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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.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Brooklyn
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Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.
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If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
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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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The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
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The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
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The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
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And you can't find love because in order to find love you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving love, your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable.
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