0:00:00.000,0:00:04.100 The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life work. 0:00:04.100,0:00:08.390 He is the co-founder of The Venus Project along with Roxanne Meadows. 0:00:08.390,0:00:12.860 Since his early childhood he was search for answers through our social dilemmas. 0:00:12.860,0:00:18.960 In 1929, great depression was (?) in pushing him to search for social alternatives. 0:00:18.960,0:00:21.680 Unabled to find an acceptable solution, 0:00:21.680,0:00:23.480 he spent a lifetime working towards 0:00:23.480,0:00:27.000 a cooperative social direction that is equitable to all, 0:00:27.000,0:00:31.160 while protecting the environment. 0:00:31.160,0:00:33.330 What do you think that is... 0:00:33.330,0:00:38.680 (?) which way (?) somebody said (?) 0:00:38.680,0:00:42.000 Who said a boat(?)? 0:00:42.000,0:00:44.650 Yes, over there. 0:00:44.650,0:00:48.000 Okay. That is what it is. 0:00:48.000,0:00:51.470 Now, tell me who this is this. 0:00:51.470,0:00:54.000 This is a personality. 0:00:54.000,0:00:58.420 And let me give you another (?). 0:00:58.420,0:01:00.710 Who said (?)? 0:01:00.710,0:01:03.000 (?) 0:01:03.000,0:01:06.460 Yes they got in here(?). You have it. You got it right. 0:01:06.460,0:01:10.820 The brain when putting things together before they are finished 0:01:10.820,0:01:14.110 all that you have see is a little bit 0:01:14.110,0:01:19.600 and (?) got my thinking on the island, on two (?) 0:01:19.600,0:01:27.710 my teacher said that the male has it on (?) behaviour talk to female 0:01:27.710,0:01:30.000 i said that how do you know that 0:01:30.000,0:01:33.790 how do you know it is not conditioned by society 0:01:33.790,0:01:37.250 she said well what else can it be 0:01:37.250,0:01:40.450 so on when i got 0:01:40.450,0:01:44.310 to people who wear no clothing 0:01:44.310,0:01:48.000 it was tropical and they ware no clothing 0:01:48.000,0:01:52.920 and the male of the island never said at female body 0:01:52.920,0:01:58.330 they always looked at the eyes of a female when they talked to them 0:01:58.330,0:02:04.560 and none of their (?) and none of them had a picture of a nude woman 0:02:04.560,0:02:10.360 because they were nude as (?) say what (?) to (?) 0:02:10.360,0:02:12.490 has (?) a little 0:02:12.490,0:02:18.050 so they, they never looked at female body 0:02:18.050,0:02:22.010 and there were no peeping toms on the island 0:02:22.010,0:02:24.370 and i wonder if you can understand that 0:02:24.370,0:02:27.740 so the boys and girls walked around nude 0:02:27.740,0:02:33.970 until they were about (?) your age 0:02:33.970,0:02:42.320 in other words, they were shaped by the culture they lived in. 0:02:42.320,0:02:45.000 And there was nothing to see 0:02:45.000,0:02:51.110 then a missionary came, and they built their temporary church of canvas 0:02:51.110,0:02:54.440 and they made t-shirts for the girl 0:02:54.440,0:03:00.150 because they didn’t want that those to come in nude to the church 0:03:00.150,0:03:01.750 so they made t-shirts )?) 0:03:01.750,0:03:07.240 and they got and put t-shirts on, and they got two holes in the t-shirt 0:03:07.240,0:03:09.640 because they are uncomfortable 0:03:09.640,0:03:13.080 can you understand that 0:03:13.080,0:03:17.980 if everybody in America had a nose a foot long 0:03:17.980,0:03:19.580 you would have surgery done 0:03:19.580,0:03:22.670 so you would look like everybody else 0:03:22.670,0:03:25.540 there is no such thing as beauty 0:03:25.540,0:03:30.000 if normal people had a pointed head and two horns 0:03:30.000,0:03:32.520 you would call (?) them 0:03:32.520,0:03:37.790 there is no such thing as beauty this is made up by man 0:03:37.790,0:03:40.650 man says is that a beautiful woman 0:03:40.650,0:03:43.420 and that woman is not 0:03:43.420,0:03:48.330 that is all a question of values the way you brought up 0:03:48.330,0:03:54.660 if you were brought up on the arab world, would be normal for your daddy to have 4 wives 0:03:54.660,0:03:56.510 if he can afford it 0:03:56.510,0:04:00.550 and they be each one of them a day 0:04:00.550,0:04:03.000 to teach them things 0:04:03.000,0:04:06.860 that would be normal to you, do you understand? 0:04:06.860,0:04:12.350 So what whatever you see out there is normal 0:04:12.350,0:04:14.060 normal to that culture 0:04:14.060,0:04:18.000 if you were brought up in China as a baby 0:04:18.000,0:04:22.570 he speak Chinese and walk like a Chinese girl 0:04:22.570,0:04:27.000 and you have your arms in your in the 0:04:27.000,0:04:29.090 under Chinese 0:04:29.090,0:04:32.170 you would not know anything American. 0:04:32.170,0:04:37.060 So, what you see, if you brought up in France as a baby 0:04:37.060,0:04:39.000 you would be a French man. 0:04:39.000,0:04:42.660 You speak only French, if you brought up as a baby. 0:04:42.660,0:04:47.450 If you don’t read any books or travel anywhere. 0:04:47.450,0:04:53.290 So your environment shapes your behaviour. 0:04:53.290,0:04:56.390 And if you ask at an american indian 0:04:56.390,0:04:59.990 tell them you can have anything you want, what you want, 0:05:00.000,0:05:03.260 you would never asked for a Mercedes. 0:05:03.260,0:05:07.020 You would never ask for twin engine (?)craft 0:05:07.020,0:05:09.280 because does not know that exist. 0:05:09.280,0:05:14.220 He were only ask for (?) and arrow that is straight. 0:05:14.220,0:05:19.380 So people can not reflect anything but the environment, 0:05:19.380,0:05:21.000 they were brought up in. 0:05:21.000,0:05:27.130 Now, if you told that Beethoven was a great musician 0:05:27.130,0:05:31.180 he were based over Bach were dropped by parachute 0:05:31.180,0:05:38.130 over a headhunter village in the amazon as a baby without any (?) 0:05:38.130,0:05:43.030 and you then said the minimum was 30 years old 0:05:43.030,0:05:45.700 So what would you do to (?) head hunter 0:05:45.700,0:05:50.600 he wouldn’t (?) do you understand that 0:05:50.600,0:05:53.020 that is where people get their ideas 0:05:53.020,0:05:57.970 they do not come from (?) base, and into (?) head 0:05:57.970,0:06:00.210 a man doesn’t sit down and say 0:06:00.210,0:06:04.240 how am i going to (?) going to make a movie camera 0:06:04.240,0:06:06.780 how i am going to make a camera 0:06:06.780,0:06:12.040 somewhere in the line of his life he experienced that 0:06:12.040,0:06:17.420 so you use to make houses out of mug in the holy land 0:06:17.420,0:06:21.910 but they had no windows, no glass for windows 0:06:21.910,0:06:24.000 so is very dark in that 0:06:24.000,0:06:27.000 so they made up hole in the mug 0:06:27.000,0:06:30.000 in the (?) they made hole in the mug, 0:06:30.000,0:06:35.680 the outside scenery was projected on the wall upside down 0:06:35.680,0:06:40.290 and they called it the house of virtual images 0:06:40.290,0:06:43.470 and they (?) two pieces of silver 0:06:43.470,0:06:46.390 for you to see the upside down (?) 0:06:46.390,0:06:48.950 (?) what made this happen 0:06:48.950,0:06:50.420 when that was made there 0:06:50.420,0:06:54.000 that is when the box camera came from 0:06:54.000,0:06:58.010 and someone says well Tesla invented the wireless 0:06:58.010,0:07:01.030 how can a man say sit down to make the wireless 0:07:01.030,0:07:03.620 or going to make the electric light 0:07:03.620,0:07:07.450 he can’t do that, he see something in nature 0:07:07.450,0:07:10.170 and this is what he saw. 0:07:10.170,0:07:13.820 When you brought an electric wire from an electric company 0:07:13.820,0:07:18.000 they wrap that around a card board tube 0:07:18.000,0:07:20.250 and you took that wire home 0:07:20.250,0:07:22.860 but sometimes the wire is broken 0:07:22.860,0:07:25.980 so they (?) an electric current to the coil 0:07:25.980,0:07:28.660 to make it sure that was not broken 0:07:28.660,0:07:36.110 and coil (?) this accurate(?) coil induce the current into stationary coil 0:07:36.110,0:07:39.000 that would bring(?) on the table 0:07:39.000,0:07:40.920 that was not even connected. 0:07:40.920,0:07:45.000 That is why Tesla (?) the idea of the wireless. 0:07:45.000,0:07:48.780 He didn’t think about it, he (?) make a wireless. 0:07:48.780,0:07:52.330 No man even said (?) make a flying machine. 0:07:52.330,0:07:58.180 They tell you that the Wright brothers, in school, made their first airplane. 0:07:58.180,0:08:03.940 They could not do that, because they would not know how big to make the wings 0:08:03.940,0:08:09.240 to make them 3 feet long, a feet long, you don’t know. 0:08:09.240,0:08:12.970 Do you make the propeller this size, or this, you don’t know. 0:08:12.970,0:08:17.360 So you try on different things(?), those which does not work, you set aside. 0:08:17.360,0:08:19.140 those that work you use. 0:08:19.140,0:08:25.770 The Wright brothers corresponded with a guy named Otto Lilienthal 0:08:25.770,0:08:30.000 who wrote his first book on aeronautics. 0:08:30.000,0:08:33.480 He wrote a book on aerodynamics. 0:08:33.480,0:08:36.870 And then Wright brothers read their books 0:08:36.870,0:08:42.240 otherwise they couldn’t know how possibly (?) to make the wings. 0:08:42.240,0:08:45.300 A (?) saw a bird flying 0:08:45.300,0:08:47.440 and says do you know why can fly 0:08:47.440,0:08:51.000 if i make two wings in (?) 0:08:51.000,0:08:52.940 you don’t know how big to make the wings 0:08:52.940,0:08:56.290 he made them 3 feet long on each side 0:08:56.290,0:09:00.000 and beat the air and says i can sure i can fly. 0:09:00.000,0:09:03.680 And he jumped off the Eiffel tower, and he died. 0:09:03.680,0:09:08.650 And these (?) law wrote made the wings larger next time. 0:09:08.650,0:09:12.030 This is the only way you learn. There is no other way. 0:09:12.030,0:09:16.990 Nobody invented anything, they all got it from nature. 0:09:16.990,0:09:25.730 From some phenomena they observed. 0:09:25.730,0:09:31.890 And as long as you (?) know, you are all equivalent to (?). 0:09:31.890,0:09:37.320 If you brought up to be creative. What is creative person? 0:09:37.320,0:09:42.820 And i say, well, it is inborn, it is not inborn. There is nothing inborn. 0:09:42.820,0:09:48.050 A male says to another male, hey look at that chick, she is well (?). 0:09:48.050,0:09:53.030 That is when man get their ideas from other man. 0:09:53.030,0:09:57.130 They are not born that way. You are not born any way. 0:09:57.130,0:10:00.000 If you are raised by 3 feminine women, 0:10:00.000,0:10:02.110 that use their hands while they talk 0:10:02.110,0:10:06.000 well when i see a gorgeous hand. 0:10:06.000,0:10:09.950 A boy raised by these 3 women that are very feminine 0:10:09.950,0:10:13.580 will behave just like a woman, exactly. 0:10:13.580,0:10:16.810 He was not born (?). 0:10:16.810,0:10:21.020 If you were brought up by 3 feminine woman 0:10:21.020,0:10:25.050 you would walk like a woman, you would talk like a woman, and think like a woman. 0:10:25.050,0:10:27.590 Do you understand what i am saying? 0:10:27.590,0:10:31.340 And if you brought up in China or France as a baby, 0:10:31.340,0:10:33.630 and they brougth up in Germany, 0:10:33.630,0:10:36.000 you will have to have (?) books, 0:10:36.000,0:10:41.400 which said heil Hitler uber alles mean above all. 0:10:41.400,0:10:45.000 Because that is all he would talk. 0:10:45.000,0:10:48.790 And you behave like Americans, not because (?). 0:10:48.790,0:10:51.470 but because that is what you thought. 0:10:51.470,0:10:55.170 As there is no such thing as a human nature. 0:10:55.170,0:10:57.750 They tell you (?) human nature. 0:10:57.750,0:11:01.400 There is no such thing. 0:11:01.400,0:11:07.320 It is the way you were brought up that makes you react to the world around you. 0:11:07.320,0:11:12.040 And if you don’t believe that, travel to islands. 0:11:12.040,0:11:17.810 And you find out, that even in America, as given in the good old days, 0:11:17.810,0:11:20.620 there never were good old days. 0:11:20.620,0:11:25.900 They burned thousands of women in (?) Massachusetts as witches. 0:11:25.900,0:11:28.760 How many of you knew that? 0:11:28.760,0:11:31.800 Thousands of women were burned alive 0:11:31.800,0:11:35.580 because they were being accused to being a witch. 0:11:35.580,0:11:40.950 And they were accused to (?) on a (?), and flying all over. 0:11:40.950,0:11:44.400 So, there never were these good all days 0:11:44.400,0:11:47.100 there were slaves in the old days. 0:11:47.100,0:11:50.060 So i am just telling you the truth. 0:11:50.060,0:11:54.800 I am trying to give you a (?) anima(?), 0:11:54.800,0:12:01.520 to see that all as a shit that they pumped in your head. 0:12:01.520,0:12:05.580 Now, a lot of you have a name of the Cher(?) comedy 0:12:05.580,0:12:09.860 you have being sitting here a long time on your (?). 0:12:09.860,0:12:14.310 And i am sure that you understand what i am saying 0:12:14.310,0:12:20.180 when i say no one can sit down and say i am going to make a wireless. 0:12:20.180,0:12:24.000 There is no known reference for wireless. 0:12:24.000,0:12:28.360 No invention even came from outer space. 0:12:28.360,0:12:32.630 It came from (?) directly from the environment. 0:12:32.630,0:12:37.450 And all of you can be as creative as Leonardo da Vinci 0:12:37.450,0:12:45.860 if you were brought up in an environment that generates creativity. 0:12:45.860,0:12:48.620 What kind of environment is that? 0:12:48.620,0:12:53.040 You have to show a kid pictures of Chinese people. 0:12:53.040,0:12:58.440 And you have to show that kid that are millions of Chinese people in China, 0:12:58.440,0:13:03.160 and millions of African(?) people in Africa. 0:13:03.160,0:13:05.090 You have to show a kid (?) more. 0:13:05.090,0:13:08.360 The more you show a kid, it broader their mind. 0:13:08.360,0:13:12.000 If you don’t show kid anything, that they were just brought up 0:13:12.000,0:13:15.460 in (?) and you even seen anything 0:13:15.460,0:13:17.310 but we (?) in ice(?) 0:13:17.310,0:13:21.550 you just have the limitations of the (?). 0:13:21.550,0:13:24.000 Do you understand that? 0:13:24.000,0:13:28.750 That is the differences comes, the differences of exposure 0:13:28.750,0:13:32.250 The more you are exposed to, the broader the mind. 0:13:32.250,0:13:37.110 And the less you are exposed to, the dumber you are. 0:13:37.110,0:13:40.400 And America is a very dumb country. 0:13:40.400,0:13:45.060 When that we get this land. 0:13:45.060,0:13:48.000 We stole it from the indians. 0:13:48.000,0:13:53.750 The indians didn’t ask us, they came over, and do whatever you want. 0:13:53.750,0:13:57.000 And we were told that that they are savages. 0:13:57.000,0:13:59.250 And we know what to do with the land. 0:13:59.250,0:14:02.330 Now we took the land away from the indians 0:14:02.330,0:14:06.730 by shooting indians or by starving them. 0:14:06.730,0:14:13.260 So, the government offered money to people that killed indians, 0:14:13.260,0:14:16.110 or their chef buffalo, 0:14:16.110,0:14:24.040 that is indians aim. (?) starving indians (?) them, 0:14:24.040,0:14:26.240 because we called them savages. 0:14:26.240,0:14:32.530 We were the savages, we shot the indians, we shot them with guns. 0:14:32.530,0:14:38.590 And they were(?) was (?), which is no way to defend yourself. 0:14:38.590,0:14:44.910 So that, the indians (?) have no voice in anything. 0:14:44.910,0:14:48.550 And women were not allowed to vote in America. 0:14:48.550,0:14:54.510 Just 60, 70 years ago they were allowed to vote. 0:14:54.510,0:15:00.080 They became only recently that women had the right to vote. 0:15:00.080,0:15:03.000 Woman in the future will be in politics, 0:15:03.000,0:15:08.380 that would be as many woman as there were man, no more no less. 0:15:08.380,0:15:10.930 And (?) have equal rights. 0:15:10.930,0:15:13.050 If a woman becomes an engineer, 0:15:13.050,0:15:18.000 she doesn’t earn as much as a male engineer. Do you know that? 0:15:18.000,0:15:23.560 So i am just telling you a woman are still abused by this country. 0:15:23.560,0:15:26.040 And they would be continued to be abused, 0:15:26.040,0:15:31.130 and even when you tell woman that they are equal to man, they wont believe that. 0:15:31.130,0:15:39.450 Because they really the propaganda that women are not curious to be engineers. 0:15:39.450,0:15:42.770 Yes, they are just as curious as man. 0:15:42.770,0:15:47.010 And they can be anything they want to be in the future. 0:15:47.010,0:15:49.810 So that is it(?). 0:15:49.810,0:15:53.780 Thank you for your time. 0:15:53.780,0:15:57.400 I did (?) appreciate you coming here, 0:15:57.400,0:16:01.860 and i appreciate all the questions that you ask. Thanks again.