“I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayWellsCoursesNamesCrazyUpsetHospitals Author:Jacque Fresco
“You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.” PeopleWorldWayWantKindDifferentEndsWholeAsksGoalCitiesDrawingRelevantWhole Picture Author:Jacque Fresco
“You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.” PeopleWorldWayQualityConsciousRidiculousBackgroundsVariables Author:Jacque Fresco
“I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEarthCan DoPerfectHarmonyNotionHumanistWarmthUtopianPerfect Society Author:Jacque Fresco
“We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.” WorldWayPoliticalValuesLanguageSocialCitiesPolicyHealthWasteResourcesChaosAcquireGoodsModernityChaoticSocial SystemsDetrimentalOutdatedGoods And ServicesFuturistObsolescence Author:Jacque Fresco
“If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenWarProblemSocietyTypeIntelligentKillingSolveAnti WarProblem SolvingRaising ChildrenUpbringingFree SocietyTeaching ChildrenProblems And SolutionsKilling Each OtherFuturistThere Is Always A Way Author:Jacque Fresco
“The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking” ThinkingWayCitiesProjectsArchitectureWay Of ThinkingVenus Author:Jacque Fresco
“Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody” WayDifferentWarUseSchoolValuesCultureHouseHurtTeachNiceShareKillingCommunicateRelateArchitectEngineersLots Of MoneyPhysicistDifferent CulturesNice HouseDifferent ValuesGeneralists Author:Jacque Fresco
“Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.” PeopleWayLittlesLongMadeDifferentWarValuesCoursesReadingFeltSacrificeEvolutionLong TimeConceptsAngrySuperiorsUncomfortableQuestioningFloodFlexibleGod Of WarSuperior IntelligenceDifferent Gods Author:Jacque Fresco
“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, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayLongSaidUseTodayLanguageLinesSubjectsArgumentMethodMajorityMathInsaneBridgesInterpretationExposedEngineersWorld TodayObsoleteEvaluationTransmissionDams Author:Jacque Fresco
“It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.” PeopleWayEvilForceSupportConditionsBehaveOffensiveGreedy Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” WayDesignUtopianOptimal Author:Jacque Fresco
“Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways” WayTogetherKnownCreativityElementsUnique Author:Jacque Fresco
“The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.” WayUseTechnologyToolsAvailableEquipmentVacuumsCleanersDuplicate Author:Jacque Fresco
“Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.” WayYearsTodayHundredYears AgoObsolete Author:Jacque Fresco
“You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple. The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things.” PeopleIfsWayReasonSimpleTeachReactionsBehaveReasoningWheelsSimple ThingsKites Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” ThinkingWayDifferentHardTodayCultureStudyFieldsTrappedPrimitiveAnthropologyDifferent Cultures Author:Jacque Fresco
“Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansEarthTogetherBitsHuman BeingsTalkingOpinionTeachStudyAll ThingsDifficultySurfaceWeatherConclusionWay Of ThinkingArrivingSociologistsGeologistMeteorologists Author:Jacque Fresco
“When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.” WayAsksAnswersAbsurd Author:Jacque Fresco
