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Jacque Fresco on Society and Behavior 11-25-09.mp3

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Jacque Fresco is a futurist, inventor, social engineer, visionary and technician, best known for the Venus Project.

In his Future By Design documentary about Fresco’s life and ideas,  Emmy winning filmmaker William Gazecki called the 97-year-old Jacque “a modern day Da Vinci.” Others have called him “a new Buckminster Fuller.”

Now, I have to admit that I really like Jacque as a person – he just seems to have a unique combination of wisdom, life experience, sense of humor and personal humility. I also admire his multi-disciplinary accomplishments and his seemingly never-ending enthusiasm and scientific curiosity. This, however, doesn’t mean that I agree with him on everything that he says or proposes, and you would see a few of those moments during our 72 minute interview. At any rate, best thing you can do is to watch the interview in full, read Jacque’s book –  The Best That Money Can’t Buy, and judge for yourself.

During my conversation with Jacque Fresco we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: how he sees himself; scarcity and money as the root of all evil; the Venus Project; the need for unambiguous language; why he claims that most people are “unsane”; whether philosophers are bullshitters; the clash of civilizations and the nation state; education and the scientific method; the modern culture of bread and spectacles; resource based economy; Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence and the technological singularity; the Zeitgeist movement; Ayn Rand and objectivism; death and cryonics…

My favorite quote that I will take away from this conversation with Jacque is: “Study the meaning of science and apply its methods to the social system!”

Jacque Fresco: Apply the Methods of Science to the Social System!

Opening lines from book, Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We live on a planet that is all but perfect for our kind of life. Not too warm and not too cold. Basking in kindly sunshine, softly watered. A gently spinning green and gold harvest festival of a planet. Yes alas there are deserts and slums. There is starvation and racking misery to be found. But take a look at the competition. Compared with most planets, this is paradise. And parts of earth are still paradise by any standards.   

What are the odds that a planet picked at random will have these complacent properties? Even the most optimistic calculation would put it at less than one in a million. Imagine a spaceship full of sleeping explorers, deep-frozen would be colonists of some distant world. Perhaps the ship is on a mission to save the species before an unstoppable comet like the one that killed the dinosaurs. The voyagers go into the deep freeze soberly reckoning the odds against their spaceship's ever chancing upon a planet fertile for life. If one in a million planets is suitable at best, and it takes centuries to travel from each star to the next, the spaceship is pathetically unlikely to find a tolerable let alone safe haven for its sleeping cargo. But imagine if the ship's robot pilot turns out to be unthinkably lucky. After millions of years it does find a planet capable of sustaining life. A planet of equitable temperature bathed in warm star shine refreshed by oxygen and water. The passengers, Rip Van Winkles, wake stumbling into the light. After a million years of sleep here is a whole new fertile globe, a lush planet of warm pastures, sparkling streams, and waterfalls. A world bountiful with creatures darting through alien green velocity. Our travelers walk entranced. Stupefied. Unable to believe their unaccustomed senses or their luck.     

The story asks for too much luck. And yet isn't it what has happened to each one of us? We have woken after hundreds of millions of years asleep defying astronomical odds. Admittedly we didn't arrive by spaceship. We arrived by being born. And we didn't burst conscious into the world but accumulated awareness gradually through babyhood. The fact that we gradually apprehend our world rather than suddenly discovering it should not subtract from its wonder. It is no accident that our kind of life finds itself on a planet whose temperature, rainfall, and everything else are exactly right. If the planet were suitable for another kind of life, it that other kind of life that would have evolved here. But we as individuals are still hugely blessed. Privileged. And not just privileged to enjoy our planet. More, we're granted the opportunity to understand why our eyes have opened and why they see what they do in the short time before they close forever.  

We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones

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"My notion of what the psychedelic experience is for is that we each must become like fishermen, and go out on to the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea. And what you're after is not some behemoth, that will tear through your nets, follow them and drag you in your little boat, you know, into the abyss, nor are what we're looking for a bunch of sardines that can slip through your net and disappear. Ideas like, "Have you ever noticed that your little finger exactly fits your nostril", and stuff like that. What we are looking for are middle size ideas, that are not so small that they are trivial, and not so large that they're incomprehensible. That middle size ideas that we can wrestle into our boat and take back to the folks on shore, and have fish dinner. And every one of us when we go into the psychedelic state, this is what we should be looking for. It's not for your elucidation, it's not part of your self-directed psychotherapy. You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do, is to bring back a new idea, because our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building to the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all it what it's really all about."
Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna on Psychedelics

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Terence McKenna on Schizophrenia and Shamanism

Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows describe what The Venus Project is and how it can help humanity.

Paradigms Season 6

The Venus Project

Jacque Fresco - Planned Obsolescence

Jacque Fresco - War Karma & Soldiers

Carl Sagan - A Reassuring Fable

Jacque Fresco - Being Responsible

Jacque Fresco - The Scientific Method Applied To Government

Carl Sagan - To The Sky

Jacque Fresco - Innovation, Law & Isolation

Jaron Lanier - The Tragic Death Of Alan Turing

Howard Zinn -  The Stupidity Of War

Howard Zinn - Patriotism

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Be Yourself

FUTURE MY LOVE is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom. Maja Borg's thought-provoking experimental documentary explores the theme that "economy is a human relationship". This Q&A session with Maja was recorded after an exclusive preview screening of the film at the RSA in London on 12/12/12. The host is Hugh Knowles, Principal Sustainability Advisor with the Forum for the Future.

Q&A with Maja Borg after FUTURE MY LOVE screening at the RSA, London

Jacque Fresco - 2009 Oliver Thompson Lecture Q&A

Lawrence Krauss - Our Godless Universe Is Precious

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Terence Mckenna - Reclaim your mind

Jacque Fresco TVP 9-30-12

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Carl Sagan on God, gods and the Cosmos

Here are Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows of The Venus Project on why protesting and complaining without offering an alternative system are useless ventures.

Jacque Fresco - The Scientific Method Applied To Government

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