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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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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Brooklyn
New York
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If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
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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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Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
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So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
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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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I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
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There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
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Anthropology studies different cultures mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.
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