Jacque Fresco - "Environment Shapes Behavior"

Jacque Fresco speaks about how our behavior is always shaped by the environment, citing specific examples and stories from his life. At 100 years of age, Jacque continues to do all he can to inform people about the aims and proposals of The Venus Project. This talk was presented at his Centennial Birthday Celebration in Fort Myers, Florida to a group of over 600 attendees from all over the world.

The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in today's world.
Learn more at www.thevenusproject.com

The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life work.

He is the co-founder of The Venus Project along with Roxanne Meadows.

Since his early childhood he was search for answers through our social dilemmas.

In 1929, great depression was (?) in pushing him to search for social alternatives.

Unabled to find an acceptable solution,

he spent a lifetime working towards

a cooperative social direction that is equitable to all,

while protecting the environment.

What do you think that is...

(?) which way (?) somebody said (?)

Who said a boat(?)?

Yes, over there.

Okay. That is what it is.

Now, tell me who this is this.

This is a personality.

And let me give you another (?).

Who said (?)?

(?)

Yes they got in here(?). You have it. You got it right.

The brain when putting things together before they are finished

all that you have see is a little bit

and (?) got my thinking on the island, on two (?)

my teacher said that the male has it on (?) behaviour talk to female

i said that how do you know that

how do you know it is not conditioned by society

she said well what else can it be

so on when i got

to people who wear no clothing

it was tropical and they ware no clothing

and the male of the island never said at female body

they always looked at the eyes of a female when they talked to them

and none of their (?) and none of them had a picture of a nude woman

because they were nude as (?) say what (?) to (?)

has (?) a little

so they, they never looked at female body

and there were no peeping toms on the island

and i wonder if you can understand that

so the boys and girls walked around nude

until they were about (?) your age

in other words, they were shaped by the culture they lived in.

And there was nothing to see

then a missionary came, and they built their temporary church of canvas

and they made t-shirts for the girl

because they didn’t want that those to come in nude to the church

so they made t-shirts )?)

and they got and put t-shirts on, and they got two holes in the t-shirt

because they are uncomfortable

can you understand that

if everybody in America had a nose a foot long

you would have surgery done

so you would look like everybody else

there is no such thing as beauty

if normal people had a pointed head and two horns

you would call (?) them

there is no such thing as beauty this is made up by man

man says is that a beautiful woman

and that woman is not

that is all a question of values the way you brought up

if you were brought up on the arab world, would be normal for your daddy to have 4 wives

if he can afford it

and they be each one of them a day

to teach them things

that would be normal to you, do you understand?

So what whatever you see out there is normal

normal to that culture

if you were brought up in China as a baby

he speak Chinese and walk like a Chinese girl

and you have your arms in your in the

under Chinese

you would not know anything American.

So, what you see, if you brought up in France as a baby

you would be a French man.

You speak only French, if you brought up as a baby.

If you don’t read any books or travel anywhere.

So your environment shapes your behaviour.

And if you ask at an american indian

tell them you can have anything you want, what you want,

you would never asked for a Mercedes.

You would never ask for twin engine (?)craft

because does not know that exist.

He were only ask for (?) and arrow that is straight.

So people can not reflect anything but the environment,

they were brought up in.

Now, if you told that Beethoven was a great musician

he were based over Bach were dropped by parachute

over a headhunter village in the amazon as a baby without any (?)

and you then said the minimum was 30 years old

So what would you do to (?) head hunter

he wouldn’t (?) do you understand that

that is where people get their ideas

they do not come from (?) base, and into (?) head

a man doesn’t sit down and say

how am i going to (?) going to make a movie camera

how i am going to make a camera

somewhere in the line of his life he experienced that

so you use to make houses out of mug in the holy land

but they had no windows, no glass for windows

so is very dark in that

so they made up hole in the mug

in the (?) they made hole in the mug,

the outside scenery was projected on the wall upside down

and they called it the house of virtual images

and they (?) two pieces of silver

for you to see the upside down (?)

(?) what made this happen

when that was made there

that is when the box camera came from

and someone says well Tesla invented the wireless

how can a man say sit down to make the wireless

or going to make the electric light

he can’t do that, he see something in nature

and this is what he saw.

When you brought an electric wire from an electric company

they wrap that around a card board tube

and you took that wire home

but sometimes the wire is broken

so they (?) an electric current to the coil

to make it sure that was not broken

and coil (?) this accurate(?) coil induce the current into stationary coil

that would bring(?) on the table

that was not even connected.

That is why Tesla (?) the idea of the wireless.

He didn’t think about it, he (?) make a wireless.

No man even said (?) make a flying machine.

They tell you that the Wright brothers, in school, made their first airplane.

They could not do that, because they would not know how big to make the wings

to make them 3 feet long, a feet long, you don’t know.

Do you make the propeller this size, or this, you don’t know.

So you try on different things(?), those which does not work, you set aside.

those that work you use.

The Wright brothers corresponded with a guy named Otto Lilienthal

who wrote his first book on aeronautics.

He wrote a book on aerodynamics.

And then Wright brothers read their books

otherwise they couldn’t know how possibly (?) to make the wings.

A (?) saw a bird flying

and says do you know why can fly

if i make two wings in (?)

you don’t know how big to make the wings

he made them 3 feet long on each side

and beat the air and says i can sure i can fly.

And he jumped off the Eiffel tower, and he died.

And these (?) law wrote made the wings larger next time.

This is the only way you learn. There is no other way.

Nobody invented anything, they all got it from nature.

From some phenomena they observed.

And as long as you (?) know, you are all equivalent to (?).

If you brought up to be creative. What is creative person?

And i say, well, it is inborn, it is not inborn. There is nothing inborn.

A male says to another male, hey look at that chick, she is well (?).

That is when man get their ideas from other man.

They are not born that way. You are not born any way.

If you are raised by 3 feminine women,

that use their hands while they talk

well when i see a gorgeous hand.

A boy raised by these 3 women that are very feminine

will behave just like a woman, exactly.

He was not born (?).

If you were brought up by 3 feminine woman

you would walk like a woman, you would talk like a woman, and think like a woman.

Do you understand what i am saying?

And if you brought up in China or France as a baby,

and they brougth up in Germany,

you will have to have (?) books,

which said heil Hitler uber alles mean above all.

Because that is all he would talk.

And you behave like Americans, not because (?).

but because that is what you thought.

As there is no such thing as a human nature.

They tell you (?) human nature.

There is no such thing.

It is the way you were brought up that makes you react to the world around you.

And if you don’t believe that, travel to islands.

And you find out, that even in America, as given in the good old days,

there never were good old days.

They burned thousands of women in (?) Massachusetts as witches.

How many of you knew that?

Thousands of women were burned alive

because they were being accused to being a witch.

And they were accused to (?) on a (?), and flying all over.

So, there never were these good all days

there were slaves in the old days.

So i am just telling you the truth.

I am trying to give you a (?) anima(?),

to see that all as a shit that they pumped in your head.

Now, a lot of you have a name of the Cher(?) comedy

you have being sitting here a long time on your (?).

And i am sure that you understand what i am saying

when i say no one can sit down and say i am going to make a wireless.

There is no known reference for wireless.

No invention even came from outer space.

It came from (?) directly from the environment.

And all of you can be as creative as Leonardo da Vinci

if you were brought up in an environment that generates creativity.

What kind of environment is that?

You have to show a kid pictures of Chinese people.

And you have to show that kid that are millions of Chinese people in China,

and millions of African(?) people in Africa.

You have to show a kid (?) more.

The more you show a kid, it broader their mind.

If you don’t show kid anything, that they were just brought up

in (?) and you even seen anything

but we (?) in ice(?)

you just have the limitations of the (?).

Do you understand that?

That is the differences comes, the differences of exposure

The more you are exposed to, the broader the mind.

And the less you are exposed to, the dumber you are.

And America is a very dumb country.

When that we get this land.

We stole it from the indians.

The indians didn’t ask us, they came over, and do whatever you want.

And we were told that that they are savages.

And we know what to do with the land.

Now we took the land away from the indians

by shooting indians or by starving them.

So, the government offered money to people that killed indians,

or their chef buffalo,

that is indians aim. (?) starving indians (?) them,

because we called them savages.

We were the savages, we shot the indians, we shot them with guns.

And they were(?) was (?), which is no way to defend yourself.

So that, the indians (?) have no voice in anything.

And women were not allowed to vote in America.

Just 60, 70 years ago they were allowed to vote.

They became only recently that women had the right to vote.

Woman in the future will be in politics,

that would be as many woman as there were man, no more no less.

And (?) have equal rights.

If a woman becomes an engineer,

she doesn’t earn as much as a male engineer. Do you know that?

So i am just telling you a woman are still abused by this country.

And they would be continued to be abused,

and even when you tell woman that they are equal to man, they wont believe that.

Because they really the propaganda that women are not curious to be engineers.

Yes, they are just as curious as man.

And they can be anything they want to be in the future.

So that is it(?).

Thank you for your time.

I did (?) appreciate you coming here,

and i appreciate all the questions that you ask. Thanks again.