Name: Jacque Fresco - Can't Exceed Your Environment - Dec. 28, 2010
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[Interviewer] ... there's not enough feeling and emotion in

But if you are emotionally attached to something,

There are people that nail a piece of wood together, then they kiss it.

Before that (chuckles), they don't kiss it,

until you nail it, so it looks like a cross, then you kiss it.

So, what was it the day before it was a cross?

or some copper that wasn't cast in the form of a cross.

That's why I can't accept anything except the sciences;

the shape of an airplane wing is designed for a certain lift,

the shape of the plane is designed for certain conditions.

when I say you can't exceed your environment,

that means you can't exceed what you've been exposed to.

You can't, if somebody gave you a brand new microscope,

and you said the objective lenses are insufficient,

if you're a cannibal. Do you know what I mean?

"The gears are not precise; they're 1/10,000th of an inch off."

That's what I mean by a person can't exceed their environment.

Our airplanes would come through as a crate, or something else.

But certainly, if you're born 2,000 years from now,

you couldn't have the same values, and survive.

The nation that can't exceed its own environment

Do you know what that means? Another country will surpass us.

If China can't get past where they're at,

if they stop, and just take in manufacturing and don't

go into automation and modification, they will remain.

There are many nations out there that are so primitive,

they do things the way they did a thousand years ago,

the same way they did a thousand years ago, no change.

They bond bundled reed together, tie it all together,

because that's all they ever see; they never leave the area.

So, if you say "They're stupid," no they're not;

where things are fairly uniform, and not enough change.

They don't have visitors from other tribes

Otherwise, they might be brought up to hate other tribes,

because they meet people that are different,

If a nation developed a vase, and your nation didn't,

and they show you how they carry water or orange juice around in it,

you don't have any means of doing it except this way,

The more nations that meet and share ideas - not just meet -

if they share ideas they undergo modification.

But if my people undergo too much modification,

Or if books come into my country that change people

I forbid pornography or whatever it is ... I forbid.

Am I right? Am I wrong? All nations wish to survive.

They can't if people read different kinds of books,

different kinds of characters, different kinds of social systems;

You say "I believe in democracy," nobody believes in democracy!

They believe in what they've been conditioned to believe in.

They can't believe in democracy, otherwise,

"I don't know enough about them to make up my mind which is right."

They'd speak like that: "I don't know enough about them."

I'm upsetting the apple cart, so that there are no values,

except the values that preserve nature, man,

and his relationship to his fellow man and nature.

we let them burn and die, we will suffer.

If we pollute the oceans, we will suffer.

Those are things I accept. I don't know any other system.

Will they do that in the future? I think they'll control things in the future:

weather, hurricanes, earthquakes, everything.

Man will learn to control things, in his behalf.

The other organisms that he keeps alive would be supportive

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Jacque Fresco - Can't Exceed Your Environment - Dec. 28, 2010

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