Name: Jacque Fresco on Russia Today: US has never been a democracy
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He has been labeled as a genius, a prophet, a visionary

and sometimes, as an eccentric, and dismissed as a Utopian dreamer.

he's Jacque Fresco, the creator and the mind behind The Venus Project

a monumental work of several fields of knowledge

that unifies the concept, a new future for the human civilization.

Fresco's entire life is perhaps the definition of a second chance

in harmony with our planet and technology.

Mr. Fresco, thank you for being with us today. - Thanks for the privilege.

- Can you give us a brief description of what is The Venus Project?

- The Venus Project is an attempt to bring world peace

If you don't want war, killing, most crimes

you have to redesign the way society works.

You have to declare all the earth's resources

as the common heritage of all the world's people.

Then, we have to remove the money system, which is basically corrupt.

After that we have to gradually outgrow the need

for all the artificial boundaries that separate people.

So we have one world working cooperatively

toward preserving the environment and all life as we know it.

- And what is the single most important aspect of this project?

A Resource-Based Economy to declare all the resources

the common heritage of all the world's people.

- Can you explain the distinction between a money-based economy

- A money based economy produces incentive

but it also produces incentive for corruption

We've never had a democracy; no nations have ever had it.

If you don't have equal purchasing power, you can't have a democracy.

- How does The Venus Project compare with communism?

Communism uses money. It has social stratification.

prisons and police. We don't have any of those.

- Now let's talk about society. In many of your lectures, you imply

that we are conditioned to think in a certain way. Is that correct?

- Well, if you were raised by the headhunters of the Amazon as a baby

and you never saw anything else, you would be a headhunter.

If you were raised in Nazi Germany, where all you see is

You'd be a German. So, I think all people

are perfectly well adjusted where they're coming from.

There is no such thing as good or bad people.

If you're brought up in the South, uneducated region

you might become a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

You speak with a Southern accent. Where do you get that from?

"I'm gon' get me a nigga, and I'm gon' kick his ass!"?

You get that from the environment. It's not that people are good or bad.

They are raised in an aberrated, or twisted environment.

- Do you feel that we live in a world of damaged communications

that sometimes restrict the language and expression of emotions

as well as thinking. Is that correct? -Yes.

Today, our language is hundreds of years old.

That makes it extremely difficult to talk to one another.

sometimes a person will say "Have a nice weekend!"

Why don't they say "Have a nice life? " Why just a weekend?

Because our language is so old, it's automatic and has no meaning.

There has to be a language that's not subject to interpretation.

When you read the Bible, you say "Jesus meant this...," and he says

"No, he meant that," and another person... "He meant this."

So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh Day Adventist

A language that is not subject to interpretation

physics, structural engineering...n ot subject to interpretation.

You couldn't build a bridge if one engineer says:

"I think he meant this. " The other says, "No, he meant that..."

It's possible to develop a language, not subject to interpretation.

- And how do you feel about the term 'democracy'?

- Democracy is a 'con game'. It's a word invented to placate people

The minute you hear, 'freedom and democracy', watch out!

- I heard that you said that as powerful systems start to collapse

they tend to defend themselves with fascism

Is that the situation that we live right now?

- Well, this system right now is moving toward fascism.

cutting back on the freedoms, what little freedoms we had.

because the word 'freedom' has no meaning.

When an Arab comes to this country with 10 wives

they say you can only come in with one. So don't use the word freedom.

Say, there's a certain range of behavior we permit in this society

and this is what it is. Don't use the word 'freedom'!

- How do you feel about the recent economic crisis in the United States

and the global recession? Is that a lesson to be learned?

- No, because it takes a recession, loss of job

and loss of respect for your elected leaders.

When that happens, you get social change.

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