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  • They tell you that everything begins - the tree begins as a seed. How do you know the

  • seed is the beginning, how do you know it's not the end product? Now you don't get that

  • in school, they have to make you alike, so then they control. When war comes they make

  • you patriotic.

  • There is no you, people say 'what about individuality?' that's all bullshit. When you're very young

  • they pump crap into your head - Cinderella, Christianity. I wanna tell you something about

  • infants. They can learn technology right away, electronics, continental drift, agriculture,

  • kids can learn anything, just as soon as they can learn 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. 'On the

  • way he met a cow, "moo moo" said the cow, "bah bah" said the sheep. You fill kids head's

  • with that shit, and you want em to grow up sane? Whatever they pump into your head, then

  • they say to you as a baby "who loves you more than anyone in the world?" you say "I don't

  • know", "your mommy and daddy", "what's the greatest country in the world?" - "I don't

  • know" - "this country!" Creativity, is taking known elements, and putting em together in

  • unique ways. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools,

  • and in your upbringing. Trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better

  • world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better. The

  • future's going to be very different than what it is today. So the venus project is not about

  • new cities, or new architecture, it's about a way of thinking. I want you to understand

  • that man reflects his culture. His language - no Chinese baby was ever born that spoke

  • Chinese, without being exposed to the language. So, we found out that you can't pass on acquired

  • things like bigotry, prejudice, greed, that's all learned in your culture or your sub culture.

  • The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard

  • thing to accept, because that raises lots of questions. We have no natural instincts.

  • All that's bullshit, it's learned. Hard to believe, because I feel I make my own decisions.

  • I don't feel I've been conditioned to make it, cause it's happened ever since I was this

  • high, I don't even know what I'm doing. I asked myself years ago, I said "gee, how are

  • you going to change the world with all these different values, different people thinking

  • differently" so I said "I don't know", that's the first thing you have to learn how to say

  • "I don't know." We don't know how to get to different people, how we going to build a saner

  • world? And I realized, that the rules of the game - the way society operates, didn't make

  • sense - cause there was products, but people wanted things but they didn't have the money.

  • So I figured it was the old rules of the game that were at fault. That were aborated. So

  • I began to work on the redesign of society. So reason and logic is not the way to get

  • to people, you have to get to them in a way they understand, and if you fail, come at

  • it another way. If you demonstrate it, they know what you're talking about. So, I began

  • to say "how do you know what you think is true? That maybe your own projection." You

  • have to look at the whole picture. They say "god put the fingernails on so if insects

  • get on you can scratch" - why did he make the god damn insects? Then he wouldn't have

  • to make the fingernails. They say "I believe in nature, nature's harmonious" - every big

  • fish is eating every smaller fish, every organ in your body is fighting constantly, invading

  • bacteria. Is that what you mean by harmony? There are planets that are exploding out there,

  • meteorites that hit one another and blow up, what's the purpose of that? What's the purpose

  • of floods? To drown people? In other words, if you start looking for purpose, you've gotta

  • look all over, take in the whole picture. So man projects his own values into nature.

  • It's hard to be deciant in a money world. We wanna shutdown all repetitious jobs - automate

  • it - free people. That's the government of the future. No people, cause people fucked

  • up every time they were in government. They all become corrupt, they get payed off, you

  • go to war again, you have depression, it never put an end to anything. Cause a machine has

  • no ambition. It doesn't want to take over, it doesn't have a gut reaction. Because there

  • the only thing that can handle a global system. Man can't. It'd take 10 years to change the

  • Earth to a second garden of Eden. If you get rid of hand labor. Politicians do that. They

  • speak to win approval. The scientist - if everyone believed the Earth was flat - they

  • move right in and they say "you're wrong, it's round, and this is the evidence." So,

  • don't speak to win approval. When you learn to surrender your ego for sharing ideas, that's

  • the beginning of real progress. They don't want you to be smarter than they are. Don't

  • forget when you run into an egotist - what they call an 'egotist' - they try to maintain

  • their position of leadership. And when you say "I'm just a plane old American, I love

  • this country, if you don't like it, get the fuck out!" See it's easy to understand, isn't

  • it? So that's why most people are simplistic, cause it's easy to grasp. "Do that right thing

  • that's all" - what's the right thing? A guy said "everytime I ask you a question, I get

  • a lecture. I want an answer!" - you know? there are no answers, it's very complex, every

  • question a person asks, how come some people work real hard and others don't work at all?

  • It isn't because he's lazy, "ahhh ok, that's clear" - but if you go into the background

  • of a person, how he gets to be that way, why he avoids work, you go into the nature of

  • the factors that shape human behavior, you know what I mean? That's too complicated.

  • You know what I mean? Ok.

They tell you that everything begins - the tree begins as a seed. How do you know the

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