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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.52,0:00:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a decaying society, Art
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.08,0:00:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it is truthful, must also reflect decay.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.76,0:00:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And unless it wants to break faith with its social function
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.64,0:00:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art must show the world as changeable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.92,0:00:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And help to change it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.56,0:00:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Ernst Fischer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.80,0:00:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deadly riots over the government's
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.04,0:00:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plan to avoid defaulting on its loans...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.64,0:00:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the unemployment keeps
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.72,0:00:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rising and it has to keep rising
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.84,0:00:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because we have an excess supply of goods...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.56,0:00:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is all borrowed money...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.08,0:00:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that debt is owned by banks in other countries...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.72,0:00:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,M-O-N-E-Y, in the form of a convenient personal loan...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.28,0:00:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... filter cigarette that delivers the taste...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.36,0:01:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,45 malt liquor... Are You Hot?!...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.72,0:01:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the US planning to bomb Iran?...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.84,0:01:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.60,0:01:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.32,0:01:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She taught me how to play the game Monopoly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.72,0:01:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.56,0:01:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would accumulate everything she could and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.40,0:01:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually, she became the master of the board.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.20,0:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then she would always say the same thing to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.96,0:01:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would look at me and she would say:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.04,0:01:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“One day, you'll learn to play the game.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.96,0:01:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One summer I played Monopoly almost every day, all day long
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.32,0:01:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that summer, I learned to play the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.40,0:01:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to understand that the only way to win
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.76,0:01:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to make a total commitment to acquisition.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.68,0:01:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to understand that money and possessions...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.96,0:01:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the way that you keep score.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.04,0:01:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the end of that summer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.36,0:01:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was more ruthless than my grandmother.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.64,0:01:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.88,0:01:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I sat down with her to play that fall.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.20,0:02:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took everything she had. I watched her
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.52,0:02:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.04,0:02:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then she had one more thing to teach me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.80,0:02:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then she said:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.44,0:02:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Now it all goes back in the box.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.16,0:02:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those houses and hotels.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.24,0:02:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the railroads and utility companies...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.60,0:02:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that property and all that wonderful money...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.32,0:02:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it all goes back in the box.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.84,0:02:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of it was really yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.24,0:02:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got all heated up about it for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.56,0:02:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.64,0:02:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will be here after you're gone - players come - players go.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.20,0:02:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Houses and cars...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.16,0:02:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Titles and clothes...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.16,0:02:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even your body.”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.20,0:03:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.08,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.84,0:03:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to ask yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.80,0:03:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you finally get the ultimate promotion
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.80,0:03:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have made the ultimate purchase
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.64,0:03:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you buy the ultimate home
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.16,0:03:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have stored up financial security
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.48,0:03:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and climbed the ladder of success to the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.60,0:03:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,highest rung you can possibly climb it...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the thrill wears off
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.60,0:03:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- and it will wear off -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.08,0:03:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then what?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.36,0:03:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How far do you have to walk down that road
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.52,0:03:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before you see where it leads?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.72,0:03:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely you understand
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.16,0:03:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will never be enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.60,0:03:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to ask yourself the question:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.92,0:03:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What matters?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.16,0:04:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're Hot!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.24,0:04:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're Rich!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.28,0:04:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And They're Spoiled!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.44,0:05:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America's #1 Show is Back!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.92,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentle Machine Productions Presents
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.36,0:05:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Peter Joseph Film
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.76,0:05:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a young man
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.80,0:06:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing up in New York City
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.32,0:06:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I refused to pledge allegiance to the flag.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.08,0:06:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course I was sent to the principal's office.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he asked me 'Why don't you want to Pledge Allegiance?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.44,0:06:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody does!'
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.08,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, 'Everybody once believed the earth was flat
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that doesn't make it so.'
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.20,0:06:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I explained that America owed everything it has
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.64,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to other cultures
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.24,0:06:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other nations
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.56,0:06:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I would rather pledge allegiance
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.84,0:06:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the earth
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.96,0:06:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everyone on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.84,0:06:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Needless to say, it wasn't long
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.72,0:06:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I left school entirely
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.60,0:06:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I set up a lab in my bedroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.76,0:06:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There I began to learn about science
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.32,0:06:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.52,0:06:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized then
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.04,0:06:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the universe is governed by laws
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.40,0:06:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the human being
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with society itself
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.92,0:06:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not exempt from these laws.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.84,0:06:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came the crash of 1929.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.84,0:06:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which began what we now call
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.12,0:07:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The Great Depression”.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.68,0:07:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found it difficult to understand why millions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.16,0:07:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were out of work, homeless, starving
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.28,0:07:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while all the factories were sitting there.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.36,0:07:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The resources were unchanged.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.96,0:07:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was then that I realized
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the rules of the economic game
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.04,0:07:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were inherently invalid.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.16,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after came World War II
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where various nations took turns
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.68,0:07:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systematically destroying each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.60,0:07:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I later calculated that all the destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.76,0:07:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wasted resources
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.56,0:07:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spent on that war
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.12,0:07:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could have easily provided for every
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.44,0:07:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human need on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.32,0:07:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since that time I have watched humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.48,0:07:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set the stage for its own extinction.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.04,0:07:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have watched as the precious finite resources
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.44,0:07:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are perpetually wasted and destroyed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.24,0:07:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the name of profit and free-markets.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.52,0:08:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have watched the social values of society be reduced
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.08,0:08:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a base artificiality of materialism
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.96,0:08:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mindless consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.72,0:08:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have watched as the monetary powers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.20,0:08:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control the political structure
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.52,0:08:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of supposedly free societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.56,0:08:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm 94 years old now.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.08,0:08:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm afraid my disposition
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.36,0:08:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the same as it was
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.20,0:08:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,75 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.56,0:08:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This shit's got to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.92,0:08:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZEITGEIST]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.84,0:08:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.20,0:09:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.04,0:09:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,committed citizens can change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.52,0:09:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.68,0:09:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Margaret Mead]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.44,0:09:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part 1: Human Nature
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.32,0:09:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you're a scientist
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.80,0:09:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somewhere along the way, hammered into your head
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.08,0:09:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the inevitable “nature versus nurture”
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.60,0:09:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's at least up there with Coke versus Pepsi
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.24,0:09:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Greeks versus Trojans.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.44,0:09:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, nature versus nurture: This, by now
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.52,0:09:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,utterly over-simplifying view of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.88,0:09:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where influences are
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.88,0:09:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influences how a cell deals with
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.16,0:09:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an energy crisis up to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.20,0:09:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what makes us who we are on the most individualistic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.40,0:09:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,levels of personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.84,0:09:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what you've got is this complete false dichotomy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.96,0:09:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,built around nature as deterministic
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.48,0:09:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the very bottom of all the causality.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.20,0:10:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life is DNA and the code of codes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.36,0:10:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Holy Grail, and everything is driven by it....
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.76,0:10:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the other end is a much more
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.52,0:10:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social science perspective which is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.56,0:10:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are 'social organisms'
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.48,0:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and biology is for slime molds.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.00,0:10:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humans are free of biology
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.56,0:10:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and obviously both views are nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.72,0:10:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you see instead is that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.64,0:10:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is virtually impossible to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.48,0:10:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how biology works
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.16,0:10:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of the context of environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.24,0:10:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[It's Genetic]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.40,0:10:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the most crazy making
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.52,0:10:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet widespread and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.64,0:10:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potentially dangerous notions is:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.12,0:10:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, that behavior is genetic”.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.20,0:10:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now what does that mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.40,0:10:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means all sorts of subtle stuff if you
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.36,0:10:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know modern biology, but for most people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.52,0:10:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out there, what it winds-up meaning is:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.84,0:10:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a deterministic view of life;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.20,0:10:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one rooted in biology and genetics;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.04,0:11:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genes equal things that cannot be changed;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.12,0:11:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genes equal things that are
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.12,0:11:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inevitable and you might as well not
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.56,0:11:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waste resources trying to fix;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.28,0:11:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might as well not put societal energies into trying
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.08,0:11:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to improve because it's inevitable and it's unchangeable...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.60,0:11:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is sheer nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.60,0:11:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Disease]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.92,0:11:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is widely thought that conditions like
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.84,0:11:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ADHD are genetically programmed
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.12,0:11:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That conditions like schizophrenia are genetically programmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.96,0:11:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.44,0:11:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is genetically programmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.92,0:11:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are very rare diseases
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.00,0:11:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a small handful
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.52,0:11:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extremely sparsely represented in the population
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.72,0:11:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are truly genetically determined.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.00,0:11:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most complex conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.12,0:11:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might have a predisposition that has a genetic component
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.04,0:11:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a predisposition is not the same as a predetermination.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.40,0:12:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole search for the source of diseases in the genome
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.44,0:12:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was doomed to failure before anybody even thought of it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.92,0:12:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because most diseases are not genetically predetermined.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.64,0:12:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heart disease, cancers, strokes
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.60,0:12:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rheumatoid conditions, autoimmune conditions in general
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.60,0:12:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mental health conditions, addictions...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.68,0:12:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of them are genetically determined.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.20,0:12:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Breast cancer, for example, out of 100 women with breast cancer
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.52,0:12:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only seven will carry the breast cancer genes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.08,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,93 do not
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.08,0:12:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and out of 100 women who do have the genes
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.80,0:12:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not all of them will get cancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.12,0:12:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Behavior]
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.44,0:12:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genes are not just things that make us behave
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.60,0:12:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a particular way regardless of our environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genes give us different ways of responding to our environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.96,0:12:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in fact, it looks as if some of the early
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.08,0:12:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,childhood influences and the kind of child rearing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.08,0:13:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,affect gene expression
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.68,0:13:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually turning on or off different genes
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.48,0:13:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put you on a different developmental track
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.24,0:13:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which may suit the kind of world you've got to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.24,0:13:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.56,0:13:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A study done in Montreal with suicide victims
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.04,0:13:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked at autopsies of the brains of these people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.56,0:13:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it turned out that if a suicide victim
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.36,0:13:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(these are usually young adults)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.28,0:13:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been abused as a child, the abuse actually
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.56,0:13:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused a genetic change in the brain
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.80,0:13:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was absent in the brains of people who had not been abused.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.08,0:13:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's an epigenetic effect.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.84,0:13:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“epi” means on top of, so that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.76,0:13:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the epigenetic influence is what happens
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.28,0:13:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environmentally to either activate or deactivate certain genes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.44,0:13:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In New Zealand, there was a study
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.64,0:13:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was done in a town called Dunedin
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.36,0:14:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which a few thousand individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.72,0:14:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were studied from birth into their 20s.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.52,0:14:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What they found was that they could identify
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.08,0:14:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a genetic mutation, an abnormal gene
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.56,0:14:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which did have some relation to
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.56,0:14:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the predisposition to commit violence
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.12,0:14:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only if the individual had also
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.92,0:14:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been subjected to severe child abuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.80,0:14:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, children with this abnormal gene would
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.60,0:14:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be no more likely to be violent than anybody else
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.36,0:14:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in fact, they actually had a lower rate of violence
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.44,0:14:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than people with normal genes
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.36,0:14:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as long as they weren't abused as children.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.20,0:14:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great additional example of the ways
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.12,0:14:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which genes are not “be all - end all”.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.20,0:14:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A fancy technique where you can
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.52,0:14:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take a specific gene out of a mouse
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.08,0:14:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that mouse and its descendants will not have that gene.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.80,0:14:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have ”knocked out” that gene.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.48,0:14:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's this one gene that encodes
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.20,0:14:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a protein that has something to do
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.92,0:15:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with learning and memory and with this fabulous demonstration-
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.12,0:15:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you “knock out” that gene and you
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.68,0:15:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a mouse that doesn't learn as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.52,0:15:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh! A genetic basis for intelligence!”
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.44,0:15:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was much less appreciated in that landmark study
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.72,0:15:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that got picked up by the media left and right
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.24,0:15:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is take those genetically impaired mice
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.52,0:15:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and raise them in a much more enriched
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.60,0:15:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stimulating environment than your normal mice in a lab cage
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.76,0:15:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they completely overcame that deficit.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.88,0:15:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when one says in a contemporary sense that
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.20,0:15:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“oh, this behavior is genetic”
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.24,0:15:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the extent that that's even a valid sort of phrase to use
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.52,0:15:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you're saying is: there is a
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.32,0:15:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genetic contribution to how this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.64,0:15:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organism responds to environment;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.92,0:15:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genes may influence the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.60,0:15:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,readiness with which an organism will
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.84,0:15:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deal with a certain environmental challenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.40,0:15:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that's not the version most people have in their minds
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.68,0:15:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not to be too 'soap-boxing'
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.64,0:16:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but run with the old
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.16,0:16:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,version of “It's genetic!”
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.20,0:16:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not that far from the history of eugenics
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.32,0:16:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and things of that sort.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.28,0:16:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a widespread misconception
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.04,0:16:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a potentially fairly dangerous one.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.36,0:16:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One reason that the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.48,0:16:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biological explanation for violence...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.80,0:16:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one reason that hypothesis is
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.12,0:16:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potentially dangerous, it's not just misleading
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.68,0:16:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can really do harm...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.00,0:16:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because if you believe that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.16,0:16:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could very easily say:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.48,0:16:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, there's nothing we can do
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.16,0:16:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to change the predisposition
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.28,0:16:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have to becoming violent;
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.64,0:16:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all we can do is punish them - lock them up
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.32,0:16:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or execute them
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.80,0:16:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we don't need to worry about changing the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.64,0:16:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social environment or the social preconditions
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.84,0:16:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that may lead people to become violent because
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.48,0:16:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's irrelevant'.”
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.36,0:17:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The genetic argument allows us the luxury of ignoring
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.80,0:17:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,past and present historical and social factors
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.84,0:17:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the words of Louis Menand
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.04,0:17:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wrote in the New Yorker
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.08,0:17:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very astutely, he said:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.52,0:17:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“it's all in the genes... an explanation for the way things are
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.52,0:17:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that does not threaten the way things are.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.12,0:17:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why should someone feel unhappy
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.56,0:17:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or engage in antisocial behavior
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.48,0:17:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when that person is living in the
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.36,0:17:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freest and most prosperous nation on Earth?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.72,0:17:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can't be the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.56,0:17:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.”
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.84,0:17:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is a good way of putting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.60,0:17:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the genetic argument is simply a cop-out
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.08,0:17:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which allows us to ignore
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.32,0:17:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the social and economic and political factors
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.84,0:17:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, in fact, underlie
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.92,0:17:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many troublesome behaviors.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.12,0:17:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Case Study: Addiction]
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.68,0:17:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Addictions are usually
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.80,0:17:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considered to be a drug-related issue
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.92,0:18:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but looking at it more broadly
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.96,0:18:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I define addiction as any behavior
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.08,0:18:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is associated with craving
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.20,0:18:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with temporary relief
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.08,0:18:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with long-term negative consequences
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.68,0:18:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with an impairment of control over it so that the person
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.00,0:18:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wishes to give it up or promises to do so
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.44,0:18:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but can't follow through
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.56,0:18:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you understand that, you see that
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.24,0:18:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are many more addictions
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.40,0:18:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than simply those related to drugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.08,0:18:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's workaholism; addiction to shopping;
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.64,0:18:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Internet; to video games...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.76,0:18:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the addiction to power. People that have power but they
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.40,0:18:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want more and more; nothing is ever enough for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.08,0:18:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Acquisition - corporations that must own more and more.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.44,0:18:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The addiction to oil
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.04,0:18:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least to the wealth and to the products made
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.68,0:18:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accessible to us by oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.20,0:18:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at the negative consequences on the environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.04,0:18:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are destroying the very earth that we
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.60,0:18:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inhabit for the sake of that addiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.32,0:18:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, these addictions are far more
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.04,0:18:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devastating in their social consequences
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.16,0:19:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the cocaine or heroin habits of my downtown Eastside patients.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.32,0:19:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, they are rewarded and considered to be respectable.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.20,0:19:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tobacco company executive that shows a higher profit
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.44,0:19:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will get a much bigger reward.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.56,0:19:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't face any negative consequences legally or otherwise.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.08,0:19:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact he is a respected member of
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.60,0:19:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the board of several other corporations.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.44,0:19:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, tobacco smoke related diseases
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.04,0:19:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kill 5 ½ million people around the world every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.12,0:19:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States they kill 400,000 people a year.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.72,0:19:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these people are addicted to what? To profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.80,0:19:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To such a degree that they are addicted
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.84,0:19:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are actually in denial
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.00,0:19:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the impact of their activities
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.48,0:19:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is typical for addicts, this denial.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.56,0:19:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's a respectable one. It's respectable
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.08,0:19:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be addicted to profit, no matter what the cost.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.72,0:19:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what is acceptable and what is respectable
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.12,0:19:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a highly arbitrary phenomenon in our society
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.28,0:20:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it seems like the greater the harm
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.76,0:20:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more respectable the addiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.84,0:20:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Myth]
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.96,0:20:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a general myth that drugs, in themselves, are addictive.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.76,0:20:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the war on drugs is predicated on the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.52,0:20:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,idea that if you interdict the source of
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.84,0:20:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drugs you can deal with addiction that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.32,0:20:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if you understand addiction in the broader sense
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.72,0:20:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that nothing in itself is addictive.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.24,0:20:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No substance, no drug is by itself addictive
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.48,0:20:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no behavior is by itself addictive.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.48,0:20:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people can go shopping without becoming shopaholics.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.48,0:20:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everyone becomes a food addict.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.20,0:20:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everyone who drinks a glass of wine becomes an alcoholic.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.32,0:20:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the real issue is what makes people susceptible
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.44,0:20:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's the combination of a susceptible individual
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.04,0:20:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the potentially addictive substance or behavior
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.40,0:20:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes for the full flowering of addiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.76,0:20:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short, it's not the drug that's addictive
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.52,0:20:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the question of the susceptibility of the individual
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.36,0:21:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to being addicted to a particular substance or behavior.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.36,0:21:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Environment]
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.76,0:21:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we wish to understand what
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.20,0:21:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then makes some people susceptible
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.28,0:21:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we actually have to look at the life experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.80,0:21:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old idea, although it's old but it's still
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.12,0:21:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broadly held, that addictions are due to some genetic cause
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.44,0:21:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is simply scientifically untenable.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.60,0:21:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the case is actually is that certain life experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.92,0:21:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make people susceptible.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.64,0:21:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life experiences that not only shape the person's
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.72,0:21:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,personality and psychological needs
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.28,0:21:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also their very brains in certain ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.40,0:21:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that process begins in utero.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.08,0:21:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Prenatal]
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.20,0:21:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has been shown, for example
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.84,0:21:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you stress mothers during pregnancy
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.52,0:21:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their children are more likely to have
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.24,0:21:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traits that predispose them to addictions
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.96,0:21:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's because development is shaped
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.12,0:21:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the psychological and social environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.48,0:22:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the biology of human beings is very much affected by
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.92,0:22:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and programmed by the life experiences beginning in utero.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.68,0:22:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Environment does not begin at birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.72,0:22:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Environment begins as soon as you have an environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.24,0:22:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As soon as you are a fetus, you are subject to whatever
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.80,0:22:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,information is coming through mom's circulations.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.52,0:22:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hormones, levels of nutrients...
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.32,0:22:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great landmark example of this is
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.60,0:22:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something called the Dutch Hongerwinter.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.36,0:22:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1944, Nazis occupying Holland
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.08,0:22:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a bunch of reasons, they decide to
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.20,0:22:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take all the food and divert it to Germany;
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.48,0:22:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for three months everybody there was starving.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.56,0:22:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tens of thousands of people starve to death.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.68,0:22:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the Dutch hunger winter effect is:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.84,0:22:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you were a second or third trimester fetus during the starvation
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.72,0:22:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your body 'learned' something very unique during that time.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.76,0:22:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As it turns out, second and third trimester is when your body is
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.00,0:22:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going about trying to learn about the environment:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.56,0:22:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How menacing of a place is it out there?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.04,0:23:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How plentiful? How much nutrients am I getting
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.20,0:23:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by way of mom's circulation?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.28,0:23:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be a fetus who was starving during that time and your body
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.60,0:23:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,programs forever after to be
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.04,0:23:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, really stingy with your sugar and fat and
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.96,0:23:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you do is you store every bit of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.48,0:23:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be a Dutch Hunger Winter fetus and half a century later
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.88,0:23:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything else being equal
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.60,0:23:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are more likely to have high blood pressure
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.76,0:23:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obesity or metabolic syndrome.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.56,0:23:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is environment coming in a very unexpected place.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.76,0:23:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can stress animals in the laboratory when they're pregnant
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.36,0:23:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their offspring will be more
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.96,0:23:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,likely to use cocaine and alcohol as adults.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.44,0:23:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can stress human mothers. For example, in a British study
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.96,0:23:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women who were abused in pregnancy
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.92,0:23:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will have higher levels of
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.84,0:23:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stress hormone cortisol in their placenta at birth
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.92,0:23:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their children are more likely to have conditions that
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.08,0:23:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.60,0:23:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in utero stress already prepares the gun
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.64,0:24:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all kinds of mental health issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.64,0:24:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An Israeli study done on children
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.44,0:24:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born to mothers who were pregnant
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.00,0:24:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prior to the onset of the 1967 war...
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.24,0:24:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These women, of course, were very stressed
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.20,0:24:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their offspring have a higher incidence of schizophrenia
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.92,0:24:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the average cohort.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.84,0:24:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there is plenty of evidence now that prenatal
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.16,0:24:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effects have a huge impact on the developing human being.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.40,0:24:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Infancy]
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.24,0:24:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point about human development and
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.68,0:24:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically human brain development
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.04,0:24:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it occurs mostly under the impact of the environment
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.36,0:24:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mostly after birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.32,0:24:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if you compare us to a horse
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.96,0:24:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can run on the first day of life
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.96,0:24:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that we are very undeveloped.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.84,0:24:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't muster that much neurological coordination
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.64,0:24:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,balance, muscle strength, visual acuity
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.32,0:24:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until a year and a half, two years of age.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.16,0:24:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's because the brain development in the horse
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.80,0:24:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happens in the safety of the womb
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.68,0:25:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the human being, it has to happen after birth
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.84,0:25:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that has to do with simple evolutionary logic.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.36,0:25:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the head gets larger, which is what makes us into human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.68,0:25:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the burgeoning of the forebrain is
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.16,0:25:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what creates the human species, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.64,0:25:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, we walk on two legs. So, our pelvis narrows
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.76,0:25:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to accommodate that. So now we
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.24,0:25:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a narrower pelvis, a larger head
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.64,0:25:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bingo! We have to be born prematurely.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.64,0:25:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that means the brain development that in other animals
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.04,0:25:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,occurs in utero
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.48,0:25:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in us, occurs after birth
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.52,0:25:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and much of that under the impact of the environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.92,0:25:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The concept of Neural Darwinism simply means
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.08,0:25:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the circuits that get the appropriate input from the environment
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.12,0:25:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will develop optimally and the ones that don't
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.80,0:25:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will either not develop optimally or perhaps not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.72,0:25:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you take a child with perfectly good eyes at birth
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.64,0:25:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you put him in a dark room for five years
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.84,0:25:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he will be blind thereafter for the rest of his life
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.80,0:25:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the circuits of vision require light waves for their development
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.20,0:25:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and without that even the rudimentary
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.68,0:26:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,circuit's present and active at birth
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.20,0:26:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will atrophy and die and new ones will not develop.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.48,0:26:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Memory]
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.84,0:26:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a significant way in which
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.52,0:26:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,early experiences shape adult behavior
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.08,0:26:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even and especially early
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.24,0:26:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experiences for which there is no recall memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.72,0:26:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turns out that there are two kinds of memory:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.00,0:26:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is explicit memory which is recall
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.60,0:26:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is when you can call back facts
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.72,0:26:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,details, episodes, circumstances.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.56,0:26:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the structure in the brain which is called the hippocampus
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.48,0:26:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which encodes recall memory
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.32,0:26:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't even begin to develop fully until a year and a half
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.44,0:26:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is not fully developed until much later.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.40,0:26:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is why hardly anybody has
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.60,0:26:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any recall memory prior to 18 months.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.12,0:26:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is another kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.32,0:26:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,memory which is called implicit memory
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.92,0:26:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is, in fact, an emotional memory
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.80,0:26:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the emotional impact and the interpretation the child makes
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.72,0:26:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those emotional experiences are ingrained in the brain
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.76,0:27:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the form of nerve circuits ready to fire
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.84,0:27:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without specific recall.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.44,0:27:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to give you a clear example
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.24,0:27:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who are adopted have a
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.24,0:27:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lifelong sense of rejection very often.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.84,0:27:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't recall the adoption.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.12,0:27:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't recall the separation of the birth mother
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.24,0:27:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's nothing there to recall with.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.20,0:27:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the emotional memory of separation and rejection
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.60,0:27:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is deeply embedded in their brains.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.84,0:27:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence, they are much more likely
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.48,0:27:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to experience a sense of rejection
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.20,0:27:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a great emotional upset
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.60,0:27:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they perceive themselves as being rejected
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.16,0:27:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.16,0:27:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not unique to people who are
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.68,0:27:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adopted but it is particularly strong in them
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.60,0:27:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of this function of implicit memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.24,0:27:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who are addicted, given all the
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.36,0:27:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research literature and in my experience
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.64,0:27:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hard-core addicts virtually were all
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.20,0:27:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,significantly abused as children
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.36,0:27:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or suffered severe emotional loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.52,0:27:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their emotional or implicit memories
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.00,0:27:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are those of a world that's not safe
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.44,0:28:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not helpful; caregivers who were not to be trusted
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.52,0:28:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and relationships that are not
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.20,0:28:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,safe enough to open up to vulnerability
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.32,0:28:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence their responses tend
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.88,0:28:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be to keep themselves separate from
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.60,0:28:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really intimate relationships;
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.52,0:28:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to trust caregivers
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.08,0:28:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doctors and other people who are trying to help them
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.00,0:28:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and generally see the world as an unsafe place...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.12,0:28:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is strictly a function of implicit memory
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.92,0:28:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sometimes has to do with incidents they don't even recall.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.16,0:28:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Touch]
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.04,0:28:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infants who are born premature or often in incubators
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.76,0:28:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and various types of gadgetry and
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.24,0:28:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,machinery for weeks and perhaps months,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.08,0:28:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's now known that if these
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.64,0:28:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children are touched and stroked on the back
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.04,0:28:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for just 10 minutes a day that promotes their brain development.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.68,0:28:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, human touch is essential for development
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.44,0:28:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in fact, infants who are never picked up will actually die.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.32,0:28:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is how much of a fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.76,0:29:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need being held is to human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.36,0:29:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our society, there is an unfortunate tendency
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.24,0:29:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell parents not to pick up their kids, not to hold them
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.00,0:29:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to pick up babies who are crying for fear of spoiling them
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.92,0:29:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to encourage them to sleep through the night
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.04,0:29:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't pick them up...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.20,0:29:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is just the opposite of what the child needs
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.64,0:29:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these children might go back to sleep because they give up
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.00,0:29:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their brains just shut down as a
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.32,0:29:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way of defending against the vulnerability
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.04,0:29:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being abandoned really by their parents
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.96,0:29:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but their implicit memories will be
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.76,0:29:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that of the world that doesn't give a damn.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.72,0:29:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Childhood]
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.84,0:29:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of these differences are structured very early in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.88,0:29:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a way, the parental experience of adversity
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.28,0:29:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how tough life is or how easy it is
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.00,0:29:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is passed on to children
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.84,0:29:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether through maternal depression
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.28,0:29:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or parents being bad tempered with
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.84,0:29:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their kids because they have had a hard day
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.80,0:30:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just being too tired at the end of the day...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.52,0:30:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these have very powerful effects programming
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.04,0:30:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children's development, which we know a lot about now
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.88,0:30:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that early sensitivity isn't just an evolutionary mistake.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.76,0:30:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It exists again in many different species.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.44,0:30:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in seedlings there's an early adaptive process
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.56,0:30:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the kind of environment they are growing up in
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.68,0:30:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for humans, the adaptation is to the quality of social relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.32,0:30:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, early life:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.04,0:30:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how nurturing, how much conflict, how much attention you get
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.20,0:30:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a taster of the kind of world you may be growing up in.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.20,0:30:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you growing up in a world where
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.72,0:30:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to fight for what you can get;
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.36,0:30:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watch your back; fend for yourself; learn not to trust others?...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.40,0:30:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are you growing up in a society where you depend on
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.36,0:30:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reciprocity, mutuality, cooperation, where empathy is important
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.24,0:30:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where your security depends on good relations with other people?...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.04,0:31:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that needs a very different
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.16,0:31:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emotional and cognitive development
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.48,0:31:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what the early sensitivity is about
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.68,0:31:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and parenting is almost, quite unconsciously
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.60,0:31:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a system for passing on that experience to children...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.92,0:31:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the kind of world they are in.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.52,0:31:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The great British child psychiatrist, DW Winnicott, said
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.32,0:31:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fundamentally, two things can go wrong in childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.32,0:31:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is when things happen that shouldn't happen
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.48,0:31:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then things that should happen but don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.60,0:31:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first category, is the dramatic, abusive
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.52,0:31:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and abandonment experiences of my
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.04,0:31:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,downtown Eastside patients and of many addicts.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.56,0:31:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what shouldn't happen but did.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.08,0:31:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then there is the non-stressed
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.08,0:31:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attuned, non-distracted attention
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.60,0:31:51.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the parent that every child needs
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.28,0:31:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that very often children don't get.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.20,0:31:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not abused. They are not neglected
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.24,0:31:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're not traumatized
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.00,0:31:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what should happen
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.68,0:32:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the presence of the emotionally available nurturing parent
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.88,0:32:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just is not available to them because of the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.20,0:32:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stresses in our society and the parenting environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.56,0:32:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The psychologist Allan Surer calls that "Proximal Abandonment"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.24,0:32:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the parent is physically present
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.16,0:32:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but emotionally absent.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.44,0:32:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have spent...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.24,0:32:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roughly the last 40 years of my life
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.40,0:32:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with the most violent of people our society produces:
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.88,0:32:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,murderers, rapists and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.20,0:32:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In an attempt to understand what causes this violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.00,0:32:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I discovered that the most violent of the criminals in our prisons
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.48,0:32:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had themselves been victims
Dialogue: 0,0:32:45.44,0:32:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a degree of child abuse that was beyond the scale of
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.28,0:32:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I ever thought of applying the term child abuse to.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.12,0:32:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no idea of the depth
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.64,0:32:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the depravity with which children in our society
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.64,0:33:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are all too often treated.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.56,0:33:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most violent people I saw were themselves the survivors
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.48,0:33:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their own attempted murder often at the hands of their parents
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.68,0:33:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or other people in their social environment
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.08,0:33:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or were the survivors of family members who had been killed
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.60,0:33:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their closest family members, by other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.28,0:33:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Buddha argued that everything depends on everything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.84,0:33:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says 'the one contains the many and the many contains the one'.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.76,0:33:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you can't understand anything in isolation from its environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.36,0:33:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The leaf contains the sun, the sky and the earth, obviously.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.56,0:33:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has now been shown to be true, of course
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.04,0:33:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all around and specifically when it comes to human development.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.44,0:33:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The modern scientific term for it
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.92,0:33:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the "bio psycho social" nature of human development
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.76,0:33:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which says that the biology of human beings
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.08,0:33:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depends very much on their interaction with
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.40,0:33:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the social and psychological environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.64,0:34:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Specifically, the psychiatrist and researcher
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.36,0:34:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniel Siegel at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.84,0:34:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has coined a phrase “Interpersonal Neurobiology”
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.08,0:34:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means to say that the way
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.32,0:34:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our nervous system functions
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.72,0:34:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depends very much on our personal relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.48,0:34:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first place with the parenting caregivers and in the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.32,0:34:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,second place with other important attachment figures in our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.48,0:34:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the third-place, with our entire culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.16,0:34:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that you can't separate the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.28,0:34:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neurological functioning of a human being
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.12,0:34:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the environment in which he or she grew up in
Dialogue: 0,0:34:35.08,0:34:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and continues to exist in
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.56,0:34:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is true throughout the lifecycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.32,0:34:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's particularly true when you are
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.12,0:34:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dependent and helpless when your brain is developing
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.80,0:34:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's true even in adults and even at the end of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:51.92,0:34:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Culture]
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.24,0:34:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human beings have lived in almost every kind of society.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.84,0:35:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the most egalitarian... hunting and gathering societies
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.56,0:35:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seem to have been very egalitarian
Dialogue: 0,0:35:03.56,0:35:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for instance, based on food sharing, gift exchange...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.60,0:35:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Small bands of people living predominately
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.76,0:35:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off of foraging and a little bit of hunting
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.16,0:35:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predominantly among people you have
Dialogue: 0,0:35:15.24,0:35:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the least, known your entire life
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.28,0:35:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not surrounded by third cousins or closer;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.24,0:35:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a world in which there is a great
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.12,0:35:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deal of fluidity between different groups;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.24,0:35:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a world which there is not a
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.00,0:35:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whole lot in terms of material culture...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.12,0:35:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is how humans have spent most of their hominid history.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.04,0:35:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no surprise, that makes for a very different world.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.52,0:35:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.92,0:35:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Organized group violence is not
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.08,0:35:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that occurred at that time
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.20,0:35:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of human history and that seems quite clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.88,0:35:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So where did we go wrong?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.04,0:35:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Violence is not universal.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.48,0:35:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not symmetrically distributed throughout the human race.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.32,0:36:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a huge variation in the amount of violence in different societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.04,0:36:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are some societies that have virtually no violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.28,0:36:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are others that destroy themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.84,0:36:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the Anabaptist religious
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.16,0:36:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups that are complete strict pacifists
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.40,0:36:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hutterites...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.24,0:36:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among some of these groups, the Hutterites
Dialogue: 0,0:36:24.40,0:36:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are no recorded cases of homicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:29.44,0:36:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During our major wars, like World War II
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.60,0:36:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people were being drafted
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.64,0:36:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would refuse to serve in the military.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.96,0:36:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would go to prison rather than serve in the military
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.00,0:36:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Kibbutzim in Israel
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.44,0:36:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the level of violence is so low that the criminal courts there
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.92,0:36:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will often send violent offenders
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.60,0:36:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who have committed crimes
Dialogue: 0,0:36:51.20,0:36:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live on the Kibbutzim in order to
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.12,0:36:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn how to live a non-violent life...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.20,0:36:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's the way people live there.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.52,0:37:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we are amply shaped by society.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.24,0:37:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our societies, in the broader sense including our theological
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.52,0:37:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our metaphysical, our linguistic influences, etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.00,0:37:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our societies help shape us as to whether or not we think
Dialogue: 0,0:37:14.84,0:37:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life is basically about sin or about beauty;
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.08,0:37:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether the afterlife will carry a price for
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.80,0:37:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we live our lives or if it's irrelevant.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.60,0:37:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a broad sort of way different large societies could
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.00,0:37:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be termed as individualistic or
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.12,0:37:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collectivist and you get very different people
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.20,0:37:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and different mindsets and I suspect
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.92,0:37:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different brains coming along with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.72,0:37:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, in America, are in one of the most individualistic of societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.12,0:37:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With capitalism being a system that allows you to go
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.92,0:37:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,higher and higher up a potential pyramid and
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.56,0:37:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deal is that it comes with fewer and fewer safety nets.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.56,0:37:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By definition, the more stratified a society is
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.08,0:37:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fewer people you have as peers - the fewer people with whom
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.60,0:38:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have symmetrical, reciprocal relationships -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.88,0:38:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead, all you have are differing spots and endless hierarchies...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.64,0:38:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A world in which you have few reciprocal partners
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.68,0:38:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a world with a lot less altruism.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.32,0:38:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Human Nature]
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.84,0:38:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this brings us to a total impossible juncture which is
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.20,0:38:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to make sense in perspective science...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.52,0:38:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to what that nature is of human nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.20,0:38:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, on a certain level
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.68,0:38:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature of our nature is not to be
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.24,0:38:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly constrained by our nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.00,0:38:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come up with more social
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.84,0:38:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,variability than any species out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.44,0:38:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More systems of belief, of styles of family structures
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.76,0:38:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of ways of raising children. The capacity
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.76,0:38:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for variety that we have is extraordinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.80,0:38:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a society which is predicated on competition
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.56,0:39:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really, very often, the ruthless exploitation
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.04,0:39:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of one human being by another
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.08,0:39:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the profiteering off of other people's problems
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.28,0:39:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and very often the creation of
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.56,0:39:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,problems for the purpose of profiteering
Dialogue: 0,0:39:11.64,0:39:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ruling ideology will very often justify that behavior
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.92,0:39:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by appeals to some fundamental and unalterable human nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:19.00,0:39:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the myth in our society is
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.72,0:39:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people are competitive by nature
Dialogue: 0,0:39:22.92,0:39:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that they are individualistic and that they're selfish.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.12,0:39:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real reality is quite the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.12,0:39:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have certain human needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.72,0:39:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only way that you can talk about human nature concretely
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.52,0:39:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is by recognizing that there are certain human needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.24,0:39:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a human need for companionship and for close contact
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.40,0:39:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be loved, to be attached to, to be accepted
Dialogue: 0,0:39:43.48,0:39:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be seen, to be received for who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.52,0:39:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If those needs are met, we develop
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.04,0:39:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into people who are compassionate
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.44,0:39:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cooperative and who have empathy for other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.44,0:40:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.20,0:40:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the opposite, that we often see in our
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.32,0:40:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society is, in fact, a distortion of human nature
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.88,0:40:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,precisely because so few people have their needs met.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.28,0:40:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, yes you can talk about human nature
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.68,0:40:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only in the sense of basic human needs
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.20,0:40:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are instinctively evoked
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.36,0:40:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I should say, certain human needs
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.72,0:40:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lead to certain traits if they are met
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.64,0:40:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a different set of traits if they are denied.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.20,0:40:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.84,0:40:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we recognize the fact that the human organism
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.88,0:40:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has a great deal of adaptive flexibility
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.48,0:40:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing us to survive in many different conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.84,0:40:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also rigidly programmed for certain environmental requirements
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.12,0:40:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or human needs
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.52,0:40:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a social imperative begins to emerge.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.92,0:40:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as our bodies require physical nutrients
Dialogue: 0,0:40:50.76,0:40:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the human brain demands positive forms of environmental stimulus
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.16,0:40:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at all stages of development
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.64,0:41:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while also needing to be protected
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.00,0:41:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from other negative forms of stimulus.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.08,0:41:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if things that should happen, do not...
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.60,0:41:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if things that shouldn't happen, do...
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.16,0:41:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is now apparent that the door can be opened for not only
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.48,0:41:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cascade of mental and physical diseases
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.64,0:41:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but many detrimental human behaviors as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:18.40,0:41:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as we turn our perspective now outward
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.08,0:41:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take account for the state of affairs today
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.92,0:41:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must ask the question:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.16,0:41:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the condition we have created in the modern world
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.92,0:41:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually supporting our health?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.80,0:41:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the bedrock of our socioeconomic
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.12,0:41:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system acting as a positive force
Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.36,0:41:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for human and social development and progress?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.36,0:41:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, is the foundational gravitation of our society
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.40,0:41:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually going against the core evolutionary requirements
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.92,0:41:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needed to create and maintain
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.48,0:41:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our personal and social well-being?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.56,0:42:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Part II: Social Pathology]
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.96,0:42:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, one might ask where did this all begin?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.36,0:42:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we have today... really a world in a state of
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.64,0:42:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cumulative collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.88,0:42:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Market]
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.64,0:42:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get it started with John Locke.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:33.36,0:42:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And John Locke introduces property.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.16,0:42:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has three provisos for just private right and property.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.88,0:42:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the three provisos are:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.64,0:42:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There must be enough left over for others
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.28,0:42:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that you must not let it spoil
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.32,0:42:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that you, most of all, must mix your labor with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:51.08,0:42:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems justified- you mix your labor with the world
Dialogue: 0,0:42:54.32,0:42:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you are entitled to the product
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.48,0:42:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as long as there's enough left over for others
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.28,0:43:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as long as it doesn't spoil
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.56,0:43:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't allow anything to go to waste then that's okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.08,0:43:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spends a long time on this and his famous treatise of government
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.32,0:43:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's since been the canonical text
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.24,0:43:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for economic and political and legal understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.52,0:43:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is still the classic text that's studied.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.88,0:43:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well - after he gives the provisos
Dialogue: 0,0:43:20.12,0:43:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're almost thinking at the time whether you
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.04,0:43:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are for private property or not
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.52,0:43:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he has given a very good plausible and powerful defense
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.00,0:43:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of private property here...
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.72,0:43:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he drops them!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.16,0:43:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He drops them like that. Right in one sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.96,0:43:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, 'Well, once the introduction
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.96,0:43:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of money came in by men's tacit consent
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.64,0:43:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it became...'
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.20,0:43:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he doesn't say all the provisos are canceled or erased-
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.92,0:43:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.12,0:43:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now we have not
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.20,0:43:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,product and your property earned by your own labor-
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.84,0:43:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh no- money buys labor now.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.92,0:43:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no longer consideration
Dialogue: 0,0:43:55.44,0:43:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether there is enough left over for others;
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.84,0:44:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no longer consideration of whether it spoils
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.24,0:44:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he says money is like
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.76,0:44:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,silver and gold and gold can't spoil
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.56,0:44:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore money can't be responsible for waste...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.08,0:44:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is ridiculous. We are not talking about money
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.56,0:44:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and silver, we are talking about what its effects are.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.92,0:44:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one non sequitur after another.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.44,0:44:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just the most startling
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.64,0:44:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,logical legerdemain that he gets away with here
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.40,0:44:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it fits the interests of capital owners.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:26.16,0:44:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then Adam Smith comes along and what he adds
Dialogue: 0,0:44:28.92,0:44:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the religion to this...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.64,0:44:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Locke started with God made it all this way
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.32,0:44:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is God's right
Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.80,0:44:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now we get also with Smith
Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.96,0:44:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying 'it's not only God's...'
Dialogue: 0,0:44:39.12,0:44:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, he's not actually saying this but
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.84,0:44:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what's happening philosophically, in principle
Dialogue: 0,0:44:43.48,0:44:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's saying that 'it is not only a question of private property...'
Dialogue: 0,0:44:46.52,0:44:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all now 'presupposed'- It's Given!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.04,0:44:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that there's 'money investors that buy labor' – Given!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.96,0:44:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no limit to how much they can buy of other men's labor
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.08,0:44:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much they can accumulate, how much 'inequality'-
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.44,0:44:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's all given now.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.32,0:45:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so he comes along and what his big idea is
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.72,0:45:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again it's just introduced in parentheses, in passing...
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.52,0:45:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, when people put out goods for sale - the supply
Dialogue: 0,0:45:10.72,0:45:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other people buy them - the demand and so forth
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.64,0:45:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do we have supply equaling demand
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.64,0:45:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or demand equaling supply?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.16,0:45:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how can they come into equilibrium?
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.04,0:45:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is one of the central notions of economics
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.88,0:45:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is how do they come into equilibrium...
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.00,0:45:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he says: it's the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.32,0:45:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brings them into equilibrium.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.20,0:45:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now we have "God is actually imminent”.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.12,0:45:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just didn't give the rights to property
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.08,0:45:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all its wherewithal and its "natural rights"
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.76,0:45:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regarding what Locke said...
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.28,0:45:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now we have the system itself as "God".
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.96,0:45:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Smith says, when he talks
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.28,0:45:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you have to read the whole of the
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.52,0:45:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wealth of Nations' to find this quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.80,0:46:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says: 'the scantiness of subsistence
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.52,0:46:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sets limits to the reproduction of the poor
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.84,0:46:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that nature can deal with this in no other way
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.08,0:46:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than elimination of their children.'
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.48,0:46:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he anticipated evolutionary theory in the worst sense...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.12,0:46:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is well before Darwin.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.88,0:46:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so he called them the 'Race of Laborers'.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.76,0:46:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can see: there was inherent racism built-in here
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.08,0:46:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was an inherent life blindness to kill
Dialogue: 0,0:46:32.28,0:46:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innumerable children
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.88,0:46:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he thought: 'that's the Invisible Hand making supply
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.96,0:46:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meet demand and demand meet supply.'
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.08,0:46:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, see how wise "God" is?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.32,0:46:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can see a lot of the really virulent
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.24,0:46:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life destructive, eco-genocidal things
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.92,0:46:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are going on now have, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.52,0:46:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 'thought gene' back in Smith too.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.40,0:47:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we reflect on the original concept of
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.88,0:47:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the so-called free market - capitalist system
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.44,0:47:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as initiated by early economic philosophers
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.20,0:47:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as Adam Smith
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.72,0:47:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that the original intent of a “market”
Dialogue: 0,0:47:12.84,0:47:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was based around real, tangible, life supporting goods for trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:17.24,0:47:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Adam Smith never fathomed that the most
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.72,0:47:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profitable economic sector on the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.16,0:47:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would eventually be in the arena of financial trading
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.08,0:47:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or so-called investment
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.20,0:47:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where money itself is simply
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.72,0:47:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gained by the movement of other money
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.76,0:47:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an arbitrary game which holds
Dialogue: 0,0:47:33.12,0:47:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zero productive merit to society.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.92,0:47:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, regardless of Smith's intent
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.16,0:47:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the door for such seemingly anomalous advents
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.88,0:47:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was left wide open by one fundamental tenet of this theory:
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.76,0:47:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Money is treated as a Commodity, in and of itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.08,0:47:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, in every economy of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.20,0:47:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of the social system they claim
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.92,0:47:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,money is pursued for the sake of money and nothing else.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.92,0:48:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The underlying idea, which was mysteriously qualified
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.96,0:48:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Adam Smith with his religious declaration of the
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.80,0:48:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Invisible Hand'
Dialogue: 0,0:48:07.88,0:48:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the narrow, self-interested pursuit
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.48,0:48:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this fictional commodity
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.44,0:48:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will somehow magically manifest
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.72,0:48:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human and social well-being and progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.56,0:48:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality is that the monetary incentive interest
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.36,0:48:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what some have termed the:“Money Sequence of Value”
Dialogue: 0,0:48:26.08,0:48:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has now completely decoupled from the foundational
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.28,0:48:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'life interest', which could be termed the
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.00,0:48:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Life Sequence of Value.'
Dialogue: 0,0:48:34.56,0:48:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has happened is that there is a complete confusion
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.36,0:48:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in economic doctrine
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.48,0:48:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between those two sequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.40,0:48:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They think that the Money Sequence of Value
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.88,0:48:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delivers the Life Sequence of Value
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.08,0:48:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why they say if more goods are sold
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.80,0:48:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If GDP's rise and so forth...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:51.76,0:48:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be more enhanced well-being
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.92,0:48:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we could take the GDP as being our basic layer indicator
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.32,0:48:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of social health...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.60,0:49:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, there you see the confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.24,0:49:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's talking about Money Sequences of Value
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.36,0:49:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, all the receipts and all the revenues that are
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.48,0:49:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,derived from selling goods
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.20,0:49:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're confusing that with life reproduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.92,0:49:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you have built right into this thing from the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.60,0:49:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a complete conflation of the money
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.52,0:49:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and life sequences of value.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.92,0:49:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we are dealing with a kind of structured delusion
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.36,0:49:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which becomes more and more deadly
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.60,0:49:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the money sequence decouples from producing
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.32,0:49:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:30.84,0:49:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's a system disorder
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.28,0:49:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the system disorder seems to be fatal.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.16,0:49:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Welcome to the Machine]
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.40,0:49:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In society today, you seldom hear anyone speak
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.80,0:49:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the progress of their country or society
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.44,0:49:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of their physical well-being, state of happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.00,0:49:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trust or social stability.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.64,0:49:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, the measures are presented to us
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.96,0:49:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through economic abstractions.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:57.92,0:50:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the gross domestic product, the consumer price index,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.44,0:50:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the value of the stock market, rates of inflation...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.24,0:50:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:05.76,0:50:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But does this tell us anything of real value
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.20,0:50:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to the quality of people's lives?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.20,0:50:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. All of these measures have to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.44,0:50:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the money sequence itself and nothing more.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.00,0:50:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, the Gross Domestic Product of a country
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.08,0:50:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a measure of the value of goods and services sold.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:23.52,0:50:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This measure is claimed to correlate to the
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.04,0:50:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“standard of living” of a country's people.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.00,0:50:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States health care accounted for over
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.88,0:50:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17% of GDP in 2009
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.96,0:50:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amounting to over 2.5 trillion spent.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.04,0:50:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence, creating a positive effect on this economic measure.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.80,0:50:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, based on this logic
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.24,0:50:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be even better for the US economy
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.64,0:50:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if health care services increased more so...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.16,0:50:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps to 3 trillion dollars... or 5 trillion
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.00,0:50:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since that would create more growth
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.92,0:50:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more jobs and hence boasted by economists
Dialogue: 0,0:50:55.64,0:50:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a rise in their country's standard of living.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.04,0:51:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But wait a minute.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.92,0:51:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do health care services actually represent?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.12,0:51:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, SICK AND DYING PEOPLE.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.44,0:51:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's right- the more unhealthy people there are in America
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.12,0:51:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the better the economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.16,0:51:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that is not an exaggeration or a cynical perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.16,0:51:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, if we step back far enough
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.24,0:51:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will realize that the GDP
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.12,0:51:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only doesn't reflect real public or social health
Dialogue: 0,0:51:24.00,0:51:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on any tangible level
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.88,0:51:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is, in fact, mostly a measure
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.20,0:51:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of industrial inefficiency
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.32,0:51:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and social degradation.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.32,0:51:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:51:35.80,0:51:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with respect to personal, social
Dialogue: 0,0:51:38.36,0:51:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and environmental integrity.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.84,0:51:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to create problems to create profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:44.80,0:51:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no profit under the current paradigm
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.88,0:51:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in saving lives, putting balance on this planet
Dialogue: 0,0:51:50.76,0:51:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having justice and peace or anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.16,0:51:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is just no profit there.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.44,0:51:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an old saying-
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.64,0:51:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pass a law and create a business'.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.04,0:52:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.60,0:52:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, crime does create
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.92,0:52:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,business just like destruction creates
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.44,0:52:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,business in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.88,0:52:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have now roughly 2,000,000 people incarcerated
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.20,0:52:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this country (USA)
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.52,0:52:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of those many are in prisons run
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.12,0:52:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by private corporations:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.44,0:52:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut
Dialogue: 0,0:52:19.40,0:52:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who trade their stock on Wall Street
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.16,0:52:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based upon how many people are in jail.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.12,0:52:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's sickness.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.04,0:52:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is a reflection of what
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.12,0:52:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this economic paradigm calls for.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:32.00,0:52:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.84,0:52:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that keeps our economic system going?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:39.28,0:52:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.80,0:52:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:44.28,0:52:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we break down the
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.56,0:52:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foundation of classic market economics
Dialogue: 0,0:52:47.80,0:52:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.40,0:52:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that simply cannot be allowed to stop
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.64,0:52:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even substantially slowed
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.68,0:52:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the society as we know it
Dialogue: 0,0:52:56.24,0:52:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to remain operational.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.36,0:53:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are three main actors on the economic stage:
Dialogue: 0,0:53:01.20,0:53:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the employee, the employer
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.20,0:53:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the consumer.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.56,0:53:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The employee sells labor to the employer for income.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.96,0:53:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The employer sells its production services, and hence goods,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.00,0:53:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the consumer for income
Dialogue: 0,0:53:13.04,0:53:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the consumer, of course, is simply another role
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.64,0:53:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the employer and employee
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.76,0:53:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spending back into the system
Dialogue: 0,0:53:19.80,0:53:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.88,0:53:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, the global market system is based on
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.28,0:53:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the assumption that there will always be enough
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.60,0:53:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,product demand in a society
Dialogue: 0,0:53:29.76,0:53:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to move enough money around at a rate
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.20,0:53:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can keep the consumption process going.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.12,0:53:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the faster the rate of consumption
Dialogue: 0,0:53:36.88,0:53:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more so-called economic growth is assumed
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.48,0:53:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so the machine goes...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.12,0:53:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, hold on-
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.96,0:53:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.84,0:53:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Economize”?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:48.52,0:53:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation
Dialogue: 0,0:53:51.24,0:53:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and efficiency and a reduction of waste?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.80,0:53:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how does our system, which demands consumption
Dialogue: 0,0:53:58.16,0:54:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more the better, efficiently preserve
Dialogue: 0,0:54:00.68,0:54:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or “Economize” at all?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.00,0:54:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well... it doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.12,0:54:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite
Dialogue: 0,0:54:08.96,0:54:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what a real economy is supposed to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.32,0:54:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is efficiently and conservatively orient
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.88,0:54:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the materials for production and distribution
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.96,0:54:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of life supporting goods.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.24,0:54:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live on a finite planet, with finite resources
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.08,0:54:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, for example, the oil we utilize took
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.36,0:54:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millions of years to develop...
Dialogue: 0,0:54:25.44,0:54:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:29.60,0:54:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...having a system that deliberately promotes
Dialogue: 0,0:54:32.92,0:54:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the acceleration of consumption
Dialogue: 0,0:54:35.08,0:54:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the sake of so-called “economic growth”
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.28,0:54:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is pure ecocidal insanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.20,0:54:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.20,0:54:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Absence of waste?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.08,0:54:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This system is more wasteful than all the other
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.92,0:54:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,existing systems in the history of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:52.84,0:54:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every level of life organization and life system
Dialogue: 0,0:54:55.60,0:54:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in a state of crisis and challenge
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.08,0:55:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and decay or collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:00.44,0:55:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.44,0:55:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will tell you anything different:
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.52,0:55:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is that every life system is in decline
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.24,0:55:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as social programs...
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.36,0:55:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as our water access.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.64,0:55:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try to name any means of life that
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.52,0:55:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't threatened and endangered...
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.40,0:55:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.56,0:55:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.88,0:55:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.76,0:55:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to face the causal mechanism.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.88,0:55:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just want to go on. You know that's where insanity is
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.80,0:55:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you keep doing the same thing over and over again
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.12,0:55:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though it clearly doesn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:35.00,0:55:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you're really
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.60,0:55:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dealing with not an economic system
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.64,0:55:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:44.96,0:55:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Anti-Economy]
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.40,0:55:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an old saying that the competitive
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.48,0:55:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,market model seeks to
Dialogue: 0,0:55:51.44,0:55:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices”.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.68,0:55:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This statement is essentially the incentive concept
Dialogue: 0,0:55:58.56,0:56:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which justifies market competition
Dialogue: 0,0:56:01.00,0:56:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on the assumption that the result
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.84,0:56:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the production of higher quality goods.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:06.16,0:56:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I was going to build myself a table from scratch
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.12,0:56:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would naturally build it out of the best
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.48,0:56:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most durable materials possible, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.44,0:56:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the intent for it to last as long as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.56,0:56:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why would I want to make something poor
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.60,0:56:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing I would have to eventually do it again
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.96,0:56:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and expend more materials and more energy?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.56,0:56:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.04,0:56:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to the market world
Dialogue: 0,0:56:29.84,0:56:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not only explicitly irrational
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.40,0:56:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not even an option.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:34.40,0:56:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is technically impossible to produce
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.32,0:56:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best of anything
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.68,0:56:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if a company is to maintain a competitive edge
Dialogue: 0,0:56:40.52,0:56:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence remain affordable to the consumer.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:43.24,0:56:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Literally everything created and set for sale
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.92,0:56:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the global economy is immediately inferior
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.96,0:56:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment it is produced
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.72,0:56:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for it is a mathematical impossibility
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.48,0:56:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make the most scientifically advanced, efficient
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.40,0:56:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and strategically sustainable products.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:59.12,0:57:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is due to the fact that the market system
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.40,0:57:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,requires that “cost efficiency”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.88,0:57:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the need to reduce expenses
Dialogue: 0,0:57:05.88,0:57:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exists at every stage of production.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.28,0:57:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the cost of labor, to the cost
Dialogue: 0,0:57:10.48,0:57:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of materials and packaging and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:12.96,0:57:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This competitive strategy, of course
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.32,0:57:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to make sure the public buys their goods
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.28,0:57:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than from a competing producer
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.60,0:57:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...which is doing the exact same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.80,0:57:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.00,0:57:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This immutably wasteful consequence of the system
Dialogue: 0,0:57:30.28,0:57:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be termed: Intrinsic Obsolescence.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.12,0:57:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, this is only one part of a larger problem:
Dialogue: 0,0:57:37.60,0:57:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A fundamental governing principle of market economics
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.64,0:57:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one you will not find in any textbook, by the way
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.84,0:57:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- is the following:
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.16,0:57:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan
Dialogue: 0,0:57:48.08,0:57:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,longer than what can be endured
Dialogue: 0,0:57:50.20,0:57:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to continue cyclical consumption.”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:53.76,0:57:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, it is critical that stuff breakdown,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:56.88,0:58:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fail and expire within a certain amount of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.64,0:58:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is termed - “Planned obsolescence”.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.00,0:58:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Planned obsolesce is the backbone of the underlying market
Dialogue: 0,0:58:07.52,0:58:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strategy of every goods producing corporation in existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.20,0:58:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While very few, of course
Dialogue: 0,0:58:12.64,0:58:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would admit to such a strategy outright
Dialogue: 0,0:58:14.88,0:58:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they do is mask it within the
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.92,0:58:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:20.24,0:58:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while often ignoring, or even suppressing
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.76,0:58:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new advents in technology
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.56,0:58:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which might create a more sustainable, durable good.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.60,0:58:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if it wasn't wasteful enough
Dialogue: 0,0:58:30.76,0:58:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the system inherently cannot allow the most
Dialogue: 0,0:58:33.48,0:58:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,durable and efficient goods to be produced,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:36.40,0:58:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Planned Obsolescence deliberately
Dialogue: 0,0:58:38.36,0:58:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognizes that the longer any good is in operation
Dialogue: 0,0:58:41.48,0:58:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worse it is for sustaining cyclical consumption
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.76,0:58:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence the market system itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:47.68,0:58:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, product sustainability
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.16,0:58:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually inverse to economic growth
Dialogue: 0,0:58:53.72,0:58:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence there is a direct, reinforced incentive
Dialogue: 0,0:58:57.16,0:58:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure life spans are short
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.12,0:59:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of any given good produced.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.68,0:59:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in fact, the system cannot operate any other way.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:06.24,0:59:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One glance at the sea of landfills now spreading across
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.00,0:59:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world show the obsolescence reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:12.60,0:59:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are now billions of cheaply made cell phones
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.32,0:59:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,computers and other technology
Dialogue: 0,0:59:17.16,0:59:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each full of precious, difficult to mine materials
Dialogue: 0,0:59:20.40,0:59:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as gold, coltan, copper...
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.48,0:59:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now rotting in vast piles
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.68,0:59:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually due to the mere malfunction or obsolescence
Dialogue: 0,0:59:27.44,0:59:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of small parts which, in a conservative society
Dialogue: 0,0:59:31.36,0:59:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could likely be fixed or updated
Dialogue: 0,0:59:33.40,0:59:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the life of the good extended.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.68,0:59:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, as efficient as that may seem
Dialogue: 0,0:59:38.20,0:59:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our physical reality, living on a
Dialogue: 0,0:59:40.64,0:59:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finite planet with finite resources,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.08,0:59:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is explicitly inefficient, with respect to the market.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.04,0:59:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To put into a phrase:
Dialogue: 0,0:59:49.44,0:59:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Efficiency, Sustainability, and
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.96,0:59:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preservation are the enemies of our economic system” .
Dialogue: 0,0:59:56.28,0:59:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, just a physical goods need to be constantly
Dialogue: 0,0:59:59.32,1:00:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,produced and reproduced
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.92,1:00:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of their environmental impact
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.56,1:00:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the service industry operates with an equal rational.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:07.64,1:00:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is, there is no monetary benefit
Dialogue: 0,1:00:10.28,1:00:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to resolving any problems
Dialogue: 0,1:00:12.56,1:00:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are currently being serviced.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:14.68,1:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of the day
Dialogue: 0,1:00:16.00,1:00:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the last thing the medical establishment really wants
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.04,1:00:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the curing of diseases such as cancer
Dialogue: 0,1:00:22.04,1:00:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.16,1:00:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since we are on the subject...
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.60,1:00:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crime and Terrorism in this system are good!
Dialogue: 0,1:00:32.32,1:00:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, at least economically...
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.32,1:00:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for it is employing police
Dialogue: 0,1:00:36.04,1:00:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generating hi-value commodities for security
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.84,1:00:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to mention the value of prisons
Dialogue: 0,1:00:40.76,1:00:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are privately owned - for profit.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:43.92,1:00:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how about war?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:45.52,1:00:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The war industry in America is a huge driver of GDP -
Dialogue: 0,1:00:49.44,1:00:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the most profitable industries -
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.84,1:00:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,producing weapons of death and destruction.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:55.24,1:00:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The favorite game of this industry is to blow things up
Dialogue: 0,1:00:58.44,1:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then can go and rebuild them, for profit.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.08,1:01:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We saw this with the windfall billion dollar
Dialogue: 0,1:01:03.64,1:01:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contracts made from the Iraq war.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.84,1:01:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bottom line is that socially negative
Dialogue: 0,1:01:09.12,1:01:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attributes of society
Dialogue: 0,1:01:10.76,1:01:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have become positively rewarded ventures for industry
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.16,1:01:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any interest in problem resolution
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.96,1:01:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or environmental sustainability and conservation
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.40,1:01:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is intrinsically counter to economic sustainability.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:25.60,1:01:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.28,1:01:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every time you see the GDP rise in any country
Dialogue: 0,1:01:30.64,1:01:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are witnessing an increase in necessity
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.40,1:01:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether real or contrived
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.44,1:01:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by definition, a necessity is rooted in inefficiency.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.40,1:01:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence, increased necessity means increased inefficiency.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:44.84,1:01:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Value System Disorder]
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.60,1:01:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The American dream is based on
Dialogue: 0,1:01:49.48,1:01:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rampant consumerism.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:50.88,1:01:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is based upon the fact that
Dialogue: 0,1:01:53.24,1:01:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mainstream media and
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.80,1:01:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially commercial advertising
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.88,1:02:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- all corporations who need this infinite growth -
Dialogue: 0,1:02:00.08,1:02:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have convinced us or brainwashed
Dialogue: 0,1:02:02.64,1:02:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people in America and the world
Dialogue: 0,1:02:06.00,1:02:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have to have X number of material possessions
Dialogue: 0,1:02:08.96,1:02:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the possibility of gaining infinitely more
Dialogue: 0,1:02:11.36,1:02:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,material possessions, in order to be happy.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.04,1:02:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just not true.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:15.76,1:02:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why do people continue to buy in this way
Dialogue: 0,1:02:19.60,1:02:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is ultimately eco-genocidal
Dialogue: 0,1:02:22.04,1:02:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in its systemic effects cumulatively?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.92,1:02:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it just is classical & operant conditioning.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:27.80,1:02:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You simply put inputs of conditioning into the organism
Dialogue: 0,1:02:32.20,1:02:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you have outputs of desired behaviors
Dialogue: 0,1:02:35.68,1:02:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or goals or objectives.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:38.04,1:02:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it has all the resources of technology
Dialogue: 0,1:02:41.28,1:02:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they boast about how they
Dialogue: 0,1:02:42.56,1:02:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get into the minds of infants
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.32,1:02:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they hear is already making them
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.48,1:02:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioned to the brand.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:49.36,1:02:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you see, that's how
Dialogue: 0,1:02:51.72,1:02:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have been such fools.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:52.96,1:02:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have been taught to be fools.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:55.28,1:02:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a value system disorder.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:59.28,1:03:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, if there is any testament to the plasticity
Dialogue: 0,1:03:02.20,1:03:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the human mind.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:03.48,1:03:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is any proof to how malleable
Dialogue: 0,1:03:05.56,1:03:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human thought is and how easily
Dialogue: 0,1:03:07.56,1:03:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioned and guided people can become
Dialogue: 0,1:03:10.04,1:03:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on the nature of their environmental stimulus
Dialogue: 0,1:03:12.68,1:03:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it reinforces:
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.68,1:03:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world of commercial advertising is the proof.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:18.40,1:03:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to stand in awe
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.12,1:03:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the level of brainwashing
Dialogue: 0,1:03:23.52,1:03:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where these programmed robots known as "consumers"
Dialogue: 0,1:03:27.56,1:03:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wander the landscape
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.36,1:03:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only to walk into a store and spend, say
Dialogue: 0,1:03:32.76,1:03:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4000$ on a handbag
Dialogue: 0,1:03:35.56,1:03:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that likely cost 10 dollars to make
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.88,1:03:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a sweatshop overseas.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:40.04,1:03:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only for the brand status it supposedly
Dialogue: 0,1:03:42.92,1:03:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,represents in the culture.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.80,1:03:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or perhaps the ancient communal traditions
Dialogue: 0,1:03:48.48,1:03:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which increase trust and cohesiveness in society -
Dialogue: 0,1:03:52.04,1:03:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which have now been hijacked by acquisitive
Dialogue: 0,1:03:54.56,1:03:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,materialistic values where now we annually
Dialogue: 0,1:03:57.36,1:04:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exchange useless crap a few times a year.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:01.24,1:04:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we might wonder why so many today have a
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.56,1:04:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compulsion to shopping and acquisition
Dialogue: 0,1:04:06.08,1:04:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it is clear that they have conditioned from childhood
Dialogue: 0,1:04:09.28,1:04:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to expect material goods
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.16,1:04:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a sign of their status with friends and family.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:15.08,1:04:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is, the foundation of any society
Dialogue: 0,1:04:18.00,1:04:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the values that support its operation
Dialogue: 0,1:04:20.32,1:04:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our society, as it exists
Dialogue: 0,1:04:22.76,1:04:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can only operate if our values support
Dialogue: 0,1:04:25.44,1:04:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the conspicuous consumption it
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.96,1:04:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,requires to continue the market system.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:31.40,1:04:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,75 years ago consumption in America
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.44,1:04:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and much of the 1st world was half
Dialogue: 0,1:04:36.56,1:04:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what we see today, per person.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:38.60,1:04:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's new consumer culture
Dialogue: 0,1:04:40.72,1:04:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been manufactured and imposed
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.16,1:04:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to the very real need for higher
Dialogue: 0,1:04:45.60,1:04:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and higher levels of consumption.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:48.44,1:04:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why most corporations now spend
Dialogue: 0,1:04:51.52,1:04:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more money on advertising, than the actual process
Dialogue: 0,1:04:55.12,1:04:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of product creation itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:57.24,1:05:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They work diligently to create a false need for you to fill.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:01.52,1:05:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it happens to work.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:05.40,1:05:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The “Economists”]
Dialogue: 0,1:05:07.72,1:05:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know economists, in fact, are not economists at all.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:11.64,1:05:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're propagandists of money value
Dialogue: 0,1:05:13.96,1:05:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you will find that all of their
Dialogue: 0,1:05:16.08,1:05:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,models basically get down to token
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.40,1:05:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exchanges that are true to profit
Dialogue: 0,1:05:21.64,1:05:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of one side or both sides or whatever
Dialogue: 0,1:05:23.92,1:05:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are completely disconnected from the actually
Dialogue: 0,1:05:26.28,1:05:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,existing world of reproduction.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:28.44,1:05:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Ohio, an old man failed to pay his electric bill
Dialogue: 0,1:05:32.48,1:05:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may be familiar with the case
Dialogue: 0,1:05:34.72,1:05:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the electric company turned off the electricity and he died.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:38.24,1:05:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason they turned it off was
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.56,1:05:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it wouldn't have been profitable
Dialogue: 0,1:05:41.28,1:05:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them to keep it on because he didn't pay his bill.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:44.56,1:05:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe that was right?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:46.28,1:05:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The responsibility really lies not on
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.08,1:05:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the electric company for turning it off
Dialogue: 0,1:05:50.56,1:05:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but on those of this man's neighbors and friends
Dialogue: 0,1:05:53.84,1:05:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and associates
Dialogue: 0,1:05:55.24,1:05:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were not charitable enough
Dialogue: 0,1:05:56.88,1:05:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enable him, as an individual
Dialogue: 0,1:05:58.84,1:06:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet the electric bill.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:01.00,1:06:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HMMMMMM...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:02.68,1:06:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did I hear that right?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:04.28,1:06:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did he just say the death of a man
Dialogue: 0,1:06:06.20,1:06:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused by not having money
Dialogue: 0,1:06:07.72,1:06:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the responsibility of...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:09.44,1:06:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other people...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.28,1:06:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, in effect, charity?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:13.68,1:06:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well then, I guess we're gonna need
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.28,1:06:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole lot of infomercials, little miserable
Dialogue: 0,1:06:18.28,1:06:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coin slot donations for bodega counters
Dialogue: 0,1:06:21.76,1:06:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a bunch of pickle jars
Dialogue: 0,1:06:23.60,1:06:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the billion people now starving to death
Dialogue: 0,1:06:26.40,1:06:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this planet...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:27.88,1:06:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the very system Milton Friedman promotes.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:32.68,1:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you are dealing with the philosophies of
Dialogue: 0,1:06:35.00,1:06:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Milton Friedman, F.A. Hyack
Dialogue: 0,1:06:36.84,1:06:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises
Dialogue: 0,1:06:39.44,1:06:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any other major market economist
Dialogue: 0,1:06:41.92,1:06:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the basis of rationale
Dialogue: 0,1:06:43.48,1:06:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rarely leaves the money sequence.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:46.20,1:06:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like a religion.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:47.72,1:06:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumption analysis, stabilization policies
Dialogue: 0,1:06:50.44,1:06:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deficit spending, aggregate demand...
Dialogue: 0,1:06:53.12,1:06:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it exists as a never ending, self-referring
Dialogue: 0,1:06:55.96,1:06:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-rationalizing circle of discourse
Dialogue: 0,1:06:59.28,1:07:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where universal human need, natural resources
Dialogue: 0,1:07:03.28,1:07:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any form of physical life supporting efficiency
Dialogue: 0,1:07:06.72,1:07:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is ruled out by default
Dialogue: 0,1:07:08.88,1:07:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and replaced by the singular notion that humans
Dialogue: 0,1:07:11.60,1:07:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking advantage over each other for money alone
Dialogue: 0,1:07:14.44,1:07:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motivated by their own, narrow self-interest
Dialogue: 0,1:07:17.72,1:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will magically create a sustainable, healthy, balanced society.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:22.16,1:07:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no life coordinate in this whole theory
Dialogue: 0,1:07:25.36,1:07:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole doctrine.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:26.52,1:07:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they doing?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:28.40,1:07:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What they are doing is tracking the money sequences.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:31.96,1:07:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all it is, is tracking money sequences
Dialogue: 0,1:07:35.32,1:07:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presupposing everything that matters.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:38.64,1:07:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One: There is no life coordinates...
Dialogue: 0,1:07:41.24,1:07:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoa... no life coordinates!
Dialogue: 0,1:07:43.48,1:07:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two: That all the agents are
Dialogue: 0,1:07:45.80,1:07:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-maximizing preferences seekers.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:49.04,1:07:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, they think of nothing other than themselves
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.36,1:07:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what they can get most for themselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:53.36,1:07:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the ruling notion of rationality:
Dialogue: 0,1:07:57.48,1:07:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-maximizing choice
Dialogue: 0,1:07:59.52,1:08:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only thing that they are interested in self-maximizing
Dialogue: 0,1:08:03.00,1:08:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is money or commodities.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:05.32,1:08:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, where does social relations come in?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:07.72,1:08:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't, except in the exchange to self-maximize.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:11.24,1:08:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do our natural resources come in?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:13.76,1:08:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't, except to exploit.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:16.84,1:08:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does the family come in as being able to survive?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:21.56,1:08:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't. They have to have
Dialogue: 0,1:08:23.84,1:08:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,money in order to purchase any good.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:26.76,1:08:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, shouldn't an economy
Dialogue: 0,1:08:28.24,1:08:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deal somewhere with human need?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:29.96,1:08:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that what the fundamental issue is?
Dialogue: 0,1:08:35.20,1:08:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, "need" isn't even in your lexicon.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.24,1:08:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You dissolve it into "wants"...
Dialogue: 0,1:08:41.44,1:08:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is a want? That means
Dialogue: 0,1:08:43.04,1:08:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,money demand that wants to buy.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:45.80,1:08:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if it's money demand that wants to buy
Dialogue: 0,1:08:48.40,1:08:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has nothing to do with need
Dialogue: 0,1:08:49.92,1:08:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because maybe the person has no money demand
Dialogue: 0,1:08:52.08,1:08:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and desperately needs, say, water supply.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:55.20,1:08:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, it may be money demand wants a gold toilet seat.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:58.92,1:09:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, where does it all go?
Dialogue: 0,1:09:00.52,1:09:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the gold toilet seat.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:02.24,1:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you call this economics?
Dialogue: 0,1:09:04.00,1:09:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really, when one thinks of it
Dialogue: 0,1:09:06.56,1:09:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's got to be the most bizarre
Dialogue: 0,1:09:09.72,1:09:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delusion in the history of human thought.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:14.04,1:09:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Monetary System]
Dialogue: 0,1:09:16.28,1:09:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now- so far we have focused on the market system.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:20.04,1:09:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this system is actually only
Dialogue: 0,1:09:22.32,1:09:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half of the global economic paradigm.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:24.92,1:09:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other half is the “Monetary System”.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:28.28,1:09:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the Market System deals with the interaction of people
Dialogue: 0,1:09:31.44,1:09:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gaming for profit across the spectrum of labor
Dialogue: 0,1:09:34.48,1:09:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,production and distribution
Dialogue: 0,1:09:36.44,1:09:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Monetary System is an underlying set of policies
Dialogue: 0,1:09:39.92,1:09:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set by financial institutions
Dialogue: 0,1:09:41.88,1:09:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which create conditions for the
Dialogue: 0,1:09:43.84,1:09:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,market system, among other things.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:46.08,1:09:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It includes terms we often hear
Dialogue: 0,1:09:48.88,1:09:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as interest rates, loans, debt, the money supply
Dialogue: 0,1:09:52.00,1:09:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inflation, etc.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:54.76,1:09:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while you might want to pull your hair out listening
Dialogue: 0,1:09:57.04,1:09:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the gibberish coming from the monetary economists:
Dialogue: 0,1:09:59.96,1:10:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Modest preemptive actions, can obviate the need
Dialogue: 0,1:10:04.12,1:10:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of more drastic actions, at a later date."
Dialogue: 0,1:10:07.96,1:10:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature and effect of this
Dialogue: 0,1:10:10.12,1:10:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system is actually quite simple:
Dialogue: 0,1:10:12.52,1:10:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our economy has...
Dialogue: 0,1:10:14.20,1:10:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the global economy has
Dialogue: 0,1:10:16.28,1:10:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three basic things that govern it.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:17.84,1:10:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is fractional reserve banking
Dialogue: 0,1:10:19.40,1:10:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the banks printing money out of nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:21.88,1:10:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also based upon compound interest.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:24.32,1:10:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you borrow money, you have to pay back more
Dialogue: 0,1:10:27.32,1:10:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than you borrowed, which means that you, in effect
Dialogue: 0,1:10:29.96,1:10:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create money out of thin air
Dialogue: 0,1:10:32.76,1:10:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again, which has to be serviced by creating still more money.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:36.76,1:10:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in an infinite growth paradigm.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:39.00,1:10:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The economic paradigm we live in now is a Ponzi scheme.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.76,1:10:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing grows forever.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:45.56,1:10:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:46.68,1:10:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a great psychologist James Hillman wrote
Dialogue: 0,1:10:49.40,1:10:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The only thing that grows in the human body after
Dialogue: 0,1:10:51.32,1:10:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a certain age is cancer.”
Dialogue: 0,1:10:53.56,1:10:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just the amount of money that has to keep growing
Dialogue: 0,1:10:56.08,1:10:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the amount of consumers.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.48,1:10:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumers to borrow money at interest
Dialogue: 0,1:10:59.60,1:11:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate more money and obviously, that's not possible
Dialogue: 0,1:11:02.76,1:11:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a finite planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:04.64,1:11:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are basically vehicles to just create money
Dialogue: 0,1:11:08.40,1:11:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which must create more money
Dialogue: 0,1:11:10.32,1:11:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep the whole thing from falling apart
Dialogue: 0,1:11:12.20,1:11:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what's happening right now.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:15.20,1:11:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are really only two things anyone needs to know
Dialogue: 0,1:11:17.88,1:11:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the monetary system:
Dialogue: 0,1:11:20.24,1:11:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1: All money is created out of debt.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:23.48,1:11:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Money is monetized debt
Dialogue: 0,1:11:25.72,1:11:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it materialized from treasury bonds
Dialogue: 0,1:11:28.24,1:11:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home loan contracts or credit cards.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:31.12,1:11:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, if all outstanding debt
Dialogue: 0,1:11:33.28,1:11:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to be repaid right now
Dialogue: 0,1:11:35.28,1:11:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would not be one dollar in circulation.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:38.64,1:11:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And 2: Interest is charged on virtually all loans made
Dialogue: 0,1:11:43.72,1:11:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the money needed to pay back this interest
Dialogue: 0,1:11:46.24,1:11:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not exist in the money supply outright.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:49.40,1:11:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the principal is created by the loans
Dialogue: 0,1:11:52.12,1:11:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the principal is the money supply.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:54.80,1:11:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if all this debt was to be repaid right now
Dialogue: 0,1:11:57.68,1:12:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only would there not be one dollar left in circulation
Dialogue: 0,1:12:00.88,1:12:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be a gigantic amount of money owed
Dialogue: 0,1:12:04.52,1:12:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is literally impossible to pay back, for it does not exist.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:10.64,1:12:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The consequence of all of this is that two things are inevitable:
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.84,1:12:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inflation
Dialogue: 0,1:12:16.04,1:12:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Bankruptcy.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:18.12,1:12:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as inflation, this can be seen as a historical trend
Dialogue: 0,1:12:21.64,1:12:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in virtually every country today
Dialogue: 0,1:12:23.48,1:12:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and easily tied to its cause
Dialogue: 0,1:12:25.36,1:12:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the perpetual increase of the money supply
Dialogue: 0,1:12:28.52,1:12:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is required
Dialogue: 0,1:12:29.72,1:12:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cover the interest charges and keep the system going.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:34.24,1:12:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as Bankruptcy
Dialogue: 0,1:12:35.68,1:12:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it comes in the form of debt collapse.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:39.24,1:12:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This collapse will inevitably occur with a person
Dialogue: 0,1:12:42.24,1:12:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a business or a country
Dialogue: 0,1:12:44.16,1:12:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and typically happens when the interest payments
Dialogue: 0,1:12:46.80,1:12:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are no longer possible to make.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:50.28,1:12:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is a bright side to all of this...
Dialogue: 0,1:12:52.24,1:12:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, at least in terms of the market system
Dialogue: 0,1:12:56.00,1:12:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because debt creates pressure
Dialogue: 0,1:12:58.96,1:13:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debt creates wage slaves.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:01.28,1:13:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A person in debt is much more likely to take a low wage
Dialogue: 0,1:13:04.12,1:13:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than a person who isn't
Dialogue: 0,1:13:05.64,1:13:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hence becoming a cheap commodity
Dialogue: 0,1:13:08.28,1:13:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's great for corporations to have a pool of people
Dialogue: 0,1:13:10.68,1:13:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have no financial mobility.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:13.92,1:13:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But hey - that same idea also goes for entire countries...
Dialogue: 0,1:13:18.04,1:13:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Dialogue: 0,1:13:21.00,1:13:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which mostly serve as proxies for
Dialogue: 0,1:13:23.24,1:13:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transnational corporate interests
Dialogue: 0,1:13:25.52,1:13:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give gigantic loans to troubled countries
Dialogue: 0,1:13:28.00,1:13:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at very high interest rates
Dialogue: 0,1:13:29.88,1:13:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, once the countries are
Dialogue: 0,1:13:31.88,1:13:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deeply in the hole and can't pay
Dialogue: 0,1:13:33.92,1:13:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,austerity measures are applied
Dialogue: 0,1:13:35.80,1:13:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the corporations swoop in
Dialogue: 0,1:13:37.56,1:13:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set up sweatshops and take their natural resources.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:41.48,1:13:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's market efficiency.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:45.00,1:13:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But wait – there's more:
Dialogue: 0,1:13:46.88,1:13:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see- there's this unique
Dialogue: 0,1:13:48.44,1:13:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hybrid of the monetary and market system
Dialogue: 0,1:13:50.80,1:13:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called the stock market
Dialogue: 0,1:13:52.72,1:13:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which rather than, you know, actually produce anything real
Dialogue: 0,1:13:56.32,1:13:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just buy and sell money itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:59.72,1:14:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when it comes to debt, you know what they do?
Dialogue: 0,1:14:02.36,1:14:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's right - they trade it.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:05.04,1:14:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They actually buy and sell debt for profit.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:09.04,1:14:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From credit default swaps
Dialogue: 0,1:14:10.80,1:14:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and collateralized debt obligations for consumer debt
Dialogue: 0,1:14:14.12,1:14:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to complex derivative schemes used
Dialogue: 0,1:14:16.44,1:14:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mask the debt of entire countries
Dialogue: 0,1:14:19.04,1:14:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the collusion of
Dialogue: 0,1:14:20.12,1:14:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,investment bank Goldman Sachs and Greece
Dialogue: 0,1:14:22.88,1:14:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which nearly collapsed the entire European economy.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:26.48,1:14:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when it comes to the stock market and Wall Street
Dialogue: 0,1:14:29.40,1:14:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have an entirely new level of insanity
Dialogue: 0,1:14:32.44,1:14:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born out of the Money Sequence of value.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:35.72,1:14:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you need to know about markets
Dialogue: 0,1:14:37.36,1:14:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was written in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal
Dialogue: 0,1:14:40.56,1:14:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple years ago
Dialogue: 0,1:14:41.72,1:14:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was called 'Lessons of the Brain-Damaged Investor".
Dialogue: 0,1:14:45.24,1:14:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this editorial, they explained why
Dialogue: 0,1:14:48.28,1:14:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people with slight brain damage
Dialogue: 0,1:14:50.08,1:14:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do better as investors
Dialogue: 0,1:14:52.08,1:14:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than people with normal brain functionality.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:54.80,1:14:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because the slightly
Dialogue: 0,1:14:56.68,1:14:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brain-damaged person has no empathy.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:59.24,1:15:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the key. If you don't have any empathy
Dialogue: 0,1:15:02.20,1:15:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you do well as an investor
Dialogue: 0,1:15:04.20,1:15:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so Wall Street breeds people who have no empathy.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:09.12,1:15:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To go in there and to make decisions
Dialogue: 0,1:15:11.48,1:15:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to make trades they have no compunction about
Dialogue: 0,1:15:14.40,1:15:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no thought whatsoever as to how what they are doing
Dialogue: 0,1:15:17.16,1:15:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might affect their fellow human being.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:19.12,1:15:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they breed these robots.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:21.48,1:15:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people who have no souls
Dialogue: 0,1:15:24.40,1:15:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and since they don't even want to pay these people anymore-
Dialogue: 0,1:15:27.12,1:15:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are now breeding robots – real robots –
Dialogue: 0,1:15:29.32,1:15:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real algorithmic traders.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:31.12,1:15:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman Sachs in the high frequency trading scandal:
Dialogue: 0,1:15:33.72,1:15:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they put a computer next to the New York Stock Exchange.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:37.52,1:15:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This computer, this “co-located” computer, as they call it:
Dialogue: 0,1:15:40.56,1:15:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it front-runs all the trades on the exchange and
Dialogue: 0,1:15:42.96,1:15:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hits the exchange with volumes of orders
Dialogue: 0,1:15:45.88,1:15:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that "scalp"
Dialogue: 0,1:15:47.40,1:15:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pennies and nickels away from the exchange.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:49.52,1:15:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like they're siphoning money all day long.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:52.04,1:15:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They went one quarter last year 30
Dialogue: 0,1:15:54.76,1:15:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or 60 straight days without a single down day
Dialogue: 0,1:15:57.72,1:16:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made millions of dollars every single day?
Dialogue: 0,1:16:00.24,1:16:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That statistically impossible!
Dialogue: 0,1:16:04.20,1:16:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I worked on Wall Street, the way it works is
Dialogue: 0,1:16:06.12,1:16:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone kicks upstairs to bribes.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:08.04,1:16:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The brokers bribe to the office manager
Dialogue: 0,1:16:11.92,1:16:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the office manager bribes to the regional sales manager.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:15.32,1:16:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The regional sales manager
Dialogue: 0,1:16:16.84,1:16:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bribes to the national sales manager.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:18.92,1:16:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a common understanding.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:20.48,1:16:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Christmas, who gets the biggest bonus at Christmas
Dialogue: 0,1:16:23.56,1:16:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an average broker job? The compliance officer.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:26.44,1:16:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The compliance officer sits there all day long;
Dialogue: 0,1:16:28.76,1:16:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's supposed to be making sure you
Dialogue: 0,1:16:30.28,1:16:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't violate any of the margin rules
Dialogue: 0,1:16:31.96,1:16:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're "complying" with the law.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:34.08,1:16:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, yeah, to the extent that
Dialogue: 0,1:16:36.48,1:16:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can bribe the compliance officer
Dialogue: 0,1:16:38.40,1:16:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, that's right, you are complying with the law!
Dialogue: 0,1:16:40.88,1:16:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how has fraud become the system?
Dialogue: 0,1:16:43.28,1:16:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's no longer a byproduct.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:44.96,1:16:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the system.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:46.36,1:16:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like that old Woody Allen joke. He says:
Dialogue: 0,1:16:49.16,1:16:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken.”
Dialogue: 0,1:16:51.72,1:16:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the doctor says, “Take a pill
Dialogue: 0,1:16:53.64,1:16:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that should cure the problem.”
Dialogue: 0,1:16:55.56,1:16:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, “No doctor. You don't understand
Dialogue: 0,1:16:57.28,1:16:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need the eggs.”
Dialogue: 0,1:16:59.00,1:17:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay?
Dialogue: 0,1:17:00.92,1:17:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the trading of fraudulent claims back and forth
Dialogue: 0,1:17:03.32,1:17:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between banks
Dialogue: 0,1:17:05.04,1:17:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate fees
Dialogue: 0,1:17:06.36,1:17:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate bonuses
Dialogue: 0,1:17:07.48,1:17:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has become the GDP producing growth
Dialogue: 0,1:17:11.20,1:17:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,engine of the United States economy
Dialogue: 0,1:17:14.16,1:17:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though they are essentially trading fraudulent claims
Dialogue: 0,1:17:17.20,1:17:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is absolutely no hope of ever paying back.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:19.72,1:17:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are processing, generating and re-securitizing nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:22.92,1:17:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I write $20 billion on a cocktail napkin
Dialogue: 0,1:17:25.76,1:17:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I sell it to J.P. Morgan and J.P. Morgan writes
Dialogue: 0,1:17:28.60,1:17:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,$20 billion on a cocktail napkin
Dialogue: 0,1:17:31.52,1:17:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we swap those two cocktail napkins at a bar
Dialogue: 0,1:17:34.12,1:17:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we each pay ourselves a quarter of 1% in a fee
Dialogue: 0,1:17:37.76,1:17:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we make a lot of money for our Christmas bonus.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:39.88,1:17:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We each have on our books a $20 billion cocktail napkin
Dialogue: 0,1:17:43.40,1:17:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has no real value until such time as
Dialogue: 0,1:17:47.16,1:17:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the system is no longer able to absorb bogus
Dialogue: 0,1:17:50.12,1:17:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cocktail napkins in which case we go to the government
Dialogue: 0,1:17:52.80,1:17:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get bailed out.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:55.00,1:17:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of Wall street and the global stock market
Dialogue: 0,1:17:57.76,1:18:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are now conservatively about 700 Trillion dollars
Dialogue: 0,1:18:01.32,1:18:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of outstanding fraudulent claims-
Dialogue: 0,1:18:03.88,1:18:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know as derivatives
Dialogue: 0,1:18:05.64,1:18:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still waiting to collapse.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:07.96,1:18:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A value amounting to over 10
Dialogue: 0,1:18:09.68,1:18:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,times the gross domestic product
Dialogue: 0,1:18:11.72,1:18:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the entire planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:14.16,1:18:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while we have seen the bailouts of
Dialogue: 0,1:18:16.08,1:18:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporations and banks by governments...
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.68,1:18:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, of course, comically borrow
Dialogue: 0,1:18:20.52,1:18:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their money from banks to begin with.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:22.72,1:18:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are now seeing attempts to bailout whole countries
Dialogue: 0,1:18:25.68,1:18:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by conglomerates of other countries
Dialogue: 0,1:18:27.96,1:18:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the International banks.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:30.72,1:18:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how do you bailout a planet?
Dialogue: 0,1:18:34.20,1:18:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no country out there that isn't now saturated in debt.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:38.60,1:18:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cascade of sovereign debt defaults we have seen
Dialogue: 0,1:18:41.64,1:18:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can only be the beginning, when the math is taken into account.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:46.16,1:18:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has been estimated in the United States alone
Dialogue: 0,1:18:49.28,1:18:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that income tax would need to be raised to 65%
Dialogue: 0,1:18:52.96,1:18:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,per person just to cover the interest in the near future.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:57.44,1:19:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades
Dialogue: 0,1:19:00.56,1:19:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:05.96,1:19:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But hold on-- Let me get this straight.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:09.32,1:19:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is going bankrupt
Dialogue: 0,1:19:12.12,1:19:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever the hell that means
Dialogue: 0,1:19:13.72,1:19:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of this idea called "debt"
Dialogue: 0,1:19:16.16,1:19:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which doesn't even exist in the physical reality.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:19.52,1:19:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's only part of a game we've invented...
Dialogue: 0,1:19:22.40,1:19:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet the well being of billions of people
Dialogue: 0,1:19:25.68,1:19:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now being compromised.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:27.92,1:19:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Extreme layoffs - tent cities- accelerating poverty
Dialogue: 0,1:19:32.48,1:19:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Austerity measures imposed - schools shutting down -
Dialogue: 0,1:19:35.88,1:19:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,child hunger...and other levels of familial deprivation
Dialogue: 0,1:19:40.20,1:19:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all because of this elaborate fiction...
Dialogue: 0,1:19:44.16,1:19:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we, fucking stupid?!
Dialogue: 0,1:19:48.92,1:19:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey! Hey! Mars- my man.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:50.80,1:19:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help a brother out, uh?
Dialogue: 0,1:19:54.88,1:19:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grow up, kid.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:04.32,1:20:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saturn! What's up man?
Dialogue: 0,1:20:06.60,1:20:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember that smokin' nebula I hooked you up with
Dialogue: 0,1:20:08.92,1:20:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a while back?
Dialogue: 0,1:20:12.08,1:20:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh- listen Earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:13.44,1:20:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're getting really tired of you.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:15.80,1:20:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've been given everything and yet you waste it all.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:18.60,1:20:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got plenty of resources and you know it.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:21.32,1:20:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't you grow up and learn
Dialogue: 0,1:20:22.80,1:20:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some responsibility for Christ's sake.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:24.96,1:20:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're making your mother miserable.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:32.68,1:20:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're on your own, pal.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:34.52,1:20:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, whatever.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:42.96,1:20:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Public Health]
Dialogue: 0,1:20:45.56,1:20:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, all of this considered...
Dialogue: 0,1:20:47.80,1:20:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the waste machine known as the market system-
Dialogue: 0,1:20:50.60,1:20:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the debt machine known as the monetary system-
Dialogue: 0,1:20:53.84,1:20:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hence creating the monetary-market paradigm
Dialogue: 0,1:20:57.48,1:21:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which defines the global economy today...
Dialogue: 0,1:21:00.48,1:21:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is one consequence that runs through
Dialogue: 0,1:21:03.04,1:21:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire machine:
Dialogue: 0,1:21:05.56,1:21:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inequality.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:07.92,1:21:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it is market system which creates a natural
Dialogue: 0,1:21:10.64,1:21:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation
Dialogue: 0,1:21:14.72,1:21:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while also generating pockets of wealthy industries
Dialogue: 0,1:21:17.92,1:21:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that tower over others
Dialogue: 0,1:21:20.12,1:21:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of utility-
Dialogue: 0,1:21:22.16,1:21:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the fact that top
Dialogue: 0,1:21:23.56,1:21:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hedge fund managers on wall street
Dialogue: 0,1:21:25.44,1:21:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now take home over 300 million dollars a year
Dialogue: 0,1:21:29.00,1:21:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for contributing literally nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:31.96,1:21:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While a scientist looking for a cure for a disease
Dialogue: 0,1:21:35.24,1:21:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to help humanity
Dialogue: 0,1:21:37.20,1:21:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might make 60 thousand dollars a year if they're lucky.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:41.24,1:21:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or whether it is the monetary system
Dialogue: 0,1:21:43.72,1:21:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has class division built right into its structure.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:47.48,1:21:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example:
Dialogue: 0,1:21:48.56,1:21:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I have 1 million dollars to spare and I put it into a CD
Dialogue: 0,1:21:52.16,1:21:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at 4% interest-
Dialogue: 0,1:21:53.76,1:21:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will make 40,000 dollars a year.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:55.88,1:21:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No social contribution- no nothing.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:59.16,1:22:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans
Dialogue: 0,1:22:02.08,1:22:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy my car or home
Dialogue: 0,1:22:04.04,1:22:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am paying in interest which
Dialogue: 0,1:22:06.32,1:22:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in abstraction
Dialogue: 0,1:22:07.52,1:22:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:11.88,1:22:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This stealing from the poor to pay the rich
Dialogue: 0,1:22:14.60,1:22:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a foundational, built in aspect of the monetary system.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:18.92,1:22:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:23.36,1:22:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, historically, social stratification
Dialogue: 0,1:22:26.12,1:22:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has always been deemed unfair
Dialogue: 0,1:22:28.48,1:22:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but obviously accepted overall
Dialogue: 0,1:22:30.32,1:22:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:35.64,1:22:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But material fairness aside
Dialogue: 0,1:22:38.08,1:22:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is something else going on
Dialogue: 0,1:22:39.84,1:22:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underneath the surface of inequality
Dialogue: 0,1:22:41.96,1:22:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:46.72,1:22:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast
Dialogue: 0,1:22:50.16,1:22:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the material success of our societies
Dialogue: 0,1:22:53.04,1:22:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- unprecedented levels of wealth -
Dialogue: 0,1:22:55.56,1:22:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the many social failings.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:58.96,1:23:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the rates of
Dialogue: 0,1:23:02.12,1:23:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drug abuse or violence or self harm
Dialogue: 0,1:23:04.92,1:23:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amongst kids or mental illness
Dialogue: 0,1:23:07.76,1:23:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is clearly something going deeply wrong
Dialogue: 0,1:23:11.04,1:23:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our societies.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:12.64,1:23:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The data I have been describing
Dialogue: 0,1:23:16.28,1:23:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply shows that intuition that people
Dialogue: 0,1:23:20.12,1:23:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive
Dialogue: 0,1:23:23.36,1:23:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and socially corrosive.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:24.96,1:23:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, that intuition is truer than I think we ever imagined.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:28.92,1:23:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are very powerful psychological and social effects
Dialogue: 0,1:23:32.32,1:23:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings
Dialogue: 0,1:23:35.08,1:23:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of superiority and inferiority.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:38.44,1:23:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of division...
Dialogue: 0,1:23:40.36,1:23:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe going with the respect or disrespect
Dialogue: 0,1:23:43.68,1:23:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- people feeling looked down on at the bottom
Dialogue: 0,1:23:46.28,1:23:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, by the way, is why violence is
Dialogue: 0,1:23:48.16,1:23:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more common in more unequal societies -
Dialogue: 0,1:23:50.84,1:23:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the trigger to violence is so often people feeling looked down
Dialogue: 0,1:23:54.04,1:23:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon and disrespected.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:55.92,1:23:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is one principle I could emphasize
Dialogue: 0,1:23:59.92,1:24:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, the most important principle underlying
Dialogue: 0,1:24:04.44,1:24:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prevention of violence
Dialogue: 0,1:24:07.20,1:24:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be “Equality”.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:10.28,1:24:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The single most significant factor
Dialogue: 0,1:24:11.96,1:24:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that affects the rate of violence
Dialogue: 0,1:24:13.72,1:24:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality
Dialogue: 0,1:24:17.52,1:24:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that society.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:20.60,1:24:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what we're looking at is a sort of
Dialogue: 0,1:24:22.92,1:24:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,general social dysfunction.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:25.00,1:24:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just one or two things that go wrong
Dialogue: 0,1:24:27.60,1:24:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as inequality increases
Dialogue: 0,1:24:29.68,1:24:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems to be everything, whether we are talking about
Dialogue: 0,1:24:31.92,1:24:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crime or health or mental illness or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:34.96,1:24:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the really disturbing findings out there in public health
Dialogue: 0,1:24:38.08,1:24:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is never ever make the mistake of being poor.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:43.12,1:24:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or being born poor.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:44.80,1:24:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your health pays for it in endless sorts of ways:
Dialogue: 0,1:24:47.72,1:24:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:51.64,1:24:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you move down from the highest strata
Dialogue: 0,1:24:53.92,1:24:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in society, in terms of socioeconomic status
Dialogue: 0,1:24:56.72,1:24:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every step down, health gets worse
Dialogue: 0,1:24:59.08,1:25:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for umpteen different diseases.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:01.32,1:25:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life expectancy gets worse.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:02.84,1:25:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infant mortality rate-
Dialogue: 0,1:25:05.00,1:25:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything you could look at.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:06.36,1:25:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a huge issue has been
Dialogue: 0,1:25:08.88,1:25:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why is it that this gradient exists.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:12.48,1:25:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A simple obvious answer
Dialogue: 0,1:25:14.40,1:25:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is, 'if you're chronically sick, you're not
Dialogue: 0,1:25:16.44,1:25:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to be very productive
Dialogue: 0,1:25:18.96,1:25:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'
Dialogue: 0,1:25:21.80,1:25:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that in the slightest-
Dialogue: 0,1:25:23.32,1:25:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the very simple level that
Dialogue: 0,1:25:24.88,1:25:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could look at the
Dialogue: 0,1:25:26.20,1:25:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old
Dialogue: 0,1:25:28.32,1:25:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's going to predict something about their health
Dialogue: 0,1:25:30.72,1:25:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decades later.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:31.84,1:25:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's the direction of causality.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:33.92,1:25:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next one- 'Oh, it's perfectly obvious'-
Dialogue: 0,1:25:37.24,1:25:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poor people can't afford to go to the doctor...
Dialogue: 0,1:25:39.36,1:25:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's healthcare access?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:40.84,1:25:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's got nothing to do with that
Dialogue: 0,1:25:42.32,1:25:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you see these same gradients
Dialogue: 0,1:25:44.20,1:25:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in countries with universal health care and
Dialogue: 0,1:25:46.32,1:25:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,socialized medicine.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:47.80,1:25:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay – next 'simple explanation':
Dialogue: 0,1:25:49.64,1:25:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh -on the average- the poorer you are
Dialogue: 0,1:25:51.72,1:25:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more likely you are to smoke
Dialogue: 0,1:25:54.00,1:25:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:58.08,1:26:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, those contribute but careful studies have shown
Dialogue: 0,1:26:01.56,1:26:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:04.48,1:26:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what's left?
Dialogue: 0,1:26:05.88,1:26:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's left is having a ton to do
Dialogue: 0,1:26:08.60,1:26:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the STRESS of poverty
Dialogue: 0,1:26:11.32,1:26:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the poorer you are, starting off being
Dialogue: 0,1:26:14.64,1:26:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates...
Dialogue: 0,1:26:18.36,1:26:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the poorer you are in this country
Dialogue: 0,1:26:19.88,1:26:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the average, the worse your health is.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:21.60,1:26:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This tells us something really important:
Dialogue: 0,1:26:24.28,1:26:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the health connection with poverty
Dialogue: 0,1:26:26.16,1:26:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not about being poor it's about feeling poor.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:30.24,1:26:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress
Dialogue: 0,1:26:35.56,1:26:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an important influence on health
Dialogue: 0,1:26:38.08,1:26:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the most important sources of stress
Dialogue: 0,1:26:40.84,1:26:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the quality of social relations.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:43.72,1:26:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if there is anything that
Dialogue: 0,1:26:45.36,1:26:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lowers the quality of social relations
Dialogue: 0,1:26:47.56,1:26:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:51.44,1:26:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What science has now shown is
Dialogue: 0,1:26:53.16,1:26:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that regardless of material wealth
Dialogue: 0,1:26:55.44,1:26:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stress of simply living in a stratified society
Dialogue: 0,1:26:59.16,1:27:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems
Dialogue: 0,1:27:02.88,1:27:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the greater the inequality, the worse they become.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:07.08,1:27:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:11.52,1:27:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:15.64,1:27:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:20.00,1:27:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social Capital - meaning the
Dialogue: 0,1:27:22.00,1:27:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ability of people to trust each other:
Dialogue: 0,1:27:24.64,1:27:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naturally greater in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:27.92,1:27:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:32.44,1:27:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:37.04,1:27:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crime and Rates of Imprisonment:
Dialogue: 0,1:27:39.36,1:27:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:42.00,1:27:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes on and on:
Dialogue: 0,1:27:44.28,1:27:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Infant mortality – obesity - teen birth rate:
Dialogue: 0,1:27:47.84,1:27:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:49.92,1:27:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps most interesting:
Dialogue: 0,1:27:52.24,1:27:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Innovation: Greater in more equal countries.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:56.44,1:27:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which challenges the age old notion that a competitive
Dialogue: 0,1:27:59.84,1:28:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:04.80,1:28:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, a study done in the UK
Dialogue: 0,1:28:06.84,1:28:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called The WhiteHall Study
Dialogue: 0,1:28:08.40,1:28:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease
Dialogue: 0,1:28:11.40,1:28:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder
Dialogue: 0,1:28:14.28,1:28:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the bottom.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:15.36,1:28:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, it was found that the lowest rungs
Dialogue: 0,1:28:17.64,1:28:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the hierarchy had a 4-fold increase
Dialogue: 0,1:28:20.44,1:28:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of heart disease based mortality
Dialogue: 0,1:28:22.72,1:28:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compared to the highest rungs.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:24.84,1:28:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this pattern exists, irrespective of access to health care.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:29.04,1:28:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence - the worse a person's relative financial status
Dialogue: 0,1:28:32.72,1:28:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worse their health is going to be on average.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:35.96,1:28:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed
Dialogue: 0,1:28:38.76,1:28:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Psychosocial Stress'
Dialogue: 0,1:28:40.92,1:28:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions
Dialogue: 0,1:28:44.48,1:28:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plaguing our society today.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:46.84,1:28:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its cause?
Dialogue: 0,1:28:48.24,1:28:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Monetary-Market System.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:51.68,1:28:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make no mistake:
Dialogue: 0,1:28:53.68,1:28:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The greatest destroyer of ecology...
Dialogue: 0,1:28:56.28,1:29:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:00.16,1:29:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest purveyor of violence-
Dialogue: 0,1:29:02.56,1:29:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:07.28,1:29:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:10.92,1:29:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mental disorders - depression anxiety...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:14.04,1:29:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis
Dialogue: 0,1:29:18.04,1:29:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stopping us from moving into new methodologies
Dialogue: 0,1:29:21.28,1:29:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for personal health, global sustainability
Dialogue: 0,1:29:24.28,1:29:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and progress on this planet
Dialogue: 0,1:29:27.32,1:29:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not some corrupt Government or legislation...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:30.72,1:29:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not some rogue Corporation or banking cartel...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:34.88,1:29:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not some flaw of human nature...
Dialogue: 0,1:29:37.96,1:29:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:42.52,1:29:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is, in fact:
Dialogue: 0,1:29:43.96,1:29:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Socio-Economic System itself
Dialogue: 0,1:29:46.48,1:29:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at its very foundation.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:05.00,1:30:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Part 3: Project Earth ]
Dialogue: 0,1:30:10.68,1:30:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's imagine for a moment we had the option
Dialogue: 0,1:30:13.12,1:30:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to redesign human civilization from the ground up.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:16.20,1:30:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if, hypothetically speaking
Dialogue: 0,1:30:18.20,1:30:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we discovered an exact replica of the planet Earth
Dialogue: 0,1:30:21.16,1:30:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only difference between
Dialogue: 0,1:30:23.08,1:30:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this new planet and our current one
Dialogue: 0,1:30:24.60,1:30:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that human evolution had not occurred.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:27.08,1:30:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an open palette.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:28.64,1:30:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No countries, no cities, no pollution, no republicans....
Dialogue: 0,1:30:32.68,1:30:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a pristine, open environment.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:35.64,1:30:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what would we do?
Dialogue: 0,1:30:37.68,1:30:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, first we need a “goal”, right?
Dialogue: 0,1:30:40.44,1:30:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's safe to say that goal would be to survive.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:43.92,1:30:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not to just survive, but to do so in an optimized, healthy
Dialogue: 0,1:30:47.68,1:30:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prosperous way.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:49.24,1:30:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people, indeed, desire to live and
Dialogue: 0,1:30:51.56,1:30:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would prefer to do so without suffering.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:54.04,1:30:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, the basis of this civilization
Dialogue: 0,1:30:56.60,1:30:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs to be as supportive and hence
Dialogue: 0,1:30:58.84,1:31:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sustainable for human life as possible-
Dialogue: 0,1:31:01.48,1:31:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking into account the material needs
Dialogue: 0,1:31:03.64,1:31:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the world's people
Dialogue: 0,1:31:05.32,1:31:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while trying to remove anything
Dialogue: 0,1:31:07.04,1:31:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can could hurt us in the long run.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:09.52,1:31:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With that goal of “Maximum Sustainability” understood
Dialogue: 0,1:31:13.76,1:31:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next question regards our “method”.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:16.64,1:31:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of approach do we take?
Dialogue: 0,1:31:18.96,1:31:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let's see-
Dialogue: 0,1:31:20.40,1:31:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last I checked, politics was the method of social operation on Earth...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:24.80,1:31:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so what do the doctrines of the republicans, liberals
Dialogue: 0,1:31:27.76,1:31:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conservatives or socialists have to say about societal design?
Dialogue: 0,1:31:32.64,1:31:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hmmm... not a damn thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:35.84,1:31:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay then - what about religion?
Dialogue: 0,1:31:38.04,1:31:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely the great creator had to have left some blueprints somewhere...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:41.92,1:31:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nope...nothing I can find.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:44.48,1:31:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay then - so what's left?
Dialogue: 0,1:31:46.84,1:31:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It appears something called “Science”.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:49.72,1:31:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science is unique in that its methods demand not only that ideas
Dialogue: 0,1:31:53.64,1:31:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proposed be tested and replicated...
Dialogue: 0,1:31:56.56,1:32:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:01.20,1:32:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, unlike religion and politics
Dialogue: 0,1:32:03.80,1:32:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,science has no ego
Dialogue: 0,1:32:05.52,1:32:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything it suggests accepts the possibility
Dialogue: 0,1:32:08.56,1:32:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being proven wrong eventually.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:11.36,1:32:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It holds on to nothing and evolves constantly.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:14.68,1:32:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that sounds natural enough to me.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:17.32,1:32:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then - based on the current state of scientific knowledge
Dialogue: 0,1:32:20.64,1:32:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early 21st century
Dialogue: 0,1:32:22.52,1:32:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with our goal of “maximum sustainability”
Dialogue: 0,1:32:25.28,1:32:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the human population
Dialogue: 0,1:32:27.04,1:32:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do we begin the actual process of construction?
Dialogue: 0,1:32:30.60,1:32:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the first question to ask is:
Dialogue: 0,1:32:32.52,1:32:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we need to survive?
Dialogue: 0,1:32:35.04,1:32:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The answer, of course, are Planetary Resources.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:38.56,1:32:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it is the water we drink, the energy we use
Dialogue: 0,1:32:41.68,1:32:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the raw materials we utilize to create tools and shelter
Dialogue: 0,1:32:45.64,1:32:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the planet hosts an inventory of resources-
Dialogue: 0,1:32:48.76,1:32:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of which are demanded for our survival.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:52.48,1:32:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, given that reality
Dialogue: 0,1:32:54.08,1:32:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it then becomes critical to figure out what we have and where it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:58.84,1:33:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means we need to conduct a survey.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:01.24,1:33:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We simply locate and identify every physical resource on the planet
Dialogue: 0,1:33:05.04,1:33:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can, along with the amount available at each location
Dialogue: 0,1:33:09.24,1:33:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the deposits of copper, to the most potent locations for
Dialogue: 0,1:33:12.56,1:33:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wind farms to produce energy
Dialogue: 0,1:33:14.96,1:33:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the natural fresh water springs
Dialogue: 0,1:33:17.00,1:33:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an assessment of the amount of fish in the ocean
Dialogue: 0,1:33:19.88,1:33:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the most prime arable land for food cultivation, etc.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:24.96,1:33:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, since we humans are going to be
Dialogue: 0,1:33:27.04,1:33:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consuming these resources over time
Dialogue: 0,1:33:29.48,1:33:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we then realize that not only do we need to locate and identify-
Dialogue: 0,1:33:33.72,1:33:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we also need to track.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:36.04,1:33:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to make sure we don't run out of any of this stuff...
Dialogue: 0,1:33:38.72,1:33:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would be bad.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:40.16,1:33:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this means not only tracking our rates of use
Dialogue: 0,1:33:42.92,1:33:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the rates of earthly regeneration as well
Dialogue: 0,1:33:46.44,1:33:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as how long it takes for, say
Dialogue: 0,1:33:49.16,1:33:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tree to grow or a spring to replenish.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:52.20,1:33:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is called “Dynamic Equilibrium”.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:55.80,1:33:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, if we use up trees faster than they can be grown back-
Dialogue: 0,1:33:59.92,1:34:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have a serious problem, for it is unsustainable.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:03.96,1:34:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then, how do we track this inventory
Dialogue: 0,1:34:06.72,1:34:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially when we recognize that all
Dialogue: 0,1:34:09.12,1:34:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this stuff is scattered everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:11.60,1:34:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have large mineral mines in what we call Africa
Dialogue: 0,1:34:15.20,1:34:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy concentrations in the Middle East
Dialogue: 0,1:34:17.56,1:34:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge tidal power possibilities on the Atlantic coast of North America
Dialogue: 0,1:34:21.48,1:34:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest supply of fresh water in Brazil, etc.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:25.88,1:34:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, once again, good old science has a suggestion:
Dialogue: 0,1:34:29.88,1:34:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's called “Systems theory”.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:32.20,1:34:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Systems theory recognizes that the fabric of the natural world
Dialogue: 0,1:34:36.12,1:34:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from human biology to the earthly biosphere
Dialogue: 0,1:34:39.32,1:34:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the gravitational pull of the solar system itself
Dialogue: 0,1:34:42.56,1:34:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one huge synergistically connected system - fully interlinked.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:47.84,1:34:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as human cells connect to form our organs
Dialogue: 0,1:34:50.64,1:34:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the organs connect to form our bodies
Dialogue: 0,1:34:53.04,1:34:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and since our bodies cannot live without the earthy resources
Dialogue: 0,1:34:56.28,1:35:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of food, air and water, we are intrinsically connected to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:01.00,1:35:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so on.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:02.88,1:35:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So - as nature suggests, we take all of this inventory
Dialogue: 0,1:35:06.00,1:35:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tracking data and create a “system” to manage it.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:10.12,1:35:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A “Global Resource Management System”, in fact
Dialogue: 0,1:35:13.56,1:35:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to account for every relevant resource on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:17.00,1:35:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is simply no logical alternative if our goal as a species
Dialogue: 0,1:35:21.00,1:35:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is survival in the long run. We have to keep track as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:26.28,1:35:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That understood, we can now consider production.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:29.60,1:35:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we use all this stuff?
Dialogue: 0,1:35:31.32,1:35:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will our process of production be and what do we need
Dialogue: 0,1:35:34.72,1:35:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to consider to make sure it is as optimized as possible
Dialogue: 0,1:35:38.32,1:35:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maximize our sustainability?
Dialogue: 0,1:35:41.72,1:35:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well the first thing that jumps right out at us is the fact that
Dialogue: 0,1:35:44.64,1:35:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to constantly try and preserve.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:47.60,1:35:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The planet's resources are essentially finite.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:50.76,1:35:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is important that we be “strategic”.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:53.68,1:35:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Strategic Preservation" is key.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:57.24,1:36:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing we recognize, is that some resources
Dialogue: 0,1:36:00.20,1:36:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really not as good as others in their performance.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:03.24,1:36:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, some of this stuff, when put into use
Dialogue: 0,1:36:06.08,1:36:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a terrible effect of the environment
Dialogue: 0,1:36:08.28,1:36:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which invariably hinders our own health.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:10.96,1:36:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it
Dialogue: 0,1:36:15.36,1:36:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:18.84,1:36:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, it is critical that we do our best to use such things
Dialogue: 0,1:36:22.20,1:36:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only when we really have to - if at all.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:25.92,1:36:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave -
Dialogue: 0,1:36:30.88,1:36:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production
Dialogue: 0,1:36:35.04,1:36:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we can strategize objectively about what we use and where
Dialogue: 0,1:36:39.48,1:36:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to avoid what could be called “negative retroactions”
Dialogue: 0,1:36:43.72,1:36:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anything that results from production or use
Dialogue: 0,1:36:47.20,1:36:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that damages the environment and hence, ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:50.76,1:36:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will call this “Strategic Safety”
Dialogue: 0,1:36:53.76,1:36:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation”.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:57.88,1:37:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But production strategies do not stop there.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:00.44,1:37:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to need an "Efficiency Strategy”
Dialogue: 0,1:37:03.52,1:37:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the actual mechanics of production itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:06.72,1:37:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we find is that there are roughly
Dialogue: 0,1:37:09.36,1:37:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three specific protocols we must adhere to:
Dialogue: 0,1:37:12.12,1:37:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One: Every good we produce must be
Dialogue: 0,1:37:14.56,1:37:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designed to last as long as possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:17.28,1:37:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Naturally, the more things breakdown
Dialogue: 0,1:37:19.52,1:37:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more resources we are going to need to replace them
Dialogue: 0,1:37:22.56,1:37:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more waste produced.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:24.96,1:37:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two: When things do break down
Dialogue: 0,1:37:27.44,1:37:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are no longer usable for whatever reason
Dialogue: 0,1:37:30.04,1:37:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is critical that we harvest, or recycle as much as we possibly can.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:34.72,1:37:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the production design must take this into
Dialogue: 0,1:37:38.08,1:37:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,account directly at the very earliest stages.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:41.68,1:37:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three: Quickly evolving technologies, such as electronics
Dialogue: 0,1:37:45.88,1:37:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are subject to the fastest rates of technological obsolescence
Dialogue: 0,1:37:49.60,1:37:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would need to be designed to
Dialogue: 0,1:37:51.88,1:37:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreshadow and accommodate physical updates.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:55.44,1:37:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer
Dialogue: 0,1:37:59.16,1:38:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system just because it has only one broken part or is outdated.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:03.08,1:38:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we simply design the components to be easily updated
Dialogue: 0,1:38:06.88,1:38:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable
Dialogue: 0,1:38:11.40,1:38:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:15.68,1:38:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”
Dialogue: 0,1:38:19.44,1:38:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”
Dialogue: 0,1:38:22.96,1:38:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are purely technical considerations
Dialogue: 0,1:38:25.68,1:38:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devoid of any human opinion or bias
Dialogue: 0,1:38:28.88,1:38:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we simply program these strategies into a computer
Dialogue: 0,1:38:31.96,1:38:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can weigh and calculate all the relevant variables
Dialogue: 0,1:38:35.00,1:38:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allowing us to always arrive at the
Dialogue: 0,1:38:37.40,1:38:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolute best method for sustainable production
Dialogue: 0,1:38:40.80,1:38:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on current understandings.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:43.56,1:38:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while that might sound complex
Dialogue: 0,1:38:46.04,1:38:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all it is is a glorified calculator
Dialogue: 0,1:38:48.52,1:38:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to mention that such multi-varied
Dialogue: 0,1:38:50.48,1:38:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decision making and monitoring systems
Dialogue: 0,1:38:52.72,1:38:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are already used across the world today
Dialogue: 0,1:38:54.92,1:39:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for isolated purposes. It is simply a process of scaling it out.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:00.16,1:39:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...
Dialogue: 0,1:39:01.40,1:39:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we not only have our Resource Management System
Dialogue: 0,1:39:04.64,1:39:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also a Production Management System
Dialogue: 0,1:39:07.80,1:39:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both of which are easily computer automated
Dialogue: 0,1:39:10.40,1:39:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maximize efficiency, preservation & safety.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:14.32,1:39:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The informational reality is that the human mind
Dialogue: 0,1:39:17.28,1:39:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even a group of humans, cannot track what needs to be tracked.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:21.28,1:39:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It must be done by computers and it can be.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:25.84,1:39:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this bring us to the next level: Distribution.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:29.40,1:39:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sustainability strategies make sense here?
Dialogue: 0,1:39:32.48,1:39:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, since we know that the shortest
Dialogue: 0,1:39:33.92,1:39:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distance between two points is a straight line
Dialogue: 0,1:39:37.12,1:39:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and since energy is required to power transport machines
Dialogue: 0,1:39:40.64,1:39:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the less transport distance, the more efficient.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:44.16,1:39:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Producing goods in one continent and shipping them over to another
Dialogue: 0,1:39:48.40,1:39:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only makes sense if the goods in question simply cannot
Dialogue: 0,1:39:51.48,1:39:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be produced in the target area.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:54.00,1:39:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, it is nothing but wasteful.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:56.72,1:40:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must localize production, so distribution is simple
Dialogue: 0,1:40:00.40,1:40:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fast and requires the least amount of energy.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:03.56,1:40:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll call this the “Proximity Strategy”
Dialogue: 0,1:40:06.48,1:40:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which simply means we reduce the
Dialogue: 0,1:40:08.32,1:40:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,travel of goods as much as possible
Dialogue: 0,1:40:10.28,1:40:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether raw materials or finished consumer products.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:14.32,1:40:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, it might also be important to
Dialogue: 0,1:40:16.80,1:40:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know what goods are we transporting and why...
Dialogue: 0,1:40:19.52,1:40:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this falls under the category of Demand.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:22.76,1:40:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And demand is simply what people need to be
Dialogue: 0,1:40:25.40,1:40:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,healthy and to have a high quality of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:28.00,1:40:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The spectrum of material human needs
Dialogue: 0,1:40:30.28,1:40:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,range from core life supporting necessities
Dialogue: 0,1:40:33.36,1:40:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as food, clean water and shelter...
Dialogue: 0,1:40:36.52,1:40:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to social and recreational goods which allow for relaxation
Dialogue: 0,1:40:40.28,1:40:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and personal - social enjoyment -
Dialogue: 0,1:40:42.72,1:40:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both important factors in human and social health overall.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:47.68,1:40:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So - very simply- we take another survey.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:50.48,1:40:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People describe their needs, demand is
Dialogue: 0,1:40:52.88,1:40:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assessed and production begins based on that demand.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:56.20,1:40:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since the level of demand of different goods will
Dialogue: 0,1:40:59.40,1:41:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,naturally fluctuate and change around different regions
Dialogue: 0,1:41:02.76,1:41:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to create a “Demand / Distribution Tracking System"
Dialogue: 0,1:41:06.68,1:41:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so to avoid overruns and shortages.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:10.28,1:41:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, this idea is old news
Dialogue: 0,1:41:12.36,1:41:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is used in every major store chain today
Dialogue: 0,1:41:15.44,1:41:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure they keep up with their inventory.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:18.16,1:41:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only this time, we are tracking on a global scale.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:21.92,1:41:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But wait a minute. We really can't fully understand demand
Dialogue: 0,1:41:25.76,1:41:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:30.04,1:41:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it logical and sustainable for every single human to, say
Dialogue: 0,1:41:34.12,1:41:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have one of everything made? Regardless of their usage?
Dialogue: 0,1:41:38.64,1:41:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:43.00,1:41:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a person has a need for a good but that need is only for say:
Dialogue: 0,1:41:46.84,1:41:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,45 minutes a day on average
Dialogue: 0,1:41:49.16,1:41:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be much more efficient if
Dialogue: 0,1:41:51.00,1:41:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that good was made available to them
Dialogue: 0,1:41:52.84,1:41:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to others when needed.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:56.00,1:41:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many forget that it isn't the good they want
Dialogue: 0,1:41:58.84,1:42:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the purpose of that good.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:00.88,1:42:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we realize that the good itself
Dialogue: 0,1:42:03.00,1:42:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only as important as its utility
Dialogue: 0,1:42:05.24,1:42:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that “external restriction”
Dialogue: 0,1:42:08.08,1:42:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what we might call today “ownership”
Dialogue: 0,1:42:10.84,1:42:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is extremely wasteful and environmentally illogical
Dialogue: 0,1:42:14.28,1:42:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a fundamental, economic sense.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:17.60,1:42:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need devise a strategy called: “Strategic Access”.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:22.84,1:42:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This would be the foundation of our
Dialogue: 0,1:42:24.76,1:42:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Demand / Distribution Tracking System.”
Dialogue: 0,1:42:26.92,1:42:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which makes sure we can meet the
Dialogue: 0,1:42:28.68,1:42:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demand of the population's needs
Dialogue: 0,1:42:30.36,1:42:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for access of whatever they need, when they need it.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:34.84,1:42:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as far as physically obtaining the goods
Dialogue: 0,1:42:37.56,1:42:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,centralized and regional access
Dialogue: 0,1:42:39.72,1:42:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,centers all make sense for the most part
Dialogue: 0,1:42:42.48,1:42:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,placed in close proximity to the population
Dialogue: 0,1:42:45.68,1:42:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a person would simply come in, take the item
Dialogue: 0,1:42:48.56,1:42:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use it and when finished, return it when no longer needed...
Dialogue: 0,1:42:52.28,1:42:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of how a library works today.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:54.68,1:42:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, these centers could not only exist in
Dialogue: 0,1:42:57.40,1:43:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the community in the way we see local stores today
Dialogue: 0,1:43:00.12,1:43:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but specialized access centers would exist in specific areas
Dialogue: 0,1:43:04.36,1:43:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where often certain goods are utilized
Dialogue: 0,1:43:06.84,1:43:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saving more energy with less repeat transport.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:10.56,1:43:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once this Demand Tracking System is in order
Dialogue: 0,1:43:13.88,1:43:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is tied into our Production Management system
Dialogue: 0,1:43:16.60,1:43:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, of course, into our Resource Management system
Dialogue: 0,1:43:20.04,1:43:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hence creating a unified dynamically updating
Dialogue: 0,1:43:23.08,1:43:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,global economic management machine
Dialogue: 0,1:43:26.04,1:43:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that simply makes sure we remain sustainable
Dialogue: 0,1:43:28.88,1:43:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources
Dialogue: 0,1:43:32.76,1:43:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving to make sure we only create the best
Dialogue: 0,1:43:35.60,1:43:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most strategic goods possible
Dialogue: 0,1:43:37.60,1:43:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while distributing everything in the
Dialogue: 0,1:43:40.16,1:43:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most intelligent and efficient way.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:42.72,1:43:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the unique result of this preservation based approach
Dialogue: 0,1:43:47.40,1:43:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is intuitively counter to many
Dialogue: 0,1:43:50.16,1:43:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that this logical, ground up
Dialogue: 0,1:43:52.60,1:43:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,empirical process of preservation and efficiency
Dialogue: 0,1:43:56.16,1:44:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can only define true human sustainability on the planet
Dialogue: 0,1:44:01.04,1:44:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would likely enable something never before seen in human history.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:05.72,1:44:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Access Abundance...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:07.84,1:44:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just for a percentage of the global population...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:11.12,1:44:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the entire civilization.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:15.56,1:44:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This economic model, as was just generalized...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:18.28,1:44:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This responsible, systems approach to total Earth
Dialogue: 0,1:44:21.04,1:44:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resource management and processes
Dialogue: 0,1:44:24.12,1:44:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designed again to do nothing less
Dialogue: 0,1:44:26.04,1:44:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than take care of humanity as whole
Dialogue: 0,1:44:28.20,1:44:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most efficient and sustainable way
Dialogue: 0,1:44:31.04,1:44:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be termed:
Dialogue: 0,1:44:32.36,1:44:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:35.48,1:44:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea was defined in the 1970s by
Dialogue: 0,1:44:38.40,1:44:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social Engineer- Jacque Fresco.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:41.12,1:44:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He understood back then that society was on a collision course
Dialogue: 0,1:44:44.40,1:44:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with nature and itself - unsustainable on every level
Dialogue: 0,1:44:48.64,1:44:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if things didn't change
Dialogue: 0,1:44:50.60,1:44:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:54.04,1:44:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are all of these things you are saying, Jacque...
Dialogue: 0,1:44:56.28,1:44:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could they be built with what we know today?
Dialogue: 0,1:44:58.76,1:45:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are you guessing... based on what we know today.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:03.04,1:45:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, all of these things can be built with what we know today.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:06.36,1:45:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:09.44,1:45:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:12.20,1:45:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The choice lies with you.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:13.72,1:45:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stupidity of a nuclear arms race...
Dialogue: 0,1:45:16.24,1:45:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the development of weapons...
Dialogue: 0,1:45:17.80,1:45:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to solve your problems politically
Dialogue: 0,1:45:20.04,1:45:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by electing this political party or that political party...
Dialogue: 0,1:45:23.12,1:45:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all politics is immersed in corruption.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:25.68,1:45:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me say it again:
Dialogue: 0,1:45:26.80,1:45:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Communism, socialism, fascism... the Democrats
Dialogue: 0,1:45:30.32,1:45:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the liberals- we want to absorb human beings.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:33.60,1:45:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All organizations that believe in a better life for man:
Dialogue: 0,1:45:37.04,1:45:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are no Negro problems or Polish problems
Dialogue: 0,1:45:40.16,1:45:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Jewish problems or Greek problems
Dialogue: 0,1:45:42.48,1:45:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or women's problems – there are human problems!
Dialogue: 0,1:45:45.00,1:45:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not afraid of anybody; I don't work for anyone;
Dialogue: 0,1:45:47.88,1:45:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one can discharge me.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:49.48,1:45:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no boss.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:50.92,1:45:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:54.04,1:45:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:57.84,1:45:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was great - the free enterprise system -
Dialogue: 0,1:45:59.96,1:46:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:03.48,1:46:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:08.04,1:46:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The horror movies of the future will be our society...
Dialogue: 0,1:46:12.08,1:46:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way it didn't work
Dialogue: 0,1:46:14.04,1:46:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and politics...
Dialogue: 0,1:46:15.40,1:46:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be part of a horror movie.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:19.80,1:46:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'
Dialogue: 0,1:46:24.76,1:46:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's analytical
Dialogue: 0,1:46:27.12,1:46:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don't even know what analytical means.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:29.88,1:46:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science means: closer approximations
Dialogue: 0,1:46:32.80,1:46:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the way the world really works.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:35.60,1:46:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's telling the truth - is what it is
Dialogue: 0,1:46:38.84,1:46:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:41.76,1:46:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They tell them what their findings are.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:44.44,1:46:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to question all things
Dialogue: 0,1:46:47.04,1:46:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows
Dialogue: 0,1:46:51.16,1:46:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain materials have certain strengths
Dialogue: 0,1:46:53.68,1:46:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other scientists have to be able to duplicate
Dialogue: 0,1:46:56.32,1:46:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that experiment and come up with the same results.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:59.28,1:47:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing
Dialogue: 0,1:47:03.48,1:47:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to mathematics or calculations
Dialogue: 0,1:47:05.60,1:47:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can hold up a given amount of weight
Dialogue: 0,1:47:07.92,1:47:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they still pile sandbags on it
Dialogue: 0,1:47:10.80,1:47:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see when it breaks and they say
Dialogue: 0,1:47:12.72,1:47:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:16.48,1:47:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that system because it's free of bias
Dialogue: 0,1:47:19.96,1:47:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:23.40,1:47:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to put your Math to test also.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:26.24,1:47:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that every system that can
Dialogue: 0,1:47:28.80,1:47:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be put to test should be put to test.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:31.56,1:47:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that all decisions should be based upon research.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:36.76,1:47:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Resource-Based Economy is simply the
Dialogue: 0,1:47:39.36,1:47:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientific method applied to social concern-
Dialogue: 0,1:47:42.20,1:47:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an approach utterly absent in the world today.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:45.28,1:47:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Society is a technical invention.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:47.56,1:47:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the most efficient methods of optimized human health
Dialogue: 0,1:47:50.68,1:47:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like
Dialogue: 0,1:47:55.08,1:47:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reside in the field of science and
Dialogue: 0,1:47:57.52,1:48:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technology - not politics or monetary economics.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:00.88,1:48:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane
Dialogue: 0,1:48:05.00,1:48:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:09.36,1:48:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, nature itself is the
Dialogue: 0,1:48:11.44,1:48:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physical referent we use to prove our science
Dialogue: 0,1:48:14.28,1:48:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is a set system-
Dialogue: 0,1:48:16.20,1:48:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emerging only from our increased understanding of it.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:19.56,1:48:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it has no regard for what you
Dialogue: 0,1:48:22.00,1:48:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,subjectively think or believe to be true.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:24.60,1:48:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, it gives you an option:
Dialogue: 0,1:48:26.60,1:48:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can learn and fall in line with its
Dialogue: 0,1:48:28.68,1:48:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly-
Dialogue: 0,1:48:31.16,1:48:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invariably creating good health & sustainability...
Dialogue: 0,1:48:34.48,1:48:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you can go against the current - to no avail.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:37.68,1:48:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just
Dialogue: 0,1:48:40.04,1:48:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you
Dialogue: 0,1:48:42.44,1:48:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the law of gravity will not allow it.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:44.60,1:48:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you do not eat - you will die.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:46.68,1:48:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:49.60,1:48:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship
Dialogue: 0,1:48:53.56,1:48:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it
Dialogue: 0,1:48:56.96,1:49:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:00.40,1:49:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more
Dialogue: 0,1:49:03.36,1:49:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than a set of proven, life supporting understandings
Dialogue: 0,1:49:06.84,1:49:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where all decisions are based upon
Dialogue: 0,1:49:09.32,1:49:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,optimized human and environmental sustainability.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:12.76,1:49:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”
Dialogue: 0,1:49:16.20,1:49:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which every human being shares as a need
Dialogue: 0,1:49:18.60,1:49:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:22.88,1:49:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no cultural relativism to this approach.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:26.04,1:49:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isn't a matter of opinion.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:28.72,1:49:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human needs are human needs
Dialogue: 0,1:49:30.92,1:49:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air
Dialogue: 0,1:49:34.60,1:49:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutritious food and clean water
Dialogue: 0,1:49:37.12,1:49:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with a positively reinforcing, stable
Dialogue: 0,1:49:40.60,1:49:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded
Dialogue: 0,1:49:44.72,1:49:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for our mental and physical health
Dialogue: 0,1:49:47.04,1:49:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our evolutionary fitness
Dialogue: 0,1:49:49.04,1:49:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence, the species survival itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:52.04,1:49:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Resource-Based Economy
Dialogue: 0,1:49:54.88,1:49:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be based upon available resources.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:58.28,1:50:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't just bring a lot of people to an island
Dialogue: 0,1:50:01.44,1:50:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or build a city of 50,000 people without having access
Dialogue: 0,1:50:06.72,1:50:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the necessities of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:08.80,1:50:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'
Dialogue: 0,1:50:13.36,1:50:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first
Dialogue: 0,1:50:17.64,1:50:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and determining what that area can supply-
Dialogue: 0,1:50:20.96,1:50:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just architectural approach-
Dialogue: 0,1:50:23.48,1:50:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just design approach-
Dialogue: 0,1:50:26.00,1:50:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but design must be based on all of the requirements
Dialogue: 0,1:50:29.60,1:50:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enhance human life
Dialogue: 0,1:50:31.24,1:50:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:35.04,1:50:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -
Dialogue: 0,1:50:37.88,1:50:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those things are necessary
Dialogue: 0,1:50:40.92,1:50:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you deprive people of any of them
Dialogue: 0,1:50:43.68,1:50:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:49.28,1:50:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up
Dialogue: 0,1:50:53.12,1:50:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution
Dialogue: 0,1:50:57.68,1:51:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'
Dialogue: 0,1:51:02.64,1:51:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which guarantee efficiency and
Dialogue: 0,1:51:04.96,1:51:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sustainability in every area of the economy.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:08.72,1:51:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design-
Dialogue: 0,1:51:12.44,1:51:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is next in our equation?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:14.32,1:51:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does all this materialize?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:16.84,1:51:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:18.40,1:51:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:22.36,1:51:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life
Dialogue: 0,1:51:26.20,1:51:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with increased social support and community interaction.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:31.20,1:51:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how would we go about designing an ideal city?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:34.16,1:51:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What shape should we make it?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:35.72,1:51:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Square? Trapezoid?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:38.16,1:51:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing
Dialogue: 0,1:51:40.32,1:51:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...
Dialogue: 0,1:51:43.56,1:51:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hence the circle.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:45.92,1:51:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What should the city contain?
Dialogue: 0,1:51:47.72,1:51:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area
Dialogue: 0,1:51:51.76,1:51:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a power generation area; an agricultural area.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:55.68,1:51:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture
Dialogue: 0,1:51:58.84,1:52:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nature, recreation and education.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:02.16,1:52:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lets include a nice open park
Dialogue: 0,1:52:04.20,1:52:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing
Dialogue: 0,1:52:08.68,1:52:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and educational and research facilities.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:11.28,1:52:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since we are working with a circle
Dialogue: 0,1:52:13.56,1:52:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems rational to place these functions in Belts
Dialogue: 0,1:52:16.48,1:52:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on the amount of land required for each goal
Dialogue: 0,1:52:19.60,1:52:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with ease of access.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:22.00,1:52:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very good.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:23.56,1:52:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, let's get down to specifics:
Dialogue: 0,1:52:25.76,1:52:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First we need the consider the core
Dialogue: 0,1:52:27.88,1:52:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:31.16,1:52:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These would be the water, goods
Dialogue: 0,1:52:33.28,1:52:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waste and energy transport channels.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:35.68,1:52:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today
Dialogue: 0,1:52:39.52,1:52:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would extend this channeling concept to
Dialogue: 0,1:52:42.20,1:52:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:45.20,1:52:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more mailmen or garbage men.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:47.72,1:52:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is built right in. We could even use
Dialogue: 0,1:52:50.44,1:52:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:53.56,1:52:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same goes for transport.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:55.48,1:52:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce
Dialogue: 0,1:52:59.12,1:53:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:02.76,1:53:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and
Dialogue: 0,1:53:05.68,1:53:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maglevs which can take you virtually
Dialogue: 0,1:53:07.96,1:53:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anywhere in the city, even up and down
Dialogue: 0,1:53:10.44,1:53:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with connecting you to other cities as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:13.60,1:53:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, in the event a car is required
Dialogue: 0,1:53:16.52,1:53:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:20.32,1:53:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:24.16,1:53:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;
Dialogue: 0,1:53:29.08,1:53:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,injuring about 50 million.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:31.20,1:53:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:34.16,1:53:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars
Dialogue: 0,1:53:37.92,1:53:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this death toll can be virtually eliminated.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:41.24,1:53:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:42.72,1:53:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods
Dialogue: 0,1:53:46.24,1:53:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means
Dialogue: 0,1:53:50.44,1:53:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have successfully destroyed much
Dialogue: 0,1:53:52.40,1:53:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the the arable land on this planet
Dialogue: 0,1:53:54.36,1:53:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:57.84,1:54:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins
Dialogue: 0,1:54:01.16,1:54:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:07.20,1:54:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -
Dialogue: 0,1:54:10.16,1:54:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics
Dialogue: 0,1:54:13.64,1:54:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which also reduce nutrient and water
Dialogue: 0,1:54:16.56,1:54:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,requirements by up to 75 % of our current usage.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:20.48,1:54:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale
Dialogue: 0,1:54:24.16,1:54:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in enclosed vertical farms.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:26.72,1:54:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -
Dialogue: 0,1:54:29.68,1:54:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,virtually eliminating the need for
Dialogue: 0,1:54:32.00,1:54:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:34.68,1:54:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the future of industrial food cultivation.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:37.64,1:54:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Efficient, clean and abundant.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:40.36,1:54:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, such advanced systems would be, in part
Dialogue: 0,1:54:43.44,1:54:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what comprise our agricultural belt
Dialogue: 0,1:54:46.00,1:54:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,producing all the food required for the entire city's population
Dialogue: 0,1:54:49.68,1:54:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no need to import anything from the outside
Dialogue: 0,1:54:52.68,1:54:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saving time, waste and energy.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:56.44,1:54:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And speaking of Energy-
Dialogue: 0,1:54:58.40,1:55:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to
Dialogue: 0,1:55:01.28,1:55:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums
Dialogue: 0,1:55:04.44,1:55:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials
Dialogue: 0,1:55:08.72,1:55:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:12.68,1:55:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid intermittency and make sure
Dialogue: 0,1:55:15.00,1:55:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a positive net energy return occurs
Dialogue: 0,1:55:17.28,1:55:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these mediums would operate in an integrated system
Dialogue: 0,1:55:20.28,1:55:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powering each other when needed
Dialogue: 0,1:55:22.24,1:55:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while storing excessive energy to large
Dialogue: 0,1:55:24.52,1:55:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,super capacitors under the ground
Dialogue: 0,1:55:26.84,1:55:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so nothing can go to waste.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:29.24,1:55:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only does the city power itself
Dialogue: 0,1:55:31.64,1:55:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particular structures will also power independently
Dialogue: 0,1:55:34.92,1:55:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints
Dialogue: 0,1:55:38.04,1:55:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect
Dialogue: 0,1:55:41.64,1:55:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other current but under utilized technologies.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:45.56,1:55:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, of course, this begs the question:
Dialogue: 0,1:55:47.60,1:55:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how does this technology, and goods in
Dialogue: 0,1:55:49.72,1:55:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,general, get created in the first place?
Dialogue: 0,1:55:52.12,1:55:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This bring us to Production:
Dialogue: 0,1:55:54.04,1:55:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like
Dialogue: 0,1:55:57.24,1:55:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be the hub of factory production.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:59.64,1:56:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Completely localized overall
Dialogue: 0,1:56:01.44,1:56:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of
Dialogue: 0,1:56:03.84,1:56:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the global resource management system, just discussed-
Dialogue: 0,1:56:07.52,1:56:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:12.12,1:56:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as the mechanics of production
Dialogue: 0,1:56:14.28,1:56:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon
Dialogue: 0,1:56:17.36,1:56:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was sparked very recently in human history
Dialogue: 0,1:56:20.20,1:56:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is on pace to changing everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:23.52,1:56:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called Mechanization
Dialogue: 0,1:56:25.56,1:56:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the automation of labor.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:28.12,1:56:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if you look around, you'll notice that almost
Dialogue: 0,1:56:31.28,1:56:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that we use today
Dialogue: 0,1:56:33.92,1:56:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is built automatically.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:37.04,1:56:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...
Dialogue: 0,1:56:42.36,1:56:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are all built by machines in an automatic way.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:48.76,1:56:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we say that the society has not been
Dialogue: 0,1:56:51.88,1:56:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influenced by these major technological advancements?
Dialogue: 0,1:56:56.08,1:56:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course not.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:57.24,1:57:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These systems really dictate new structures
Dialogue: 0,1:57:02.44,1:57:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:07.88,1:57:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we have been going up in the development
Dialogue: 0,1:57:12.12,1:57:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and use of technology in an exponential way.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:16.32,1:57:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop
Dialogue: 0,1:57:21.60,1:57:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technologies that just make sense.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:24.28,1:57:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Labor automation through technology is at the bottom
Dialogue: 0,1:57:27.72,1:57:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every major social transformation in human history.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:31.16,1:57:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow
Dialogue: 0,1:57:34.44,1:57:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine
Dialogue: 0,1:57:37.88,1:57:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the information age we live in now through
Dialogue: 0,1:57:40.80,1:57:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:45.00,1:57:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with regard to advanced production methods today
Dialogue: 0,1:57:48.12,1:57:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mechanization is now evolving on its own.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:51.08,1:57:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moving away from the traditional method of
Dialogue: 0,1:57:53.60,1:57:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assembling component parts into a configuration -
Dialogue: 0,1:57:56.56,1:57:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into an advanced method of creating
Dialogue: 0,1:57:59.28,1:58:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire products in one single process.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:02.20,1:58:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is
Dialogue: 0,1:58:05.92,1:58:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:10.24,1:58:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:16.32,1:58:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As good a definition of life as we've got.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:18.48,1:58:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, as an engineer, I have always been
Dialogue: 0,1:58:20.48,1:58:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:23.16,1:58:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,RepRap is a three-dimensional printer-
Dialogue: 0,1:58:25.68,1:58:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and
Dialogue: 0,1:58:29.04,1:58:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on
Dialogue: 0,1:58:32.36,1:58:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:35.56,1:58:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there's nothing new about that
Dialogue: 0,1:58:37.48,1:58:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3-D printers have been around for about 30 years.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:40.16,1:58:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:45.04,1:58:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if you've got one, you could
Dialogue: 0,1:58:46.56,1:58:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make another one and give it to a friend
Dialogue: 0,1:58:48.32,1:58:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as being able to print lots of useful things.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:51.48,1:58:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home
Dialogue: 0,1:58:55.04,1:58:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop
Dialogue: 0,1:58:58.96,1:59:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,advanced, automated 3d printing now has the
Dialogue: 0,1:59:01.56,1:59:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potential to transform virtually every field of production.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:05.16,1:59:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Including home construction.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:07.56,1:59:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contour Crafting is
Dialogue: 0,1:59:10.16,1:59:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually a fabrication technology-
Dialogue: 0,1:59:13.00,1:59:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the so-called 3-D printing- when you directly build
Dialogue: 0,1:59:16.88,1:59:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3-D objects from a computer model.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:20.68,1:59:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible
Dialogue: 0,1:59:23.84,1:59:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build a 2000 square-foot home
Dialogue: 0,1:59:26.92,1:59:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entirely by the machine, in one day.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:31.20,1:59:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason that people are interested in automating construction
Dialogue: 0,1:59:36.32,1:59:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it really brings a lot of benefits.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:39.12,1:59:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive
Dialogue: 0,1:59:43.36,1:59:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society
Dialogue: 0,1:59:49.64,1:59:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also has issues and complications.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:54.76,1:59:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:59.68,2:00:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is worse than mining and agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:02.60,2:00:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:07.52,2:00:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another issue is the waste.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:10.24,2:00:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:15.52,2:00:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction
Dialogue: 0,2:00:21.36,2:00:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and knowing about 40% of all materials
Dialogue: 0,2:00:24.68,2:00:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world are used in construction.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:27.88,2:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a big waste of energy and resources
Dialogue: 0,2:00:31.00,2:00:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and big damage to the environment as well.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:34.44,2:00:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making homes using hammers and nails and wood
Dialogue: 0,2:00:39.40,2:00:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the state of our technology today, is really absurd
Dialogue: 0,2:00:43.68,2:00:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will go the way of our labor class in
Dialogue: 0,2:00:47.00,2:00:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regards to manufacturing in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:50.52,2:00:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT
Dialogue: 0,2:00:56.36,2:01:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that states that our middle class is obsolete
Dialogue: 0,2:01:00.28,2:01:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being replaced by automation.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:03.68,2:01:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive
Dialogue: 0,2:01:06.92,2:01:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,efficient and sustainable than human labor
Dialogue: 0,2:01:09.88,2:01:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in virtually every sector of the economy today.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:13.00,2:01:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions
Dialogue: 0,2:01:16.60,2:01:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:19.60,2:01:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The output potential and accuracy
Dialogue: 0,2:01:22.20,2:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compared to human labor, is unmatched.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:25.60,2:01:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete
Dialogue: 0,2:01:29.28,2:01:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and impractical across the world
Dialogue: 0,2:01:31.48,2:01:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the unemployment you see around you today
Dialogue: 0,2:01:34.24,2:01:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is fundamentally the result of this
Dialogue: 0,2:01:36.80,2:01:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evolution of efficiency in technology.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:40.04,2:01:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern
Dialogue: 0,2:01:43.76,2:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could be called “Technological Unemployment”
Dialogue: 0,2:01:47.00,2:01:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the fact that new sectors always seemed
Dialogue: 0,2:01:49.84,2:01:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:52.88,2:01:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, the service sector is the only real hub left
Dialogue: 0,2:01:56.12,2:01:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce
Dialogue: 0,2:01:59.84,2:02:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:04.04,2:02:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, this sector now being
Dialogue: 0,2:02:06.16,2:02:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenged increasingly by automated kiosks-
Dialogue: 0,2:02:09.24,2:02:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,automated restaurants and even automated stores.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:13.08,2:02:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Economists today are finally
Dialogue: 0,2:02:14.80,2:02:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,acknowledging what they had been denying for years:
Dialogue: 0,2:02:17.48,2:02:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current
Dialogue: 0,2:02:21.48,2:02:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,labor crisis we see across the
Dialogue: 0,2:02:23.48,2:02:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world due to the global economic downturn
Dialogue: 0,2:02:26.24,2:02:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the more the recession deepens
Dialogue: 0,2:02:28.48,2:02:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the faster the industries are mechanizing.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:31.16,2:02:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The catch, which is not realized
Dialogue: 0,2:02:33.12,2:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the faster they mechanize to save money;
Dialogue: 0,2:02:36.00,2:02:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more they displace people-
Dialogue: 0,2:02:37.76,2:02:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more they reduce public purchasing power.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:41.00,2:02:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means that, while the corporation
Dialogue: 0,2:02:42.88,2:02:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can produce everything more cheaply
Dialogue: 0,2:02:44.72,2:02:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything
Dialogue: 0,2:02:48.40,2:02:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of how cheap they become.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:51.04,2:02:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bottom line is that the “labor for
Dialogue: 0,2:02:53.80,2:02:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,income” game is slowly coming to an end.
Dialogue: 0,2:02:56.76,2:02:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, if you take a moment to reflect
Dialogue: 0,2:02:59.20,2:03:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the jobs which are in existence today
Dialogue: 0,2:03:01.60,2:03:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which automation could take over right now, if applied
Dialogue: 0,2:03:05.52,2:03:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,75% of the global workforce could be
Dialogue: 0,2:03:08.40,2:03:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,replaced by mechanization tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:11.56,2:03:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy
Dialogue: 0,2:03:14.88,2:03:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no Monetary-Market system.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:17.64,2:03:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No money at all...
Dialogue: 0,2:03:19.88,2:03:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for there is no need.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:21.40,2:03:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Resource-Based Economy
Dialogue: 0,2:03:23.08,2:03:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognizes the efficiency of mechanization
Dialogue: 0,2:03:25.84,2:03:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accepts it for what it offers.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:27.80,2:03:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't fight it, like we do today.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:30.56,2:03:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because it is irresponsible not to
Dialogue: 0,2:03:33.12,2:03:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:38.24,2:03:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this brings us back to our city system.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:41.16,2:03:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the center is the Central Dome
Dialogue: 0,2:03:43.32,2:03:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which not only houses the
Dialogue: 0,2:03:45.04,2:03:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,educational facilities and transportation hub-
Dialogue: 0,2:03:47.64,2:03:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also hosts the mainframe that
Dialogue: 0,2:03:49.84,2:03:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,runs the cities technical operations.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:52.40,2:03:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.
Dialogue: 0,2:03:55.76,2:03:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has sensors in all technical belts
Dialogue: 0,2:03:57.76,2:03:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to track the progress of architecture-
Dialogue: 0,2:03:59.80,2:04:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:04.12,2:04:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, would people be needed to oversee these
Dialogue: 0,2:04:06.64,2:04:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,operations in the event of a malfunction and the like?
Dialogue: 0,2:04:09.60,2:04:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most probably: yes.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:11.04,2:04:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that number would decrease
Dialogue: 0,2:04:12.96,2:04:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time as improvements continue.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:15.24,2:04:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, as of today, maybe 3% of
Dialogue: 0,2:04:17.32,2:04:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the city population would be needed
Dialogue: 0,2:04:19.52,2:04:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this job when you break it down.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:22.00,2:04:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can assure you:
Dialogue: 0,2:04:24.24,2:04:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in an economic system which is
Dialogue: 0,2:04:26.28,2:04:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually designed to take care of you
Dialogue: 0,2:04:28.52,2:04:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and secure your well being
Dialogue: 0,2:04:30.68,2:04:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without you having to submit to
Dialogue: 0,2:04:32.72,2:04:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,private dictatorship on a daily basis...
Dialogue: 0,2:04:35.32,2:04:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,usually to a job that is either
Dialogue: 0,2:04:37.64,2:04:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technically unnecessary or socially pointless
Dialogue: 0,2:04:40.60,2:04:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist
Dialogue: 0,2:04:43.64,2:04:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to make ends meet...
Dialogue: 0,2:04:45.80,2:04:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right
Dialogue: 0,2:04:50.44,2:04:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maintain and improve a system
Dialogue: 0,2:04:53.16,2:04:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that actually takes care of them.
Dialogue: 0,2:04:57.08,2:05:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'-
Dialogue: 0,2:05:00.28,2:05:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes the common assumption that
Dialogue: 0,2:05:02.20,2:05:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there isn't some external pressure
Dialogue: 0,2:05:04.28,2:05:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for one to “work for a living”
Dialogue: 0,2:05:06.76,2:05:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people would just sit around, do nothing
Dialogue: 0,2:05:09.32,2:05:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and turn into fat lazy blobs.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:12.16,2:05:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:14.48,2:05:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The labor system we have today is
Dialogue: 0,2:05:16.80,2:05:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in fact the generator of laziness-
Dialogue: 0,2:05:19.20,2:05:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a resolver of it.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:22.08,2:05:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think back to when you were a child-
Dialogue: 0,2:05:24.28,2:05:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of life, interested in new things to understand-
Dialogue: 0,2:05:27.40,2:05:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,likely creating and exploring...
Dialogue: 0,2:05:29.80,2:05:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as time went on, the system pushed you
Dialogue: 0,2:05:32.76,2:05:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the focus of figuring out how to make money.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:36.28,2:05:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from early education
Dialogue: 0,2:05:37.96,2:05:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to study at a university, you are narrowed.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:40.80,2:05:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only to emerge as a creature which serves
Dialogue: 0,2:05:43.64,2:05:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a cog in a wheel in a model that
Dialogue: 0,2:05:46.20,2:05:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:49.20,2:05:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact
Dialogue: 0,2:05:52.44,2:05:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not motivated by monetary reward
Dialogue: 0,2:05:55.12,2:05:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to ingenuity and creation.
Dialogue: 0,2:05:57.80,2:06:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The creation itself is the reward.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:00.68,2:06:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive
Dialogue: 0,2:06:03.60,2:06:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for repetitive, mundane actions-
Dialogue: 0,2:06:06.24,2:06:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:10.44,2:06:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it comes to innovation
Dialogue: 0,2:06:12.36,2:06:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the actual use of the human mind
Dialogue: 0,2:06:14.76,2:06:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance
Dialogue: 0,2:06:17.60,2:06:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interfering and detracting from creative thought.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:21.20,2:06:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers
Dialogue: 0,2:06:24.32,2:06:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other inventors who contributed massively
Dialogue: 0,2:06:26.84,2:06:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our current world
Dialogue: 0,2:06:28.20,2:06:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never showed a monetary incentive to do so.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:31.68,2:06:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Money is, in fact, a false incentive
Dialogue: 0,2:06:35.36,2:06:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and causes 100 times more distortion
Dialogue: 0,2:06:38.12,2:06:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it does contribution.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:42.12,2:06:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good morning class. Please settle down.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:44.80,2:06:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first thing I would like to do is go around the room
Dialogue: 0,2:06:48.00,2:06:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.
Dialogue: 0,2:06:51.76,2:06:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who would like to go first?
Dialogue: 0,2:06:54.04,2:06:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, how about you Sarah?
Dialogue: 0,2:06:56.44,2:07:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!
Dialogue: 0,2:07:00.92,2:07:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, family tradition, eh?
Dialogue: 0,2:07:03.68,2:07:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about you, Linda?
Dialogue: 0,2:07:05.76,2:07:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I grow up, I'm going to be a
Dialogue: 0,2:07:08.08,2:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prostitute on the streets of New York City!
Dialogue: 0,2:07:11.16,2:07:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh! glamour girl, huh?
Dialogue: 0,2:07:13.16,2:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very ambitious.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:15.12,2:07:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about you, Tommy?
Dialogue: 0,2:07:16.92,2:07:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I grow up, I'm going to be a
Dialogue: 0,2:07:19.00,2:07:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rich, elitist businessman who works
Dialogue: 0,2:07:21.08,2:07:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Wall Street and profits off of
Dialogue: 0,2:07:23.12,2:07:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collapse of foreign economies.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:25.20,2:07:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enterprising...
Dialogue: 0,2:07:26.48,2:07:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And great to see some multicultural interest!
Dialogue: 0,2:07:32.24,2:07:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Victims of Culture]
Dialogue: 0,2:07:33.76,2:07:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As stated before, a Resource-Based
Dialogue: 0,2:07:36.08,2:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern
Dialogue: 0,2:07:40.08,2:07:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:43.52,2:07:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also has the consideration of
Dialogue: 0,2:07:45.56,2:07:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.
Dialogue: 0,2:07:49.60,2:07:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What good is a social system if, in the end
Dialogue: 0,2:07:52.48,2:07:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?
Dialogue: 0,2:07:55.96,2:07:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it is important to point out that
Dialogue: 0,2:07:58.08,2:08:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the removal of the money system
Dialogue: 0,2:08:00.08,2:08:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the necessities of life provided
Dialogue: 0,2:08:02.56,2:08:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would see a global reduction in
Dialogue: 0,2:08:05.08,2:08:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crime by about 95% almost immediately
Dialogue: 0,2:08:08.24,2:08:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:12.04,2:08:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,95% of all people in prisons today are there
Dialogue: 0,2:08:14.96,2:08:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse
Dialogue: 0,2:08:18.40,2:08:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:23.32,2:08:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what about the other 5%?
Dialogue: 0,2:08:25.24,2:08:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the truly violent...
Dialogue: 0,2:08:27.04,2:08:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often seeming to some as being
Dialogue: 0,2:08:28.88,2:08:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,violent for the sake of being violent...
Dialogue: 0,2:08:31.24,2:08:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are they just “evil” people?
Dialogue: 0,2:08:35.08,2:08:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time
Dialogue: 0,2:08:40.44,2:08:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to engage in moral value judgments
Dialogue: 0,2:08:43.84,2:08:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about people's violence is
Dialogue: 0,2:08:46.56,2:08:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it doesn't advance by one iota
Dialogue: 0,2:08:50.48,2:08:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our understanding of either the causes
Dialogue: 0,2:08:53.68,2:08:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the prevention of the violent behavior.
Dialogue: 0,2:08:57.76,2:09:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:02.36,2:09:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My answer to that is
Dialogue: 0,2:09:04.32,2:09:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“No, I don't believe in forgiveness
Dialogue: 0,2:09:07.24,2:09:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anymore than I believe in condemnation”.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:10.24,2:09:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's only if we, as a society
Dialogue: 0,2:09:13.00,2:09:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can take the same attitude of treating violence as
Dialogue: 0,2:09:16.36,2:09:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a problem in public health and preventive medicine
Dialogue: 0,2:09:19.76,2:09:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than as a moral "evil"...
Dialogue: 0,2:09:22.88,2:09:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's only when we make that change in our
Dialogue: 0,2:09:25.60,2:09:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own attitudes and assumptions and values
Dialogue: 0,2:09:28.32,2:09:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we will actually succeed in reducing the
Dialogue: 0,2:09:31.52,2:09:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,level of violence rather than stimulating it-
Dialogue: 0,2:09:34.68,2:09:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what we do now.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:36.96,2:09:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become
Dialogue: 0,2:09:39.96,2:09:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's no such thing as justice.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:41.96,2:09:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is whatever there is out there. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:46.16,2:09:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-
Dialogue: 0,2:09:50.08,2:09:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that
Dialogue: 0,2:09:53.20,2:09:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why do you blame the person for it?
Dialogue: 0,2:09:55.00,2:09:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are a victim of a subculture.
Dialogue: 0,2:09:58.24,2:10:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore they have to be helped.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:00.28,2:10:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point is, we have to redesign the environment
Dialogue: 0,2:10:03.68,2:10:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that produces aberrant behavior.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:06.24,2:10:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the problem.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:07.40,2:10:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not putting a person in jail.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:09.60,2:10:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why judges- lawyers-
Dialogue: 0,2:10:12.52,2:10:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“freedom of choice” - such concepts
Dialogue: 0,2:10:15.24,2:10:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:19.72,2:10:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the person is “bad”... or that person is a “serial killer”.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:23.44,2:10:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Serial killers are made
Dialogue: 0,2:10:25.24,2:10:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:30.28,2:10:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They become killing machines, but nobody
Dialogue: 0,2:10:32.80,2:10:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looks at them as murderers or assassins
Dialogue: 0,2:10:35.36,2:10:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's “natural”.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:37.44,2:10:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we blame people.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:39.24,2:10:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews”.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:42.20,2:10:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, he was brought up to torture Jews.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:45.32,2:10:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you accept the fact that people
Dialogue: 0,2:10:47.92,2:10:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have individual choices and they are free
Dialogue: 0,2:10:50.76,2:10:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make those choices... Free to make
Dialogue: 0,2:10:53.28,2:10:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choices means without being influenced
Dialogue: 0,2:10:55.84,2:10:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can't understand that at all.
Dialogue: 0,2:10:58.20,2:11:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us are influenced in all of our choices
Dialogue: 0,2:11:02.00,2:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the culture we live in, by our parents
Dialogue: 0,2:11:05.04,2:11:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by the values that dominate.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:07.24,2:11:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:10.92,2:11:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:
Dialogue: 0,2:11:13.52,2:11:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't been all over the world and I don't know
Dialogue: 0,2:11:16.12,2:11:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough about different cultures to answer that question.'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:20.20,2:11:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know anybody that speaks that way.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:22.40,2:11:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say 'it's the good old USA!
Dialogue: 0,2:11:24.76,2:11:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest country in the world!'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:26.24,2:11:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:28.68,2:11:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you been to England?' - 'No.'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:30.08,2:11:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you been to France?' - 'No.'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:31.60,2:11:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then what do you make your assumptions on?'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:33.52,2:11:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't answer- they get mad at you.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:35.84,2:11:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell
Dialogue: 0,2:11:37.48,2:11:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are you to tell me what to think?!'
Dialogue: 0,2:11:39.72,2:11:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.
Dialogue: 0,2:11:42.32,2:11:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not responsible for the answers;
Dialogue: 0,2:11:44.88,2:11:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're victims of culture and that means
Dialogue: 0,2:11:47.84,2:11:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have been influenced by their culture.
Dialogue: 0,2:12:09.20,2:12:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Part 4: Rise]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:17.96,2:12:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we consider a Resource-Based Economy
Dialogue: 0,2:12:20.08,2:12:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...
Dialogue: 0,2:12:23.36,2:12:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[EH!] (Interrupted)
Dialogue: 0,2:12:24.84,2:12:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eh! Hey!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:26.68,2:12:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Now hold on just a minute!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:29.32,2:12:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:33.72,2:12:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:38.32,2:12:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[My father died in the Gulag!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:41.80,2:12:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Communist! Fascist!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:44.32,2:12:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[You don't like America you should just leave!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:45.72,2:12:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, everybody just calm down...
Dialogue: 0,2:12:47.36,2:12:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Death to the New World Order!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:49.32,2:12:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Death to the New World Order!]
Dialogue: 0,2:12:51.20,2:12:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as the irrationality of the
Dialogue: 0,2:12:53.12,2:12:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,audience grew, shocked and confused:
Dialogue: 0,2:12:55.24,2:12:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.'
Dialogue: 0,2:12:59.56,2:13:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:05.96,2:13:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[System Error]
Dialogue: 0,2:13:10.76,2:13:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Backup Initiated - Restored]
Dialogue: 0,2:13:13.68,2:13:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people
Dialogue: 0,2:13:16.56,2:13:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 'think tank' type situations
Dialogue: 0,2:13:19.20,2:13:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...
Dialogue: 0,2:13:23.12,2:13:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they say ”Marxist!”
Dialogue: 0,2:13:24.68,2:13:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? Marxist? Where did that come from?
Dialogue: 0,2:13:26.64,2:13:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They just got this icon they hold onto-
Dialogue: 0,2:13:30.40,2:13:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's their Holy Grail
Dialogue: 0,2:13:32.80,2:13:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's such an easy one, you know.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:34.76,2:13:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist
Dialogue: 0,2:13:38.24,2:13:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say I am none of the above. Why do you
Dialogue: 0,2:13:40.56,2:13:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think that those are the only options?
Dialogue: 0,2:13:42.84,2:13:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of those political constructs
Dialogue: 0,2:13:44.96,2:13:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were created by writers who assumed
Dialogue: 0,2:13:47.20,2:13:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we lived on a planet of infinite resources.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:50.08,2:13:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one of those political philosophies even
Dialogue: 0,2:13:53.00,2:13:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.
Dialogue: 0,2:13:56.68,2:14:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism
Dialogue: 0,2:14:01.00,2:14:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are part of social evolution.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:03.72,2:14:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't take a giant step
Dialogue: 0,2:14:06.08,2:14:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from one culture to another-
Dialogue: 0,2:14:07.96,2:14:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are in-between systems.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:09.80,2:14:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before there's any “Ism”, we have a life ground
Dialogue: 0,2:14:11.92,2:14:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the life ground is as I've just described
Dialogue: 0,2:14:13.88,2:14:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most easily as all the conditions
Dialogue: 0,2:14:15.76,2:14:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,required to take your next breath
Dialogue: 0,2:14:17.48,2:14:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that involves the air you breathe
Dialogue: 0,2:14:19.88,2:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the water you get, the safety you have
Dialogue: 0,2:14:23.00,2:14:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the education you can access- all
Dialogue: 0,2:14:25.12,2:14:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these things that we share and use and that
Dialogue: 0,2:14:27.84,2:14:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no life, in any culture, can do without.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:31.16,2:14:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground
Dialogue: 0,2:14:34.88,2:14:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the life ground is no longer any “Ism”.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:37.60,2:14:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's “life value analysis.”
Dialogue: 0,2:14:41.56,2:14:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beyond The Pale]
Dialogue: 0,2:14:43.68,2:14:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's simply a matter of historical fact
Dialogue: 0,2:14:46.20,2:14:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the dominant intellectual culture
Dialogue: 0,2:14:48.64,2:14:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of any particular society reflects the
Dialogue: 0,2:14:50.96,2:14:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interests of the dominant group in that society.
Dialogue: 0,2:14:54.00,2:14:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a slave owning society
Dialogue: 0,2:14:56.00,2:14:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beliefs about human beings and human rights
Dialogue: 0,2:14:59.12,2:15:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:02.60,2:15:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the society, again, which is based on
Dialogue: 0,2:15:05.40,2:15:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power of certain people to control and profit from
Dialogue: 0,2:15:10.52,2:15:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lives and work of millions of others
Dialogue: 0,2:15:13.76,2:15:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dominant intellectual culture will
Dialogue: 0,2:15:16.12,2:15:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reflect the needs of the dominant group.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:18.60,2:15:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if you look across the board, the
Dialogue: 0,2:15:22.20,2:15:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ideas that pervade psychology and
Dialogue: 0,2:15:25.24,2:15:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sociology and history
Dialogue: 0,2:15:28.24,2:15:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and political economy and political science
Dialogue: 0,2:15:30.88,2:15:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:34.60,2:15:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the academics who question that too much
Dialogue: 0,2:15:38.32,2:15:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to get shunted to the side or
Dialogue: 0,2:15:41.04,2:15:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be seen as sort of “radicals”.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:43.68,2:15:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dominant values of a culture
Dialogue: 0,2:15:45.76,2:15:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to support and perpetuate
Dialogue: 0,2:15:47.84,2:15:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is rewarded by that culture.
Dialogue: 0,2:15:50.12,2:15:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a society where success and
Dialogue: 0,2:15:52.24,2:15:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,status is measured by material wealth
Dialogue: 0,2:15:54.64,2:15:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- not social contribution -
Dialogue: 0,2:15:56.84,2:16:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:01.56,2:16:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are dealing with a value system disorder
Dialogue: 0,2:16:04.40,2:16:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- completely denatured -
Dialogue: 0,2:16:06.20,2:16:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the priority of personal and social health
Dialogue: 0,2:16:08.84,2:16:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have become secondary to the detrimental
Dialogue: 0,2:16:11.60,2:16:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:15.08,2:16:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, like a virus, this disorder now
Dialogue: 0,2:16:17.44,2:16:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permeates every facet of government
Dialogue: 0,2:16:19.80,2:16:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- news media - entertainment - and even academia.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:23.84,2:16:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And built into its structure
Dialogue: 0,2:16:25.80,2:16:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are mechanisms of protection
Dialogue: 0,2:16:27.88,2:16:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from anything that might interfere.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:30.44,2:16:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion
Dialogue: 0,2:16:33.08,2:16:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo
Dialogue: 0,2:16:36.20,2:16:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought
Dialogue: 0,2:16:40.12,2:16:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which might interfere with their beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:42.52,2:16:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:46.68,2:16:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.
Dialogue: 0,2:16:49.56,2:16:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist
Dialogue: 0,2:16:52.68,2:16:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you feel society can be greatly improved
Dialogue: 0,2:16:55.24,2:16:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to consider, perhaps - I don't know-
Dialogue: 0,2:16:57.16,2:16:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking care of everyone?
Dialogue: 0,2:16:59.16,2:17:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're just a “Utopianist”.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:01.40,2:17:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the most insidious of them all:
Dialogue: 0,2:17:03.64,2:17:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you are not for the "free-market"
Dialogue: 0,2:17:06.04,2:17:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you must be against freedom itself.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:08.84,2:17:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a believer in freedom!
Dialogue: 0,2:17:11.04,2:17:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time you hear the word freedom
Dialogue: 0,2:17:12.80,2:17:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being said anywhere or government interference
Dialogue: 0,2:17:15.00,2:17:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said anywhere, it means, decoded:
Dialogue: 0,2:17:19.72,2:17:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blocking maximization of turning money
Dialogue: 0,2:17:23.32,2:17:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into more money for private money possessors.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:27.56,2:17:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it. Every other thing they'll say:
Dialogue: 0,2:17:29.52,2:17:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Oh, we need more commodities for people';
Dialogue: 0,2:17:31.48,2:17:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth
Dialogue: 0,2:17:35.64,2:17:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every time you see it, you can decode it down to
Dialogue: 0,2:17:38.36,2:17:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation
Dialogue: 0,2:17:41.20,2:17:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with every time they use it.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:42.64,2:17:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this, in a sense, we might call:
Dialogue: 0,2:17:45.68,2:17:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:50.68,2:17:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it
Dialogue: 0,2:17:53.80,2:17:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'
Dialogue: 0,2:17:56.24,2:17:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in fact, that's what they do.
Dialogue: 0,2:17:58.16,2:18:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like you may speak a grammar
Dialogue: 0,2:18:00.20,2:18:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you have rules of grammar you follow
Dialogue: 0,2:18:02.28,2:18:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without recognizing what the rules are...
Dialogue: 0,2:18:04.36,2:18:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”
Dialogue: 0,2:18:08.40,2:18:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:
Dialogue: 0,2:18:11.72,2:18:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'
Dialogue: 0,2:18:15.20,2:18:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or 'progress' or 'development'
Dialogue: 0,2:18:17.80,2:18:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can decode them all to come back to mean that.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:22.96,2:18:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'
Dialogue: 0,2:18:25.64,2:18:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it tends to be in same sentence
Dialogue: 0,2:18:27.80,2:18:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with something called 'democracy'.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:30.24,2:18:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fascinating how people today seem to believe
Dialogue: 0,2:18:33.16,2:18:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they actually have a relevant
Dialogue: 0,2:18:35.32,2:18:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influence on what their government does
Dialogue: 0,2:18:37.68,2:18:40.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forgetting that the very nature of
Dialogue: 0,2:18:40.20,2:18:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our system offers everything for sale.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:42.88,2:18:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only vote that counts is the monetary vote
Dialogue: 0,2:18:45.68,2:18:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't matter how much any
Dialogue: 0,2:18:47.80,2:18:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activist yells about ethics and accountability.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:50.68,2:18:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a market system, every politician, every legislation
Dialogue: 0,2:18:54.72,2:18:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hence, every government is for sale.
Dialogue: 0,2:18:58.00,2:19:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts
Dialogue: 0,2:19:01.52,2:19:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting in 2007
Dialogue: 0,2:19:03.64,2:19:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an amount of money which could have changed
Dialogue: 0,2:19:06.40,2:19:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, the global energy infrastructure
Dialogue: 0,2:19:08.64,2:19:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fully renewable methods
Dialogue: 0,2:19:10.44,2:19:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead going to a series of institutions
Dialogue: 0,2:19:12.76,2:19:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that literally do nothing to help society
Dialogue: 0,2:19:15.00,2:19:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,institutions that could be
Dialogue: 0,2:19:16.88,2:19:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,removed tomorrow with no recourse...
Dialogue: 0,2:19:19.60,2:19:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the blind conditioning that politics and
Dialogue: 0,2:19:22.48,2:19:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:28.00,2:19:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is, politics is a business
Dialogue: 0,2:19:31.12,2:19:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- no different than any other in a market system
Dialogue: 0,2:19:34.08,2:19:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they care about their self-interest before anything else.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:38.40,2:19:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:42.68,2:19:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:45.92,2:19:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It accommodates these changes.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:47.72,2:19:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation
Dialogue: 0,2:19:50.20,2:19:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the part of those who own the country.
Dialogue: 0,2:19:52.28,2:19:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they see where their self-interest lies;
Dialogue: 0,2:19:55.12,2:19:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they see a certain amount of freedom seems good
Dialogue: 0,2:19:57.88,2:20:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year
Dialogue: 0,2:20:01.08,2:20:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:04.12,2:20:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say
Dialogue: 0,2:20:07.56,2:20:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established
Dialogue: 0,2:20:11.08,2:20:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the debate even begins and everyone
Dialogue: 0,2:20:13.04,2:20:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,else is marginalized and made to seem either
Dialogue: 0,2:20:15.04,2:20:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be communist or some sort of disloyal person
Dialogue: 0,2:20:17.76,2:20:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-a “kook”- there's a word...
Dialogue: 0,2:20:19.56,2:20:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:21.88,2:20:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:
Dialogue: 0,2:20:24.92,2:20:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that powerful people might get together and have a plan!
Dialogue: 0,2:20:28.08,2:20:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! Your a “conspiracy buff”!
Dialogue: 0,2:20:33.64,2:20:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system
Dialogue: 0,2:20:37.12,2:20:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are two that repeatedly come up.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:40.12,2:20:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”
Dialogue: 0,2:20:43.72,2:20:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the material progress we have seen on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:47.12,2:20:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well...No.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:49.16,2:20:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are basically two root causes which
Dialogue: 0,2:20:51.80,2:20:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have created the increased so-called “wealth”
Dialogue: 0,2:20:54.68,2:20:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and population growth we see today.
Dialogue: 0,2:20:57.52,2:21:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One: the exponential advancement of production technology;
Dialogue: 0,2:21:01.44,2:21:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hence scientific ingenuity.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:03.96,2:21:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy
Dialogue: 0,2:21:08.84,2:21:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:13.48,2:21:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The free-market / capitalist / monetary
Dialogue: 0,2:21:15.44,2:21:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,market system - whatever you want to call it -
Dialogue: 0,2:21:17.60,2:21:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents
Dialogue: 0,2:21:21.20,2:21:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard
Dialogue: 0,2:21:24.72,2:21:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:30.44,2:21:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second defense is a belligerent social bias
Dialogue: 0,2:21:33.84,2:21:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generated from years of propaganda
Dialogue: 0,2:21:36.24,2:21:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sees any other social system
Dialogue: 0,2:21:38.80,2:21:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a route to so called "tyranny”
Dialogue: 0,2:21:41.32,2:21:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...
Dialogue: 0,2:21:44.88,2:21:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the death tolls they generated.
Dialogue: 0,2:21:47.12,2:21:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as despotic as these men might have been
Dialogue: 0,2:21:50.16,2:21:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...
Dialogue: 0,2:21:53.60,2:21:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to the game of death
Dialogue: 0,2:21:55.80,2:21:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- when comes to the systematic
Dialogue: 0,2:21:57.92,2:22:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,daily mass murder of human beings -
Dialogue: 0,2:22:00.24,2:22:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing in history compares to what we have today.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:04.92,2:22:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history
Dialogue: 0,2:22:10.32,2:22:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have not been caused by a lack of food.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:12.92,2:22:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have been caused by relative poverty.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:16.12,2:22:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The economic resources were so inequitably distributed
Dialogue: 0,2:22:20.48,2:22:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the poor simply didn't have enough money
Dialogue: 0,2:22:23.76,2:22:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with which to buy the food that would've been
Dialogue: 0,2:22:26.40,2:22:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,available if they could have afforded to pay for it.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:29.56,2:22:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be an example of Structural Violence.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:32.36,2:22:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another example: in Africa and other areas-
Dialogue: 0,2:22:36.96,2:22:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll particularly focus on Africa-
Dialogue: 0,2:22:39.56,2:22:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:42.64,2:22:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why are they dying?
Dialogue: 0,2:22:44.64,2:22:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:47.32,2:22:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have millions of people in the wealthy countries
Dialogue: 0,2:22:51.28,2:22:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting along remarkably well because
Dialogue: 0,2:22:54.84,2:22:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have the medicines that will treat it.
Dialogue: 0,2:22:57.16,2:23:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS
Dialogue: 0,2:23:00.16,2:23:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not dying because of the HIV virus...
Dialogue: 0,2:23:03.08,2:23:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are dying because they don't have the money with
Dialogue: 0,2:23:06.00,2:23:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:09.12,2:23:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gandhi saw this. He said:
Dialogue: 0,2:23:11.04,2:23:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”
Dialogue: 0,2:23:16.24,2:23:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's absolutely right.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:18.08,2:23:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;
Dialogue: 0,2:23:23.08,2:23:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more people than all the murderers in history;
Dialogue: 0,2:23:25.52,2:23:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than all the suicides in history...
Dialogue: 0,2:23:28.56,2:23:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only does Structural Violence kill more people
Dialogue: 0,2:23:32.16,2:23:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than all the behavioral violence put together
Dialogue: 0,2:23:35.36,2:23:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Structural Violence is also the
Dialogue: 0,2:23:38.16,2:23:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,main cause of behavioral violence.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:42.84,2:23:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Beyond the Peak]
Dialogue: 0,2:23:46.64,2:23:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oil is the foundation of
Dialogue: 0,2:23:51.16,2:23:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.
Dialogue: 0,2:23:55.48,2:23:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy –oil and natural gas–
Dialogue: 0,2:23:59.68,2:24:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:03.88,2:24:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fertilizers are made from natural gas.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:06.60,2:24:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pesticides are made from oil.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:08.76,2:24:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate – harvest
Dialogue: 0,2:24:11.56,2:24:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transport - package. You wrap the food
Dialogue: 0,2:24:14.04,2:24:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in plastic – that's oil. All plastic is oil.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:16.80,2:24:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:19.44,2:24:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because
Dialogue: 0,2:24:22.60,2:24:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of oil that there are 7 billion people or
Dialogue: 0,2:24:24.96,2:24:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:27.92,2:24:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The arrival of this cheap and easy energy
Dialogue: 0,2:24:30.20,2:24:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is equivalent, by the way, to
Dialogue: 0,2:24:32.28,2:24:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,billions of slaves working around the clock
Dialogue: 0,2:24:36.16,2:24:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changed the world in such a radical way over the last century
Dialogue: 0,2:24:40.04,2:24:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the population has gone up 10 times.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:43.36,2:24:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support
Dialogue: 0,2:24:47.72,2:24:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less than half the present world's
Dialogue: 0,2:24:49.84,2:24:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,population in their present way of life.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:52.08,2:24:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.
Dialogue: 0,2:24:57.28,2:25:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:01.20,2:25:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five years ago it was using four
Dialogue: 0,2:25:03.04,2:25:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:05.44,2:25:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year from now it is going to be using
Dialogue: 0,2:25:07.20,2:25:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:09.24,2:25:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's disturbing to me is the
Dialogue: 0,2:25:11.44,2:25:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lack of any real effort from governments worldwide
Dialogue: 0,2:25:16.20,2:25:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:20.00,2:25:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power
Dialogue: 0,2:25:24.04,2:25:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to maybe do something with Tide...
Dialogue: 0,2:25:26.72,2:25:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient
Dialogue: 0,2:25:31.20,2:25:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's nothing which really looks like a
Dialogue: 0,2:25:33.56,2:25:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor
Dialogue: 0,2:25:36.20,2:25:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that I think is pretty frightening.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:38.40,2:25:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the governments who are driven by these economists
Dialogue: 0,2:25:42.00,2:25:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who don't really appreciate what we're talking about
Dialogue: 0,2:25:45.16,2:25:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity
Dialogue: 0,2:25:50.28,2:25:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the hope that they can restore the past.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:52.64,2:25:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.
Dialogue: 0,2:25:56.64,2:25:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if the economy improves and
Dialogue: 0,2:25:58.68,2:26:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recovers and the famous growth comes back
Dialogue: 0,2:26:01.32,2:26:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will only be short-lived because
Dialogue: 0,2:26:03.56,2:26:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within a short period of time counted in months
Dialogue: 0,2:26:07.04,2:26:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than years it will hit the supply barrier again;
Dialogue: 0,2:26:11.00,2:26:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will be another price shock-
Dialogue: 0,2:26:12.68,2:26:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a deeper recession. So I think
Dialogue: 0,2:26:14.60,2:26:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we go into a series of vicious circles
Dialogue: 0,2:26:16.68,2:26:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have the economic growth going up- price
Dialogue: 0,2:26:18.76,2:26:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:21.20,2:26:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this
Dialogue: 0,2:26:24.76,2:26:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,area where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:28.68,2:26:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're at the peak- were on the down slope of oil production.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:31.72,2:26:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster
Dialogue: 0,2:26:35.44,2:26:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops
Dialogue: 0,2:26:39.40,2:26:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”
Dialogue: 0,2:26:45.08,2:26:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the price of oil starts to come back.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:47.00,2:26:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's recently been hovering at about $80
Dialogue: 0,2:26:49.32,2:26:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a barrel and what we see is that at even at $80 a
Dialogue: 0,2:26:51.60,2:26:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,barrel now, with the financial and economic collapse
Dialogue: 0,2:26:54.00,2:26:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people are having a hard time affording that.
Dialogue: 0,2:26:55.96,2:27:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:00.84,2:27:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 10 years, you're looking at
Dialogue: 0,2:27:04.32,2:27:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roughly 14 million barrels a day having to be replaced.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:08.64,2:27:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing around which can come even
Dialogue: 0,2:27:12.08,2:27:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:14.96,2:27:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we don't do something pretty quickly
Dialogue: 0,2:27:17.48,2:27:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:20.80,2:27:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the big mistake is in not recognizing
Dialogue: 0,2:27:24.92,2:27:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a decade or so ago that a concerted effort
Dialogue: 0,2:27:28.88,2:27:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needed to be made to develop
Dialogue: 0,2:27:30.28,2:27:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these sustainable forms of energy.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:31.96,2:27:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's something our grandchildren will look back on with
Dialogue: 0,2:27:35.48,2:27:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,total disbelief. 'You people knew you
Dialogue: 0,2:27:39.60,2:27:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were dealing with a finite commodity...
Dialogue: 0,2:27:42.24,2:27:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how could you possibly have build your economy
Dialogue: 0,2:27:45.48,2:27:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around something which was going to disappear?'
Dialogue: 0,2:27:49.00,2:27:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time in human history
Dialogue: 0,2:27:51.08,2:27:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource
Dialogue: 0,2:27:54.92,2:27:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,central to our current system of survival.
Dialogue: 0,2:27:57.60,2:27:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the punchline of the whole thing is
Dialogue: 0,2:27:59.96,2:28:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that even with oil becoming more scarce
Dialogue: 0,2:28:02.28,2:28:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the economic system will still blindly push
Dialogue: 0,2:28:05.40,2:28:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its cancerous growth model...
Dialogue: 0,2:28:07.44,2:28:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars
Dialogue: 0,2:28:10.72,2:28:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate GDP and jobs... exasperating the decline.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:16.08,2:28:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are there solutions to replace the
Dialogue: 0,2:28:18.16,2:28:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,edifice of the hydrocarbon economy?
Dialogue: 0,2:28:20.24,2:28:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:21.72,2:28:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the path needed to accomplish these changes
Dialogue: 0,2:28:24.12,2:28:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required
Dialogue: 0,2:28:28.48,2:28:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since new solutions can only be
Dialogue: 0,2:28:30.84,2:28:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,implemented through the Profit Mechanism.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:33.96,2:28:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are not investing in renewable energies
Dialogue: 0,2:28:36.64,2:28:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is no money in it in both long and short term.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:40.00,2:28:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the commitment needed to make it happen
Dialogue: 0,2:28:42.56,2:28:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can only occur at a severe financial loss.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:45.60,2:28:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this
Dialogue: 0,2:28:48.80,2:28:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system, if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.
Dialogue: 0,2:28:53.64,2:28:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on top of it all, Peak Oil is
Dialogue: 0,2:28:55.92,2:28:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just one of many surfacing consequences
Dialogue: 0,2:28:58.56,2:29:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:02.88,2:29:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other declines include Fresh Water
Dialogue: 0,2:29:05.24,2:29:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-the very fabric of our existence-
Dialogue: 0,2:29:07.44,2:29:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is currently showing
Dialogue: 0,2:29:09.08,2:29:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shortages for 2.8 billion people
Dialogue: 0,2:29:11.60,2:29:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:16.36,2:29:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food Production:
Dialogue: 0,2:29:17.92,2:29:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The destruction of arable crop land, from which
Dialogue: 0,2:29:21.92,2:29:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,99.7% of all human food comes from today
Dialogue: 0,2:29:24.72,2:29:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished
Dialogue: 0,2:29:29.28,2:29:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over the last 40 years, 30% of the
Dialogue: 0,2:29:31.80,2:29:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arable land has become unproductive.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:34.52,2:29:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention that hydrocarbons are the backbone
Dialogue: 0,2:29:37.60,2:29:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of agriculture today and as it declines...
Dialogue: 0,2:29:40.40,2:29:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so will the food supply.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:42.68,2:29:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as resources in general
Dialogue: 0,2:29:44.40,2:29:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at our current patterns of consumption, by 2030
Dialogue: 0,2:29:47.72,2:29:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.
Dialogue: 0,2:29:51.04,2:29:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention the continual destruction
Dialogue: 0,2:29:53.36,2:29:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of life supporting biodiversity
Dialogue: 0,2:29:55.88,2:29:57.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causing extinction spasms and
Dialogue: 0,2:29:57.72,2:30:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environmental destabilization across the globe.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:00.72,2:30:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with all of these declines
Dialogue: 0,2:30:02.64,2:30:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the near exponential population growth
Dialogue: 0,2:30:05.36,2:30:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where by 2030 there might be over
Dialogue: 0,2:30:08.08,2:30:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8 billion people on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:10.80,2:30:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Energy production alone would need to
Dialogue: 0,2:30:13.68,2:30:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increase 44% by 2030 to meet such demand.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:17.64,2:30:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, since money is the only initiator of action-
Dialogue: 0,2:30:22.12,2:30:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are we to expect that any country on
Dialogue: 0,2:30:24.12,2:30:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the planet is going to be able to afford
Dialogue: 0,2:30:26.44,2:30:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the massive changes needed to revolutionize agriculture
Dialogue: 0,2:30:29.84,2:30:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water processing, energy production and the like?
Dialogue: 0,2:30:33.08,2:30:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the global debt pyramid scheme is
Dialogue: 0,2:30:35.00,2:30:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slowly shutting the entire world down...
Dialogue: 0,2:30:37.84,2:30:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention the fact that
Dialogue: 0,2:30:39.28,2:30:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unemployment you currently see
Dialogue: 0,2:30:40.96,2:30:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to become normality due to
Dialogue: 0,2:30:43.16,2:30:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nature of technological unemployment.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:45.76,2:30:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The jobs are not coming back.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:48.48,2:30:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally, a broad social perspective.
Dialogue: 0,2:30:50.96,2:30:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this
Dialogue: 0,2:30:53.84,2:30:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planet doubled due to this system...
Dialogue: 0,2:30:56.84,2:30:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and given our current state-
Dialogue: 0,2:30:58.64,2:31:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you honestly think we will see
Dialogue: 0,2:31:00.60,2:31:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything less than more doubling...
Dialogue: 0,2:31:02.60,2:31:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more suffering and more mass starvation?
Dialogue: 0,2:31:06.64,2:31:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Beginning]
Dialogue: 0,2:31:08.56,2:31:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is not going to be any recovery.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:11.16,2:31:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not some long depression
Dialogue: 0,2:31:13.24,2:31:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're some day going to pull out of.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:15.84,2:31:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the next phase that we are going to see after the
Dialogue: 0,2:31:18.16,2:31:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:21.00,2:31:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When unemployment checks stop being
Dialogue: 0,2:31:23.12,2:31:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paid because the states have no money left.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:25.92,2:31:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when things get so bad that people lose confidence
Dialogue: 0,2:31:29.92,2:31:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their elected leaders, they will demand change
Dialogue: 0,2:31:33.80,2:31:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't kill each other in the process
Dialogue: 0,2:31:36.72,2:31:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or destroy the environment.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:38.68,2:31:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return...
Dialogue: 0,2:31:43.48,2:31:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that bothers me to no end.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:45.72,2:31:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do all we can to avoid that condition.
Dialogue: 0,2:31:50.56,2:31:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life...
Dialogue: 0,2:31:56.72,2:31:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That what we face now is this fundamental
Dialogue: 0,2:31:59.64,2:32:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change of the life we've known over the last century.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:03.48,2:32:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has to be a link between the economy and
Dialogue: 0,2:32:06.40,2:32:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the resources of this planet
Dialogue: 0,2:32:08.44,2:32:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the resources being, of course, all animal and plant life;
Dialogue: 0,2:32:11.80,2:32:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the health of the oceans and everything else.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:15.20,2:32:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a monetary paradigm that will not
Dialogue: 0,2:32:18.28,2:32:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let go until it's killed the last human being.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:22.64,2:32:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power
Dialogue: 0,2:32:27.24,2:32:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what you've got to keep in mind.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:29.72,2:32:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll use the army and navy and lies..
Dialogue: 0,2:32:32.40,2:32:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever they have to use to keep in power.
Dialogue: 0,2:32:35.84,2:32:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not about to give it up
Dialogue: 0,2:32:37.92,2:32:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they don't know of any other system that will perpetuate their kind.
Dialogue: 0,2:33:38.48,2:33:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Live from New York]
Dialogue: 0,2:33:52.28,2:34:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Global Protests Shut Down World Economy]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:07.04,2:34:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[London-Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:10.40,2:34:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[China-Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:13.40,2:34:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[South Africa - Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:15.92,2:34:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Spain - Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:20.12,2:34:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Russian - Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:23.92,2:34:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Canada - Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:29.40,2:34:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Saudi Arabia - Live]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:48.92,2:34:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Western Crime Rates Soar]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:51.48,2:34:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[UN Declares State of Global Emergency]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:54.12,2:34:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Global Unemployment Hits 65%]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:56.80,2:34:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Fears of World War Continue]
Dialogue: 0,2:34:59.92,2:35:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Debt Collapse now causing food shortages]
Dialogue: 0,2:36:54.32,2:36:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Take it Back]
Dialogue: 0,2:37:29.80,2:37:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[While no violence has been reported as
Dialogue: 0,2:37:33.32,2:37:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unprecedented protests continue...
Dialogue: 0,2:37:36.64,2:37:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars
Dialogue: 0,2:37:40.04,2:37:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being systematically withdrawn from bank accounts
Dialogue: 0,2:37:43.20,2:37:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the world and in turn..
Dialogue: 0,2:37:45.52,2:37:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evidently now being dumped in
Dialogue: 0,2:37:49.24,2:37:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,front of the world's central banks.]
Dialogue: 0,2:38:49.08,2:38:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[THIS IS YOUR WORLD]
Dialogue: 0,2:38:56.88,2:39:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[THIS IS OUR WORLD]
Dialogue: 0,2:39:04.56,2:39:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[THE REVOLUTION IS NOW]
Dialogue: 0,2:39:13.08,2:39:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WWW.THEZEITGEISTMOVEMENT.COM]