1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,080 In a decaying society, Art 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:13,760 if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,640 And unless it wants to break faith with its social function 4 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:24,920 Art must show the world as changeable. 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,560 And help to change it. 6 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,800 -Ernst Fischer 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,040 Deadly riots over the government's 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,640 plan to avoid defaulting on its loans... 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,720 is that the unemployment keeps 10 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,840 rising and it has to keep rising 11 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,560 just because we have an excess supply of goods... 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,080 this is all borrowed money... 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,320 and that debt is owned by banks in other countries... 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,280 M-O-N-E-Y, in the form of a convenient personal loan... 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,360 ... filter cigarette that delivers the taste... 16 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,720 45 malt liquor... Are You Hot?!... 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,840 is the US planning to bomb Iran?... 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,080 ...America is sponsoring terror attacks in Iran... 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,320 Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person. 20 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:13,720 She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,560 She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,400 She would accumulate everything she could and 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,200 eventually, she became the master of the board. 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:24,960 And then she would always say the same thing to me. 25 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:27,040 She would look at me and she would say: 26 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,560 “One day, you'll learn to play the game.�E 27 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:34,320 One summer I played Monopoly almost every day, all day long 28 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:37,400 and that summer, I learned to play the game. 29 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,760 I came to understand that the only way to win 30 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,680 is to make a total commitment to acquisition. 31 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,960 I came to understand that money and possessions... 32 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:47,560 that's the way that you keep score. 33 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,360 And by the end of that summer 34 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,640 I was more ruthless than my grandmother. 35 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,440 I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game... 36 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,680 and I sat down with her to play that fall. 37 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,520 I took everything she had. I watched her 38 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,200 give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat. 39 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,800 And then she had one more thing to teach me. 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,400 Then she said: 41 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,920 “Now it all goes back in the box. 42 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,680 All those houses and hotels. 43 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,600 All the railroads and utility companies... 44 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,320 All that property and all that wonderful money... 45 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,240 Now it all goes back in the box. 46 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,440 None of it was really yours. 47 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,840 You got all heated up about it for a while. 48 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,920 But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board 49 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:50,120 and it will be here after you're gone - players come - players go. 50 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,320 Houses and cars... 51 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,840 Titles and clothes... 52 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,400 Even your body.�E 53 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,080 Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard 54 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,400 is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all. 55 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,800 So you have to ask yourself 56 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,760 when you finally get the ultimate promotion 57 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,640 when you have made the ultimate purchase 58 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,160 when you buy the ultimate home 59 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,480 when you have stored up financial security 60 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,600 and climbed the ladder of success to the 61 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,600 highest rung you can possibly climb it... 62 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,600 and the thrill wears off 63 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,440 - and it will wear off - 64 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,520 Then what? 65 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,360 How far do you have to walk down that road 66 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,120 before you see where it leads? 67 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,160 Surely you understand 68 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,320 it will never be enough. 69 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,440 So you have to ask yourself the question: 70 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,120 What matters? 71 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,160 They're Hot! 72 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,200 They're Rich! 73 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:58,320 And They're Spoiled! 74 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,040 America's #1 Show is Back! 75 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:38,000 Gentle Machine Productions Presents 76 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:50,760 A Peter Joseph Film 77 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,720 When I was a young man 78 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,120 growing up in New York City 79 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,200 I refused to pledge allegiance to the flag. 80 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,720 Of course I was sent to the principal's office. 81 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,160 And he asked me 'Why don't you want to Pledge Allegiance? 82 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,040 Everybody does!' 83 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,000 I said, 'Everybody once believed the earth was flat 84 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,160 but that doesn't make it so.' 85 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,560 I explained that America owed everything it has 86 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,000 to other cultures 87 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:24,520 and other nations 88 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,720 and that I would rather pledge allegiance 89 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:27,960 to the earth 90 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,360 and everyone on it. 91 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:32,720 Needless to say, it wasn't long 92 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,240 before I left school entirely 93 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,080 and I set up a lab in my bedroom. 94 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,240 There I began to learn about science 95 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,440 and nature. 96 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,000 I realized then 97 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,360 that the universe is governed by laws 98 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,920 and that the human being 99 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,920 along with society itself 100 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,960 was not exempt from these laws. 101 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:56,680 Then came the crash of 1929. 102 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:58,920 Which began what we now call 103 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,440 “The Great Depression�E 104 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,120 I found it difficult to understand why millions 105 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,200 were out of work, homeless, starving 106 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,000 while all the factories were sitting there. 107 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,640 The resources were unchanged. 108 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:14,960 It was then that I realized 109 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,040 that the rules of the economic game 110 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,360 were inherently invalid. 111 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,000 Shortly after came World War II 112 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,640 where various nations took turns 113 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,600 systematically destroying each other. 114 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,760 I later calculated that all the destruction 115 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,520 and wasted resources 116 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,120 spent on that war 117 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,440 could have easily provided for every 118 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,560 human need on the planet. 119 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,440 Since that time I have watched humanity 120 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,040 set the stage for its own extinction. 121 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,400 I have watched as the precious finite resources 122 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,240 are perpetually wasted and destroyed 123 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,520 in the name of profit and free-markets. 124 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,080 I have watched the social values of society be reduced 125 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,960 into a base artificiality of materialism 126 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,720 and mindless consumption. 127 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,200 And I have watched as the monetary powers 128 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,520 control the political structure 129 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,240 of supposedly free societies. 130 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,040 I'm 94 years old now. 131 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,360 And I'm afraid my disposition 132 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,160 is the same as it was 133 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,280 75 years ago. 134 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,320 This shit's got to go. 135 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:45,840 [ZEITGEIST] 136 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:53,400 [ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD] 137 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,960 [Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful 138 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,520 committed citizens can change the world. 139 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,680 Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 140 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,840 -Margaret Mead] 141 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,880 Part 1: Human Nature 142 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,760 So you're a scientist 143 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,080 and somewhere along the way, hammered into your head 144 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,600 is the inevitable “nature versus nurture�E 145 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,240 and that's at least up there with Coke versus Pepsi 146 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,440 or Greeks versus Trojans. 147 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,520 So, nature versus nurture: This, by now 148 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,840 utterly over-simplifying view of 149 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,880 where influences are 150 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:40,120 influences how a cell deals with 151 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,200 an energy crisis up to 152 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,320 what makes us who we are on the most individualistic 153 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,840 levels of personality. 154 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,960 And what you've got is this complete false dichotomy 155 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,480 built around nature as deterministic 156 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,160 at the very bottom of all the causality. 157 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,360 Life is DNA and the code of codes 158 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,720 and the Holy Grail, and everything is driven by it.... 159 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,520 At the other end is a much more 160 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,480 social science perspective which is 161 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,480 We are 'social organisms' 162 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,000 and biology is for slime molds. 163 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,560 Humans are free of biology 164 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,680 and obviously both views are nonsense. 165 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,640 What you see instead is that 166 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,480 it is virtually impossible to understand 167 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,160 how biology works 168 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,080 outside of the context of environment. 169 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,320 [It's Genetic] 170 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,520 One of the most crazy making 171 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,640 yet widespread and 172 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,120 potentially dangerous notions is: 173 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:42,040 “Oh, that behavior is genetic�E 174 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,400 Now what does that mean? 175 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,320 It means all sorts of subtle stuff if you 176 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,520 know modern biology, but for most people 177 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,840 out there, what it winds-up meaning is: 178 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,200 a deterministic view of life; 179 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,040 one rooted in biology and genetics; 180 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,080 genes equal things that cannot be changed; 181 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,120 genes equal things that are 182 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,560 inevitable and you might as well not 183 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,280 waste resources trying to fix; 184 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,080 might as well not put societal energies into trying 185 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,600 to improve because it's inevitable and it's unchangeable... 186 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,760 and that is sheer nonsense. 187 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,440 [Disease] 188 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,840 It is widely thought that conditions like 189 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,120 ADHD are genetically programmed 190 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,960 That conditions like schizophrenia are genetically programmed. 191 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,440 The truth is the opposite. 192 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:34,920 Nothing is genetically programmed. 193 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,000 There are very rare diseases 194 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,520 a small handful 195 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,720 extremely sparsely represented in the population 196 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,520 that are truly genetically determined. 197 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,120 Most complex conditions 198 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,040 might have a predisposition that has a genetic component 199 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,960 but a predisposition is not the same as a predetermination. 200 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,320 The whole search for the source of diseases in the genome 201 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,920 was doomed to failure before anybody even thought of it 202 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,600 because most diseases are not genetically predetermined. 203 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,600 Heart disease, cancers, strokes 204 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,600 rheumatoid conditions, autoimmune conditions in general 205 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,640 mental health conditions, addictions... 206 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:21,200 none of them are genetically determined. 207 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,520 Breast cancer, for example, out of 100 women with breast cancer 208 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,080 only seven will carry the breast cancer genes. 209 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,000 93 do not 210 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,800 and out of 100 women who do have the genes 211 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,640 not all of them will get cancer. 212 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,320 [Behavior] 213 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,600 Genes are not just things that make us behave 214 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,600 in a particular way regardless of our environment. 215 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,920 Genes give us different ways of responding to our environment. 216 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:55,080 And, in fact, it looks as if some of the early 217 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,040 childhood influences and the kind of child rearing 218 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,680 affect gene expression 219 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,480 actually turning on or off different genes 220 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,240 to put you on a different developmental track 221 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,960 which may suit the kind of world you've got to deal with. 222 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,560 So for example. 223 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:17,960 A study done in Montreal with suicide victims 224 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,480 looked at autopsies of the brains of these people 225 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:24,360 and it turned out that if a suicide victim 226 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,280 (these are usually young adults) 227 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,560 had been abused as a child, the abuse actually 228 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,800 caused a genetic change in the brain 229 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:37,040 that was absent in the brains of people who had not been abused. 230 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,840 That's an epigenetic effect. 231 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,680 “epi�Emeans on top of, so that 232 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,280 the epigenetic influence is what happens 233 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:51,000 environmentally to either activate or deactivate certain genes. 234 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,640 In New Zealand, there was a study 235 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,320 that was done in a town called Dunedin 236 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,720 in which a few thousand individuals 237 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,440 were studied from birth into their 20s. 238 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:11,040 What they found was that they could identify 239 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,560 a genetic mutation, an abnormal gene 240 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:17,560 which did have some relation to 241 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:21,040 the predisposition to commit violence 242 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,920 but only if the individual had also 243 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,720 been subjected to severe child abuse. 244 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,600 In other words, children with this abnormal gene would 245 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,320 be no more likely to be violent than anybody else 246 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,440 and, in fact, they actually had a lower rate of violence 247 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,360 than people with normal genes 248 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,200 as long as they weren't abused as children. 249 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,120 Great additional example of the ways 250 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,200 in which genes are not “be all - end all�E 251 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,520 A fancy technique where you can 252 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,080 take a specific gene out of a mouse 253 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,800 and that mouse and its descendants will not have that gene. 254 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,480 You have ”knocked out�Ethat gene. 255 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,200 So there's this one gene that encodes 256 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:59,920 for a protein that has something to do 257 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:04,120 with learning and memory and with this fabulous demonstration- 258 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:05,680 you “knock out�Ethat gene and you 259 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,520 have a mouse that doesn't learn as well. 260 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,400 “Oh! A genetic basis for intelligence!�E 261 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,720 What was much less appreciated in that landmark study 262 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,240 that got picked up by the media left and right 263 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,520 is take those genetically impaired mice 264 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,600 and raise them in a much more enriched 265 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,720 stimulating environment than your normal mice in a lab cage 266 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,680 and they completely overcame that deficit. 267 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,200 So, when one says in a contemporary sense that 268 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,120 “oh, this behavior is genetic�E 269 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,520 to the extent that that's even a valid sort of phrase to use 270 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,280 what you're saying is: there is a 271 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,640 genetic contribution to how this 272 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,920 organism responds to environment; 273 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,600 genes may influence the 274 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,840 readiness with which an organism will 275 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,400 deal with a certain environmental challenge. 276 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,680 You know, that's not the version most people have in their minds 277 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,640 and not to be too 'soap-boxing' 278 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,160 but run with the old 279 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,200 version of “It's genetic!�E 280 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,320 and it's not that far from the history of eugenics 281 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,280 and things of that sort. 282 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,000 It's a widespread misconception 283 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,680 and it's a potentially fairly dangerous one. 284 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,480 One reason that the 285 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,800 biological explanation for violence... 286 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,120 one reason that hypothesis is 287 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,640 potentially dangerous, it's not just misleading 288 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,760 it can really do harm... 289 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,120 is because if you believe that 290 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,440 you could very easily say: 291 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,160 “Well, there's nothing we can do 292 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,280 to change the predisposition 293 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,640 people have to becoming violent; 294 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:44,320 all we can do is punish them - lock them up 295 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,800 or execute them 296 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,640 but we don't need to worry about changing the 297 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,760 social environment or the social preconditions 298 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,440 that may lead people to become violent because 299 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:57,800 that's irrelevant'.�E 300 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,800 The genetic argument allows us the luxury of ignoring 301 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,760 past and present historical and social factors 302 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,000 and in the words of Louis Menand 303 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,040 who wrote in the New Yorker 304 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:11,520 Very astutely, he said: 305 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,520 “it's all in the genes... an explanation for the way things are 306 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,040 that does not threaten the way things are. 307 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:20,480 Why should someone feel unhappy 308 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,480 or engage in antisocial behavior 309 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,360 when that person is living in the 310 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:28,680 freest and most prosperous nation on Earth? 311 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,560 It can't be the system. 312 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,360 There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.�E 313 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,600 Which is a good way of putting it. 314 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,080 So, the genetic argument is simply a cop-out 315 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,280 which allows us to ignore 316 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,840 the social and economic and political factors 317 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,880 that, in fact, underlie 318 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,040 many troublesome behaviors. 319 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,040 [Case Study: Addiction] 320 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,800 Addictions are usually 321 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,920 considered to be a drug-related issue 322 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:01,960 but looking at it more broadly 323 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,080 I define addiction as any behavior 324 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,200 that is associated with craving 325 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,080 with temporary relief 326 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,680 and with long-term negative consequences 327 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,000 along with an impairment of control over it so that the person 328 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,400 wishes to give it up or promises to do so 329 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,520 but can't follow through 330 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,240 and when you understand that, you see that 331 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,400 there are many more addictions 332 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,080 than simply those related to drugs. 333 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,640 There's workaholism; addiction to shopping; 334 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,680 to the Internet; to video games... 335 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,400 There's the addiction to power. People that have power but they 336 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,920 want more and more; nothing is ever enough for them. 337 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,320 Acquisition - corporations that must own more and more. 338 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,000 The addiction to oil 339 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,560 or at least to the wealth and to the products made 340 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,200 accessible to us by oil. 341 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,800 Look at the negative consequences on the environment. 342 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,600 We are destroying the very earth that we 343 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,320 inhabit for the sake of that addiction. 344 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,040 Now, these addictions are far more 345 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,080 devastating in their social consequences 346 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:04,000 than the cocaine or heroin habits of my downtown Eastside patients. 347 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,200 Yet, they are rewarded and considered to be respectable. 348 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,400 The tobacco company executive that shows a higher profit 349 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,320 will get a much bigger reward. 350 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:19,080 He doesn't face any negative consequences legally or otherwise. 351 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,600 In fact he is a respected member of 352 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,400 the board of several other corporations. 353 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,000 But, tobacco smoke related diseases 354 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,040 kill 5 ½ million people around the world every year. 355 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:35,120 In the United States they kill 400,000 people a year. 356 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,800 And these people are addicted to what? To profit. 357 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,840 To such a degree that they are addicted 358 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,840 that they are actually in denial 359 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,480 about the impact of their activities 360 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,520 which is typical for addicts, this denial. 361 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,080 And that's a respectable one. It's respectable 362 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,720 to be addicted to profit, no matter what the cost. 363 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,080 So, what is acceptable and what is respectable 364 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:59,240 is a highly arbitrary phenomenon in our society 365 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,760 and it seems like the greater the harm 366 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,360 the more respectable the addiction. 367 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,560 [The Myth] 368 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,760 There is a general myth that drugs, in themselves, are addictive. 369 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,520 In fact, the war on drugs is predicated on the 370 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,840 idea that if you interdict the source of 371 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,240 drugs you can deal with addiction that way. 372 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,640 Now, if you understand addiction in the broader sense 373 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,240 we see that nothing in itself is addictive. 374 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,360 No substance, no drug is by itself addictive 375 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,440 and no behavior is by itself addictive. 376 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,440 Many people can go shopping without becoming shopaholics. 377 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,200 Not everyone becomes a food addict. 378 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,200 Not everyone who drinks a glass of wine becomes an alcoholic. 379 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,360 So the real issue is what makes people susceptible 380 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,040 because it's the combination of a susceptible individual 381 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,320 and the potentially addictive substance or behavior 382 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,680 that makes for the full flowering of addiction. 383 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,520 In short, it's not the drug that's addictive 384 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,320 it's the question of the susceptibility of the individual 385 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:00,960 to being addicted to a particular substance or behavior. 386 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,440 [Environment] 387 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,200 If we wish to understand what 388 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,280 then makes some people susceptible 389 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,720 we actually have to look at the life experience. 390 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:14,080 The old idea, although it's old but it's still 391 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:17,440 broadly held, that addictions are due to some genetic cause 392 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,600 is simply scientifically untenable. 393 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,920 What the case is actually is that certain life experiences 394 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,640 make people susceptible. 395 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,680 Life experiences that not only shape the person's 396 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,280 personality and psychological needs 397 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,400 but also their very brains in certain ways. 398 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,880 And that process begins in utero. 399 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,800 [Prenatal] 400 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,760 It has been shown, for example 401 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,360 that if you stress mothers during pregnancy 402 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,240 their children are more likely to have 403 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,920 traits that predispose them to addictions 404 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,120 and that's because development is shaped 405 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,440 by the psychological and social environment. 406 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,880 So the biology of human beings is very much affected by 407 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,600 and programmed by the life experiences beginning in utero. 408 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,640 Environment does not begin at birth. 409 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,240 Environment begins as soon as you have an environment. 410 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,760 As soon as you are a fetus, you are subject to whatever 411 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,520 information is coming through mom's circulations. 412 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,240 Hormones, levels of nutrients... 413 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,600 A great landmark example of this is 414 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,320 something called the Dutch Hongerwinter. 415 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:28,080 In 1944, Nazis occupying Holland 416 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,200 for a bunch of reasons, they decide to 417 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,480 take all the food and divert it to Germany; 418 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,560 for three months everybody there was starving. 419 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,680 Tens of thousands of people starve to death. 420 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,840 What the Dutch hunger winter effect is: 421 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,720 if you were a second or third trimester fetus during the starvation 422 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,760 your body 'learned' something very unique during that time. 423 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,000 As it turns out, second and third trimester is when your body is 424 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,520 going about trying to learn about the environment: 425 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,040 How menacing of a place is it out there? 426 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,200 How plentiful? How much nutrients am I getting 427 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,240 by way of mom's circulation? 428 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Be a fetus who was starving during that time and your body 429 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,040 programs forever after to be 430 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,960 really, really stingy with your sugar and fat and 431 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,440 what you do is you store every bit of it. 432 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,880 Be a Dutch Hunger Winter fetus and half a century later 433 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,600 everything else being equal 434 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,760 you are more likely to have high blood pressure 435 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,560 obesity or metabolic syndrome. 436 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,760 That is environment coming in a very unexpected place. 437 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,320 You can stress animals in the laboratory when they're pregnant 438 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:35,960 and their offspring will be more 439 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,080 likely to use cocaine and alcohol as adults. 440 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,960 You can stress human mothers. For example, in a British study 441 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,840 women who were abused in pregnancy 442 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,840 will have higher levels of 443 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,920 the stress hormone cortisol in their placenta at birth 444 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,080 and their children are more likely to have conditions that 445 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,600 predispose them to addictions by age 7 or 8. 446 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,640 So in utero stress already prepares the gun 447 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,560 for all kinds of mental health issues. 448 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,280 An Israeli study done on children 449 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,000 born to mothers who were pregnant 450 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,920 prior to the onset of the 1967 war... 451 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,200 These women, of course, were very stressed 452 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,920 and their offspring have a higher incidence of schizophrenia 453 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,800 than the average cohort. 454 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,080 So, there is plenty of evidence now that prenatal 455 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,080 effects have a huge impact on the developing human being. 456 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,760 [Infancy] 457 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,680 The point about human development and 458 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,040 specifically human brain development 459 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,360 is that it occurs mostly under the impact of the environment 460 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,320 and mostly after birth. 461 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,960 Now, if you compare us to a horse 462 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,920 which can run on the first day of life 463 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,840 we see that we are very undeveloped. 464 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,640 We can't muster that much neurological coordination 465 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,320 balance, muscle strength, visual acuity 466 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,160 until a year and a half, two years of age. 467 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,720 That's because the brain development in the horse 468 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,640 happens in the safety of the womb 469 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,800 and in the human being, it has to happen after birth 470 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,360 and that has to do with simple evolutionary logic. 471 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,680 As the head gets larger, which is what makes us into human beings 472 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,160 the burgeoning of the forebrain is 473 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,640 what creates the human species, actually. 474 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,760 At the same time, we walk on two legs. So, our pelvis narrows 475 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,240 to accommodate that. So now we 476 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,560 have a narrower pelvis, a larger head 477 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,640 Bingo! We have to be born prematurely. 478 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,040 And that means the brain development that in other animals 479 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,480 occurs in utero 480 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,520 in us, occurs after birth 481 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,920 and much of that under the impact of the environment. 482 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,080 The concept of Neural Darwinism simply means 483 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,080 that the circuits that get the appropriate input from the environment 484 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,680 will develop optimally and the ones that don't 485 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,720 will either not develop optimally or perhaps not at all. 486 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,520 If you take a child with perfectly good eyes at birth 487 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,760 and you put him in a dark room for five years 488 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,800 he will be blind thereafter for the rest of his life 489 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,160 because the circuits of vision require light waves for their development 490 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,680 and without that even the rudimentary 491 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,200 circuit's present and active at birth 492 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,240 will atrophy and die and new ones will not develop. 493 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,720 [Memory] 494 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,520 There is a significant way in which 495 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,040 early experiences shape adult behavior 496 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,240 and even and especially early 497 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,720 experiences for which there is no recall memory. 498 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,000 It turns out that there are two kinds of memory: 499 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,560 there is explicit memory which is recall 500 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,720 this is when you can call back facts 501 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,440 details, episodes, circumstances. 502 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,480 But the structure in the brain which is called the hippocampus 503 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,320 which encodes recall memory 504 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,440 doesn't even begin to develop fully until a year and a half 505 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,400 and it is not fully developed until much later. 506 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,600 Which is why hardly anybody has 507 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,120 any recall memory prior to 18 months. 508 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,320 But there is another kind of 509 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:49,920 memory which is called implicit memory 510 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,800 which is, in fact, an emotional memory 511 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,720 where the emotional impact and the interpretation the child makes 512 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,760 of those emotional experiences are ingrained in the brain 513 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,840 in the form of nerve circuits ready to fire 514 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,400 without specific recall. 515 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,160 So to give you a clear example 516 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,240 people who are adopted have a 517 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,800 lifelong sense of rejection very often. 518 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,120 They can't recall the adoption. 519 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,160 They can't recall the separation of the birth mother 520 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,160 because there's nothing there to recall with. 521 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,560 But the emotional memory of separation and rejection 522 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,800 is deeply embedded in their brains. 523 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,480 Hence, they are much more likely 524 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,200 to experience a sense of rejection 525 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,600 and a great emotional upset 526 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,160 when they perceive themselves as being rejected 527 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,120 by other people. 528 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,680 That's not unique to people who are 529 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,600 adopted but it is particularly strong in them 530 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,240 because of this function of implicit memory. 531 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,360 People who are addicted, given all the 532 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,640 research literature and in my experience 533 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,960 the hard-core addicts virtually were all 534 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,320 significantly abused as children 535 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,520 or suffered severe emotional loss. 536 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,000 Their emotional or implicit memories 537 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,400 are those of a world that's not safe 538 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,400 and not helpful; caregivers who were not to be trusted 539 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,200 and relationships that are not 540 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,320 safe enough to open up to vulnerability 541 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,880 and hence their responses tend 542 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,600 to be to keep themselves separate from 543 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,520 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�E 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' �EGiven! 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�E 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�E 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�E 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�E 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�Eof 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�E 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�Eat 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�E 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 1080 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. 1101 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�E 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�E 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.�E 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�E 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�E. 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�E 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.�E 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 �Ethere'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 �Ereal robots �E 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�Ecomputer, 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.�E 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.�E 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.�E 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�E 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�E 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 �Enext '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 �Eobesity - 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�E 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�Eunderstood 1875 01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,520 next question regards our “method�E 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�E 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�E 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�E 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�E 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�Eto manage it. 1951 01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:13,560 A “Global Resource Management System�E 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�E 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 �Ewind �Etidal �Ewave - 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�E 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�E 1981 01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:57,880 to couple in with our "Strategic Preservation�E 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�E 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�E 2007 01:38:19,440 --> 01:38:22,960 “Strategic Safety�Eand “Strategic Efficiency�E 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�E 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�E 2082 01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,800 or what we might call today “ownership�E 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�E 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.�E 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�E 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 �Ethere 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�E 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�E 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�Egame 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�E 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�Epeople? 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�Ecriminals. 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�E 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�E- 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�E.. or that person is a “serial killer�E 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�E 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�E 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�Echoices. 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!�E 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�E 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�E 2731 02:14:37,600 --> 02:14:40,520 It's “life value analysis.�E 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�E 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�E 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�E 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.�EThe 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�E there's a word... 2852 02:20:19,560 --> 02:20:21,880 and now it's “conspiracy�E 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�E Your a “conspiracy buff�E 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�E 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�E 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�E 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.�E 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�E 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 �Eharvest 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 �Ethat'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�E 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 [WWW.THEZEITGEISTMOVEMENT.COM]