Roxanne Meadows - "Science, Values, & Social Change"
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0:00 - 0:03Roxanne Meadows attended Moore College of Art,
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0:03 - 0:06and graduated from Maryland Institute of Art.
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0:06 - 0:10From (?) she had her own company for technical illustrations,
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0:10 - 0:13architectural designs and model making.
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0:13 - 0:21She and Jacque are co-founders of The Venus Project.
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0:21 - 0:29So, we are living in a time when science and technology are racing forward.
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0:29 - 0:32But our social systems are static.
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0:32 - 0:35We do see people protesting on the streets
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0:35 - 0:40against the (?) between the wealthy and the poor, racism, war.
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0:40 - 0:46And some times that we are able to over throw the regimes that we are living under.
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0:46 - 0:52But only to put in another in (?) political government,
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0:52 - 0:55that work within the monetary system.
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0:55 - 0:58That can not ultimately take care of the problems.
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0:58 - 1:03Jacque at a young age searched, excuse me.
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1:03 - 1:08But, what The Venus Project has to offer
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1:08 - 1:12is a workable plan for social innovation
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1:12 - 1:16using the methods of science and technology
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1:16 - 1:22to enable everyone to enjoy the benefits of technology equally.
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1:22 - 1:26Jacque in an early age searched for such system,
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1:26 - 1:30but he was unable to find one. So he took on the job himself.
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1:30 - 1:34In order to accomplish this, he studied many different disciplines,
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1:34 - 1:41understanding that science applied to everything, and specially behavioural science.
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1:41 - 1:47And i say that because it is the most neglected science in our culture.
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1:47 - 1:52Yet, the most important to understand the need for The Venus Project
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1:52 - 1:55and the direction of The Venus Project.
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1:55 - 2:01I felt extremely lucky to have met Jacque when i was 27 years old.
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2:01 - 2:07I attended the lecture that he gave in his home in (?) Florida.
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2:07 - 2:12And, the very first lecture that i went to,
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2:12 - 2:19Jacque in his Fresconian, his unique Fresconian manner,
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2:19 - 2:26proceeded to smash everything that i held dear(?) and safest(?).
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2:26 - 2:29You understand that, (?)?
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2:29 - 2:33But what is different about him is that he replaced it.
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2:33 - 2:40He didn’t just complain about society, but he replaced it with a real viable alternative.
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2:40 - 2:46with the value system that appropriately (?).
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2:46 - 2:50So many people in there first were introduced to The Venus Project,
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2:50 - 2:54they can not understand why it isn’t implemented now.
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2:54 - 2:58It seems so easy, it would help so many people.
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2:58 - 3:03I usually say, well, this is where we are in social revolution.
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3:03 - 3:06But where is that exactly?
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3:06 - 3:09The answer to that is quite complicated,
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3:09 - 3:17but the most relevant issue is that science that has very little relevance
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3:17 - 3:24to how we operate and organize society, and the way we live and think.
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3:24 - 3:32Science presents us with the best tools we have to acquire a testable (?) knowledge.
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3:32 - 3:38It gives us a closer approximation to reality, and shows us how works.
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3:38 - 3:44When we become more self critical about our ideas,
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3:44 - 3:48and test them in the real world, we become more scientific.
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3:48 - 3:53Is supposed to reach(?) thinking and aspirations.
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3:53 - 4:00The scientific method, just like science itself, is based on what is built before.
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4:00 - 4:08So, observation, testing and experimentation, took a long time to get to where we are today.
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4:08 - 4:15And just very briefly, the scientific method is asking of questions, doing research in the field.
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4:15 - 4:18Trying to come up with the hypothesis.
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4:18 - 4:24And then during control of the experimentations, and reporting the results.
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4:24 - 4:30Invention is seriously(?) development, over long periods of time.
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4:30 - 4:39For instance, a German engineer, Otto Lilienthal, was very interested, and admired how birds fly.
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4:39 - 4:45So, he stuck his arms in long wings, and jumped off the hill.
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4:45 - 4:51He wasn’t the very first person to do this, but he was the first successful person to do this.
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4:51 - 4:55And he flew over 2000 (?) over (?) flights(?),
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4:55 - 4:58until the last one that ended in his death.
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4:58 - 5:06Others, after that, experimented an (?) ability to fly, little by little.
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5:06 - 5:14Some found out what didn’t work, which was just as important they put into the effort.
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5:14 - 5:19We look at the early experimentation on videos, if you seen them,
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5:19 - 5:24people trying to fly with the (?), and some people laugh at that today.
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5:24 - 5:28But they didn’t understand that(?) that was the genuine explorations
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5:28 - 5:32to find out what works and what didn’t.
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5:32 - 5:34How else would they know?
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5:34 - 5:40The Wright brothers, worked upon what was done before, instead(?) of(?) to those.
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5:40 - 5:45And they actually used a book from Otto Lilienthal,
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5:45 - 5:49which he wrote in 1880 lines about aerodynamics.
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5:49 - 5:55He, the Wright brothers based their aircraft on his findings.
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5:55 - 5:59So the Wright brothers were not the fathers of flight.
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5:59 - 6:05They were not the fathers of anything, because so many people went before them and died,
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6:05 - 6:08so they could get off the ground.
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6:08 - 6:16It’s a long serial(?) progression invention(?).
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6:16 - 6:22By the way, from the first small engine aircraft, in 1903,
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6:22 - 6:26to today’s sending probes to Mars and beyond,
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6:26 - 6:31all took place practically within Jacque’s lifetime.
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6:31 - 6:33So, when you think about this,
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6:33 - 6:38the last hundred years, in the advancements in science and technology,
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6:38 - 6:43were more than all the years that proceeded it.
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6:43 - 6:47Religious leaders, try to explain the world around them
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6:47 - 6:53before a more comprehensible understanding of science and technology occurred,
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6:53 - 7:00before a more comprehensible understanding of the scientific methods occurs as well.
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7:00 - 7:08It was a primitive way to try to give means to living processes.
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7:08 - 7:14It proclaim(?) a set of rules of right and wrong, and good and bad.
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7:14 - 7:18That we are still in (?) with today.
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7:18 - 7:24It had these rules or dogma to trying govern human (?),
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7:24 - 7:28without even understanding, human need,
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7:28 - 7:34or the effects of the environment on human behaviour.
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7:34 - 7:40What they did not understand, they attributed to the gods.
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7:40 - 7:45So, if really is a method of trying to control behaviour
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7:45 - 7:53based on fear, ignorance and superstitions.
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7:53 - 7:57It is only through the methods of science that would enable us
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7:57 - 8:02to get out of poverty, hunger and scarcity.
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8:02 - 8:06Predictability comes when we use the science.
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8:06 - 8:14For instance, scientists today can predict when the next total solar eclipse of the sun when occurs.
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8:14 - 8:18Where in all the world to stand to see it.
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8:18 - 8:22How long its duration will be, and exactly what time to view it.
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8:22 - 8:33Sorry, but such failed metaphysicians(?), religious prophets, or philosophers,
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8:33 - 8:39can not come close to the accuracy that science gives us.
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8:39 - 8:42No questions are under bounds(?).
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8:42 - 8:49No matter how controversial they are, there are no sacred truths in science.
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8:49 - 8:52Just like there are no bad words.
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8:52 - 8:56You know, who are this people to tell us, this is a good word, and this is a bad word.
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8:56 - 8:59Which words you can use and which you can’t.
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8:59 - 9:03It is like a woman driving her car into a repair shop,
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9:03 - 9:07and the mechanic says it is the differential housing,
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9:07 - 9:10or the bulb between the two wheels.
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9:10 - 9:14And the woman gets all embarrassed because don’t talk about that part of the car,
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9:14 - 9:17with some panties(?) on it.
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9:17 - 9:22For every concept that is, we can not discuss,
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9:22 - 9:29or every word we can not alter(?), determines to how backwards we remain.
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9:29 - 9:33Without scientific scrutiny and critical thinking,
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9:33 - 9:38we would have a world of suckers, pacified(?) by the dominant value of the time,
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9:38 - 9:41to keep things as they are.
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9:41 - 9:49Clean coal. Global warming is a hoax. Smart weapons.
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9:49 - 9:53There always will be wars and rumours of wars.
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9:53 - 9:58We all have free will. You can’t change human nature.
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9:58 - 10:05And a list of misconceptions that help perpetuate old ways of thinking prevail.
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10:05 - 10:12We don’t put the same critical thinking in examining your social system and our values,
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10:12 - 10:15as we do say we are making a product.
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10:15 - 10:19But this isn’t a pass (?) the blame on the individual,
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10:19 - 10:27because we can only think with the tools that we are giving. We can’t exceed them.
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10:27 - 10:33What we have to think with does not come from the inside out,
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10:33 - 10:38but we totally reflect our surroundings.
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10:38 - 10:46If we could critically view our movies, tv, internet, books, magazines,
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10:46 - 10:50and what they pass off on us is entertainment.
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10:50 - 10:56We could easily see that what they are trying to teach our children and ourselves
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10:56 - 11:03is arrogance, cruelty, racism, bigotry, violence, war,
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11:03 - 11:10chauvinism, murder, and endless commercialism.
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11:10 - 11:16And they sure as hell as exceeding, without any concern whatsoever,
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11:16 - 11:20other than if it makes some profit.
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11:20 - 11:25Science enable us to electrify our homes, travel from place to place,
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11:25 - 11:32talk to anybody anywhere within the world, and even see them at the same time.
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11:32 - 11:38And even gives us to (?) itself with the accomplishments of medicine.
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11:38 - 11:44Yet, it is also a escape goat(?) to the plethora of problems that we have today.
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11:44 - 11:56Because it is misused and abused by people who are conditioned in a sick and primitive culture.
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11:56 - 12:04We have the scientists in the world work for the military, at least part time.
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12:04 - 12:11And many others work for industry that pollutes, poisons and destroys the environment.
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12:11 - 12:30These are not scientists. These are prostitutes or obedient opportunists.
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12:30 - 12:36Things we have set up with very few of us understands science and technology.
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12:36 - 12:43Yet, our future depends on the progression of relevant information, and how we apply it.
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12:43 - 12:47The best knowledge we have of the real world.
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12:47 - 12:53The more (?) science and superstition, and fear, (?) to (?) the board(?).
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12:53 - 13:02And we become easy pray(?) for bigotry, prejudice, fanaticism and misinformation.
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13:02 - 13:08This is a (?) myth(?), with a devastating future.
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13:08 - 13:13Because technology is (?) exponentially.
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13:13 - 13:16Who is these ignorance serving anyway?
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13:16 - 13:21Today, those in position of advantage seek to perpetuate
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13:21 - 13:27that the system that put them there, often at any cost.
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13:27 - 13:33And laws are written by large corporations that benefit themselves.
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13:33 - 13:38And the military is there to protect them both.
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13:38 - 13:42What would happen in world without law and order?
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13:42 - 13:45There would be chaos, there would be murder,
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13:45 - 13:54people killing each other and stealing from each other, just like it is today.
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13:54 - 13:58So, something is needed, but it is not law and order.
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13:58 - 14:06Instead, it is environmental conditions that don’t generate the need for human hostility.
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14:06 - 14:12Science applied to the social systems means that we have to generate,
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14:12 - 14:17we have to organize and design an environment,
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14:17 - 14:24that surpasses the need for poverty, hunger, war, and aberrant behaviour.
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14:24 - 14:26It is a way out of our dilemma.
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14:26 - 14:30The Venus Project proposes and uses the method of science
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14:30 - 14:35applied to the social system as a tool for elevating everyone.
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14:35 - 14:41This can be achieved by a global resource based economy, a systems approach.
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14:41 - 14:48With all the interacting variables are working efficiently as one entire process.
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14:48 - 14:53It includes, well, new well designed cities of (?),
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14:53 - 14:59working symbiotically as a living breeding(?) system.
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14:59 - 15:03These cities were incorporated clean sources of energy,
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15:03 - 15:09efficient transportation, automated production and distribution plants,
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15:09 - 15:14enabling freely making available all the goods and services
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15:14 - 15:18that the highly technological society can produce.
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15:18 - 15:22Industrial plants would be turning out products
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15:22 - 15:26that are long lasting, and can be recycled.
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15:26 - 15:34Resource surveys will be made in order to find out the parameters that we have to work within.
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15:34 - 15:37And before any large projects we would be taking on,
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15:37 - 15:42we would be doing a negative and positive study.
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15:42 - 15:48In other words, we would work withing the carrying capacity of Earth’s resources,
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15:48 - 15:54with all the resources would become a common heritage of all people.
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15:54 - 15:57This, in turn, along with the new orientation,
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15:57 - 16:04would enable people to update their values and change their behaviour.
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16:04 - 16:09When goods and services are made available to everyone,
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16:09 - 16:11there is no need to steal.
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16:11 - 16:17When anyone can get whatever they need at the access center.
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16:17 - 16:20Behaviours such as under selling your competitor,
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16:20 - 16:24to knock them out of business, would become obsolete.
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16:24 - 16:30What we consider of why (?) business first (?) today,
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16:30 - 16:36would be looked upon (?) and twisted in a saner society. Yes.
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16:36 - 16:42People would not be looked upon as pray(?) for a sale.
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16:42 - 16:46People of the future would be concerned about bettering one another,
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16:46 - 16:49ratter than beating them.
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16:49 - 16:52In medicine, for instance, people doing surgery,
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16:52 - 16:57will not do it to get a higher salary, for claim(?), for reward,
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16:57 - 17:02but because they get their fulfillment on making people well.
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17:02 - 17:08We have to build an environment that generates a new point
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17:08 - 17:13that is cooperative rather than competitive.
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17:13 - 17:20The more intelligent we become, the less we want to be anyone.
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17:20 - 17:26And whatever is being designed in the culture, goes right back into society,
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17:26 - 17:28for everyone’s benefit and security.
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17:28 - 17:32This way, people are more (?) towards one another.
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17:32 - 17:38But they are not more friendly towards one another because their superimposing moral code,
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17:38 - 17:42or an ethical code, or teaching them empathy,
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17:42 - 17:49or because their actions genuinely enhances standard of living for everyone.
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17:49 - 17:54We call this functional morality.
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17:54 - 18:00In a saner society, people would probably feel sorry for those
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18:00 - 18:05who still need (?) waste(?), a bigger home,
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18:05 - 18:09or a fancier car, or more expensive jewelry.
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18:09 - 18:15They would understand that these people are so insecure
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18:15 - 18:23that they need to impress others in this way, to acquire their own sense of self world(?).
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18:23 - 18:28But if all the homes, and all the amenities, were equal high quality,
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18:28 - 18:33no one would envy anyone over possessions,
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18:33 - 18:38when anyone can get whatever anyone else has.
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18:38 - 18:44If you are envious, say of somebody who can draw better than you,
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18:44 - 18:49it is only because somebody got(?) to you, and said you have to be the best.
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18:49 - 18:51We would be proud of you.
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18:51 - 18:54But those types of values would not be used in the future.
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18:54 - 18:58And shame, if you have shame, it would be, it is,
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18:58 - 19:07because some convinced you that you are not what they think you ought to be.
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19:07 - 19:10These would be obsolete values in the future,
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19:10 - 19:17because the environment would enable anybody to be comfortable, no matter where they were.
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19:17 - 19:22In conclusion, science applies to everything.
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19:22 - 19:27But it is practically non existent when it comes to applying it
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19:27 - 19:30to the way we organize society.
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19:30 - 19:34The Venus Project applies the methods of science
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19:34 - 19:41to the way we operate society to generate constructive and cooperative behaviours.
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19:41 - 19:48This is the most needed scientific experiment of our times.
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19:48 - 19:53And it is the most taboo to even consider or talk about.
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19:53 - 19:57What we have now is a failed experiment.
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19:57 - 20:03It does not need to meet, and it does not need (?) of everyone.
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20:03 - 20:09What we ultimately do would depend on if we have a future or not.
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20:09 - 20:12So we would invite you to join us.
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20:12 - 20:15And what could be the most exciting and rewarding
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20:15 - 20:19social experiment that we could possibly take on?
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20:19 - 20:27Thank you.
- Title:
- Roxanne Meadows - "Science, Values, & Social Change"
- Description:
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Roxanne Meadows lectures on the importance of science in all areas of the social spectrum that are necessary for betterment of conditions for all people. This includes a critical inclusion of a science of behavior, without which we are destined to repeat past failures. Roxanne presented this talk at the Jacque Fresco Centennial Event, March 12, 2016.
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 https://www.thevenusproject.com
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 20:31
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Paulo Silva edited English subtitles for Roxanne Meadows - "Science, Values, & Social Change" | ||
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