lighting system, where ever that came from, you wouldn't want to mention the company that donated it?
No, not at all.
Do you think the companies might not have the initiative to donate if they don't get some name...?
No, they'll donate it. People donate their ability, their engineering ability, their knowledge of chemistry, their knowledge of social behavior, (etc.) because they believe in the system, not because they want credit for it. The credit is automatic when you see no war, no poverty, no starving people, that is enough reward for people that are sane. If they want their name blasted across the system, only during the transition you might name the source. The reason for it, is so people can cross-question the source. If they have additional improvements they wish to make, they want to know who to contact to make those recommendations. If you don't understand that: Tesla came up with certain ideas, (so) you contact Tesla if you want to know how those ideas work. You contact Tesla only for further information, not for credit.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Oh yes, we would be willing to go forward with that.
Definitely. We are actually working toward that right now, as well. We are talking to contractors and getting prices for final architectual drawings and engineering drawings, and we may have somebody who will put(pay) the bill for that, which could be a million dollars or more. We are going to be getting the quote for that from the contractor, and see what we can do. We have had, I'm not exactly sure what, we never really looked into it that much, but we have had a couple of groups of people who wanted to see a proposal for the city, and we needed to have the financial breakdowns, and we didn't, so we are trying to work on that. We are working on both. People have approached us before and asked us if we could do the city or wanted to do the city, and if we had enough funding to do the city, I think we could do the movie with some of those funds as well, we could work that in.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I think about energy, new sources of energy that do not pollute the environment. Like, geothermal, wave power, wind power, temperature differentials, all kinds of alternatives that don't run out.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
The use of energy by a nation will also have a group that works on the negative and positive effects of different energy systems, and the one we select would be based on the one that has the least negative effects. The survey committee tells us that. They do a survey on the benefits of any project, and the negative effects of the same project, and since there are no vested interests (that means people don't own the oil feild), there is no tendency to perpetuate any particular energy system since there is no profit to be made.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, we don't have particular corporations to develop the technologies. Jacque always mentions that this could have been built in 1927--more of a Resource Based Economy and cooperative society; it doesn't depend on building new technologies. We have the technologies to built the first city right now. The first city would be a research center to work on newer technologies that Jacque and other people propose to make the next city even better.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
I think this person might be talking about--this is the only place I can think of a fancy sprinkler--one of the house computer rendering drawings, there's a jet of water in the front of the house? Oh, that would be a filter system. There are no fountains unless they are water filters; there are no fountains for just luxury or to amuse people. Everything in the future will have a function.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
Initially, we would want the first city to be on flat land, it's a lot less labour-intensive, resource-intensive, things could work out much easier in terms of reproducing 1/8th of the city.
And transportation will be simpler. Mountains are useful in the cold weather, snow forms on the mountain and in the spring the snow melts and irrigates the land when there's no rain or hardly much rain. So mountains can be very useful in the cycle of water and how we use it. So, it's not good to design cities on mountains because it would be less efficient. It would take more energy to build cities on hilly land rather than flat terrain.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
As part of the social transition, I can't advise you that. In other words, the system will try to perpetuate itself as long as it can but it will fail all over the world. The big problem is that people don't know what to put in its place and violence is normal during any transition. No matter what you believe in people will hate you for it.
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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized
No, Socialism isn't radical enough. It was good 50 years ago. Today, it is not updated enough. It's better than the price system, it's better than the monetary system but it's not adequate.
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