ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011

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In a decaying society, Art
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if it is truthful, must also reflect decay.
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And unless it wants to break faith with its social function
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Art must show the world as changeable.
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And help to change it.
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-Ernst Fischer
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Deadly riots over the government's
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plan to avoid defaulting on its loans...
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is that the unemployment keeps
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rising and it has to keep rising
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just because we have an excess supply of goods...
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this is all borrowed money...
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and that debt is owned by banks in other countries...
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M-O-N-E-Y, in the form of a convenient personal loan...
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... filter cigarette that delivers the taste...
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45 malt liquor... Are You Hot?!...
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is the US planning to bomb Iran?...
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...America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran...
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Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person.
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She taught me how to play the game Monopoly.
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She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.
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She would accumulate everything she could and
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eventually, she became the master of the board.
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And then she would always say the same thing to me.
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She would look at me and she would say:
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“One day, you'll learn to play the game.”
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One summer I played Monopoly almost every day, all day long
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and that summer, I learned to play the game.
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I came to understand that the only way to win
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is to make a total commitment to acquisition.
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I came to understand that money and possessions...
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that's the way that you keep score.
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And by the end of that summer
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I was more ruthless than my grandmother.
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I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game...
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and I sat down with her to play that fall.
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I took everything she had. I watched her
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give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.
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And then she had one more thing to teach me.
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Then she said:
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“Now it all goes back in the box.
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All those houses and hotels.
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All the railroads and utility companies...
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All that property and all that wonderful money...
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Now it all goes back in the box.
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None of it was really yours.
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You got all heated up about it for a while.
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But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board
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and it will be here after you're gone - players come - players go.
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Houses and cars...
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Titles and clothes...
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Even your body.”
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Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard
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is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all.
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So you have to ask yourself
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when you finally get the ultimate promotion
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when you have made the ultimate purchase
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when you buy the ultimate home
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when you have stored up financial security
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and climbed the ladder of success to the
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highest rung you can possibly climb it...
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and the thrill wears off
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- and it will wear off -
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Then what?
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How far do you have to walk down that road
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before you see where it leads?
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Surely you understand
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it will never be enough.
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So you have to ask yourself the question:
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What matters?
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They're Hot!
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They're Rich!
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And They're Spoiled!
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America's #1 Show is Back!
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Gentle Machine Productions Presents
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A Peter Joseph Film
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When I was a young man
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growing up in New York City
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I refused to pledge allegiance to the flag.
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Of course I was sent to the principal's office.
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And he asked me 'Why don't you want to Pledge Allegiance?
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Everybody does!'
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I said, 'Everybody once believed the earth was flat
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but that doesn't make it so.'
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I explained that America owed everything it has
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to other cultures
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and other nations
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and that I would rather pledge allegiance
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to the earth
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and everyone on it.
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Needless to say, it wasn't long
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before I left school entirely
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and I set up a lab in my bedroom.
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There I began to learn about science
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and nature.
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I realized then
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that the universe is governed by laws
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and that the human being
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along with society itself
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was not exempt from these laws.
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Then came the crash of 1929.
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Which began what we now call
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“The Great Depression”.
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I found it difficult to understand why millions
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were out of work, homeless, starving
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while all the factories were sitting there.
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The resources were unchanged.
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It was then that I realized
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that the rules of the economic game
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were inherently invalid.
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Shortly after came World War II
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where various nations took turns
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systematically destroying each other.
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I later calculated that all the destruction
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and wasted resources
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spent on that war
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could have easily provided for every
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human need on the planet.
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Since that time I have watched humanity
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set the stage for its own extinction.
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I have watched as the precious finite resources
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are perpetually wasted and destroyed
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in the name of profit and free-markets.
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I have watched the social values of society be reduced
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into a base artificiality of materialism
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and mindless consumption.
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And I have watched as the monetary powers
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control the political structure
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of supposedly free societies.
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I'm 94 years old now.
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And I'm afraid my disposition
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is the same as it was
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75 years ago.
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This shit's got to go.
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[ZEITGEIST]
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[ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD]
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[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
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committed citizens can change the world.
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Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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-Margaret Mead]
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Part 1: Human Nature
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So you're a scientist
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and somewhere along the way, hammered into your head
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is the inevitable “nature versus nurture”
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and that's at least up there with Coke versus Pepsi
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or Greeks versus Trojans.
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So, nature versus nurture: This, by now
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utterly over-simplifying view of
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where influences are
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influences how a cell deals with
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an energy crisis up to
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what makes us who we are on the most individualistic
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levels of personality.
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And what you've got is this complete false dichotomy
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built around nature as deterministic
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at the very bottom of all the causality.
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Life is DNA and the code of codes
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and the Holy Grail, and everything is driven by it....
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At the other end is a much more
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social science perspective which is
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We are 'social organisms'
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and biology is for slime molds.
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Humans are free of biology
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and obviously both views are nonsense.
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What you see instead is that
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it is virtually impossible to understand
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how biology works
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outside of the context of environment.
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[It's Genetic]
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One of the most crazy making
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yet widespread and
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potentially dangerous notions is:
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“Oh, that behavior is genetic”.
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Now what does that mean?
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It means all sorts of subtle stuff if you
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know modern biology, but for most people
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out there, what it winds-up meaning is:
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a deterministic view of life;
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one rooted in biology and genetics;
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genes equal things that cannot be changed;
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genes equal things that are
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inevitable and you might as well not
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waste resources trying to fix;
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might as well not put societal energies into trying
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to improve because it's inevitable and it's unchangeable...
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and that is sheer nonsense.
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[Disease]
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It is widely thought that conditions like
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ADHD are genetically programmed
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That conditions like schizophrenia are genetically programmed.
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The truth is the opposite.
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Nothing is genetically programmed.
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There are very rare diseases
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a small handful
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extremely sparsely represented in the population
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that are truly genetically determined.
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Most complex conditions
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might have a predisposition that has a genetic component
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but a predisposition is not the same as a predetermination.
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The whole search for the source of diseases in the genome
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was doomed to failure before anybody even thought of it
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because most diseases are not genetically predetermined.
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Heart disease, cancers, strokes
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rheumatoid conditions, autoimmune conditions in general
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mental health conditions, addictions...
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none of them are genetically determined.
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Breast cancer, for example, out of 100 women with breast cancer
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only seven will carry the breast cancer genes.
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93 do not
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and out of 100 women who do have the genes
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not all of them will get cancer.
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[Behavior]
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Genes are not just things that make us behave
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in a particular way regardless of our environment.
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Genes give us different ways of responding to our environment.
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And, in fact, it looks as if some of the early
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childhood influences and the kind of child rearing
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affect gene expression
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actually turning on or off different genes
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to put you on a different developmental track
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which may suit the kind of world you've got to deal with.
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So for example.
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A study done in Montreal with suicide victims
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looked at autopsies of the brains of these people
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and it turned out that if a suicide victim
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(these are usually young adults)
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had been abused as a child, the abuse actually
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caused a genetic change in the brain
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that was absent in the brains of people who had not been abused.
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That's an epigenetic effect.
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“epi” means on top of, so that
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the epigenetic influence is what happens
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environmentally to either activate or deactivate certain genes.
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In New Zealand, there was a study
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that was done in a town called Dunedin
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in which a few thousand individuals
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were studied from birth into their 20s.
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What they found was that they could identify
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a genetic mutation, an abnormal gene
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which did have some relation to
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the predisposition to commit violence
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but only if the individual had also
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been subjected to severe child abuse.
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In other words, children with this abnormal gene would
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be no more likely to be violent than anybody else
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and, in fact, they actually had a lower rate of violence
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than people with normal genes
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as long as they weren't abused as children.
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Great additional example of the ways
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in which genes are not “be all - end all”.
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A fancy technique where you can
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take a specific gene out of a mouse
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and that mouse and its descendants will not have that gene.
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You have ”knocked out” that gene.
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So there's this one gene that encodes
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for a protein that has something to do
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with learning and memory and with this fabulous demonstration-
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you “knock out” that gene and you
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have a mouse that doesn't learn as well.
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“Oh! A genetic basis for intelligence!”
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What was much less appreciated in that landmark study
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that got picked up by the media left and right
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is take those genetically impaired mice
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and raise them in a much more enriched
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stimulating environment than your normal mice in a lab cage
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and they completely overcame that deficit.
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So, when one says in a contemporary sense that
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“oh, this behavior is genetic”
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to the extent that that's even a valid sort of phrase to use
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what you're saying is: there is a
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genetic contribution to how this
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organism responds to environment;
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genes may influence the
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readiness with which an organism will
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deal with a certain environmental challenge.
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You know, that's not the version most people have in their minds
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and not to be too 'soap-boxing'
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but run with the old
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version of “It's genetic!”
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and it's not that far from the history of eugenics
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and things of that sort.
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It's a widespread misconception
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and it's a potentially fairly dangerous one.
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One reason that the
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biological explanation for violence...
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one reason that hypothesis is
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potentially dangerous, it's not just misleading
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it can really do harm...
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is because if you believe that
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you could very easily say:
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“Well, there's nothing we can do
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to change the predisposition
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people have to becoming violent;
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all we can do is punish them - lock them up
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or execute them
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but we don't need to worry about changing the
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social environment or the social preconditions
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that may lead people to become violent because
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that's irrelevant'.”
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The genetic argument allows us the luxury of ignoring
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past and present historical and social factors
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and in the words of Louis Menand
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who wrote in the New Yorker
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Very astutely, he said:
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“it's all in the genes... an explanation for the way things are
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that does not threaten the way things are.
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Why should someone feel unhappy
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or engage in antisocial behavior
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when that person is living in the
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freest and most prosperous nation on Earth?
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It can't be the system.
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There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.”
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Which is a good way of putting it.
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So, the genetic argument is simply a cop-out
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which allows us to ignore
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the social and economic and political factors
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that, in fact, underlie
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many troublesome behaviors.
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[Case Study: Addiction]
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Addictions are usually
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considered to be a drug-related issue
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but looking at it more broadly
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I define addiction as any behavior
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that is associated with craving
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with temporary relief
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and with long-term negative consequences
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along with an impairment of control over it so that the person
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wishes to give it up or promises to do so
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but can't follow through
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and when you understand that, you see that
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there are many more addictions
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than simply those related to drugs.
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There's workaholism; addiction to shopping;
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to the Internet; to video games...
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There's the addiction to power. People that have power but they
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want more and more; nothing is ever enough for them.
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Acquisition - corporations that must own more and more.
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The addiction to oil
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or at least to the wealth and to the products made
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accessible to us by oil.
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Look at the negative consequences on the environment.
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We are destroying the very earth that we
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inhabit for the sake of that addiction.
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Now, these addictions are far more
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devastating in their social consequences
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than the cocaine or heroin habits of my downtown Eastside patients.
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Yet, they are rewarded and considered to be respectable.
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The tobacco company executive that shows a higher profit
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will get a much bigger reward.
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He doesn't face any negative consequences legally or otherwise.
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In fact he is a respected member of
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the board of several other corporations.
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But, tobacco smoke related diseases
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kill 5 ½ million people around the world every year.
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In the United States they kill 400,000 people a year.
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And these people are addicted to what? To profit.
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To such a degree that they are addicted
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that they are actually in denial
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about the impact of their activities
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which is typical for addicts, this denial.
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And that's a respectable one. It's respectable
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to be addicted to profit, no matter what the cost.
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So, what is acceptable and what is respectable
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is a highly arbitrary phenomenon in our society
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and it seems like the greater the harm
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the more respectable the addiction.
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[The Myth]
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There is a general myth that drugs, in themselves, are addictive.
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In fact, the war on drugs is predicated on the
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idea that if you interdict the source of
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drugs you can deal with addiction that way.
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Now, if you understand addiction in the broader sense
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we see that nothing in itself is addictive.
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No substance, no drug is by itself addictive
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and no behavior is by itself addictive.
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Many people can go shopping without becoming shopaholics.
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Not everyone becomes a food addict.
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Not everyone who drinks a glass of wine becomes an alcoholic.
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So the real issue is what makes people susceptible
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because it's the combination of a susceptible individual
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and the potentially addictive substance or behavior
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that makes for the full flowering of addiction.
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In short, it's not the drug that's addictive
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it's the question of the susceptibility of the individual
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to being addicted to a particular substance or behavior.
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[Environment]
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If we wish to understand what
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then makes some people susceptible
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we actually have to look at the life experience.
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The old idea, although it's old but it's still
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broadly held, that addictions are due to some genetic cause
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is simply scientifically untenable.
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What the case is actually is that certain life experiences
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make people susceptible.
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Life experiences that not only shape the person's
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personality and psychological needs
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but also their very brains in certain ways.
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And that process begins in utero.
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[Prenatal]
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It has been shown, for example
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that if you stress mothers during pregnancy
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their children are more likely to have
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traits that predispose them to addictions
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and that's because development is shaped
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by the psychological and social environment.
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So the biology of human beings is very much affected by
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and programmed by the life experiences beginning in utero.
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Environment does not begin at birth.
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Environment begins as soon as you have an environment.
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As soon as you are a fetus, you are subject to whatever
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information is coming through mom's circulations.
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Hormones, levels of nutrients...
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A great landmark example of this is
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something called the Dutch Hongerwinter.
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In 1944, Nazis occupying Holland
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for a bunch of reasons, they decide to
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take all the food and divert it to Germany;
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for three months everybody there was starving.
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Tens of thousands of people starve to death.
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What the Dutch hunger winter effect is:
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if you were a second or third trimester fetus during the starvation
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your body 'learned' something very unique during that time.
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As it turns out, second and third trimester is when your body is
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going about trying to learn about the environment:
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How menacing of a place is it out there?
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How plentiful? How much nutrients am I getting
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by way of mom's circulation?
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Be a fetus who was starving during that time and your body
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programs forever after to be
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really, really stingy with your sugar and fat and
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what you do is you store every bit of it.
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Be a Dutch Hunger Winter fetus and half a century later
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everything else being equal
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you are more likely to have high blood pressure
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obesity or metabolic syndrome.
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That is environment coming in a very unexpected place.
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You can stress animals in the laboratory when they're pregnant
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and their offspring will be more
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likely to use cocaine and alcohol as adults.
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You can stress human mothers. For example, in a British study
23:42 - 23:45

women who were abused in pregnancy
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will have higher levels of
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the stress hormone cortisol in their placenta at birth
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and their children are more likely to have conditions that
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predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8.
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So in utero stress already prepares the gun
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for all kinds of mental health issues.
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An Israeli study done on children
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born to mothers who were pregnant
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prior to the onset of the 1967 war...
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These women, of course, were very stressed
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and their offspring have a higher incidence of schizophrenia
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than the average cohort.
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So, there is plenty of evidence now that prenatal
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effects have a huge impact on the developing human being.
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[Infancy]
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The point about human development and
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specifically human brain development
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is that it occurs mostly under the impact of the environment
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and mostly after birth.
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Now, if you compare us to a horse
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which can run on the first day of life
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we see that we are very undeveloped.
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We can't muster that much neurological coordination
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balance, muscle strength, visual acuity
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until a year and a half, two years of age.
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That's because the brain development in the horse
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happens in the safety of the womb
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and in the human being, it has to happen after birth
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and that has to do with simple evolutionary logic.
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As the head gets larger, which is what makes us into human beings
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the burgeoning of the forebrain is
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what creates the human species, actually.
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At the same time, we walk on two legs. So, our pelvis narrows
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to accommodate that. So now we
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have a narrower pelvis, a larger head
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Bingo! We have to be born prematurely.
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And that means the brain development that in other animals
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occurs in utero
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in us, occurs after birth
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and much of that under the impact of the environment.
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The concept of Neural Darwinism simply means
25:35 - 25:38

that the circuits that get the appropriate input from the environment
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will develop optimally and the ones that don't
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will either not develop optimally or perhaps not at all.
25:44 - 25:47

If you take a child with perfectly good eyes at birth
25:47 - 25:49

and you put him in a dark room for five years
25:49 - 25:52

he will be blind thereafter for the rest of his life
25:52 - 25:55

because the circuits of vision require light waves for their development
25:55 - 25:58

and without that even the rudimentary
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circuit's present and active at birth
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will atrophy and die and new ones will not develop.
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[Memory]
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There is a significant way in which
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early experiences shape adult behavior
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and even and especially early
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experiences for which there is no recall memory.
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It turns out that there are two kinds of memory:
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there is explicit memory which is recall
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this is when you can call back facts
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details, episodes, circumstances.
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But the structure in the brain which is called the hippocampus
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which encodes recall memory
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doesn't even begin to develop fully until a year and a half
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and it is not fully developed until much later.
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Which is why hardly anybody has
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any recall memory prior to 18 months.
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But there is another kind of
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memory which is called implicit memory
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which is, in fact, an emotional memory
26:53 - 26:57

where the emotional impact and the interpretation the child makes
26:57 - 27:00

of those emotional experiences are ingrained in the brain
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in the form of nerve circuits ready to fire
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without specific recall.
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So to give you a clear example
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people who are adopted have a
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lifelong sense of rejection very often.
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They can't recall the adoption.
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They can't recall the separation of the birth mother
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because there's nothing there to recall with.
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But the emotional memory of separation and rejection
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is deeply embedded in their brains.
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Hence, they are much more likely
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to experience a sense of rejection
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and a great emotional upset
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when they perceive themselves as being rejected
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by other people.
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That's not unique to people who are
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adopted but it is particularly strong in them
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because of this function of implicit memory.
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People who are addicted, given all the
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research literature and in my experience
27:43 - 27:47

the hard-core addicts virtually were all
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significantly abused as children
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or suffered severe emotional loss.
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Their emotional or implicit memories
27:54 - 27:56

are those of a world that's not safe
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and not helpful; caregivers who were not to be trusted
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and relationships that are not
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safe enough to open up to vulnerability
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and hence their responses tend
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to be to keep themselves separate from
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really intimate relationships;
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not to trust caregivers
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doctors and other people who are trying to help them
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and generally see the world as an unsafe place...
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and that is strictly a function of implicit memory
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which sometimes has to do with incidents they don't even recall.
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[Touch]
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Infants who are born premature or often in incubators
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and various types of gadgetry and
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machinery for weeks and perhaps months,
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it's now known that if these
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children are touched and stroked on the back
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for just 10 minutes a day that promotes their brain development.
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So, human touch is essential for development
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and, in fact, infants who are never picked up will actually die.
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That is how much of a fundamental
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need being held is to human beings.
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In our society, there is an unfortunate tendency
29:04 - 29:07

to tell parents not to pick up their kids, not to hold them
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not to pick up babies who are crying for fear of spoiling them
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or to encourage them to sleep through the night
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you don't pick them up...
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which is just the opposite of what the child needs
29:19 - 29:22

and these children might go back to sleep because they give up
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and their brains just shut down as a
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way of defending against the vulnerability
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of being abandoned really by their parents
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but their implicit memories will be
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that of the world that doesn't give a damn.
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[Childhood]
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A lot of these differences are structured very early in life.
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In a way, the parental experience of adversity
29:48 - 29:51

how tough life is or how easy it is
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is passed on to children
29:53 - 29:55

whether through maternal depression
29:55 - 29:57

or parents being bad tempered with
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their kids because they have had a hard day
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or just being too tired at the end of the day...
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and these have very powerful effects programming
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children's development, which we know a lot about now
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But that early sensitivity isn't just an evolutionary mistake.
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It exists again in many different species.
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Even in seedlings there's an early adaptive process
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to the kind of environment they are growing up in
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but for humans, the adaptation is to the quality of social relations.
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And so, early life:
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how nurturing, how much conflict, how much attention you get
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is a taster of the kind of world you may be growing up in.
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Are you growing up in a world where
30:42 - 30:43

you have to fight for what you can get;
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watch your back; fend for yourself; learn not to trust others?...
30:47 - 30:50

or are you growing up in a society where you depend on
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reciprocity, mutuality, cooperation, where empathy is important
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where your security depends on good relations with other people?...
30:59 - 31:01

and that needs a very different
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emotional and cognitive development
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and that's what the early sensitivity is about
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and parenting is almost, quite unconsciously
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a system for passing on that experience to children...
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of the kind of world they are in.
31:17 - 31:20

The great British child psychiatrist, DW Winnicott, said
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that fundamentally, two things can go wrong in childhood.
31:23 - 31:26

One is when things happen that shouldn't happen
31:26 - 31:30

and then things that should happen but don't.
31:30 - 31:34

In the first category, is the dramatic, abusive
31:34 - 31:36

and abandonment experiences of my
31:36 - 31:39

downtown Eastside patients and of many addicts.
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That's what shouldn't happen but did.
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But then there is the non-stressed
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attuned, non-distracted attention
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of the parent that every child needs
31:51 - 31:53

that very often children don't get.
31:53 - 31:55

They're not abused. They are not neglected
31:55 - 31:58

and they're not traumatized
31:58 - 32:00

but what should happen
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the presence of the emotionally available nurturing parent
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just is not available to them because of the
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stresses in our society and the parenting environment.
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The psychologist Allan Surer calls that "Proximal Abandonment"
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when the parent is physically present
32:17 - 32:19

but emotionally absent.
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I have spent...
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roughly the last 40 years of my life
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working with the most violent of people our society produces:
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murderers, rapists and so on.
32:34 - 32:38

In an attempt to understand what causes this violence.
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I discovered that the most violent of the criminals in our prisons
32:42 - 32:45

had themselves been victims
32:45 - 32:48

of a degree of child abuse that was beyond the scale of
32:48 - 32:51

what I ever thought of applying the term child abuse to.
32:51 - 32:55

I had no idea of the depth
32:55 - 32:59

of the depravity with which children in our society
32:59 - 33:01

are all too often treated.
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The most violent people I saw were themselves the survivors
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of their own attempted murder often at the hands of their parents
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or other people in their social environment
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or were the survivors of family members who had been killed
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their closest family members, by other people.
33:19 - 33:24

The Buddha argued that everything depends on everything else.
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He says 'the one contains the many and the many contains the one'.
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That you can't understand anything in isolation from its environment.
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The leaf contains the sun, the sky and the earth, obviously.
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This has now been shown to be true, of course
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all around and specifically when it comes to human development.
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The modern scientific term for it
33:47 - 33:50

is the "bio psycho social" nature of human development
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which says that the biology of human beings
33:52 - 33:54

depends very much on their interaction with
33:54 - 33:57

the social and psychological environment.
33:57 - 34:02

Specifically, the psychiatrist and researcher
34:02 - 34:07

Daniel Siegel at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA
34:07 - 34:10

has coined a phrase “Interpersonal Neurobiology”
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which means to say that the way
34:12 - 34:15

that our nervous system functions
34:15 - 34:17

depends very much on our personal relationships.
34:17 - 34:20

In the first place with the parenting caregivers and in the
34:20 - 34:23

second place with other important attachment figures in our lives
34:23 - 34:26

and in the third-place, with our entire culture.
34:26 - 34:28

So that you can't separate the
34:28 - 34:31

neurological functioning of a human being
34:31 - 34:35

from the environment in which he or she grew up in
34:35 - 34:38

and continues to exist in
34:38 - 34:40

and this is true throughout the lifecycle.
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It's particularly true when you are
34:42 - 34:45

dependent and helpless when your brain is developing
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but it's true even in adults and even at the end of life.
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[Culture]
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Human beings have lived in almost every kind of society.
34:57 - 35:02

From the most egalitarian... hunting and gathering societies
35:02 - 35:04

seem to have been very egalitarian
35:04 - 35:06

for instance, based on food sharing, gift exchange...
35:07 - 35:10

Small bands of people living predominately
35:10 - 35:13

off of foraging and a little bit of hunting
35:13 - 35:15

predominantly among people you have
35:15 - 35:17

at the least, known your entire life
35:17 - 35:20

if not surrounded by third cousins or closer;
35:20 - 35:22

in a world in which there is a great
35:22 - 35:24

deal of fluidity between different groups;
35:24 - 35:26

in a world which there is not a
35:26 - 35:28

whole lot in terms of material culture...
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this is how humans have spent most of their hominid history.
35:31 - 35:35

And no surprise, that makes for a very different world.
35:35 - 35:39

One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence.
35:39 - 35:41

Organized group violence is not
35:41 - 35:43

something that occurred at that time
35:43 - 35:47

of human history and that seems quite clear.
35:47 - 35:50

So where did we go wrong?
35:50 - 35:54

Violence is not universal.
35:54 - 35:58

It is not symmetrically distributed throughout the human race.
35:58 - 36:03

There is a huge variation in the amount of violence in different societies.
36:03 - 36:07

There are some societies that have virtually no violence.
36:07 - 36:11

There are others that destroy themselves.
36:11 - 36:14

Some of the Anabaptist religious
36:14 - 36:18

groups that are complete strict pacifists
36:18 - 36:21

like the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hutterites...
36:21 - 36:24

among some of these groups, the Hutterites
36:24 - 36:28

there are no recorded cases of homicide.
36:29 - 36:33

During our major wars, like World War II
36:33 - 36:35

where people were being drafted
36:35 - 36:37

they would refuse to serve in the military.
36:37 - 36:40

They would go to prison rather than serve in the military
36:40 - 36:42

In the Kibbutzim in Israel
36:42 - 36:46

the level of violence is so low that the criminal courts there
36:46 - 36:49

will often send violent offenders
36:49 - 36:51

people who have committed crimes
36:51 - 36:54

to live on the Kibbutzim in order to
36:54 - 36:56

learn how to live a non-violent life...
36:56 - 36:59

because that's the way people live there.
36:59 - 37:02

So, we are amply shaped by society.
37:02 - 37:08

Our societies, in the broader sense including our theological
37:08 - 37:11

our metaphysical, our linguistic influences, etc.
37:11 - 37:15

our societies help shape us as to whether or not we think
37:15 - 37:18

life is basically about sin or about beauty;
37:18 - 37:21

whether the afterlife will carry a price for
37:21 - 37:23

how we live our lives or if it's irrelevant.
37:24 - 37:27

In a broad sort of way different large societies could
37:27 - 37:29

be termed as individualistic or
37:29 - 37:32

collectivist and you get very different people
37:32 - 37:34

and different mindsets and I suspect
37:34 - 37:36

different brains coming along with that.
37:36 - 37:40

We, in America, are in one of the most individualistic of societies.
37:40 - 37:44

With capitalism being a system that allows you to go
37:44 - 37:48

higher and higher up a potential pyramid and
37:48 - 37:51

the deal is that it comes with fewer and fewer safety nets.
37:51 - 37:54

By definition, the more stratified a society is
37:54 - 37:58

the fewer people you have as peers - the fewer people with whom
37:58 - 38:01

you have symmetrical, reciprocal relationships -
38:01 - 38:06

and instead, all you have are differing spots and endless hierarchies...
38:06 - 38:09

A world in which you have few reciprocal partners
38:09 - 38:11

is a world with a lot less altruism.
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[Human Nature]
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So, this brings us to a total impossible juncture which is
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to try to make sense in perspective science...
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as to what that nature is of human nature.
38:28 - 38:31

You know, on a certain level
38:31 - 38:33

the nature of our nature is not to be
38:33 - 38:36

particularly constrained by our nature.
38:36 - 38:38

We come up with more social
38:38 - 38:40

variability than any species out there.
38:40 - 38:45

More systems of belief, of styles of family structures
38:45 - 38:48

of ways of raising children. The capacity
38:48 - 38:51

for variety that we have is extraordinary.
38:52 - 38:55

In a society which is predicated on competition
38:56 - 39:01

and really, very often, the ruthless exploitation
39:01 - 39:03

of one human being by another
39:03 - 39:06

the profiteering off of other people's problems
39:06 - 39:09

and very often the creation of
39:09 - 39:12

problems for the purpose of profiteering
39:12 - 39:15

the ruling ideology will very often justify that behavior
39:15 - 39:19

by appeals to some fundamental and unalterable human nature.
39:19 - 39:21

So the myth in our society is
39:21 - 39:23

that people are competitive by nature
39:23 - 39:27

and that they are individualistic and that they're selfish.
39:27 - 39:30

The real reality is quite the opposite.
39:30 - 39:32

We have certain human needs.
39:32 - 39:34

The only way that you can talk about human nature concretely
39:35 - 39:37

is by recognizing that there are certain human needs.
39:37 - 39:40

We have a human need for companionship and for close contact
39:40 - 39:43

to be loved, to be attached to, to be accepted
39:43 - 39:47

to be seen, to be received for who we are.
39:48 - 39:50

If those needs are met, we develop
39:50 - 39:52

into people who are compassionate
39:52 - 39:58

and cooperative and who have empathy for other people.
39:58 - 40:01

So...
40:01 - 40:03

the opposite, that we often see in our
40:03 - 40:06

society is, in fact, a distortion of human nature
40:06 - 40:09

precisely because so few people have their needs met.
40:09 - 40:12

So, yes you can talk about human nature
40:12 - 40:14

but only in the sense of basic human needs
40:14 - 40:16

that are instinctively evoked
40:16 - 40:19

or I should say, certain human needs
40:19 - 40:22

that lead to certain traits if they are met
40:22 - 40:24

and a different set of traits if they are denied.
40:27 - 40:29

So...
40:29 - 40:32

when we recognize the fact that the human organism
40:32 - 40:34

which has a great deal of adaptive flexibility
40:34 - 40:38

allowing us to survive in many different conditions
40:38 - 40:42

is also rigidly programmed for certain environmental requirements
40:42 - 40:44

or human needs
40:45 - 40:48

a social imperative begins to emerge.
40:48 - 40:51

Just as our bodies require physical nutrients
40:51 - 40:55

the human brain demands positive forms of environmental stimulus
40:55 - 40:57

at all stages of development
40:58 - 41:00

while also needing to be protected
41:00 - 41:03

from other negative forms of stimulus.
41:03 - 41:05

And if things that should happen, do not...
41:06 - 41:08

or if things that shouldn't happen, do...
41:08 - 41:11

it is now apparent that the door can be opened for not only
41:11 - 41:15

a cascade of mental and physical diseases
41:15 - 41:18

but many detrimental human behaviors as well.
41:18 - 41:21

So, as we turn our perspective now outward
41:21 - 41:24

and take account for the state of affairs today
41:24 - 41:26

we must ask the question:
41:26 - 41:29

Is the condition we have created in the modern world
41:29 - 41:32

actually supporting our health?
41:32 - 41:34

Is the bedrock of our socioeconomic
41:34 - 41:36

system acting as a positive force
41:36 - 41:40

for human and social development and progress?
41:40 - 41:44

Or, is the foundational gravitation of our society
41:44 - 41:49

actually going against the core evolutionary requirements
41:49 - 41:51

needed to create and maintain
41:51 - 41:54

our personal and social well-being?
42:12 - 42:17

[Part II: Social Pathology]
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So, one might ask where did this all begin?
42:21 - 42:25

What we have today... really a world in a state of
42:25 - 42:27

cumulative collapse.
42:28 - 42:31

[The Market]
42:31 - 42:33

You get it started with John Locke.
42:33 - 42:36

And John Locke introduces property.
42:36 - 42:41

He has three provisos for just private right and property.
42:41 - 42:43

And the three provisos are:
42:43 - 42:45

There must be enough left over for others
42:45 - 42:47

and that you must not let it spoil
42:47 - 42:51

and that you, most of all, must mix your labor with it.
42:51 - 42:54

It seems justified- you mix your labor with the world
42:54 - 42:56

then you are entitled to the product
42:56 - 42:59

and as long as there's enough left over for others
42:59 - 43:02

and as long as it doesn't spoil
43:02 - 43:04

and you don't allow anything to go to waste then that's okay.
43:04 - 43:07

He spends a long time on this and his famous treatise of government
43:07 - 43:10

and it's since been the canonical text
43:10 - 43:14

for economic and political and legal understanding.
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It is still the classic text that's studied.
43:17 - 43:20

Well - after he gives the provisos
43:20 - 43:22

and you're almost thinking at the time whether you
43:22 - 43:24

are for private property or not
43:24 - 43:28

he has given a very good plausible and powerful defense
43:28 - 43:30

of private property here...
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Well, he drops them!
43:31 - 43:34

He drops them like that. Right in one sentence.
43:34 - 43:36

He says, 'Well, once the introduction
43:36 - 43:39

of money came in by men's tacit consent
43:39 - 43:40

then it became...'
43:40 - 43:44

and he doesn't say all the provisos are canceled or erased-
43:44 - 43:46

but that's what happens.
43:46 - 43:48

So, now we have not
43:48 - 43:51

product and your property earned by your own labor-
43:51 - 43:54

oh no- money buys labor now.
43:54 - 43:55

There is no longer consideration
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whether there is enough left over for others;
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there is no longer consideration of whether it spoils
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because he says money is like
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silver and gold and gold can't spoil
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and therefore money can't be responsible for waste...
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which is ridiculous. We are not talking about money
44:10 - 44:12

and silver, we are talking about what its effects are.
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It's one non sequitur after another.
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Just the most startling
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logical legerdemain that he gets away with here
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but it fits the interests of capital owners.
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Then Adam Smith comes along and what he adds
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is the religion to this...
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Locke started with God made it all this way
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this is God's right
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and now we get also with Smith
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saying 'it's not only God's...'
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well, he's not actually saying this but
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this is what's happening philosophically, in principle
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he's saying that 'it is not only a question of private property...'
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That's all now 'presupposed'- It's Given!
44:49 - 44:52

And that there's 'money investors that buy labor' – Given!
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There's no limit to how much they can buy of other men's labor
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how much they can accumulate, how much 'inequality'-
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that's all given now.
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And so he comes along and what his big idea is
45:03 - 45:07

and again it's just introduced in parentheses, in passing...
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You know, when people put out goods for sale - the supply
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and other people buy them - the demand and so forth
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how do we have supply equaling demand
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or demand equaling supply?
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how can they come into equilibrium?
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and that is one of the central notions of economics
45:26 - 45:28

is how do they come into equilibrium...
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and he says: it's the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
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that brings them into equilibrium.
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So, now we have "God is actually imminent”.
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He just didn't give the rights to property
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and all its wherewithal and its "natural rights"
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regarding what Locke said...
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now we have the system itself as "God".
45:52 - 45:55

In fact, Smith says, when he talks
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and you have to read the whole of the
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Wealth of Nations' to find this quote.
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He says: 'the scantiness of subsistence
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sets limits to the reproduction of the poor
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and that nature can deal with this in no other way
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than elimination of their children.'
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So he anticipated evolutionary theory in the worst sense...
46:19 - 46:21

this is well before Darwin.
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And so he called them the 'Race of Laborers'.
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So you can see: there was inherent racism built-in here
46:27 - 46:32

there was an inherent life blindness to kill
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innumerable children
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and he thought: 'that's the Invisible Hand making supply
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meet demand and demand meet supply.'
46:40 - 46:43

So, see how wise "God" is?
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So you can see a lot of the really virulent
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life destructive, eco-genocidal things
46:51 - 46:55

that are going on now have, in a way,
46:55 - 46:59

a 'thought gene' back in Smith too.
47:00 - 47:03

When we reflect on the original concept of
47:03 - 47:05

the so-called free market - capitalist system
47:05 - 47:08

as initiated by early economic philosophers
47:08 - 47:10

such as Adam Smith
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we see that the original intent of a “market”
47:13 - 47:17

was based around real, tangible, life supporting goods for trade.
47:17 - 47:20

Adam Smith never fathomed that the most
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profitable economic sector on the planet
47:22 - 47:25

would eventually be in the arena of financial trading
47:25 - 47:27

or so-called investment
47:27 - 47:29

where money itself is simply
47:29 - 47:31

gained by the movement of other money
47:31 - 47:33

in an arbitrary game which holds
47:33 - 47:35

zero productive merit to society.
47:36 - 47:38

Yet, regardless of Smith's intent
47:38 - 47:41

the door for such seemingly anomalous advents
47:41 - 47:46

was left wide open by one fundamental tenet of this theory:
47:46 - 47:50

Money is treated as a Commodity, in and of itself.
47:50 - 47:52

Today, in every economy of the world
47:52 - 47:55

regardless of the social system they claim
47:55 - 47:59

money is pursued for the sake of money and nothing else.
47:59 - 48:02

The underlying idea, which was mysteriously qualified
48:02 - 48:06

by Adam Smith with his religious declaration of the
48:06 - 48:08

'Invisible Hand'
48:08 - 48:10

is that the narrow, self-interested pursuit
48:10 - 48:12

of this fictional commodity
48:12 - 48:15

will somehow magically manifest
48:15 - 48:18

human and social well-being and progress.
48:19 - 48:22

The reality is that the monetary incentive interest
48:22 - 48:26

or what some have termed the:“Money Sequence of Value”
48:26 - 48:29

has now completely decoupled from the foundational
48:29 - 48:32

'life interest', which could be termed the
48:32 - 48:34

'Life Sequence of Value.'
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What has happened is that there is a complete confusion
48:38 - 48:40

in economic doctrine
48:40 - 48:42

between those two sequences.
48:42 - 48:45

They think that the Money Sequence of Value
48:45 - 48:47

delivers the Life Sequence of Value
48:47 - 48:50

and that's why they say if more goods are sold
48:50 - 48:52

If GDP's rise and so forth...
48:52 - 48:55

there would be more enhanced well-being
48:55 - 48:58

and we could take the GDP as being our basic layer indicator
48:58 - 49:00

of social health...
49:00 - 49:01

Well, there you see the confusion.
49:01 - 49:03

It's talking about Money Sequences of Value
49:03 - 49:05

that is, all the receipts and all the revenues that are
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derived from selling goods
49:08 - 49:12

and they're confusing that with life reproduction.
49:12 - 49:16

So, you have built right into this thing from the beginning
49:16 - 49:18

a complete conflation of the money
49:19 - 49:21

and life sequences of value.
49:21 - 49:24

So, we are dealing with a kind of structured delusion
49:24 - 49:26

which becomes more and more deadly
49:27 - 49:29

as the money sequence decouples from producing
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anything at all.
49:31 - 49:33

So, it's a system disorder
49:33 - 49:37

and the system disorder seems to be fatal.
49:38 - 49:41

[Welcome to the Machine]
49:41 - 49:45

In society today, you seldom hear anyone speak
49:45 - 49:47

of the progress of their country or society
49:47 - 49:51

in terms of their physical well-being, state of happiness,
49:51 - 49:54

trust or social stability.
49:54 - 49:56

Rather, the measures are presented to us
49:56 - 49:58

through economic abstractions.
49:58 - 50:01

We have the gross domestic product, the consumer price index,
50:01 - 50:04

the value of the stock market, rates of inflation...
50:04 - 50:06

and so on.
50:06 - 50:08

But does this tell us anything of real value
50:08 - 50:11

as to the quality of people's lives?
50:11 - 50:13

No. All of these measures have to do with
50:13 - 50:17

the money sequence itself and nothing more.
50:17 - 50:20

For example, the Gross Domestic Product of a country
50:20 - 50:23

is a measure of the value of goods and services sold.
50:24 - 50:26

This measure is claimed to correlate to the
50:26 - 50:29

“standard of living” of a country's people.
50:29 - 50:32

In the United States health care accounted for over
50:32 - 50:35

17% of GDP in 2009
50:35 - 50:38

amounting to over 2.5 trillion spent.
50:38 - 50:42

Hence, creating a positive effect on this economic measure.
50:42 - 50:43

And, based on this logic
50:43 - 50:46

it would be even better for the US economy
50:46 - 50:48

if health care services increased more so...
50:48 - 50:51

perhaps to 3 trillion dollars... or 5 trillion
50:51 - 50:53

since that would create more growth
50:53 - 50:56

more jobs and hence boasted by economists
50:56 - 50:59

as a rise in their country's standard of living.
50:59 - 51:01

But wait a minute.
51:01 - 51:04

What do health care services actually represent?
51:04 - 51:07

Well, SICK AND DYING PEOPLE.
51:07 - 51:11

That's right- the more unhealthy people there are in America
51:11 - 51:13

the better the economy.
51:13 - 51:17

Now, that is not an exaggeration or a cynical perspective.
51:17 - 51:19

In fact, if we step back far enough
51:19 - 51:21

you will realize that the GDP
51:21 - 51:24

not only doesn't reflect real public or social health
51:24 - 51:26

on any tangible level
51:26 - 51:28

it is, in fact, mostly a measure
51:28 - 51:30

of industrial inefficiency
51:30 - 51:32

and social degradation.
51:32 - 51:36

And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming
51:36 - 51:38

with respect to personal, social
51:38 - 51:41

and environmental integrity.
51:41 - 51:44

You have to create problems to create profit.
51:45 - 51:48

There is no profit under the current paradigm
51:48 - 51:51

in saving lives, putting balance on this planet
51:51 - 51:53

having justice and peace or anything else.
51:53 - 51:56

There is just no profit there.
51:56 - 51:58

There's an old saying-
51:58 - 52:00

Pass a law and create a business'.
52:00 - 52:03

Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.
52:03 - 52:05

So, crime does create
52:05 - 52:07

business just like destruction creates
52:07 - 52:09

business in Haiti.
52:09 - 52:12

We have now roughly 2,000,000 people incarcerated
52:12 - 52:13

in this country (USA)
52:14 - 52:16

and of those many are in prisons run
52:16 - 52:17

by private corporations:
52:17 - 52:19

Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut
52:19 - 52:21

who trade their stock on Wall Street
52:21 - 52:24

based upon how many people are in jail.
52:24 - 52:26

Now that's sickness.
52:26 - 52:28

But that is a reflection of what
52:28 - 52:32

this economic paradigm calls for.
52:32 - 52:36

So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?
52:36 - 52:39

What is it that keeps our economic system going?
52:39 - 52:41

Consumption.
52:41 - 52:44

Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.
52:44 - 52:46

When we break down the
52:46 - 52:48

foundation of classic market economics
52:48 - 52:50

we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange
52:50 - 52:53

that simply cannot be allowed to stop
52:53 - 52:55

or even substantially slowed
52:55 - 52:56

if the society as we know it
52:56 - 52:58

is to remain operational.
52:58 - 53:01

There are three main actors on the economic stage:
53:01 - 53:03

the employee, the employer
53:03 - 53:05

and the consumer.
53:05 - 53:08

The employee sells labor to the employer for income.
53:08 - 53:11

The employer sells its production services, and hence goods,
53:11 - 53:13

to the consumer for income
53:13 - 53:16

and the consumer, of course, is simply another role
53:16 - 53:18

of the employer and employee
53:18 - 53:20

spending back into the system
53:20 - 53:23

to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.
53:23 - 53:25

In other words, the global market system is based on
53:25 - 53:28

the assumption that there will always be enough
53:28 - 53:30

product demand in a society
53:30 - 53:32

to move enough money around at a rate
53:32 - 53:35

which can keep the consumption process going.
53:35 - 53:37

And the faster the rate of consumption
53:37 - 53:39

the more so-called economic growth is assumed
53:39 - 53:42

and so the machine goes...
53:42 - 53:44

But, hold on-
53:44 - 53:47

I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...
53:47 - 53:48

“Economize”?
53:49 - 53:51

Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation
53:51 - 53:55

and efficiency and a reduction of waste?
53:55 - 53:58

So how does our system, which demands consumption
53:58 - 54:01

and the more the better, efficiently preserve
54:01 - 54:03

or “Economize” at all?
54:03 - 54:05

Well... it doesn't.
54:05 - 54:09

The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite
54:09 - 54:11

of what a real economy is supposed to do,
54:11 - 54:14

which is efficiently and conservatively orient
54:14 - 54:16

the materials for production and distribution
54:16 - 54:18

of life supporting goods.
54:18 - 54:21

We live on a finite planet, with finite resources
54:21 - 54:23

where, for example, the oil we utilize took
54:23 - 54:25

millions of years to develop...
54:25 - 54:29

where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.
54:30 - 54:33

So...having a system that deliberately promotes
54:33 - 54:35

the acceleration of consumption
54:35 - 54:38

for the sake of so-called “economic growth”
54:38 - 54:42

is pure ecocidal insanity.
54:42 - 54:45

Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.
54:45 - 54:47

Absence of waste?
54:47 - 54:50

This system is more wasteful than all the other
54:50 - 54:53

existing systems in the history of the planet.
54:53 - 54:56

Every level of life organization and life system
54:56 - 54:58

is in a state of crisis and challenge
54:58 - 55:00

and decay or collapse.
55:00 - 55:03

No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years
55:03 - 55:06

will tell you anything different:
55:06 - 55:09

that is that every life system is in decline
55:09 - 55:11

as well as social programs...
55:11 - 55:13

as well as our water access.
55:14 - 55:16

Try to name any means of life that
55:16 - 55:17

isn't threatened and endangered...
55:17 - 55:18

You can't.
55:19 - 55:22

There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.
55:22 - 55:25

But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.
55:25 - 55:27

We don't want to face the causal mechanism.
55:27 - 55:30

We just want to go on. You know that's where insanity is
55:30 - 55:32

where you keep doing the same thing over and over again
55:32 - 55:35

even though it clearly doesn't work.
55:35 - 55:37

So you're really
55:38 - 55:40

dealing with not an economic system
55:40 - 55:44

but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.
55:45 - 55:47

[The Anti-Economy]
55:47 - 55:49

There is an old saying that the competitive
55:49 - 55:51

market model seeks to
55:51 - 55:55

“create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices”.
55:56 - 55:59

This statement is essentially the incentive concept
55:59 - 56:01

which justifies market competition
56:01 - 56:03

based on the assumption that the result
56:03 - 56:06

is the production of higher quality goods.
56:06 - 56:09

If I was going to build myself a table from scratch
56:09 - 56:11

I would naturally build it out of the best
56:11 - 56:13

most durable materials possible, right?
56:13 - 56:16

With the intent for it to last as long as possible.
56:17 - 56:19

Why would I want to make something poor
56:19 - 56:21

knowing I would have to eventually do it again
56:21 - 56:24

and expend more materials and more energy?
56:25 - 56:28

Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world
56:28 - 56:30

when it comes to the market world
56:30 - 56:32

it is not only explicitly irrational
56:32 - 56:34

it is not even an option.
56:34 - 56:36

It is technically impossible to produce
56:36 - 56:38

the best of anything
56:38 - 56:40

if a company is to maintain a competitive edge
56:41 - 56:43

and hence remain affordable to the consumer.
56:43 - 56:46

Literally everything created and set for sale
56:46 - 56:49

in the global economy is immediately inferior
56:49 - 56:51

the moment it is produced
56:51 - 56:53

for it is a mathematical impossibility
56:53 - 56:56

to make the most scientifically advanced, efficient
56:56 - 56:59

and strategically sustainable products.
56:59 - 57:01

This is due to the fact that the market system
57:01 - 57:04

requires that “cost efficiency”
57:04 - 57:06

or the need to reduce expenses
57:06 - 57:08

exists at every stage of production.
57:08 - 57:10

From the cost of labor, to the cost
57:10 - 57:13

of materials and packaging and so on.
57:13 - 57:15

This competitive strategy, of course
57:15 - 57:18

is to make sure the public buys their goods
57:18 - 57:21

rather than from a competing producer
57:21 - 57:23

...which is doing the exact same thing
57:23 - 57:26

to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.
57:27 - 57:30

This immutably wasteful consequence of the system
57:30 - 57:34

could be termed: Intrinsic Obsolescence.
57:34 - 57:37

However, this is only one part of a larger problem:
57:38 - 57:41

A fundamental governing principle of market economics
57:41 - 57:44

one you will not find in any textbook, by the way
57:44 - 57:45

- is the following:
57:45 - 57:48

“Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan
57:48 - 57:50

longer than what can be endured
57:50 - 57:54

in order to continue cyclical consumption.”
57:54 - 57:57

In other words, it is critical that stuff breakdown,
57:57 - 58:00

fail and expire within a certain amount of time.
58:01 - 58:04

This is termed - “Planned obsolescence”.
58:04 - 58:08

Planned obsolesce is the backbone of the underlying market
58:08 - 58:11

strategy of every goods producing corporation in existence.
58:11 - 58:13

While very few, of course
58:13 - 58:15

would admit to such a strategy outright
58:15 - 58:17

what they do is mask it within the
58:17 - 58:20

Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,
58:20 - 58:23

while often ignoring, or even suppressing
58:23 - 58:25

new advents in technology
58:25 - 58:28

which might create a more sustainable, durable good.
58:29 - 58:31

So, if it wasn't wasteful enough
58:31 - 58:33

that the system inherently cannot allow the most
58:33 - 58:36

durable and efficient goods to be produced,
58:36 - 58:38

Planned Obsolescence deliberately
58:38 - 58:41

recognizes that the longer any good is in operation
58:41 - 58:45

the worse it is for sustaining cyclical consumption
58:45 - 58:47

and hence the market system itself.
58:48 - 58:50

In other words, product sustainability
58:50 - 58:54

is actually inverse to economic growth
58:54 - 58:57

and hence there is a direct, reinforced incentive
58:57 - 58:59

to make sure life spans are short
58:59 - 59:01

of any given good produced.
59:02 - 59:06

And, in fact, the system cannot operate any other way.
59:06 - 59:09

One glance at the sea of landfills now spreading across
59:09 - 59:12

the world show the obsolescence reality.
59:13 - 59:15

There are now billions of cheaply made cell phones
59:15 - 59:17

computers and other technology
59:17 - 59:20

each full of precious, difficult to mine materials
59:20 - 59:22

such as gold, coltan, copper...
59:22 - 59:25

now rotting in vast piles
59:25 - 59:27

usually due to the mere malfunction or obsolescence
59:27 - 59:31

of small parts which, in a conservative society
59:31 - 59:33

could likely be fixed or updated
59:33 - 59:36

and the life of the good extended.
59:36 - 59:38

Unfortunately, as efficient as that may seem
59:38 - 59:41

in our physical reality, living on a
59:41 - 59:43

finite planet with finite resources,
59:43 - 59:48

it is explicitly inefficient, with respect to the market.
59:48 - 59:49

To put into a phrase:
59:49 - 59:52

“Efficiency, Sustainability, and
59:52 - 59:56

Preservation are the enemies of our economic system” .
59:56 - 59:59

Likewise, just a physical goods need to be constantly
59:59 - 60:01

produced and reproduced
60:01 - 60:03

regardless of their environmental impact
60:04 - 60:07

the service industry operates with an equal rational.
60:08 - 60:10

The fact is, there is no monetary benefit
60:10 - 60:13

to resolving any problems
60:13 - 60:15

which are currently being serviced.
60:15 - 60:16

At the end of the day
60:16 - 60:19

the last thing the medical establishment really wants
60:19 - 60:22

is the curing of diseases such as cancer
60:22 - 60:27

which would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue.
60:27 - 60:28

And since we are on the subject...
60:29 - 60:32

Crime and Terrorism in this system are good!
60:32 - 60:34

Well, at least economically...
60:34 - 60:36

for it is employing police
60:36 - 60:39

generating hi-value commodities for security
60:39 - 60:41

not to mention the value of prisons
60:41 - 60:44

that are privately owned - for profit.
60:44 - 60:45

And how about war?
60:46 - 60:49

The war industry in America is a huge driver of GDP -
60:49 - 60:52

one of the most profitable industries -
60:52 - 60:55

producing weapons of death and destruction.
60:55 - 60:58

The favorite game of this industry is to blow things up
60:58 - 61:01

and then can go and rebuild them, for profit.
61:01 - 61:04

We saw this with the windfall billion dollar
61:04 - 61:06

contracts made from the Iraq war.
61:07 - 61:09

The bottom line is that socially negative
61:09 - 61:11

attributes of society
61:11 - 61:14

have become positively rewarded ventures for industry
61:14 - 61:17

and any interest in problem resolution
61:17 - 61:20

or environmental sustainability and conservation
61:20 - 61:25

is intrinsically counter to economic sustainability.
61:26 - 61:27

And this is why
61:27 - 61:31

every time you see the GDP rise in any country
61:31 - 61:33

you are witnessing an increase in necessity
61:33 - 61:35

whether real or contrived
61:35 - 61:39

and by definition, a necessity is rooted in inefficiency.
61:39 - 61:44

Hence, increased necessity means increased inefficiency.
61:45 - 61:47

[Value System Disorder]
61:48 - 61:49

The American dream is based on
61:49 - 61:51

the rampant consumerism.
61:51 - 61:53

It is based upon the fact that
61:53 - 61:55

mainstream media and
61:55 - 61:57

especially commercial advertising
61:57 - 62:00

- all corporations who need this infinite growth -
62:00 - 62:03

have convinced us or brainwashed
62:03 - 62:06

most people in America and the world
62:06 - 62:09

that we have to have X number of material possessions
62:09 - 62:11

and the possibility of gaining infinitely more
62:11 - 62:14

material possessions, in order to be happy.
62:14 - 62:16

That's just not true.
62:16 - 62:20

So why do people continue to buy in this way
62:20 - 62:22

which is ultimately eco-genocidal
62:22 - 62:25

in its systemic effects cumulatively?
62:25 - 62:28

And it just is classical & operant conditioning.
62:28 - 62:32

You simply put inputs of conditioning into the organism
62:32 - 62:36

and you have outputs of desired behaviors
62:36 - 62:38

or goals or objectives.
62:38 - 62:41

And it has all the resources of technology
62:41 - 62:43

and they boast about how they
62:43 - 62:44

get into the minds of infants
62:44 - 62:47

what they hear is already making them
62:47 - 62:49

conditioned to the brand.
62:49 - 62:52

Then you see, that's how
62:52 - 62:53

people have been such fools.
62:53 - 62:55

They have been taught to be fools.
62:55 - 62:59

It's a value system disorder.
62:59 - 63:02

You know, if there is any testament to the plasticity
63:02 - 63:03

of the human mind.
63:03 - 63:06

If there is any proof to how malleable
63:06 - 63:08

human thought is and how easily
63:08 - 63:10

conditioned and guided people can become
63:10 - 63:13

based on the nature of their environmental stimulus
63:13 - 63:15

and what it reinforces:
63:15 - 63:18

the world of commercial advertising is the proof.
63:18 - 63:21

You have to stand in awe
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at the level of brainwashing
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where these programmed robots known as "consumers"
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wander the landscape
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only to walk into a store and spend, say
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4000$ on a handbag
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that likely cost 10 dollars to make
63:38 - 63:40

in a sweatshop overseas.
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Only for the brand status it supposedly
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represents in the culture.
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Or perhaps the ancient communal traditions
63:48 - 63:52

which increase trust and cohesiveness in society -
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which have now been hijacked by acquisitive
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materialistic values where now we annually
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exchange useless crap a few times a year.
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And we might wonder why so many today have a
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compulsion to shopping and acquisition
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when it is clear that they have conditioned from childhood
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to expect material goods
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as a sign of their status with friends and family.
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The fact is, the foundation of any society
64:18 - 64:20

are the values that support its operation
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and our society, as it exists
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can only operate if our values support
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the conspicuous consumption it
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requires to continue the market system.
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75 years ago consumption in America
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and much of the 1st world was half
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of what we see today, per person.
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Today's new consumer culture
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has been manufactured and imposed
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due to the very real need for higher
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and higher levels of consumption.
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And this is why most corporations now spend
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more money on advertising, than the actual process
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of product creation itself.
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They work diligently to create a false need for you to fill.
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And it happens to work.
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[The “Economists”]
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You know economists, in fact, are not economists at all.
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They're propagandists of money value
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and you will find that all of their
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models basically get down to token
65:18 - 65:21

exchanges that are true to profit
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of one side or both sides or whatever
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but they are completely disconnected from the actually
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existing world of reproduction.
65:28 - 65:32

In Ohio, an old man failed to pay his electric bill
65:32 - 65:35

you may be familiar with the case
65:35 - 65:38

and the electric company turned off the electricity and he died.
65:38 - 65:40

The reason they turned it off was
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because it wouldn't have been profitable
65:41 - 65:44

for them to keep it on because he didn't pay his bill.
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Do you believe that was right?
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The responsibility really lies not on
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the electric company for turning it off
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but on those of this man's neighbors and friends
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and associates
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who were not charitable enough
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to enable him, as an individual
65:59 - 66:01

to meet the electric bill.
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HMMMMMM...
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Did I hear that right?
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Did he just say the death of a man
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caused by not having money
66:08 - 66:09

was the responsibility of...
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other people...
66:11 - 66:13

or, in effect, charity?
66:14 - 66:15

Well then, I guess we're gonna need
66:15 - 66:18

a whole lot of infomercials, little miserable
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coin slot donations for bodega counters
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and a bunch of pickle jars
66:24 - 66:26

for the billion people now starving to death
66:26 - 66:28

on this planet...
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because of the very system Milton Friedman promotes.
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Whether you are dealing with the philosophies of
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Milton Friedman, F.A. Hyack
66:37 - 66:39

John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises
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or any other major market economist
66:42 - 66:43

the basis of rationale
66:43 - 66:46

rarely leaves the money sequence.
66:46 - 66:48

It is like a religion.
66:48 - 66:50

Consumption analysis, stabilization policies
66:50 - 66:53

deficit spending, aggregate demand...
66:53 - 66:56

it exists as a never ending, self-referring
66:56 - 66:59

self-rationalizing circle of discourse
66:59 - 67:03

where universal human need, natural resources
67:03 - 67:07

and any form of physical life supporting efficiency
67:07 - 67:09

is ruled out by default
67:09 - 67:12

and replaced by the singular notion that humans
67:12 - 67:14

seeking advantage over each other for money alone
67:14 - 67:17

motivated by their own, narrow self-interest
67:18 - 67:22

will magically create a sustainable, healthy, balanced society.
67:22 - 67:25

There is no life coordinate in this whole theory
67:25 - 67:27

this whole doctrine.
67:27 - 67:28

What are they doing?
67:28 - 67:32

What they are doing is tracking the money sequences.
67:32 - 67:35

That's all it is, is tracking money sequences
67:35 - 67:39

presupposing everything that matters.
67:39 - 67:41

One: There is no life coordinates...
67:41 - 67:43

whoa... no life coordinates!
67:43 - 67:46

Two: That all the agents are
67:46 - 67:49

self-maximizing preferences seekers.
67:49 - 67:51

That is, they think of nothing other than themselves
67:51 - 67:53

and what they can get most for themselves.
67:53 - 67:57

That's the ruling notion of rationality:
67:57 - 67:59

self-maximizing choice
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and the only thing that they are interested in self-maximizing
68:03 - 68:05

is money or commodities.
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Well, where does social relations come in?
68:08 - 68:11

It doesn't, except in the exchange to self-maximize.
68:11 - 68:14

Where do our natural resources come in?
68:14 - 68:17

They don't, except to exploit.
68:17 - 68:22

Where does the family come in as being able to survive?
68:22 - 68:24

It doesn't. They have to have
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money in order to purchase any good.
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Well, shouldn't an economy
68:28 - 68:30

deal somewhere with human need?
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Isn't that what the fundamental issue is?
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Oh, "need" isn't even in your lexicon.
68:38 - 68:41

You dissolve it into "wants"...
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and what is a want? That means
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money demand that wants to buy.
68:46 - 68:48

Well, if it's money demand that wants to buy
68:48 - 68:50

it has nothing to do with need
68:50 - 68:52

because maybe the person has no money demand
68:52 - 68:55

and desperately needs, say, water supply.
68:55 - 68:59

Or, it may be money demand wants a gold toilet seat.
68:59 - 69:00

Well, where does it all go?
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To the gold toilet seat.
69:02 - 69:04

And you call this economics?
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Really, when one thinks of it
69:07 - 69:10

it's got to be the most bizarre
69:10 - 69:13

delusion in the history of human thought.
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[Monetary System]
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Now- so far we have focused on the market system.
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But this system is actually only
69:22 - 69:25

half of the global economic paradigm.
69:25 - 69:28

The other half is the “Monetary System”.
69:28 - 69:31

While the Market System deals with the interaction of people
69:31 - 69:34

gaming for profit across the spectrum of labor
69:34 - 69:36

production and distribution
69:36 - 69:40

the Monetary System is an underlying set of policies
69:40 - 69:42

set by financial institutions
69:42 - 69:44

which create conditions for the
69:44 - 69:46

market system, among other things.
69:46 - 69:49

It includes terms we often hear
69:49 - 69:52

such as interest rates, loans, debt, the money supply
69:52 - 69:55

inflation, etc.
69:55 - 69:57

And while you might want to pull your hair out listening
69:57 - 70:00

to the gibberish coming from the monetary economists:
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"Modest preemptive actions, can obviate the need
70:04 - 70:08

of more drastic actions, at a later date."
70:08 - 70:10

the nature and effect of this
70:10 - 70:12

system is actually quite simple:
70:13 - 70:14

Our economy has...
70:14 - 70:16

or the global economy has
70:16 - 70:18

three basic things that govern it.
70:18 - 70:19

One is fractional reserve banking
70:19 - 70:22

the banks printing money out of nothing.
70:22 - 70:24

It's also based upon compound interest.
70:24 - 70:27

When you borrow money, you have to pay back more
70:27 - 70:30

than you borrowed, which means that you, in effect
70:30 - 70:33

create money out of thin air
70:33 - 70:37

again, which has to be serviced by creating still more money.
70:37 - 70:39

We live in an infinite growth paradigm.
70:39 - 70:43

The economic paradigm we live in now is a Ponzi scheme.
70:43 - 70:45

Nothing grows forever.
70:46 - 70:47

It's not possible.
70:47 - 70:49

As a great psychologist James Hillman wrote
70:49 - 70:51

“The only thing that grows in the human body after
70:51 - 70:53

a certain age is cancer.”
70:54 - 70:56

It's not just the amount of money that has to keep growing
70:56 - 70:57

it's the amount of consumers.
70:57 - 71:00

Consumers to borrow money at interest
71:00 - 71:03

to generate more money and obviously, that's not possible
71:03 - 71:05

on a finite planet.
71:05 - 71:08

People are basically vehicles to just create money
71:08 - 71:10

which must create more money
71:10 - 71:12

to keep the whole thing from falling apart
71:12 - 71:15

which is what's happening right now.
71:15 - 71:18

There are really only two things anyone needs to know
71:18 - 71:20

about the monetary system:
71:20 - 71:23

1: All money is created out of debt.
71:23 - 71:26

Money is monetized debt
71:26 - 71:28

whether it materialized from treasury bonds
71:28 - 71:31

home loan contracts or credit cards.
71:31 - 71:33

In other words, if all outstanding debt
71:33 - 71:35

was to be repaid right now
71:35 - 71:39

there would not be one dollar in circulation.
71:39 - 71:44

And 2: Interest is charged on virtually all loans made
71:44 - 71:46

and the money needed to pay back this interest
71:46 - 71:49

does not exist in the money supply outright.
71:49 - 71:52

Only the principal is created by the loans
71:52 - 71:55

and the principal is the money supply.
71:55 - 71:58

So, if all this debt was to be repaid right now
71:58 - 72:01

not only would there not be one dollar left in circulation
72:01 - 72:04

there would be a gigantic amount of money owed
72:05 - 72:10

that is literally impossible to pay back, for it does not exist.
72:11 - 72:15

The consequence of all of this is that two things are inevitable:
72:15 - 72:16

Inflation
72:16 - 72:18

and Bankruptcy.
72:18 - 72:22

As far as inflation, this can be seen as a historical trend
72:22 - 72:23

in virtually every country today
72:23 - 72:25

and easily tied to its cause
72:25 - 72:28

which is the perpetual increase of the money supply
72:29 - 72:30

which is required
72:30 - 72:34

to cover the interest charges and keep the system going.
72:34 - 72:36

As far as Bankruptcy
72:36 - 72:39

it comes in the form of debt collapse.
72:39 - 72:42

This collapse will inevitably occur with a person
72:42 - 72:44

a business or a country
72:44 - 72:47

and typically happens when the interest payments
72:47 - 72:49

are no longer possible to make.
72:50 - 72:52

But there is a bright side to all of this...
72:52 - 72:56

well, at least in terms of the market system
72:56 - 72:59

Because debt creates pressure
72:59 - 73:01

Debt creates wage slaves.
73:01 - 73:04

A person in debt is much more likely to take a low wage
73:04 - 73:06

than a person who isn't
73:06 - 73:08

hence becoming a cheap commodity
73:08 - 73:11

so it's great for corporations to have a pool of people
73:11 - 73:14

that have no financial mobility.
73:14 - 73:18

But hey - that same idea also goes for entire countries...
73:18 - 73:21

the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
73:21 - 73:23

which mostly serve as proxies for
73:23 - 73:26

transnational corporate interests
73:26 - 73:28

give gigantic loans to troubled countries
73:28 - 73:30

at very high interest rates
73:30 - 73:32

and then, once the countries are
73:32 - 73:34

deeply in the hole and can't pay
73:34 - 73:36

austerity measures are applied
73:36 - 73:37

the corporations swoop in
73:38 - 73:41

set up sweatshops and take their natural resources.
73:41 - 73:45

Now that's market efficiency.
73:45 - 73:47

But wait – there's more:
73:47 - 73:48

you see- there's this unique
73:48 - 73:51

hybrid of the monetary and market system
73:51 - 73:53

called the stock market
73:53 - 73:56

which rather than, you know, actually produce anything real
73:56 - 73:59

they just buy and sell money itself.
74:00 - 74:02

And when it comes to debt, you know what they do?
74:02 - 74:05

That's right - they trade it.
74:05 - 74:09

They actually buy and sell debt for profit.
74:09 - 74:11

From credit default swaps
74:11 - 74:14

and collateralized debt obligations for consumer debt
74:14 - 74:16

to complex derivative schemes used
74:16 - 74:19

to mask the debt of entire countries
74:19 - 74:20

such as the collusion of
74:20 - 74:23

investment bank Goldman Sachs and Greece
74:23 - 74:26

which nearly collapsed the entire European economy.
74:26 - 74:29

So when it comes to the stock market and Wall Street
74:29 - 74:32

we have an entirely new level of insanity
74:32 - 74:35

born out of the Money Sequence of value.
74:36 - 74:37

All you need to know about markets
74:37 - 74:40

was written in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal
74:41 - 74:42

a couple years ago
74:42 - 74:45

it was called 'Lessons of the Brain-Damaged Investor".
74:45 - 74:48

And in this editorial, they explained why
74:48 - 74:50

people with slight brain damage
74:50 - 74:52

do better as investors
74:52 - 74:55

than people with normal brain functionality.
74:55 - 74:57

Why? Because the slightly
74:57 - 74:59

brain-damaged person has no empathy.
74:59 - 75:02

That's the key. If you don't have any empathy
75:02 - 75:04

you do well as an investor
75:04 - 75:09

and so Wall Street breeds people who have no empathy.
75:09 - 75:11

To go in there and to make decisions
75:11 - 75:14

and to make trades they have no compunction about
75:14 - 75:17

no thought whatsoever as to how what they are doing
75:17 - 75:19

might affect their fellow human being.
75:19 - 75:21

So they breed these robots.
75:21 - 75:24

These people who have no souls
75:24 - 75:27

and since they don't even want to pay these people anymore-
75:27 - 75:29

they are now breeding robots – real robots –
75:29 - 75:31

real algorithmic traders.
75:31 - 75:34

Goldman Sachs in the high frequency trading scandal:
75:34 - 75:37

they put a computer next to the New York Stock Exchange.
75:38 - 75:40

This computer, this “co-located” computer, as they call it:
75:41 - 75:43

it front-runs all the trades on the exchange and
75:43 - 75:46

hits the exchange with volumes of orders
75:46 - 75:47

in ways that "scalp"
75:47 - 75:50

pennies and nickels away from the exchange.
75:50 - 75:52

It's like they're siphoning money all day long.
75:52 - 75:55

They went one quarter last year 30
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or 60 straight days without a single down day
75:58 - 76:00

and made millions of dollars every single day?
76:00 - 76:04

That statistically impossible!
76:04 - 76:06

When I worked on Wall Street, the way it works is
76:06 - 76:08

everyone kicks upstairs to bribes.
76:08 - 76:12

The brokers bribe to the office manager
76:12 - 76:15

the office manager bribes to the regional sales manager.
76:15 - 76:17

The regional sales manager
76:17 - 76:19

bribes to the national sales manager.
76:19 - 76:20

It's a common understanding.
76:20 - 76:24

At Christmas, who gets the biggest bonus at Christmas
76:24 - 76:26

in an average broker job? The compliance officer.
76:26 - 76:29

The compliance officer sits there all day long;
76:29 - 76:30

he's supposed to be making sure you
76:30 - 76:32

don't violate any of the margin rules
76:32 - 76:34

and you're "complying" with the law.
76:34 - 76:36

Of course, yeah, to the extent that
76:36 - 76:38

you can bribe the compliance officer
76:38 - 76:41

yeah, that's right, you are complying with the law!
76:41 - 76:43

So how has fraud become the system?
76:43 - 76:45

It's no longer a byproduct.
76:45 - 76:46

It is the system.
76:46 - 76:49

It's like that old Woody Allen joke. He says:
76:49 - 76:52

“Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken.”
76:52 - 76:54

And the doctor says, “Take a pill
76:54 - 76:56

and that should cure the problem.”
76:56 - 76:57

And he says, “No doctor. You don't understand
76:57 - 76:59

We need the eggs.”
76:59 - 77:00

Okay?
77:01 - 77:03

So, the trading of fraudulent claims back and forth
77:03 - 77:05

between banks
77:05 - 77:06

to generate fees
77:06 - 77:07

to generate bonuses
77:07 - 77:11

has become the GDP producing growth
77:11 - 77:14

engine of the United States economy
77:14 - 77:17

even though they are essentially trading fraudulent claims
77:17 - 77:20

that there is absolutely no hope of ever paying back.
77:20 - 77:23

They are processing, generating and re-securitizing nothing.
77:23 - 77:26

If I write $20 billion on a cocktail napkin
77:26 - 77:28

and I sell it to J.P. Morgan and J.P. Morgan writes
77:29 - 77:32

$20 billion on a cocktail napkin
77:32 - 77:34

and we swap those two cocktail napkins at a bar
77:34 - 77:38

and we each pay ourselves a quarter of 1% in a fee
77:38 - 77:40

we make a lot of money for our Christmas bonus.
77:40 - 77:43

We each have on our books a $20 billion cocktail napkin
77:43 - 77:47

which has no real value until such time as
77:47 - 77:50

the system is no longer able to absorb bogus
77:50 - 77:53

cocktail napkins in which case we go to the government
77:53 - 77:55

to get bailed out.
77:55 - 77:58

And because of Wall street and the global stock market
77:58 - 78:01

there are now conservatively about 700 Trillion dollars
78:01 - 78:04

of outstanding fraudulent claims-
78:04 - 78:06

know as derivatives
78:06 - 78:08

still waiting to collapse.
78:08 - 78:10

A value amounting to over 10
78:10 - 78:12

times the gross domestic product
78:12 - 78:14

of the entire planet.
78:14 - 78:16

And while we have seen the bailouts of
78:16 - 78:18

corporations and banks by governments...
78:19 - 78:21

which, of course, comically borrow
78:21 - 78:22

their money from banks to begin with.
78:23 - 78:26

We are now seeing attempts to bailout whole countries
78:26 - 78:28

by conglomerates of other countries
78:28 - 78:30

through the International banks.
78:31 - 78:34

But how do you bailout a planet?
78:34 - 78:38

There is no country out there that isn't now saturated in debt.
78:39 - 78:42

The cascade of sovereign debt defaults we have seen
78:42 - 78:46

can only be the beginning, when the math is taken into account.
78:46 - 78:49

It has been estimated in the United States alone
78:49 - 78:53

that income tax would need to be raised to 65%
78:53 - 78:57

per person just to cover the interest in the near future.
78:57 - 79:00

Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades
79:01 - 79:05

60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.
79:06 - 79:09

But hold on-- Let me get this straight.
79:09 - 79:12

The world is going bankrupt
79:12 - 79:14

whatever the hell that means
79:14 - 79:16

because of this idea called "debt"
79:16 - 79:19

which doesn't even exist in the physical reality.
79:20 - 79:22

It's only part of a game we've invented...
79:22 - 79:26

and yet the well being of billions of people
79:26 - 79:28

is now being compromised.
79:28 - 79:32

Extreme layoffs - tent cities- accelerating poverty
79:32 - 79:36

Austerity measures imposed - schools shutting down -
79:36 - 79:40

child hunger...and other levels of familial deprivation
79:40 - 79:44

all because of this elaborate fiction...
79:44 - 79:47

What are we, fucking stupid?!
79:49 - 79:51

Hey! Hey! Mars- my man.
79:51 - 79:53

Help a brother out, uh?
79:55 - 79:57

Grow up, kid.
80:04 - 80:06

Saturn! What's up man?
80:07 - 80:09

You remember that smokin' nebula I hooked you up with
80:09 - 80:10

a while back?
80:12 - 80:13

uh- listen Earth.
80:13 - 80:15

We're getting really tired of you.
80:16 - 80:18

You've been given everything and yet you waste it all.
80:19 - 80:21

You've got plenty of resources and you know it.
80:21 - 80:23

Why don't you grow up and learn
80:23 - 80:25

some responsibility for Christ's sake.
80:25 - 80:27

You're making your mother miserable.
80:33 - 80:34

You're on your own, pal.
80:35 - 80:37

Yeah, whatever.
80:43 - 80:45

[Public Health]
80:46 - 80:48

Now, all of this considered...
80:48 - 80:51

from the waste machine known as the market system-
80:51 - 80:54

to the debt machine known as the monetary system-
80:54 - 80:57

hence creating the monetary-market paradigm
80:57 - 81:00

which defines the global economy today...
81:00 - 81:03

there is one consequence that runs through
81:03 - 81:05

the entire machine:
81:06 - 81:07

Inequality.
81:08 - 81:11

Whether it is market system which creates a natural
81:11 - 81:15

gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation
81:15 - 81:18

while also generating pockets of wealthy industries
81:18 - 81:20

that tower over others
81:20 - 81:22

regardless of utility-
81:22 - 81:24

such as the fact that top
81:24 - 81:25

hedge fund managers on wall street
81:25 - 81:29

now take home over 300 million dollars a year
81:29 - 81:32

for contributing literally nothing.
81:32 - 81:35

While a scientist looking for a cure for a disease
81:35 - 81:37

trying to help humanity
81:37 - 81:41

might make 60 thousand dollars a year if they're lucky.
81:41 - 81:44

Or whether it is the monetary system
81:44 - 81:47

which has class division built right into its structure.
81:47 - 81:48

For example:
81:49 - 81:52

If I have 1 million dollars to spare and I put it into a CD
81:52 - 81:54

at 4% interest-
81:54 - 81:56

I will make 40,000 dollars a year.
81:56 - 81:59

No social contribution- no nothing.
81:59 - 82:02

However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans
82:02 - 82:04

to buy my car or home
82:04 - 82:06

I am paying in interest which
82:06 - 82:07

in abstraction
82:08 - 82:12

is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.
82:12 - 82:15

This stealing from the poor to pay the rich
82:15 - 82:19

is a foundational, built in aspect of the monetary system.
82:19 - 82:23

And it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.
82:23 - 82:26

Of course, historically, social stratification
82:26 - 82:28

has always been deemed unfair
82:28 - 82:30

but obviously accepted overall
82:30 - 82:35

as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.
82:36 - 82:38

But material fairness aside
82:38 - 82:40

there is something else going on
82:40 - 82:42

underneath the surface of inequality
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causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.
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Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast
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between the material success of our societies
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- unprecedented levels of wealth -
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and the many social failings.
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If you look at the rates of
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drug abuse or violence or self harm
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amongst kids or mental illness
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there is clearly something going deeply wrong
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with our societies.
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The data I have been describing
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simply shows that intuition that people
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have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive
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and socially corrosive.
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But, that intuition is truer than I think we ever imagined.
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There are very powerful psychological and social effects
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of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings
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of superiority and inferiority.
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That kind of division...
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Maybe going with the respect or disrespect
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- people feeling looked down on at the bottom
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which, by the way, is why violence is
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more common in more unequal societies -
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the trigger to violence is so often people feeling looked down
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upon and disrespected.
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If there is one principle I could emphasize
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that is, the most important principle underlying
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the prevention of violence
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it would be “Equality”.
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The single most significant factor
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that affects the rate of violence
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is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality
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in that society.
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So, what we're looking at is a sort of
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general social dysfunction.
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It's not just one or two things that go wrong
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as inequality increases
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it seems to be everything, whether we are talking about
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crime or health or mental illness or whatever.
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One of the really disturbing findings out there in public health
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is never ever make the mistake of being poor.
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Or being born poor.
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Your health pays for it in endless sorts of ways:
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something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.
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As you move down from the highest strata
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in society, in terms of socioeconomic status
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every step down, health gets worse
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for umpteen different diseases.
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Life expectancy gets worse.
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Infant mortality rate-
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everything you could look at.
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So, a huge issue has been
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why is it that this gradient exists.
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A simple obvious answer
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which is, 'if you're chronically sick, you're not
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going to be very productive
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so, health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'
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Not that in the slightest-
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on the very simple level that
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you could look at the
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socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old
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and that's going to predict something about their health
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decades later.
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So, that's the direction of causality.
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Next one- 'Oh, it's perfectly obvious'-
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poor people can't afford to go to the doctor...
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it's healthcare access?
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It's got nothing to do with that
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because you see these same gradients
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in countries with universal health care and
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socialized medicine.
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Okay – next 'simple explanation':
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Oh -on the average- the poorer you are
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the more likely you are to smoke
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and drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.
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Yeah, those contribute but careful studies have shown
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that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.
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So what's left?
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What's left is having a ton to do
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with the STRESS of poverty
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So, the poorer you are, starting off being
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the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates...
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the poorer you are in this country
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on the average, the worse your health is.
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This tells us something really important:
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the health connection with poverty
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it's not about being poor it's about feeling poor.
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Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress
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is an important influence on health
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but the most important sources of stress
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are the quality of social relations.
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and if there is anything that
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lowers the quality of social relations
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it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.
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What science has now shown is
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that regardless of material wealth
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the stress of simply living in a stratified society
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leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems
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and the greater the inequality, the worse they become.
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Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.
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Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.
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Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.
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Social Capital - meaning the
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ability of people to trust each other:
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Naturally greater in more equal countries.
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Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.
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Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.
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Crime and Rates of Imprisonment:
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Less in more equal countries.
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It goes on and on:
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Infant mortality – obesity - teen birth rate:
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Less in more equal countries.
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and perhaps most interesting:
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Innovation: Greater in more equal countries.
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which challenges the age old notion that a competitive
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stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.
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Moreover, a study done in the UK
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called The WhiteHall Study
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confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease
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as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder
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to the bottom.
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For example, it was found that the lowest rungs
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of the hierarchy had a 4-fold increase
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of heart disease based mortality
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compared to the highest rungs.
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And this pattern exists, irrespective of access to health care.
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Hence - the worse a person's relative financial status
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the worse their health is going to be on average.
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This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed
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Psychosocial Stress'
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and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions
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plaguing our society today.
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Its cause?
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The Monetary-Market System.
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Make no mistake:
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The greatest destroyer of ecology...
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the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution...
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the greatest purveyor of violence-
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war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity...
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the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis...
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mental disorders - depression anxiety...
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Not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis
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stopping us from moving into new methodologies
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for personal health, global sustainability
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and progress on this planet
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is not some corrupt Government or legislation...
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not some rogue Corporation or banking cartel...
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not some flaw of human nature...
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and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.
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It is, in fact:
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The Socio-Economic System itself
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at its very foundation.
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[Part 3: Project Earth ]
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Let's imagine for a moment we had the option
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to redesign human civilization from the ground up.
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What if, hypothetically speaking
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we discovered an exact replica of the planet Earth
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and the only difference between
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this new planet and our current one
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is that human evolution had not occurred.
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It was an open palette.
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No countries, no cities, no pollution, no republicans....
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just a pristine, open environment.
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So what would we do?
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Well, first we need a “goal”, right?
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And it's safe to say that goal would be to survive.
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And not to just survive, but to do so in an optimized, healthy
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prosperous way.
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Most people, indeed, desire to live and
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they would prefer to do so without suffering.
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Therefore, the basis of this civilization
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needs to be as supportive and hence
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sustainable for human life as possible-
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taking into account the material needs
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of all the world's people
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while trying to remove anything
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that can could hurt us in the long run.
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With that goal of “Maximum Sustainability” understood
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next question regards our “method”.
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What kind of approach do we take?
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Well, let's see-
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last I checked, politics was the method of social operation on Earth...
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so what do the doctrines of the republicans, liberals
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conservatives or socialists have to say about societal design?
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Hmmm... not a damn thing.
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Okay then - what about religion?
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Surely the great creator had to have left some blueprints somewhere...
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Nope...nothing I can find.
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Okay then - so what's left?
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It appears something called “Science”.
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Science is unique in that its methods demand not only that ideas
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proposed be tested and replicated...
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but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable.
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In other words, unlike religion and politics
92:04 - 92:06

science has no ego
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and everything it suggests accepts the possibility
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of being proven wrong eventually.
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It holds on to nothing and evolves constantly.
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Well, that sounds natural enough to me.
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So then - based on the current state of scientific knowledge
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in the early 21st century
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along with our goal of “maximum sustainability”
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for the human population
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how do we begin the actual process of construction?
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Well, the first question to ask is:
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What do we need to survive?
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The answer, of course, are Planetary Resources.
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Whether it is the water we drink, the energy we use
92:42 - 92:46

or the raw materials we utilize to create tools and shelter
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the planet hosts an inventory of resources-
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many of which are demanded for our survival.
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So, given that reality
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it then becomes critical to figure out what we have and where it is.
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This means we need to conduct a survey.
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We simply locate and identify every physical resource on the planet
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we can, along with the amount available at each location
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from the deposits of copper, to the most potent locations for
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wind farms to produce energy
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to the natural fresh water springs
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to an assessment of the amount of fish in the ocean
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to the most prime arable land for food cultivation, etc.
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But, since we humans are going to be
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consuming these resources over time
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we then realize that not only do we need to locate and identify-
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we also need to track.
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We need to make sure we don't run out of any of this stuff...
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that would be bad.
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And this means not only tracking our rates of use
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but the rates of earthly regeneration as well
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such as how long it takes for, say
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a tree to grow or a spring to replenish.
93:52 - 93:56

This is called “Dynamic Equilibrium”.
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In other words, if we use up trees faster than they can be grown back-
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we have a serious problem, for it is unsustainable.
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So then, how do we track this inventory
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especially when we recognize that all
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of this stuff is scattered everywhere.
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We have large mineral mines in what we call Africa
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energy concentrations in the Middle East
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huge tidal power possibilities on the Atlantic coast of North America
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the largest supply of fresh water in Brazil, etc.
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Well, once again, good old science has a suggestion:
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it's called “Systems theory”.
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Systems theory recognizes that the fabric of the natural world
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from human biology to the earthly biosphere
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to the gravitational pull of the solar system itself
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is one huge synergistically connected system - fully interlinked.
94:48 - 94:51

Just as human cells connect to form our organs
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and the organs connect to form our bodies
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and since our bodies cannot live without the earthy resources
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of food, air and water, we are intrinsically connected to the earth.
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And so on.
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So - as nature suggests, we take all of this inventory
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and tracking data and create a “system” to manage it.
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A “Global Resource Management System”, in fact
95:14 - 95:17

to account for every relevant resource on the planet.
95:17 - 95:21

There is simply no logical alternative if our goal as a species
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is survival in the long run. We have to keep track as a whole.
95:26 - 95:30

That understood, we can now consider production.
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How do we use all this stuff?
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What will our process of production be and what do we need
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to consider to make sure it is as optimized as possible
95:38 - 95:42

to maximize our sustainability?
95:42 - 95:45

Well the first thing that jumps right out at us is the fact that
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we need to constantly try and preserve.
95:48 - 95:51

The planet's resources are essentially finite.
95:51 - 95:54

So it is important that we be “strategic”.
95:54 - 95:57

"Strategic Preservation" is key.
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The second thing we recognize, is that some resources
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are really not as good as others in their performance.
96:03 - 96:06

In fact, some of this stuff, when put into use
96:06 - 96:08

has a terrible effect of the environment
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which invariably hinders our own health.
96:11 - 96:15

For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it
96:15 - 96:19

release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.
96:19 - 96:22

Therefore, it is critical that we do our best to use such things
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only when we really have to - if at all.
96:26 - 96:31

Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave -
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heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production
96:35 - 96:39

so we can strategize objectively about what we use and where
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to avoid what could be called “negative retroactions”
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or anything that results from production or use
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that damages the environment and hence, ourselves.
96:51 - 96:54

We will call this “Strategic Safety”
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to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation”.
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But production strategies do not stop there.
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We are going to need an "Efficiency Strategy”
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for the actual mechanics of production itself.
97:07 - 97:09

And what we find is that there are roughly
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three specific protocols we must adhere to:
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One: Every good we produce must be
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designed to last as long as possible.
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Naturally, the more things breakdown
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the more resources we are going to need to replace them
97:23 - 97:25

and the more waste produced.
97:25 - 97:27

Two: When things do break down
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or are no longer usable for whatever reason
97:30 - 97:35

it is critical that we harvest, or recycle as much as we possibly can.
97:35 - 97:38

So the production design must take this into
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account directly at the very earliest stages.
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Three: Quickly evolving technologies, such as electronics
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which are subject to the fastest rates of technological obsolescence
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would need to be designed to
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foreshadow and accommodate physical updates.
97:55 - 97:59

The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer
97:59 - 98:03

system just because it has only one broken part or is outdated.
98:03 - 98:07

So we simply design the components to be easily updated
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part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable
98:11 - 98:16

foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.
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And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”
98:19 - 98:23

“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”
98:23 - 98:26

are purely technical considerations
98:26 - 98:29

devoid of any human opinion or bias
98:29 - 98:32

we simply program these strategies into a computer
98:32 - 98:35

which can weigh and calculate all the relevant variables
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allowing us to always arrive at the
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absolute best method for sustainable production
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based on current understandings.
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And while that might sound complex
98:46 - 98:49

all it is is a glorified calculator
98:49 - 98:50

not to mention that such multi-varied
98:50 - 98:53

decision making and monitoring systems
98:53 - 98:55

are already used across the world today
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for isolated purposes. It is simply a process of scaling it out.
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So...
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Now, we not only have our Resource Management System
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but also a Production Management System
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both of which are easily computer automated
99:10 - 99:14

to maximize efficiency, preservation & safety.
99:14 - 99:17

The informational reality is that the human mind
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or even a group of humans, cannot track what needs to be tracked.
99:21 - 99:25

It must be done by computers and it can be.
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And this bring us to the next level: Distribution.
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What sustainability strategies make sense here?
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Well, since we know that the shortest
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distance between two points is a straight line
99:37 - 99:41

and since energy is required to power transport machines
99:41 - 99:44

the less transport distance, the more efficient.
99:44 - 99:48

Producing goods in one continent and shipping them over to another
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only makes sense if the goods in question simply cannot
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be produced in the target area.
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Otherwise, it is nothing but wasteful.
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We must localize production, so distribution is simple
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fast and requires the least amount of energy.
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We'll call this the “Proximity Strategy”
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which simply means we reduce the
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travel of goods as much as possible
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whether raw materials or finished consumer products.
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Of course, it might also be important to
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know what goods are we transporting and why...
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And this falls under the category of Demand.
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And demand is simply what people need to be
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healthy and to have a high quality of life.
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The spectrum of material human needs
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range from core life supporting necessities
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such as food, clean water and shelter...
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to social and recreational goods which allow for relaxation
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and personal - social enjoyment -
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both important factors in human and social health overall.
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So - very simply- we take another survey.
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People describe their needs, demand is
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assessed and production begins based on that demand.
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And since the level of demand of different goods will
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naturally fluctuate and change around different regions
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we need to create a “Demand / Distribution Tracking System"
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so to avoid overruns and shortages.
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Of course, this idea is old news
101:12 - 101:15

it is used in every major store chain today
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to make sure they keep up with their inventory.
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Only this time, we are tracking on a global scale.
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But wait a minute. We really can't fully understand demand
101:26 - 101:30

if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.
101:30 - 101:34

Is it logical and sustainable for every single human to, say
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have one of everything made? Regardless of their usage?
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No. That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.
101:43 - 101:47

If a person has a need for a good but that need is only for say:
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45 minutes a day on average
101:49 - 101:51

it would be much more efficient if
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that good was made available to them
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and to others when needed.
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Many forget that it isn't the good they want
101:59 - 102:01

it is the purpose of that good.
102:01 - 102:03

When we realize that the good itself
102:03 - 102:05

is only as important as its utility
102:05 - 102:08

we see that “external restriction”
102:08 - 102:11

or what we might call today “ownership”
102:11 - 102:14

is extremely wasteful and environmentally illogical
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in a fundamental, economic sense.
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So we need devise a strategy called: “Strategic Access”.
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This would be the foundation of our
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"Demand / Distribution Tracking System.”
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which makes sure we can meet the
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demand of the population's needs
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for access of whatever they need, when they need it.
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And as far as physically obtaining the goods
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centralized and regional access
102:40 - 102:42

centers all make sense for the most part
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placed in close proximity to the population
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and a person would simply come in, take the item
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use it and when finished, return it when no longer needed...
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sort of how a library works today.
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In fact, these centers could not only exist in
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the community in the way we see local stores today
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but specialized access centers would exist in specific areas
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where often certain goods are utilized
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saving more energy with less repeat transport.
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And once this Demand Tracking System is in order
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it is tied into our Production Management system
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and, of course, into our Resource Management system
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hence creating a unified dynamically updating
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global economic management machine
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that simply makes sure we remain sustainable
103:29 - 103:33

starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources
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moving to make sure we only create the best
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most strategic goods possible
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while distributing everything in the
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most intelligent and efficient way.
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And the unique result of this preservation based approach
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which is intuitively counter to many
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is that this logical, ground up
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empirical process of preservation and efficiency
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which can only define true human sustainability on the planet
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would likely enable something never before seen in human history.
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Access Abundance...
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not just for a percentage of the global population...
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but the entire civilization.
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This economic model, as was just generalized...
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This responsible, systems approach to total Earth
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resource management and processes
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designed again to do nothing less
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than take care of humanity as whole
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in the most efficient and sustainable way
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could be termed:
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a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.
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The idea was defined in the 1970s by
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Social Engineer- Jacque Fresco.
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He understood back then that society was on a collision course
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with nature and itself - unsustainable on every level
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and if things didn't change
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we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.
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Are all of these things you are saying, Jacque...
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could they be built with what we know today?
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Or are you guessing... based on what we know today.
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No, all of these things can be built with what we know today.
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It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.
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To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.
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The choice lies with you.
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The stupidity of a nuclear arms race...
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the development of weapons...
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trying to solve your problems politically
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by electing this political party or that political party...
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that all politics is immersed in corruption.
105:26 - 105:27

Let me say it again:
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Communism, socialism, fascism... the Democrats
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the liberals- we want to absorb human beings.
105:34 - 105:37

All organizations that believe in a better life for man:
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there are no Negro problems or Polish problems
105:40 - 105:42

or Jewish problems or Greek problems
105:42 - 105:45

or women's problems – there are human problems!
105:45 - 105:48

I'm not afraid of anybody; I don't work for anyone;
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no one can discharge me.
105:49 - 105:51

I have no boss.
105:51 - 105:54

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.
105:54 - 105:58

Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
105:58 - 106:00

It was great - the free enterprise system -
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about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.
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Now, we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.
106:08 - 106:12

The horror movies of the future will be our society...
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the way it didn't work
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and politics...
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would be part of a horror movie.
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Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'
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because it's analytical
106:27 - 106:30

and they don't even know what analytical means.
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Science means: closer approximations
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to the way the world really works.
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So, it's telling the truth - is what it is
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A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.
106:42 - 106:44

They tell them what their findings are.
106:44 - 106:47

They have to question all things
106:47 - 106:51

and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows
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certain materials have certain strengths
106:54 - 106:56

other scientists have to be able to duplicate
106:56 - 106:59

that experiment and come up with the same results.
106:59 - 107:03

Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing
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due to mathematics or calculations
107:06 - 107:08

can hold up a given amount of weight
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they still pile sandbags on it
107:11 - 107:13

to see when it breaks and they say
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you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.
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I love that system because it's free of bias
107:20 - 107:23

and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.
107:23 - 107:26

You have to put your Math to test also.
107:26 - 107:29

I think that every system that can
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be put to test should be put to test.
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And that all decisions should be based upon research.
107:37 - 107:39

A Resource-Based Economy is simply the
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scientific method applied to social concern-
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an approach utterly absent in the world today.
107:45 - 107:48

Society is a technical invention.
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And the most efficient methods of optimized human health
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physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like
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reside in the field of science and
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technology - not politics or monetary economics.
108:01 - 108:05

It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane
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and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.
108:09 - 108:11

Likewise, nature itself is the
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physical referent we use to prove our science
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and it is a set system-
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emerging only from our increased understanding of it.
108:20 - 108:22

In fact, it has no regard for what you
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subjectively think or believe to be true.
108:25 - 108:27

Rather, it gives you an option:
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you can learn and fall in line with its
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natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly-
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invariably creating good health & sustainability...
108:34 - 108:38

or you can go against the current - to no avail.
108:38 - 108:40

It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just
108:40 - 108:42

stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you
108:42 - 108:45

the law of gravity will not allow it.
108:45 - 108:47

If you do not eat - you will die.
108:47 - 108:50

If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.
108:50 - 108:54

As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship
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and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it
108:57 - 109:00

or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.
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So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more
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than a set of proven, life supporting understandings
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where all decisions are based upon
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optimized human and environmental sustainability.
109:13 - 109:16

It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”
109:16 - 109:19

which every human being shares as a need
109:19 - 109:23

regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.
109:23 - 109:26

There is no cultural relativism to this approach.
109:26 - 109:29

It isn't a matter of opinion.
109:29 - 109:31

Human needs are human needs
109:31 - 109:35

and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air
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nutritious food and clean water
109:37 - 109:41

along with a positively reinforcing, stable
109:41 - 109:45

nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded
109:45 - 109:47

for our mental and physical health
109:47 - 109:49

our evolutionary fitness
109:49 - 109:52

and hence, the species survival itself.
109:52 - 109:55

A Resource-Based Economy
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would be based upon available resources.
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You can't just bring a lot of people to an island
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or build a city of 50,000 people without having access
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to the necessities of life.
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So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'
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I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first
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and determining what that area can supply-
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not just architectural approach-
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not just design approach-
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but design must be based on all of the requirements
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to enhance human life
110:31 - 110:35

and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.
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Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -
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All those things are necessary
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and if you deprive people of any of them
110:44 - 110:49

you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.
110:49 - 110:53

As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up
110:53 - 110:58

global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution
110:58 - 111:03

is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'
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which guarantee efficiency and
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sustainability in every area of the economy.
111:09 - 111:12

So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design-
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what is next in our equation?
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Where does all this materialize?
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Cities.
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The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.
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Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life
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along with increased social support and community interaction.
111:31 - 111:34

So how would we go about designing an ideal city?
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What shape should we make it?
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Square? Trapezoid?
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Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing
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we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...
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hence the circle.
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What should the city contain?
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Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area
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a power generation area; an agricultural area.
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But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture
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nature, recreation and education.
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So lets include a nice open park
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an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing
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and educational and research facilities.
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And since we are working with a circle
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it seems rational to place these functions in Belts
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based on the amount of land required for each goal
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along with ease of access.
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Very good.
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Now, let's get down to specifics:
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First we need the consider the core
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infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.
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These would be the water, goods
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waste and energy transport channels.
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Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today
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we would extend this channeling concept to
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integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.
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No more mailmen or garbage men.
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It is built right in. We could even use
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automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.
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Same goes for transport.
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It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce
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or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.
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Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and
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maglevs which can take you virtually
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anywhere in the city, even up and down
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along with connecting you to other cities as well.
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And of course, in the event a car is required
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it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.
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In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.
113:24 - 113:29

Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;
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injuring about 50 million.
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This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.
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Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars
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this death toll can be virtually eliminated.
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Agriculture.
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Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods
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using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means
113:50 - 113:52

we have successfully destroyed much
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of the the arable land on this planet
113:54 - 113:58

not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.
113:58 - 114:01

In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins
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now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.
114:07 - 114:10

Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -
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the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics
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which also reduce nutrient and water
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requirements by up to 75 % of our current usage.
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Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale
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in enclosed vertical farms.
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Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -
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virtually eliminating the need for
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pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.
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This is the future of industrial food cultivation.
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Efficient, clean and abundant.
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So, such advanced systems would be, in part
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what comprise our agricultural belt
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producing all the food required for the entire city's population
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with no need to import anything from the outside
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saving time, waste and energy.
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And speaking of Energy-
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The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to
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extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums
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-specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials
115:09 - 115:12

and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.
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To avoid intermittency and make sure
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a positive net energy return occurs
115:17 - 115:20

these mediums would operate in an integrated system
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powering each other when needed
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while storing excessive energy to large
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super capacitors under the ground
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so nothing can go to waste.
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And not only does the city power itself
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particular structures will also power independently
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and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints
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structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect
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and other current but under utilized technologies.
115:46 - 115:47

But, of course, this begs the question:
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how does this technology, and goods in
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general, get created in the first place?
115:52 - 115:54

This bring us to Production:
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The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like
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would be the hub of factory production.
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Completely localized overall
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it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of
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the global resource management system, just discussed-
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with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.
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As far as the mechanics of production
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we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon
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which was sparked very recently in human history
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and is on pace to changing everything.
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It's called Mechanization
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or the automation of labor.
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Well, if you look around, you'll notice that almost
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everything that we use today
116:34 - 116:37

is built automatically.
116:37 - 116:42

Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...
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they are all built by machines in an automatic way.
116:49 - 116:52

Can we say that the society has not been
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influenced by these major technological advancements?
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Of course not.
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These systems really dictate new structures
117:02 - 117:08

and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.
117:08 - 117:12

So, we have been going up in the development
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and use of technology in an exponential way.
117:16 - 117:21

So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop
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technologies that just make sense.
117:24 - 117:28

Labor automation through technology is at the bottom
117:28 - 117:31

of every major social transformation in human history.
117:31 - 117:34

From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow
117:34 - 117:38

to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine
117:38 - 117:41

to the information age we live in now through
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essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.
117:45 - 117:48

And with regard to advanced production methods today
117:48 - 117:51

mechanization is now evolving on its own.
117:51 - 117:54

Moving away from the traditional method of
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assembling component parts into a configuration -
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into an advanced method of creating
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entire products in one single process.
118:02 - 118:06

Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is
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so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.
118:10 - 118:16

What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.
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As good a definition of life as we've got.
118:18 - 118:20

Again, as an engineer, I have always been
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intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.
118:23 - 118:26

RepRap is a three-dimensional printer-
118:26 - 118:29

that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and
118:29 - 118:32

instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on
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it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.
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Now there's nothing new about that
118:37 - 118:40

3-D printers have been around for about 30 years.
118:40 - 118:45

The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.
118:45 - 118:47

So, if you've got one, you could
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make another one and give it to a friend
118:48 - 118:51

as well as being able to print lots of useful things.
118:51 - 118:55

From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home
118:55 - 118:59

to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop
118:59 - 119:02

advanced, automated 3d printing now has the
119:02 - 119:05

potential to transform virtually every field of production.
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Including home construction.
119:08 - 119:10

Contour Crafting is
119:10 - 119:13

actually a fabrication technology-
119:13 - 119:17

the so-called 3-D printing- when you directly build
119:17 - 119:21

3-D objects from a computer model.
119:21 - 119:24

Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible
119:24 - 119:27

to build a 2000 square-foot home
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entirely by the machine, in one day.
119:31 - 119:36

The reason that people are interested in automating construction
119:36 - 119:39

is that it really brings a lot of benefits.
119:39 - 119:43

For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive
119:43 - 119:50

and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society
119:50 - 119:55

it also has issues and complications.
119:55 - 120:00

For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.
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It is worse than mining and agriculture.
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That has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.
120:08 - 120:10

Another issue is the waste.
120:10 - 120:15

An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.
120:16 - 120:21

So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction
120:21 - 120:25

and knowing about 40% of all materials
120:25 - 120:28

in the world are used in construction.
120:28 - 120:31

So, a big waste of energy and resources
120:31 - 120:34

and big damage to the environment as well.
120:34 - 120:39

Making homes using hammers and nails and wood
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with the state of our technology today, is really absurd
120:44 - 120:47

and will go the way of our labor class in
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regards to manufacturing in the United States.
120:51 - 120:56

Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT
120:56 - 121:00

that states that our middle class is obsolete
121:00 - 121:03

and being replaced by automation.
121:04 - 121:07

Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive
121:07 - 121:10

efficient and sustainable than human labor
121:10 - 121:13

in virtually every sector of the economy today.
121:13 - 121:17

Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions
121:17 - 121:19

and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.
121:20 - 121:22

The output potential and accuracy
121:22 - 121:25

compared to human labor, is unmatched.
121:26 - 121:29

The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete
121:29 - 121:31

and impractical across the world
121:31 - 121:34

and the unemployment you see around you today
121:34 - 121:37

is fundamentally the result of this
121:37 - 121:40

evolution of efficiency in technology.
121:40 - 121:44

For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern
121:44 - 121:47

which could be called “Technological Unemployment”
121:47 - 121:50

because of the fact that new sectors always seemed
121:50 - 121:53

to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.
121:53 - 121:56

Today, the service sector is the only real hub left
121:56 - 122:00

and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce
122:00 - 122:04

with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.
122:04 - 122:06

However, this sector now being
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challenged increasingly by automated kiosks-
122:09 - 122:13

automated restaurants and even automated stores.
122:13 - 122:15

Economists today are finally
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acknowledging what they had been denying for years:
122:17 - 122:21

not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current
122:21 - 122:23

labor crisis we see across the
122:23 - 122:26

world due to the global economic downturn
122:26 - 122:28

but the more the recession deepens
122:28 - 122:31

the faster the industries are mechanizing.
122:31 - 122:33

The catch, which is not realized
122:33 - 122:36

is that the faster they mechanize to save money;
122:36 - 122:38

the more they displace people-
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the more they reduce public purchasing power.
122:41 - 122:43

This means that, while the corporation
122:43 - 122:45

can produce everything more cheaply
122:45 - 122:48

fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything
122:48 - 122:51

regardless of how cheap they become.
122:51 - 122:54

The bottom line is that the “labor for
122:54 - 122:57

income” game is slowly coming to an end.
122:57 - 122:59

In fact, if you take a moment to reflect
122:59 - 123:02

on the jobs which are in existence today
123:02 - 123:05

which automation could take over right now, if applied
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75% of the global workforce could be
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replaced by mechanization tomorrow.
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And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy
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There is no Monetary-Market system.
123:18 - 123:20

No money at all...
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for there is no need.
123:21 - 123:23

a Resource-Based Economy
123:23 - 123:26

recognizes the efficiency of mechanization
123:26 - 123:28

and accepts it for what it offers.
123:28 - 123:30

It doesn't fight it, like we do today.
123:31 - 123:33

Why? Because it is irresponsible not to
123:33 - 123:37

given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.
123:38 - 123:41

And this brings us back to our city system.
123:41 - 123:43

In the center is the Central Dome
123:43 - 123:45

which not only houses the
123:45 - 123:48

educational facilities and transportation hub-
123:48 - 123:50

it also hosts the mainframe that
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runs the cities technical operations.
123:52 - 123:56

The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.
123:56 - 123:58

It has sensors in all technical belts
123:58 - 124:00

to track the progress of architecture-
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energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.
124:04 - 124:07

Now, would people be needed to oversee these
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operations in the event of a malfunction and the like?
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Most probably: yes.
124:11 - 124:13

But that number would decrease
124:13 - 124:15

over time as improvements continue.
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However, as of today, maybe 3% of
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the city population would be needed
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for this job when you break it down.
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And I can assure you:
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that in an economic system which is
124:26 - 124:28

actually designed to take care of you
124:29 - 124:31

and secure your well being
124:31 - 124:33

without you having to submit to
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private dictatorship on a daily basis...
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usually to a job that is either
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technically unnecessary or socially pointless
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while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist
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just to make ends meet...
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I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right
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to maintain and improve a system
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that actually takes care of them.
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And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'-
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comes the common assumption that
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if there isn't some external pressure
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for one to “work for a living”
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people would just sit around, do nothing
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and turn into fat lazy blobs.
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This is nonsense.
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The labor system we have today is
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in fact the generator of laziness-
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not a resolver of it.
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If you think back to when you were a child-
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full of life, interested in new things to understand-
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likely creating and exploring...
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but as time went on, the system pushed you
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into the focus of figuring out how to make money.
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And from early education
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to study at a university, you are narrowed.
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Only to emerge as a creature which serves
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as a cog in a wheel in a model that
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sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.
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Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact
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not motivated by monetary reward
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when it comes to ingenuity and creation.
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The creation itself is the reward.
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Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive
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for repetitive, mundane actions-
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a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.
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When it comes to innovation
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the actual use of the human mind
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the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance
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interfering and detracting from creative thought.
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And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers
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and other inventors who contributed massively
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to our current world
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never showed a monetary incentive to do so.
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Money is, in fact, a false incentive
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and causes 100 times more distortion
126:38 - 126:40

than it does contribution.
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Good morning class. Please settle down.
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The first thing I would like to do is go around the room
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and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.
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Who would like to go first?
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Okay, how about you Sarah?
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When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!
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Oh, family tradition, eh?
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How about you, Linda?
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When I grow up, I'm going to be a
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prostitute on the streets of New York City!
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Oh! glamour girl, huh?
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Very ambitious.
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How about you, Tommy?
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When I grow up, I'm going to be a
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rich, elitist businessman who works
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on Wall Street and profits off of
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the collapse of foreign economies.
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Enterprising...
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And great to see some multicultural interest!
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[Victims of Culture]
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As stated before, a Resource-Based
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Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern
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and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.
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It also has the consideration of
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human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.
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What good is a social system if, in the end
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it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?
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So, it is important to point out that
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with the removal of the money system
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and the necessities of life provided
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we would see a global reduction in
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crime by about 95% almost immediately
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for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.
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95% of all people in prisons today are there
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due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse
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and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.
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So what about the other 5%?
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the truly violent...
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often seeming to some as being
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violent for the sake of being violent...
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are they just “evil” people?
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The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time
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to engage in moral value judgments
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about people's violence is
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because it doesn't advance by one iota
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our understanding of either the causes
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or the prevention of the violent behavior.
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People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.
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My answer to that is
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“No, I don't believe in forgiveness
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anymore than I believe in condemnation”.
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It's only if we, as a society
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can take the same attitude of treating violence as
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a problem in public health and preventive medicine
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rather than as a moral "evil"...
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it's only when we make that change in our
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own attitudes and assumptions and values
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that we will actually succeed in reducing the
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level of violence rather than stimulating it-
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which is what we do now.
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The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become
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because there's no such thing as justice.
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There is whatever there is out there. That's it.
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In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-
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if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that
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why do you blame the person for it?
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They are a victim of a subculture.
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Therefore they have to be helped.
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The point is, we have to redesign the environment
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that produces aberrant behavior.
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That's the problem.
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Not putting a person in jail.
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That's why judges- lawyers-
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“freedom of choice” - such concepts
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are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.
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That the person is “bad”... or that person is a “serial killer”.
130:23 - 130:25

Serial killers are made
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just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.
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They become killing machines, but nobody
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looks at them as murderers or assassins
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because that's “natural”.
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So we blame people.
130:39 - 130:42

We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews”.
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No, he was brought up to torture Jews.
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Once you accept the fact that people
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have individual choices and they are free
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to make those choices... Free to make
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choices means without being influenced
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and I can't understand that at all.
130:58 - 131:02

All of us are influenced in all of our choices
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by the culture we live in, by our parents
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and by the values that dominate.
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So, we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.
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What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:
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I haven't been all over the world and I don't know
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enough about different cultures to answer that question.'
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I don't know anybody that speaks that way.
131:22 - 131:25

They say 'it's the good old USA!
131:25 - 131:26

the greatest country in the world!'
131:26 - 131:29

There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'
131:29 - 131:30

Have you been to England?' - 'No.'
131:30 - 131:32

Have you been to France?' - 'No.'
131:32 - 131:34

Then what do you make your assumptions on?'
131:34 - 131:36

They can't answer- they get mad at you.
131:36 - 131:37

They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell
131:37 - 131:40

are you to tell me what to think?!'
131:40 - 131:42

You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.
131:42 - 131:45

They are not responsible for the answers;
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they're victims of culture and that means
131:48 - 131:51

they have been influenced by their culture.
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[Part 4: Rise]
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When we consider a Resource-Based Economy
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there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...
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[EH!] (Interrupted)
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[Eh! Hey!]
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[Now hold on just a minute!]
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[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]
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[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]
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[My father died in the Gulag!]
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[Communist! Fascist!]
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[You don't like America you should just leave!]
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All right, everybody just calm down...
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[Death to the New World Order!]
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[Death to the New World Order!]
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And as the irrationality of the
132:53 - 132:55

audience grew, shocked and confused:
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suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.'
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And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.
133:06 - 133:09

[System Error]
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[Backup Initiated - Restored]
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But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people
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in 'think tank' type situations
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you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...
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they say ”Marxist!”
133:25 - 133:27

What? Marxist? Where did that come from?
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They just got this icon they hold onto-
133:30 - 133:33

It's their Holy Grail
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and it's such an easy one, you know.
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People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist
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I say I am none of the above. Why do you
133:41 - 133:43

think that those are the only options?
133:43 - 133:45

All of those political constructs
133:45 - 133:47

were created by writers who assumed
133:47 - 133:50

we lived on a planet of infinite resources.
133:50 - 133:53

Not one of those political philosophies even
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contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.
133:57 - 134:01

I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism
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are part of social evolution.
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You can't take a giant step
134:06 - 134:08

from one culture to another-
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there are in-between systems.
134:10 - 134:12

Before there's any “Ism”, we have a life ground
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and the life ground is as I've just described
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most easily as all the conditions
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required to take your next breath
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and that involves the air you breathe
134:20 - 134:23

the water you get, the safety you have
134:23 - 134:25

the education you can access- all
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these things that we share and use and that
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no life, in any culture, can do without.
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So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground
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and the life ground is no longer any “Ism”.
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It's “life value analysis.”
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[Beyond The Pale]
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It's simply a matter of historical fact
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that the dominant intellectual culture
134:49 - 134:51

of any particular society reflects the
134:51 - 134:54

interests of the dominant group in that society.
134:54 - 134:56

In a slave owning society
134:56 - 134:59

the beliefs about human beings and human rights
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and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.
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In the society, again, which is based on
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the power of certain people to control and profit from
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the lives and work of millions of others
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the dominant intellectual culture will
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reflect the needs of the dominant group.
135:19 - 135:22

So, if you look across the board, the
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ideas that pervade psychology and
135:25 - 135:28

sociology and history
135:28 - 135:31

and political economy and political science
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fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.
135:35 - 135:38

And the academics who question that too much
135:38 - 135:41

tend to get shunted to the side or
135:41 - 135:44

to be seen as sort of “radicals”.
135:44 - 135:46

The dominant values of a culture
135:46 - 135:48

tend to support and perpetuate
135:48 - 135:50

what is rewarded by that culture.
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And in a society where success and
135:52 - 135:55

status is measured by material wealth
135:55 - 135:57

- not social contribution -
135:57 - 136:02

it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.
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We are dealing with a value system disorder
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- completely denatured -
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where the priority of personal and social health
136:09 - 136:12

have become secondary to the detrimental
136:12 - 136:15

notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.
136:15 - 136:17

And, like a virus, this disorder now
136:17 - 136:20

permeates every facet of government
136:20 - 136:24

- news media - entertainment - and even academia.
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And built into its structure
136:26 - 136:28

are mechanisms of protection
136:28 - 136:30

from anything that might interfere.
136:30 - 136:33

Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion
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the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo
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constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought
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which might interfere with their beliefs.
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The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.
136:47 - 136:50

If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.
136:50 - 136:53

If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist
136:53 - 136:55

and if you feel society can be greatly improved
136:55 - 136:57

to consider, perhaps - I don't know-
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taking care of everyone?
136:59 - 137:01

you're just a “Utopianist”.
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And the most insidious of them all:
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if you are not for the "free-market"
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you must be against freedom itself.
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I'm a believer in freedom!
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Every time you hear the word freedom
137:13 - 137:15

being said anywhere or government interference
137:15 - 137:20

said anywhere, it means, decoded:
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blocking maximization of turning money
137:23 - 137:27

into more money for private money possessors.
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That's it. Every other thing they'll say:
137:30 - 137:31

'Oh, we need more commodities for people';
137:31 - 137:36

'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth
137:36 - 137:38

every time you see it, you can decode it down to
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that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation
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with every time they use it.
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And this, in a sense, we might call:
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a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.
137:51 - 137:54

So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it
137:54 - 137:56

so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'
137:56 - 137:58

but in fact, that's what they do.
137:58 - 138:00

Just like you may speak a grammar
138:00 - 138:02

and you have rules of grammar you follow
138:02 - 138:04

without recognizing what the rules are...
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and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”
138:08 - 138:12

that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:
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government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'
138:15 - 138:18

or 'progress' or 'development'
138:18 - 138:23

you can decode them all to come back to mean that.
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Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'
138:26 - 138:28

it tends to be in same sentence
138:28 - 138:30

with something called 'democracy'.
138:30 - 138:33

It's fascinating how people today seem to believe
138:33 - 138:35

that they actually have a relevant
138:35 - 138:38

influence on what their government does
138:38 - 138:40

forgetting that the very nature of
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our system offers everything for sale.
138:43 - 138:46

The only vote that counts is the monetary vote
138:46 - 138:48

and it doesn't matter how much any
138:48 - 138:51

activist yells about ethics and accountability.
138:51 - 138:55

In a market system, every politician, every legislation
138:55 - 138:58

and hence, every government is for sale.
138:58 - 139:02

And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts
139:02 - 139:04

starting in 2007
139:04 - 139:06

an amount of money which could have changed
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say, the global energy infrastructure
139:09 - 139:10

to fully renewable methods
139:10 - 139:13

instead going to a series of institutions
139:13 - 139:15

that literally do nothing to help society
139:15 - 139:17

institutions that could be
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removed tomorrow with no recourse...
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the blind conditioning that politics and
139:22 - 139:28

politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.
139:28 - 139:31

The fact is, politics is a business
139:31 - 139:34

- no different than any other in a market system
139:34 - 139:38

and they care about their self-interest before anything else.
139:38 - 139:43

I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.
139:43 - 139:46

I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.
139:46 - 139:48

It accommodates these changes.
139:48 - 139:50

I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation
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on the part of those who own the country.
139:52 - 139:55

I think they see where their self-interest lies;
139:55 - 139:58

they see a certain amount of freedom seems good
139:58 - 140:01

-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year
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so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.
140:04 - 140:08

Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say
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“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established
140:11 - 140:13

before the debate even begins and everyone
140:13 - 140:15

else is marginalized and made to seem either
140:15 - 140:18

to be communist or some sort of disloyal person
140:18 - 140:20

-a “kook”- there's a word...
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and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that.
140:22 - 140:25

Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:
140:25 - 140:28

that powerful people might get together and have a plan!
140:28 - 140:33

Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! Your a “conspiracy buff”!
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And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system
140:37 - 140:40

there are two that repeatedly come up.
140:40 - 140:44

The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”
140:44 - 140:47

of the material progress we have seen on this planet.
140:47 - 140:49

Well...No.
140:49 - 140:52

There are basically two root causes which
140:52 - 140:55

have created the increased so-called “wealth”
140:55 - 140:57

and population growth we see today.
140:58 - 141:01

One: the exponential advancement of production technology;
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hence scientific ingenuity.
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And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy
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-which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.
141:13 - 141:15

The free-market / capitalist / monetary
141:15 - 141:18

market system - whatever you want to call it -
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has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents
141:21 - 141:25

with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard
141:25 - 141:30

grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.
141:30 - 141:34

The second defense is a belligerent social bias
141:34 - 141:36

generated from years of propaganda
141:36 - 141:39

which sees any other social system
141:39 - 141:41

as a route to so called "tyranny”
141:41 - 141:45

with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...
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and the death tolls they generated.
141:47 - 141:50

Well, as despotic as these men might have been
141:50 - 141:54

along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...
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when it comes to the game of death
141:56 - 141:58

- when comes to the systematic
141:58 - 142:00

daily mass murder of human beings -
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Nothing in history compares to what we have today.
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Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history
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have not been caused by a lack of food.
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They have been caused by relative poverty.
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The economic resources were so inequitably distributed
142:20 - 142:24

that the poor simply didn't have enough money
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with which to buy the food that would've been
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available if they could have afforded to pay for it.
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That would be an example of Structural Violence.
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Another example: in Africa and other areas-
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I'll particularly focus on Africa-
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tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.
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Why are they dying?
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It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.
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We have millions of people in the wealthy countries
142:51 - 142:55

getting along remarkably well because
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they have the medicines that will treat it.
142:57 - 143:00

The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS
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are not dying because of the HIV virus...
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they are dying because they don't have the money with
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which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.
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Gandhi saw this. He said:
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“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”
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And that's absolutely right.
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Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;
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more people than all the murderers in history;
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more than all the suicides in history...
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not only does Structural Violence kill more people
143:32 - 143:35

than all the behavioral violence put together
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Structural Violence is also the
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main cause of behavioral violence.
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[Beyond the Peak]
143:47 - 143:51

Oil is the foundation of
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and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.
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There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy –oil and natural gas–
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in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.
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Fertilizers are made from natural gas.
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Pesticides are made from oil.
144:09 - 144:12

You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate – harvest
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transport - package. You wrap the food
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in plastic – that's oil. All plastic is oil.
144:17 - 144:19

There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.
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Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because
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of oil that there are 7 billion people or
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almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.
144:28 - 144:30

The arrival of this cheap and easy energy
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which is equivalent, by the way, to
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billions of slaves working around the clock
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changed the world in such a radical way over the last century
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and the population has gone up 10 times.
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But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support
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less than half the present world's
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population in their present way of life.
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So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.
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The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
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Five years ago it was using four
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barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.
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A year from now it is going to be using
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eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
145:09 - 145:11

What's disturbing to me is the
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lack of any real effort from governments worldwide
145:16 - 145:20

and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.
145:20 - 145:24

We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power
145:24 - 145:27

and to maybe do something with Tide...
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we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient
145:31 - 145:34

but there's nothing which really looks like a
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revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor
145:36 - 145:38

and that I think is pretty frightening.
145:38 - 145:42

And the governments who are driven by these economists
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who don't really appreciate what we're talking about
145:45 - 145:50

are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity
145:50 - 145:53

in the hope that they can restore the past.
145:53 - 145:57

They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.
145:57 - 145:59

So, if the economy improves and
145:59 - 146:01

recovers and the famous growth comes back
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it will only be short-lived because
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within a short period of time counted in months
146:07 - 146:11

rather than years it will hit the supply barrier again;
146:11 - 146:13

there will be another price shock-
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and a deeper recession. So I think
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we go into a series of vicious circles
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So you have the economic growth going up- price
146:19 - 146:21

spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.
146:21 - 146:25

Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this
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area where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.
146:29 - 146:32

We're at the peak- were on the down slope of oil production.
146:32 - 146:35

No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster
146:35 - 146:39

which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops
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which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”
146:45 - 146:47

the price of oil starts to come back.
146:47 - 146:49

It's recently been hovering at about $80
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a barrel and what we see is that at even at $80 a
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barrel now, with the financial and economic collapse
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people are having a hard time affording that.
146:56 - 147:01

World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.
147:01 - 147:04

Over 10 years, you're looking at
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roughly 14 million barrels a day having to be replaced.
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There's nothing around which can come even
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within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.
147:15 - 147:17

If we don't do something pretty quickly
147:17 - 147:21

there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.
147:21 - 147:25

I think the big mistake is in not recognizing
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a decade or so ago that a concerted effort
147:29 - 147:30

needed to be made to develop
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these sustainable forms of energy.
147:32 - 147:35

I think that's something our grandchildren will look back on with
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total disbelief. 'You people knew you
147:40 - 147:42

were dealing with a finite commodity...
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how could you possibly have build your economy
147:45 - 147:49

around something which was going to disappear?'
147:49 - 147:51

For the first time in human history
147:51 - 147:55

the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource
147:55 - 147:58

central to our current system of survival.
147:58 - 148:00

And the punchline of the whole thing is
148:00 - 148:02

that even with oil becoming more scarce
148:02 - 148:05

the economic system will still blindly push
148:05 - 148:07

its cancerous growth model...
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so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars
148:11 - 148:16

to generate GDP and jobs... exasperating the decline.
148:16 - 148:18

Are there solutions to replace the
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edifice of the hydrocarbon economy?
148:20 - 148:21

Of course.
148:22 - 148:24

But the path needed to accomplish these changes
148:24 - 148:28

will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required
148:28 - 148:31

since new solutions can only be
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implemented through the Profit Mechanism.
148:34 - 148:37

People are not investing in renewable energies
148:37 - 148:40

because there is no money in it in both long and short term.
148:40 - 148:43

And the commitment needed to make it happen
148:43 - 148:46

can only occur at a severe financial loss.
148:46 - 148:49

Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this
148:49 - 148:53

system, if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.
148:54 - 148:56

And on top of it all, Peak Oil is
148:56 - 148:59

just one of many surfacing consequences
148:59 - 149:03

of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.
149:03 - 149:05

Other declines include Fresh Water
149:05 - 149:07

-the very fabric of our existence-
149:07 - 149:09

which is currently showing
149:09 - 149:11

shortages for 2.8 billion people
149:12 - 149:16

and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.
149:16 - 149:18

Food Production:
149:18 - 149:22

The destruction of arable crop land, from which
149:22 - 149:25

99.7% of all human food comes from today
149:25 - 149:29

is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished
149:29 - 149:32

and over the last 40 years, 30% of the
149:32 - 149:34

arable land has become unproductive.
149:35 - 149:38

Not to mention that hydrocarbons are the backbone
149:38 - 149:40

of agriculture today and as it declines...
149:40 - 149:43

so will the food supply.
149:43 - 149:44

As far as resources in general
149:44 - 149:48

at our current patterns of consumption, by 2030
149:48 - 149:51

we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.
149:51 - 149:53

Not to mention the continual destruction
149:53 - 149:56

of life supporting biodiversity
149:56 - 149:58

causing extinction spasms and
149:58 - 150:01

environmental destabilization across the globe.
150:01 - 150:03

And with all of these declines
150:03 - 150:05

we have the near exponential population growth
150:05 - 150:08

where by 2030 there might be over
150:08 - 150:11

8 billion people on this planet.
150:11 - 150:14

Energy production alone would need to
150:14 - 150:18

increase 44% by 2030 to meet such demand.
150:18 - 150:22

And again, since money is the only initiator of action-
150:22 - 150:24

are we to expect that any country on
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the planet is going to be able to afford
150:26 - 150:30

the massive changes needed to revolutionize agriculture
150:30 - 150:33

water processing, energy production and the like?
150:33 - 150:35

When the global debt pyramid scheme is
150:35 - 150:38

slowly shutting the entire world down...
150:38 - 150:39

Not to mention the fact that
150:39 - 150:41

the unemployment you currently see
150:41 - 150:43

is going to become normality due to
150:43 - 150:46

the nature of technological unemployment.
150:46 - 150:48

The jobs are not coming back.
150:48 - 150:51

And finally, a broad social perspective.
150:51 - 150:54

From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this
150:54 - 150:57

planet doubled due to this system...
150:57 - 150:59

and given our current state-
150:59 - 151:01

do you honestly think we will see
151:01 - 151:03

anything less than more doubling...
151:03 - 151:07

more suffering and more mass starvation?
151:07 - 151:08

[The Beginning]
151:09 - 151:11

There is not going to be any recovery.
151:11 - 151:13

This is not some long depression
151:13 - 151:16

that we're some day going to pull out of.
151:16 - 151:18

I think the next phase that we are going to see after the
151:18 - 151:21

next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.
151:21 - 151:23

When unemployment checks stop being
151:23 - 151:26

paid because the states have no money left.
151:26 - 151:30

And when things get so bad that people lose confidence
151:30 - 151:34

in their elected leaders, they will demand change
151:34 - 151:37

if we don't kill each other in the process
151:37 - 151:39

or destroy the environment.
151:39 - 151:43

I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return...
151:43 - 151:46

and that bothers me to no end.
151:46 - 151:50

We do all we can to avoid that condition.
151:51 - 151:56

It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life...
151:57 - 152:00

That what we face now is this fundamental
152:00 - 152:03

change of the life we've known over the last century.
152:03 - 152:06

There has to be a link between the economy and
152:06 - 152:08

the resources of this planet
152:08 - 152:12

the resources being, of course, all animal and plant life;
152:12 - 152:15

the health of the oceans and everything else.
152:15 - 152:18

This is a monetary paradigm that will not
152:18 - 152:22

let go until it's killed the last human being.
152:23 - 152:27

The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power
152:27 - 152:30

and that's what you've got to keep in mind.
152:30 - 152:32

They'll use the army and navy and lies..
152:32 - 152:36

or whatever they have to use to keep in power.
152:36 - 152:38

They're not about to give it up
152:38 - 152:43

because they don't know of any other system that will perpetuate their kind.
153:38 - 153:41

[Live from New York]
153:52 - 154:01

[Global Protests Shut Down World Economy]
154:07 - 154:10

[London-Live]
154:10 - 154:13

[China-Live]
154:13 - 154:16

[South Africa - Live]
154:16 - 154:20

[Spain - Live]
154:20 - 154:24

[Russian - Live]
154:24 - 154:29

[Canada - Live]
154:29 - 154:35

[Saudi Arabia - Live]
154:49 - 154:51

[Western Crime Rates Soar]
154:51 - 154:54

[UN Declares State of Global Emergency]
154:54 - 154:57

[Global Unemployment Hits 65%]
154:57 - 155:00

[Fears of World War Continue]
155:00 - 155:02

[Debt Collapse now causing food shortages]
156:54 - 157:00

[Take it Back]
157:30 - 157:33

[While no violence has been reported as
157:33 - 157:37

the unprecedented protests continue...
157:37 - 157:40

it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars
157:40 - 157:43

are being systematically withdrawn from bank accounts
157:43 - 157:46

across the world and in turn..
157:46 - 157:49

evidently now being dumped in
157:49 - 157:53

front of the world's central banks.]
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[THIS IS YOUR WORLD]
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[THIS IS OUR WORLD]
159:05 - 159:10

[THE REVOLUTION IS NOW]
159:13 - 159:20

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Title:: ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
Description:: This is the Official Online (Youtube) Release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" by Peter Joseph. [30 subtitles pending]

On Jan. 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history.

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A Free DVD Torrent of the full 2 hr and 42 min film in 30 languages is also made available through the main website [below], with instructions on how one can download and burn the movie to DVD themselves. His other films are also freely available in this format.

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