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There's no way to create a stable society otherwise.
So, we are born on this planet, you inherit the planet. The planet is your home.
Not some plot of land that has the illusion of property.
Not some house that you think you own. There's no such thing as ownership.
The idea of ownership is controlled restriction.
Ownership is simply there really for those at the top
to make sure no one can interfere with the fact that they control mostly everything.
So, we have to monitor the planet's resources.
We have to begin to construct a system of production and distribution
that is not based on the whims of profit.
It's based on what is the most efficient means to do that.
There are resources all over the planet obviously.
We have to begin to understand what we have.
We have to use science and technology to begin to orient
our use of these resources in the most efficient way possible.
And that's why we advocate the systems approach that we do.
If you motivated our resources right now to change the face of the Earth,
to create a resource-based economy, we could do it very, very quickly.
The problem is, again,
the established orthodoxies and self-preserving mechanisms that are in place,
which will be our death.
The free market is what will kill everything on this planet.
It's not the "free market", it's actually the monetary system.
Monetary acquisition and exchange through labor for income, and the motivation of profit,
will be what destroys humanity.
Because all it does is pull everything in the direction of those that have the most power.
Right now we are faced with an ecological collapse, an energy collapse, specifically.
We're faced with an economic collapse which is very much tied into the energy collapse.
We're faced with a labor collapse, which of course is very much tied to the economic collapse.
And we're faced with what I call the "criminal meltdown".
The breakdown of society is occurring. People say,
"Well, we're gonna have a recovery of the economy."
The most dangerous thing that we can have right now, is a recovery of the US economy.
The most dangerous thing that we can have right now, is the use of more resources,
because all it's going to do is speed up the inevitable destruction.
If more people go out and buy lots of automobiles to help the economy,
all that's going to do is get more fuel into the tanks,
taken from the resources of the planet.
More gasoline's used. More energy is going to be wasted on the idea of consumption.
And this is what, again, will kill us.
So, a resouce-based economy
attempts to remove all of the insustainable practices that we have now,
and create a holistic system of resource management,
of priority of labor- that's a big one.
Think about how much time is wasted in most people's lives in jobs that do absolutely nothing.
Think about how much energy is wasted by someone who works at Wall Street,
driving from Pennsylvania every single day from their home,
so they can be a trader on Wall Street,
wasting energy on something that means nothing,
that wastes even more electricity and energy.
When you begin to think like that,
when you begin to see how much energy and resources are wasted
on actions that have no return whatsoever,
except the self-interest and consumeristic monetary values of particular individuals,
but return nothing to society.
Think about how beautiful society would be
when we start to educate people on natural processes of the environment-
on science, technology and resource conservation.
And when people can gauge society in a, excuse me, on a professional level, if you will,
they do so on things that actually matter.
(pheew)
That would be cataclysmic.
That would be unbelievable.
To see people doing stuff that actually has a relevance.
That will enable them to have so much more freedom, too.
To put it in a gestural sense,
the way I see human survival and the human self-interest mechanism, which does exist,
but it's accelerated by our system,
is... making a psychological trick to what it means to umm... be self-servent.
Social interest needs to become self-interest.
In other words when I invent something,
that is given to everyone
for them to improve upon and to utilize.
That invention isn't hoarded through patents and trademarks, it's given to everyone.
In turn, what that means is that every time anyone else invents something,
or creates something or has an idea,
that comes to me too.
Suddenly humanity becomes a singular organism. It becomes a working system.
SPIRITUALITY
People ask me a lot about spirituality.
They say, "Well, if you don't like any of the established religions,
are you spiritual in any other way?"
Or something like that.
The only type of spirituality that is actually relevant,
is a understanding of natural processes and the natural order of the universe,
to give it annoying venacular.
The way natural laws work, gravity, the way the world actually works:
God is in the laws of nature and nothing more.
I believe that a true spiritual awakening
will be when people start to realize that
they have to begin to work together,
they have to share their resources.
They have to begin to understand that they live off of this planet,
that they get their light from the sun,
that there are energy sources that are natural and abundant,
that could be made available to all;
that we share everything, and we work together,
because that's what the system demands.
The Earth demands this.
The species demands this for our survival.
And that will be a spiritual awakening, if you want to give it that type of term.
FUTURE
We live in a world of tremendous possibility,
positive possibility.
However, all indicators point to what I consider to be self-destruction,
given our current, established economic and ideological structures.
Once again: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism,
Judeo, Islamic, Christian belief systems...
They have no relationship to what actually makes, creates, survival of the species.
The real sad thing is, is that,
humanity is going to have to be smacked around quite a bit,
before they really understand what The Zeitgeist Movement,
a resource-based economy and The Venus Project,
Jacque Fresco... is talking about.
We are driven by bio-social pressures.
Meaning that it takes problems for us to wake up and want to change things.
I don't want to see humanity suffer.
I don't want to see the population start to shrink because of our lack of energy and food.
I don't want to see these things happen.
But I know, sadly, that a good portion of it is going to happen.
Until people start to wake up and recognize a new paradigm that's on the horizon,
that we must drive forward to as fast as humanly possible.
All you have to do is look at the current economic implosion.
The US government's in 12 trillion dollars worth of debt.
It becomes comical after a while.
What's going to happen when the US government hits 20 trillion? 30 trillion?
I mean, once the US government can't pay its interest on all the bonds that have been sold overseas,
and all of the outstanding debt that it has, then we're theoretically bankrupt.
What do you think is going to happen when China can't get its money from the United States?
What do you think is going to happen when the United States,
because we use 25% of the world's energy,
starts to run out of oil in Iraq and starts to invade other Middle Eastern countries,
which it will probably do beforehand... but starts to do that?
And China, of course, who gets oil from Iran says,
"You know what, I think we're going to have to stop you guys from taking Iran's oil.
Because we need that too, and you owe us a lot of money. It's kind of *** us off."
Do you think war between these super powers might be possible?
Hmm... I think World War III
could be very, very possible.
And this war will be for real.
This will not be a contrivance war like WW I and WW II,
based on geopolitical realigning and various resource grabs.
This will be war for survival of different countries.
And, I hope that doesn't happen.
I sincerely hope, all of these things I talk about are erroneous and false but,
all you have to do is look at the trends.