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Here's an idea that is regarded as a [br]normal one among human beings.

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The family represents a horde,

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the gathering of some animals [br]after a genetic sequence.

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For most animal groups this is the [br]result of struggling for survival

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or the animal need for mating.

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For humans those reasons [br]are long past

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and the family is formed [br]by the current culture.

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Thus, normality is found in a family [br]with two parents plus children,

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many parents plus children,

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or just the two potential [br]parents without children.

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Culture has changed [br]the idea of family,

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and family is just an idea.

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In such a group;

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parents are those who raise their [br]children and take part in their education.

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Parents should have a good [br]understanding of psychology,

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environmental influence [br]on human behaviour

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and some general knowledge [br]about the importance of genes.

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Without this knowledge,

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education of children is risky, [br]random and 'personal',

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based solely on the ideas [br]of some individuals.

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For most people [br]the family is a goal

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and children a fulfillment, [br]all rendered by culture.

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This creates certain problems.

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For example the [br]issue of children.

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Whether you are [br]a parent or not,

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you ever wonder why [br]you want to have a baby?

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What's the point?

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Because you need to?

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Because it is gentle?

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Because you want to [br]play with him?

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For personal fulfillment?

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Most parents relive childhood [br]moments through their children

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or want children to represent the [br]success that they have not acquired.

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A kind of trophy.

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I'm not saying it's wrong, [br]but you have to ask yourself,

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why do you want [br]to have a baby?

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[Jacque Fresco] - So women are given [br]a particular role in this culture.

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When you give a baby dolls, or a girl, [br]you're already programming her.

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When you tie a big bow in her hair, [br]you're programming her.

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So women in the future will pick up [br]whatever the hell they want.

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Electric trains... not [br]necessarily the babydolls.

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Wiping the baby's ass is [br]not a real great career.

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In other words, they're trying to get women [br]to believe in having children, you know?

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Children are a pain in the ass!

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They are not pleasant.

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They can't say anything new.

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They require a lot of your time.

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You can't travel, you can't [br]do a lot of things...

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So the population in the [br]future will be diminished.

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Now, a lot of you believe [br]"Oh, I like to have my own children"

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"I want my name going [br]into the future"

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See?

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Now, if you have a child, [br]say eleven years old,

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and the hospital calls you, "We gave [br]you the wrong child eleven years ago."

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You don't have to turn it in.

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Don't you see that all children [br]are about the same?

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They're all the same about [br]the same things.

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My kids are the same [br]as any other kids,

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they are just brought up with [br]a different value system.

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No kids reflects you unless...

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All that they inherit is the shape of the [br]ears, and the nose, and the head...

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Similar, somewhat similar to you.

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And the guys says [br]"That's a replica".

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If the child misbehaves they say: [br]"He got that from your mother".

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In the future, people when raise kids... [br]They are all the same...

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If we try to visualize the future,

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It is the same: [br]Families and all that...

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So if I make movies about the future, [br]I have to use families in there.

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There'll be no families, most [br]people won't own children,

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but today, that's normal, [br]so you have to use that,

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if you really want to[br]change people.

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Otherwise, you'll come up and they'll say [br]"What the hell are you talking about?"

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"I wouldn't wanna [br]live in your world!"

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Your grandmother I told you, [br]if you took her to Miami Beach,

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and she saw the girls with [br]their butts hanging out,

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she'll say "They've gone too far".

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Now, she is right where [br]she is coming from,

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but not today.

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But you got to understand your grandmother [br]was brought up in a different world.

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So we teach the kids in school

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that your parents,

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your grandfather, were [br]brought up in different times

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and their values are [br]different than ours.

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Don't look them as BAD,

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understand where they [br]are coming from,

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that the Indian is not stupid,

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all they do in their culture [br]is dance around a fire

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because that's all they know, [br]that's all that they've been exposed to...

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Now comes the next problem:

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Overcrowding due to culture.

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It is extremely dangerous,

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because this system is [br]perpetuating the idea

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that family is the goal [br]of every man's life,

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and children are part of this idea.

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[Peter Joseph] -For example, the Catholic [br]church, and a lot of other religions

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that feed off of those early [br]old testament ideologies,

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they advocate this illusion that [br]we can just procreate constantly,

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and everyone's going to be fine.

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God will take care [br]of everyone.

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As of right now, with [br]the future of energy,

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established energy, [br]the future of

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the way we are orienting ourselves [br]on this planet through depletion,

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I'm not having any children.

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While I try to be as optimistic as possible [br]with The Zeitgeist Movement,

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and what we could do, which is [br]phenomenal, what we could do.

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As of right now, we have [br]some powerful barriers.

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I'm not having children. [br]Why? Why would I say that?

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First of all, [br]I wouldn't feel good.

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I would feel utterly negligent and [br]irresponsible at this point in time,

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to bring in another human being.

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Most people when they [br]give birth to children, it's a

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traditionalized self-serving, [br]established notion where,

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"We are going to have [br]kids and a family".

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To hell with the carrying [br]capacity of the Earth,

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to hell with the fact that [br]we might be impoverished.

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I mean, you see this in [br]trailer parks all the time.

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I used to live in a trailer park. I've seen [br]this countless, countless times.

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People don't have any [br]relationship to anything.

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They have no education, as far [br]as what makes society work,

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as far as what the processes [br]are that feed them.

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So, they continue to have kids [br]over and over and over again,

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or do many, many things that have [br]no relationship to anything.

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But let's focus on [br]the children aspect.

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For me to bring in a child, [br]is for me to actually say:

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"I believe the world will [br]be in good shape

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for the duration of [br]my child's life."

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And then it becomes:

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"What if my child has [br]a grand child?

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Should the world have [br]the integrity

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to maintain stability [br]for that child as well?

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This is the question.

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This is what all parents out there [br]should be asking themselves.

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They shouldn't be having children [br]for their own self-serving needs

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so they can have "a family" [br]and be traditional, and

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show up at church and [br]have their two kids.

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It has to relate to something real.

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Humanity has to start thinking about [br]its relationship to the Earth.

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Until it does so, we're [br]fucking doomed.

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We have created a [br]economic structure,

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a religious-philosophical [br]structure,

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that is absolutely de-coupled [br]from anything tangible and real,

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and these ideologies [br]are what will destroy

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the human species and [br]destroy the planet.

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- I enjoy working there, but there're [br]other things I wanna do!

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- Like what?

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- Well...

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Eventually, I like to get married [br]and have kids.

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I said "eventually", you [br]don't have to panic.

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"We have talked about [br]naming our kids."

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I just thought that was [br]somewhere off in the future...

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and as much I hate to admit it, [br]all I kept thinking was:

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"Drew, you'll never ever sleep [br]with another woman again... ever!"

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[Jacque Fresco] - Love [br]is a biased word.

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You yourself, and most people [br]in the radio audience,

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have done things that [br]they are sorry for,

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have done things [br]that they thought

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were insufficient...[br]All of us!

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So, sometimes you love yourself, [br]sometimes you don't,

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sometimes you hate yourself!

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So, if you marry somebody, sometimes [br]you love them very much,

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sometimes a little less,

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sometimes you are [br]disappointed in them...

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So love is not is a fixed thing, [br]it's a fluctuating situation.

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If you marry a girl that has [br]seven qualities that you like,

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after you're married 5 years [br]you meet another girl

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that has 27 qualities [br]that you like.

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You can't help, but feel [br]for that person.

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[Roxanne Meadows] -In the [br]future,

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you'll probably love as many [br]people who are lovable

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you'll share ideas and [br]values with many people

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and you probably won't have [br]one person as a possession.

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Today, a lot of people who are [br]married, that's their possession,

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and if anything happens to them, [br]if they die, it's really...

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terrible that's the only people that they share [br]their life, and their values and their work with.

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[J.Fresco] - So you see,

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all of our values, the way we look at the [br]world, we've learned that at a certain time,

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and I'm saying that in the future

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people will be very different [br]than we are today.

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People will not use the word "Love", [br]they'll use the word "Extensionality".

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I associate with the person [br]because they enhance my life,

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they make my life easier, [br]we have a lot in common,

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we understand each other [br]in many different areas,

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and as the years go by we've increased [br]and improved our relationship.

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That's what love [br]will really become.

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today it's just a word, like [br]religion, is a verbal hobby.

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On a radio broadcast Larry King once [br]asked me what I thought of Christianity,

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and I said "It's a great idea, when are [br]they going to put it into practice?"

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Well, you brought up [br]the word "emotion".

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That's one of the major problems.

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Korzybski called it [br]"Thalamic Behavior".

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And behavior that was rational, [br]he called "Cortical Behavior",

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referring to the cortex [br]of the brain.

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Now emotional behavior [br]really might spike you

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to feel a certain way (good [br]or bad, or right or wrong),

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but Cortical Behavior is to [br]point out the shortcomings

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so that people can avoid [br]accidents or fire...

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You teach them how to [br]handle varying situations.

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For example, if there's an [br]automobile accident,

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and the children are [br]trapped in the car,

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and the gasoline is spilling over [br]the engine, and the mother is

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"Oh my god! My children are trapped in the car, [br]they are going to burn to death!"

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That's Thalamic Behavior.

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If she picks up a log, or a rock [br]and breaks the windows

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and pulls the children out, [br]that's Cortical Behavior.

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We want to convert all [br]emotions into useful directions

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as near as we are able to.

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[R. Meadows] - I like the [br]example of when there's a...

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a cliff, and a road on [br]the side of a cliff,

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and the car might go over and [br]somebody gets in an accident

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and the first person that comes [br]to them, and they're hurt,

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and they hold their hand [br]and they cry with them

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and they say "There, there".

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And then there's a doctor [br]that acts upon it

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and mends them [br]and fixes them.

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But the engineer that you hear [br]nothing about, who comes along

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and puts a wall at the [br]side of the road,

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or tilts the road and puts the brace[br]so there are no accidents,

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you don't hear anything [br]about those in society.

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And those are the people that really [br]should be honored.

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[P. Joseph] - I couldn't [br]agree more.

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I use the example of,

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Mother Teresa vs. [br]Louis Pasteur,

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and people always have [br]an emotional

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affiliation and identification with [br]the generosity of this person,

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yet they don't realize that the scientists [br]have done more for humanity

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than all of the philanthropists [br]combined.

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[R.M.] -Right, and if you designed a [br]society where you don't need charity,

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that's a higher form of [br]concern and compassion.

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[P.J.] -Absolutely.

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[J.F.] -Unfortunately, Peter, the society [br]does that when they work on you,

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because each society emphasizes [br]certain types of emotions.

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In motion pictures, soap [br]operas, we learn it.

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We learn to be emotional, [br]we learn to be irrational

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and we learn to be what [br]some people call stupid,

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by associating with stupid people.

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The more irrational people [br]you associate with,

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the more difficult it is for your [br]behavior to become sane.

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We resent a murderer [br]or a thief.

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We resent that.

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But we don't resent war!!

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That's amazing!

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If somebody kills somebody, [br]we get angry.

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The abortionists, those who [br]are against abortion,

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you've measured they'd be at the forefront [br]against war, because it kills everybody:

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unborn children, women... [br]Everybody!

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And you would imagine that they [br]would line up against war.

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But, the brain is so manipulated [br]by the culture,

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that they become angry at [br]using the wrong fork.

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You know, if you go to dinner at a [br]proper place, use the wrong fork,

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people become angry [br]and disappointed in you!

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But if you're a racist, they don't, [br]which is amazing!

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The Ku Klux Klan once had [br]three million members.

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That just shows you [br]where society is.

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We are not civilized yet.

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We've got a long way to go.

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We live in a very 'unsane' culture.

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I do not believe we will make [br]the history books of the future...

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Except as a pathetic development [br]in human evolution.

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ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS[br]1.Education

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A human being must distinguish [br]between imagination (marriage)

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and reality (physical attraction, sex, [br]admiration for other people).

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When you know our reality, you [br]will make decisions accordingly,

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you will not unconsciously comply with [br]the culture in which you were born.

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At most you will accept cultural [br]situations as some rituals,

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but remain aware of reality.

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The monetary system maintains this [br]culture by promoting the idea of family.

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Even worse, they've created [br]big business from this:

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Holidays, specific objects for [br]the family, houses and cars,

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all these things are designed [br]with the family in mind,

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they are just consumption [br]for the monetary system.

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It's very strange how human beings [br]who comply with the culture,

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in this case through [br]marriage then family,

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miss out on millions of opportunities [br]to meet other people

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because they restrict [br]themselves.

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We are so many, [br]but we know so little.