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Jacque Fresco
American
Inventor
Born:
Mar 13
,
1916
Future
People
Science
Will
World
You
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Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.
Jacque Fresco
Corruption
People
Cheating
Lying
Everyone
Ran
Resources
Earth
Way
Out
High
Would
Rather
Stealing
Most
Well-Being
Still
Were
Managing
Elected
Ethical
Even
Needed
Position
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
Jacque Fresco
Life
Future
Working Together
Together
People
Collective
Solutions
Totally
Web
Rely
Shape
Part
Integral
Integral Part
Effort
Working
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
Jacque Fresco
People
World
Problems
Wish
Heritage
Our
Resources
Earth
Must
Ongoing
Put
End
Common
Social
Declare
Really
Social Problems
International
Eventually
The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
Jacque Fresco
Future
Decision
Fluid
Others
Ours
Possibilities
Direct
Development
New
New Possibilities
Creates
Act
Each
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
Jacque Fresco
Service
Democracy
Pay
Our
Citizens
Structure
More
More And More
Economic
Leaders
Supporting
Freedoms
Provides
Debt
Lip
Lip Service
While
Actually
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
Jacque Fresco
Positive
Future
Change
First
Become
Design
Changing
Positive Change
Our
Minds
Must
Order
Expert
I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
Jacque Fresco
War
Suffering
World
Poverty
Control
Resources
System
Unnecessary
Would
See
Like
Most
End
Human
Nations
Where
Richest
Human Suffering
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Jacque Fresco
Reality
World
Projection
Illusion
Whatever
Our
More
Real
Expectations
Happened
Fictitious
Happens
Should
Suffer
Thinks
If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
Jacque Fresco
Food
Needs
People
Care
Enough
Earth
Correctly
More
Take
Take Care
Goods
Look
Material
Scientifically
Than
Things
If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.
Jacque Fresco
Great
Age
World
Will
Few
Every
Our
Relative
Our World
Only
Potential
Edison
Understand
Tesla
Arrive
Were
Cultivated
Louis
Person
Maximum
Human
Achievements
Which
Produced
Products
Descendants
Why
Great Achievements
Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
Jacque Fresco
Old
Values
Creation
Consider
Consideration
System
Ourselves
Accept
Although
Without
Still
Cling
Encourages
Shortages
Us
Breeds
Many
Monetary
Sufficient
Actually
I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.
Jacque Fresco
Crazy
You
People
World
Better
Think
Way
Would
About
Someone
Mental
Hospital
Name
Know
Well
Calls
Course
Go
Get
Any
Upset
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Jacque Fresco
Great
History
Man
Science
Men
Believe
Other
Great Man
Great Men
Done
Just
Shoulders
Theory
Standing
To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.
Jacque Fresco
Future
Own
Enough
Everything
Willing
Must
New
Like
Concepts
Foreign
Test
Foreign Land
Information
Land
Acquire
Means
Evaluate
Who
Prepare
Compare
Travelers
Hometown
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
Jacque Fresco
You
Change
World
Value
Wish
Change The World
Value System
System
Takes
Different
Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.
Jacque Fresco
Broken
People
Law
Problems
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Thousands
Constantly
Laws
More
Feel
Being
Them
Many
Eliminate
Need
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