Jacque Fresco cytaty

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„Ludzie w Waszyngtonie, mogę mówić tylko o nich, i wierzę, że w innych krajach jest podobnie. Otóż ludzie w Waszyngtonie powinni wiedzieć więcej na temat ludzkiego zachowania, najnowszych technologiach; mówią, jeśli chcesz wolności – napisz do swojego kongresmena. Dlaczego musisz do niego pisać? Powinien wiedzieć o tym wszystkim.”

„Jest tak dlatego, że ludzie w rządzie są całkowicie niekompetentni! Więc tak naprawdę chcemy świata wolnego od obciążeń, bólu, więzień, policji, przestępczości.”

„Jako młody chłopak dorastający w Nowym Jorku odmówiłem złożenia przysięgi na wierność fladze. Zostałem za to oczywiście odesłany do dyrektora. A on zapytał: „dlaczego nie chcesz przysięgać na flagę? Wszyscy to robią!” Odpowiedziałem, że wszyscy kiedyś wierzyli, że Ziemia jest płaska, ale to nie zmieniło faktu, że nie jest. Wyjaśniłem, że Ameryka wszystko, co ma zawdzięcza innym kulturom, innym narodom i że raczej złożyłbym przysięgę na wierność Ziemi i wszystkim jej mieszkańcom. Nie trzeba chyba mówić, że wkrótce po tym porzuciłem szkołę całkowicie i założyłem laboratorium w swoim pokoju. Tam zacząłem zgłębiać tajniki nauki i przyrody. Uświadomiłem sobie wtedy, że wszechświatem rządzą pewne prawa i że człowiek razem z całym społeczeństwem nie jest wolny od tych praw. Wtedy nastąpił krach roku 1929, który rozpoczął okres znany nam dziś jako „Wielki Kryzys”. Ciężko było mi zrozumieć dlaczego miliony ludzi głodowało, zostało bez pracy i dachu nad głową, gdy wszystkie fabryki nadal stały. Ilość zasobów się nie zmieniła. Wtedy właśnie uświadomiłem sobie, że reguły gry ekonomicznej były z gruntu błędne. Niedługo potem przyszła Druga Wojna Światowa, podczas której narody na zmianę, systematycznie wyniszczały się nawzajem. Później obliczyłem sobie, że całe zniszczenie i zmarnowane zasoby przeznaczone na tę wojnę mogłyby swobodnie zaspokoić potrzeby każdego mieszkańca tej planety. Od tamtej pory obserwowałem jak ludzkość nieuchronnie zmierza ku zagładzie. Na moich oczach marnowano i niszczono bezcenne surowce w imię zysku i wolnorynkowych idei. Byłem świadkiem wciśnięcia systemu wartości społeczeństwa w ramy chorego materializmu i bezmyślnej konsumpcji. Widziałem finansowe potęgi przejmujące kontrolę nad rządami i polityką rzekomo wolnych narodów. Teraz mam 94 lata i obawiam się, że moje usposobienie jest takie samo jak 75 lat temu. Musimy skończyć z tym gównem.”

“And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable…”

“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

“Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.”

“The government means industry, if you know what I mean.”

“What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.' You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.”

“Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn’t have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project.”

“The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.”

“Conditions of misery, suffering, war, and war profiteering were the incentive and inspiration for my work. I was also motivated by the seeming incompetence of governments, the academic world, and a lack of solutions from scientists. Many fail as generalists because of their over-specialization on limited aspects of social problems. Scientists, politicians, and academicians see problems from inside the system they’re in, which is what’s responsible for the problems in the first place. I am disappointed with those who worry about terra-forming other planets while our own is still full of war, poverty, hunger, and environmental neglect.”

“If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will.”

“The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions" The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?”

“At the beginning of World War II the U. S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.”

“Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography, they know nothing about the factors that operate the world. So, they say things that people like to hear. And that gets them elected. Now scientists on the other hand are not concerned with public approval. What they do, even if everybody on earth believe the earth was flat, they would say: 'You're wrong, this is the evidence we have to support the fact that the earth is round' but they don't say: 'it's a little round and a little flat' - that's politicians.”

“You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.”

“You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.”

“We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on… As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.”

“Human beings free of debt, insecurity, and fear become much more amiable. With no one out to sell anyone anything or to deprive another of possessions or money, the basis for unhealthy human aggression is outgrown. People no longer are burdened by the nagging concerns that consume so much attention such as mortgages, health care costs, education fees, fire insurance, economic recession or depression, the loss of jobs, and taxes. With the elimination of these burdens and the removal of the conditions that create feelings of envy, greed, and competition, people’s lives would be far more meaningful.”

“Laws, at best, are attempts to control a population, and work only sporadically with great expense and hardship. Other common behaviorcontrol methods are patriotism, religion, propaganda, and nationalism. All manmade laws are developed to preserve the established order.”

“When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential.”

“As we enhance the lives of others, protect our environment, and work toward abundance, all our lives can become richer and more secure. If these values were put into practice, it would enable all of us to achieve a much higher standard of living within a relatively short period of time; a standard of living that would be continuously improved.”

“Without large corporations controlling automobile manufacture for profit, all transportation systems can be designed as modular, continuously updated, and provided with the latest developments in technology.”

“Many people today see genes as a reason for aberrant behavior, but the major influences have been shown to be environmental... What is considered appropriate behavior today may be considered un-sane in the future...Better values, ideals, and behavior cannot be fully realized while there is still hunger, unemployment, deprivation, war, and poverty.”