1
00:00:04,005 --> 00:00:08,003
[Politicians, Voting And Democracy]

2
00:00:13,001 --> 00:00:19,004
Politicians are human beings, and like the rest of us are influenced by the environment

3
00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:26,326
So once politicians reach the parliamentary environment they will behave accordingly.

4
00:00:30,139 --> 00:00:34,930
Human government has been around for many thousand of years actually -sure

5
00:00:35,023 --> 00:00:41,869
and they've been fighting and killing each other. All human upgraded governments are basically corrupt,

6
00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,852
they serve the 'in-group'. They have to, otherwise they'd never get elected.

7
00:00:46,944 --> 00:00:52,885
So here you sit back with the illusion of patching up the society, making it good,

8
00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:00,637
getting decent people in government. All that's delusional. You have to have a government not based on money.

9
00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:10,495
You have to have a government with machines that distribute goods and services, regardless of race, religion or private beliefs.

10
00:01:10,603 --> 00:01:16,083
In other ways, people must be permitted to live the lifestyle that they prefer.

11
00:01:16,221 --> 00:01:18,760
Without you telling them what to do.

12
00:01:18,868 --> 00:01:24,792
When you come up and you say "this is the right way", it's your way, the way you were brought up,

13
00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:29,264
but that doesn't make it right, it just makes it appropriate for you.

14
00:01:29,386 --> 00:01:35,249
The future will be very different than the world today, the future will be based upon:

15
00:01:35,357 --> 00:01:43,417
Does the system work? Does it serve most people? Does it maintain a healthy relationship in sharing values?

16
00:01:43,556 --> 00:01:49,605
Or does the system damage that? This is how we decide what system is to be selected.

17
00:01:49,744 --> 00:01:56,620
How well does the system works? That's the final test, that's used in engineering standards,

18
00:01:56,742 --> 00:01:59,762
that's the only system that's valid.

19
00:02:00,666 --> 00:02:04,002
Now, is it a democracy? People ask me.

20
00:02:05,326 --> 00:02:15,007
I put it this way: Is it a participatory democracy? -Well I participate. -Well then come here sometimes. -I want to participate right away.

21
00:02:15,130 --> 00:02:19,823
-That's good! how would you prevent cars from hitting each other? -I don't know.

22
00:02:20,310 --> 00:02:24,076
-How do you prevent a building catching fire? -I don't know.

23
00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:30,519
-How do you participate? Did you vote for the space program? Did anybody vote for Vietnam war?

24
00:02:32,169 --> 00:02:37,555
Did anybody vote for any war? Did anybody vote for the Moon project?

25
00:02:37,694 --> 00:02:40,001
How the hell do you participate then?

26
00:02:43,354 --> 00:02:49,263
Half of all american adults understand that the earth orbits the sun yearly

27
00:02:49,371 --> 00:02:51,185
according to a basic science survey.

28
00:02:51,309 --> 00:02:55,004
Nevertheless there's enthusiasm for research acceptance on fields like genetic engineering

29
00:02:55,097 --> 00:03:00,001
and nuclear power, that are viewed with suspicion. Only about 25% of american adults

30
00:03:00,109 --> 00:03:04,189
get passing grades in the national science foundation survey of what people know about

31
00:03:04,282 --> 00:03:08,483
basic science and economics. I mean this is singing your song isn't it?

32
00:03:08,592 --> 00:03:12,233
Well, it certainly is what I'm talking about in "The demon haunted world".

33
00:03:12,358 --> 00:03:20,141
My feeling, Charlie is not that the pseudo science and superstition

34
00:03:20,264 --> 00:03:27,527
and "new age", so called, beliefs and the fundamental zealotry are something new,

35
00:03:27,650 --> 00:03:30,885
they have been with us for as long as we've been human,

36
00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:38,372
but we live in an age based on science and technology with formidable technological powers.

37
00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:42,823
Science and technology are propelling us forward at accelerating rates

38
00:03:42,946 --> 00:03:46,932
Thats right! And if we don't understand it, about "we" I mean we general public

39
00:03:47,055 --> 00:03:50,636
if it's something like "ohh I'm not good at that, I don't know anything about it"

40
00:03:50,729 --> 00:03:55,631
Then who is making all the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine

41
00:03:55,755 --> 00:04:00,682
what kind of a future our children live in? Just uh, some members of congress?

42
00:04:00,775 --> 00:04:05,402
But there's no more than a handful of members of congress who have any background in science at all!

43
00:04:05,510 --> 00:04:11,620
And the republican congress has just abolished it's own office of technology assessment,

44
00:04:11,728 --> 00:04:16,006
The organization that gave them by participation competent advice on science and technology

45
00:04:16,129 --> 00:04:18,374
They say "We don't want to know".

46
00:04:18,466 --> 00:04:22,063
There's two kinds of dangers, one is what I just talked about,

47
00:04:22,171 --> 00:04:25,621
that we've arranged the society based on science and technology

48
00:04:25,713 --> 00:04:29,292
in which nobody understands anything about science and technology

49
00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:35,293
and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later

50
00:04:35,401 --> 00:04:40,495
is gonna blow up in our faces, I mean, who is running the science and technology

51
00:04:40,587 --> 00:04:43,085
in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?

52
00:04:43,209 --> 00:04:47,355
And the second reason I'm worried about this

53
00:04:47,495 --> 00:04:53,107
is that science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking

54
00:04:53,215 --> 00:04:56,450
a way of skeptically interrogating the universe

55
00:04:56,603 --> 00:05:00,251
with a fine understanding of human fallibility.

56
00:05:00,375 --> 00:05:09,009
If we are not to able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us that something is true

57
00:05:09,147 --> 00:05:14,311
to be skeptical of those in authority. Then we are up for grabs

58
00:05:14,421 --> 00:05:19,108
for the next charlatan political or religious who comes hobblling along.

59
00:05:19,248 --> 00:05:25,679
Have we (the point is made and maybe by you), anyway when was the last time a president made a speech about science?

60
00:05:28,186 --> 00:05:34,744
It is this notion that, science is not a great interest to us, in some sense,

61
00:05:34,883 --> 00:05:37,606
that somehow we dont wanna learn.

62
00:05:37,713 --> 00:05:42,062
You see, people read the stock market quotations

63
00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,822
and financial papers, look how complex that is.

64
00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,327
They know the direct connections to their own...

65
00:05:47,434 --> 00:05:50,790
There's a motivation, but they are capable of it, large amounts of people.

66
00:05:50,929 --> 00:05:55,707
People are able of look at sport statistics, look how many people can do that!

67
00:05:55,862 --> 00:06:01,362
Understanding science is not more difficult than that, it doesn't involve greater intellectual activities.

68
00:06:01,501 --> 00:06:11,783
But the thing about science is first of all, it's after the way the universe really is, and not what makes us feel better.

69
00:06:11,905 --> 00:06:17,216
And a lot of the competing doctors are after what feels good

70
00:06:17,339 --> 00:06:19,911
and not what's true.

71
00:06:21,684 --> 00:06:27,846
It's not politicians that can solve problems, they have no technical capabilities,

72
00:06:28,001 --> 00:06:32,263
they don't know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere,

73
00:06:32,386 --> 00:06:34,139
they don't know how to solve problems.

74
00:06:34,278 --> 00:06:38,942
It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.

75
00:06:39,066 --> 00:06:43,311
It's the technicians that give you electricity, that give you motor vehicles,

76
00:06:43,420 --> 00:06:46,232
that heat your house and cool it in the summer time.

77
00:06:46,371 --> 00:06:49,309
It's technology that solves problems

78
00:06:49,417 --> 00:06:55,113
not politics, politics cannot solve problems cause they are not trained to do so.

79
00:06:55,236 --> 00:07:01,466
And writing your congressmen is fantastic, they tell you to write your congressman if you want something done.

80
00:07:01,589 --> 00:07:05,496
The men in washington should be at the forefront of technology,

81
00:07:05,633 --> 00:07:09,233
the forefront of human study, the forefront of crime

82
00:07:09,388 --> 00:07:14,185
all the factors that shape human behaviour. You don't have to write your congressmen

83
00:07:14,324 --> 00:07:18,294
What kind of people are they that are appointed to do that job?

84
00:07:18,431 --> 00:07:22,923
Instead of putting up a sign: "Drive carefully, slippery when wet"

85
00:07:23,047 --> 00:07:26,636
put abrasive in the highway so its not slippery when wet.

86
00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:31,123
And if a person gets in the car they are drunk and the car oscillates a great deal,

87
00:07:31,261 --> 00:07:34,297
there's a little pendulum that swings up and back and that would

88
00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:38,513
pull the car over to the side, not a law, a solution.

89
00:07:38,667 --> 00:07:43,000
Put sonar and radar in all auto mobiles so they can't hit one another.

90
00:07:43,139 --> 00:07:47,730
Man made laws are attempts to deal with occurring problems

91
00:07:47,884 --> 00:07:51,588
and not knowing how to solve them, they make a law.

92
00:07:53,002 --> 00:07:59,465
So you live in a managed world, and your kids in the future will say to you, wasn't it obvious?

93
00:07:59,605 --> 00:08:04,341
That you paid off senators, you paid off governments, you paid off different people

94
00:08:04,479 --> 00:08:09,325
to get your will? Isn't that obvious? I guess not.

95
00:08:09,448 --> 00:08:19,931
And so, if you do away with the money system, you can't have the sale of drugs. You can't pay off senators. You can't buy people.

96
00:08:20,038 --> 00:08:24,252
You understand what I'm saying? As long as you've got money, no matter who you elect.

97
00:08:24,390 --> 00:08:29,001
You say, "Well, maybe if we elect decent people in government..." No way, even if you had

98
00:08:29,109 --> 00:08:33,838
the most decent people in the world, taken from the best churches you like

99
00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:38,885
If you ran out of resources, be lying, cheating, killing, stealing.

100
00:08:39,031 --> 00:08:45,067
It's resources that people need, not money. Access to resources.

101
00:08:45,190 --> 00:08:51,001
But we have more than enough resources. Have you considered the money spent on world war II

102
00:08:51,110 --> 00:08:54,267
you could have wiped out the slums all over the world,

103
00:08:54,405 --> 00:08:58,269
educated people, built the best universities free of charge.

104
00:08:58,408 --> 00:09:00,340
Why do we do it free of charge?

105
00:09:00,464 --> 00:09:03,838
Because the smarter the kids are, the richer all of us will be.

106
00:09:03,977 --> 00:09:09,246
Every kid shooting up drugs, hanging out in malls. Why? They have no place to go.

107
00:09:09,384 --> 00:09:16,096
There should be art centers, music centers, cultural centers, theater groups, where people can go.

108
00:09:16,220 --> 00:09:20,992
They hang out in malls and coats stands because there's no place to go.

109
00:09:21,131 --> 00:09:27,710
And the government, I would say this, the government than entry, doesn't give a shit about people.

110
00:09:27,848 --> 00:09:36,607
Proof, now. They would not outsource. I have a big factory: if I pay my help more than the minimum wage,

111
00:09:36,730 --> 00:09:40,932
I can't stay in business, if he outsources to China. Do you understand?

112
00:09:41,055 --> 00:09:47,620
You're not going to invest in the company that builds playgrounds for the women's children that work in the factory.

113
00:09:47,743 --> 00:09:53,327
You want the money spent on products advertising so the income is greater. So you invest in it.

114
00:09:53,450 --> 00:09:56,371
So we're all sons of bitches in the monetary system.

115
00:09:56,494 --> 00:09:58,414
It makes us that way.

116
00:09:58,538 --> 00:10:03,586
Well I say if you're not... consult your bank account and see who you are.

117
00:10:08,818 --> 00:10:13,682
But there's a reason, there's a reason... there's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks,

118
00:10:13,806 --> 00:10:17,822
it's the same reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed.

119
00:10:17,930 --> 00:10:22,046
It's never gonna get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you got.

120
00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,481
Because the owners of this country don't want that.

121
00:10:25,574 --> 00:10:30,630
I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners: the big wealthy business interests,

122
00:10:30,753 --> 00:10:33,543
that control things and they make all the important decisions.

123
00:10:33,665 --> 00:10:38,855
Forget the politicians, the politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

124
00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:41,558
You don't! You have no choice.

125
00:10:41,681 --> 00:10:47,869
You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important lands,

126
00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,573
they own and control the corporations,

127
00:10:49,698 --> 00:10:55,030
they've long since born to pay for the senate the congress to stay down as their city holes, they got the judges in their back pocket,

128
00:10:55,107 --> 00:11:00,015
and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get here,

129
00:11:00,138 --> 00:11:05,619
they got you by the balls! They've spent billions of dollars every year lobbying,

130
00:11:05,727 --> 00:11:09,353
lobbying to get what they want!

131
00:11:09,476 --> 00:11:13,683
But we know what they want, they want more for themselves and less for everybody else!

132
00:11:13,791 --> 00:11:18,984
But I'll tell you what they don't want: they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking,

133
00:11:19,108 --> 00:11:23,002
they don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking,

134
00:11:23,109 --> 00:11:27,174
they're not interested in that, that doesn't help them. That's against their interests.

135
00:11:27,297 --> 00:11:28,430
That's right!

136
00:11:29,295 --> 00:11:31,572
They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table

137
00:11:31,741 --> 00:11:33,961
figuring how badly they are getting fucked by a system

138
00:11:34,084 --> 00:11:37,947
that threw them overboard thirty fucking years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want?

139
00:11:38,085 --> 00:11:42,247
They want obedient workers. Obedient workers.

140
00:11:42,371 --> 00:11:45,297
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work

141
00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:49,969
and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs

142
00:11:50,077 --> 00:11:53,893
with the lower pay and the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime

143
00:11:54,002 --> 00:11:56,715
and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it,

144
00:11:56,838 --> 00:12:02,401
and now they are coming for your social security money. They want your fucking retirement money.

145
00:12:02,524 --> 00:12:06,653
They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on wall street.

146
00:12:06,761 --> 00:12:10,124
And you know something? They'll get it, they'll get it all from you sooner or later,

147
00:12:10,231 --> 00:12:16,202
because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

148
00:12:16,325 --> 00:12:19,544
You and I are not in the big club.

149
00:12:19,652 --> 00:12:24,249
By the way it's the same big club they used to beat you over the head with all day long and they tell you what to believe.

150
00:12:24,356 --> 00:12:26,375
All day long beating you over the head and the media's telling you

151
00:12:26,482 --> 00:12:29,046
what to believe, what to think and what to buy.

152
00:12:29,138 --> 00:12:35,916
The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

153
00:12:36,024 --> 00:12:40,575
Good honest hard working people, white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on,

154
00:12:40,682 --> 00:12:44,389
good honest hard working people continue, these are people of modest means,

155
00:12:44,481 --> 00:12:48,731
continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don't give a fuck about them.

156
00:12:48,823 --> 00:12:53,293
They don't give a fuck about you, they don't give a fuck about you, they don't care about you,

157
00:12:53,401 --> 00:12:56,924
at all! At all! At all!

158
00:12:58,465 --> 00:12:59,530
You know?

159
00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:03,854
And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

160
00:13:03,961 --> 00:13:08,560
That's what the owners count on: the fact the americans will probably remain willfully ignorant

161
00:13:08,667 --> 00:13:13,230
of the big, red white and blue dick that's been jammed up their assholes everyday.

162
00:13:13,353 --> 00:13:18,093
Because the owners of this country know the truth, it's called the American dream,

163
00:13:18,201 --> 00:13:21,001
cause you have to be asleep to believe it.

164
00:13:28,384 --> 00:13:30,727
[Alternative Solutions]

165
00:13:37,730 --> 00:13:41,278
Decisions must not represent personal opinions,

166
00:13:41,371 --> 00:13:45,324
but an action as result of scientific research.

167
00:13:45,416 --> 00:13:50,185
Politicians have no technical understanding, and thus provide no value

168
00:13:50,293 --> 00:13:52,419
when arriving at a decision.

169
00:13:52,803 --> 00:13:59,369
The nearest thing that I know, is to arrive at decisions, rather than make them.

170
00:13:59,476 --> 00:14:05,867
Arriving at decisions meaning: put all your decisions to test, see if they work.

171
00:14:06,001 --> 00:14:09,238
Use scientific scales of performance.

172
00:14:09,361 --> 00:14:15,881
And in that manner, we can probably arrive at closer agreements with nations.

173
00:14:16,002 --> 00:14:19,683
I believe that all nations need the same things:

174
00:14:19,807 --> 00:14:25,021
clean air, clean water, arable land,

175
00:14:25,099 --> 00:14:28,193
and medical and health security.

176
00:14:28,301 --> 00:14:32,061
And access to food, and the necessities of life.

177
00:14:32,184 --> 00:14:38,524
If we fail to work together, attempting to solve these problems,

178
00:14:38,631 --> 00:14:44,325
I feel the problems will continue, in much more vicious ways,

179
00:14:44,448 --> 00:14:51,434
because we are not touching or not addressing the actual manifestation,

180
00:14:51,557 --> 00:14:54,435
how these values come into being.

181
00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,559
So when I say, decisions have to be arrived at,

182
00:15:00,667 --> 00:15:06,746
first you have to study the carrying capacity of the planet, what it's capable of supporting.

183
00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:12,820
Then you design your cities, and population densities so that they correspond

184
00:15:12,928 --> 00:15:15,901
to the carrying capacity of the environment.

185
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:22,083
That's what I mean when I say: people do not make decisions, they arrive at them.

186
00:15:22,191 --> 00:15:26,978
And how do you decide how much oxygen you carry on the submarine?

187
00:15:27,085 --> 00:15:30,156
Well, depends on the amount of people in the submarine,

188
00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:33,960
and how long you wish to be submerged.

189
00:15:34,083 --> 00:15:35,584
That determine that.

190
00:15:35,738 --> 00:15:38,855
How do you know how much water to carry on the submarine?

191
00:15:38,968 --> 00:15:43,341
How do you know how much food to carry? How do you know how much electrical power?

192
00:15:43,434 --> 00:15:46,960
Depends on the performance you want of that submarine,

193
00:15:47,083 --> 00:15:50,617
then you put in the proper electrical power

194
00:15:50,725 --> 00:15:53,526
for operating the submarine.

195
00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:57,403
You have to put enough food, and refrigeration equipment

196
00:15:57,511 --> 00:16:04,819
to feed the crew. If you don't provide for them, the technology may work, but the crew won't.

197
00:16:04,956 --> 00:16:09,965
So you have to not make decisions, you have to arrive at them

198
00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:18,452
Wants are irrelevant. Necessities are paramount, and they must be related to planetary resources.

199
00:16:19,386 --> 00:16:23,604
But the whole idea is in contradiction with the monetary system,

200
00:16:23,712 --> 00:16:26,452
so we need a different system.

201
00:16:51,388 --> 00:16:55,134
Reality is reality, and there can only be one,

202
00:16:55,257 --> 00:16:58,761
and it is best defined by scientific observation.

203
00:16:59,151 --> 00:17:01,322
Humans can only observe,

204
00:17:01,445 --> 00:17:05,503
actions or decisions are taken in relation to observations,

205
00:17:05,611 --> 00:17:08,387
and not some erroneous opinion.