Name: ZDay 2012 - Vancouver - Peter Joseph - 'Origins and Adaptations' Part 1
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not a lot of you are probably going to know too much about this guy.

and he has flown in to come and give you guys a talk.

I have given a great number of talks the past

15 or 16 months. I'm getting really tired of hearing myself speak,

and with that comes a kind of a general frustration because

what I've been doing over the course of the past few years

is taking the same information, more or less and

moving it around and trying to communicate it in different ways,

different angles to appeal to different values

Those that are familiar with the talks that I've given,

there will be some overlap. [With] all the wonderful presenters we had earlier,

naturally there is going to be some repetition,

I'm a little tired of talking about this stuff,

more creative and expansive, as I move forward.

In the words of the late great comedian Bill Hicks

"Pardon me as I plow through this shit one more time."

The title of this presentation is 'Origins and Adaptations.'

Part 1 of 2, I'm afraid. Due to the time restraints here

and the train of thought that I ended up working with

to create this in the form that I wanted,

I had to break it up into two sections, so

there will be, at a later date, probably at the Los Angeles Town Hall

where I live, (we do these monthly town halls)

It's unfortunate I couldn't condense it enough,

but I ran out of time to make it the way I wanted to.

It will work best I think, in the long run, as two sections.

As a whole, both sections (the 2nd section that you're not going to see today)

this talk will deal with the root origins of our economic system

along with the outgrowth of problems that have emerged.

The focus of Part 1: to present a different angle of understanding

The second part will discuss adaptation, change and transition,

But again, that is for the 2nd section. We'll focus on this for now.

The first section of this work is entitled 'Structural Psychology'

which will walk through the evolution of our current economic social order

and work to show how where we are today is not some unexpected anomaly

or some unfortunate detour from a high-integrity economic practice.

It is rather a natural consequence of the basic underlying assumptions

that define the kind of economic model we endure today.

I will also work to show that the value system disorder we have at hand,

as rampant as it is, how the free market economy itself,

is nothing more than an imposed structural framework

that reinforces these distortions and guarantees

not only the reduction of social, environmental efficiency, on many levels,

and the ongoing empowerment of a very small subculture

In the second section, 'Market Versus Technical Efficiency,'

some of the core contradictions between the monetary market economy

and the provable natural order of our physical reality will be assessed.

The argument will be made that the economic system we have today

and completely incompatible with the natural order of our physical reality.

a great deal of attention has being paid in the public media

about the problems that we are facing as a world society

to discuss, as I've mentioned in the introduction of this event,

have been picked up quite rapidly, in ways that really blow my mind,

which goes to show that the seeds have been planting

and you never know where they're going to take root.

From the wilderness we have been talking about these things, but

it has started to come into the general Zeitgeist

which is kind of the whole point, no pun intended.

as some of these problems now appear to the general public,

there is still a truncated frame of reference

when it comes to the important root causes of the psychology,

the structural logic that's imposed by this system

and the trends that, when you follow them,

paint a picture that, really, is quite dire

that unfortunately many aren't actually seeing.

the injustice of having 1 billion people starving

or 1 percent owning the vast majority of the planets wealth,

and it's another to really understand 'why',

and how this is even possible. How has this happened,

and what does the trend actually foreshadow?

The fallback, as we all know, has been the blaming of the infamous 'they'.

Everyone wants to blame somebody; it's the easy way out.

The right blames the left, the economists blame the state,

the poor blame the rich, and so on and so forth.

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