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In a decaying society, Art

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if it is truthful, must also reflect decay.

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And unless it wants to break faith with its social function

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Art must show the world as changeable.

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And help to change it.

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-Ernst Fischer

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Deadly riots over the government's

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plan to avoid defaulting on its loans...

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is that the unemployment keeps

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rising and it has to keep rising

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just because we have an excess supply of goods...

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this is all borrowed money...

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and that debt is owned by banks in other countries...

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M-O-N-E-Y, in the form of a convenient personal loan...

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... filter cigarette that delivers the taste...

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45 malt liquor... Are You Hot?!...

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is the US planning to bomb Iran?...

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...America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran...

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Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person.

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She taught me how to play the game Monopoly.

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She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.

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She would accumulate everything she could and

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eventually, she became the master of the board.

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And then she would always say the same thing to me.

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She would look at me and she would say:

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“One day, you'll learn to play the game.”

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One summer I played Monopoly almost every day, all day long

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and that summer, I learned to play the game.

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I came to understand that the only way to win

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is to make a total commitment to acquisition.

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I came to understand that money and possessions...

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that's the way that you keep score.

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And by the end of that summer

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I was more ruthless than my grandmother.

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I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game...

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and I sat down with her to play that fall.

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I took everything she had. I watched her

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give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.

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And then she had one more thing to teach me.

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Then she said:

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“Now it all goes back in the box.

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All those houses and hotels.

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All the railroads and utility companies...

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All that property and all that wonderful money...

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Now it all goes back in the box.

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None of it was really yours.

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You got all heated up about it for a while.

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But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board

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and it will be here after you're gone - players come - players go.

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Houses and cars...

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Titles and clothes...

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Even your body.”

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Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard

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is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all.

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So you have to ask yourself

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when you finally get the ultimate promotion

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when you have made the ultimate purchase

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when you buy the ultimate home

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when you have stored up financial security

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and climbed the ladder of success to the

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highest rung you can possibly climb it...

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and the thrill wears off

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- and it will wear off -

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Then what?

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How far do you have to walk down that road

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before you see where it leads?

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Surely you understand

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it will never be enough.

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So you have to ask yourself the question:

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What matters?

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They're Hot!

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They're Rich!

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And They're Spoiled!

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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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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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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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“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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and relationships that are not

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safe enough to open up to vulnerability

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and hence their responses tend

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to be to keep themselves separate from

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really intimate relationships;

544
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,040
not to trust caregivers

545
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,000
doctors and other people who are trying to help them

546
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,040
and generally see the world as an unsafe place...

547
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:24,840
and that is strictly a function of implicit memory

548
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,400
which sometimes has to do with incidents they don't even recall.

549
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,840
[Touch]

550
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,760
Infants who are born premature or often in incubators

551
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,240
and various types of gadgetry and

552
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,080
machinery for weeks and perhaps months,

553
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,640
it's now known that if these

554
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,040
children are touched and stroked on the back

555
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,600
for just 10 minutes a day that promotes their brain development.

556
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,440
So, human touch is essential for development

557
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,320
and, in fact, infants who are never picked up will actually die.

558
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,760
That is how much of a fundamental

559
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,280
need being held is to human beings.

560
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,240
In our society, there is an unfortunate tendency

561
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,000
to tell parents not to pick up their kids, not to hold them

562
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,920
not to pick up babies who are crying for fear of spoiling them

563
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,040
or to encourage them to sleep through the night

564
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,200
you don't pick them up...

565
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,600
which is just the opposite of what the child needs

566
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,920
and these children might go back to sleep because they give up

567
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,320
and their brains just shut down as a

568
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,000
way of defending against the vulnerability

569
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,960
of being abandoned really by their parents

570
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,760
but their implicit memories will be

571
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,880
that of the world that doesn't give a damn.

572
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,440
[Childhood]

573
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,800
A lot of these differences are structured very early in life.

574
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,120
In a way, the parental experience of adversity

575
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,960
how tough life is or how easy it is

576
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,760
is passed on to children

577
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,280
whether through maternal depression

578
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,840
or parents being bad tempered with

579
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,760
their kids because they have had a hard day

580
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,520
or just being too tired at the end of the day...

581
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,040
and these have very powerful effects programming

582
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,840
children's development, which we know a lot about now

583
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,760
But that early sensitivity isn't just an evolutionary mistake.

584
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,400
It exists again in many different species.

585
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,560
Even in seedlings there's an early adaptive process

586
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,680
to the kind of environment they are growing up in

587
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:28,200
but for humans, the adaptation is to the quality of social relations.

588
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,040
And so, early life:

589
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,160
how nurturing, how much conflict, how much attention you get

590
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,160
is a taster of the kind of world you may be growing up in.

591
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,720
Are you growing up in a world where

592
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,360
you have to fight for what you can get;

593
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,320
watch your back; fend for yourself; learn not to trust others?...

594
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,320
or are you growing up in a society where you depend on

595
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,200
reciprocity, mutuality, cooperation, where empathy is important

596
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,040
where your security depends on good relations with other people?...

597
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,160
and that needs a very different

598
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,480
emotional and cognitive development

599
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,640
and that's what the early sensitivity is about

600
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,600
and parenting is almost, quite unconsciously

601
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,920
a system for passing on that experience to children...

602
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,520
of the kind of world they are in.

603
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,240
The great British child psychiatrist, DW Winnicott, said

604
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,320
that fundamentally, two things can go wrong in childhood.

605
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,440
One is when things happen that shouldn't happen

606
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,560
and then things that should happen but don't.

607
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,520
In the first category, is the dramatic, abusive

608
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,040
and abandonment experiences of my

609
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,480
downtown Eastside patients and of many addicts.

610
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,080
That's what shouldn't happen but did.

611
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,040
But then there is the non-stressed

612
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,600
attuned, non-distracted attention

613
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,280
of the parent that every child needs

614
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,200
that very often children don't get.

615
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,240
They're not abused. They are not neglected

616
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,920
and they're not traumatized

617
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,640
but what should happen

618
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,880
the presence of the emotionally available nurturing parent

619
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,200
just is not available to them because of the

620
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,560
stresses in our society and the parenting environment.

621
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:14,080
The psychologist Allan Surer calls that "Proximal Abandonment"

622
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,120
when the parent is physically present

623
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,320
but emotionally absent.

624
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,160
I have spent...

625
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,360
roughly the last 40 years of my life

626
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,880
working with the most violent of people our society produces:

627
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160
murderers, rapists and so on.

628
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,960
In an attempt to understand what causes this violence.

629
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,440
I discovered that the most violent of the criminals in our prisons

630
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440
had themselves been victims

631
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,240
of a degree of child abuse that was beyond the scale of

632
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,120
what I ever thought of applying the term child abuse to.

633
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,560
I had no idea of the depth

634
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,560
of the depravity with which children in our society

635
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,560
are all too often treated.

636
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,480
The most violent people I saw were themselves the survivors

637
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,600
of their own attempted murder often at the hands of their parents

638
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080
or other people in their social environment

639
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,520
or were the survivors of family members who had been killed

640
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,480
their closest family members, by other people.

641
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,760
The Buddha argued that everything depends on everything else.

642
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,760
He says 'the one contains the many and the many contains the one'.

643
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,280
That you can't understand anything in isolation from its environment.

644
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:37,880
The leaf contains the sun, the sky and the earth, obviously.

645
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,040
This has now been shown to be true, of course

646
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,360
all around and specifically when it comes to human development.

647
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,920
The modern scientific term for it

648
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,680
is the "bio psycho social" nature of human development

649
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,000
which says that the biology of human beings

650
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,400
depends very much on their interaction with

651
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,560
the social and psychological environment.

652
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:02,320
Specifically, the psychiatrist and researcher

653
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,840
Daniel Siegel at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA

654
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,040
has coined a phrase “Interpersonal Neurobiology”

655
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,320
which means to say that the way

656
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,640
that our nervous system functions

657
00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:17,440
depends very much on our personal relationships.

658
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,320
In the first place with the parenting caregivers and in the

659
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
second place with other important attachment figures in our lives

660
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,080
and in the third-place, with our entire culture.

661
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,280
So that you can't separate the

662
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,040
neurological functioning of a human being

663
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,960
from the environment in which he or she grew up in

664
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,560
and continues to exist in

665
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,240
and this is true throughout the lifecycle.

666
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,120
It's particularly true when you are

667
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,760
dependent and helpless when your brain is developing

668
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,840
but it's true even in adults and even at the end of life.

669
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,080
[Culture]

670
00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:56,760
Human beings have lived in almost every kind of society.

671
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,560
From the most egalitarian... hunting and gathering societies

672
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,560
seem to have been very egalitarian

673
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,480
for instance, based on food sharing, gift exchange...

674
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,760
Small bands of people living predominately

675
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,000
off of foraging and a little bit of hunting

676
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,240
predominantly among people you have

677
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,280
at the least, known your entire life

678
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,120
if not surrounded by third cousins or closer;

679
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,120
in a world in which there is a great

680
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,240
deal of fluidity between different groups;

681
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:25,960
in a world which there is not a

682
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,080
whole lot in terms of material culture...

683
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,920
this is how humans have spent most of their hominid history.

684
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,520
And no surprise, that makes for a very different world.

685
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,920
One of the things you get as a result of that is far less violence.

686
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,080
Organized group violence is not

687
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,200
something that occurred at that time

688
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,840
of human history and that seems quite clear.

689
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,600
So where did we go wrong?

690
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,440
Violence is not universal.

691
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,320
It is not symmetrically distributed throughout the human race.

692
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,960
There is a huge variation in the amount of violence in different societies.

693
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,240
There are some societies that have virtually no violence.

694
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,800
There are others that destroy themselves.

695
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,160
Some of the Anabaptist religious

696
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,320
groups that are complete strict pacifists

697
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,200
like the Amish, the Mennonites, the Hutterites...

698
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,400
among some of these groups, the Hutterites

699
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,400
there are no recorded cases of homicide.

700
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,600
During our major wars, like World War II

701
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,600
where people were being drafted

702
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,960
they would refuse to serve in the military.

703
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,720
They would go to prison rather than serve in the military

704
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,360
In the Kibbutzim in Israel

705
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,920
the level of violence is so low that the criminal courts there

706
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,600
will often send violent offenders

707
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,120
people who have committed crimes

708
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,120
to live on the Kibbutzim in order to

709
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,200
learn how to live a non-violent life...

710
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,520
because that's the way people live there.

711
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,240
So, we are amply shaped by society.

712
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:07,520
Our societies, in the broader sense including our theological

713
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,000
our metaphysical, our linguistic influences, etc.

714
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,840
our societies help shape us as to whether or not we think

715
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,080
life is basically about sin or about beauty;

716
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,800
whether the afterlife will carry a price for

717
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,200
how we live our lives or if it's irrelevant.

718
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,000
In a broad sort of way different large societies could

719
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,120
be termed as individualistic or

720
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,160
collectivist and you get very different people

721
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,920
and different mindsets and I suspect

722
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,680
different brains coming along with that.

723
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:40,040
We, in America, are in one of the most individualistic of societies.

724
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,920
With capitalism being a system that allows you to go

725
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,560
higher and higher up a potential pyramid and

726
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,520
the deal is that it comes with fewer and fewer safety nets.

727
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,080
By definition, the more stratified a society is

728
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,600
the fewer people you have as peers - the fewer people with whom

729
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,880
you have symmetrical, reciprocal relationships -

730
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,640
and instead, all you have are differing spots and endless hierarchies...

731
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,680
A world in which you have few reciprocal partners

732
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,160
is a world with a lot less altruism.

733
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
[Human Nature]

734
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,120
So, this brings us to a total impossible juncture which is

735
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,520
to try to make sense in perspective science...

736
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,200
as to what that nature is of human nature.

737
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,560
You know, on a certain level

738
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,240
the nature of our nature is not to be

739
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,920
particularly constrained by our nature.

740
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,840
We come up with more social

741
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,400
variability than any species out there.

742
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,760
More systems of belief, of styles of family structures

743
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,720
of ways of raising children. The capacity

744
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,720
for variety that we have is extraordinary.

745
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,480
In a society which is predicated on competition

746
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:01,040
and really, very often, the ruthless exploitation

747
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,000
of one human being by another

748
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,240
the profiteering off of other people's problems

749
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,560
and very often the creation of

750
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,520
problems for the purpose of profiteering

751
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,920
the ruling ideology will very often justify that behavior

752
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,960
by appeals to some fundamental and unalterable human nature.

753
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,720
So the myth in our society is

754
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,840
that people are competitive by nature

755
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,840
and that they are individualistic and that they're selfish.

756
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,120
The real reality is quite the opposite.

757
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,680
We have certain human needs.

758
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,440
The only way that you can talk about human nature concretely

759
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,240
is by recognizing that there are certain human needs.

760
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,400
We have a human need for companionship and for close contact

761
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,440
to be loved, to be attached to, to be accepted

762
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,880
to be seen, to be received for who we are.

763
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,040
If those needs are met, we develop

764
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,400
into people who are compassionate

765
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:58,360
and cooperative and who have empathy for other people.

766
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,960
So...

767
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,320
the opposite, that we often see in our

768
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,880
society is, in fact, a distortion of human nature

769
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,040
precisely because so few people have their needs met.

770
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,680
So, yes you can talk about human nature

771
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,120
but only in the sense of basic human needs

772
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,360
that are instinctively evoked

773
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,680
or I should say, certain human needs

774
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:21,520
that lead to certain traits if they are met

775
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,240
and a different set of traits if they are denied.

776
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,800
So...

777
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,880
when we recognize the fact that the human organism

778
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,440
which has a great deal of adaptive flexibility

779
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,800
allowing us to survive in many different conditions

780
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,120
is also rigidly programmed for certain environmental requirements

781
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,440
or human needs

782
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,520
a social imperative begins to emerge.

783
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,640
Just as our bodies require physical nutrients

784
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:55,040
the human brain demands positive forms of environmental stimulus

785
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,480
at all stages of development

786
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,000
while also needing to be protected

787
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,600
from other negative forms of stimulus.

788
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,400
And if things that should happen, do not...

789
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,120
or if things that shouldn't happen, do...

790
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,480
it is now apparent that the door can be opened for not only

791
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,600
a cascade of mental and physical diseases

792
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,000
but many detrimental human behaviors as well.

793
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,080
So, as we turn our perspective now outward

794
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,800
and take account for the state of affairs today

795
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,760
we must ask the question:

796
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,840
Is the condition we have created in the modern world

797
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,600
actually supporting our health?

798
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,120
Is the bedrock of our socioeconomic

799
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,280
system acting as a positive force

800
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,760
for human and social development and progress?

801
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,360
Or, is the foundational gravitation of our society

802
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,880
actually going against the core evolutionary requirements

803
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,400
needed to create and maintain

804
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,040
our personal and social well-being?

805
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,160
[Part II: Social Pathology]

806
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,000
So, one might ask where did this all begin?

807
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,640
What we have today... really a world in a state of

808
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,200
cumulative collapse.

809
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,560
[The Market]

810
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,280
You get it started with John Locke.

811
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,120
And John Locke introduces property.

812
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,800
He has three provisos for just private right and property.

813
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,640
And the three provisos are:

814
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,280
There must be enough left over for others

815
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,280
and that you must not let it spoil

816
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,920
and that you, most of all, must mix your labor with it.

817
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,320
It seems justified- you mix your labor with the world

818
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,480
then you are entitled to the product

819
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,280
and as long as there's enough left over for others

820
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,560
and as long as it doesn't spoil

821
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,080
and you don't allow anything to go to waste then that's okay.

822
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,320
He spends a long time on this and his famous treatise of government

823
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,240
and it's since been the canonical text

824
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,520
for economic and political and legal understanding.

825
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,640
It is still the classic text that's studied.

826
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,120
Well - after he gives the provisos

827
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,040
and you're almost thinking at the time whether you

828
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,520
are for private property or not

829
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,000
he has given a very good plausible and powerful defense

830
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,680
of private property here...

831
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:31,160
Well, he drops them!

832
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,920
He drops them like that. Right in one sentence.

833
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,960
He says, 'Well, once the introduction

834
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,520
of money came in by men's tacit consent

835
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,200
then it became...'

836
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,920
and he doesn't say all the provisos are canceled or erased-

837
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,080
but that's what happens.

838
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,200
So, now we have not

839
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,840
product and your property earned by your own labor-

840
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,720
oh no- money buys labor now.

841
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,440
There is no longer consideration

842
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,800
whether there is enough left over for others;

843
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,240
there is no longer consideration of whether it spoils

844
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:01,760
because he says money is like

845
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,560
silver and gold and gold can't spoil

846
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,080
and therefore money can't be responsible for waste...

847
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,560
which is ridiculous. We are not talking about money

848
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,880
and silver, we are talking about what its effects are.

849
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,440
It's one non sequitur after another.

850
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,640
Just the most startling

851
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,320
logical legerdemain that he gets away with here

852
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,160
but it fits the interests of capital owners.

853
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,920
Then Adam Smith comes along and what he adds

854
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,600
is the religion to this...

855
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,320
Locke started with God made it all this way

856
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,680
this is God's right

857
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,960
and now we get also with Smith

858
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,080
saying 'it's not only God's...'

859
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,840
well, he's not actually saying this but

860
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,480
this is what's happening philosophically, in principle

861
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,520
he's saying that 'it is not only a question of private property...'

862
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,000
That's all now 'presupposed'- It's Given!

863
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,960
And that there's 'money investors that buy labor' – Given!

864
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,080
There's no limit to how much they can buy of other men's labor

865
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,440
how much they can accumulate, how much 'inequality'-

866
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,280
that's all given now.

867
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,720
And so he comes along and what his big idea is

868
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:07,440
and again it's just introduced in parentheses, in passing...

869
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,680
You know, when people put out goods for sale - the supply

870
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:15,640
and other people buy them - the demand and so forth

871
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,640
how do we have supply equaling demand

872
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,160
or demand equaling supply?

873
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,040
how can they come into equilibrium?

874
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,880
and that is one of the central notions of economics

875
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,960
is how do they come into equilibrium...

876
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,320
and he says: it's the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

877
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,200
that brings them into equilibrium.

878
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,120
So, now we have "God is actually imminent”.

879
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,080
He just didn't give the rights to property

880
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:45,760
and all its wherewithal and its "natural rights"

881
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,280
regarding what Locke said...

882
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,000
now we have the system itself as "God".

883
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,280
In fact, Smith says, when he talks

884
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,520
and you have to read the whole of the

885
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,680
Wealth of Nations' to find this quote.

886
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,520
He says: 'the scantiness of subsistence

887
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,840
sets limits to the reproduction of the poor

888
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,960
and that nature can deal with this in no other way

889
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,200
than elimination of their children.'

890
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,960
So he anticipated evolutionary theory in the worst sense...

891
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,840
this is well before Darwin.

892
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,680
And so he called them the 'Race of Laborers'.

893
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,080
So you can see: there was inherent racism built-in here

894
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:32,280
there was an inherent life blindness to kill

895
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,800
innumerable children

896
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,960
and he thought: 'that's the Invisible Hand making supply

897
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,080
meet demand and demand meet supply.'

898
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,200
So, see how wise "God" is?

899
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,240
So you can see a lot of the really virulent

900
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:50,920
life destructive, eco-genocidal things

901
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,520
that are going on now have, in a way,

902
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,840
a 'thought gene' back in Smith too.

903
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,880
When we reflect on the original concept of

904
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,400
the so-called free market - capitalist system

905
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,200
as initiated by early economic philosophers

906
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,720
such as Adam Smith

907
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:12,800
we see that the original intent of a “market”

908
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,080
was based around real, tangible, life supporting goods for trade.

909
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,720
Adam Smith never fathomed that the most

910
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:22,160
profitable economic sector on the planet

911
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,080
would eventually be in the arena of financial trading

912
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,160
or so-called investment

913
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,720
where money itself is simply

914
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,640
gained by the movement of other money

915
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,120
in an arbitrary game which holds

916
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,440
zero productive merit to society.

917
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,160
Yet, regardless of Smith's intent

918
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,800
the door for such seemingly anomalous advents

919
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,600
was left wide open by one fundamental tenet of this theory:

920
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:50,080
Money is treated as a Commodity, in and of itself.

921
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,160
Today, in every economy of the world

922
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,760
regardless of the social system they claim

923
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,920
money is pursued for the sake of money and nothing else.

924
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,960
The underlying idea, which was mysteriously qualified

925
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,760
by Adam Smith with his religious declaration of the

926
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,800
'Invisible Hand'

927
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,480
is that the narrow, self-interested pursuit

928
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,360
of this fictional commodity

929
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,680
will somehow magically manifest

930
00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:18,360
human and social well-being and progress.

931
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,280
The reality is that the monetary incentive interest

932
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,040
or what some have termed the:“Money Sequence of Value”

933
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,200
has now completely decoupled from the foundational

934
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,000
'life interest', which could be termed the

935
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,480
'Life Sequence of Value.'

936
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,320
What has happened is that there is a complete confusion

937
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,440
in economic doctrine

938
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,400
between those two sequences.

939
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,880
They think that the Money Sequence of Value

940
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,000
delivers the Life Sequence of Value

941
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,720
and that's why they say if more goods are sold

942
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,720
If GDP's rise and so forth...

943
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,920
there would be more enhanced well-being

944
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,240
and we could take the GDP as being our basic layer indicator

945
00:48:58,320 --> 00:48:59,560
of social health...

946
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,240
Well, there you see the confusion.

947
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,360
It's talking about Money Sequences of Value

948
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,480
that is, all the receipts and all the revenues that are

949
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,120
derived from selling goods

950
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,920
and they're confusing that with life reproduction.

951
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,560
So, you have built right into this thing from the beginning

952
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,480
a complete conflation of the money

953
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,800
and life sequences of value.

954
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,360
So, we are dealing with a kind of structured delusion

955
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,480
which becomes more and more deadly

956
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,320
as the money sequence decouples from producing

957
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,840
anything at all.

958
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,240
So, it's a system disorder

959
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,600
and the system disorder seems to be fatal.

960
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,680
[Welcome to the Machine]

961
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,800
In society today, you seldom hear anyone speak

962
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,440
of the progress of their country or society

963
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,840
in terms of their physical well-being, state of happiness,

964
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,520
trust or social stability.

965
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,960
Rather, the measures are presented to us

966
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,840
through economic abstractions.

967
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,440
We have the gross domestic product, the consumer price index,

968
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,240
the value of the stock market, rates of inflation...

969
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:05,680
and so on.

970
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,160
But does this tell us anything of real value

971
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,000
as to the quality of people's lives?

972
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,440
No. All of these measures have to do with

973
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,840
the money sequence itself and nothing more.

974
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,040
For example, the Gross Domestic Product of a country

975
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,360
is a measure of the value of goods and services sold.

976
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,040
This measure is claimed to correlate to the

977
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,880
“standard of living” of a country's people.

978
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,880
In the United States health care accounted for over

979
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,960
17% of GDP in 2009

980
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,000
amounting to over 2.5 trillion spent.

981
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,800
Hence, creating a positive effect on this economic measure.

982
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,240
And, based on this logic

983
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:45,560
it would be even better for the US economy

984
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,160
if health care services increased more so...

985
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,000
perhaps to 3 trillion dollars... or 5 trillion

986
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,920
since that would create more growth

987
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,640
more jobs and hence boasted by economists

988
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,560
as a rise in their country's standard of living.

989
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:00,920
But wait a minute.

990
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,040
What do health care services actually represent?

991
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,240
Well, SICK AND DYING PEOPLE.

992
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,040
That's right- the more unhealthy people there are in America

993
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,000
the better the economy.

994
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:17,040
Now, that is not an exaggeration or a cynical perspective.

995
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,120
In fact, if we step back far enough

996
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,000
you will realize that the GDP

997
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,920
not only doesn't reflect real public or social health

998
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,800
on any tangible level

999
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,200
it is, in fact, mostly a measure

1000
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,240
of industrial inefficiency

1001
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,240
and social degradation.

1002
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,800
And the more you see it rise, the worse things are becoming

1003
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,240
with respect to personal, social

1004
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,760
and environmental integrity.

1005
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,320
You have to create problems to create profit.

1006
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,680
There is no profit under the current paradigm

1007
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,720
in saving lives, putting balance on this planet

1008
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,160
having justice and peace or anything else.

1009
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,640
There is just no profit there.

1010
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:57,600
There's an old saying-

1011
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,800
Pass a law and create a business'.

1012
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,520
Whether you are creating a business for a lawyer or whatever.

1013
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,920
So, crime does create

1014
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,400
business just like destruction creates

1015
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:08,760
business in Haiti.

1016
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,200
We have now roughly 2,000,000 people incarcerated

1017
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,480
in this country (USA)

1018
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,040
and of those many are in prisons run

1019
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,440
by private corporations:

1020
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,400
Corrections Corporation of America, Wackenhut

1021
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,120
who trade their stock on Wall Street

1022
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,080
based upon how many people are in jail.

1023
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,040
Now that's sickness.

1024
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,120
But that is a reflection of what

1025
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,560
this economic paradigm calls for.

1026
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,720
So what exactly does this economic paradigm call for?

1027
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,280
What is it that keeps our economic system going?

1028
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:40,720
Consumption.

1029
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,120
Or more accurately- Cyclical Consumption.

1030
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,560
When we break down the

1031
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,680
foundation of classic market economics

1032
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,360
we are left with a pattern of monetary exchange

1033
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,560
that simply cannot be allowed to stop

1034
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,640
or even substantially slowed

1035
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,240
if the society as we know it

1036
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:58,240
is to remain operational.

1037
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,200
There are three main actors on the economic stage:

1038
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,120
the employee, the employer

1039
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:04,520
and the consumer.

1040
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,880
The employee sells labor to the employer for income.

1041
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,000
The employer sells its production services, and hence goods,

1042
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,960
to the consumer for income

1043
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,560
and the consumer, of course, is simply another role

1044
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,760
of the employer and employee

1045
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,760
spending back into the system

1046
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,760
to enable the cyclical consumption to continue.

1047
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,280
In other words, the global market system is based on

1048
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,600
the assumption that there will always be enough

1049
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,760
product demand in a society

1050
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,160
to move enough money around at a rate

1051
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,960
which can keep the consumption process going.

1052
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,880
And the faster the rate of consumption

1053
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,400
the more so-called economic growth is assumed

1054
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,800
and so the machine goes...

1055
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,880
But, hold on-

1056
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,760
I thought an economy was meant to, I don't know...

1057
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,480
“Economize”?

1058
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,240
Doesn't the very term have to do with preservation

1059
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:54,600
and efficiency and a reduction of waste?

1060
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,160
So how does our system, which demands consumption

1061
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,680
and the more the better, efficiently preserve

1062
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,600
or “Economize” at all?

1063
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,720
Well... it doesn't.

1064
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,840
The intent of the market system is, in fact, the exact opposite

1065
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,280
of what a real economy is supposed to do,

1066
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,880
which is efficiently and conservatively orient

1067
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,960
the materials for production and distribution

1068
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,120
of life supporting goods.

1069
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:21,040
We live on a finite planet, with finite resources

1070
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,360
where, for example, the oil we utilize took

1071
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,360
millions of years to develop...

1072
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,320
where the minerals we use took billions of years to develop.

1073
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,920
So...having a system that deliberately promotes

1074
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,040
the acceleration of consumption

1075
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:38,200
for the sake of so-called “economic growth”

1076
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,880
is pure ecocidal insanity.

1077
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,000
Absence of waste, that's what efficiency is.

1078
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,920
Absence of waste?

1079
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,920
This system is more wasteful than all the other

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00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,720
existing systems in the history of the planet.

1081
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,600
Every level of life organization and life system

1082
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,080
is in a state of crisis and challenge

1083
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,400
and decay or collapse.

1084
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,440
No peer-reviewed journal in the last 30 years

1085
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,520
will tell you anything different:

1086
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:09,160
that is that every life system is in decline

1087
00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:11,320
as well as social programs...

1088
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,200
as well as our water access.

1089
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,520
Try to name any means of life that

1090
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,320
isn't threatened and endangered...

1091
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:18,440
You can't.

1092
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,840
There really isn't one and that's very, very despairing.

1093
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,760
But we haven't even figured out the causal mechanism.

1094
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,880
We don't want to face the causal mechanism.

1095
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,800
We just want to go on. You know that's where insanity is

1096
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,120
where you keep doing the same thing over and over again

1097
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,800
even though it clearly doesn't work.

1098
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,120
So you're really

1099
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,640
dealing with not an economic system

1100
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,840
but I would go so far as to say an anti-economic system.

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00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,200
[The Anti-Economy]

1102
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,480
There is an old saying that the competitive

1103
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,440
market model seeks to

1104
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:55,240
“create the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices”.

1105
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,560
This statement is essentially the incentive concept

1106
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,960
which justifies market competition

1107
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,840
based on the assumption that the result

1108
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,000
is the production of higher quality goods.

1109
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,960
If I was going to build myself a table from scratch

1110
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,440
I would naturally build it out of the best

1111
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,440
most durable materials possible, right?

1112
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,400
With the intent for it to last as long as possible.

1113
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,600
Why would I want to make something poor

1114
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,960
knowing I would have to eventually do it again

1115
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,120
and expend more materials and more energy?

1116
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,000
Well, as rational as that may seem in the physical world

1117
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,840
when it comes to the market world

1118
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,320
it is not only explicitly irrational

1119
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,200
it is not even an option.

1120
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,320
It is technically impossible to produce

1121
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:37,680
the best of anything

1122
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,480
if a company is to maintain a competitive edge

1123
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,120
and hence remain affordable to the consumer.

1124
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:45,920
Literally everything created and set for sale

1125
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,960
in the global economy is immediately inferior

1126
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,680
the moment it is produced

1127
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:53,280
for it is a mathematical impossibility

1128
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,400
to make the most scientifically advanced, efficient

1129
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,920
and strategically sustainable products.

1130
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,360
This is due to the fact that the market system

1131
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,880
requires that “cost efficiency”

1132
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:05,840
or the need to reduce expenses

1133
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,200
exists at every stage of production.

1134
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,480
From the cost of labor, to the cost

1135
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,720
of materials and packaging and so on.

1136
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,280
This competitive strategy, of course

1137
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,200
is to make sure the public buys their goods

1138
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,600
rather than from a competing producer

1139
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,800
...which is doing the exact same thing

1140
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,400
to also make their goods both competitive and affordable.

1141
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,240
This immutably wasteful consequence of the system

1142
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,040
could be termed: Intrinsic Obsolescence.

1143
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,480
However, this is only one part of a larger problem:

1144
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,560
A fundamental governing principle of market economics

1145
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,760
one you will not find in any textbook, by the way

1146
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,120
- is the following:

1147
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,080
“Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan

1148
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,200
longer than what can be endured

1149
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,560
in order to continue cyclical consumption.”

1150
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,760
In other words, it is critical that stuff breakdown,

1151
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,400
fail and expire within a certain amount of time.

1152
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,760
This is termed - “Planned obsolescence”.

1153
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,520
Planned obsolesce is the backbone of the underlying market

1154
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:11,040
strategy of every goods producing corporation in existence.

1155
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:12,640
While very few, of course

1156
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:14,800
would admit to such a strategy outright

1157
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,920
what they do is mask it within the

1158
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,160
Intrinsic Obsolescence phenomenon just discussed,

1159
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,760
while often ignoring, or even suppressing

1160
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,520
new advents in technology

1161
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,400
which might create a more sustainable, durable good.

1162
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,720
So, if it wasn't wasteful enough

1163
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,480
that the system inherently cannot allow the most

1164
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,240
durable and efficient goods to be produced,

1165
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,360
Planned Obsolescence deliberately

1166
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:41,400
recognizes that the longer any good is in operation

1167
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,680
the worse it is for sustaining cyclical consumption

1168
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,280
and hence the market system itself.

1169
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,160
In other words, product sustainability

1170
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,680
is actually inverse to economic growth

1171
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,040
and hence there is a direct, reinforced incentive

1172
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,120
to make sure life spans are short

1173
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,440
of any given good produced.

1174
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,160
And, in fact, the system cannot operate any other way.

1175
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,000
One glance at the sea of landfills now spreading across

1176
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,320
the world show the obsolescence reality.

1177
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,320
There are now billions of cheaply made cell phones

1178
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,160
computers and other technology

1179
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,320
each full of precious, difficult to mine materials

1180
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,480
such as gold, coltan, copper...

1181
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,600
now rotting in vast piles

1182
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,440
usually due to the mere malfunction or obsolescence

1183
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,320
of small parts which, in a conservative society

1184
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,280
could likely be fixed or updated

1185
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,560
and the life of the good extended.

1186
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,200
Unfortunately, as efficient as that may seem

1187
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,640
in our physical reality, living on a

1188
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,040
finite planet with finite resources,

1189
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,640
it is explicitly inefficient, with respect to the market.

1190
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:49,440
To put into a phrase:

1191
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,960
“Efficiency, Sustainability, and

1192
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:56,080
Preservation are the enemies of our economic system” .

1193
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,320
Likewise, just a physical goods need to be constantly

1194
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:00,840
produced and reproduced

1195
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,440
regardless of their environmental impact

1196
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,280
the service industry operates with an equal rational.

1197
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,240
The fact is, there is no monetary benefit

1198
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,560
to resolving any problems

1199
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,680
which are currently being serviced.

1200
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,000
At the end of the day

1201
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:19,040
the last thing the medical establishment really wants

1202
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,960
is the curing of diseases such as cancer

1203
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,560
which would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue.

1204
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:28,480
And since we are on the subject...

1205
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,320
Crime and Terrorism in this system are good!

1206
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,240
Well, at least economically...

1207
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,040
for it is employing police

1208
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,840
generating hi-value commodities for security

1209
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,760
not to mention the value of prisons

1210
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,560
that are privately owned - for profit.

1211
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:45,440
And how about war?

1212
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:49,360
The war industry in America is a huge driver of GDP -

1213
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,760
one of the most profitable industries -

1214
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,120
producing weapons of death and destruction.

1215
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,280
The favorite game of this industry is to blow things up

1216
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,000
and then can go and rebuild them, for profit.

1217
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,640
We saw this with the windfall billion dollar

1218
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,360
contracts made from the Iraq war.

1219
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,120
The bottom line is that socially negative

1220
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:10,720
attributes of society

1221
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,040
have become positively rewarded ventures for industry

1222
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,920
and any interest in problem resolution

1223
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,240
or environmental sustainability and conservation

1224
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:25,160
is intrinsically counter to economic sustainability.

1225
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:27,200
And this is why

1226
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,560
every time you see the GDP rise in any country

1227
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,400
you are witnessing an increase in necessity

1228
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,440
whether real or contrived

1229
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:39,320
and by definition, a necessity is rooted in inefficiency.

1230
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:44,000
Hence, increased necessity means increased inefficiency.

1231
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,040
[Value System Disorder]

1232
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,400
The American dream is based on

1233
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,880
the rampant consumerism.

1234
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,240
It is based upon the fact that

1235
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:54,800
mainstream media and

1236
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,800
especially commercial advertising

1237
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,080
- all corporations who need this infinite growth -

1238
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,640
have convinced us or brainwashed

1239
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,920
most people in America and the world

1240
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,960
that we have to have X number of material possessions

1241
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,360
and the possibility of gaining infinitely more

1242
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,840
material possessions, in order to be happy.

1243
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:15,720
That's just not true.

1244
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,600
So why do people continue to buy in this way

1245
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,040
which is ultimately eco-genocidal

1246
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,880
in its systemic effects cumulatively?

1247
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,760
And it just is classical & operant conditioning.

1248
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,080
You simply put inputs of conditioning into the organism

1249
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,560
and you have outputs of desired behaviors

1250
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,920
or goals or objectives.

1251
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,280
And it has all the resources of technology

1252
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:42,560
and they boast about how they

1253
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,200
get into the minds of infants

1254
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,360
what they hear is already making them

1255
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,360
conditioned to the brand.

1256
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,680
Then you see, that's how

1257
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:52,960
people have been such fools.

1258
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,200
They have been taught to be fools.

1259
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,520
It's a value system disorder.

1260
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,200
You know, if there is any testament to the plasticity

1261
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:03,480
of the human mind.

1262
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,560
If there is any proof to how malleable

1263
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,560
human thought is and how easily

1264
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,040
conditioned and guided people can become

1265
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:12,520
based on the nature of their environmental stimulus

1266
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,520
and what it reinforces:

1267
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,960
the world of commercial advertising is the proof.

1268
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,120
You have to stand in awe

1269
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,440
at the level of brainwashing

1270
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,440
where these programmed robots known as "consumers"

1271
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,360
wander the landscape

1272
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,680
only to walk into a store and spend, say

1273
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,560
4000$ on a handbag

1274
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,880
that likely cost 10 dollars to make

1275
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,920
in a sweatshop overseas.

1276
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,920
Only for the brand status it supposedly

1277
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,680
represents in the culture.

1278
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,480
Or perhaps the ancient communal traditions

1279
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,960
which increase trust and cohesiveness in society -

1280
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,560
which have now been hijacked by acquisitive

1281
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,360
materialistic values where now we annually

1282
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,080
exchange useless crap a few times a year.

1283
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,560
And we might wonder why so many today have a

1284
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,920
compulsion to shopping and acquisition

1285
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,240
when it is clear that they have conditioned from childhood

1286
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,120
to expect material goods

1287
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,840
as a sign of their status with friends and family.

1288
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,960
The fact is, the foundation of any society

1289
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,280
are the values that support its operation

1290
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,640
and our society, as it exists

1291
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,440
can only operate if our values support

1292
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,960
the conspicuous consumption it

1293
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,080
requires to continue the market system.

1294
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,440
75 years ago consumption in America

1295
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,520
and much of the 1st world was half

1296
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,480
of what we see today, per person.

1297
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,720
Today's new consumer culture

1298
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,080
has been manufactured and imposed

1299
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,600
due to the very real need for higher

1300
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,120
and higher levels of consumption.

1301
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,480
And this is why most corporations now spend

1302
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:55,080
more money on advertising, than the actual process

1303
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,160
of product creation itself.

1304
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:01,440
They work diligently to create a false need for you to fill.

1305
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,760
And it happens to work.

1306
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,480
[The “Economists”]

1307
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,640
You know economists, in fact, are not economists at all.

1308
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,960
They're propagandists of money value

1309
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,080
and you will find that all of their

1310
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:18,200
models basically get down to token

1311
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,440
exchanges that are true to profit

1312
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,920
of one side or both sides or whatever

1313
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,280
but they are completely disconnected from the actually

1314
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,440
existing world of reproduction.

1315
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,440
In Ohio, an old man failed to pay his electric bill

1316
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,720
you may be familiar with the case

1317
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:38,240
and the electric company turned off the electricity and he died.

1318
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:39,560
The reason they turned it off was

1319
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,200
because it wouldn't have been profitable

1320
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,400
for them to keep it on because he didn't pay his bill.

1321
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,120
Do you believe that was right?

1322
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,080
The responsibility really lies not on

1323
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,360
the electric company for turning it off

1324
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,800
but on those of this man's neighbors and friends

1325
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:55,160
and associates

1326
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:56,880
who were not charitable enough

1327
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:58,560
to enable him, as an individual

1328
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:00,920
to meet the electric bill.

1329
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,560
HMMMMMM...

1330
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,280
Did I hear that right?

1331
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,200
Did he just say the death of a man

1332
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:07,560
caused by not having money

1333
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,440
was the responsibility of...

1334
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,160
other people...

1335
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,080
or, in effect, charity?

1336
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:15,280
Well then, I guess we're gonna need

1337
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,120
a whole lot of infomercials, little miserable

1338
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,600
coin slot donations for bodega counters

1339
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,600
and a bunch of pickle jars

1340
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,320
for the billion people now starving to death

1341
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:27,840
on this planet...

1342
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:32,200
because of the very system Milton Friedman promotes.

1343
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:35,000
Whether you are dealing with the philosophies of

1344
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,720
Milton Friedman, F.A. Hyack

1345
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,440
John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises

1346
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,880
or any other major market economist

1347
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:43,480
the basis of rationale

1348
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,000
rarely leaves the money sequence.

1349
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:47,640
It is like a religion.

1350
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,440
Consumption analysis, stabilization policies

1351
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,960
deficit spending, aggregate demand...

1352
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,920
it exists as a never ending, self-referring

1353
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:59,240
self-rationalizing circle of discourse

1354
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,200
where universal human need, natural resources

1355
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,680
and any form of physical life supporting efficiency

1356
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,800
is ruled out by default

1357
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,600
and replaced by the singular notion that humans

1358
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,200
seeking advantage over each other for money alone

1359
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,240
motivated by their own, narrow self-interest

1360
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:22,000
will magically create a sustainable, healthy, balanced society.

1361
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:25,320
There is no life coordinate in this whole theory

1362
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:26,520
this whole doctrine.

1363
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,080
What are they doing?

1364
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,960
What they are doing is tracking the money sequences.

1365
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,240
That's all it is, is tracking money sequences

1366
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,560
presupposing everything that matters.

1367
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,200
One: There is no life coordinates...

1368
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,360
whoa... no life coordinates!

1369
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,800
Two: That all the agents are

1370
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,720
self-maximizing preferences seekers.

1371
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,360
That is, they think of nothing other than themselves

1372
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,280
and what they can get most for themselves.

1373
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,360
That's the ruling notion of rationality:

1374
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,240
self-maximizing choice

1375
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,800
and the only thing that they are interested in self-maximizing

1376
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,120
is money or commodities.

1377
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,680
Well, where does social relations come in?

1378
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:11,040
It doesn't, except in the exchange to self-maximize.

1379
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,760
Where do our natural resources come in?

1380
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,760
They don't, except to exploit.

1381
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:21,560
Where does the family come in as being able to survive?

1382
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,840
It doesn't. They have to have

1383
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,560
money in order to purchase any good.

1384
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,240
Well, shouldn't an economy

1385
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:29,960
deal somewhere with human need?

1386
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:34,560
Isn't that what the fundamental issue is?

1387
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,240
Oh, "need" isn't even in your lexicon.

1388
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,280
You dissolve it into "wants"...

1389
01:08:41,440 --> 01:08:43,040
and what is a want? That means

1390
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:45,600
money demand that wants to buy.

1391
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,280
Well, if it's money demand that wants to buy

1392
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:49,920
it has nothing to do with need

1393
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,040
because maybe the person has no money demand

1394
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,040
and desperately needs, say, water supply.

1395
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,840
Or, it may be money demand wants a gold toilet seat.

1396
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:00,400
Well, where does it all go?

1397
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,080
To the gold toilet seat.

1398
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:04,000
And you call this economics?

1399
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,520
Really, when one thinks of it

1400
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,720
it's got to be the most bizarre

1401
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,960
delusion in the history of human thought.

1402
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:15,720
[Monetary System]

1403
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,000
Now- so far we have focused on the market system.

1404
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,320
But this system is actually only

1405
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:24,840
half of the global economic paradigm.

1406
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,040
The other half is the “Monetary System”.

1407
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,240
While the Market System deals with the interaction of people

1408
01:09:31,440 --> 01:09:34,440
gaming for profit across the spectrum of labor

1409
01:09:34,480 --> 01:09:36,360
production and distribution

1410
01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:39,920
the Monetary System is an underlying set of policies

1411
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,880
set by financial institutions

1412
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:43,840
which create conditions for the

1413
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,920
market system, among other things.

1414
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,840
It includes terms we often hear

1415
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,960
such as interest rates, loans, debt, the money supply

1416
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,520
inflation, etc.

1417
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,040
And while you might want to pull your hair out listening

1418
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,880
to the gibberish coming from the monetary economists:

1419
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:04,120
"Modest preemptive actions, can obviate the need

1420
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,960
of more drastic actions, at a later date."

1421
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,880
the nature and effect of this

1422
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,120
system is actually quite simple:

1423
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,080
Our economy has...

1424
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,160
or the global economy has

1425
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,840
three basic things that govern it.

1426
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:19,280
One is fractional reserve banking

1427
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,760
the banks printing money out of nothing.

1428
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,200
It's also based upon compound interest.

1429
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,320
When you borrow money, you have to pay back more

1430
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,960
than you borrowed, which means that you, in effect

1431
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,720
create money out of thin air

1432
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,520
again, which has to be serviced by creating still more money.

1433
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:38,920
We live in an infinite growth paradigm.

1434
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,760
The economic paradigm we live in now is a Ponzi scheme.

1435
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,480
Nothing grows forever.

1436
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:46,680
It's not possible.

1437
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,360
As a great psychologist James Hillman wrote

1438
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,320
“The only thing that grows in the human body after

1439
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:53,440
a certain age is cancer.”

1440
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,080
It's not just the amount of money that has to keep growing

1441
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:57,400
it's the amount of consumers.

1442
01:10:57,480 --> 01:10:59,600
Consumers to borrow money at interest

1443
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,680
to generate more money and obviously, that's not possible

1444
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:04,600
on a finite planet.

1445
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:08,320
People are basically vehicles to just create money

1446
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:09,960
which must create more money

1447
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:12,160
to keep the whole thing from falling apart

1448
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,720
which is what's happening right now.

1449
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,840
There are really only two things anyone needs to know

1450
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,040
about the monetary system:

1451
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:23,360
1: All money is created out of debt.

1452
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:25,560
Money is monetized debt

1453
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,200
whether it materialized from treasury bonds

1454
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:30,960
home loan contracts or credit cards.

1455
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,280
In other words, if all outstanding debt

1456
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,200
was to be repaid right now

1457
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:38,640
there would not be one dollar in circulation.

1458
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:43,560
And 2: Interest is charged on virtually all loans made

1459
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,240
and the money needed to pay back this interest

1460
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,360
does not exist in the money supply outright.

1461
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,080
Only the principal is created by the loans

1462
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,680
and the principal is the money supply.

1463
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,640
So, if all this debt was to be repaid right now

1464
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,880
not only would there not be one dollar left in circulation

1465
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,400
there would be a gigantic amount of money owed

1466
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:09,640
that is literally impossible to pay back, for it does not exist.

1467
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,720
The consequence of all of this is that two things are inevitable:

1468
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:16,040
Inflation

1469
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,880
and Bankruptcy.

1470
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,600
As far as inflation, this can be seen as a historical trend

1471
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,480
in virtually every country today

1472
01:12:23,480 --> 01:12:25,360
and easily tied to its cause

1473
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,240
which is the perpetual increase of the money supply

1474
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:29,720
which is required

1475
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:33,840
to cover the interest charges and keep the system going.

1476
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:35,640
As far as Bankruptcy

1477
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:39,000
it comes in the form of debt collapse.

1478
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,160
This collapse will inevitably occur with a person

1479
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,160
a business or a country

1480
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,720
and typically happens when the interest payments

1481
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:49,040
are no longer possible to make.

1482
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:52,240
But there is a bright side to all of this...

1483
01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:55,920
well, at least in terms of the market system

1484
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,920
Because debt creates pressure

1485
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:01,240
Debt creates wage slaves.

1486
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,120
A person in debt is much more likely to take a low wage

1487
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:05,640
than a person who isn't

1488
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:08,280
hence becoming a cheap commodity

1489
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,680
so it's great for corporations to have a pool of people

1490
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,600
that have no financial mobility.

1491
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:18,000
But hey - that same idea also goes for entire countries...

1492
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,880
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

1493
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,240
which mostly serve as proxies for

1494
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,520
transnational corporate interests

1495
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,000
give gigantic loans to troubled countries

1496
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,880
at very high interest rates

1497
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:31,880
and then, once the countries are

1498
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:33,880
deeply in the hole and can't pay

1499
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:35,800
austerity measures are applied

1500
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,480
the corporations swoop in

1501
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:41,320
set up sweatshops and take their natural resources.

1502
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:44,680
Now that's market efficiency.

1503
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:46,720
But wait – there's more:

1504
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,440
you see- there's this unique

1505
01:13:48,440 --> 01:13:50,680
hybrid of the monetary and market system

1506
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,640
called the stock market

1507
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,240
which rather than, you know, actually produce anything real

1508
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,240
they just buy and sell money itself.

1509
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,240
And when it comes to debt, you know what they do?

1510
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:05,000
That's right - they trade it.

1511
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:08,960
They actually buy and sell debt for profit.

1512
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:10,760
From credit default swaps

1513
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,120
and collateralized debt obligations for consumer debt

1514
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,440
to complex derivative schemes used

1515
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:18,880
to mask the debt of entire countries

1516
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:20,120
such as the collusion of

1517
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,840
investment bank Goldman Sachs and Greece

1518
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:26,360
which nearly collapsed the entire European economy.

1519
01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:29,240
So when it comes to the stock market and Wall Street

1520
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:32,440
we have an entirely new level of insanity

1521
01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:35,440
born out of the Money Sequence of value.

1522
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,360
All you need to know about markets

1523
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,440
was written in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal

1524
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:41,720
a couple years ago

1525
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:45,200
it was called 'Lessons of the Brain-Damaged Investor".

1526
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,160
And in this editorial, they explained why

1527
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:50,080
people with slight brain damage

1528
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,040
do better as investors

1529
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,800
than people with normal brain functionality.

1530
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,680
Why? Because the slightly

1531
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,200
brain-damaged person has no empathy.

1532
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,040
That's the key. If you don't have any empathy

1533
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:04,160
you do well as an investor

1534
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:09,080
and so Wall Street breeds people who have no empathy.

1535
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:11,440
To go in there and to make decisions

1536
01:15:11,480 --> 01:15:14,400
and to make trades they have no compunction about

1537
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,160
no thought whatsoever as to how what they are doing

1538
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:18,920
might affect their fellow human being.

1539
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,440
So they breed these robots.

1540
01:15:21,480 --> 01:15:24,400
These people who have no souls

1541
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:27,040
and since they don't even want to pay these people anymore-

1542
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:29,280
they are now breeding robots – real robots –

1543
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:31,080
real algorithmic traders.

1544
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,560
Goldman Sachs in the high frequency trading scandal:

1545
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:37,480
they put a computer next to the New York Stock Exchange.

1546
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,480
This computer, this “co-located” computer, as they call it:

1547
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:42,960
it front-runs all the trades on the exchange and

1548
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,760
hits the exchange with volumes of orders

1549
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:47,320
in ways that "scalp"

1550
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,520
pennies and nickels away from the exchange.

1551
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,040
It's like they're siphoning money all day long.

1552
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,760
They went one quarter last year 30

1553
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,720
or 60 straight days without a single down day

1554
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,240
and made millions of dollars every single day?

1555
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:04,040
That statistically impossible!

1556
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:06,120
When I worked on Wall Street, the way it works is

1557
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,040
everyone kicks upstairs to bribes.

1558
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:11,920
The brokers bribe to the office manager

1559
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,280
the office manager bribes to the regional sales manager.

1560
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:16,840
The regional sales manager

1561
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:18,920
bribes to the national sales manager.

1562
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:20,480
It's a common understanding.

1563
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:23,520
At Christmas, who gets the biggest bonus at Christmas

1564
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:26,360
in an average broker job? The compliance officer.

1565
01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:28,760
The compliance officer sits there all day long;

1566
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:30,280
he's supposed to be making sure you

1567
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:31,960
don't violate any of the margin rules

1568
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,040
and you're "complying" with the law.

1569
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,480
Of course, yeah, to the extent that

1570
01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:38,400
you can bribe the compliance officer

1571
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:40,560
yeah, that's right, you are complying with the law!

1572
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:43,120
So how has fraud become the system?

1573
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:44,920
It's no longer a byproduct.

1574
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,280
It is the system.

1575
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,040
It's like that old Woody Allen joke. He says:

1576
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,560
“Doctor, my brother thinks he's a chicken.”

1577
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:53,640
And the doctor says, “Take a pill

1578
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:55,560
and that should cure the problem.”

1579
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,280
And he says, “No doctor. You don't understand

1580
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,800
We need the eggs.”

1581
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:00,480
Okay?

1582
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,320
So, the trading of fraudulent claims back and forth

1583
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:05,040
between banks

1584
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:06,360
to generate fees

1585
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:07,480
to generate bonuses

1586
01:17:07,480 --> 01:17:11,200
has become the GDP producing growth

1587
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:14,120
engine of the United States economy

1588
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,200
even though they are essentially trading fraudulent claims

1589
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,720
that there is absolutely no hope of ever paying back.

1590
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,840
They are processing, generating and re-securitizing nothing.

1591
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,680
If I write $20 billion on a cocktail napkin

1592
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,480
and I sell it to J.P. Morgan and J.P. Morgan writes

1593
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,520
$20 billion on a cocktail napkin

1594
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:34,040
and we swap those two cocktail napkins at a bar

1595
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:37,560
and we each pay ourselves a quarter of 1% in a fee

1596
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,720
we make a lot of money for our Christmas bonus.

1597
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,240
We each have on our books a $20 billion cocktail napkin

1598
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:47,160
which has no real value until such time as

1599
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:50,120
the system is no longer able to absorb bogus

1600
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,800
cocktail napkins in which case we go to the government

1601
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,680
to get bailed out.

1602
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,720
And because of Wall street and the global stock market

1603
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,320
there are now conservatively about 700 Trillion dollars

1604
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,720
of outstanding fraudulent claims-

1605
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,560
know as derivatives

1606
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,760
still waiting to collapse.

1607
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:09,680
A value amounting to over 10

1608
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:11,600
times the gross domestic product

1609
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,920
of the entire planet.

1610
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:16,080
And while we have seen the bailouts of

1611
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,080
corporations and banks by governments...

1612
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,520
which, of course, comically borrow

1613
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,480
their money from banks to begin with.

1614
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,680
We are now seeing attempts to bailout whole countries

1615
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,960
by conglomerates of other countries

1616
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,400
through the International banks.

1617
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,760
But how do you bailout a planet?

1618
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:38,400
There is no country out there that isn't now saturated in debt.

1619
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,640
The cascade of sovereign debt defaults we have seen

1620
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:45,560
can only be the beginning, when the math is taken into account.

1621
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,000
It has been estimated in the United States alone

1622
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:52,960
that income tax would need to be raised to 65%

1623
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:57,000
per person just to cover the interest in the near future.

1624
01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:00,440
Economists are now foreshadowing that within a few decades

1625
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:05,280
60% of the countries on the planet will be bankrupt.

1626
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,120
But hold on-- Let me get this straight.

1627
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,960
The world is going bankrupt

1628
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:13,600
whatever the hell that means

1629
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,040
because of this idea called "debt"

1630
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,120
which doesn't even exist in the physical reality.

1631
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:22,120
It's only part of a game we've invented...

1632
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:25,560
and yet the well being of billions of people

1633
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,920
is now being compromised.

1634
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,960
Extreme layoffs - tent cities- accelerating poverty

1635
01:19:32,480 --> 01:19:35,760
Austerity measures imposed - schools shutting down -

1636
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:40,200
child hunger...and other levels of familial deprivation

1637
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:43,520
all because of this elaborate fiction...

1638
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:46,960
What are we, fucking stupid?!

1639
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:50,720
Hey! Hey! Mars- my man.

1640
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,240
Help a brother out, uh?

1641
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,400
Grow up, kid.

1642
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,440
Saturn! What's up man?

1643
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,920
You remember that smokin' nebula I hooked you up with

1644
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,440
a while back?

1645
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:13,400
uh- listen Earth.

1646
01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:15,320
We're getting really tired of you.

1647
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,200
You've been given everything and yet you waste it all.

1648
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,040
You've got plenty of resources and you know it.

1649
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:22,800
Why don't you grow up and learn

1650
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:24,560
some responsibility for Christ's sake.

1651
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:27,480
You're making your mother miserable.

1652
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,440
You're on your own, pal.

1653
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,520
Yeah, whatever.

1654
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,080
[Public Health]

1655
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,760
Now, all of this considered...

1656
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,520
from the waste machine known as the market system-

1657
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,720
to the debt machine known as the monetary system-

1658
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,400
hence creating the monetary-market paradigm

1659
01:20:57,480 --> 01:21:00,400
which defines the global economy today...

1660
01:21:00,480 --> 01:21:03,000
there is one consequence that runs through

1661
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:05,360
the entire machine:

1662
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,480
Inequality.

1663
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,640
Whether it is market system which creates a natural

1664
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,560
gravitation towards monopoly and power consolidation

1665
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,920
while also generating pockets of wealthy industries

1666
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,040
that tower over others

1667
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:21,920
regardless of utility-

1668
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:23,560
such as the fact that top

1669
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:25,360
hedge fund managers on wall street

1670
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:28,800
now take home over 300 million dollars a year

1671
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,880
for contributing literally nothing.

1672
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,080
While a scientist looking for a cure for a disease

1673
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,000
trying to help humanity

1674
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,960
might make 60 thousand dollars a year if they're lucky.

1675
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,560
Or whether it is the monetary system

1676
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:47,480
which has class division built right into its structure.

1677
01:21:47,480 --> 01:21:48,480
For example:

1678
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:52,080
If I have 1 million dollars to spare and I put it into a CD

1679
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:53,600
at 4% interest-

1680
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:55,600
I will make 40,000 dollars a year.

1681
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:59,040
No social contribution- no nothing.

1682
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,080
However, if I'm a lower class person and have to take loans

1683
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,040
to buy my car or home

1684
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,320
I am paying in interest which

1685
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:07,440
in abstraction

1686
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:11,600
is going to pay that millionaire with the 4% CD.

1687
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,600
This stealing from the poor to pay the rich

1688
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:18,640
is a foundational, built in aspect of the monetary system.

1689
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:23,000
And it could be labeled “Structural Classism”.

1690
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,120
Of course, historically, social stratification

1691
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,440
has always been deemed unfair

1692
01:22:28,480 --> 01:22:30,320
but obviously accepted overall

1693
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:35,160
as now 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth.

1694
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:38,040
But material fairness aside

1695
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:39,840
there is something else going on

1696
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:41,840
underneath the surface of inequality

1697
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:46,520
causing an incredible deterioration in public health as a whole.

1698
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:50,160
Well, I think people often are puzzled by the contrast

1699
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:53,040
between the material success of our societies

1700
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,320
- unprecedented levels of wealth -

1701
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,880
and the many social failings.

1702
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,920
If you look at the rates of

1703
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:04,920
drug abuse or violence or self harm

1704
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,720
amongst kids or mental illness

1705
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:11,040
there is clearly something going deeply wrong

1706
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:12,600
with our societies.

1707
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,760
The data I have been describing

1708
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,120
simply shows that intuition that people

1709
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,320
have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive

1710
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:24,920
and socially corrosive.

1711
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,720
But, that intuition is truer than I think we ever imagined.

1712
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,320
There are very powerful psychological and social effects

1713
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,080
of inequality. More to do I suppose with feelings

1714
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:38,440
of superiority and inferiority.

1715
01:23:38,440 --> 01:23:40,280
That kind of division...

1716
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,680
Maybe going with the respect or disrespect

1717
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,200
- people feeling looked down on at the bottom

1718
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,160
which, by the way, is why violence is

1719
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:50,800
more common in more unequal societies -

1720
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:54,040
the trigger to violence is so often people feeling looked down

1721
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:55,840
upon and disrespected.

1722
01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,840
If there is one principle I could emphasize

1723
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:04,440
that is, the most important principle underlying

1724
01:24:04,440 --> 01:24:07,080
the prevention of violence

1725
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,000
it would be “Equality”.

1726
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:11,960
The single most significant factor

1727
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:13,600
that affects the rate of violence

1728
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,480
is the degree of equality versus the degree of inequality

1729
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:20,320
in that society.

1730
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:22,840
So, what we're looking at is a sort of

1731
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,840
general social dysfunction.

1732
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,520
It's not just one or two things that go wrong

1733
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,520
as inequality increases

1734
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:31,920
it seems to be everything, whether we are talking about

1735
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,920
crime or health or mental illness or whatever.

1736
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,080
One of the really disturbing findings out there in public health

1737
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:43,000
is never ever make the mistake of being poor.

1738
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,720
Or being born poor.

1739
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:47,720
Your health pays for it in endless sorts of ways:

1740
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,560
something known as the 'health socioeconomic gradient'.

1741
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,920
As you move down from the highest strata

1742
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,680
in society, in terms of socioeconomic status

1743
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:59,040
every step down, health gets worse

1744
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,240
for umpteen different diseases.

1745
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:02,840
Life expectancy gets worse.

1746
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,840
Infant mortality rate-

1747
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:06,320
everything you could look at.

1748
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:08,880
So, a huge issue has been

1749
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,280
why is it that this gradient exists.

1750
01:25:12,480 --> 01:25:14,360
A simple obvious answer

1751
01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:16,440
which is, 'if you're chronically sick, you're not

1752
01:25:16,440 --> 01:25:18,960
going to be very productive

1753
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:21,720
so, health causes drive socioeconomic differences.'

1754
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,320
Not that in the slightest-

1755
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:24,840
on the very simple level that

1756
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:26,200
you could look at the

1757
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:28,320
socioeconomic status of a 10-year-old

1758
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,720
and that's going to predict something about their health

1759
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:31,840
decades later.

1760
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:33,920
So, that's the direction of causality.

1761
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,120
Next one- 'Oh, it's perfectly obvious'-

1762
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,320
poor people can't afford to go to the doctor...

1763
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:40,840
it's healthcare access?

1764
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,320
It's got nothing to do with that

1765
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:44,200
because you see these same gradients

1766
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,320
in countries with universal health care and

1767
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:47,640
socialized medicine.

1768
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:49,600
Okay – next 'simple explanation':

1769
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,720
Oh -on the average- the poorer you are

1770
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,000
the more likely you are to smoke

1771
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:58,040
and drink and all sorts of lifestyle risk factors.

1772
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:01,560
Yeah, those contribute but careful studies have shown

1773
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,200
that it explains maybe about a third of the variability.

1774
01:26:04,480 --> 01:26:05,880
So what's left?

1775
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:08,600
What's left is having a ton to do

1776
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,000
with the STRESS of poverty

1777
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:14,640
So, the poorer you are, starting off being

1778
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:18,040
the person who is one dollar of income behind Bill Gates...

1779
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:19,880
the poorer you are in this country

1780
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:21,600
on the average, the worse your health is.

1781
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,240
This tells us something really important:

1782
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:26,120
the health connection with poverty

1783
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:30,120
it's not about being poor it's about feeling poor.

1784
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:35,560
Increasingly we recognize that chronic stress

1785
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,000
is an important influence on health

1786
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,720
but the most important sources of stress

1787
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,360
are the quality of social relations.

1788
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,360
and if there is anything that

1789
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,480
lowers the quality of social relations

1790
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,600
it is the socioeconomic stratification of society.

1791
01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:53,160
What science has now shown is

1792
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:55,160
that regardless of material wealth

1793
01:26:55,440 --> 01:26:59,160
the stress of simply living in a stratified society

1794
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:02,680
leads to a vast spectrum of public health problems

1795
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:06,760
and the greater the inequality, the worse they become.

1796
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,360
Life expectancy: longer in more equal countries.

1797
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,440
Drug Abuse: Less in more equal countries.

1798
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,840
Mental Illness: Less in more equal countries.

1799
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,000
Social Capital - meaning the

1800
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:24,640
ability of people to trust each other:

1801
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,880
Naturally greater in more equal countries.

1802
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:32,400
Educational Scores: Higher in more equal countries.

1803
01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:36,520
Homicide rates: less in more equal countries.

1804
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,280
Crime and Rates of Imprisonment:

1805
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:41,880
Less in more equal countries.

1806
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,280
It goes on and on:

1807
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,800
Infant mortality – obesity - teen birth rate:

1808
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:49,920
Less in more equal countries.

1809
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,200
and perhaps most interesting:

1810
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:56,400
Innovation: Greater in more equal countries.

1811
01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:59,760
which challenges the age old notion that a competitive

1812
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:04,360
stratified society is somehow more creative and inventive.

1813
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:06,840
Moreover, a study done in the UK

1814
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:08,360
called The WhiteHall Study

1815
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:11,360
confirmed that there is a social distribution of disease

1816
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:14,280
as you go from the top of the socioeconomic ladder

1817
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:15,280
to the bottom.

1818
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,640
For example, it was found that the lowest rungs

1819
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:20,440
of the hierarchy had a 4-fold increase

1820
01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:22,720
of heart disease based mortality

1821
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:24,640
compared to the highest rungs.

1822
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:28,880
And this pattern exists, irrespective of access to health care.

1823
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:32,560
Hence - the worse a person's relative financial status

1824
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,600
the worse their health is going to be on average.

1825
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,760
This phenomenon is rooted in what could be termed

1826
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:40,840
Psychosocial Stress'

1827
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:44,440
and it is at the foundation of the greatest social distortions

1828
01:28:44,480 --> 01:28:46,800
plaguing our society today.

1829
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,160
Its cause?

1830
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:50,680
The Monetary-Market System.

1831
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:53,600
Make no mistake:

1832
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:56,200
The greatest destroyer of ecology...

1833
01:28:56,280 --> 01:29:00,000
the greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution...

1834
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,480
the greatest purveyor of violence-

1835
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:06,880
war - crime - poverty - animal abuse and inhumanity...

1836
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,720
the greatest generator of social and personal neurosis...

1837
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,880
mental disorders - depression anxiety...

1838
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:17,960
Not to mention, the greatest source of social paralysis

1839
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:21,280
stopping us from moving into new methodologies

1840
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,160
for personal health, global sustainability

1841
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:26,800
and progress on this planet

1842
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:30,600
is not some corrupt Government or legislation...

1843
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,720
not some rogue Corporation or banking cartel...

1844
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,480
not some flaw of human nature...

1845
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:42,360
and not some secret hidden cabal that controls the world.

1846
01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:43,840
It is, in fact:

1847
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,480
The Socio-Economic System itself

1848
01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:49,200
at its very foundation.

1849
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,640
[Part 3: Project Earth ]

1850
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:13,040
Let's imagine for a moment we had the option

1851
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:16,080
to redesign human civilization from the ground up.

1852
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:18,120
What if, hypothetically speaking

1853
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:21,160
we discovered an exact replica of the planet Earth

1854
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,080
and the only difference between

1855
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:24,600
this new planet and our current one

1856
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,080
is that human evolution had not occurred.

1857
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:28,640
It was an open palette.

1858
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:32,560
No countries, no cities, no pollution, no republicans....

1859
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,440
just a pristine, open environment.

1860
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:37,600
So what would we do?

1861
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:40,280
Well, first we need a “goal”, right?

1862
01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:43,880
And it's safe to say that goal would be to survive.

1863
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,680
And not to just survive, but to do so in an optimized, healthy

1864
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:49,200
prosperous way.

1865
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:51,560
Most people, indeed, desire to live and

1866
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:53,960
they would prefer to do so without suffering.

1867
01:30:54,040 --> 01:30:56,600
Therefore, the basis of this civilization

1868
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,760
needs to be as supportive and hence

1869
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,280
sustainable for human life as possible-

1870
01:31:01,480 --> 01:31:03,640
taking into account the material needs

1871
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:05,320
of all the world's people

1872
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,040
while trying to remove anything

1873
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:09,160
that can could hurt us in the long run.

1874
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:13,760
With that goal of “Maximum Sustainability” understood

1875
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,520
next question regards our “method”.

1876
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,880
What kind of approach do we take?

1877
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:20,400
Well, let's see-

1878
01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:24,720
last I checked, politics was the method of social operation on Earth...

1879
01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:27,760
so what do the doctrines of the republicans, liberals

1880
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:32,480
conservatives or socialists have to say about societal design?

1881
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,800
Hmmm... not a damn thing.

1882
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:37,560
Okay then - what about religion?

1883
01:31:38,040 --> 01:31:41,840
Surely the great creator had to have left some blueprints somewhere...

1884
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,440
Nope...nothing I can find.

1885
01:31:44,480 --> 01:31:46,840
Okay then - so what's left?

1886
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,640
It appears something called “Science”.

1887
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:53,640
Science is unique in that its methods demand not only that ideas

1888
01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:56,560
proposed be tested and replicated...

1889
01:31:56,560 --> 01:32:01,120
but everything science comes up with is also inherently falsifiable.

1890
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,760
In other words, unlike religion and politics

1891
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,520
science has no ego

1892
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:08,560
and everything it suggests accepts the possibility

1893
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,280
of being proven wrong eventually.

1894
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:14,480
It holds on to nothing and evolves constantly.

1895
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:17,320
Well, that sounds natural enough to me.

1896
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:20,640
So then - based on the current state of scientific knowledge

1897
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:22,480
in the early 21st century

1898
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,280
along with our goal of “maximum sustainability”

1899
01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:27,000
for the human population

1900
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:30,520
how do we begin the actual process of construction?

1901
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,520
Well, the first question to ask is:

1902
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:34,920
What do we need to survive?

1903
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,440
The answer, of course, are Planetary Resources.

1904
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,680
Whether it is the water we drink, the energy we use

1905
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:45,600
or the raw materials we utilize to create tools and shelter

1906
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:48,720
the planet hosts an inventory of resources-

1907
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:52,280
many of which are demanded for our survival.

1908
01:32:52,480 --> 01:32:54,080
So, given that reality

1909
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:58,840
it then becomes critical to figure out what we have and where it is.

1910
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,160
This means we need to conduct a survey.

1911
01:33:01,240 --> 01:33:05,040
We simply locate and identify every physical resource on the planet

1912
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:09,160
we can, along with the amount available at each location

1913
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:12,560
from the deposits of copper, to the most potent locations for

1914
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:14,920
wind farms to produce energy

1915
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:17,000
to the natural fresh water springs

1916
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:19,840
to an assessment of the amount of fish in the ocean

1917
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:24,800
to the most prime arable land for food cultivation, etc.

1918
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:27,040
But, since we humans are going to be

1919
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:29,080
consuming these resources over time

1920
01:33:29,480 --> 01:33:33,680
we then realize that not only do we need to locate and identify-

1921
01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:36,040
we also need to track.

1922
01:33:36,040 --> 01:33:38,720
We need to make sure we don't run out of any of this stuff...

1923
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:40,120
that would be bad.

1924
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:42,920
And this means not only tracking our rates of use

1925
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:46,440
but the rates of earthly regeneration as well

1926
01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:49,160
such as how long it takes for, say

1927
01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:52,080
a tree to grow or a spring to replenish.

1928
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:55,680
This is called “Dynamic Equilibrium”.

1929
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:59,880
In other words, if we use up trees faster than they can be grown back-

1930
01:33:59,920 --> 01:34:03,840
we have a serious problem, for it is unsustainable.

1931
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,720
So then, how do we track this inventory

1932
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:09,080
especially when we recognize that all

1933
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:11,480
of this stuff is scattered everywhere.

1934
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:15,120
We have large mineral mines in what we call Africa

1935
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:17,520
energy concentrations in the Middle East

1936
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:21,400
huge tidal power possibilities on the Atlantic coast of North America

1937
01:34:21,480 --> 01:34:25,800
the largest supply of fresh water in Brazil, etc.

1938
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:29,680
Well, once again, good old science has a suggestion:

1939
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,080
it's called “Systems theory”.

1940
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:36,040
Systems theory recognizes that the fabric of the natural world

1941
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:39,320
from human biology to the earthly biosphere

1942
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:42,560
to the gravitational pull of the solar system itself

1943
01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:47,720
is one huge synergistically connected system - fully interlinked.

1944
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:50,560
Just as human cells connect to form our organs

1945
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:53,040
and the organs connect to form our bodies

1946
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:56,280
and since our bodies cannot live without the earthy resources

1947
01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:01,000
of food, air and water, we are intrinsically connected to the earth.

1948
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:02,720
And so on.

1949
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,000
So - as nature suggests, we take all of this inventory

1950
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:10,080
and tracking data and create a “system” to manage it.

1951
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:13,560
A “Global Resource Management System”, in fact

1952
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,960
to account for every relevant resource on the planet.

1953
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:21,000
There is simply no logical alternative if our goal as a species

1954
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:26,000
is survival in the long run. We have to keep track as a whole.

1955
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:29,520
That understood, we can now consider production.

1956
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:31,320
How do we use all this stuff?

1957
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,720
What will our process of production be and what do we need

1958
01:35:34,720 --> 01:35:38,320
to consider to make sure it is as optimized as possible

1959
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:41,560
to maximize our sustainability?

1960
01:35:41,720 --> 01:35:44,640
Well the first thing that jumps right out at us is the fact that

1961
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:47,480
we need to constantly try and preserve.

1962
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:50,600
The planet's resources are essentially finite.

1963
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:53,680
So it is important that we be “strategic”.

1964
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:57,160
"Strategic Preservation" is key.

1965
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:00,200
The second thing we recognize, is that some resources

1966
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,160
are really not as good as others in their performance.

1967
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:06,040
In fact, some of this stuff, when put into use

1968
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:08,280
has a terrible effect of the environment

1969
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:10,440
which invariably hinders our own health.

1970
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:15,280
For example: oil and fossil fuels, no matter how you cut it

1971
01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,800
release some pretty destructive agents into the environment.

1972
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,200
Therefore, it is critical that we do our best to use such things

1973
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:25,840
only when we really have to - if at all.

1974
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:30,720
Fortunately for us, we see a ton of solar – wind – tidal – wave -

1975
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:35,000
heat differential and geothermal possibilities for energy production

1976
01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:39,400
so we can strategize objectively about what we use and where

1977
01:36:39,480 --> 01:36:43,640
to avoid what could be called “negative retroactions”

1978
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:47,200
or anything that results from production or use

1979
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:50,720
that damages the environment and hence, ourselves.

1980
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,680
We will call this “Strategic Safety”

1981
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:57,880
to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation”.

1982
01:36:57,880 --> 01:37:00,320
But production strategies do not stop there.

1983
01:37:00,440 --> 01:37:03,480
We are going to need an "Efficiency Strategy”

1984
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:06,640
for the actual mechanics of production itself.

1985
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:09,360
And what we find is that there are roughly

1986
01:37:09,360 --> 01:37:12,000
three specific protocols we must adhere to:

1987
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:14,560
One: Every good we produce must be

1988
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,160
designed to last as long as possible.

1989
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:19,400
Naturally, the more things breakdown

1990
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:22,560
the more resources we are going to need to replace them

1991
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:24,880
and the more waste produced.

1992
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,440
Two: When things do break down

1993
01:37:27,440 --> 01:37:30,000
or are no longer usable for whatever reason

1994
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:34,600
it is critical that we harvest, or recycle as much as we possibly can.

1995
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:38,080
So the production design must take this into

1996
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:41,440
account directly at the very earliest stages.

1997
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:45,800
Three: Quickly evolving technologies, such as electronics

1998
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:49,560
which are subject to the fastest rates of technological obsolescence

1999
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:51,880
would need to be designed to

2000
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:55,280
foreshadow and accommodate physical updates.

2001
01:37:55,440 --> 01:37:59,160
The last thing we want to do is throw away an entire computer

2002
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:02,960
system just because it has only one broken part or is outdated.

2003
01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:06,840
So we simply design the components to be easily updated

2004
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:11,280
part by part, standardized and universally interchangeable

2005
01:38:11,400 --> 01:38:15,560
foreshadowed by the current trend of technological change.

2006
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:19,360
And when we realize that the mechanisms of "Strategic Preservation”

2007
01:38:19,440 --> 01:38:22,960
“Strategic Safety” and “Strategic Efficiency”

2008
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:25,560
are purely technical considerations

2009
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,800
devoid of any human opinion or bias

2010
01:38:28,880 --> 01:38:31,880
we simply program these strategies into a computer

2011
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:34,880
which can weigh and calculate all the relevant variables

2012
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:37,400
allowing us to always arrive at the

2013
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:40,800
absolute best method for sustainable production

2014
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:43,240
based on current understandings.

2015
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:46,040
And while that might sound complex

2016
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:48,520
all it is is a glorified calculator

2017
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:50,480
not to mention that such multi-varied

2018
01:38:50,480 --> 01:38:52,720
decision making and monitoring systems

2019
01:38:52,720 --> 01:38:54,840
are already used across the world today

2020
01:38:54,920 --> 01:39:00,080
for isolated purposes. It is simply a process of scaling it out.

2021
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:01,360
So...

2022
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:04,600
Now, we not only have our Resource Management System

2023
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,600
but also a Production Management System

2024
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,360
both of which are easily computer automated

2025
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:14,200
to maximize efficiency, preservation & safety.

2026
01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:17,240
The informational reality is that the human mind

2027
01:39:17,280 --> 01:39:21,200
or even a group of humans, cannot track what needs to be tracked.

2028
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:25,400
It must be done by computers and it can be.

2029
01:39:25,840 --> 01:39:29,320
And this bring us to the next level: Distribution.

2030
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:32,480
What sustainability strategies make sense here?

2031
01:39:32,480 --> 01:39:33,920
Well, since we know that the shortest

2032
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:37,120
distance between two points is a straight line

2033
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:40,520
and since energy is required to power transport machines

2034
01:39:40,640 --> 01:39:44,080
the less transport distance, the more efficient.

2035
01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:48,280
Producing goods in one continent and shipping them over to another

2036
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:51,480
only makes sense if the goods in question simply cannot

2037
01:39:51,480 --> 01:39:53,800
be produced in the target area.

2038
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:56,640
Otherwise, it is nothing but wasteful.

2039
01:39:56,720 --> 01:40:00,240
We must localize production, so distribution is simple

2040
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,440
fast and requires the least amount of energy.

2041
01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:06,480
We'll call this the “Proximity Strategy”

2042
01:40:06,480 --> 01:40:08,320
which simply means we reduce the

2043
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:10,280
travel of goods as much as possible

2044
01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:14,320
whether raw materials or finished consumer products.

2045
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,800
Of course, it might also be important to

2046
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:19,520
know what goods are we transporting and why...

2047
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:22,760
And this falls under the category of Demand.

2048
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:25,400
And demand is simply what people need to be

2049
01:40:25,400 --> 01:40:27,960
healthy and to have a high quality of life.

2050
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,280
The spectrum of material human needs

2051
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:33,360
range from core life supporting necessities

2052
01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:36,480
such as food, clean water and shelter...

2053
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,280
to social and recreational goods which allow for relaxation

2054
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:42,640
and personal - social enjoyment -

2055
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:47,520
both important factors in human and social health overall.

2056
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,360
So - very simply- we take another survey.

2057
01:40:50,480 --> 01:40:52,880
People describe their needs, demand is

2058
01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:56,040
assessed and production begins based on that demand.

2059
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:59,400
And since the level of demand of different goods will

2060
01:40:59,400 --> 01:41:02,720
naturally fluctuate and change around different regions

2061
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:06,680
we need to create a “Demand / Distribution Tracking System"

2062
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:10,120
so to avoid overruns and shortages.

2063
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,360
Of course, this idea is old news

2064
01:41:12,360 --> 01:41:15,360
it is used in every major store chain today

2065
01:41:15,440 --> 01:41:18,160
to make sure they keep up with their inventory.

2066
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:21,640
Only this time, we are tracking on a global scale.

2067
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:25,760
But wait a minute. We really can't fully understand demand

2068
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:29,880
if we don't account for the actual usage of the good itself.

2069
01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:33,960
Is it logical and sustainable for every single human to, say

2070
01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:38,640
have one of everything made? Regardless of their usage?

2071
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:42,920
No. That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.

2072
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:46,840
If a person has a need for a good but that need is only for say:

2073
01:41:46,840 --> 01:41:49,040
45 minutes a day on average

2074
01:41:49,160 --> 01:41:51,000
it would be much more efficient if

2075
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:52,840
that good was made available to them

2076
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:55,840
and to others when needed.

2077
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,840
Many forget that it isn't the good they want

2078
01:41:58,840 --> 01:42:00,760
it is the purpose of that good.

2079
01:42:00,880 --> 01:42:03,000
When we realize that the good itself

2080
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:05,080
is only as important as its utility

2081
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:08,000
we see that “external restriction”

2082
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,800
or what we might call today “ownership”

2083
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:14,280
is extremely wasteful and environmentally illogical

2084
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:17,520
in a fundamental, economic sense.

2085
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:22,600
So we need devise a strategy called: “Strategic Access”.

2086
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:24,760
This would be the foundation of our

2087
01:42:24,760 --> 01:42:26,880
"Demand / Distribution Tracking System.”

2088
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:28,680
which makes sure we can meet the

2089
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:30,360
demand of the population's needs

2090
01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:34,680
for access of whatever they need, when they need it.

2091
01:42:34,840 --> 01:42:37,520
And as far as physically obtaining the goods

2092
01:42:37,560 --> 01:42:39,720
centralized and regional access

2093
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:42,440
centers all make sense for the most part

2094
01:42:42,480 --> 01:42:45,640
placed in close proximity to the population

2095
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:48,560
and a person would simply come in, take the item

2096
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:52,280
use it and when finished, return it when no longer needed...

2097
01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:54,640
sort of how a library works today.

2098
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,400
In fact, these centers could not only exist in

2099
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:00,120
the community in the way we see local stores today

2100
01:43:00,120 --> 01:43:04,240
but specialized access centers would exist in specific areas

2101
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,800
where often certain goods are utilized

2102
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:10,560
saving more energy with less repeat transport.

2103
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,880
And once this Demand Tracking System is in order

2104
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,600
it is tied into our Production Management system

2105
01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:19,920
and, of course, into our Resource Management system

2106
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:23,040
hence creating a unified dynamically updating

2107
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:25,920
global economic management machine

2108
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:28,760
that simply makes sure we remain sustainable

2109
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:32,680
starting with securing the integrity of our finite resources

2110
01:43:32,760 --> 01:43:35,600
moving to make sure we only create the best

2111
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,520
most strategic goods possible

2112
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,160
while distributing everything in the

2113
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:42,600
most intelligent and efficient way.

2114
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:47,360
And the unique result of this preservation based approach

2115
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:50,120
which is intuitively counter to many

2116
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,600
is that this logical, ground up

2117
01:43:52,600 --> 01:43:56,120
empirical process of preservation and efficiency

2118
01:43:56,160 --> 01:44:00,920
which can only define true human sustainability on the planet

2119
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:05,520
would likely enable something never before seen in human history.

2120
01:44:05,720 --> 01:44:07,840
Access Abundance...

2121
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:11,120
not just for a percentage of the global population...

2122
01:44:11,120 --> 01:44:14,520
but the entire civilization.

2123
01:44:15,560 --> 01:44:18,280
This economic model, as was just generalized...

2124
01:44:18,280 --> 01:44:21,040
This responsible, systems approach to total Earth

2125
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:24,000
resource management and processes

2126
01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:26,040
designed again to do nothing less

2127
01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:28,200
than take care of humanity as whole

2128
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:30,920
in the most efficient and sustainable way

2129
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:32,360
could be termed:

2130
01:44:32,360 --> 01:44:35,320
a “RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY”.

2131
01:44:35,480 --> 01:44:38,400
The idea was defined in the 1970s by

2132
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:41,120
Social Engineer- Jacque Fresco.

2133
01:44:41,120 --> 01:44:44,400
He understood back then that society was on a collision course

2134
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:48,520
with nature and itself - unsustainable on every level

2135
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:50,600
and if things didn't change

2136
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:54,000
we would destroy ourselves, one way or another.

2137
01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:56,280
Are all of these things you are saying, Jacque...

2138
01:44:56,280 --> 01:44:58,720
could they be built with what we know today?

2139
01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:02,880
Or are you guessing... based on what we know today.

2140
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:06,280
No, all of these things can be built with what we know today.

2141
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,440
It would take 10 years to change the surface of the earth.

2142
01:45:09,440 --> 01:45:12,160
To rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.

2143
01:45:12,200 --> 01:45:13,680
The choice lies with you.

2144
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,240
The stupidity of a nuclear arms race...

2145
01:45:16,240 --> 01:45:17,720
the development of weapons...

2146
01:45:17,800 --> 01:45:20,000
trying to solve your problems politically

2147
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:23,040
by electing this political party or that political party...

2148
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:25,680
that all politics is immersed in corruption.

2149
01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:26,800
Let me say it again:

2150
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,280
Communism, socialism, fascism... the Democrats

2151
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:33,560
the liberals- we want to absorb human beings.

2152
01:45:33,600 --> 01:45:36,920
All organizations that believe in a better life for man:

2153
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:40,160
there are no Negro problems or Polish problems

2154
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,480
or Jewish problems or Greek problems

2155
01:45:42,480 --> 01:45:45,000
or women's problems – there are human problems!

2156
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:47,880
I'm not afraid of anybody; I don't work for anyone;

2157
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:49,480
no one can discharge me.

2158
01:45:49,480 --> 01:45:50,840
I have no boss.

2159
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:54,040
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.

2160
01:45:54,040 --> 01:45:57,840
Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

2161
01:45:57,840 --> 01:45:59,960
It was great - the free enterprise system -

2162
01:45:59,960 --> 01:46:03,480
about 35 years ago. That was the last of its usefulness.

2163
01:46:03,480 --> 01:46:06,960
Now, we have got to change our way of thinking or perish.

2164
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:11,960
The horror movies of the future will be our society...

2165
01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:14,000
the way it didn't work

2166
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:15,400
and politics...

2167
01:46:15,400 --> 01:46:18,320
would be part of a horror movie.

2168
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:24,760
Well, lots of people today use the term 'cold science'

2169
01:46:24,760 --> 01:46:26,920
because it's analytical

2170
01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:29,840
and they don't even know what analytical means.

2171
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:32,800
Science means: closer approximations

2172
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:35,480
to the way the world really works.

2173
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:38,840
So, it's telling the truth - is what it is

2174
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:41,760
A scientist doesn't try to get along with people.

2175
01:46:41,760 --> 01:46:44,320
They tell them what their findings are.

2176
01:46:44,440 --> 01:46:46,880
They have to question all things

2177
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:51,160
and if some scientist comes up with an experiment that shows

2178
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:53,560
certain materials have certain strengths

2179
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:56,320
other scientists have to be able to duplicate

2180
01:46:56,320 --> 01:46:59,120
that experiment and come up with the same results.

2181
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:03,400
Even if a scientist feels that an airplane wing

2182
01:47:03,480 --> 01:47:05,600
due to mathematics or calculations

2183
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,840
can hold up a given amount of weight

2184
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:10,640
they still pile sandbags on it

2185
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:12,720
to see when it breaks and they say

2186
01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:16,480
you know my calculations are right or they are not correct'.

2187
01:47:16,480 --> 01:47:19,960
I love that system because it's free of bias

2188
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:23,360
and free of thinking that math can solve all the problems.

2189
01:47:23,400 --> 01:47:26,160
You have to put your Math to test also.

2190
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,800
I think that every system that can

2191
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:31,520
be put to test should be put to test.

2192
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:36,400
And that all decisions should be based upon research.

2193
01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:39,360
A Resource-Based Economy is simply the

2194
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:42,200
scientific method applied to social concern-

2195
01:47:42,200 --> 01:47:45,200
an approach utterly absent in the world today.

2196
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,560
Society is a technical invention.

2197
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,640
And the most efficient methods of optimized human health

2198
01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:55,000
physical production, distribution, city infrastructure and the like

2199
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:57,520
reside in the field of science and

2200
01:47:57,520 --> 01:48:00,840
technology - not politics or monetary economics.

2201
01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:05,000
It operates in the same systematic way as, say an airplane

2202
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:09,280
and there is no Republican or Liberal way to build an airplane.

2203
01:48:09,360 --> 01:48:11,440
Likewise, nature itself is the

2204
01:48:11,440 --> 01:48:14,280
physical referent we use to prove our science

2205
01:48:14,280 --> 01:48:16,200
and it is a set system-

2206
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:19,440
emerging only from our increased understanding of it.

2207
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:22,000
In fact, it has no regard for what you

2208
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:24,520
subjectively think or believe to be true.

2209
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:26,520
Rather, it gives you an option:

2210
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:28,680
you can learn and fall in line with its

2211
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:31,040
natural laws and conduct yourself accordingly-

2212
01:48:31,160 --> 01:48:34,480
invariably creating good health & sustainability...

2213
01:48:34,480 --> 01:48:37,560
or you can go against the current - to no avail.

2214
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:40,040
It doesn't matter how much you believe you can just

2215
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:42,360
stand up right now and walk on the wall next to you

2216
01:48:42,440 --> 01:48:44,600
the law of gravity will not allow it.

2217
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:46,560
If you do not eat - you will die.

2218
01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:49,520
If you are not touched as an infant - you will die.

2219
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:53,520
As harsh as it may sound, nature is a dictatorship

2220
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,960
and we can either listen to it and come in harmony with it

2221
01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:00,320
or suffer the inevitable adverse consequences.

2222
01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:03,360
So, a Resource-Based Economy is nothing more

2223
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:06,760
than a set of proven, life supporting understandings

2224
01:49:06,840 --> 01:49:09,320
where all decisions are based upon

2225
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:12,760
optimized human and environmental sustainability.

2226
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:16,080
It takes into account the empirical “Life Ground”

2227
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,520
which every human being shares as a need

2228
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:22,680
regardless, again, of their political or religious philosophy.

2229
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:25,920
There is no cultural relativism to this approach.

2230
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:28,600
It isn't a matter of opinion.

2231
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:30,840
Human needs are human needs

2232
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:34,560
and having access to the necessities of life, such as clean air

2233
01:49:34,600 --> 01:49:37,040
nutritious food and clean water

2234
01:49:37,120 --> 01:49:40,600
along with a positively reinforcing, stable

2235
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:44,720
nurturing, non-violent environment, is demanded

2236
01:49:44,720 --> 01:49:46,960
for our mental and physical health

2237
01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:48,920
our evolutionary fitness

2238
01:49:49,040 --> 01:49:51,920
and hence, the species survival itself.

2239
01:49:52,040 --> 01:49:54,760
A Resource-Based Economy

2240
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:58,200
would be based upon available resources.

2241
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,440
You can't just bring a lot of people to an island

2242
01:50:01,440 --> 01:50:06,600
or build a city of 50,000 people without having access

2243
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:08,680
to the necessities of life.

2244
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:13,280
So, when I use the term 'a comprehensive systems approach'

2245
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:17,640
I'm talking about doing an inventory of the area first

2246
01:50:17,640 --> 01:50:20,960
and determining what that area can supply-

2247
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,480
not just architectural approach-

2248
01:50:23,480 --> 01:50:25,960
not just design approach-

2249
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,520
but design must be based on all of the requirements

2250
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:31,200
to enhance human life

2251
01:50:31,240 --> 01:50:34,960
and that's what I mean by an integrated way of thinking.

2252
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,840
Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, love -

2253
01:50:37,880 --> 01:50:40,840
All those things are necessary

2254
01:50:40,920 --> 01:50:43,200
and if you deprive people of any of them

2255
01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:48,920
you have a lesser human being, less capable of functioning.

2256
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:53,120
As previously outlined, a Resource-Based Economy's ground up

2257
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:57,680
global, systems approach to extraction, production and distribution

2258
01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:02,520
is based upon on a set of true economic mechanisms, or 'strategies'

2259
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:04,960
which guarantee efficiency and

2260
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:08,560
sustainability in every area of the economy.

2261
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:12,440
So, continuing this train of thought regarding logical design-

2262
01:51:12,440 --> 01:51:14,160
what is next in our equation?

2263
01:51:14,320 --> 01:51:16,560
Where does all this materialize?

2264
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:18,320
Cities.

2265
01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:22,320
The advent of the city is a defining feature of modern civilization.

2266
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:26,080
Its role is to enable efficient access to the necessities of life

2267
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:30,960
along with increased social support and community interaction.

2268
01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:34,120
So how would we go about designing an ideal city?

2269
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:35,720
What shape should we make it?

2270
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,040
Square? Trapezoid?

2271
01:51:38,160 --> 01:51:40,320
Well, given we are going to be moving around the thing

2272
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:43,440
we might as well make it as equidistant as possible for ease...

2273
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,720
hence the circle.

2274
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:47,680
What should the city contain?

2275
01:51:47,720 --> 01:51:51,680
Well, naturally we need a residential area, a goods production area

2276
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:55,320
a power generation area; an agricultural area.

2277
01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:58,800
But we also need nurturing as human beings - hence culture

2278
01:51:58,840 --> 01:52:02,080
nature, recreation and education.

2279
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:04,160
So lets include a nice open park

2280
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:08,520
an entertainment/events area for cultural purposes and socializing

2281
01:52:08,680 --> 01:52:11,240
and educational and research facilities.

2282
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:13,560
And since we are working with a circle

2283
01:52:13,560 --> 01:52:16,480
it seems rational to place these functions in Belts

2284
01:52:16,480 --> 01:52:19,480
based on the amount of land required for each goal

2285
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:21,800
along with ease of access.

2286
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:23,280
Very good.

2287
01:52:23,560 --> 01:52:25,640
Now, let's get down to specifics:

2288
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:27,880
First we need the consider the core

2289
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,880
infrastructure or intestines of the city organism.

2290
01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:33,280
These would be the water, goods

2291
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:35,640
waste and energy transport channels.

2292
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:39,480
Just as we have water and sewage systems under our cities today

2293
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:42,200
we would extend this channeling concept to

2294
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:45,080
integrate waste recycling and delivery itself.

2295
01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:47,720
No more mailmen or garbage men.

2296
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:50,440
It is built right in. We could even use

2297
01:52:50,440 --> 01:52:53,320
automated pneumatic tubes and similar technologies.

2298
01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:55,480
Same goes for transport.

2299
01:52:55,480 --> 01:52:59,120
It needs to be integrated and strategically designed to reduce

2300
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:02,760
or even remove the need for wasteful, independent automobiles.

2301
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:05,680
Electric trams, conveyors, transveyors and

2302
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,960
maglevs which can take you virtually

2303
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:10,360
anywhere in the city, even up and down

2304
01:53:10,440 --> 01:53:13,520
along with connecting you to other cities as well.

2305
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,520
And of course, in the event a car is required

2306
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:20,200
it is automated by satellite for safety and integrity.

2307
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:24,120
In fact, this automation technology is in working order right now.

2308
01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:29,000
Automobile accidents kill about 1.2 million people every single year;

2309
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:31,200
injuring about 50 million.

2310
01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:34,040
This is absurd and doesn't have to occur.

2311
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:37,880
Between efficient city design and automated, driverless cars

2312
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:40,760
this death toll can be virtually eliminated.

2313
01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:42,640
Agriculture.

2314
01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:46,200
Today, through our haphazard, cost-cutting industrial methods

2315
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:50,280
using pesticides, excessive fertilizers and other means

2316
01:53:50,440 --> 01:53:52,400
we have successfully destroyed much

2317
01:53:52,400 --> 01:53:54,320
of the the arable land on this planet

2318
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:57,680
not to mention also extensively poisoning our bodies.

2319
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:01,120
In fact, industrial and agricultural chemical toxins

2320
01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:06,880
now show up in virtually every human being tested, including infants.

2321
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:10,120
Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -

2322
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:13,640
the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics

2323
01:54:13,640 --> 01:54:16,560
which also reduce nutrient and water

2324
01:54:16,560 --> 01:54:20,400
requirements by up to 75 % of our current usage.

2325
01:54:20,480 --> 01:54:24,160
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale

2326
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:26,680
in enclosed vertical farms.

2327
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:29,640
Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -

2328
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:32,000
virtually eliminating the need for

2329
01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,560
pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.

2330
01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:37,640
This is the future of industrial food cultivation.

2331
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:40,200
Efficient, clean and abundant.

2332
01:54:40,360 --> 01:54:43,400
So, such advanced systems would be, in part

2333
01:54:43,440 --> 01:54:45,960
what comprise our agricultural belt

2334
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:49,680
producing all the food required for the entire city's population

2335
01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:52,680
with no need to import anything from the outside

2336
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:56,000
saving time, waste and energy.

2337
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,360
And speaking of Energy-

2338
01:54:58,400 --> 01:55:01,280
The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to

2339
01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:04,320
extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums

2340
01:55:04,440 --> 01:55:08,560
-specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials

2341
01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:12,480
and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.

2342
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:15,000
To avoid intermittency and make sure

2343
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:17,280
a positive net energy return occurs

2344
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:20,280
these mediums would operate in an integrated system

2345
01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:22,200
powering each other when needed

2346
01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:24,520
while storing excessive energy to large

2347
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:26,640
super capacitors under the ground

2348
01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:29,040
so nothing can go to waste.

2349
01:55:29,240 --> 01:55:31,600
And not only does the city power itself

2350
01:55:31,640 --> 01:55:34,880
particular structures will also power independently

2351
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:38,040
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints

2352
01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:41,640
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect

2353
01:55:41,640 --> 01:55:45,120
and other current but under utilized technologies.

2354
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:47,480
But, of course, this begs the question:

2355
01:55:47,600 --> 01:55:49,720
how does this technology, and goods in

2356
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:51,920
general, get created in the first place?

2357
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:54,040
This bring us to Production:

2358
01:55:54,040 --> 01:55:57,240
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like

2359
01:55:57,240 --> 01:55:59,600
would be the hub of factory production.

2360
01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:01,440
Completely localized overall

2361
01:56:01,440 --> 01:56:03,800
it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of

2362
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:07,400
the global resource management system, just discussed-

2363
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:12,040
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.

2364
01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:14,080
As far as the mechanics of production

2365
01:56:14,280 --> 01:56:17,360
we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon

2366
01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:20,120
which was sparked very recently in human history

2367
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:23,200
and is on pace to changing everything.

2368
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:25,560
It's called Mechanization

2369
01:56:25,560 --> 01:56:27,960
or the automation of labor.

2370
01:56:28,120 --> 01:56:31,280
Well, if you look around, you'll notice that almost

2371
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:33,800
everything that we use today

2372
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:36,560
is built automatically.

2373
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:42,280
Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...

2374
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:48,280
they are all built by machines in an automatic way.

2375
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:51,880
Can we say that the society has not been

2376
01:56:51,880 --> 01:56:55,880
influenced by these major technological advancements?

2377
01:56:56,080 --> 01:56:57,240
Of course not.

2378
01:56:57,240 --> 01:57:02,240
These systems really dictate new structures

2379
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:07,840
and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.

2380
01:57:07,880 --> 01:57:12,120
So, we have been going up in the development

2381
01:57:12,120 --> 01:57:16,240
and use of technology in an exponential way.

2382
01:57:16,320 --> 01:57:21,480
So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop

2383
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:24,120
technologies that just make sense.

2384
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:27,720
Labor automation through technology is at the bottom

2385
01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:31,040
of every major social transformation in human history.

2386
01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:34,440
From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow

2387
01:57:34,440 --> 01:57:37,800
to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine

2388
01:57:37,880 --> 01:57:40,800
to the information age we live in now through

2389
01:57:40,800 --> 01:57:44,800
essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.

2390
01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:48,000
And with regard to advanced production methods today

2391
01:57:48,120 --> 01:57:50,960
mechanization is now evolving on its own.

2392
01:57:51,080 --> 01:57:53,600
Moving away from the traditional method of

2393
01:57:53,600 --> 01:57:56,480
assembling component parts into a configuration -

2394
01:57:56,560 --> 01:57:59,280
into an advanced method of creating

2395
01:57:59,280 --> 01:58:02,120
entire products in one single process.

2396
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:05,720
Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is

2397
01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:10,080
so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.

2398
01:58:10,240 --> 01:58:15,960
What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.

2399
01:58:16,320 --> 01:58:18,440
As good a definition of life as we've got.

2400
01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:20,480
Again, as an engineer, I have always been

2401
01:58:20,480 --> 01:58:23,000
intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.

2402
01:58:23,160 --> 01:58:25,640
RepRap is a three-dimensional printer-

2403
01:58:25,680 --> 01:58:29,040
that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and

2404
01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:32,360
instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on

2405
01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:35,360
it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.

2406
01:58:35,560 --> 01:58:37,480
Now there's nothing new about that

2407
01:58:37,480 --> 01:58:40,040
3-D printers have been around for about 30 years.

2408
01:58:40,160 --> 01:58:44,880
The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.

2409
01:58:45,040 --> 01:58:46,560
So, if you've got one, you could

2410
01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:48,320
make another one and give it to a friend

2411
01:58:48,320 --> 01:58:51,440
as well as being able to print lots of useful things.

2412
01:58:51,480 --> 01:58:54,760
From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home

2413
01:58:55,040 --> 01:58:58,960
to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop

2414
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,560
advanced, automated 3d printing now has the

2415
01:59:01,560 --> 01:59:05,080
potential to transform virtually every field of production.

2416
01:59:05,160 --> 01:59:07,280
Including home construction.

2417
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:10,040
Contour Crafting is

2418
01:59:10,160 --> 01:59:13,000
actually a fabrication technology-

2419
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:16,720
the so-called 3-D printing- when you directly build

2420
01:59:16,880 --> 01:59:20,560
3-D objects from a computer model.

2421
01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:23,680
Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible

2422
01:59:23,840 --> 01:59:26,840
to build a 2000 square-foot home

2423
01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:30,840
entirely by the machine, in one day.

2424
01:59:31,200 --> 01:59:36,320
The reason that people are interested in automating construction

2425
01:59:36,320 --> 01:59:39,120
is that it really brings a lot of benefits.

2426
01:59:39,120 --> 01:59:43,240
For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive

2427
01:59:43,360 --> 01:59:49,560
and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society

2428
01:59:49,640 --> 01:59:54,760
it also has issues and complications.

2429
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:59,680
For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.

2430
01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:02,600
It is worse than mining and agriculture.

2431
02:00:02,600 --> 02:00:07,040
That has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.

2432
02:00:07,520 --> 02:00:10,080
Another issue is the waste.

2433
02:00:10,240 --> 02:00:15,480
An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.

2434
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:21,280
So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction

2435
02:00:21,360 --> 02:00:24,680
and knowing about 40% of all materials

2436
02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:27,880
in the world are used in construction.

2437
02:00:27,880 --> 02:00:31,000
So, a big waste of energy and resources

2438
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:34,280
and big damage to the environment as well.

2439
02:00:34,440 --> 02:00:39,320
Making homes using hammers and nails and wood

2440
02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:43,520
with the state of our technology today, is really absurd

2441
02:00:43,680 --> 02:00:47,000
and will go the way of our labor class in

2442
02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:50,440
regards to manufacturing in the United States.

2443
02:00:50,520 --> 02:00:56,280
Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT

2444
02:00:56,360 --> 02:01:00,280
that states that our middle class is obsolete

2445
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:03,160
and being replaced by automation.

2446
02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:06,800
Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive

2447
02:01:06,920 --> 02:01:09,880
efficient and sustainable than human labor

2448
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:12,800
in virtually every sector of the economy today.

2449
02:01:13,000 --> 02:01:16,520
Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions

2450
02:01:16,600 --> 02:01:19,440
and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.

2451
02:01:19,600 --> 02:01:22,200
The output potential and accuracy

2452
02:01:22,200 --> 02:01:24,960
compared to human labor, is unmatched.

2453
02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:29,280
The bottom line: repetitive human labor is becoming obsolete

2454
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:31,480
and impractical across the world

2455
02:01:31,480 --> 02:01:34,240
and the unemployment you see around you today

2456
02:01:34,240 --> 02:01:36,800
is fundamentally the result of this

2457
02:01:36,800 --> 02:01:39,640
evolution of efficiency in technology.

2458
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:43,720
For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern

2459
02:01:43,760 --> 02:01:47,000
which could be called “Technological Unemployment”

2460
02:01:47,000 --> 02:01:49,840
because of the fact that new sectors always seemed

2461
02:01:49,840 --> 02:01:52,640
to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.

2462
02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:56,040
Today, the service sector is the only real hub left

2463
02:01:56,120 --> 02:01:59,840
and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce

2464
02:01:59,840 --> 02:02:03,960
with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.

2465
02:02:04,040 --> 02:02:06,160
However, this sector now being

2466
02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:09,120
challenged increasingly by automated kiosks-

2467
02:02:09,240 --> 02:02:12,960
automated restaurants and even automated stores.

2468
02:02:13,080 --> 02:02:14,800
Economists today are finally

2469
02:02:14,800 --> 02:02:17,440
acknowledging what they had been denying for years:

2470
02:02:17,480 --> 02:02:21,480
not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current

2471
02:02:21,480 --> 02:02:23,480
labor crisis we see across the

2472
02:02:23,480 --> 02:02:26,200
world due to the global economic downturn

2473
02:02:26,240 --> 02:02:28,480
but the more the recession deepens

2474
02:02:28,480 --> 02:02:30,960
the faster the industries are mechanizing.

2475
02:02:31,160 --> 02:02:33,080
The catch, which is not realized

2476
02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:36,000
is that the faster they mechanize to save money;

2477
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:37,720
the more they displace people-

2478
02:02:37,760 --> 02:02:40,880
the more they reduce public purchasing power.

2479
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:42,880
This means that, while the corporation

2480
02:02:42,880 --> 02:02:44,680
can produce everything more cheaply

2481
02:02:44,720 --> 02:02:48,240
fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything

2482
02:02:48,400 --> 02:02:50,960
regardless of how cheap they become.

2483
02:02:51,040 --> 02:02:53,800
The bottom line is that the “labor for

2484
02:02:53,800 --> 02:02:56,640
income” game is slowly coming to an end.

2485
02:02:56,760 --> 02:02:59,200
In fact, if you take a moment to reflect

2486
02:02:59,200 --> 02:03:01,600
on the jobs which are in existence today

2487
02:03:01,600 --> 02:03:05,320
which automation could take over right now, if applied

2488
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:08,400
75% of the global workforce could be

2489
02:03:08,400 --> 02:03:11,120
replaced by mechanization tomorrow.

2490
02:03:11,560 --> 02:03:14,880
And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy

2491
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,560
There is no Monetary-Market system.

2492
02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:19,760
No money at all...

2493
02:03:19,880 --> 02:03:21,400
for there is no need.

2494
02:03:21,400 --> 02:03:23,080
a Resource-Based Economy

2495
02:03:23,080 --> 02:03:25,840
recognizes the efficiency of mechanization

2496
02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:27,800
and accepts it for what it offers.

2497
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:30,480
It doesn't fight it, like we do today.

2498
02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:33,120
Why? Because it is irresponsible not to

2499
02:03:33,120 --> 02:03:37,040
given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.

2500
02:03:38,240 --> 02:03:41,000
And this brings us back to our city system.

2501
02:03:41,160 --> 02:03:43,320
In the center is the Central Dome

2502
02:03:43,320 --> 02:03:45,040
which not only houses the

2503
02:03:45,040 --> 02:03:47,520
educational facilities and transportation hub-

2504
02:03:47,640 --> 02:03:49,840
it also hosts the mainframe that

2505
02:03:49,840 --> 02:03:52,280
runs the cities technical operations.

2506
02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:55,720
The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.

2507
02:03:55,760 --> 02:03:57,760
It has sensors in all technical belts

2508
02:03:57,760 --> 02:03:59,760
to track the progress of architecture-

2509
02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:03,680
energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.

2510
02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:06,640
Now, would people be needed to oversee these

2511
02:04:06,640 --> 02:04:09,600
operations in the event of a malfunction and the like?

2512
02:04:09,600 --> 02:04:11,040
Most probably: yes.

2513
02:04:11,040 --> 02:04:12,960
But that number would decrease

2514
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,080
over time as improvements continue.

2515
02:04:15,240 --> 02:04:17,320
However, as of today, maybe 3% of

2516
02:04:17,320 --> 02:04:19,440
the city population would be needed

2517
02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:21,840
for this job when you break it down.

2518
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:24,120
And I can assure you:

2519
02:04:24,240 --> 02:04:26,280
that in an economic system which is

2520
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:28,400
actually designed to take care of you

2521
02:04:28,520 --> 02:04:30,640
and secure your well being

2522
02:04:30,680 --> 02:04:32,720
without you having to submit to

2523
02:04:32,720 --> 02:04:35,280
private dictatorship on a daily basis...

2524
02:04:35,320 --> 02:04:37,640
usually to a job that is either

2525
02:04:37,640 --> 02:04:40,440
technically unnecessary or socially pointless

2526
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:43,640
while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist

2527
02:04:43,640 --> 02:04:45,760
just to make ends meet...

2528
02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:50,320
I guarantee you: people will volunteer their time left and right

2529
02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:53,160
to maintain and improve a system

2530
02:04:53,160 --> 02:04:55,840
that actually takes care of them.

2531
02:04:57,080 --> 02:05:00,080
And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive'-

2532
02:05:00,280 --> 02:05:02,200
comes the common assumption that

2533
02:05:02,200 --> 02:05:04,280
if there isn't some external pressure

2534
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:06,680
for one to “work for a living”

2535
02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:09,320
people would just sit around, do nothing

2536
02:05:09,320 --> 02:05:11,880
and turn into fat lazy blobs.

2537
02:05:12,160 --> 02:05:14,480
This is nonsense.

2538
02:05:14,480 --> 02:05:16,800
The labor system we have today is

2539
02:05:16,800 --> 02:05:19,080
in fact the generator of laziness-

2540
02:05:19,200 --> 02:05:21,880
not a resolver of it.

2541
02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:24,240
If you think back to when you were a child-

2542
02:05:24,280 --> 02:05:27,320
full of life, interested in new things to understand-

2543
02:05:27,400 --> 02:05:29,680
likely creating and exploring...

2544
02:05:29,800 --> 02:05:32,760
but as time went on, the system pushed you

2545
02:05:32,760 --> 02:05:36,120
into the focus of figuring out how to make money.

2546
02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:37,960
And from early education

2547
02:05:37,960 --> 02:05:40,760
to study at a university, you are narrowed.

2548
02:05:40,800 --> 02:05:43,600
Only to emerge as a creature which serves

2549
02:05:43,640 --> 02:05:46,200
as a cog in a wheel in a model that

2550
02:05:46,200 --> 02:05:48,840
sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.

2551
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:52,440
Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact

2552
02:05:52,440 --> 02:05:55,000
not motivated by monetary reward

2553
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:57,680
when it comes to ingenuity and creation.

2554
02:05:57,800 --> 02:06:00,480
The creation itself is the reward.

2555
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:03,600
Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive

2556
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:06,240
for repetitive, mundane actions-

2557
02:06:06,240 --> 02:06:10,360
a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.

2558
02:06:10,440 --> 02:06:12,360
When it comes to innovation

2559
02:06:12,360 --> 02:06:14,560
the actual use of the human mind

2560
02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:17,560
the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance

2561
02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:21,120
interfering and detracting from creative thought.

2562
02:06:21,200 --> 02:06:24,280
And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers

2563
02:06:24,320 --> 02:06:26,840
and other inventors who contributed massively

2564
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:28,160
to our current world

2565
02:06:28,200 --> 02:06:31,560
never showed a monetary incentive to do so.

2566
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:35,280
Money is, in fact, a false incentive

2567
02:06:35,360 --> 02:06:38,120
and causes 100 times more distortion

2568
02:06:38,120 --> 02:06:40,480
than it does contribution.

2569
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:44,760
Good morning class. Please settle down.

2570
02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:47,920
The first thing I would like to do is go around the room

2571
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:51,680
and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.

2572
02:06:51,760 --> 02:06:54,000
Who would like to go first?

2573
02:06:54,040 --> 02:06:56,360
Okay, how about you Sarah?

2574
02:06:56,440 --> 02:07:00,840
When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!

2575
02:07:00,920 --> 02:07:03,680
Oh, family tradition, eh?

2576
02:07:03,680 --> 02:07:05,640
How about you, Linda?

2577
02:07:05,760 --> 02:07:08,080
When I grow up, I'm going to be a

2578
02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:11,000
prostitute on the streets of New York City!

2579
02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:13,080
Oh! glamour girl, huh?

2580
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:15,000
Very ambitious.

2581
02:07:15,120 --> 02:07:16,800
How about you, Tommy?

2582
02:07:16,920 --> 02:07:19,000
When I grow up, I'm going to be a

2583
02:07:19,000 --> 02:07:21,080
rich, elitist businessman who works

2584
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:23,120
on Wall Street and profits off of

2585
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:25,200
the collapse of foreign economies.

2586
02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:26,440
Enterprising...

2587
02:07:26,480 --> 02:07:30,360
And great to see some multicultural interest!

2588
02:07:32,240 --> 02:07:33,560
[Victims of Culture]

2589
02:07:33,760 --> 02:07:36,080
As stated before, a Resource-Based

2590
02:07:36,080 --> 02:07:40,000
Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern

2591
02:07:40,080 --> 02:07:43,280
and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.

2592
02:07:43,520 --> 02:07:45,560
It also has the consideration of

2593
02:07:45,560 --> 02:07:49,480
human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.

2594
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:52,480
What good is a social system if, in the end

2595
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:55,920
it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?

2596
02:07:55,960 --> 02:07:58,080
So, it is important to point out that

2597
02:07:58,080 --> 02:08:00,040
with the removal of the money system

2598
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:02,560
and the necessities of life provided

2599
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:05,080
we would see a global reduction in

2600
02:08:05,080 --> 02:08:08,200
crime by about 95% almost immediately

2601
02:08:08,240 --> 02:08:11,920
for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.

2602
02:08:12,040 --> 02:08:14,960
95% of all people in prisons today are there

2603
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:18,160
due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse

2604
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:22,560
and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.

2605
02:08:23,320 --> 02:08:25,200
So what about the other 5%?

2606
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:26,920
the truly violent...

2607
02:08:27,040 --> 02:08:28,880
often seeming to some as being

2608
02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:31,160
violent for the sake of being violent...

2609
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:34,600
are they just “evil” people?

2610
02:08:35,080 --> 02:08:40,280
The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time

2611
02:08:40,440 --> 02:08:43,760
to engage in moral value judgments

2612
02:08:43,840 --> 02:08:46,560
about people's violence is

2613
02:08:46,560 --> 02:08:50,320
because it doesn't advance by one iota

2614
02:08:50,480 --> 02:08:53,600
our understanding of either the causes

2615
02:08:53,680 --> 02:08:57,600
or the prevention of the violent behavior.

2616
02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:02,040
People sometimes ask if I believe in “forgiving” criminals.

2617
02:09:02,360 --> 02:09:04,280
My answer to that is

2618
02:09:04,320 --> 02:09:07,240
“No, I don't believe in forgiveness

2619
02:09:07,240 --> 02:09:10,240
anymore than I believe in condemnation”.

2620
02:09:10,240 --> 02:09:12,960
It's only if we, as a society

2621
02:09:13,000 --> 02:09:16,360
can take the same attitude of treating violence as

2622
02:09:16,360 --> 02:09:19,680
a problem in public health and preventive medicine

2623
02:09:19,760 --> 02:09:22,760
rather than as a moral "evil"...

2624
02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:25,600
it's only when we make that change in our

2625
02:09:25,600 --> 02:09:28,200
own attitudes and assumptions and values

2626
02:09:28,320 --> 02:09:31,520
that we will actually succeed in reducing the

2627
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:34,640
level of violence rather than stimulating it-

2628
02:09:34,680 --> 02:09:36,600
which is what we do now.

2629
02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:39,920
The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become

2630
02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:41,840
because there's no such thing as justice.

2631
02:09:41,960 --> 02:09:46,080
There is whatever there is out there. That's it.

2632
02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:50,080
In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots-

2633
02:09:50,080 --> 02:09:53,200
if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that

2634
02:09:53,200 --> 02:09:55,000
why do you blame the person for it?

2635
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:58,160
They are a victim of a subculture.

2636
02:09:58,240 --> 02:10:00,200
Therefore they have to be helped.

2637
02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:03,640
The point is, we have to redesign the environment

2638
02:10:03,680 --> 02:10:06,240
that produces aberrant behavior.

2639
02:10:06,240 --> 02:10:07,280
That's the problem.

2640
02:10:07,400 --> 02:10:09,200
Not putting a person in jail.

2641
02:10:09,600 --> 02:10:12,520
That's why judges- lawyers-

2642
02:10:12,520 --> 02:10:15,240
“freedom of choice” - such concepts

2643
02:10:15,240 --> 02:10:19,640
are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.

2644
02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:23,360
That the person is “bad”... or that person is a “serial killer”.

2645
02:10:23,440 --> 02:10:25,240
Serial killers are made

2646
02:10:25,240 --> 02:10:30,040
just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.

2647
02:10:30,280 --> 02:10:32,800
They become killing machines, but nobody

2648
02:10:32,800 --> 02:10:35,280
looks at them as murderers or assassins

2649
02:10:35,360 --> 02:10:37,240
because that's “natural”.

2650
02:10:37,440 --> 02:10:39,160
So we blame people.

2651
02:10:39,240 --> 02:10:42,200
We say, “Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews”.

2652
02:10:42,200 --> 02:10:45,280
No, he was brought up to torture Jews.

2653
02:10:45,320 --> 02:10:47,920
Once you accept the fact that people

2654
02:10:47,920 --> 02:10:50,760
have individual choices and they are free

2655
02:10:50,760 --> 02:10:53,280
to make those choices... Free to make

2656
02:10:53,280 --> 02:10:55,800
choices means without being influenced

2657
02:10:55,840 --> 02:10:58,120
and I can't understand that at all.

2658
02:10:58,200 --> 02:11:01,960
All of us are influenced in all of our choices

2659
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:05,000
by the culture we live in, by our parents

2660
02:11:05,040 --> 02:11:07,160
and by the values that dominate.

2661
02:11:07,240 --> 02:11:10,840
So, we're influenced- so there can't be “free” choices.

2662
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:13,520
What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:

2663
02:11:13,520 --> 02:11:16,080
I haven't been all over the world and I don't know

2664
02:11:16,120 --> 02:11:19,960
enough about different cultures to answer that question.'

2665
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:22,400
I don't know anybody that speaks that way.

2666
02:11:22,400 --> 02:11:24,760
They say 'it's the good old USA!

2667
02:11:24,760 --> 02:11:26,240
the greatest country in the world!'

2668
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:28,640
There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'

2669
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:30,080
Have you been to England?' - 'No.'

2670
02:11:30,080 --> 02:11:31,600
Have you been to France?' - 'No.'

2671
02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:33,520
Then what do you make your assumptions on?'

2672
02:11:33,520 --> 02:11:35,800
They can't answer- they get mad at you.

2673
02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:37,480
They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell

2674
02:11:37,480 --> 02:11:39,560
are you to tell me what to think?!'

2675
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:42,240
You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.

2676
02:11:42,320 --> 02:11:44,880
They are not responsible for the answers;

2677
02:11:44,880 --> 02:11:47,800
they're victims of culture and that means

2678
02:11:47,840 --> 02:11:50,760
they have been influenced by their culture.

2679
02:12:09,200 --> 02:12:16,040
[Part 4: Rise]

2680
02:12:17,960 --> 02:12:20,080
When we consider a Resource-Based Economy

2681
02:12:20,080 --> 02:12:23,320
there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...

2682
02:12:23,360 --> 02:12:24,840
[EH!] (Interrupted)

2683
02:12:24,840 --> 02:12:26,680
[Eh! Hey!]

2684
02:12:26,680 --> 02:12:29,240
[Now hold on just a minute!]

2685
02:12:29,320 --> 02:12:33,560
[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]

2686
02:12:33,720 --> 02:12:38,280
[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]

2687
02:12:38,320 --> 02:12:41,800
[My father died in the Gulag!]

2688
02:12:41,800 --> 02:12:44,240
[Communist! Fascist!]

2689
02:12:44,320 --> 02:12:45,720
[You don't like America you should just leave!]

2690
02:12:45,720 --> 02:12:47,280
All right, everybody just calm down...

2691
02:12:47,360 --> 02:12:49,320
[Death to the New World Order!]

2692
02:12:49,320 --> 02:12:51,160
[Death to the New World Order!]

2693
02:12:51,200 --> 02:12:53,120
And as the irrationality of the

2694
02:12:53,120 --> 02:12:55,240
audience grew, shocked and confused:

2695
02:12:55,240 --> 02:12:58,240
suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack.'

2696
02:12:59,560 --> 02:13:05,040
And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.

2697
02:13:05,960 --> 02:13:09,000
[System Error]

2698
02:13:10,760 --> 02:13:13,080
[Backup Initiated - Restored]

2699
02:13:13,680 --> 02:13:16,560
But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people

2700
02:13:16,560 --> 02:13:19,200
in 'think tank' type situations

2701
02:13:19,200 --> 02:13:23,120
you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...

2702
02:13:23,120 --> 02:13:24,640
they say ”Marxist!”

2703
02:13:24,680 --> 02:13:26,600
What? Marxist? Where did that come from?

2704
02:13:26,640 --> 02:13:30,400
They just got this icon they hold onto-

2705
02:13:30,400 --> 02:13:32,800
It's their Holy Grail

2706
02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:34,760
and it's such an easy one, you know.

2707
02:13:34,760 --> 02:13:38,240
People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist

2708
02:13:38,240 --> 02:13:40,560
I say I am none of the above. Why do you

2709
02:13:40,560 --> 02:13:42,760
think that those are the only options?

2710
02:13:42,840 --> 02:13:44,960
All of those political constructs

2711
02:13:44,960 --> 02:13:47,120
were created by writers who assumed

2712
02:13:47,200 --> 02:13:49,960
we lived on a planet of infinite resources.

2713
02:13:50,080 --> 02:13:53,000
Not one of those political philosophies even

2714
02:13:53,000 --> 02:13:56,640
contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.

2715
02:13:56,680 --> 02:14:01,000
I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism

2716
02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:03,720
are part of social evolution.

2717
02:14:03,720 --> 02:14:06,040
You can't take a giant step

2718
02:14:06,080 --> 02:14:07,920
from one culture to another-

2719
02:14:07,960 --> 02:14:09,800
there are in-between systems.

2720
02:14:09,800 --> 02:14:11,920
Before there's any “Ism”, we have a life ground

2721
02:14:11,920 --> 02:14:13,880
and the life ground is as I've just described

2722
02:14:13,880 --> 02:14:15,760
most easily as all the conditions

2723
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:17,480
required to take your next breath

2724
02:14:17,480 --> 02:14:19,880
and that involves the air you breathe

2725
02:14:19,880 --> 02:14:23,000
the water you get, the safety you have

2726
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:25,120
the education you can access- all

2727
02:14:25,120 --> 02:14:27,840
these things that we share and use and that

2728
02:14:27,840 --> 02:14:31,160
no life, in any culture, can do without.

2729
02:14:31,160 --> 02:14:34,880
So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground

2730
02:14:34,880 --> 02:14:37,600
and the life ground is no longer any “Ism”.

2731
02:14:37,600 --> 02:14:40,520
It's “life value analysis.”

2732
02:14:41,560 --> 02:14:43,480
[Beyond The Pale]

2733
02:14:43,680 --> 02:14:46,200
It's simply a matter of historical fact

2734
02:14:46,200 --> 02:14:48,640
that the dominant intellectual culture

2735
02:14:48,640 --> 02:14:50,960
of any particular society reflects the

2736
02:14:50,960 --> 02:14:53,880
interests of the dominant group in that society.

2737
02:14:54,000 --> 02:14:55,960
In a slave owning society

2738
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,120
the beliefs about human beings and human rights

2739
02:14:59,120 --> 02:15:02,560
and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.

2740
02:15:02,600 --> 02:15:05,400
In the society, again, which is based on

2741
02:15:05,400 --> 02:15:10,520
the power of certain people to control and profit from

2742
02:15:10,520 --> 02:15:13,680
the lives and work of millions of others

2743
02:15:13,760 --> 02:15:16,120
the dominant intellectual culture will

2744
02:15:16,120 --> 02:15:18,560
reflect the needs of the dominant group.

2745
02:15:18,600 --> 02:15:22,200
So, if you look across the board, the

2746
02:15:22,200 --> 02:15:25,240
ideas that pervade psychology and

2747
02:15:25,240 --> 02:15:28,240
sociology and history

2748
02:15:28,240 --> 02:15:30,880
and political economy and political science

2749
02:15:30,880 --> 02:15:34,600
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.

2750
02:15:34,600 --> 02:15:38,320
And the academics who question that too much

2751
02:15:38,320 --> 02:15:41,040
tend to get shunted to the side or

2752
02:15:41,040 --> 02:15:43,680
to be seen as sort of “radicals”.

2753
02:15:43,680 --> 02:15:45,760
The dominant values of a culture

2754
02:15:45,760 --> 02:15:47,840
tend to support and perpetuate

2755
02:15:47,840 --> 02:15:50,000
what is rewarded by that culture.

2756
02:15:50,120 --> 02:15:52,240
And in a society where success and

2757
02:15:52,240 --> 02:15:54,600
status is measured by material wealth

2758
02:15:54,640 --> 02:15:56,760
- not social contribution -

2759
02:15:56,840 --> 02:16:01,560
it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.

2760
02:16:01,560 --> 02:16:04,360
We are dealing with a value system disorder

2761
02:16:04,400 --> 02:16:06,160
- completely denatured -

2762
02:16:06,200 --> 02:16:08,840
where the priority of personal and social health

2763
02:16:08,840 --> 02:16:11,600
have become secondary to the detrimental

2764
02:16:11,600 --> 02:16:14,960
notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.

2765
02:16:15,080 --> 02:16:17,440
And, like a virus, this disorder now

2766
02:16:17,440 --> 02:16:19,760
permeates every facet of government

2767
02:16:19,800 --> 02:16:23,840
- news media - entertainment - and even academia.

2768
02:16:23,840 --> 02:16:25,760
And built into its structure

2769
02:16:25,800 --> 02:16:27,880
are mechanisms of protection

2770
02:16:27,880 --> 02:16:30,400
from anything that might interfere.

2771
02:16:30,440 --> 02:16:33,080
Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion

2772
02:16:33,080 --> 02:16:36,200
the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo

2773
02:16:36,200 --> 02:16:40,000
constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought

2774
02:16:40,120 --> 02:16:42,520
which might interfere with their beliefs.

2775
02:16:42,520 --> 02:16:46,680
The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.

2776
02:16:46,680 --> 02:16:49,520
If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.

2777
02:16:49,560 --> 02:16:52,640
If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist

2778
02:16:52,680 --> 02:16:55,240
and if you feel society can be greatly improved

2779
02:16:55,240 --> 02:16:57,160
to consider, perhaps - I don't know-

2780
02:16:57,160 --> 02:16:59,120
taking care of everyone?

2781
02:16:59,160 --> 02:17:01,320
you're just a “Utopianist”.

2782
02:17:01,400 --> 02:17:03,600
And the most insidious of them all:

2783
02:17:03,640 --> 02:17:06,040
if you are not for the "free-market"

2784
02:17:06,040 --> 02:17:08,760
you must be against freedom itself.

2785
02:17:08,840 --> 02:17:10,920
I'm a believer in freedom!

2786
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:12,800
Every time you hear the word freedom

2787
02:17:12,800 --> 02:17:15,000
being said anywhere or government interference

2788
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:19,520
said anywhere, it means, decoded:

2789
02:17:19,720 --> 02:17:23,320
blocking maximization of turning money

2790
02:17:23,320 --> 02:17:27,400
into more money for private money possessors.

2791
02:17:27,560 --> 02:17:29,520
That's it. Every other thing they'll say:

2792
02:17:29,520 --> 02:17:31,440
'Oh, we need more commodities for people';

2793
02:17:31,480 --> 02:17:35,600
'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth

2794
02:17:35,640 --> 02:17:38,360
every time you see it, you can decode it down to

2795
02:17:38,360 --> 02:17:41,200
that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation

2796
02:17:41,200 --> 02:17:42,640
with every time they use it.

2797
02:17:42,640 --> 02:17:45,680
And this, in a sense, we might call:

2798
02:17:45,680 --> 02:17:50,680
a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.

2799
02:17:50,680 --> 02:17:53,800
So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it

2800
02:17:53,800 --> 02:17:56,240
so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'

2801
02:17:56,240 --> 02:17:58,160
but in fact, that's what they do.

2802
02:17:58,160 --> 02:18:00,080
Just like you may speak a grammar

2803
02:18:00,200 --> 02:18:02,280
and you have rules of grammar you follow

2804
02:18:02,280 --> 02:18:04,360
without recognizing what the rules are...

2805
02:18:04,360 --> 02:18:08,400
and so what we have is what I call the “Ruling Value Syntax”

2806
02:18:08,400 --> 02:18:11,720
that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:

2807
02:18:11,720 --> 02:18:15,200
government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'

2808
02:18:15,200 --> 02:18:17,800
or 'progress' or 'development'

2809
02:18:17,800 --> 02:18:22,760
you can decode them all to come back to mean that.

2810
02:18:22,960 --> 02:18:25,640
Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'

2811
02:18:25,640 --> 02:18:27,800
it tends to be in same sentence

2812
02:18:27,800 --> 02:18:30,200
with something called 'democracy'.

2813
02:18:30,240 --> 02:18:33,160
It's fascinating how people today seem to believe

2814
02:18:33,160 --> 02:18:35,320
that they actually have a relevant

2815
02:18:35,320 --> 02:18:37,680
influence on what their government does

2816
02:18:37,680 --> 02:18:40,200
forgetting that the very nature of

2817
02:18:40,200 --> 02:18:42,880
our system offers everything for sale.

2818
02:18:42,880 --> 02:18:45,680
The only vote that counts is the monetary vote

2819
02:18:45,680 --> 02:18:47,800
and it doesn't matter how much any

2820
02:18:47,800 --> 02:18:50,680
activist yells about ethics and accountability.

2821
02:18:50,680 --> 02:18:54,640
In a market system, every politician, every legislation

2822
02:18:54,720 --> 02:18:57,920
and hence, every government is for sale.

2823
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:01,520
And even with the 20 trillion dollar bank bailouts

2824
02:19:01,520 --> 02:19:03,640
starting in 2007

2825
02:19:03,640 --> 02:19:06,400
an amount of money which could have changed

2826
02:19:06,400 --> 02:19:08,640
say, the global energy infrastructure

2827
02:19:08,640 --> 02:19:10,400
to fully renewable methods

2828
02:19:10,440 --> 02:19:12,760
instead going to a series of institutions

2829
02:19:12,760 --> 02:19:14,960
that literally do nothing to help society

2830
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:16,880
institutions that could be

2831
02:19:16,880 --> 02:19:19,600
removed tomorrow with no recourse...

2832
02:19:19,600 --> 02:19:22,480
the blind conditioning that politics and

2833
02:19:22,480 --> 02:19:28,000
politicians exist for the public well-being still continues.

2834
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:31,080
The fact is, politics is a business

2835
02:19:31,120 --> 02:19:34,080
- no different than any other in a market system

2836
02:19:34,080 --> 02:19:38,200
and they care about their self-interest before anything else.

2837
02:19:38,400 --> 02:19:42,680
I don't really, honestly, deep down believe in political action.

2838
02:19:42,680 --> 02:19:45,920
I think the system contracts and expands as it wants to.

2839
02:19:45,920 --> 02:19:47,720
It accommodates these changes.

2840
02:19:47,720 --> 02:19:50,200
I think the civil rights movement was an accommodation

2841
02:19:50,200 --> 02:19:52,280
on the part of those who own the country.

2842
02:19:52,280 --> 02:19:55,040
I think they see where their self-interest lies;

2843
02:19:55,120 --> 02:19:57,880
they see a certain amount of freedom seems good

2844
02:19:57,880 --> 02:20:01,000
-an illusion of liberty- give these people a voting day every year

2845
02:20:01,080 --> 02:20:04,120
so that they will have the illusion of meaningless choice.

2846
02:20:04,120 --> 02:20:07,520
Meaningless choice- that we go, like slaves and say

2847
02:20:07,560 --> 02:20:11,080
“Oh, I Voted.” The limits of debate in this country are established

2848
02:20:11,080 --> 02:20:13,040
before the debate even begins and everyone

2849
02:20:13,040 --> 02:20:15,040
else is marginalized and made to seem either

2850
02:20:15,040 --> 02:20:17,760
to be communist or some sort of disloyal person

2851
02:20:17,760 --> 02:20:19,560
-a “kook”- there's a word...

2852
02:20:19,560 --> 02:20:21,880
and now it's “conspiracy”. See- they made that.

2853
02:20:21,880 --> 02:20:24,880
Something that should not be even entertained for a minute:

2854
02:20:24,920 --> 02:20:28,000
that powerful people might get together and have a plan!

2855
02:20:28,080 --> 02:20:33,040
Doesn't happen! You're a “kook”! Your a “conspiracy buff”!

2856
02:20:33,640 --> 02:20:37,000
And of all the mechanisms of defense of this system

2857
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:39,880
there are two that repeatedly come up.

2858
02:20:40,120 --> 02:20:43,680
The first is this idea that the system has been the “cause”

2859
02:20:43,720 --> 02:20:47,040
of the material progress we have seen on this planet.

2860
02:20:47,120 --> 02:20:49,040
Well...No.

2861
02:20:49,160 --> 02:20:51,800
There are basically two root causes which

2862
02:20:51,800 --> 02:20:54,640
have created the increased so-called “wealth”

2863
02:20:54,680 --> 02:20:57,400
and population growth we see today.

2864
02:20:57,520 --> 02:21:01,440
One: the exponential advancement of production technology;

2865
02:21:01,440 --> 02:21:03,960
hence scientific ingenuity.

2866
02:21:03,960 --> 02:21:08,760
And Two: the initial discovery of abundant hydrocarbon energy

2867
02:21:08,840 --> 02:21:13,360
-which is currently the foundation of the entire socio-economic system.

2868
02:21:13,480 --> 02:21:15,440
The free-market / capitalist / monetary

2869
02:21:15,440 --> 02:21:17,560
market system - whatever you want to call it -

2870
02:21:17,600 --> 02:21:21,200
has done nothing but ride the wave of these advents

2871
02:21:21,200 --> 02:21:24,720
with a distorted incentive system and a haphazard

2872
02:21:24,720 --> 02:21:30,240
grossly unequal method of utilizing and distributing those fruits.

2873
02:21:30,440 --> 02:21:33,840
The second defense is a belligerent social bias

2874
02:21:33,840 --> 02:21:36,160
generated from years of propaganda

2875
02:21:36,240 --> 02:21:38,800
which sees any other social system

2876
02:21:38,800 --> 02:21:41,240
as a route to so called "tyranny”

2877
02:21:41,320 --> 02:21:44,880
with various name droppings of Stalin, Mao, Hitler...

2878
02:21:44,880 --> 02:21:47,120
and the death tolls they generated.

2879
02:21:47,120 --> 02:21:50,160
Well, as despotic as these men might have been

2880
02:21:50,160 --> 02:21:53,560
along with the societal approaches they perpetuated...

2881
02:21:53,600 --> 02:21:55,720
when it comes to the game of death

2882
02:21:55,800 --> 02:21:57,920
- when comes to the systematic

2883
02:21:57,920 --> 02:22:00,160
daily mass murder of human beings -

2884
02:22:00,240 --> 02:22:04,680
Nothing in history compares to what we have today.

2885
02:22:04,920 --> 02:22:10,240
Famines - throughout at least the last century of our history

2886
02:22:10,320 --> 02:22:12,880
have not been caused by a lack of food.

2887
02:22:12,920 --> 02:22:16,000
They have been caused by relative poverty.

2888
02:22:16,120 --> 02:22:20,440
The economic resources were so inequitably distributed

2889
02:22:20,480 --> 02:22:23,720
that the poor simply didn't have enough money

2890
02:22:23,760 --> 02:22:26,400
with which to buy the food that would've been

2891
02:22:26,400 --> 02:22:29,360
available if they could have afforded to pay for it.

2892
02:22:29,560 --> 02:22:32,360
That would be an example of Structural Violence.

2893
02:22:32,360 --> 02:22:36,960
Another example: in Africa and other areas-

2894
02:22:36,960 --> 02:22:39,560
I'll particularly focus on Africa-

2895
02:22:39,560 --> 02:22:42,640
tens of millions of people are dying of AIDS.

2896
02:22:42,640 --> 02:22:44,560
Why are they dying?

2897
02:22:44,640 --> 02:22:47,240
It's not because we don't know how to treat AIDS.

2898
02:22:47,320 --> 02:22:51,120
We have millions of people in the wealthy countries

2899
02:22:51,280 --> 02:22:54,600
getting along remarkably well because

2900
02:22:54,840 --> 02:22:57,160
they have the medicines that will treat it.

2901
02:22:57,160 --> 02:23:00,160
The people in Africa who are dying of AIDS

2902
02:23:00,160 --> 02:23:03,080
are not dying because of the HIV virus...

2903
02:23:03,080 --> 02:23:06,000
they are dying because they don't have the money with

2904
02:23:06,000 --> 02:23:08,920
which to pay for the drugs that would keep them alive.

2905
02:23:09,120 --> 02:23:10,960
Gandhi saw this. He said:

2906
02:23:11,040 --> 02:23:16,080
“The deadliest form of violence is poverty.”

2907
02:23:16,240 --> 02:23:17,960
And that's absolutely right.

2908
02:23:18,080 --> 02:23:22,960
Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history;

2909
02:23:23,080 --> 02:23:25,520
more people than all the murderers in history;

2910
02:23:25,520 --> 02:23:28,560
more than all the suicides in history...

2911
02:23:28,560 --> 02:23:32,080
not only does Structural Violence kill more people

2912
02:23:32,160 --> 02:23:35,200
than all the behavioral violence put together

2913
02:23:35,360 --> 02:23:38,160
Structural Violence is also the

2914
02:23:38,160 --> 02:23:40,920
main cause of behavioral violence.

2915
02:23:42,840 --> 02:23:45,680
[Beyond the Peak]

2916
02:23:46,640 --> 02:23:50,640
Oil is the foundation of

2917
02:23:51,160 --> 02:23:55,480
and is present throughout, the edifice of human civilization.

2918
02:23:55,480 --> 02:23:59,640
There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy –oil and natural gas–

2919
02:23:59,680 --> 02:24:03,800
in every calorie of food you and I eat in the industrialized world.

2920
02:24:03,880 --> 02:24:06,600
Fertilizers are made from natural gas.

2921
02:24:06,600 --> 02:24:08,640
Pesticides are made from oil.

2922
02:24:08,760 --> 02:24:11,560
You drive oil-powered machines to plant - plow - irrigate – harvest

2923
02:24:11,560 --> 02:24:14,040
transport - package. You wrap the food

2924
02:24:14,040 --> 02:24:16,680
in plastic – that's oil. All plastic is oil.

2925
02:24:16,800 --> 02:24:19,400
There are 7 gallons of oil in every tire.

2926
02:24:19,440 --> 02:24:22,600
Oil is everywhere; it's ubiquitous. And it's only because

2927
02:24:22,600 --> 02:24:24,920
of oil that there are 7 billion people or

2928
02:24:24,960 --> 02:24:27,600
almost 7 billion people on this planet right now.

2929
02:24:27,920 --> 02:24:30,160
The arrival of this cheap and easy energy

2930
02:24:30,200 --> 02:24:32,280
which is equivalent, by the way, to

2931
02:24:32,280 --> 02:24:35,920
billions of slaves working around the clock

2932
02:24:36,160 --> 02:24:39,960
changed the world in such a radical way over the last century

2933
02:24:40,040 --> 02:24:43,360
and the population has gone up 10 times.

2934
02:24:43,360 --> 02:24:47,560
But, by 2050, oil supply is able to support

2935
02:24:47,720 --> 02:24:49,840
less than half the present world's

2936
02:24:49,840 --> 02:24:52,080
population in their present way of life.

2937
02:24:52,080 --> 02:24:57,240
So, the scale of adjustment to live differently is just enormous.

2938
02:24:57,280 --> 02:25:01,200
The world is now using six barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.

2939
02:25:01,200 --> 02:25:03,040
Five years ago it was using four

2940
02:25:03,040 --> 02:25:05,360
barrels of oil for every barrel it finds.

2941
02:25:05,440 --> 02:25:07,200
A year from now it is going to be using

2942
02:25:07,200 --> 02:25:09,240
eight barrels of oil for every barrel of finds.

2943
02:25:09,240 --> 02:25:11,360
What's disturbing to me is the

2944
02:25:11,440 --> 02:25:16,160
lack of any real effort from governments worldwide

2945
02:25:16,200 --> 02:25:19,880
and industry leaders worldwide to do something different.

2946
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:24,040
We have these, sort of, attempts to build more wind power

2947
02:25:24,040 --> 02:25:26,600
and to maybe do something with Tide...

2948
02:25:26,720 --> 02:25:31,120
we've got attempts to make our cars a little bit more efficient

2949
02:25:31,200 --> 02:25:33,560
but there's nothing which really looks like a

2950
02:25:33,560 --> 02:25:36,160
revolution coming along- these are all pretty minor

2951
02:25:36,200 --> 02:25:38,360
and that I think is pretty frightening.

2952
02:25:38,400 --> 02:25:42,000
And the governments who are driven by these economists

2953
02:25:42,000 --> 02:25:45,080
who don't really appreciate what we're talking about

2954
02:25:45,160 --> 02:25:50,280
are trying to stimulate consumerism to restore past prosperity

2955
02:25:50,280 --> 02:25:52,640
in the hope that they can restore the past.

2956
02:25:52,640 --> 02:25:56,560
They're printing yet more money lacking any collateral at all.

2957
02:25:56,640 --> 02:25:58,680
So, if the economy improves and

2958
02:25:58,680 --> 02:26:01,320
recovers and the famous growth comes back

2959
02:26:01,320 --> 02:26:03,480
it will only be short-lived because

2960
02:26:03,560 --> 02:26:07,040
within a short period of time counted in months

2961
02:26:07,040 --> 02:26:10,920
rather than years it will hit the supply barrier again;

2962
02:26:11,000 --> 02:26:12,640
there will be another price shock-

2963
02:26:12,680 --> 02:26:14,600
and a deeper recession. So I think

2964
02:26:14,600 --> 02:26:16,680
we go into a series of vicious circles

2965
02:26:16,680 --> 02:26:18,760
So you have the economic growth going up- price

2966
02:26:18,760 --> 02:26:21,120
spike- everything shuts down. That's where we are now.

2967
02:26:21,200 --> 02:26:24,760
Then it starts to come up again but what we have now is this

2968
02:26:24,760 --> 02:26:28,680
area where there's no more ability to produce cheap energy.

2969
02:26:28,680 --> 02:26:31,600
We're at the peak- were on the down slope of oil production.

2970
02:26:31,720 --> 02:26:35,360
No way you're going to get any more out of the ground any faster

2971
02:26:35,440 --> 02:26:39,400
which means that things shut down, the price of oil drops

2972
02:26:39,400 --> 02:26:45,080
which it did in early 2009 but then as you have a “recovery”

2973
02:26:45,080 --> 02:26:47,000
the price of oil starts to come back.

2974
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:49,040
It's recently been hovering at about $80

2975
02:26:49,320 --> 02:26:51,600
a barrel and what we see is that at even at $80 a

2976
02:26:51,600 --> 02:26:53,920
barrel now, with the financial and economic collapse

2977
02:26:54,000 --> 02:26:55,960
people are having a hard time affording that.

2978
02:26:55,960 --> 02:27:00,680
World oil production right now is about 86 million barrels a day.

2979
02:27:00,840 --> 02:27:04,200
Over 10 years, you're looking at

2980
02:27:04,320 --> 02:27:08,440
roughly 14 million barrels a day having to be replaced.

2981
02:27:08,640 --> 02:27:11,960
There's nothing around which can come even

2982
02:27:12,080 --> 02:27:14,960
within 1% of meeting that sort of demand.

2983
02:27:14,960 --> 02:27:17,400
If we don't do something pretty quickly

2984
02:27:17,480 --> 02:27:20,800
there's going to be a huge energy deficiency.

2985
02:27:20,800 --> 02:27:24,920
I think the big mistake is in not recognizing

2986
02:27:24,920 --> 02:27:28,840
a decade or so ago that a concerted effort

2987
02:27:28,880 --> 02:27:30,280
needed to be made to develop

2988
02:27:30,280 --> 02:27:31,960
these sustainable forms of energy.

2989
02:27:31,960 --> 02:27:35,440
I think that's something our grandchildren will look back on with

2990
02:27:35,480 --> 02:27:39,600
total disbelief. 'You people knew you

2991
02:27:39,600 --> 02:27:42,120
were dealing with a finite commodity...

2992
02:27:42,240 --> 02:27:45,480
how could you possibly have build your economy

2993
02:27:45,480 --> 02:27:48,720
around something which was going to disappear?'

2994
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:50,920
For the first time in human history

2995
02:27:51,080 --> 02:27:54,800
the species is now faced with the depletion of a core resource

2996
02:27:54,920 --> 02:27:57,600
central to our current system of survival.

2997
02:27:57,600 --> 02:27:59,960
And the punchline of the whole thing is

2998
02:27:59,960 --> 02:28:02,280
that even with oil becoming more scarce

2999
02:28:02,280 --> 02:28:05,320
the economic system will still blindly push

3000
02:28:05,400 --> 02:28:07,400
its cancerous growth model...

3001
02:28:07,440 --> 02:28:10,600
so people can go out and buy more oil powered cars

3002
02:28:10,720 --> 02:28:15,960
to generate GDP and jobs... exasperating the decline.

3003
02:28:16,080 --> 02:28:18,160
Are there solutions to replace the

3004
02:28:18,160 --> 02:28:20,240
edifice of the hydrocarbon economy?

3005
02:28:20,240 --> 02:28:21,480
Of course.

3006
02:28:21,720 --> 02:28:24,080
But the path needed to accomplish these changes

3007
02:28:24,120 --> 02:28:28,480
will not manifest through the Market System Protocols required

3008
02:28:28,480 --> 02:28:30,800
since new solutions can only be

3009
02:28:30,840 --> 02:28:33,800
implemented through the Profit Mechanism.

3010
02:28:33,960 --> 02:28:36,640
People are not investing in renewable energies

3011
02:28:36,640 --> 02:28:40,000
because there is no money in it in both long and short term.

3012
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:42,560
And the commitment needed to make it happen

3013
02:28:42,560 --> 02:28:45,600
can only occur at a severe financial loss.

3014
02:28:45,600 --> 02:28:48,800
Therefore, there is no monetary incentive and in this

3015
02:28:48,800 --> 02:28:53,280
system, if there is no monetary incentive, things do not happen.

3016
02:28:53,640 --> 02:28:55,920
And on top of it all, Peak Oil is

3017
02:28:55,920 --> 02:28:58,520
just one of many surfacing consequences

3018
02:28:58,560 --> 02:29:02,880
of the environmental-social train wreck gaining speed today.

3019
02:29:02,880 --> 02:29:05,200
Other declines include Fresh Water

3020
02:29:05,240 --> 02:29:07,360
-the very fabric of our existence-

3021
02:29:07,440 --> 02:29:09,080
which is currently showing

3022
02:29:09,080 --> 02:29:11,480
shortages for 2.8 billion people

3023
02:29:11,600 --> 02:29:16,120
and those shortages are on pace to reach 4 billion by 2030.

3024
02:29:16,360 --> 02:29:17,800
Food Production:

3025
02:29:17,920 --> 02:29:21,920
The destruction of arable crop land, from which

3026
02:29:21,920 --> 02:29:24,600
99.7% of all human food comes from today

3027
02:29:24,720 --> 02:29:29,080
is occurring up to 40 times faster than it is being replenished

3028
02:29:29,280 --> 02:29:31,800
and over the last 40 years, 30% of the

3029
02:29:31,800 --> 02:29:34,400
arable land has become unproductive.

3030
02:29:34,520 --> 02:29:37,600
Not to mention that hydrocarbons are the backbone

3031
02:29:37,600 --> 02:29:40,360
of agriculture today and as it declines...

3032
02:29:40,400 --> 02:29:42,560
so will the food supply.

3033
02:29:42,680 --> 02:29:44,400
As far as resources in general

3034
02:29:44,400 --> 02:29:47,720
at our current patterns of consumption, by 2030

3035
02:29:47,720 --> 02:29:51,040
we will need 2 planets to continue our rates.

3036
02:29:51,040 --> 02:29:53,360
Not to mention the continual destruction

3037
02:29:53,360 --> 02:29:55,880
of life supporting biodiversity

3038
02:29:55,880 --> 02:29:57,720
causing extinction spasms and

3039
02:29:57,720 --> 02:30:00,640
environmental destabilization across the globe.

3040
02:30:00,720 --> 02:30:02,640
And with all of these declines

3041
02:30:02,640 --> 02:30:05,360
we have the near exponential population growth

3042
02:30:05,360 --> 02:30:08,080
where by 2030 there might be over

3043
02:30:08,080 --> 02:30:10,640
8 billion people on this planet.

3044
02:30:10,800 --> 02:30:13,680
Energy production alone would need to

3045
02:30:13,680 --> 02:30:17,640
increase 44% by 2030 to meet such demand.

3046
02:30:17,640 --> 02:30:22,080
And again, since money is the only initiator of action-

3047
02:30:22,120 --> 02:30:24,120
are we to expect that any country on

3048
02:30:24,120 --> 02:30:26,240
the planet is going to be able to afford

3049
02:30:26,440 --> 02:30:29,840
the massive changes needed to revolutionize agriculture

3050
02:30:29,840 --> 02:30:33,040
water processing, energy production and the like?

3051
02:30:33,080 --> 02:30:35,000
When the global debt pyramid scheme is

3052
02:30:35,000 --> 02:30:37,840
slowly shutting the entire world down...

3053
02:30:37,840 --> 02:30:39,280
Not to mention the fact that

3054
02:30:39,280 --> 02:30:40,960
the unemployment you currently see

3055
02:30:40,960 --> 02:30:43,160
is going to become normality due to

3056
02:30:43,160 --> 02:30:45,680
the nature of technological unemployment.

3057
02:30:45,760 --> 02:30:48,480
The jobs are not coming back.

3058
02:30:48,480 --> 02:30:50,920
And finally, a broad social perspective.

3059
02:30:50,960 --> 02:30:53,840
From the 1970 to 2010, poverty on this

3060
02:30:53,840 --> 02:30:56,840
planet doubled due to this system...

3061
02:30:56,840 --> 02:30:58,640
and given our current state-

3062
02:30:58,640 --> 02:31:00,560
do you honestly think we will see

3063
02:31:00,600 --> 02:31:02,600
anything less than more doubling...

3064
02:31:02,600 --> 02:31:06,560
more suffering and more mass starvation?

3065
02:31:06,640 --> 02:31:08,160
[The Beginning]

3066
02:31:08,560 --> 02:31:11,160
There is not going to be any recovery.

3067
02:31:11,160 --> 02:31:13,240
This is not some long depression

3068
02:31:13,240 --> 02:31:15,720
that we're some day going to pull out of.

3069
02:31:15,840 --> 02:31:18,160
I think the next phase that we are going to see after the

3070
02:31:18,160 --> 02:31:20,920
next round of economic collapses is massive civil unrest.

3071
02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:23,120
When unemployment checks stop being

3072
02:31:23,120 --> 02:31:25,640
paid because the states have no money left.

3073
02:31:25,920 --> 02:31:29,880
And when things get so bad that people lose confidence

3074
02:31:29,920 --> 02:31:33,720
in their elected leaders, they will demand change

3075
02:31:33,800 --> 02:31:36,720
if we don't kill each other in the process

3076
02:31:36,720 --> 02:31:38,640
or destroy the environment.

3077
02:31:38,680 --> 02:31:43,280
I'm just afraid that we might get to the point of no return...

3078
02:31:43,480 --> 02:31:45,680
and that bothers me to no end.

3079
02:31:45,720 --> 02:31:49,880
We do all we can to avoid that condition.

3080
02:31:50,560 --> 02:31:56,360
It's clear that we're on the verge of a great transition in human life...

3081
02:31:56,720 --> 02:31:59,640
That what we face now is this fundamental

3082
02:31:59,640 --> 02:32:03,280
change of the life we've known over the last century.

3083
02:32:03,480 --> 02:32:06,400
There has to be a link between the economy and

3084
02:32:06,400 --> 02:32:08,400
the resources of this planet

3085
02:32:08,440 --> 02:32:11,800
the resources being, of course, all animal and plant life;

3086
02:32:11,800 --> 02:32:14,720
the health of the oceans and everything else.

3087
02:32:15,200 --> 02:32:18,280
This is a monetary paradigm that will not

3088
02:32:18,280 --> 02:32:21,640
let go until it's killed the last human being.

3089
02:32:22,640 --> 02:32:27,160
The "in" group will do all it can to stay in power

3090
02:32:27,240 --> 02:32:29,720
and that's what you've got to keep in mind.

3091
02:32:29,720 --> 02:32:32,360
They'll use the army and navy and lies..

3092
02:32:32,400 --> 02:32:35,800
or whatever they have to use to keep in power.

3093
02:32:35,840 --> 02:32:37,920
They're not about to give it up

3094
02:32:37,920 --> 02:32:43,040
because they don't know of any other system that will perpetuate their kind.

3095
02:33:38,480 --> 02:33:41,320
[Live from New York]

3096
02:33:52,280 --> 02:34:00,600
[Global Protests Shut Down World Economy]

3097
02:34:07,040 --> 02:34:10,400
[London-Live]

3098
02:34:10,400 --> 02:34:13,360
[China-Live]

3099
02:34:13,400 --> 02:34:15,920
[South Africa - Live]

3100
02:34:15,920 --> 02:34:20,120
[Spain - Live]

3101
02:34:20,120 --> 02:34:23,920
[Russian - Live]

3102
02:34:23,920 --> 02:34:29,400
[Canada - Live]

3103
02:34:29,400 --> 02:34:34,720
[Saudi Arabia - Live]

3104
02:34:48,920 --> 02:34:51,480
[Western Crime Rates Soar]

3105
02:34:51,480 --> 02:34:54,120
[UN Declares State of Global Emergency]

3106
02:34:54,120 --> 02:34:56,800
[Global Unemployment Hits 65%]

3107
02:34:56,800 --> 02:34:59,920
[Fears of World War Continue]

3108
02:34:59,920 --> 02:35:02,480
[Debt Collapse now causing food shortages]

3109
02:36:54,320 --> 02:36:59,760
[Take it Back]

3110
02:37:29,800 --> 02:37:33,320
[While no violence has been reported as

3111
02:37:33,320 --> 02:37:36,640
the unprecedented protests continue...

3112
02:37:36,640 --> 02:37:40,040
it appears that the equivalent of trillions of dollars

3113
02:37:40,040 --> 02:37:43,200
are being systematically withdrawn from bank accounts

3114
02:37:43,200 --> 02:37:45,520
across the world and in turn..

3115
02:37:45,520 --> 02:37:49,240
evidently now being dumped in

3116
02:37:49,240 --> 02:37:53,320
front of the world's central banks.]

3117
02:38:49,080 --> 02:38:54,120
[THIS IS YOUR WORLD]

3118
02:38:56,880 --> 02:39:02,400
[THIS IS OUR WORLD]

3119
02:39:04,560 --> 02:39:10,280
[THE REVOLUTION IS NOW]

3120
02:39:13,080 --> 02:39:20,040
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