Name: Jacque Fresco - Depression, Self Image - Sept. 5, 2011 (1/2)
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(Jacque Fresco) The discussion today is about depression.

Basic quantifiers

There are many people that have been depressed for many years

"I found no meaning in life, no purpose, and

so the only thing I can say [is that] it's not due to genetics.

If it was due to genetics, I couldn't pull them out.

If you live vicariously through another person

(let's say you rely on that person entirely)

because you put your identity in another person

That's a kind of dependency. You know what I mean?

That's a part of depression, a little bit of it.

if you're brought up with a philosophy of life

If you're brought up with a set of values: "Do the right thing

and if it doesn't work out all right, you become depressed

because you lose predictability. Is that clear?

If you have predictability about yourself and other people

If you have no answer, if you look for answers in your own mind

There's not enough in schools that give you a way of thinking

It isn't that they don't want to. They don't have it.

They've never found a way of thinking they can solve problems.

All his life, say a guy that owns a jewelry store, that sells jewelry

He has no identity, except 'sales of jewelry.'

There are some dogs that have been depressed

due to that they had a very close relationship with their master.

they sat next to the master and wouldn't go away

and bark at anybody that would try to take them away.

Their full identification was as a team with their master.

They had no identification when the master died.

The difference between humans and most animals [is that]

most animals don't fear death. They don't even know there is such a thing.

They move away from animals that are larger than they are.

That's a reflex, but they don't know what death is

and they can't figure it out, because everything they've done

That is not necessarily a logical question.

Your wife may have left you for many different reasons:

that she likes a guy tall, with blond wavy hair

If you don't meet that image, she might leave you.

The assumption that she won't leave you is what can depress you.

"Surely they won't have another war, while they're having a war now!"

"I'd like to see peace on Earth," so you work toward it

See, when people ask me, "When will the Venus Project be built?"

but I can't accept what I see, so I try to intervene.

Intervening, does that mean we'll have a better world? Not necessarily.

"Surely people can all see the logic of a one global society."

to try to get them oriented towards that.

Okay, so what is depression and how do you get rid of it?

you're looking within yourself for answers

I didn't find it in psychology books at all.

I sat down, I said: "What is depression? " I said "I don't know."

A depressed person always seems to have a low self-image.

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