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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
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We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.
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People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
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Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.
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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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You don't need to get rid of religion you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
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Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
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Your frame of reference is what you see.
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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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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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There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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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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