The Choice Is Ours Page #11

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But they have opinions about everything.

"There'll always be war,

there always has been war

because man is greedy!"

That's what they 'repeat';

a loop of what they've heard in the past.

GREED:

- The point is, ladies and gentlemen,

that greed is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

(Roxanne) People are reinforced

in this culture to be greedy.

The more you have,

the more you abuse other people

in order to get what you have.

You're looked upon as being successful.

You admire the people with money

that have those things.

And they usually get it off other people's backs,

that they abuse terribly.

So, you're not born being greedy.

(Jacque) People think that

you can't change human nature.

If you couldn't change it,

we'd still be living in caves.

So obviously, we're undergoing change.

So human nature is not fixed

and greed is brought about by scarcity

or lack of resources.

SCARCITY:

(Roxanne) There are some

animals that are very docile.

The cows on the next field;

they wouldn't hurt each other at all.

But when we approach them with oranges

because there's a scarcity of oranges

they start bucking each other.

So it's really a matter of scarcity.

What The Venus Project is trying to do

is eliminate scarcity and produce abundance.

And for the first time in history,

we can do that

because we have the technology

to be able to supply people

with whatever they need.

INTELLIGENCE:

(Jacque) Some people believe that there's

such a thing as human intelligence.

Remember that an intelligent

electrical engineer of 75 years ago

could not get a job today.

So what you once called intelligent,

was intelligent at that time

within that frame of reference.

It's an ongoing process.

Now, what is the real meaning of intelligence?

The ability to extract significant

information from any situation.

I would say that it depends

on the next 20 years.

We'll know whether there's intelligent life on Earth.

It depends on what we do about the environment

and what we do about the human problem;

Poverty, hunger in the world,

sickness and waste of resources.

If we learn how to manage

the Earth's resources intelligently,

we can overcome most of the problems

in a relatively short time.

CREATIVITY:

Creativity is taking known systems

and putting them together in unique ways,

and adding a few things

to improve the product.

That goes for music,

art, drawings, invention....

But if you study the history of invention,

you will see a relationship

and the tie of all these variables.

OUTDATED CONCEPTS OF MOTIVATION

I think that's part of the

propaganda of each system,

that tells people that the financial gain

is the main motivation for people.

It is that people are interested in money

but there are other people

that are motivated by other interests.

Medical research;

people devote their lives to it.

There are people that work real hard

and save up money

and go to Africa and spend

all their time trying to help people.

They're not motivated by money.

And I am suspicious of people

that are only motivated by money.

- And a $40,000 (US) gold f***in' watch!

It's not a healthy motivation.

If you want to know what kills incentive...

If you give people

the minimum amount of money;

minimum vacation,

hard dirty work with no future...

A man that washes dishes in a restaurant...

They keep bringing a new pile

in every 20 minutes.

And he sees no out.

He can never buy a home or own a car.

He doesn't own enough.

So what incentive is that?

But he has to wash the dishes,

because he's got two kids.

He's got to feed them.

And that's not good for mental health at all.

MOTIVATION IN A:

RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY

What will motivate people?

A world without war, poverty, hunger,

loss of employment, loss of income...

Your incentives and options are tremendous.

Thousands of different things are due,

now that you've got your food,

and housing, and education.

Now, you go to work

on solving, not all problems,

but all of the problems of that time.

FUNCTIONAL SELFISHNESS

IN A COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

So we do it because

we are functionally selfish;

meaning, being selfish for yourself,

alone, is detrimental.

But functionally selfish means:

take care of the environment,

share ideas with people,

and in that way, we all gain.

They can see, on the news every day,

that everything they do

goes out to all humanity.

So everybody in the world represents

an extension to their life,

rather than everybody selling themselves

and making a profit on one another.

They now have the time

to appreciate what the new world does.

And all of the films of the future

will show them what's happening

all over the world.

And what's new, and that

they have free access to what's new.

Because everybody cares about everybody else.

UTOPIA:

I'd like to strike out the word "Utopia".

There's no such thing.

It's like designing the best city possible.

That's not possible!

We can design a far better city,

but as time goes on, with new inventions,

it's always in the process of change.

Are we civilized?

Of course not!

It's an ongoing process.

People think "Well, your ideas are utopian."

That's not utopian.

That's applied technology and efficiency.

EMERGENT SOCIETY

What we want is an emergent society,

that's never established.

Always learning new things;

always moving onward toward change.

And to help people adjust, emotionally

and intellectually, to expect change.

Change for the better.

MORALITY:

If the environment is structured,

it produces what you would call

ethical and moral behavior.

But if you don't alter the environment,

it'll keep producing what you've got now.

So, the environment has to be changed.

That means the schools,

the things we learn, our language...

All of these things have to be updated.

I think that people will be

ethical to the nature of the world.

Ethical, not because it says so in a book;

they're ethical because it's better for them

and better for society.

So the new ethics is based upon

the carrying capacity of the Earth,

rather than my opinion.

HUMAN RIGHTS:

Will it be a democracy?

It never was a democracy.

It's been corrupt all the way back,

only it's never been disclosed.

Did you vote for the space program?

Did you vote for the building of warships?

Did you vote for any wars?

What the hell do you mean

by participatory democracy?

It never existed. These are words.

Whenever you hear

democracy and freedom, watch out!

That means it doesn't exist.

In a world where it does exist,

there are no proclamations as to Human Rights.

It's built into the system.

Black studies, womens studies...

are all part of a system

that hasn't achieved that.

EMOTIONS:

In the future, for example,

if you said "There ought to be

more kindness in the world,

and more cooperation.",

they would say "How do you do that?"

If you have nothing to offer,

they'll say, "Why do you make noises?"

They would not accept that

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