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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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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
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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
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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.
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If you take a child with perfectly good eyes at birth
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and you put him in a dark room for five years
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he will be blind thereafter for the rest of his life
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because the circuits of vision require light waves for their development
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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
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where the emotional impact and the interpretation the child makes
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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
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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
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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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00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,200
and relationships that are not
541
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,319
safe enough to open up to vulnerability
542
00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:07,879
and hence their responses tend
543
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,600
to be to keep themselves separate from
544
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:11,519
really intimate relationships;
545
00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:14,039
not to trust caregivers
546
00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:17,000
doctors and other people who are trying to help them
547
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,039
and generally see the world as an unsafe place...
548
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,839
and that is strictly a function of implicit memory
549
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,400
which sometimes has to do with incidents they don't even recall.
550
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,840
[Touch]
551
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:36,759
Infants who are born premature or often in incubators
552
00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:39,240
and various types of gadgetry and
553
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,079
machinery for weeks and perhaps months,
554
00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:43,639
it's now known that if these
555
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,040
children are touched and stroked on the back
556
00:28:46,039 --> 00:28:49,599
for just 10 minutes a day that promotes their brain development.
557
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,440
So, human touch is essential for development
558
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,320
and, in fact, infants who are never picked up will actually die.
559
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:58,759
That is how much of a fundamental
560
00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:01,279
need being held is to human beings.
561
00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:04,240
In our society, there is an unfortunate tendency
562
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,000
to tell parents not to pick up their kids, not to hold them
563
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,920
not to pick up babies who are crying for fear of spoiling them
564
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,039
or to encourage them to sleep through the night
565
00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:16,200
you don't pick them up...
566
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,600
which is just the opposite of what the child needs
567
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,920
and these children might go back to sleep because they give up
568
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,319
and their brains just shut down as a
569
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:27,000
way of defending against the vulnerability
570
00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:29,960
of being abandoned really by their parents
571
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,759
but their implicit memories will be
572
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:33,879
that of the world that doesn't give a damn.
573
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,440
[Childhood]
574
00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:42,799
A lot of these differences are structured very early in life.
575
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,120
In a way, the parental experience of adversity
576
00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:50,960
how tough life is or how easy it is
577
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,759
is passed on to children
578
00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:55,279
whether through maternal depression
579
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:56,839
or parents being bad tempered with
580
00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:58,759
their kids because they have had a hard day
581
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:02,519
or just being too tired at the end of the day...
582
00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:06,039
and these have very powerful effects programming
583
00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:09,839
children's development, which we know a lot about now
584
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,760
But that early sensitivity isn't just an evolutionary mistake.
585
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,400
It exists again in many different species.
586
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,559
Even in seedlings there's an early adaptive process
587
00:30:20,559 --> 00:30:22,679
to the kind of environment they are growing up in
588
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:28,200
but for humans, the adaptation is to the quality of social relations.
589
00:30:28,319 --> 00:30:31,039
And so, early life:
590
00:30:31,039 --> 00:30:35,159
how nurturing, how much conflict, how much attention you get
591
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,160
is a taster of the kind of world you may be growing up in.
592
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,720
Are you growing up in a world where
593
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,360
you have to fight for what you can get;
594
00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:47,319
watch your back; fend for yourself; learn not to trust others?...
595
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,320
or are you growing up in a society where you depend on
596
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:55,199
reciprocity, mutuality, cooperation, where empathy is important
597
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,039
where your security depends on good relations with other people?...
598
00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:01,159
and that needs a very different
599
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,480
emotional and cognitive development
600
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,640
and that's what the early sensitivity is about
601
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,600
and parenting is almost, quite unconsciously
602
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:13,919
a system for passing on that experience to children...
603
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,519
of the kind of world they are in.
604
00:31:16,519 --> 00:31:20,240
The great British child psychiatrist, DW Winnicott, said
605
00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:23,319
that fundamentally, two things can go wrong in childhood.
606
00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:26,439
One is when things happen that shouldn't happen
607
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,559
and then things that should happen but don't.
608
00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:33,519
In the first category, is the dramatic, abusive
609
00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:36,039
and abandonment experiences of my
610
00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:39,480
downtown Eastside patients and of many addicts.
611
00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:42,079
That's what shouldn't happen but did.
612
00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:46,039
But then there is the non-stressed
613
00:31:46,079 --> 00:31:48,599
attuned, non-distracted attention
614
00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:51,279
of the parent that every child needs
615
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:53,200
that very often children don't get.
616
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,240
They're not abused. They are not neglected
617
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,920
and they're not traumatized
618
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,640
but what should happen
619
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,880
the presence of the emotionally available nurturing parent
620
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,200
just is not available to them because of the
621
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,559
stresses in our society and the parenting environment.
622
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:14,079
The psychologist Allan Surer calls that "Proximal Abandonment"
623
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,120
when the parent is physically present
624
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,320
but emotionally absent.
625
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,160
I have spent...
626
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,359
roughly the last 40 years of my life
627
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,880
working with the most violent of people our society produces:
628
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160
murderers, rapists and so on.
629
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,960
In an attempt to understand what causes this violence.
630
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,440
I discovered that the most violent of the criminals in our prisons
631
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440
had themselves been victims
632
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,240
of a degree of child abuse that was beyond the scale of
633
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:51,119
what I ever thought of applying the term child abuse to.
634
00:32:51,119 --> 00:32:54,559
I had no idea of the depth
635
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,560
of the depravity with which children in our society
636
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,560
are all too often treated.
637
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:04,480
The most violent people I saw were themselves the survivors
638
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,599
of their own attempted murder often at the hands of their parents
639
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080
or other people in their social environment
640
00:33:11,079 --> 00:33:14,519
or were the survivors of family members who had been killed
641
00:33:14,599 --> 00:33:18,480
their closest family members, by other people.
642
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:23,759
The Buddha argued that everything depends on everything else.
643
00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:26,759
He says 'the one contains the many and the many contains the one'.
644
00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:30,279
That you can't understand anything in isolation from its environment.
645
00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:37,879
The leaf contains the sun, the sky and the earth, obviously.
646
00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:41,039
This has now been shown to be true, of course
647
00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:44,359
all around and specifically when it comes to human development.
648
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,920
The modern scientific term for it
649
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,680
is the "bio psycho social" nature of human development
650
00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:52,000
which says that the biology of human beings
651
00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:54,399
depends very much on their interaction with
652
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,560
the social and psychological environment.
653
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:02,320
Specifically, the psychiatrist and researcher
654
00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:06,839
Daniel Siegel at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA
655
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:10,039
has coined a phrase “Interpersonal Neurobiology”
656
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:12,319
which means to say that the way
657
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,640
that our nervous system functions
658
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,439
depends very much on our personal relationships.
659
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,320
In the first place with the parenting caregivers and in the
660
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
second place with other important attachment figures in our lives
661
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,079
and in the third-place, with our entire culture.
662
00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,279
So that you can't separate the
663
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,040
neurological functioning of a human being
664
00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:34,960
from the environment in which he or she grew up in
665
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:37,559
and continues to exist in
666
00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:40,239
and this is true throughout the lifecycle.
667
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,120
It's particularly true when you are
668
00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:44,759
dependent and helpless when your brain is developing
669
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,840
but it's true even in adults and even at the end of life.
670
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,079
[Culture]
671
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,759
Human beings have lived in almost every kind of society.
672
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,559
From the most egalitarian... hunting and gathering societies
673
00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:03,559
seem to have been very egalitarian
674
00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:06,480
for instance, based on food sharing, gift exchange...
675
00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:09,759
Small bands of people living predominately
676
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,000
off of foraging and a little bit of hunting
677
00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:15,239
predominantly among people you have
678
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,279
at the least, known your entire life
679
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,120
if not surrounded by third cousins or closer;
680
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,119
in a world in which there is a great
681
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:24,239
deal of fluidity between different groups;
682
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,959
in a world which there is not a
683
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,079
whole lot in terms of material culture...
684
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:30,920
this is how humans have spent most of their hominid history.
685
00:35:31,039 --> 00:35:34,519
And no surprise, that makes for a very different world.
686
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:38,920
One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence.
687
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,079
Organized group violence is not
688
00:35:41,079 --> 00:35:43,199
something that occurred at that time
689
00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:46,839
of human history and that seems quite clear.
690
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,599
So where did we go wrong?
691
00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:54,440
Violence is not universal.
692
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,320
It is not symmetrically distributed throughout the human race.
693
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,960
There is a huge variation in the amount of violence in different societies.
694
00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:07,239
There are some societies that have virtually no violence.
695
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,800
There are others that destroy themselves.
696
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,160
Some of the Anabaptist religious
697
00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:18,319
groups that are complete strict pacifists
698
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,200
like the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hutterites...
699
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,399
among some of these groups, the Hutterites
700
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,400
there are no recorded cases of homicide.
701
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,599
During our major wars, like World War II
702
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:34,599
where people were being drafted
703
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:36,960
they would refuse to serve in the military.
704
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,720
They would go to prison rather than serve in the military
705
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,360
In the Kibbutzim in Israel
706
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,920
the level of violence is so low that the criminal courts there
707
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,599
will often send violent offenders
708
00:36:48,599 --> 00:36:51,119
people who have committed crimes
709
00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:54,119
to live on the Kibbutzim in order to
710
00:36:54,119 --> 00:36:56,199
learn how to live a non-violent life...
711
00:36:56,199 --> 00:36:58,519
because that's the way people live there.
712
00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:02,239
So, we are amply shaped by society.
713
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,519
Our societies, in the broader sense including our theological
714
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:11,000
our metaphysical, our linguistic influences, etc.
715
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,840
our societies help shape us as to whether or not we think
716
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,079
life is basically about sin or about beauty;
717
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:20,799
whether the afterlife will carry a price for
718
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,200
how we live our lives or if it's irrelevant.
719
00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:27,000
In a broad sort of way different large societies could
720
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,119
be termed as individualistic or
721
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:32,159
collectivist and you get very different people
722
00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:33,919
and different mindsets and I suspect
723
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,680
different brains coming along with that.
724
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:40,039
We, in America, are in one of the most individualistic of societies.
725
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:43,920
With capitalism being a system that allows you to go
726
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,559
higher and higher up a potential pyramid and
727
00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:50,519
the deal is that it comes with fewer and fewer safety nets.
728
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:54,079
By definition, the more stratified a society is
729
00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:57,599
the fewer people you have as peers - the fewer people with whom
730
00:37:57,599 --> 00:38:00,880
you have symmetrical, reciprocal relationships -
731
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,640
and instead, all you have are differing spots and endless hierarchies...
732
00:38:05,639 --> 00:38:08,679
A world in which you have few reciprocal partners
733
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:11,159
is a world with a lot less altruism.
734
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
[Human Nature]
735
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,120
So, this brings us to a total impossible juncture which is
736
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:25,519
to try to make sense in perspective science...
737
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:28,199
as to what that nature is of human nature.
738
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:30,559
You know, on a certain level
739
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:33,239
the nature of our nature is not to be
740
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,919
particularly constrained by our nature.
741
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,840
We come up with more social
742
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,400
variability than any species out there.
743
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,760
More systems of belief, of styles of family structures
744
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,720
of ways of raising children. The capacity
745
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,720
for variety that we have is extraordinary.
746
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,480
In a society which is predicated on competition
747
00:38:55,559 --> 00:39:01,039
and really, very often, the ruthless exploitation
748
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,000
of one human being by another
749
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:06,239
the profiteering off of other people's problems
750
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,560
and very often the creation of
751
00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:11,519
problems for the purpose of profiteering
752
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:14,920
the ruling ideology will very often justify that behavior
753
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,960
by appeals to some fundamental and unalterable human nature.
754
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,719
So the myth in our society is
755
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,839
that people are competitive by nature
756
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,840
and that they are individualistic and that they're selfish.
757
00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:30,119
The real reality is quite the opposite.
758
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:31,679
We have certain human needs.
759
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,439
The only way that you can talk about human nature concretely
760
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,239
is by recognizing that there are certain human needs.
761
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,399
We have a human need for companionship and for close contact
762
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,440
to be loved, to be attached to, to be accepted
763
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,880
to be seen, to be received for who we are.
764
00:39:47,519 --> 00:39:50,039
If those needs are met, we develop
765
00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:52,400
into people who are compassionate
766
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:58,360
and cooperative and who have empathy for other people.
767
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,960
So...
768
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:03,319
the opposite, that we often see in our
769
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,880
society is, in fact, a distortion of human nature
770
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,039
precisely because so few people have their needs met.
771
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,680
So, yes you can talk about human nature
772
00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:14,119
but only in the sense of basic human needs
773
00:40:14,199 --> 00:40:16,359
that are instinctively evoked
774
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,680
or I should say, certain human needs
775
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,519
that lead to certain traits if they are met
776
00:40:21,639 --> 00:40:24,239
and a different set of traits if they are denied.
777
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:28,799
So...
778
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,880
when we recognize the fact that the human organism
779
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,440
which has a great deal of adaptive flexibility
780
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,800
allowing us to survive in many different conditions
781
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,120
is also rigidly programmed for certain environmental requirements
782
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:44,440
or human needs
783
00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:47,519
a social imperative begins to emerge.
784
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,639
Just as our bodies require physical nutrients
785
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,040
the human brain demands positive forms of environmental stimulus
786
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:57,480
at all stages of development
787
00:40:57,639 --> 00:41:00,000
while also needing to be protected
788
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,599
from other negative forms of stimulus.
789
00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:05,400
And if things that should happen, do not...
790
00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:08,119
or if things that shouldn't happen, do...
791
00:41:08,159 --> 00:41:11,480
it is now apparent that the door can be opened for not only
792
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,599
a cascade of mental and physical diseases
793
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:18,000
but many detrimental human behaviors as well.
794
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,079
So, as we turn our perspective now outward
795
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:23,799
and take account for the state of affairs today
796
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,760
we must ask the question:
797
00:41:26,159 --> 00:41:28,839
Is the condition we have created in the modern world
798
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,599
actually supporting our health?
799
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,120
Is the bedrock of our socioeconomic
800
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:36,279
system acting as a positive force
801
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,760
for human and social development and progress?
802
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,360
Or, is the foundational gravitation of our society
803
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,880
actually going against the core evolutionary requirements
804
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,400
needed to create and maintain
805
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,039
our personal and social well-being?
806
00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:17,159
[Part II: Social Pathology]
807
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,000
So, one might ask where did this all begin?
808
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,640
What we have today... really a world in a state of
809
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:27,199
cumulative collapse.
810
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[The Market]
811
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You get it started with John Locke.
812
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,120
And John Locke introduces property.
813
00:42:36,159 --> 00:42:40,799
He has three provisos for just private right and property.
814
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And the three provisos are:
815
00:42:42,639 --> 00:42:45,279
There must be enough left over for others
816
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,280
and that you must not let it spoil
817
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,920
and that you, most of all, must mix your labor with it.
818
00:42:51,079 --> 00:42:54,319
It seems justified- you mix your labor with the world
819
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,480
then you are entitled to the product
820
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,280
and as long as there's enough left over for others
821
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,560
and as long as it doesn't spoil
822
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:04,079
and you don't allow anything to go to waste then that's okay.
823
00:43:04,079 --> 00:43:07,319
He spends a long time on this and his famous treatise of government
824
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,240
and it's since been the canonical text
825
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,519
for economic and political and legal understanding.
826
00:43:13,519 --> 00:43:16,639
It is still the classic text that's studied.
827
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,119
Well - after he gives the provisos
828
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:22,039
and you're almost thinking at the time whether you
829
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:23,519
are for private property or not
830
00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:28,000
he has given a very good plausible and powerful defense
831
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,679
of private property here...
832
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,159
Well, he drops them!
833
00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:33,920
He drops them like that. Right in one sentence.
834
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,960
He says, 'Well, once the introduction
835
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,519
of money came in by men's tacit consent
836
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:40,199
then it became...'
837
00:43:40,199 --> 00:43:43,919
and he doesn't say all the provisos are canceled or erased-
838
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,079
but that's what happens.
839
00:43:46,119 --> 00:43:48,199
So, now we have not
840
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:50,839
product and your property earned by your own labor-
841
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,720
oh no- money buys labor now.
842
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,440
There is no longer consideration
843
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,800
whether there is enough left over for others;
844
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,240
there is no longer consideration of whether it spoils
845
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:01,759
because he says money is like
846
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,560
silver and gold and gold can't spoil
847
00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:07,079
and therefore money can't be responsible for waste...
848
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,559
which is ridiculous. We are not talking about money
849
00:44:09,559 --> 00:44:11,880
and silver, we are talking about what its effects are.
850
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,440
It's one non sequitur after another.
851
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,639
Just the most startling
852
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:21,319
logical legerdemain that he gets away with here
853
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,160
but it fits the interests of capital owners.
854
00:44:26,159 --> 00:44:28,920
Then Adam Smith comes along and what he adds
855
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,599
is the religion to this...
856
00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:33,319
Locke started with God made it all this way
857
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,680
this is God's right
858
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,960
and now we get also with Smith
859
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,079
saying 'it's not only God's...'
860
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:40,839
well, he's not actually saying this but
861
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,480
this is what's happening philosophically, in principle
862
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,519
he's saying that 'it is not only a question of private property...'
863
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:49,000
That's all now 'presupposed'- It's Given!
864
00:44:49,039 --> 00:44:51,960
And that there's 'money investors that buy labor' – Given!
865
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,079
There's no limit to how much they can buy of other men's labor
866
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:57,440
how much they can accumulate, how much 'inequality'-
867
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,280
that's all given now.
868
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,720
And so he comes along and what his big idea is
869
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,439
and again it's just introduced in parentheses, in passing...
870
00:45:07,519 --> 00:45:10,679
You know, when people put out goods for sale - the supply
871
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:15,639
and other people buy them - the demand and so forth
872
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:19,639
how do we have supply equaling demand
873
00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:21,159
or demand equaling supply?
874
00:45:21,159 --> 00:45:23,039
how can they come into equilibrium?
875
00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:25,880
and that is one of the central notions of economics
876
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,960
is how do they come into equilibrium...
877
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,320
and he says: it's the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
878
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,200
that brings them into equilibrium.
879
00:45:34,199 --> 00:45:37,119
So, now we have "God is actually imminent”.
880
00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:41,079
He just didn't give the rights to property
881
00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:45,759
and all its wherewithal and its "natural rights"
882
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,280
regarding what Locke said...
883
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,000
now we have the system itself as "God".
884
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,280
In fact, Smith says, when he talks
885
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,519
and you have to read the whole of the
886
00:45:57,519 --> 00:45:59,679
Wealth of Nations' to find this quote.
887
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,519
He says: 'the scantiness of subsistence
888
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:06,840
sets limits to the reproduction of the poor
889
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,960
and that nature can deal with this in no other way
890
00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:14,199
than elimination of their children.'
891
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,960
So he anticipated evolutionary theory in the worst sense...
892
00:46:19,119 --> 00:46:20,839
this is well before Darwin.
893
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,680
And so he called them the 'Race of Laborers'.
894
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,080
So you can see: there was inherent racism built-in here
895
00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:32,279
there was an inherent life blindness to kill
896
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,800
innumerable children
897
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,960
and he thought: 'that's the Invisible Hand making supply
898
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,079
meet demand and demand meet supply.'
899
00:46:40,079 --> 00:46:43,199
So, see how wise "God" is?
900
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,240
So you can see a lot of the really virulent
901
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,919
life destructive, eco-genocidal things
902
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,519
that are going on now have, in a way,
903
00:46:54,519 --> 00:46:58,840
a 'thought gene' back in Smith too.
904
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,880
When we reflect on the original concept of
905
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,400
the so-called free market - capitalist system
906
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,200
as initiated by early economic philosophers
907
00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:09,719
such as Adam Smith
908
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,799
we see that the original intent of a “market”
909
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,079
was based around real, tangible, life supporting goods for trade.
910
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,719
Adam Smith never fathomed that the most
911
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,159
profitable economic sector on the planet
912
00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:25,079
would eventually be in the arena of financial trading
913
00:47:25,079 --> 00:47:27,159
or so-called investment
914
00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:28,719
where money itself is simply
915
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,639
gained by the movement of other money
916
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,120
in an arbitrary game which holds
917
00:47:33,119 --> 00:47:35,440
zero productive merit to society.
918
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,159
Yet, regardless of Smith's intent
919
00:47:38,159 --> 00:47:40,799
the door for such seemingly anomalous advents
920
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,599
was left wide open by one fundamental tenet of this theory:
921
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:50,080
Money is treated as a Commodity, in and of itself.
922
00:47:50,079 --> 00:47:52,159
Today, in every economy of the world
923
00:47:52,199 --> 00:47:54,759
regardless of the social system they claim
924
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,920
money is pursued for the sake of money and nothing else.
925
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,960
The underlying idea, which was mysteriously qualified
926
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,760
by Adam Smith with his religious declaration of the
927
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,800
'Invisible Hand'
928
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,480
is that the narrow, self-interested pursuit
929
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,360
of this fictional commodity
930
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,679
will somehow magically manifest
931
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,359
human and social well-being and progress.
932
00:48:18,559 --> 00:48:22,279
The reality is that the monetary incentive interest
933
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,039
or what some have termed the:“Money Sequence of Value”
934
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:29,199
has now completely decoupled from the foundational
935
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,000
'life interest', which could be termed the
936
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,480
'Life Sequence of Value.'
937
00:48:34,559 --> 00:48:38,320
What has happened is that there is a complete confusion
938
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,440
in economic doctrine
939
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,400
between those two sequences.
940
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,880
They think that the Money Sequence of Value
941
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,000
delivers the Life Sequence of Value
942
00:48:47,079 --> 00:48:49,719
and that's why they say if more goods are sold
943
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,720
If GDP's rise and so forth...
944
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,920
there would be more enhanced well-being
945
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,240
and we could take the GDP as being our basic layer indicator
946
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,559
of social health...
947
00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:01,239
Well, there you see the confusion.
948
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,359
It's talking about Money Sequences of Value
949
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,480
that is, all the receipts and all the revenues that are
950
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,119
derived from selling goods
951
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:11,919
and they're confusing that with life reproduction.
952
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,559
So, you have built right into this thing from the beginning
953
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:18,480
a complete conflation of the money
954
00:49:18,519 --> 00:49:20,800
and life sequences of value.
955
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,360
So, we are dealing with a kind of structured delusion
956
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,480
which becomes more and more deadly
957
00:49:26,599 --> 00:49:29,319
as the money sequence decouples from producing
958
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,840
anything at all.
959
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,240
So, it's a system disorder
960
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,600
and the system disorder seems to be fatal.
961
00:49:38,159 --> 00:49:40,679
[Welcome to the Machine]
962
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,800
In society today, you seldom hear anyone speak
963
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,440
of the progress of their country or society
964
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,840
in terms of their physical well-being, state of happiness,
965
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,519
trust or social stability.
966
00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:55,960
Rather, the measures are presented to us
967
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,840
through economic abstractions.
968
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,440
We have the gross domestic product, the consumer price index,
969
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,240
the value of the stock market, rates of inflation...
970
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:05,679
and so on.
971
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,160
But does this tell us anything of real value
972
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:11,000
as to the quality of people's lives?
973
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:13,439
No. All of these measures have to do with
974
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,840
the money sequence itself and nothing more.
975
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,039
For example, the Gross Domestic Product of a country
976
00:50:20,079 --> 00:50:23,360
is a measure of the value of goods and services sold.
977
00:50:23,519 --> 00:50:26,039
This measure is claimed to correlate to the
978
00:50:26,039 --> 00:50:28,880
“standard of living” of a country's people.
979
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,880
In the United States health care accounted for over
980
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,960
17% of GDP in 2009
981
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,000
amounting to over 2.5 trillion spent.
982
00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:41,800
Hence, creating a positive effect on this economic measure.
983
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,240
And, based on this logic
984
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,559
it would be even better for the US economy
985
00:50:45,639 --> 00:50:48,159
if health care services increased more so...
986
00:50:48,159 --> 00:50:51,000
perhaps to 3 trillion dollars... or 5 trillion
987
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,920
since that would create more growth
988
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,639
more jobs and hence boasted by economists
989
00:50:55,639 --> 00:50:58,559
as a rise in their country's standard of living.
990
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:00,920
But wait a minute.
991
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,039
What do health care services actually represent?
992
00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:07,239
Well, SICK AND DYING PEOPLE.
993
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,039
That's right- the more unhealthy people there are in America
994
00:51:11,119 --> 00:51:13,000
the better the economy.
995
00:51:13,159 --> 00:51:17,039
Now, that is not an exaggeration or a cynical perspective.
996
00:51:17,159 --> 00:51:19,119
In fact, if we step back far enough
997
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,000
you will realize that the GDP
998
00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:23,920
not only doesn't reflect real public or social health
999
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,800
on any tangible level
1000
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,200
it is, in fact, mostly a measure
1001
00:51:28,199 --> 00:51:30,239
of industrial inefficiency
1002
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,240
and social degradation.
1003
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,800
And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming
1004
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,240
with respect to personal, social
1005
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,760
and environmental integrity.
1006
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,320
You have to create problems to create profit.
1007
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,680
There is no profit under the current paradigm
1008
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,720
in saving lives, putting balance on this planet
1009
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,160
having justice and peace or anything else.
1010
00:51:53,159 --> 00:51:55,639
There is just no profit there.
1011
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:57,599
There's an old saying-
1012
00:51:57,639 --> 00:51:59,799
Pass a law and create a business'.
1013
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:02,519
Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.
1014
00:52:02,599 --> 00:52:04,920
So, crime does create
1015
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,400
business just like destruction creates
1016
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:08,760
business in Haiti.
1017
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,200
We have now roughly 2,000,000 people incarcerated
1018
00:52:12,199 --> 00:52:13,480
in this country (USA)
1019
00:52:13,519 --> 00:52:16,039
and of those many are in prisons run
1020
00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:17,440
by private corporations:
1021
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,400
Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut
1022
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,119
who trade their stock on Wall Street
1023
00:52:21,159 --> 00:52:24,079
based upon how many people are in jail.
1024
00:52:24,119 --> 00:52:26,039
Now that's sickness.
1025
00:52:26,039 --> 00:52:28,119
But that is a reflection of what
1026
00:52:28,119 --> 00:52:31,559
this economic paradigm calls for.
1027
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,719
So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?
1028
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,280
What is it that keeps our economic system going?
1029
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,720
Consumption.
1030
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,120
Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.
1031
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,560
When we break down the
1032
00:52:45,559 --> 00:52:47,679
foundation of classic market economics
1033
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,360
we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange
1034
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,559
that simply cannot be allowed to stop
1035
00:52:52,639 --> 00:52:54,639
or even substantially slowed
1036
00:52:54,679 --> 00:52:56,239
if the society as we know it
1037
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,239
is to remain operational.
1038
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,200
There are three main actors on the economic stage:
1039
00:53:01,199 --> 00:53:03,119
the employee, the employer
1040
00:53:03,199 --> 00:53:04,519
and the consumer.
1041
00:53:04,559 --> 00:53:07,880
The employee sells labor to the employer for income.
1042
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,000
The employer sells its production services, and hence goods,
1043
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,960
to the consumer for income
1044
00:53:13,039 --> 00:53:15,559
and the consumer, of course, is simply another role
1045
00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:17,759
of the employer and employee
1046
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,760
spending back into the system
1047
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,760
to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.
1048
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,280
In other words, the global market system is based on
1049
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,600
the assumption that there will always be enough
1050
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:29,759
product demand in a society
1051
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,160
to move enough money around at a rate
1052
00:53:32,199 --> 00:53:34,960
which can keep the consumption process going.
1053
00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:36,880
And the faster the rate of consumption
1054
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,400
the more so-called economic growth is assumed
1055
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,800
and so the machine goes...
1056
00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:43,880
But, hold on-
1057
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,760
I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...
1058
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,480
“Economize”?
1059
00:53:48,519 --> 00:53:51,239
Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation
1060
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,599
and efficiency and a reduction of waste?
1061
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,160
So how does our system, which demands consumption
1062
00:53:58,159 --> 00:54:00,679
and the more the better, efficiently preserve
1063
00:54:00,679 --> 00:54:02,599
or “Economize” at all?
1064
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,719
Well... it doesn't.
1065
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:08,839
The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite
1066
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,280
of what a real economy is supposed to do,
1067
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,880
which is efficiently and conservatively orient
1068
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,960
the materials for production and distribution
1069
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,119
of life supporting goods.
1070
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,039
We live on a finite planet, with finite resources
1071
00:54:21,079 --> 00:54:23,360
where, for example, the oil we utilize took
1072
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,360
millions of years to develop...
1073
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,320
where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.
1074
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:32,920
So...having a system that deliberately promotes
1075
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,039
the acceleration of consumption
1076
00:54:35,079 --> 00:54:38,199
for the sake of so-called “economic growth”
1077
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,880
is pure ecocidal insanity.
1078
00:54:42,199 --> 00:54:45,000
Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.
1079
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:46,919
Absence of waste?
1080
00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:49,920
This system is more wasteful than all the other
1081
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,720
existing systems in the history of the planet.
1082
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,600
Every level of life organization and life system
1083
00:54:55,599 --> 00:54:58,079
is in a state of crisis and challenge
1084
00:54:58,079 --> 00:55:00,400
and decay or collapse.
1085
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,440
No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years
1086
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,519
will tell you anything different:
1087
00:55:05,519 --> 00:55:09,159
that is that every life system is in decline
1088
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,319
as well as social programs...
1089
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,200
as well as our water access.
1090
00:55:13,639 --> 00:55:15,519
Try to name any means of life that
1091
00:55:15,519 --> 00:55:17,320
isn't threatened and endangered...
1092
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:18,440
You can't.
1093
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:21,840
There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.
1094
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,760
But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.
1095
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,880
We don't want to face the causal mechanism.
1096
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,800
We just want to go on. You know that's where insanity is
1097
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,120
where you keep doing the same thing over and over again
1098
00:55:32,119 --> 00:55:34,799
even though it clearly doesn't work.
1099
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,119
So you're really
1100
00:55:37,599 --> 00:55:39,639
dealing with not an economic system
1101
00:55:39,639 --> 00:55:43,839
but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.
1102
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,199
[The Anti-Economy]
1103
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,480
There is an old saying that the competitive
1104
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,440
market model seeks to
1105
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:55,240
“create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices”.
1106
00:55:55,679 --> 00:55:58,559
This statement is essentially the incentive concept
1107
00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:00,960
which justifies market competition
1108
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,840
based on the assumption that the result
1109
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,000
is the production of higher quality goods.
1110
00:56:06,159 --> 00:56:08,960
If I was going to build myself a table from scratch
1111
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:11,440
I would naturally build it out of the best
1112
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,440
most durable materials possible, right?
1113
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,400
With the intent for it to last as long as possible.
1114
00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:18,599
Why would I want to make something poor
1115
00:56:18,599 --> 00:56:20,960
knowing I would have to eventually do it again
1116
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,119
and expend more materials and more energy?
1117
00:56:24,559 --> 00:56:28,000
Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world
1118
00:56:28,039 --> 00:56:29,840
when it comes to the market world
1119
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,320
it is not only explicitly irrational
1120
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,200
it is not even an option.
1121
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,320
It is technically impossible to produce
1122
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:37,680
the best of anything
1123
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:40,480
if a company is to maintain a competitive edge
1124
00:56:40,519 --> 00:56:43,119
and hence remain affordable to the consumer.
1125
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,919
Literally everything created and set for sale
1126
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,960
in the global economy is immediately inferior
1127
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,679
the moment it is produced
1128
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,279
for it is a mathematical impossibility
1129
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,400
to make the most scientifically advanced, efficient
1130
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,920
and strategically sustainable products.
1131
00:56:59,119 --> 00:57:01,359
This is due to the fact that the market system
1132
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,880
requires that “cost efficiency”
1133
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:05,840
or the need to reduce expenses
1134
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,200
exists at every stage of production.
1135
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,480
From the cost of labor, to the cost
1136
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,719
of materials and packaging and so on.
1137
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,280
This competitive strategy, of course
1138
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,200
is to make sure the public buys their goods
1139
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,600
rather than from a competing producer
1140
00:57:20,599 --> 00:57:22,799
...which is doing the exact same thing
1141
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,400
to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.
1142
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,239
This immutably wasteful consequence of the system
1143
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,040
could be termed: Intrinsic Obsolescence.
1144
00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:37,480
However, this is only one part of a larger problem:
1145
00:57:37,599 --> 00:57:40,559
A fundamental governing principle of market economics
1146
00:57:40,639 --> 00:57:43,759
one you will not find in any textbook, by the way
1147
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,120
- is the following:
1148
00:57:45,159 --> 00:57:48,079
“Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan
1149
00:57:48,079 --> 00:57:50,199
longer than what can be endured
1150
00:57:50,199 --> 00:57:53,559
in order to continue cyclical consumption.”
1151
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,760
In other words, it is critical that stuff breakdown,
1152
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,400
fail and expire within a certain amount of time.
1153
00:58:00,639 --> 00:58:03,759
This is termed - “Planned obsolescence”.
1154
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,519
Planned obsolesce is the backbone of the underlying market
1155
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:11,039
strategy of every goods producing corporation in existence.
1156
00:58:11,199 --> 00:58:12,639
While very few, of course
1157
00:58:12,639 --> 00:58:14,799
would admit to such a strategy outright
1158
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,920
what they do is mask it within the
1159
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,159
Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,
1160
00:58:20,239 --> 00:58:22,759
while often ignoring, or even suppressing
1161
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,520
new advents in technology
1162
00:58:24,559 --> 00:58:28,400
which might create a more sustainable, durable good.
1163
00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:30,719
So, if it wasn't wasteful enough
1164
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,480
that the system inherently cannot allow the most
1165
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,240
durable and efficient goods to be produced,
1166
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,360
Planned Obsolescence deliberately
1167
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,400
recognizes that the longer any good is in operation
1168
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,679
the worse it is for sustaining cyclical consumption
1169
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,280
and hence the market system itself.
1170
00:58:47,679 --> 00:58:50,159
In other words, product sustainability
1171
00:58:50,159 --> 00:58:53,679
is actually inverse to economic growth
1172
00:58:53,719 --> 00:58:57,039
and hence there is a direct, reinforced incentive
1173
00:58:57,159 --> 00:58:59,119
to make sure life spans are short
1174
00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:01,440
of any given good produced.
1175
00:59:01,679 --> 00:59:06,159
And, in fact, the system cannot operate any other way.
1176
00:59:06,239 --> 00:59:09,000
One glance at the sea of landfills now spreading across
1177
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,320
the world show the obsolescence reality.
1178
00:59:12,599 --> 00:59:15,319
There are now billions of cheaply made cell phones
1179
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,160
computers and other technology
1180
00:59:17,159 --> 00:59:20,319
each full of precious, difficult to mine materials
1181
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,480
such as gold, coltan, copper...
1182
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,599
now rotting in vast piles
1183
00:59:24,679 --> 00:59:27,440
usually due to the mere malfunction or obsolescence
1184
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,320
of small parts which, in a conservative society
1185
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,280
could likely be fixed or updated
1186
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,559
and the life of the good extended.
1187
00:59:35,679 --> 00:59:38,199
Unfortunately, as efficient as that may seem
1188
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:40,639
in our physical reality, living on a
1189
00:59:40,639 --> 00:59:43,039
finite planet with finite resources,
1190
00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:47,639
it is explicitly inefficient, with respect to the market.
1191
00:59:48,039 --> 00:59:49,440
To put into a phrase:
1192
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,960
“Efficiency, Sustainability, and
1193
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:56,079
Preservation are the enemies of our economic system” .
1194
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,320
Likewise, just a physical goods need to be constantly
1195
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:00,840
produced and reproduced
1196
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,440
regardless of their environmental impact
1197
01:00:03,559 --> 01:00:07,279
the service industry operates with an equal rational.
1198
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:10,239
The fact is, there is no monetary benefit
1199
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,560
to resolving any problems
1200
01:00:12,559 --> 01:00:14,679
which are currently being serviced.
1201
01:00:14,679 --> 01:00:16,000
At the end of the day
1202
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,039
the last thing the medical establishment really wants
1203
01:00:19,039 --> 01:00:21,960
is the curing of diseases such as cancer
1204
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:26,559
which would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue.
1205
01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:28,480
And since we are on the subject...
1206
01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:32,319
Crime and Terrorism in this system are good!
1207
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,240
Well, at least economically...
1208
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,039
for it is employing police
1209
01:00:36,039 --> 01:00:38,840
generating hi-value commodities for security
1210
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,760
not to mention the value of prisons
1211
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,560
that are privately owned - for profit.
1212
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,440
And how about war?
1213
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:49,360
The war industry in America is a huge driver of GDP -
1214
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,760
one of the most profitable industries -
1215
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,120
producing weapons of death and destruction.
1216
01:00:55,239 --> 01:00:58,279
The favorite game of this industry is to blow things up
1217
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,000
and then can go and rebuild them, for profit.
1218
01:01:01,079 --> 01:01:03,639
We saw this with the windfall billion dollar
1219
01:01:03,639 --> 01:01:06,359
contracts made from the Iraq war.
1220
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,120
The bottom line is that socially negative
1221
01:01:09,119 --> 01:01:10,719
attributes of society
1222
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,040
have become positively rewarded ventures for industry
1223
01:01:14,159 --> 01:01:16,920
and any interest in problem resolution
1224
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,240
or environmental sustainability and conservation
1225
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:25,160
is intrinsically counter to economic sustainability.
1226
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,199
And this is why
1227
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,560
every time you see the GDP rise in any country
1228
01:01:30,639 --> 01:01:33,400
you are witnessing an increase in necessity
1229
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,440
whether real or contrived
1230
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:39,320
and by definition, a necessity is rooted in inefficiency.
1231
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:44,000
Hence, increased necessity means increased inefficiency.
1232
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,039
[Value System Disorder]
1233
01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:49,400
The American dream is based on
1234
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,880
the rampant consumerism.
1235
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,240
It is based upon the fact that
1236
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:54,799
mainstream media and
1237
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,800
especially commercial advertising
1238
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,079
- all corporations who need this infinite growth -
1239
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:02,639
have convinced us or brainwashed
1240
01:02:02,639 --> 01:02:05,920
most people in America and the world
1241
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,960
that we have to have X number of material possessions
1242
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,360
and the possibility of gaining infinitely more
1243
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,840
material possessions, in order to be happy.
1244
01:02:14,039 --> 01:02:15,719
That's just not true.
1245
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,600
So why do people continue to buy in this way
1246
01:02:19,599 --> 01:02:22,039
which is ultimately eco-genocidal
1247
01:02:22,039 --> 01:02:24,880
in its systemic effects cumulatively?
1248
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,760
And it just is classical & operant conditioning.
1249
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,080
You simply put inputs of conditioning into the organism
1250
01:02:32,199 --> 01:02:35,559
and you have outputs of desired behaviors
1251
01:02:35,679 --> 01:02:37,919
or goals or objectives.
1252
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:41,279
And it has all the resources of technology
1253
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:42,560
and they boast about how they
1254
01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:44,199
get into the minds of infants
1255
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,360
what they hear is already making them
1256
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,360
conditioned to the brand.
1257
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,680
Then you see, that's how
1258
01:02:51,719 --> 01:02:52,959
people have been such fools.
1259
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,199
They have been taught to be fools.
1260
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,519
It's a value system disorder.
1261
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,200
You know, if there is any testament to the plasticity
1262
01:03:02,199 --> 01:03:03,480
of the human mind.
1263
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,559
If there is any proof to how malleable
1264
01:03:05,559 --> 01:03:07,559
human thought is and how easily
1265
01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:10,039
conditioned and guided people can become
1266
01:03:10,039 --> 01:03:12,519
based on the nature of their environmental stimulus
1267
01:03:12,679 --> 01:03:14,519
and what it reinforces:
1268
01:03:14,679 --> 01:03:17,960
the world of commercial advertising is the proof.
1269
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,119
You have to stand in awe
1270
01:03:21,119 --> 01:03:23,440
at the level of brainwashing
1271
01:03:23,519 --> 01:03:27,440
where these programmed robots known as "consumers"
1272
01:03:27,559 --> 01:03:29,360
wander the landscape
1273
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,680
only to walk into a store and spend, say
1274
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,560
4000$ on a handbag
1275
01:03:35,559 --> 01:03:37,880
that likely cost 10 dollars to make
1276
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,920
in a sweatshop overseas.
1277
01:03:40,039 --> 01:03:42,920
Only for the brand status it supposedly
1278
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,680
represents in the culture.
1279
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,480
Or perhaps the ancient communal traditions
1280
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,960
which increase trust and cohesiveness in society -
1281
01:03:52,039 --> 01:03:54,559
which have now been hijacked by acquisitive
1282
01:03:54,559 --> 01:03:57,360
materialistic values where now we annually
1283
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,079
exchange useless crap a few times a year.
1284
01:04:01,239 --> 01:04:03,559
And we might wonder why so many today have a
1285
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:05,920
compulsion to shopping and acquisition
1286
01:04:06,079 --> 01:04:09,239
when it is clear that they have conditioned from childhood
1287
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,120
to expect material goods
1288
01:04:11,159 --> 01:04:14,839
as a sign of their status with friends and family.
1289
01:04:15,079 --> 01:04:17,960
The fact is, the foundation of any society
1290
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,280
are the values that support its operation
1291
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,640
and our society, as it exists
1292
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,440
can only operate if our values support
1293
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,960
the conspicuous consumption it
1294
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,079
requires to continue the market system.
1295
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,440
75 years ago consumption in America
1296
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,519
and much of the 1st world was half
1297
01:04:36,559 --> 01:04:38,480
of what we see today, per person.
1298
01:04:38,599 --> 01:04:40,719
Today's new consumer culture
1299
01:04:40,719 --> 01:04:43,079
has been manufactured and imposed
1300
01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:45,599
due to the very real need for higher
1301
01:04:45,599 --> 01:04:48,119
and higher levels of consumption.
1302
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,480
And this is why most corporations now spend
1303
01:04:51,519 --> 01:04:55,079
more money on advertising, than the actual process
1304
01:04:55,119 --> 01:04:57,159
of product creation itself.
1305
01:04:57,239 --> 01:05:01,439
They work diligently to create a false need for you to fill.
1306
01:05:01,519 --> 01:05:04,759
And it happens to work.
1307
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,480
[The “Economists”]
1308
01:05:07,719 --> 01:05:11,639
You know economists, in fact, are not economists at all.
1309
01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:13,960
They're propagandists of money value
1310
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,079
and you will find that all of their
1311
01:05:16,079 --> 01:05:18,199
models basically get down to token
1312
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,440
exchanges that are true to profit
1313
01:05:21,639 --> 01:05:23,920
of one side or both sides or whatever
1314
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,280
but they are completely disconnected from the actually
1315
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,440
existing world of reproduction.
1316
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,440
In Ohio, an old man failed to pay his electric bill
1317
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,719
you may be familiar with the case
1318
01:05:34,719 --> 01:05:38,239
and the electric company turned off the electricity and he died.
1319
01:05:38,239 --> 01:05:39,559
The reason they turned it off was
1320
01:05:39,559 --> 01:05:41,199
because it wouldn't have been profitable
1321
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,400
for them to keep it on because he didn't pay his bill.
1322
01:05:44,559 --> 01:05:46,119
Do you believe that was right?
1323
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,080
The responsibility really lies not on
1324
01:05:48,079 --> 01:05:50,360
the electric company for turning it off
1325
01:05:50,559 --> 01:05:53,799
but on those of this man's neighbors and friends
1326
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:55,160
and associates
1327
01:05:55,239 --> 01:05:56,879
who were not charitable enough
1328
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:58,559
to enable him, as an individual
1329
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:00,920
to meet the electric bill.
1330
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,559
HMMMMMM...
1331
01:06:02,679 --> 01:06:04,279
Did I hear that right?
1332
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,200
Did he just say the death of a man
1333
01:06:06,199 --> 01:06:07,559
caused by not having money
1334
01:06:07,719 --> 01:06:09,439
was the responsibility of...
1335
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,159
other people...
1336
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,080
or, in effect, charity?
1337
01:06:13,679 --> 01:06:15,279
Well then, I guess we're gonna need
1338
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,120
a whole lot of infomercials, little miserable
1339
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,600
coin slot donations for bodega counters
1340
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,600
and a bunch of pickle jars
1341
01:06:23,599 --> 01:06:26,319
for the billion people now starving to death
1342
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:27,840
on this planet...
1343
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:32,200
because of the very system Milton Friedman promotes.
1344
01:06:32,679 --> 01:06:35,000
Whether you are dealing with the philosophies of
1345
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,719
Milton Friedman, F.A. Hyack
1346
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,440
John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises
1347
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,880
or any other major market economist
1348
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:43,480
the basis of rationale
1349
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,000
rarely leaves the money sequence.
1350
01:06:46,199 --> 01:06:47,639
It is like a religion.
1351
01:06:47,719 --> 01:06:50,439
Consumption analysis, stabilization policies
1352
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,960
deficit spending, aggregate demand...
1353
01:06:53,119 --> 01:06:55,920
it exists as a never ending, self-referring
1354
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,240
self-rationalizing circle of discourse
1355
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,200
where universal human need, natural resources
1356
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,680
and any form of physical life supporting efficiency
1357
01:07:06,719 --> 01:07:08,799
is ruled out by default
1358
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,599
and replaced by the singular notion that humans
1359
01:07:11,599 --> 01:07:14,199
seeking advantage over each other for money alone
1360
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,240
motivated by their own, narrow self-interest
1361
01:07:17,719 --> 01:07:22,000
will magically create a sustainable, healthy, balanced society.
1362
01:07:22,159 --> 01:07:25,319
There is no life coordinate in this whole theory
1363
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:26,519
this whole doctrine.
1364
01:07:26,519 --> 01:07:28,079
What are they doing?
1365
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,960
What they are doing is tracking the money sequences.
1366
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,240
That's all it is, is tracking money sequences
1367
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,559
presupposing everything that matters.
1368
01:07:38,639 --> 01:07:41,199
One: There is no life coordinates...
1369
01:07:41,239 --> 01:07:43,359
whoa... no life coordinates!
1370
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,800
Two: That all the agents are
1371
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,720
self-maximizing preferences seekers.
1372
01:07:49,039 --> 01:07:51,360
That is, they think of nothing other than themselves
1373
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,280
and what they can get most for themselves.
1374
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,360
That's the ruling notion of rationality:
1375
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,240
self-maximizing choice
1376
01:07:59,519 --> 01:08:02,800
and the only thing that they are interested in self-maximizing
1377
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,119
is money or commodities.
1378
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,680
Well, where does social relations come in?
1379
01:08:07,719 --> 01:08:11,039
It doesn't, except in the exchange to self-maximize.
1380
01:08:11,239 --> 01:08:13,759
Where do our natural resources come in?
1381
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,760
They don't, except to exploit.
1382
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:21,560
Where does the family come in as being able to survive?
1383
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,840
It doesn't. They have to have
1384
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,560
money in order to purchase any good.
1385
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,239
Well, shouldn't an economy
1386
01:08:28,239 --> 01:08:29,960
deal somewhere with human need?
1387
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:34,560
Isn't that what the fundamental issue is?
1388
01:08:35,199 --> 01:08:38,239
Oh, "need" isn't even in your lexicon.
1389
01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:41,279
You dissolve it into "wants"...
1390
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:43,039
and what is a want? That means
1391
01:08:43,039 --> 01:08:45,600
money demand that wants to buy.
1392
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,279
Well, if it's money demand that wants to buy
1393
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:49,920
it has nothing to do with need
1394
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,039
because maybe the person has no money demand
1395
01:08:52,079 --> 01:08:55,039
and desperately needs, say, water supply.
1396
01:08:55,199 --> 01:08:58,840
Or, it may be money demand wants a gold toilet seat.
1397
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:00,399
Well, where does it all go?
1398
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,080
To the gold toilet seat.
1399
01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:04,000
And you call this economics?
1400
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,520
Really, when one thinks of it
1401
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,720
it's got to be the most bizarre
1402
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,960
delusion in the history of human thought.
1403
01:09:14,039 --> 01:09:15,720
[Monetary System]
1404
01:09:16,279 --> 01:09:20,000
Now- so far we have focused on the market system.
1405
01:09:20,039 --> 01:09:22,319
But this system is actually only
1406
01:09:22,319 --> 01:09:24,840
half of the global economic paradigm.
1407
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,039
The other half is the “Monetary System”.
1408
01:09:28,279 --> 01:09:31,239
While the Market System deals with the interaction of people
1409
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,439
gaming for profit across the spectrum of labor
1410
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:36,359
production and distribution
1411
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,919
the Monetary System is an underlying set of policies
1412
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,880
set by financial institutions
1413
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,840
which create conditions for the
1414
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,920
market system, among other things.
1415
01:09:46,079 --> 01:09:48,840
It includes terms we often hear
1416
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,960
such as interest rates, loans, debt, the money supply
1417
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,520
inflation, etc.
1418
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,039
And while you might want to pull your hair out listening
1419
01:09:57,039 --> 01:09:59,880
to the gibberish coming from the monetary economists:
1420
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:04,119
"Modest preemptive actions, can obviate the need
1421
01:10:04,119 --> 01:10:07,960
of more drastic actions, at a later date."
1422
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,880
the nature and effect of this
1423
01:10:10,119 --> 01:10:12,119
system is actually quite simple:
1424
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,080
Our economy has...
1425
01:10:14,199 --> 01:10:16,159
or the global economy has
1426
01:10:16,279 --> 01:10:17,840
three basic things that govern it.
1427
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:19,279
One is fractional reserve banking
1428
01:10:19,399 --> 01:10:21,759
the banks printing money out of nothing.
1429
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,199
It's also based upon compound interest.
1430
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:27,319
When you borrow money, you have to pay back more
1431
01:10:27,319 --> 01:10:29,960
than you borrowed, which means that you, in effect
1432
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,720
create money out of thin air
1433
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,520
again, which has to be serviced by creating still more money.
1434
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,920
We live in an infinite growth paradigm.
1435
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,760
The economic paradigm we live in now is a Ponzi scheme.
1436
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,480
Nothing grows forever.
1437
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:46,680
It's not possible.
1438
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,360
As a great psychologist James Hillman wrote
1439
01:10:49,399 --> 01:10:51,319
“The only thing that grows in the human body after
1440
01:10:51,319 --> 01:10:53,439
a certain age is cancer.”
1441
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,080
It's not just the amount of money that has to keep growing
1442
01:10:56,079 --> 01:10:57,399
it's the amount of consumers.
1443
01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,599
Consumers to borrow money at interest
1444
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,680
to generate more money and obviously, that's not possible
1445
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:04,600
on a finite planet.
1446
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:08,320
People are basically vehicles to just create money
1447
01:11:08,399 --> 01:11:09,960
which must create more money
1448
01:11:10,319 --> 01:11:12,159
to keep the whole thing from falling apart
1449
01:11:12,199 --> 01:11:14,720
which is what's happening right now.
1450
01:11:15,199 --> 01:11:17,840
There are really only two things anyone needs to know
1451
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,039
about the monetary system:
1452
01:11:20,239 --> 01:11:23,359
1: All money is created out of debt.
1453
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:25,559
Money is monetized debt
1454
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,199
whether it materialized from treasury bonds
1455
01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:30,960
home loan contracts or credit cards.
1456
01:11:31,119 --> 01:11:33,279
In other words, if all outstanding debt
1457
01:11:33,279 --> 01:11:35,199
was to be repaid right now
1458
01:11:35,279 --> 01:11:38,639
there would not be one dollar in circulation.
1459
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:43,560
And 2: Interest is charged on virtually all loans made
1460
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,240
and the money needed to pay back this interest
1461
01:11:46,239 --> 01:11:49,359
does not exist in the money supply outright.
1462
01:11:49,399 --> 01:11:52,079
Only the principal is created by the loans
1463
01:11:52,119 --> 01:11:54,680
and the principal is the money supply.
1464
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,640
So, if all this debt was to be repaid right now
1465
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,880
not only would there not be one dollar left in circulation
1466
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,400
there would be a gigantic amount of money owed
1467
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:09,640
that is literally impossible to pay back, for it does not exist.
1468
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,720
The consequence of all of this is that two things are inevitable:
1469
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:16,039
Inflation
1470
01:12:16,039 --> 01:12:17,880
and Bankruptcy.
1471
01:12:18,119 --> 01:12:21,599
As far as inflation, this can be seen as a historical trend
1472
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,480
in virtually every country today
1473
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:25,359
and easily tied to its cause
1474
01:12:25,359 --> 01:12:28,239
which is the perpetual increase of the money supply
1475
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:29,720
which is required
1476
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:33,840
to cover the interest charges and keep the system going.
1477
01:12:34,239 --> 01:12:35,639
As far as Bankruptcy
1478
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:39,000
it comes in the form of debt collapse.
1479
01:12:39,239 --> 01:12:42,159
This collapse will inevitably occur with a person
1480
01:12:42,239 --> 01:12:44,159
a business or a country
1481
01:12:44,159 --> 01:12:46,720
and typically happens when the interest payments
1482
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:49,039
are no longer possible to make.
1483
01:12:50,279 --> 01:12:52,239
But there is a bright side to all of this...
1484
01:12:52,239 --> 01:12:55,920
well, at least in terms of the market system
1485
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,920
Because debt creates pressure
1486
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,239
Debt creates wage slaves.
1487
01:13:01,279 --> 01:13:04,119
A person in debt is much more likely to take a low wage
1488
01:13:04,119 --> 01:13:05,640
than a person who isn't
1489
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:08,280
hence becoming a cheap commodity
1490
01:13:08,279 --> 01:13:10,679
so it's great for corporations to have a pool of people
1491
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,600
that have no financial mobility.
1492
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:18,000
But hey - that same idea also goes for entire countries...
1493
01:13:18,039 --> 01:13:20,880
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
1494
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,239
which mostly serve as proxies for
1495
01:13:23,239 --> 01:13:25,519
transnational corporate interests
1496
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,000
give gigantic loans to troubled countries
1497
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,880
at very high interest rates
1498
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:31,880
and then, once the countries are
1499
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:33,880
deeply in the hole and can't pay
1500
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:35,800
austerity measures are applied
1501
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,480
the corporations swoop in
1502
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:41,320
set up sweatshops and take their natural resources.
1503
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:44,679
Now that's market efficiency.
1504
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:46,720
But wait – there's more:
1505
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,440
you see- there's this unique
1506
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,679
hybrid of the monetary and market system
1507
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,640
called the stock market
1508
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,240
which rather than, you know, actually produce anything real
1509
01:13:56,319 --> 01:13:59,239
they just buy and sell money itself.
1510
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,240
And when it comes to debt, you know what they do?
1511
01:14:02,359 --> 01:14:05,000
That's right - they trade it.
1512
01:14:05,039 --> 01:14:08,960
They actually buy and sell debt for profit.
1513
01:14:09,039 --> 01:14:10,760
From credit default swaps
1514
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,119
and collateralized debt obligations for consumer debt
1515
01:14:14,119 --> 01:14:16,439
to complex derivative schemes used
1516
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:18,879
to mask the debt of entire countries
1517
01:14:19,039 --> 01:14:20,119
such as the collusion of
1518
01:14:20,119 --> 01:14:22,840
investment bank Goldman Sachs and Greece
1519
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:26,359
which nearly collapsed the entire European economy.
1520
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,239
So when it comes to the stock market and Wall Street
1521
01:14:29,399 --> 01:14:32,439
we have an entirely new level of insanity
1522
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,439
born out of the Money Sequence of value.
1523
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,360
All you need to know about markets
1524
01:14:37,359 --> 01:14:40,439
was written in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal
1525
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:41,720
a couple years ago
1526
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:45,199
it was called 'Lessons of the Brain-Damaged Investor".
1527
01:14:45,239 --> 01:14:48,159
And in this editorial, they explained why
1528
01:14:48,279 --> 01:14:50,079
people with slight brain damage
1529
01:14:50,079 --> 01:14:52,039
do better as investors
1530
01:14:52,079 --> 01:14:54,800
than people with normal brain functionality.
1531
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,680
Why? Because the slightly
1532
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,200
brain-damaged person has no empathy.
1533
01:14:59,239 --> 01:15:02,039
That's the key. If you don't have any empathy
1534
01:15:02,199 --> 01:15:04,159
you do well as an investor
1535
01:15:04,199 --> 01:15:09,079
and so Wall Street breeds people who have no empathy.
1536
01:15:09,119 --> 01:15:11,439
To go in there and to make decisions
1537
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:14,399
and to make trades they have no compunction about
1538
01:15:14,399 --> 01:15:17,159
no thought whatsoever as to how what they are doing
1539
01:15:17,159 --> 01:15:18,920
might affect their fellow human being.
1540
01:15:19,119 --> 01:15:21,439
So they breed these robots.
1541
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:24,399
These people who have no souls
1542
01:15:24,399 --> 01:15:27,039
and since they don't even want to pay these people anymore-
1543
01:15:27,119 --> 01:15:29,279
they are now breeding robots – real robots –
1544
01:15:29,319 --> 01:15:31,079
real algorithmic traders.
1545
01:15:31,119 --> 01:15:33,559
Goldman Sachs in the high frequency trading scandal:
1546
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:37,480
they put a computer next to the New York Stock Exchange.
1547
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,480
This computer, this “co-located” computer, as they call it:
1548
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,960
it front-runs all the trades on the exchange and
1549
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,760
hits the exchange with volumes of orders
1550
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:47,319
in ways that "scalp"
1551
01:15:47,399 --> 01:15:49,519
pennies and nickels away from the exchange.
1552
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,040
It's like they're siphoning money all day long.
1553
01:15:52,039 --> 01:15:54,760
They went one quarter last year 30
1554
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,720
or 60 straight days without a single down day
1555
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,240
and made millions of dollars every single day?
1556
01:16:00,239 --> 01:16:04,039
That statistically impossible!
1557
01:16:04,199 --> 01:16:06,119
When I worked on Wall Street, the way it works is
1558
01:16:06,119 --> 01:16:08,039
everyone kicks upstairs to bribes.
1559
01:16:08,039 --> 01:16:11,920
The brokers bribe to the office manager
1560
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,279
the office manager bribes to the regional sales manager.
1561
01:16:15,319 --> 01:16:16,840
The regional sales manager
1562
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:18,920
bribes to the national sales manager.
1563
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:20,480
It's a common understanding.
1564
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:23,519
At Christmas, who gets the biggest bonus at Christmas
1565
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:26,360
in an average broker job? The compliance officer.
1566
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:28,759
The compliance officer sits there all day long;
1567
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:30,280
he's supposed to be making sure you
1568
01:16:30,279 --> 01:16:31,960
don't violate any of the margin rules
1569
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,039
and you're "complying" with the law.
1570
01:16:34,079 --> 01:16:36,479
Of course, yeah, to the extent that
1571
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:38,399
you can bribe the compliance officer
1572
01:16:38,399 --> 01:16:40,559
yeah, that's right, you are complying with the law!
1573
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:43,119
So how has fraud become the system?
1574
01:16:43,279 --> 01:16:44,920
It's no longer a byproduct.
1575
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,279
It is the system.
1576
01:16:46,359 --> 01:16:49,039
It's like that old Woody Allen joke. He says:
1577
01:16:49,159 --> 01:16:51,559
“Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken.”
1578
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:53,640
And the doctor says, “Take a pill
1579
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:55,560
and that should cure the problem.”
1580
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,280
And he says, “No doctor. You don't understand
1581
01:16:57,279 --> 01:16:58,800
We need the eggs.”
1582
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:00,479
Okay?
1583
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,319
So, the trading of fraudulent claims back and forth
1584
01:17:03,319 --> 01:17:05,039
between banks
1585
01:17:05,039 --> 01:17:06,359
to generate fees
1586
01:17:06,359 --> 01:17:07,479
to generate bonuses
1587
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:11,199
has become the GDP producing growth
1588
01:17:11,199 --> 01:17:14,119
engine of the United States economy
1589
01:17:14,159 --> 01:17:17,199
even though they are essentially trading fraudulent claims
1590
01:17:17,199 --> 01:17:19,720
that there is absolutely no hope of ever paying back.
1591
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,840
They are processing, generating and re-securitizing nothing.
1592
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,680
If I write $20 billion on a cocktail napkin
1593
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,480
and I sell it to J.P. Morgan and J.P. Morgan writes
1594
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,520
$20 billion on a cocktail napkin
1595
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:34,040
and we swap those two cocktail napkins at a bar
1596
01:17:34,119 --> 01:17:37,559
and we each pay ourselves a quarter of 1% in a fee
1597
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,720
we make a lot of money for our Christmas bonus.
1598
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,239
We each have on our books a $20 billion cocktail napkin
1599
01:17:43,399 --> 01:17:47,159
which has no real value until such time as
1600
01:17:47,159 --> 01:17:50,119
the system is no longer able to absorb bogus
1601
01:17:50,119 --> 01:17:52,800
cocktail napkins in which case we go to the government
1602
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,680
to get bailed out.
1603
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,720
And because of Wall street and the global stock market
1604
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,320
there are now conservatively about 700 Trillion dollars
1605
01:18:01,319 --> 01:18:03,719
of outstanding fraudulent claims-
1606
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,560
know as derivatives
1607
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,760
still waiting to collapse.
1608
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:09,680
A value amounting to over 10
1609
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:11,600
times the gross domestic product
1610
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,920
of the entire planet.
1611
01:18:14,159 --> 01:18:16,079
And while we have seen the bailouts of
1612
01:18:16,079 --> 01:18:18,079
corporations and banks by governments...
1613
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,520
which, of course, comically borrow
1614
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,480
their money from banks to begin with.
1615
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,680
We are now seeing attempts to bailout whole countries
1616
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,960
by conglomerates of other countries
1617
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,399
through the International banks.
1618
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,760
But how do you bailout a planet?
1619
01:18:34,199 --> 01:18:38,399
There is no country out there that isn't now saturated in debt.
1620
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,640
The cascade of sovereign debt defaults we have seen
1621
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:45,560
can only be the beginning, when the math is taken into account.
1622
01:18:46,159 --> 01:18:49,000
It has been estimated in the United States alone
1623
01:18:49,279 --> 01:18:52,960
that income tax would need to be raised to 65%
1624
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:57,000
per person just to cover the interest in the near future.
1625
01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:00,439
Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades
1626
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:05,280
60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.
1627
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,119
But hold on-- Let me get this straight.
1628
01:19:09,319 --> 01:19:11,960
The world is going bankrupt
1629
01:19:12,119 --> 01:19:13,599
whatever the hell that means
1630
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,039
because of this idea called "debt"
1631
01:19:16,159 --> 01:19:19,119
which doesn't even exist in the physical reality.
1632
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,120
It's only part of a game we've invented...
1633
01:19:22,399 --> 01:19:25,559
and yet the well being of billions of people
1634
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,920
is now being compromised.
1635
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,960
Extreme layoffs - tent cities- accelerating poverty
1636
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:35,759
Austerity measures imposed - schools shutting down -
1637
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:40,199
child hunger...and other levels of familial deprivation
1638
01:19:40,199 --> 01:19:43,519
all because of this elaborate fiction...
1639
01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:46,960
What are we, fucking stupid?!
1640
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:50,720
Hey! Hey! Mars- my man.
1641
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,239
Help a brother out, uh?
1642
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,400
Grow up, kid.
1643
01:20:04,319 --> 01:20:06,439
Saturn! What's up man?
1644
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,920
You remember that smokin' nebula I hooked you up with
1645
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,440
a while back?
1646
01:20:12,079 --> 01:20:13,399
uh- listen Earth.
1647
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:15,319
We're getting really tired of you.
1648
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,199
You've been given everything and yet you waste it all.
1649
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,039
You've got plenty of resources and you know it.
1650
01:20:21,319 --> 01:20:22,799
Why don't you grow up and learn
1651
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:24,560
some responsibility for Christ's sake.
1652
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:27,480
You're making your mother miserable.
1653
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,440
You're on your own, pal.
1654
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,520
Yeah, whatever.
1655
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,079
[Public Health]
1656
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,760
Now, all of this considered...
1657
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,520
from the waste machine known as the market system-
1658
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,720
to the debt machine known as the monetary system-
1659
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,400
hence creating the monetary-market paradigm
1660
01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:00,399
which defines the global economy today...
1661
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:03,000
there is one consequence that runs through
1662
01:21:03,039 --> 01:21:05,359
the entire machine:
1663
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,480
Inequality.
1664
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,640
Whether it is market system which creates a natural
1665
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,560
gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation
1666
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,920
while also generating pockets of wealthy industries
1667
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,039
that tower over others
1668
01:21:20,119 --> 01:21:21,920
regardless of utility-
1669
01:21:22,159 --> 01:21:23,559
such as the fact that top
1670
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:25,360
hedge fund managers on wall street
1671
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:28,799
now take home over 300 million dollars a year
1672
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,880
for contributing literally nothing.
1673
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,079
While a scientist looking for a cure for a disease
1674
01:21:35,239 --> 01:21:37,000
trying to help humanity
1675
01:21:37,199 --> 01:21:40,960
might make 60 thousand dollars a year if they're lucky.
1676
01:21:41,239 --> 01:21:43,559
Or whether it is the monetary system
1677
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:47,480
which has class division built right into its structure.
1678
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:48,479
For example:
1679
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:52,080
If I have 1 million dollars to spare and I put it into a CD
1680
01:21:52,159 --> 01:21:53,599
at 4% interest-
1681
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:55,600
I will make 40,000 dollars a year.
1682
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:59,039
No social contribution- no nothing.
1683
01:21:59,159 --> 01:22:02,079
However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans
1684
01:22:02,079 --> 01:22:04,039
to buy my car or home
1685
01:22:04,039 --> 01:22:06,319
I am paying in interest which
1686
01:22:06,319 --> 01:22:07,439
in abstraction
1687
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:11,600
is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.
1688
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,600
This stealing from the poor to pay the rich
1689
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:18,640
is a foundational, built in aspect of the monetary system.
1690
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:23,000
And it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.
1691
01:22:23,359 --> 01:22:26,119
Of course, historically, social stratification
1692
01:22:26,119 --> 01:22:28,439
has always been deemed unfair
1693
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,319
but obviously accepted overall
1694
01:22:30,319 --> 01:22:35,159
as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.
1695
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:38,039
But material fairness aside
1696
01:22:38,079 --> 01:22:39,840
there is something else going on
1697
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:41,840
underneath the surface of inequality
1698
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:46,520
causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.
1699
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,159
Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast
1700
01:22:50,159 --> 01:22:53,039
between the material success of our societies
1701
01:22:53,039 --> 01:22:55,319
- unprecedented levels of wealth -
1702
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,880
and the many social failings.
1703
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,920
If you look at the rates of
1704
01:23:02,119 --> 01:23:04,920
drug abuse or violence or self harm
1705
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,720
amongst kids or mental illness
1706
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:11,039
there is clearly something going deeply wrong
1707
01:23:11,039 --> 01:23:12,600
with our societies.
1708
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,760
The data I have been describing
1709
01:23:16,279 --> 01:23:20,119
simply shows that intuition that people
1710
01:23:20,119 --> 01:23:23,319
have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive
1711
01:23:23,359 --> 01:23:24,920
and socially corrosive.
1712
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,720
But, that intuition is truer than I think we ever imagined.
1713
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,319
There are very powerful psychological and social effects
1714
01:23:32,319 --> 01:23:35,079
of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings
1715
01:23:35,079 --> 01:23:38,439
of superiority and inferiority.
1716
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:40,279
That kind of division...
1717
01:23:40,359 --> 01:23:43,679
Maybe going with the respect or disrespect
1718
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,200
- people feeling looked down on at the bottom
1719
01:23:46,279 --> 01:23:48,159
which, by the way, is why violence is
1720
01:23:48,159 --> 01:23:50,800
more common in more unequal societies -
1721
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,039
the trigger to violence is so often people feeling looked down
1722
01:23:54,039 --> 01:23:55,840
upon and disrespected.
1723
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,840
If there is one principle I could emphasize
1724
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:04,440
that is, the most important principle underlying
1725
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,079
the prevention of violence
1726
01:24:07,199 --> 01:24:10,000
it would be “Equality”.
1727
01:24:10,279 --> 01:24:11,960
The single most significant factor
1728
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:13,600
that affects the rate of violence
1729
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,480
is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality
1730
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,320
in that society.
1731
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:22,840
So, what we're looking at is a sort of
1732
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,840
general social dysfunction.
1733
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,520
It's not just one or two things that go wrong
1734
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,520
as inequality increases
1735
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:31,920
it seems to be everything, whether we are talking about
1736
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,920
crime or health or mental illness or whatever.
1737
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,079
One of the really disturbing findings out there in public health
1738
01:24:38,079 --> 01:24:43,000
is never ever make the mistake of being poor.
1739
01:24:43,119 --> 01:24:44,720
Or being born poor.
1740
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,720
Your health pays for it in endless sorts of ways:
1741
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,560
something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.
1742
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,920
As you move down from the highest strata
1743
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,680
in society, in terms of socioeconomic status
1744
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:59,039
every step down, health gets worse
1745
01:24:59,079 --> 01:25:01,239
for umpteen different diseases.
1746
01:25:01,319 --> 01:25:02,840
Life expectancy gets worse.
1747
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,840
Infant mortality rate-
1748
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:06,319
everything you could look at.
1749
01:25:06,359 --> 01:25:08,880
So, a huge issue has been
1750
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,279
why is it that this gradient exists.
1751
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:14,359
A simple obvious answer
1752
01:25:14,399 --> 01:25:16,439
which is, 'if you're chronically sick, you're not
1753
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:18,960
going to be very productive
1754
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:21,720
so, health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'
1755
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,320
Not that in the slightest-
1756
01:25:23,319 --> 01:25:24,840
on the very simple level that
1757
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:26,199
you could look at the
1758
01:25:26,199 --> 01:25:28,319
socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old
1759
01:25:28,319 --> 01:25:30,719
and that's going to predict something about their health
1760
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:31,840
decades later.
1761
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:33,920
So, that's the direction of causality.
1762
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,119
Next one- 'Oh, it's perfectly obvious'-
1763
01:25:37,239 --> 01:25:39,319
poor people can't afford to go to the doctor...
1764
01:25:39,359 --> 01:25:40,839
it's healthcare access?
1765
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,319
It's got nothing to do with that
1766
01:25:42,319 --> 01:25:44,199
because you see these same gradients
1767
01:25:44,199 --> 01:25:46,319
in countries with universal health care and
1768
01:25:46,319 --> 01:25:47,639
socialized medicine.
1769
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:49,600
Okay – next 'simple explanation':
1770
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,720
Oh -on the average- the poorer you are
1771
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,000
the more likely you are to smoke
1772
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:58,039
and drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.
1773
01:25:58,079 --> 01:26:01,559
Yeah, those contribute but careful studies have shown
1774
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,200
that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.
1775
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:05,879
So what's left?
1776
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:08,600
What's left is having a ton to do
1777
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,000
with the STRESS of poverty
1778
01:26:11,319 --> 01:26:14,639
So, the poorer you are, starting off being
1779
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:18,039
the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates...
1780
01:26:18,359 --> 01:26:19,880
the poorer you are in this country
1781
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:21,600
on the average, the worse your health is.
1782
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,240
This tells us something really important:
1783
01:26:24,279 --> 01:26:26,119
the health connection with poverty
1784
01:26:26,159 --> 01:26:30,119
it's not about being poor it's about feeling poor.
1785
01:26:30,239 --> 01:26:35,559
Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress
1786
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,000
is an important influence on health
1787
01:26:38,079 --> 01:26:40,720
but the most important sources of stress
1788
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,360
are the quality of social relations.
1789
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,360
and if there is anything that
1790
01:26:45,359 --> 01:26:47,479
lowers the quality of social relations
1791
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,600
it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.
1792
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:53,159
What science has now shown is
1793
01:26:53,159 --> 01:26:55,159
that regardless of material wealth
1794
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:59,159
the stress of simply living in a stratified society
1795
01:26:59,159 --> 01:27:02,680
leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems
1796
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:06,760
and the greater the inequality, the worse they become.
1797
01:27:07,079 --> 01:27:11,359
Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.
1798
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,440
Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.
1799
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,840
Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.
1800
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,000
Social Capital - meaning the
1801
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:24,640
ability of people to trust each other:
1802
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,880
Naturally greater in more equal countries.
1803
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:32,399
Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.
1804
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:36,519
Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.
1805
01:27:37,039 --> 01:27:39,279
Crime and Rates of Imprisonment:
1806
01:27:39,359 --> 01:27:41,880
Less in more equal countries.
1807
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,279
It goes on and on:
1808
01:27:44,279 --> 01:27:47,800
Infant mortality – obesity - teen birth rate:
1809
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:49,920
Less in more equal countries.
1810
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,199
and perhaps most interesting:
1811
01:27:52,239 --> 01:27:56,399
Innovation: Greater in more equal countries.
1812
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,759
which challenges the age old notion that a competitive
1813
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:04,360
stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.
1814
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:06,840
Moreover, a study done in the UK
1815
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:08,360
called The WhiteHall Study
1816
01:28:08,399 --> 01:28:11,359
confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease
1817
01:28:11,399 --> 01:28:14,279
as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder
1818
01:28:14,279 --> 01:28:15,279
to the bottom.
1819
01:28:15,359 --> 01:28:17,639
For example, it was found that the lowest rungs
1820
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:20,440
of the hierarchy had a 4-fold increase
1821
01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:22,719
of heart disease based mortality
1822
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:24,640
compared to the highest rungs.
1823
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:28,880
And this pattern exists, irrespective of access to health care.
1824
01:28:29,039 --> 01:28:32,560
Hence - the worse a person's relative financial status
1825
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,600
the worse their health is going to be on average.
1826
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,760
This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed
1827
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:40,840
Psychosocial Stress'
1828
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:44,440
and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions
1829
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:46,799
plaguing our society today.
1830
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,159
Its cause?
1831
01:28:48,239 --> 01:28:50,679
The Monetary-Market System.
1832
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:53,600
Make no mistake:
1833
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:56,200
The greatest destroyer of ecology...
1834
01:28:56,279 --> 01:29:00,000
the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution...
1835
01:29:00,159 --> 01:29:02,479
the greatest purveyor of violence-
1836
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,880
war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity...
1837
01:29:07,279 --> 01:29:10,719
the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis...
1838
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,880
mental disorders - depression anxiety...
1839
01:29:14,039 --> 01:29:17,960
Not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis
1840
01:29:18,039 --> 01:29:21,279
stopping us from moving into new methodologies
1841
01:29:21,279 --> 01:29:24,159
for personal health, global sustainability
1842
01:29:24,279 --> 01:29:26,800
and progress on this planet
1843
01:29:27,319 --> 01:29:30,599
is not some corrupt Government or legislation...
1844
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,720
not some rogue Corporation or banking cartel...
1845
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,480
not some flaw of human nature...
1846
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:42,359
and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.
1847
01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:43,840
It is, in fact:
1848
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,480
The Socio-Economic System itself
1849
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,199
at its very foundation.
1850
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,640
[Part 3: Project Earth ]
1851
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:13,039
Let's imagine for a moment we had the option
1852
01:30:13,119 --> 01:30:16,079
to redesign human civilization from the ground up.
1853
01:30:16,199 --> 01:30:18,119
What if, hypothetically speaking
1854
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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to account for every relevant resource on the planet.
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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.
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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
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to maximize our sustainability?
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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.
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The planet's resources are essentially finite.
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So it is important that we be “strategic”.
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"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.
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In fact, some of this stuff, when put into use
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has a terrible effect of the environment
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which invariably hinders our own health.
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For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it
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release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.
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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.
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Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave -
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heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production
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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.
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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.
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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
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and the more waste produced.
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Two: When things do break down
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or are no longer usable for whatever reason
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it is critical that we harvest, or recycle as much as we possibly can.
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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.
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The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer
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system just because it has only one broken part or is outdated.
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So we simply design the components to be easily updated
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part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable
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foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.
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And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”
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“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”
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are purely technical considerations
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devoid of any human opinion or bias
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we simply program these strategies into a computer
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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
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all it is is a glorified calculator
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not to mention that such multi-varied
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decision making and monitoring systems
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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
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to maximize efficiency, preservation & safety.
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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.
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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
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and since energy is required to power transport machines
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the less transport distance, the more efficient.
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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
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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
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if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.
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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.
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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
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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
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it is the purpose of that good.
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When we realize that the good itself
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is only as important as its utility
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we see that “external restriction”
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or what we might call today “ownership”
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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
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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
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01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:32,680
starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources
2111
01:43:32,760 --> 01:43:35,600
moving to make sure we only create the best
2112
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,520
most strategic goods possible
2113
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,160
while distributing everything in the
2114
01:43:40,159 --> 01:43:42,599
most intelligent and efficient way.
2115
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:47,360
And the unique result of this preservation based approach
2116
01:43:47,399 --> 01:43:50,119
which is intuitively counter to many
2117
01:43:50,159 --> 01:43:52,599
is that this logical, ground up
2118
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:56,120
empirical process of preservation and efficiency
2119
01:43:56,159 --> 01:44:00,920
which can only define true human sustainability on the planet
2120
01:44:01,039 --> 01:44:05,519
would likely enable something never before seen in human history.
2121
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:07,840
Access Abundance...
2122
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:11,119
not just for a percentage of the global population...
2123
01:44:11,119 --> 01:44:14,519
but the entire civilization.
2124
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:18,280
This economic model, as was just generalized...
2125
01:44:18,279 --> 01:44:21,039
This responsible, systems approach to total Earth
2126
01:44:21,039 --> 01:44:24,000
resource management and processes
2127
01:44:24,119 --> 01:44:26,039
designed again to do nothing less
2128
01:44:26,039 --> 01:44:28,199
than take care of humanity as whole
2129
01:44:28,199 --> 01:44:30,920
in the most efficient and sustainable way
2130
01:44:31,039 --> 01:44:32,359
could be termed:
2131
01:44:32,359 --> 01:44:35,319
a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.
2132
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:38,399
The idea was defined in the 1970s by
2133
01:44:38,399 --> 01:44:41,119
Social Engineer- Jacque Fresco.
2134
01:44:41,119 --> 01:44:44,399
He understood back then that society was on a collision course
2135
01:44:44,399 --> 01:44:48,519
with nature and itself - unsustainable on every level
2136
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:50,600
and if things didn't change
2137
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:54,000
we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.
2138
01:44:54,039 --> 01:44:56,279
Are all of these things you are saying, Jacque...
2139
01:44:56,279 --> 01:44:58,719
could they be built with what we know today?
2140
01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:02,880
Or are you guessing... based on what we know today.
2141
01:45:03,039 --> 01:45:06,279
No, all of these things can be built with what we know today.
2142
01:45:06,359 --> 01:45:09,439
It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.
2143
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:12,159
To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.
2144
01:45:12,199 --> 01:45:13,679
The choice lies with you.
2145
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,240
The stupidity of a nuclear arms race...
2146
01:45:16,239 --> 01:45:17,719
the development of weapons...
2147
01:45:17,800 --> 01:45:20,000
trying to solve your problems politically
2148
01:45:20,039 --> 01:45:23,039
by electing this political party or that political party...
2149
01:45:23,119 --> 01:45:25,680
that all politics is immersed in corruption.
2150
01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:26,800
Let me say it again:
2151
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,279
Communism, socialism, fascism... the Democrats
2152
01:45:30,319 --> 01:45:33,559
the liberals- we want to absorb human beings.
2153
01:45:33,600 --> 01:45:36,920
All organizations that believe in a better life for man:
2154
01:45:37,039 --> 01:45:40,159
there are no Negro problems or Polish problems
2155
01:45:40,159 --> 01:45:42,479
or Jewish problems or Greek problems
2156
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:45,000
or women's problems – there are human problems!
2157
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:47,880
I'm not afraid of anybody; I don't work for anyone;
2158
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:49,480
no one can discharge me.
2159
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:50,839
I have no boss.
2160
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:54,039
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.
2161
01:45:54,039 --> 01:45:57,840
Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
2162
01:45:57,840 --> 01:45:59,960
It was great - the free enterprise system -
2163
01:45:59,960 --> 01:46:03,480
about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.
2164
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:06,959
Now, we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.
2165
01:46:08,039 --> 01:46:11,960
The horror movies of the future will be our society...
2166
01:46:12,079 --> 01:46:14,000
the way it didn't work
2167
01:46:14,039 --> 01:46:15,399
and politics...
2168
01:46:15,399 --> 01:46:18,319
would be part of a horror movie.
2169
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:24,760
Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'
2170
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:26,920
because it's analytical
2171
01:46:27,119 --> 01:46:29,840
and they don't even know what analytical means.
2172
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:32,800
Science means: closer approximations
2173
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:35,480
to the way the world really works.
2174
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:38,840
So, it's telling the truth - is what it is
2175
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:41,760
A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.
2176
01:46:41,760 --> 01:46:44,320
They tell them what their findings are.
2177
01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:46,879
They have to question all things
2178
01:46:47,039 --> 01:46:51,159
and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows
2179
01:46:51,159 --> 01:46:53,559
certain materials have certain strengths
2180
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:56,320
other scientists have to be able to duplicate
2181
01:46:56,319 --> 01:46:59,119
that experiment and come up with the same results.
2182
01:46:59,279 --> 01:47:03,399
Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing
2183
01:47:03,479 --> 01:47:05,599
due to mathematics or calculations
2184
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,840
can hold up a given amount of weight
2185
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:10,640
they still pile sandbags on it
2186
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:12,720
to see when it breaks and they say
2187
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:16,480
you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.
2188
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:19,959
I love that system because it's free of bias
2189
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:23,359
and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.
2190
01:47:23,399 --> 01:47:26,159
You have to put your Math to test also.
2191
01:47:26,239 --> 01:47:28,800
I think that every system that can
2192
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:31,520
be put to test should be put to test.
2193
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:36,400
And that all decisions should be based upon research.
2194
01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:39,360
A Resource-Based Economy is simply the
2195
01:47:39,359 --> 01:47:42,199
scientific method applied to social concern-
2196
01:47:42,199 --> 01:47:45,199
an approach utterly absent in the world today.
2197
01:47:45,279 --> 01:47:47,559
Society is a technical invention.
2198
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,640
And the most efficient methods of optimized human health
2199
01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:55,000
physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like
2200
01:47:55,079 --> 01:47:57,519
reside in the field of science and
2201
01:47:57,520 --> 01:48:00,840
technology - not politics or monetary economics.
2202
01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:05,000
It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane
2203
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:09,279
and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.
2204
01:48:09,359 --> 01:48:11,439
Likewise, nature itself is the
2205
01:48:11,439 --> 01:48:14,279
physical referent we use to prove our science
2206
01:48:14,279 --> 01:48:16,199
and it is a set system-
2207
01:48:16,199 --> 01:48:19,439
emerging only from our increased understanding of it.
2208
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:22,000
In fact, it has no regard for what you
2209
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:24,520
subjectively think or believe to be true.
2210
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:26,520
Rather, it gives you an option:
2211
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:28,680
you can learn and fall in line with its
2212
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:31,039
natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly-
2213
01:48:31,159 --> 01:48:34,479
invariably creating good health & sustainability...
2214
01:48:34,479 --> 01:48:37,559
or you can go against the current - to no avail.
2215
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:40,039
It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just
2216
01:48:40,039 --> 01:48:42,359
stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you
2217
01:48:42,439 --> 01:48:44,599
the law of gravity will not allow it.
2218
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:46,560
If you do not eat - you will die.
2219
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:49,520
If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.
2220
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:53,520
As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship
2221
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,960
and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it
2222
01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:00,319
or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.
2223
01:49:00,399 --> 01:49:03,359
So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more
2224
01:49:03,359 --> 01:49:06,759
than a set of proven, life supporting understandings
2225
01:49:06,840 --> 01:49:09,319
where all decisions are based upon
2226
01:49:09,319 --> 01:49:12,759
optimized human and environmental sustainability.
2227
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:16,079
It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”
2228
01:49:16,199 --> 01:49:18,519
which every human being shares as a need
2229
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:22,680
regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.
2230
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:25,920
There is no cultural relativism to this approach.
2231
01:49:26,039 --> 01:49:28,600
It isn't a matter of opinion.
2232
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:30,840
Human needs are human needs
2233
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:34,560
and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air
2234
01:49:34,600 --> 01:49:37,039
nutritious food and clean water
2235
01:49:37,119 --> 01:49:40,599
along with a positively reinforcing, stable
2236
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:44,720
nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded
2237
01:49:44,720 --> 01:49:46,960
for our mental and physical health
2238
01:49:47,039 --> 01:49:48,920
our evolutionary fitness
2239
01:49:49,039 --> 01:49:51,920
and hence, the species survival itself.
2240
01:49:52,039 --> 01:49:54,760
A Resource-Based Economy
2241
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,199
would be based upon available resources.
2242
01:49:58,279 --> 01:50:01,439
You can't just bring a lot of people to an island
2243
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:06,599
or build a city of 50,000 people without having access
2244
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:08,680
to the necessities of life.
2245
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:13,279
So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'
2246
01:50:13,359 --> 01:50:17,639
I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first
2247
01:50:17,640 --> 01:50:20,960
and determining what that area can supply-
2248
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,480
not just architectural approach-
2249
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:25,959
not just design approach-
2250
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,520
but design must be based on all of the requirements
2251
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:31,200
to enhance human life
2252
01:50:31,239 --> 01:50:34,960
and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.
2253
01:50:35,039 --> 01:50:37,840
Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -
2254
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:40,840
All those things are necessary
2255
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,199
and if you deprive people of any of them
2256
01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:48,920
you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.
2257
01:50:49,279 --> 01:50:53,119
As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up
2258
01:50:53,119 --> 01:50:57,680
global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution
2259
01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:02,520
is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'
2260
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:04,960
which guarantee efficiency and
2261
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:08,560
sustainability in every area of the economy.
2262
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:12,440
So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design-
2263
01:51:12,439 --> 01:51:14,159
what is next in our equation?
2264
01:51:14,319 --> 01:51:16,559
Where does all this materialize?
2265
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:18,319
Cities.
2266
01:51:18,399 --> 01:51:22,319
The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.
2267
01:51:22,359 --> 01:51:26,079
Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life
2268
01:51:26,199 --> 01:51:30,960
along with increased social support and community interaction.
2269
01:51:31,199 --> 01:51:34,119
So how would we go about designing an ideal city?
2270
01:51:34,159 --> 01:51:35,720
What shape should we make it?
2271
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,039
Square? Trapezoid?
2272
01:51:38,159 --> 01:51:40,319
Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing
2273
01:51:40,319 --> 01:51:43,439
we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...
2274
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,720
hence the circle.
2275
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:47,680
What should the city contain?
2276
01:51:47,720 --> 01:51:51,680
Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area
2277
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:55,320
a power generation area; an agricultural area.
2278
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:58,800
But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture
2279
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:02,079
nature, recreation and education.
2280
01:52:02,159 --> 01:52:04,159
So lets include a nice open park
2281
01:52:04,199 --> 01:52:08,519
an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing
2282
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:11,240
and educational and research facilities.
2283
01:52:11,279 --> 01:52:13,559
And since we are working with a circle
2284
01:52:13,560 --> 01:52:16,480
it seems rational to place these functions in Belts
2285
01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:19,479
based on the amount of land required for each goal
2286
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:21,800
along with ease of access.
2287
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:23,279
Very good.
2288
01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:25,640
Now, let's get down to specifics:
2289
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:27,880
First we need the consider the core
2290
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,880
infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.
2291
01:52:31,159 --> 01:52:33,279
These would be the water, goods
2292
01:52:33,279 --> 01:52:35,639
waste and energy transport channels.
2293
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:39,480
Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today
2294
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:42,200
we would extend this channeling concept to
2295
01:52:42,199 --> 01:52:45,079
integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.
2296
01:52:45,199 --> 01:52:47,720
No more mailmen or garbage men.
2297
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,440
It is built right in. We could even use
2298
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:53,319
automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.
2299
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:55,480
Same goes for transport.
2300
01:52:55,479 --> 01:52:59,119
It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce
2301
01:52:59,119 --> 01:53:02,760
or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.
2302
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,680
Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and
2303
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,960
maglevs which can take you virtually
2304
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:10,359
anywhere in the city, even up and down
2305
01:53:10,439 --> 01:53:13,519
along with connecting you to other cities as well.
2306
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,520
And of course, in the event a car is required
2307
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:20,200
it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.
2308
01:53:20,319 --> 01:53:24,119
In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.
2309
01:53:24,159 --> 01:53:29,000
Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;
2310
01:53:29,079 --> 01:53:31,199
injuring about 50 million.
2311
01:53:31,199 --> 01:53:34,039
This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.
2312
01:53:34,159 --> 01:53:37,880
Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars
2313
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:40,760
this death toll can be virtually eliminated.
2314
01:53:41,239 --> 01:53:42,639
Agriculture.
2315
01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:46,199
Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods
2316
01:53:46,239 --> 01:53:50,279
using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means
2317
01:53:50,439 --> 01:53:52,399
we have successfully destroyed much
2318
01:53:52,399 --> 01:53:54,319
of the the arable land on this planet
2319
01:53:54,359 --> 01:53:57,679
not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.
2320
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:01,119
In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins
2321
01:54:01,159 --> 01:54:06,880
now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.
2322
01:54:07,199 --> 01:54:10,119
Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -
2323
01:54:10,159 --> 01:54:13,639
the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics
2324
01:54:13,640 --> 01:54:16,560
which also reduce nutrient and water
2325
01:54:16,560 --> 01:54:20,400
requirements by up to 75 % of our current usage.
2326
01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:24,159
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale
2327
01:54:24,159 --> 01:54:26,680
in enclosed vertical farms.
2328
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:29,640
Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -
2329
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:32,000
virtually eliminating the need for
2330
01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,560
pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.
2331
01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:37,640
This is the future of industrial food cultivation.
2332
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:40,200
Efficient, clean and abundant.
2333
01:54:40,359 --> 01:54:43,399
So, such advanced systems would be, in part
2334
01:54:43,439 --> 01:54:45,960
what comprise our agricultural belt
2335
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:49,680
producing all the food required for the entire city's population
2336
01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:52,680
with no need to import anything from the outside
2337
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:56,000
saving time, waste and energy.
2338
01:54:56,439 --> 01:54:58,359
And speaking of Energy-
2339
01:54:58,399 --> 01:55:01,279
The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to
2340
01:55:01,279 --> 01:55:04,319
extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums
2341
01:55:04,439 --> 01:55:08,559
-specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials
2342
01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:12,480
and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.
2343
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:15,000
To avoid intermittency and make sure
2344
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:17,279
a positive net energy return occurs
2345
01:55:17,279 --> 01:55:20,279
these mediums would operate in an integrated system
2346
01:55:20,279 --> 01:55:22,199
powering each other when needed
2347
01:55:22,239 --> 01:55:24,519
while storing excessive energy to large
2348
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:26,640
super capacitors under the ground
2349
01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:29,039
so nothing can go to waste.
2350
01:55:29,239 --> 01:55:31,599
And not only does the city power itself
2351
01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:34,880
particular structures will also power independently
2352
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:38,039
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints
2353
01:55:38,039 --> 01:55:41,640
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect
2354
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:45,119
and other current but under utilized technologies.
2355
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:47,480
But, of course, this begs the question:
2356
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:49,720
how does this technology, and goods in
2357
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:51,920
general, get created in the first place?
2358
01:55:52,119 --> 01:55:54,039
This bring us to Production:
2359
01:55:54,039 --> 01:55:57,239
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like
2360
01:55:57,239 --> 01:55:59,599
would be the hub of factory production.
2361
01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:01,440
Completely localized overall
2362
01:56:01,439 --> 01:56:03,799
it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of
2363
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:07,400
the global resource management system, just discussed-
2364
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:12,040
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.
2365
01:56:12,119 --> 01:56:14,079
As far as the mechanics of production
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01:56:14,279 --> 01:56:17,359
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
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is built automatically.
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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.
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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
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and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.
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So, we have been going up in the development
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and use of technology in an exponential way.
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So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop
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technologies that just make sense.
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Labor automation through technology is at the bottom
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of every major social transformation in human history.
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From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow
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to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine
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to the information age we live in now through
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essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.
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01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:48,000
And with regard to advanced production methods today
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mechanization is now evolving on its own.
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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.
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Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is
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so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.
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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.
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01:58:18,479 --> 01:58:20,479
Again, as an engineer, I have always been
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intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.
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01:58:23,159 --> 01:58:25,639
RepRap is a three-dimensional printer-
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that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and
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01:58:29,039 --> 01:58:32,359
instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on
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01:58:32,359 --> 01:58:35,359
it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.
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Now there's nothing new about that
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01:58:37,479 --> 01:58:40,039
3-D printers have been around for about 30 years.
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The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.
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So, if you've got one, you could
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make another one and give it to a friend
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as well as being able to print lots of useful things.
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01:58:51,479 --> 01:58:54,759
From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home
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to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop
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01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,560
advanced, automated 3d printing now has the
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potential to transform virtually every field of production.
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Including home construction.
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01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:10,039
Contour Crafting is
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actually a fabrication technology-
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the so-called 3-D printing- when you directly build
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01:59:16,880 --> 01:59:20,560
3-D objects from a computer model.
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01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:23,680
Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible
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to build a 2000 square-foot home
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entirely by the machine, in one day.
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The reason that people are interested in automating construction
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is that it really brings a lot of benefits.
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For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive
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and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society
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it also has issues and complications.
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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.
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Another issue is the waste.
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An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.
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So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction
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and knowing about 40% of all materials
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02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:27,880
in the world are used in construction.
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So, a big waste of energy and resources
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02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:34,279
and big damage to the environment as well.
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02:00:34,439 --> 02:00:39,319
Making homes using hammers and nails and wood
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02:00:39,399 --> 02:00:43,519
with the state of our technology today, is really absurd
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and will go the way of our labor class in
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02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:50,439
regards to manufacturing in the United States.
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02:00:50,520 --> 02:00:56,280
Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT
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that states that our middle class is obsolete
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and being replaced by automation.
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02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:06,800
Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive
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02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:09,880
efficient and sustainable than human labor
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02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:12,800
in virtually every sector of the economy today.
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Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions
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02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:19,440
and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.
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The output potential and accuracy
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compared to human labor, is unmatched.
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The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete
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and impractical across the world
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02:01:31,479 --> 02:01:34,239
and the unemployment you see around you today
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02:01:34,239 --> 02:01:36,800
is fundamentally the result of this
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02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:39,640
evolution of efficiency in technology.
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02:01:40,039 --> 02:01:43,720
For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern
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02:01:43,760 --> 02:01:47,000
which could be called “Technological Unemployment”
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because of the fact that new sectors always seemed
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02:01:49,840 --> 02:01:52,640
to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.
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Today, the service sector is the only real hub left
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02:01:56,119 --> 02:01:59,840
and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce
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02:01:59,840 --> 02:02:03,960
with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.
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However, this sector now being
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02:02:06,159 --> 02:02:09,119
challenged increasingly by automated kiosks-
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automated restaurants and even automated stores.
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02:02:13,079 --> 02:02:14,800
Economists today are finally
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02:02:14,800 --> 02:02:17,440
acknowledging what they had been denying for years:
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not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current
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02:02:21,479 --> 02:02:23,479
labor crisis we see across the
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02:02:23,479 --> 02:02:26,199
world due to the global economic downturn
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02:02:26,239 --> 02:02:28,479
but the more the recession deepens
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02:02:28,479 --> 02:02:30,959
the faster the industries are mechanizing.
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The catch, which is not realized
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is that the faster they mechanize to save money;
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02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:37,720
the more they displace people-
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the more they reduce public purchasing power.
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02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:42,880
This means that, while the corporation
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can produce everything more cheaply
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02:02:44,720 --> 02:02:48,240
fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything
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02:02:48,399 --> 02:02:50,960
regardless of how cheap they become.
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02:02:51,039 --> 02:02:53,800
The bottom line is that the “labor for
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02:02:53,800 --> 02:02:56,640
income” game is slowly coming to an end.
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02:02:56,760 --> 02:02:59,199
In fact, if you take a moment to reflect
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02:02:59,199 --> 02:03:01,599
on the jobs which are in existence today
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which automation could take over right now, if applied
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02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:08,400
75% of the global workforce could be
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replaced by mechanization tomorrow.
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02:03:11,560 --> 02:03:14,880
And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy
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02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,560
There is no Monetary-Market system.
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02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:19,760
No money at all...
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02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:21,400
for there is no need.
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02:03:21,399 --> 02:03:23,079
a Resource-Based Economy
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02:03:23,079 --> 02:03:25,840
recognizes the efficiency of mechanization
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02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:27,800
and accepts it for what it offers.
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02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:30,480
It doesn't fight it, like we do today.
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Why? Because it is irresponsible not to
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given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.
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02:03:38,239 --> 02:03:41,000
And this brings us back to our city system.
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02:03:41,159 --> 02:03:43,319
In the center is the Central Dome
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02:03:43,319 --> 02:03:45,039
which not only houses the
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02:03:45,039 --> 02:03:47,519
educational facilities and transportation hub-
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02:03:47,640 --> 02:03:49,840
it also hosts the mainframe that
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02:03:49,840 --> 02:03:52,279
runs the cities technical operations.
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02:03:52,399 --> 02:03:55,719
The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.
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02:03:55,760 --> 02:03:57,760
It has sensors in all technical belts
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02:03:57,760 --> 02:03:59,760
to track the progress of architecture-
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02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:03,680
energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.
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02:04:04,119 --> 02:04:06,640
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.
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02:04:11,039 --> 02:04:12,960
But that number would decrease
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02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,079
over time as improvements continue.
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02:04:15,239 --> 02:04:17,319
However, as of today, maybe 3% of
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02:04:17,319 --> 02:04:19,439
the city population would be needed
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02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:21,840
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
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02:04:26,279 --> 02:04:28,399
actually designed to take care of you
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02:04:28,520 --> 02:04:30,640
and secure your well being
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02:04:30,680 --> 02:04:32,720
without you having to submit to
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02:04:32,720 --> 02:04:35,280
private dictatorship on a daily basis...
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02:04:35,319 --> 02:04:37,639
usually to a job that is either
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02:04:37,640 --> 02:04:40,440
technically unnecessary or socially pointless
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02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:43,640
while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist
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02:04:43,640 --> 02:04:45,760
just to make ends meet...
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02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:50,320
I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right
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02:04:50,439 --> 02:04:53,159
to maintain and improve a system
2531
02:04:53,159 --> 02:04:55,840
that actually takes care of them.
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02:04:57,079 --> 02:05:00,079
And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'-
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02:05:00,279 --> 02:05:02,199
comes the common assumption that
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02:05:02,199 --> 02:05:04,279
if there isn't some external pressure
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02:05:04,279 --> 02:05:06,679
for one to “work for a living”
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02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:09,320
people would just sit around, do nothing
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02:05:09,319 --> 02:05:11,880
and turn into fat lazy blobs.
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02:05:12,159 --> 02:05:14,479
This is nonsense.
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02:05:14,479 --> 02:05:16,799
The labor system we have today is
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02:05:16,800 --> 02:05:19,079
in fact the generator of laziness-
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02:05:19,199 --> 02:05:21,880
not a resolver of it.
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02:05:22,079 --> 02:05:24,239
If you think back to when you were a child-
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02:05:24,279 --> 02:05:27,319
full of life, interested in new things to understand-
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02:05:27,399 --> 02:05:29,679
likely creating and exploring...
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02:05:29,800 --> 02:05:32,760
but as time went on, the system pushed you
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02:05:32,760 --> 02:05:36,119
into the focus of figuring out how to make money.
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02:05:36,279 --> 02:05:37,960
And from early education
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02:05:37,960 --> 02:05:40,760
to study at a university, you are narrowed.
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02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:43,600
Only to emerge as a creature which serves
2550
02:05:43,640 --> 02:05:46,200
as a cog in a wheel in a model that
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02:05:46,199 --> 02:05:48,840
sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.
2552
02:05:49,199 --> 02:05:52,439
Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact
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02:05:52,439 --> 02:05:55,000
not motivated by monetary reward
2554
02:05:55,119 --> 02:05:57,680
when it comes to ingenuity and creation.
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02:05:57,800 --> 02:06:00,480
The creation itself is the reward.
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02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:03,600
Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive
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02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:06,240
for repetitive, mundane actions-
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02:06:06,239 --> 02:06:10,359
a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.
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02:06:10,439 --> 02:06:12,359
When it comes to innovation
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02:06:12,359 --> 02:06:14,559
the actual use of the human mind
2561
02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:17,560
the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance
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02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:21,120
interfering and detracting from creative thought.
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02:06:21,199 --> 02:06:24,279
And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers
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02:06:24,319 --> 02:06:26,840
and other inventors who contributed massively
2565
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:28,159
to our current world
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02:06:28,199 --> 02:06:31,559
never showed a monetary incentive to do so.
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02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:35,280
Money is, in fact, a false incentive
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02:06:35,359 --> 02:06:38,119
and causes 100 times more distortion
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02:06:38,119 --> 02:06:40,479
than it does contribution.
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02:06:42,119 --> 02:06:44,760
Good morning class. Please settle down.
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02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:47,920
The first thing I would like to do is go around the room
2572
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:51,680
and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.
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02:06:51,760 --> 02:06:54,000
Who would like to go first?
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02:06:54,039 --> 02:06:56,359
Okay, how about you Sarah?
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02:06:56,439 --> 02:07:00,839
When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!
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02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:03,680
Oh, family tradition, eh?
2577
02:07:03,680 --> 02:07:05,640
How about you, Linda?
2578
02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:08,079
When I grow up, I'm going to be a
2579
02:07:08,079 --> 02:07:11,000
prostitute on the streets of New York City!
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02:07:11,159 --> 02:07:13,079
Oh! glamour girl, huh?
2581
02:07:13,159 --> 02:07:15,000
Very ambitious.
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02:07:15,119 --> 02:07:16,800
How about you, Tommy?
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02:07:16,920 --> 02:07:19,000
When I grow up, I'm going to be a
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02:07:19,000 --> 02:07:21,079
rich, elitist businessman who works
2585
02:07:21,079 --> 02:07:23,119
on Wall Street and profits off of
2586
02:07:23,119 --> 02:07:25,199
the collapse of foreign economies.
2587
02:07:25,199 --> 02:07:26,439
Enterprising...
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02:07:26,479 --> 02:07:30,359
And great to see some multicultural interest!
2589
02:07:32,239 --> 02:07:33,559
[Victims of Culture]
2590
02:07:33,760 --> 02:07:36,079
As stated before, a Resource-Based
2591
02:07:36,079 --> 02:07:40,000
Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern
2592
02:07:40,079 --> 02:07:43,279
and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.
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02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:45,560
It also has the consideration of
2594
02:07:45,560 --> 02:07:49,480
human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.
2595
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:52,480
What good is a social system if, in the end
2596
02:07:52,479 --> 02:07:55,919
it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?
2597
02:07:55,960 --> 02:07:58,079
So, it is important to point out that
2598
02:07:58,079 --> 02:08:00,039
with the removal of the money system
2599
02:08:00,079 --> 02:08:02,559
and the necessities of life provided
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02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:05,080
we would see a global reduction in
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02:08:05,079 --> 02:08:08,199
crime by about 95% almost immediately
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02:08:08,239 --> 02:08:11,920
for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.
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02:08:12,039 --> 02:08:14,960
95% of all people in prisons today are there
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02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:18,159
due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse
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02:08:18,399 --> 02:08:22,559
and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.
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02:08:23,319 --> 02:08:25,199
So what about the other 5%?
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02:08:25,239 --> 02:08:26,920
the truly violent...
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02:08:27,039 --> 02:08:28,880
often seeming to some as being
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02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:31,159
violent for the sake of being violent...
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02:08:31,239 --> 02:08:34,599
are they just “evil” people?
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02:08:35,079 --> 02:08:40,279
The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time
2612
02:08:40,439 --> 02:08:43,759
to engage in moral value judgments
2613
02:08:43,840 --> 02:08:46,560
about people's violence is
2614
02:08:46,560 --> 02:08:50,320
because it doesn't advance by one iota
2615
02:08:50,479 --> 02:08:53,599
our understanding of either the causes
2616
02:08:53,680 --> 02:08:57,600
or the prevention of the violent behavior.
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02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:02,039
People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.
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02:09:02,359 --> 02:09:04,279
My answer to that is
2619
02:09:04,319 --> 02:09:07,239
“No, I don't believe in forgiveness
2620
02:09:07,239 --> 02:09:10,239
anymore than I believe in condemnation”.
2621
02:09:10,239 --> 02:09:12,960
It's only if we, as a society
2622
02:09:13,000 --> 02:09:16,359
can take the same attitude of treating violence as
2623
02:09:16,359 --> 02:09:19,679
a problem in public health and preventive medicine
2624
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:22,760
rather than as a moral "evil"...
2625
02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:25,600
it's only when we make that change in our
2626
02:09:25,600 --> 02:09:28,200
own attitudes and assumptions and values
2627
02:09:28,319 --> 02:09:31,519
that we will actually succeed in reducing the
2628
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:34,640
level of violence rather than stimulating it-
2629
02:09:34,680 --> 02:09:36,600
which is what we do now.
2630
02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:39,920
The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become
2631
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:41,840
because there's no such thing as justice.
2632
02:09:41,960 --> 02:09:46,079
There is whatever there is out there. That's it.
2633
02:09:46,159 --> 02:09:50,079
In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-
2634
02:09:50,079 --> 02:09:53,199
if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that
2635
02:09:53,199 --> 02:09:55,000
why do you blame the person for it?
2636
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:58,159
They are a victim of a subculture.
2637
02:09:58,239 --> 02:10:00,199
Therefore they have to be helped.
2638
02:10:00,279 --> 02:10:03,639
The point is, we have to redesign the environment
2639
02:10:03,680 --> 02:10:06,240
that produces aberrant behavior.
2640
02:10:06,239 --> 02:10:07,279
That's the problem.
2641
02:10:07,399 --> 02:10:09,199
Not putting a person in jail.
2642
02:10:09,600 --> 02:10:12,520
That's why judges- lawyers-
2643
02:10:12,520 --> 02:10:15,240
“freedom of choice” - such concepts
2644
02:10:15,239 --> 02:10:19,639
are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.
2645
02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:23,360
That the person is “bad”... or that person is a “serial killer”.
2646
02:10:23,439 --> 02:10:25,239
Serial killers are made
2647
02:10:25,239 --> 02:10:30,039
just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.
2648
02:10:30,279 --> 02:10:32,800
They become killing machines, but nobody
2649
02:10:32,800 --> 02:10:35,279
looks at them as murderers or assassins
2650
02:10:35,359 --> 02:10:37,239
because that's “natural”.
2651
02:10:37,439 --> 02:10:39,159
So we blame people.
2652
02:10:39,239 --> 02:10:42,199
We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews”.
2653
02:10:42,199 --> 02:10:45,279
No, he was brought up to torture Jews.
2654
02:10:45,319 --> 02:10:47,920
Once you accept the fact that people
2655
02:10:47,920 --> 02:10:50,760
have individual choices and they are free
2656
02:10:50,760 --> 02:10:53,280
to make those choices... Free to make
2657
02:10:53,279 --> 02:10:55,800
choices means without being influenced
2658
02:10:55,840 --> 02:10:58,119
and I can't understand that at all.
2659
02:10:58,199 --> 02:11:01,960
All of us are influenced in all of our choices
2660
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:05,000
by the culture we live in, by our parents
2661
02:11:05,039 --> 02:11:07,159
and by the values that dominate.
2662
02:11:07,239 --> 02:11:10,840
So, we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.
2663
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:13,520
What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:
2664
02:11:13,520 --> 02:11:16,080
I haven't been all over the world and I don't know
2665
02:11:16,119 --> 02:11:19,960
enough about different cultures to answer that question.'
2666
02:11:20,199 --> 02:11:22,399
I don't know anybody that speaks that way.
2667
02:11:22,399 --> 02:11:24,759
They say 'it's the good old USA!
2668
02:11:24,760 --> 02:11:26,239
the greatest country in the world!'
2669
02:11:26,239 --> 02:11:28,639
There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'
2670
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:30,079
Have you been to England?' - 'No.'
2671
02:11:30,079 --> 02:11:31,600
Have you been to France?' - 'No.'
2672
02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:33,520
Then what do you make your assumptions on?'
2673
02:11:33,520 --> 02:11:35,800
They can't answer- they get mad at you.
2674
02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:37,480
They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell
2675
02:11:37,479 --> 02:11:39,559
are you to tell me what to think?!'
2676
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,240
You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.
2677
02:11:42,319 --> 02:11:44,880
They are not responsible for the answers;
2678
02:11:44,880 --> 02:11:47,800
they're victims of culture and that means
2679
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:50,760
they have been influenced by their culture.
2680
02:12:09,199 --> 02:12:16,039
[Part 4: Rise]
2681
02:12:17,960 --> 02:12:20,079
When we consider a Resource-Based Economy
2682
02:12:20,079 --> 02:12:23,319
there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...
2683
02:12:23,359 --> 02:12:24,839
[EH!] (Interrupted)
2684
02:12:24,840 --> 02:12:26,680
[Eh! Hey!]
2685
02:12:26,680 --> 02:12:29,240
[Now hold on just a minute!]
2686
02:12:29,319 --> 02:12:33,559
[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]
2687
02:12:33,720 --> 02:12:38,280
[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]
2688
02:12:38,319 --> 02:12:41,799
[My father died in the Gulag!]
2689
02:12:41,800 --> 02:12:44,239
[Communist! Fascist!]
2690
02:12:44,319 --> 02:12:45,719
[You don't like America you should just leave!]
2691
02:12:45,720 --> 02:12:47,280
All right, everybody just calm down...
2692
02:12:47,359 --> 02:12:49,319
[Death to the New World Order!]
2693
02:12:49,319 --> 02:12:51,159
[Death to the New World Order!]
2694
02:12:51,199 --> 02:12:53,119
And as the irrationality of the
2695
02:12:53,119 --> 02:12:55,239
audience grew, shocked and confused:
2696
02:12:55,239 --> 02:12:58,239
suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.'
2697
02:12:59,560 --> 02:13:05,039
And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.
2698
02:13:05,960 --> 02:13:09,000
[System Error]
2699
02:13:10,760 --> 02:13:13,079
[Backup Initiated - Restored]
2700
02:13:13,680 --> 02:13:16,560
But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people
2701
02:13:16,560 --> 02:13:19,200
in 'think tank' type situations
2702
02:13:19,199 --> 02:13:23,119
you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...
2703
02:13:23,119 --> 02:13:24,640
they say ”Marxist!”
2704
02:13:24,680 --> 02:13:26,600
What? Marxist? Where did that come from?
2705
02:13:26,640 --> 02:13:30,400
They just got this icon they hold onto-
2706
02:13:30,399 --> 02:13:32,799
It's their Holy Grail
2707
02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:34,760
and it's such an easy one, you know.
2708
02:13:34,760 --> 02:13:38,239
People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist
2709
02:13:38,239 --> 02:13:40,559
I say I am none of the above. Why do you
2710
02:13:40,560 --> 02:13:42,760
think that those are the only options?
2711
02:13:42,840 --> 02:13:44,960
All of those political constructs
2712
02:13:44,960 --> 02:13:47,119
were created by writers who assumed
2713
02:13:47,199 --> 02:13:49,960
we lived on a planet of infinite resources.
2714
02:13:50,079 --> 02:13:53,000
Not one of those political philosophies even
2715
02:13:53,000 --> 02:13:56,640
contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.
2716
02:13:56,680 --> 02:14:01,000
I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism
2717
02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:03,720
are part of social evolution.
2718
02:14:03,720 --> 02:14:06,039
You can't take a giant step
2719
02:14:06,079 --> 02:14:07,920
from one culture to another-
2720
02:14:07,960 --> 02:14:09,800
there are in-between systems.
2721
02:14:09,800 --> 02:14:11,920
Before there's any “Ism”, we have a life ground
2722
02:14:11,920 --> 02:14:13,880
and the life ground is as I've just described
2723
02:14:13,880 --> 02:14:15,760
most easily as all the conditions
2724
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:17,480
required to take your next breath
2725
02:14:17,479 --> 02:14:19,879
and that involves the air you breathe
2726
02:14:19,880 --> 02:14:23,000
the water you get, the safety you have
2727
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:25,119
the education you can access- all
2728
02:14:25,119 --> 02:14:27,840
these things that we share and use and that
2729
02:14:27,840 --> 02:14:31,159
no life, in any culture, can do without.
2730
02:14:31,159 --> 02:14:34,880
So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground
2731
02:14:34,880 --> 02:14:37,600
and the life ground is no longer any “Ism”.
2732
02:14:37,600 --> 02:14:40,520
It's “life value analysis.”
2733
02:14:41,560 --> 02:14:43,480
[Beyond The Pale]
2734
02:14:43,680 --> 02:14:46,200
It's simply a matter of historical fact
2735
02:14:46,199 --> 02:14:48,639
that the dominant intellectual culture
2736
02:14:48,640 --> 02:14:50,960
of any particular society reflects the
2737
02:14:50,960 --> 02:14:53,880
interests of the dominant group in that society.
2738
02:14:54,000 --> 02:14:55,960
In a slave owning society
2739
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,119
the beliefs about human beings and human rights
2740
02:14:59,119 --> 02:15:02,559
and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.
2741
02:15:02,600 --> 02:15:05,400
In the society, again, which is based on
2742
02:15:05,399 --> 02:15:10,519
the power of certain people to control and profit from
2743
02:15:10,520 --> 02:15:13,680
the lives and work of millions of others
2744
02:15:13,760 --> 02:15:16,119
the dominant intellectual culture will
2745
02:15:16,119 --> 02:15:18,559
reflect the needs of the dominant group.
2746
02:15:18,600 --> 02:15:22,200
So, if you look across the board, the
2747
02:15:22,199 --> 02:15:25,239
ideas that pervade psychology and
2748
02:15:25,239 --> 02:15:28,239
sociology and history
2749
02:15:28,239 --> 02:15:30,880
and political economy and political science
2750
02:15:30,880 --> 02:15:34,600
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.
2751
02:15:34,600 --> 02:15:38,320
And the academics who question that too much
2752
02:15:38,319 --> 02:15:41,039
tend to get shunted to the side or
2753
02:15:41,039 --> 02:15:43,680
to be seen as sort of “radicals”.
2754
02:15:43,680 --> 02:15:45,760
The dominant values of a culture
2755
02:15:45,760 --> 02:15:47,840
tend to support and perpetuate
2756
02:15:47,840 --> 02:15:50,000
what is rewarded by that culture.
2757
02:15:50,119 --> 02:15:52,239
And in a society where success and
2758
02:15:52,239 --> 02:15:54,599
status is measured by material wealth
2759
02:15:54,640 --> 02:15:56,760
- not social contribution -
2760
02:15:56,840 --> 02:16:01,560
it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.
2761
02:16:01,560 --> 02:16:04,360
We are dealing with a value system disorder
2762
02:16:04,399 --> 02:16:06,159
- completely denatured -
2763
02:16:06,199 --> 02:16:08,840
where the priority of personal and social health
2764
02:16:08,840 --> 02:16:11,600
have become secondary to the detrimental
2765
02:16:11,600 --> 02:16:14,960
notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.
2766
02:16:15,079 --> 02:16:17,439
And, like a virus, this disorder now
2767
02:16:17,439 --> 02:16:19,759
permeates every facet of government
2768
02:16:19,800 --> 02:16:23,840
- news media - entertainment - and even academia.
2769
02:16:23,840 --> 02:16:25,760
And built into its structure
2770
02:16:25,800 --> 02:16:27,880
are mechanisms of protection
2771
02:16:27,880 --> 02:16:30,400
from anything that might interfere.
2772
02:16:30,439 --> 02:16:33,079
Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion
2773
02:16:33,079 --> 02:16:36,200
the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo
2774
02:16:36,200 --> 02:16:40,000
constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought
2775
02:16:40,120 --> 02:16:42,520
which might interfere with their beliefs.
2776
02:16:42,520 --> 02:16:46,680
The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.
2777
02:16:46,680 --> 02:16:49,520
If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.
2778
02:16:49,559 --> 02:16:52,639
If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist
2779
02:16:52,680 --> 02:16:55,239
and if you feel society can be greatly improved
2780
02:16:55,239 --> 02:16:57,159
to consider, perhaps - I don't know-
2781
02:16:57,159 --> 02:16:59,119
taking care of everyone?
2782
02:16:59,159 --> 02:17:01,319
you're just a “Utopianist”.
2783
02:17:01,399 --> 02:17:03,600
And the most insidious of them all:
2784
02:17:03,639 --> 02:17:06,039
if you are not for the "free-market"
2785
02:17:06,040 --> 02:17:08,760
you must be against freedom itself.
2786
02:17:08,840 --> 02:17:10,920
I'm a believer in freedom!
2787
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:12,800
Every time you hear the word freedom
2788
02:17:12,799 --> 02:17:15,000
being said anywhere or government interference
2789
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:19,520
said anywhere, it means, decoded:
2790
02:17:19,719 --> 02:17:23,319
blocking maximization of turning money
2791
02:17:23,319 --> 02:17:27,399
into more money for private money possessors.
2792
02:17:27,559 --> 02:17:29,519
That's it. Every other thing they'll say:
2793
02:17:29,520 --> 02:17:31,440
'Oh, we need more commodities for people';
2794
02:17:31,479 --> 02:17:35,600
'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth
2795
02:17:35,639 --> 02:17:38,359
every time you see it, you can decode it down to
2796
02:17:38,360 --> 02:17:41,200
that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation
2797
02:17:41,200 --> 02:17:42,640
with every time they use it.
2798
02:17:42,639 --> 02:17:45,680
And this, in a sense, we might call:
2799
02:17:45,680 --> 02:17:50,680
a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.
2800
02:17:50,680 --> 02:17:53,800
So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it
2801
02:17:53,799 --> 02:17:56,239
so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'
2802
02:17:56,239 --> 02:17:58,159
but in fact, that's what they do.
2803
02:17:58,159 --> 02:18:00,079
Just like you may speak a grammar
2804
02:18:00,200 --> 02:18:02,280
and you have rules of grammar you follow
2805
02:18:02,280 --> 02:18:04,360
without recognizing what the rules are...
2806
02:18:04,360 --> 02:18:08,400
and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”
2807
02:18:08,399 --> 02:18:11,719
that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:
2808
02:18:11,719 --> 02:18:15,199
government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'
2809
02:18:15,200 --> 02:18:17,800
or 'progress' or 'development'
2810
02:18:17,799 --> 02:18:22,759
you can decode them all to come back to mean that.
2811
02:18:22,959 --> 02:18:25,639
Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'
2812
02:18:25,639 --> 02:18:27,799
it tends to be in same sentence
2813
02:18:27,799 --> 02:18:30,199
with something called 'democracy'.
2814
02:18:30,239 --> 02:18:33,159
It's fascinating how people today seem to believe
2815
02:18:33,159 --> 02:18:35,319
that they actually have a relevant
2816
02:18:35,319 --> 02:18:37,680
influence on what their government does
2817
02:18:37,680 --> 02:18:40,200
forgetting that the very nature of
2818
02:18:40,200 --> 02:18:42,880
our system offers everything for sale.
2819
02:18:42,879 --> 02:18:45,679
The only vote that counts is the monetary vote
2820
02:18:45,680 --> 02:18:47,800
and it doesn't matter how much any
2821
02:18:47,799 --> 02:18:50,679
activist yells about ethics and accountability.
2822
02:18:50,680 --> 02:18:54,639
In a market system, every politician, every legislation
2823
02:18:54,719 --> 02:18:57,920
and hence, every government is for sale.
2824
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:01,520
And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts
2825
02:19:01,520 --> 02:19:03,640
starting in 2007
2826
02:19:03,639 --> 02:19:06,399
an amount of money which could have changed
2827
02:19:06,399 --> 02:19:08,639
say, the global energy infrastructure
2828
02:19:08,639 --> 02:19:10,399
to fully renewable methods
2829
02:19:10,440 --> 02:19:12,760
instead going to a series of institutions
2830
02:19:12,760 --> 02:19:14,960
that literally do nothing to help society
2831
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:16,879
institutions that could be
2832
02:19:16,879 --> 02:19:19,599
removed tomorrow with no recourse...
2833
02:19:19,600 --> 02:19:22,479
the blind conditioning that politics and
2834
02:19:22,479 --> 02:19:28,000
politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.
2835
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:31,079
The fact is, politics is a business
2836
02:19:31,120 --> 02:19:34,079
- no different than any other in a market system
2837
02:19:34,079 --> 02:19:38,200
and they care about their self-interest before anything else.
2838
02:19:38,399 --> 02:19:42,680
I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.
2839
02:19:42,680 --> 02:19:45,920
I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.
2840
02:19:45,920 --> 02:19:47,719
It accommodates these changes.
2841
02:19:47,719 --> 02:19:50,199
I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation
2842
02:19:50,200 --> 02:19:52,280
on the part of those who own the country.
2843
02:19:52,280 --> 02:19:55,040
I think they see where their self-interest lies;
2844
02:19:55,120 --> 02:19:57,880
they see a certain amount of freedom seems good
2845
02:19:57,879 --> 02:20:01,000
-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year
2846
02:20:01,079 --> 02:20:04,120
so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.
2847
02:20:04,120 --> 02:20:07,520
Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say
2848
02:20:07,559 --> 02:20:11,079
“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established
2849
02:20:11,079 --> 02:20:13,039
before the debate even begins and everyone
2850
02:20:13,040 --> 02:20:15,040
else is marginalized and made to seem either
2851
02:20:15,040 --> 02:20:17,760
to be communist or some sort of disloyal person
2852
02:20:17,760 --> 02:20:19,559
-a “kook”- there's a word...
2853
02:20:19,559 --> 02:20:21,879
and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that.
2854
02:20:21,879 --> 02:20:24,879
Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:
2855
02:20:24,920 --> 02:20:28,000
that powerful people might get together and have a plan!
2856
02:20:28,079 --> 02:20:33,039
Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! Your a “conspiracy buff”!
2857
02:20:33,639 --> 02:20:37,000
And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system
2858
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:39,880
there are two that repeatedly come up.
2859
02:20:40,120 --> 02:20:43,680
The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”
2860
02:20:43,719 --> 02:20:47,039
of the material progress we have seen on this planet.
2861
02:20:47,120 --> 02:20:49,040
Well...No.
2862
02:20:49,159 --> 02:20:51,799
There are basically two root causes which
2863
02:20:51,799 --> 02:20:54,639
have created the increased so-called “wealth”
2864
02:20:54,680 --> 02:20:57,399
and population growth we see today.
2865
02:20:57,520 --> 02:21:01,440
One: the exponential advancement of production technology;
2866
02:21:01,440 --> 02:21:03,960
hence scientific ingenuity.
2867
02:21:03,959 --> 02:21:08,759
And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy
2868
02:21:08,840 --> 02:21:13,360
-which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.
2869
02:21:13,479 --> 02:21:15,439
The free-market / capitalist / monetary
2870
02:21:15,440 --> 02:21:17,560
market system - whatever you want to call it -
2871
02:21:17,600 --> 02:21:21,200
has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents
2872
02:21:21,200 --> 02:21:24,720
with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard
2873
02:21:24,719 --> 02:21:30,239
grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.
2874
02:21:30,440 --> 02:21:33,840
The second defense is a belligerent social bias
2875
02:21:33,840 --> 02:21:36,159
generated from years of propaganda
2876
02:21:36,239 --> 02:21:38,799
which sees any other social system
2877
02:21:38,799 --> 02:21:41,239
as a route to so called "tyranny”
2878
02:21:41,319 --> 02:21:44,879
with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...
2879
02:21:44,879 --> 02:21:47,119
and the death tolls they generated.
2880
02:21:47,120 --> 02:21:50,160
Well, as despotic as these men might have been
2881
02:21:50,159 --> 02:21:53,559
along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...
2882
02:21:53,600 --> 02:21:55,720
when it comes to the game of death
2883
02:21:55,799 --> 02:21:57,920
- when comes to the systematic
2884
02:21:57,920 --> 02:22:00,159
daily mass murder of human beings -
2885
02:22:00,239 --> 02:22:04,680
Nothing in history compares to what we have today.
2886
02:22:04,920 --> 02:22:10,239
Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history
2887
02:22:10,319 --> 02:22:12,879
have not been caused by a lack of food.
2888
02:22:12,920 --> 02:22:16,000
They have been caused by relative poverty.
2889
02:22:16,120 --> 02:22:20,440
The economic resources were so inequitably distributed
2890
02:22:20,479 --> 02:22:23,719
that the poor simply didn't have enough money
2891
02:22:23,760 --> 02:22:26,399
with which to buy the food that would've been
2892
02:22:26,399 --> 02:22:29,359
available if they could have afforded to pay for it.
2893
02:22:29,559 --> 02:22:32,359
That would be an example of Structural Violence.
2894
02:22:32,360 --> 02:22:36,960
Another example: in Africa and other areas-
2895
02:22:36,959 --> 02:22:39,559
I'll particularly focus on Africa-
2896
02:22:39,559 --> 02:22:42,639
tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.
2897
02:22:42,639 --> 02:22:44,559
Why are they dying?
2898
02:22:44,639 --> 02:22:47,239
It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.
2899
02:22:47,319 --> 02:22:51,119
We have millions of people in the wealthy countries
2900
02:22:51,280 --> 02:22:54,600
getting along remarkably well because
2901
02:22:54,840 --> 02:22:57,159
they have the medicines that will treat it.
2902
02:22:57,159 --> 02:23:00,159
The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS
2903
02:23:00,159 --> 02:23:03,079
are not dying because of the HIV virus...
2904
02:23:03,079 --> 02:23:06,000
they are dying because they don't have the money with
2905
02:23:06,000 --> 02:23:08,920
which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.
2906
02:23:09,120 --> 02:23:10,960
Gandhi saw this. He said:
2907
02:23:11,040 --> 02:23:16,080
“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”
2908
02:23:16,239 --> 02:23:17,959
And that's absolutely right.
2909
02:23:18,079 --> 02:23:22,959
Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;
2910
02:23:23,079 --> 02:23:25,520
more people than all the murderers in history;
2911
02:23:25,520 --> 02:23:28,560
more than all the suicides in history...
2912
02:23:28,559 --> 02:23:32,079
not only does Structural Violence kill more people
2913
02:23:32,159 --> 02:23:35,200
than all the behavioral violence put together
2914
02:23:35,360 --> 02:23:38,159
Structural Violence is also the
2915
02:23:38,159 --> 02:23:40,920
main cause of behavioral violence.
2916
02:23:42,840 --> 02:23:45,680
[Beyond the Peak]
2917
02:23:46,639 --> 02:23:50,639
Oil is the foundation of
2918
02:23:51,159 --> 02:23:55,479
and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.
2919
02:23:55,479 --> 02:23:59,639
There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy –oil and natural gas–
2920
02:23:59,680 --> 02:24:03,800
in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.
2921
02:24:03,879 --> 02:24:06,599
Fertilizers are made from natural gas.
2922
02:24:06,600 --> 02:24:08,640
Pesticides are made from oil.
2923
02:24:08,760 --> 02:24:11,559
You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate – harvest
2924
02:24:11,559 --> 02:24:14,039
transport - package. You wrap the food
2925
02:24:14,040 --> 02:24:16,680
in plastic – that's oil. All plastic is oil.
2926
02:24:16,799 --> 02:24:19,399
There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.
2927
02:24:19,440 --> 02:24:22,600
Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because
2928
02:24:22,600 --> 02:24:24,920
of oil that there are 7 billion people or
2929
02:24:24,959 --> 02:24:27,599
almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.
2930
02:24:27,920 --> 02:24:30,159
The arrival of this cheap and easy energy
2931
02:24:30,200 --> 02:24:32,280
which is equivalent, by the way, to
2932
02:24:32,280 --> 02:24:35,920
billions of slaves working around the clock
2933
02:24:36,159 --> 02:24:39,959
changed the world in such a radical way over the last century
2934
02:24:40,040 --> 02:24:43,360
and the population has gone up 10 times.
2935
02:24:43,360 --> 02:24:47,560
But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support
2936
02:24:47,719 --> 02:24:49,840
less than half the present world's
2937
02:24:49,840 --> 02:24:52,079
population in their present way of life.
2938
02:24:52,079 --> 02:24:57,239
So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.
2939
02:24:57,280 --> 02:25:01,200
The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
2940
02:25:01,200 --> 02:25:03,040
Five years ago it was using four
2941
02:25:03,040 --> 02:25:05,360
barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.
2942
02:25:05,440 --> 02:25:07,200
A year from now it is going to be using
2943
02:25:07,200 --> 02:25:09,240
eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.
2944
02:25:09,239 --> 02:25:11,360
What's disturbing to me is the
2945
02:25:11,440 --> 02:25:16,159
lack of any real effort from governments worldwide
2946
02:25:16,200 --> 02:25:19,880
and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.
2947
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:24,040
We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power
2948
02:25:24,040 --> 02:25:26,600
and to maybe do something with Tide...
2949
02:25:26,719 --> 02:25:31,119
we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient
2950
02:25:31,200 --> 02:25:33,560
but there's nothing which really looks like a
2951
02:25:33,559 --> 02:25:36,159
revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor
2952
02:25:36,200 --> 02:25:38,360
and that I think is pretty frightening.
2953
02:25:38,399 --> 02:25:42,000
And the governments who are driven by these economists
2954
02:25:42,000 --> 02:25:45,079
who don't really appreciate what we're talking about
2955
02:25:45,159 --> 02:25:50,280
are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity
2956
02:25:50,280 --> 02:25:52,640
in the hope that they can restore the past.
2957
02:25:52,639 --> 02:25:56,559
They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.
2958
02:25:56,639 --> 02:25:58,680
So, if the economy improves and
2959
02:25:58,680 --> 02:26:01,319
recovers and the famous growth comes back
2960
02:26:01,319 --> 02:26:03,479
it will only be short-lived because
2961
02:26:03,559 --> 02:26:07,039
within a short period of time counted in months
2962
02:26:07,040 --> 02:26:10,920
rather than years it will hit the supply barrier again;
2963
02:26:11,000 --> 02:26:12,639
there will be another price shock-
2964
02:26:12,680 --> 02:26:14,600
and a deeper recession. So I think
2965
02:26:14,600 --> 02:26:16,680
we go into a series of vicious circles
2966
02:26:16,680 --> 02:26:18,760
So you have the economic growth going up- price
2967
02:26:18,760 --> 02:26:21,120
spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.
2968
02:26:21,200 --> 02:26:24,760
Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this
2969
02:26:24,760 --> 02:26:28,680
area where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.
2970
02:26:28,680 --> 02:26:31,600
We're at the peak- were on the down slope of oil production.
2971
02:26:31,719 --> 02:26:35,359
No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster
2972
02:26:35,440 --> 02:26:39,399
which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops
2973
02:26:39,399 --> 02:26:45,079
which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”
2974
02:26:45,079 --> 02:26:47,000
the price of oil starts to come back.
2975
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:49,040
It's recently been hovering at about $80
2976
02:26:49,319 --> 02:26:51,600
a barrel and what we see is that at even at $80 a
2977
02:26:51,600 --> 02:26:53,920
barrel now, with the financial and economic collapse
2978
02:26:54,000 --> 02:26:55,959
people are having a hard time affording that.
2979
02:26:55,959 --> 02:27:00,679
World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.
2980
02:27:00,840 --> 02:27:04,200
Over 10 years, you're looking at
2981
02:27:04,319 --> 02:27:08,440
roughly 14 million barrels a day having to be replaced.
2982
02:27:08,639 --> 02:27:11,959
There's nothing around which can come even
2983
02:27:12,079 --> 02:27:14,959
within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.
2984
02:27:14,959 --> 02:27:17,399
If we don't do something pretty quickly
2985
02:27:17,479 --> 02:27:20,799
there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.
2986
02:27:20,799 --> 02:27:24,920
I think the big mistake is in not recognizing
2987
02:27:24,920 --> 02:27:28,840
a decade or so ago that a concerted effort
2988
02:27:28,879 --> 02:27:30,279
needed to be made to develop
2989
02:27:30,280 --> 02:27:31,960
these sustainable forms of energy.
2990
02:27:31,959 --> 02:27:35,439
I think that's something our grandchildren will look back on with
2991
02:27:35,479 --> 02:27:39,600
total disbelief. 'You people knew you
2992
02:27:39,600 --> 02:27:42,120
were dealing with a finite commodity...
2993
02:27:42,239 --> 02:27:45,479
how could you possibly have build your economy
2994
02:27:45,479 --> 02:27:48,719
around something which was going to disappear?'
2995
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:50,920
For the first time in human history
2996
02:27:51,079 --> 02:27:54,799
the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource
2997
02:27:54,920 --> 02:27:57,600
central to our current system of survival.
2998
02:27:57,600 --> 02:27:59,960
And the punchline of the whole thing is
2999
02:27:59,959 --> 02:28:02,279
that even with oil becoming more scarce
3000
02:28:02,280 --> 02:28:05,320
the economic system will still blindly push
3001
02:28:05,399 --> 02:28:07,399
its cancerous growth model...
3002
02:28:07,440 --> 02:28:10,600
so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars
3003
02:28:10,719 --> 02:28:15,959
to generate GDP and jobs... exasperating the decline.
3004
02:28:16,079 --> 02:28:18,159
Are there solutions to replace the
3005
02:28:18,159 --> 02:28:20,239
edifice of the hydrocarbon economy?
3006
02:28:20,239 --> 02:28:21,479
Of course.
3007
02:28:21,719 --> 02:28:24,079
But the path needed to accomplish these changes
3008
02:28:24,120 --> 02:28:28,480
will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required
3009
02:28:28,479 --> 02:28:30,799
since new solutions can only be
3010
02:28:30,840 --> 02:28:33,799
implemented through the Profit Mechanism.
3011
02:28:33,959 --> 02:28:36,639
People are not investing in renewable energies
3012
02:28:36,639 --> 02:28:40,000
because there is no money in it in both long and short term.
3013
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:42,559
And the commitment needed to make it happen
3014
02:28:42,559 --> 02:28:45,600
can only occur at a severe financial loss.
3015
02:28:45,600 --> 02:28:48,800
Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this
3016
02:28:48,799 --> 02:28:53,279
system, if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.
3017
02:28:53,639 --> 02:28:55,920
And on top of it all, Peak Oil is
3018
02:28:55,920 --> 02:28:58,520
just one of many surfacing consequences
3019
02:28:58,559 --> 02:29:02,879
of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.
3020
02:29:02,879 --> 02:29:05,199
Other declines include Fresh Water
3021
02:29:05,239 --> 02:29:07,360
-the very fabric of our existence-
3022
02:29:07,440 --> 02:29:09,079
which is currently showing
3023
02:29:09,079 --> 02:29:11,479
shortages for 2.8 billion people
3024
02:29:11,600 --> 02:29:16,120
and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.
3025
02:29:16,360 --> 02:29:17,800
Food Production:
3026
02:29:17,920 --> 02:29:21,920
The destruction of arable crop land, from which
3027
02:29:21,920 --> 02:29:24,600
99.7% of all human food comes from today
3028
02:29:24,719 --> 02:29:29,079
is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished
3029
02:29:29,280 --> 02:29:31,800
and over the last 40 years, 30% of the
3030
02:29:31,799 --> 02:29:34,399
arable land has become unproductive.
3031
02:29:34,520 --> 02:29:37,600
Not to mention that hydrocarbons are the backbone
3032
02:29:37,600 --> 02:29:40,360
of agriculture today and as it declines...
3033
02:29:40,399 --> 02:29:42,559
so will the food supply.
3034
02:29:42,680 --> 02:29:44,399
As far as resources in general
3035
02:29:44,399 --> 02:29:47,719
at our current patterns of consumption, by 2030
3036
02:29:47,719 --> 02:29:51,039
we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.
3037
02:29:51,040 --> 02:29:53,360
Not to mention the continual destruction
3038
02:29:53,360 --> 02:29:55,880
of life supporting biodiversity
3039
02:29:55,879 --> 02:29:57,719
causing extinction spasms and
3040
02:29:57,719 --> 02:30:00,639
environmental destabilization across the globe.
3041
02:30:00,719 --> 02:30:02,639
And with all of these declines
3042
02:30:02,639 --> 02:30:05,359
we have the near exponential population growth
3043
02:30:05,360 --> 02:30:08,079
where by 2030 there might be over
3044
02:30:08,079 --> 02:30:10,639
8 billion people on this planet.
3045
02:30:10,799 --> 02:30:13,679
Energy production alone would need to
3046
02:30:13,680 --> 02:30:17,639
increase 44% by 2030 to meet such demand.
3047
02:30:17,639 --> 02:30:22,079
And again, since money is the only initiator of action-
3048
02:30:22,120 --> 02:30:24,120
are we to expect that any country on
3049
02:30:24,120 --> 02:30:26,240
the planet is going to be able to afford
3050
02:30:26,440 --> 02:30:29,840
the massive changes needed to revolutionize agriculture
3051
02:30:29,840 --> 02:30:33,040
water processing, energy production and the like?
3052
02:30:33,079 --> 02:30:35,000
When the global debt pyramid scheme is
3053
02:30:35,000 --> 02:30:37,840
slowly shutting the entire world down...
3054
02:30:37,840 --> 02:30:39,280
Not to mention the fact that
3055
02:30:39,280 --> 02:30:40,960
the unemployment you currently see
3056
02:30:40,959 --> 02:30:43,159
is going to become normality due to
3057
02:30:43,159 --> 02:30:45,680
the nature of technological unemployment.
3058
02:30:45,760 --> 02:30:48,479
The jobs are not coming back.
3059
02:30:48,479 --> 02:30:50,920
And finally, a broad social perspective.
3060
02:30:50,959 --> 02:30:53,839
From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this
3061
02:30:53,840 --> 02:30:56,840
planet doubled due to this system...
3062
02:30:56,840 --> 02:30:58,639
and given our current state-
3063
02:30:58,639 --> 02:31:00,559
do you honestly think we will see
3064
02:31:00,600 --> 02:31:02,600
anything less than more doubling...
3065
02:31:02,600 --> 02:31:06,559
more suffering and more mass starvation?
3066
02:31:06,639 --> 02:31:08,159
[The Beginning]
3067
02:31:08,559 --> 02:31:11,159
There is not going to be any recovery.
3068
02:31:11,159 --> 02:31:13,239
This is not some long depression
3069
02:31:13,239 --> 02:31:15,719
that we're some day going to pull out of.
3070
02:31:15,840 --> 02:31:18,159
I think the next phase that we are going to see after the
3071
02:31:18,159 --> 02:31:20,920
next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.
3072
02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:23,120
When unemployment checks stop being
3073
02:31:23,120 --> 02:31:25,640
paid because the states have no money left.
3074
02:31:25,920 --> 02:31:29,879
And when things get so bad that people lose confidence
3075
02:31:29,920 --> 02:31:33,719
in their elected leaders, they will demand change
3076
02:31:33,799 --> 02:31:36,719
if we don't kill each other in the process
3077
02:31:36,719 --> 02:31:38,639
or destroy the environment.
3078
02:31:38,680 --> 02:31:43,280
I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return...
3079
02:31:43,479 --> 02:31:45,680
and that bothers me to no end.
3080
02:31:45,719 --> 02:31:49,879
We do all we can to avoid that condition.
3081
02:31:50,559 --> 02:31:56,359
It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life...
3082
02:31:56,719 --> 02:31:59,639
That what we face now is this fundamental
3083
02:31:59,639 --> 02:32:03,279
change of the life we've known over the last century.
3084
02:32:03,479 --> 02:32:06,399
There has to be a link between the economy and
3085
02:32:06,399 --> 02:32:08,399
the resources of this planet
3086
02:32:08,440 --> 02:32:11,800
the resources being, of course, all animal and plant life;
3087
02:32:11,799 --> 02:32:14,719
the health of the oceans and everything else.
3088
02:32:15,200 --> 02:32:18,280
This is a monetary paradigm that will not
3089
02:32:18,280 --> 02:32:21,640
let go until it's killed the last human being.
3090
02:32:22,639 --> 02:32:27,159
The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power
3091
02:32:27,239 --> 02:32:29,719
and that's what you've got to keep in mind.
3092
02:32:29,719 --> 02:32:32,359
They'll use the army and navy and lies..
3093
02:32:32,399 --> 02:32:35,799
or whatever they have to use to keep in power.
3094
02:32:35,840 --> 02:32:37,920
They're not about to give it up
3095
02:32:37,920 --> 02:32:43,040
because they don't know of any other system that will perpetuate their kind.
3096
02:33:38,479 --> 02:33:41,319
[Live from New York]
3097
02:33:52,280 --> 02:34:00,600
[Global Protests Shut Down World Economy]
3098
02:34:07,040 --> 02:34:10,400
[London-Live]
3099
02:34:10,399 --> 02:34:13,359
[China-Live]
3100
02:34:13,399 --> 02:34:15,920
[South Africa - Live]
3101
02:34:15,920 --> 02:34:20,120
[Spain - Live]
3102
02:34:20,120 --> 02:34:23,920
[Russian - Live]
3103
02:34:23,920 --> 02:34:29,399
[Canada - Live]
3104
02:34:29,399 --> 02:34:34,719
[Saudi Arabia - Live]
3105
02:34:48,920 --> 02:34:51,479
[Western Crime Rates Soar]
3106
02:34:51,479 --> 02:34:54,119
[UN Declares State of Global Emergency]
3107
02:34:54,120 --> 02:34:56,800
[Global Unemployment Hits 65%]
3108
02:34:56,799 --> 02:34:59,920
[Fears of World War Continue]
3109
02:34:59,920 --> 02:35:02,479
[Debt Collapse now causing food shortages]
3110
02:36:54,319 --> 02:36:59,760
[Take it Back]
3111
02:37:29,799 --> 02:37:33,319
[While no violence has been reported as
3112
02:37:33,319 --> 02:37:36,639
the unprecedented protests continue...
3113
02:37:36,639 --> 02:37:40,039
it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars
3114
02:37:40,040 --> 02:37:43,200
are being systematically withdrawn from bank accounts
3115
02:37:43,200 --> 02:37:45,520
across the world and in turn..
3116
02:37:45,520 --> 02:37:49,239
evidently now being dumped in
3117
02:37:49,239 --> 02:37:53,319
front of the world's central banks.]
3118
02:38:49,079 --> 02:38:54,120
[THIS IS YOUR WORLD]
3119
02:38:56,879 --> 02:39:02,399
[THIS IS OUR WORLD]
3120
02:39:04,559 --> 02:39:10,279
[THE REVOLUTION IS NOW]
3121
02:39:13,079 --> 02:39:20,039
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