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Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
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Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
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The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.
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We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
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We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
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Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
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I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.
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There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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