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During The Thousands Of Years Of Monetary System, Most Workers Have Been Paid Just Enough To Make It Necessary That They Return To Work, Even When Higher Wages Have Been Possible. How Else Can The Wage-payer Keep The Workers Coming Back?
-Jacque Fresco
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Jacque Fresco
During The Thousands Of Years Of Monetary System, Most Workers Have Been Paid Just Enough To Make It Necessary That They Return To Work, Even When Higher Wages Have Been Possible. How Else Can The Wage-payer Keep The Workers Coming Back?
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People
Answers
Once You Accept The Fact That People Have 'individual Choices' And They're 'free' To Make Those Choices. Free To Make Choices Means Without Being Influenced And I Can't Understand That At All. All Of Us Are Influenced In All Our Choices By The Culture We Live In, By Our Parents, And By The Values That Dominate. So, We're Influenced. So There Can't Be Free Choices.
Mean
Individual Choice
People
We're Running Into A Lot Of New Problems Today Because Of What We Emphasize In This Culture. The Word 'success' To The Average Person Means Earning A Lot Of Money And Having A Home, Two Cars, Children In College. Success To Me Is Entirely Different To What Success Is To The Average Person. Success Is Being A Successful Human Being In Terms Of Pursuing What You Believe In. If You Believe In Making Paintings, Writing Poetry, Writing Music. If This Is What You Really Want, You're Successful To Yourself. But To Be Successful To Your Culture Means To Sell Yourself Short Of What You Really Want
Success
Music
Running
The Way We Use Technology Is Completely Wasteful. We Duplicate Many Vacuum Cleaners, Tools; In The Future We Will Make The Best Of Equipment And Make It Available To Everyone.
Technology
Vacuums
Tools
No One Is Born With Greed, Prejudice, Bigotry, Patriotism And Hatred; These Are All Learned Behavior Patterns.
Hate
Learning
Hatred
People Say That The Monetary System Produces Incentive. This May Be True In Limited Areas, But It Also Produces Greed, Embezzlement, Corruption, Pollution, Jealousy, Anger, Crime, War, Poverty, Tremendous Scarcity, And Unnecessary Human Suffering. You Have To Look At The Entire Picture.
Jealousy
War
Anger
It's Hard In A Monetary System To Trust People.
Trust
Money
People
Love Is A Fluxuating Thing, Not A Fixed Thing. That's Why We Don't Understand What's Happening.
Love Is
Fixed
Happenings
Nicola Tesla Didn't Say, 'i Have To Make Wireless Electricity!' The Brain Does Not Work That Way.
Brain
Electricity
Today We Have Access To Highly Advanced Technologies. But Our Social And Economic System Has Not Kept Up With Our Technological Capabilities That Could Easily Create A World Of Abundance, Free Of Servitude And Debt.
Technology
Today
Debt
I Didn't Want To Teach My Kid How To Read, So I Used To Read To Him At Night And Close The Book At The Most Interesting Part. He Said, “what Happened Then, Daddy?” I Said, “if You Learn To Read, You Can Find Out. I'm Too Tired To Read. I'll Read To You Tomorrow.” So, He Had A Need To Want To Learn How To Read. Don't Teach Children How To Read. Don't Teach Them Mathematics. Give Them A Reason To Want It. In School, They're Working Ass-backwards.
Motivational
Children
Reading
The Majority Of The People Of The World Today Are Unsane, Not Insane, Unsane Meaning Having Been Exposed To Methods Of Evaluation That Have Long Rendered Obsolete, Our Language In The Future Will Change To A Saner Language Where We Have No Argument In It, 'can There Be Such A Language?' There Is, When Engineers Talk To Each Other, It's Not Subject To Interpretation, They Use Math, They Use Descriptive Systems, If I Interpreted What Another Engineer Said In The Way I Think He Meant It: You Couldn't Build Bridges, Dams, Power Transmission Lines. The Language Has To Have Meaning
Math
Thinking
Bridges
The Venus Project Presents A Bold, New Direction For Humanity That Entails Nothing Less Than The Total Redesign Of Our Culture.
Humanity
Culture
Venus
Most People Don't Put Things Together. Geologists Study The Surface Of The Earth And Geological Phenomena. Meteorogists Study The Weather. That Isn't Science. Science Is The Study Of All Things That Affect Human Beings. They Have To Be Together! A Meteorologist Has Difficulty Talking With A Sociologist, Because They Don't Understand Each Other. You Can't Teach Sciences In 'bits'; You Have To Bring It All Together. Science Is A Way Of Thinking - A Way At Arriving At Conclusions Without Your Own Opinion In It.
Thinking
Talking
Weather
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, The Free-market .... What Good Are These Approaches For? These Attempts Are Made By Men Who Are Cerebral Insufficient. I'm Trying To Give You Back Your Brain, Which They Took Away From You In Schools And In Your Upbringing. I'm Trying To Show You How The World Works. So If You Want A Better World, You Have To Get Up Off Your Ass And Make It Better
School
Stupid People
Men
Earth Is Abundant With Plentiful Resources. Our Practice Of Rationing Resources Through Monetary Control Is No Longer Relevant And Is Counter-productive To Our Survival.
Practice
Survival
Earth
You Don't See The Plug Connected To The Environment, So It Looks Like We're Free, Wandering Around. Take The Oxygen Away, We All Die Immediately. Take Plant Life Away, We Die. And Without The Sun, All The Plants Die. So We Are Connected.
Oxygen
Plant Life
Looks
Politics Is An Obsolete Way Of Doing Things. Although It Was Good A Hundred Years Ago, It Has No Place In Today's High Tech Society.
Years
Today
Way
I Was Asked Once,'your A Smart Man,why Arnt You Rich?i Replied 'your A Rich Man,why Arnt You Smart?
Smart
Men
Rich
We Must Stop Constantly Fighting For Human Rights And Equal Justice In An Unjust System, And Start Building A Society Where Equal Rights Are An Integral Part Of The Design.
Integrity
Fighting
Equality
There Are No Negro Problems, Or Polish Problems, Or Jewish Problems, Or Greek Problems, Or Women's Problems, There Are Human Problems”.
Greek
Problem
Polish
In My Work, I Am Not Attempting To Predict The Future. I Am Only Pointing Out What Is Possible With The Intelligent Application And Humane Use Of Science And Technology. This Does Not Call For Scientists To Manage Society. What I Suggest Is Applying The Methods Of Science To The Social System For The Benefit Of Human Kind And The Environment.
Intelligent
Technology
Doe
Everything That You've Learned: 'make A Lot Of Money, Have A Nice House'. But They Never Teach You At School How To Relate, How To Communicate With Others, How To Share Values With Others. ...they Teach You How To Make A Living. You Become An Optometrist, He Becomes A Physicist, She Becomes A Structural Engineer, He's An Architect. In The Future, None Of That. Everybody Is Trained To Be A Generalist, So They Understand Different Cultures, Different Values, How We Get To Be The Way We Are. So No-one Can Ever Use You For War Or Killing Anybody Or Hurting Anybody
Hurt
War
Nice
In A Monetary System, Most Of Us Live Near Our Work With A House, Car, And Lifestyle We Can Afford (or, All Too Often, Cannot Afford), Rather Than The One We Prefer. We Are Only As Free As Our Purchasing Power Permits. Even Many Wealthy People Today Select A Residence Mainly To Impress Others With Their Status. Lacking A True Sense Of Self Worth, Many Live To Impress Others.
Self Worth
Car
People
Love Is To Stop Making Demands On People And Give Them Room To Grow.
Love Is
People
Giving
If You Make People Uniform, You Can Control Them. If You Teach People To Read, And Think, And Question Things, You Lose Control. So, The Best Idea Is To Separate People If You Wish To Maintain A Monetary System. It's Called Divide And Conquer. By Dividing People, They're Not A Threat, You Can Control Them.
Reading
Thinking
Ideas
We Have The Technology To Build A Global Paradise On Earth, And At The Same Time, We Have The Power To End Life As We Know It. I Am A Futurist. I Cannot Predict The Actual Future - Only What It Can Be If We Manage The Earth And Its Resources Intelligently.
Technology
Paradise On Earth
Ends
War Is The Supreme Failure Of Bridging The Differences Between Nations.
War
Differences
Nations
When Education And Resources Are Available To All Without A Price Tag, There Will Be No Limit To The Human Potential.
Education
Price Tag
Limits
Science And Education, When Devoid Of A Social Conscience Or Environmental And Human Concern, Are Meaningless.
Environmental
Social
Concern
As Long As You Have War, Police, Prisons, Crime, You Are In The Early Stages Of Civilization.
War
Civilization
Long
If You Want Your Children To Relate To The Culture You Live In, If You Want To Train Them Outside Of The General System, You Have To Tell Your Children That Ordinary Children Tend To Say Things Like 'i Can Run Faster Than You; I Can Draw Better Than You; I Know Things You Don't Know'. You Have To Tell Them What Normal Children Are Like. Normal Children Are Messed Up And You Have To Tell Them About That. But If You Instruct Your Child In High Correlation With The Physical World, They Won't Be Able To Relate With Normal Children. Normal Means Mixed Up As I Use The Word.
Running
Children
Mean
The Social Designs That Are Proposed In [the Venus Project] Merely Provide The Opportunity For Individuals To Develop Their Fullest Potential In Whatever Endeavor They Choose Without The Fear Of Loss Of Individuality Or Submission To Uniformity.
Loss
Opportunity
Design
You Can't Participate In Agriculture Or Redesign Of Aircraft For Making Them Safer If You Know Nothing About It. So, Whenever A Person Says 'will I Be Participating In The New World?' Only In Areas That You Can Participate It. Areas That You Have Competence In. I'm Not Talking About Self Confidence, I'm Talking About The Ability To Solve Problems. Electrical, Chemical, Technical. I Don't Know Of Any Other Kind Of Problem.
Self Confidence
Talking
Agriculture
You Can't Be Conscious Unless You Have Variable Receptors... When People Say The Way I See The World Is The Way It Is - That's Ridiculous. We Can Only See It Depending On The Quality Of Our Receptors And Background.
People
Quality
World
Our Universities Today Are Better Equipped Than Ever, And The Wars Keep Getting Worse.
War
Today
University
You Know That You Can't Go Out There And Change The World Tomorrow Morning. It Just Takes Time, And The Realization Of That Does Not Produce Frustration. What Produces Frustration, Is When You Expect The World To Join With Your Cause It's So Reasonable. It Is Not Reasonable To Unreasonable People.
Morning
Frustration
People
The Uncreative Mind Can Spot The Wrong Answers, But It Takes A Very Creative Mind To Spot The Wrong Questions" The Question Has Never Been: Do We Have The Money? The Question Has Always Been: Do We Have The Resources?
Creative
Mind
Wrong Answers
The Venus Project Is Neither Utopian Nor Orwellian, Nor Does It Reflect The Dreams Of Impractical Idealists. Instead, It Presents Attainable Goals Requiring Only The Intelligent Application Of What We Already Know. The Only Limitations Are Those Which We Impose Upon Ourselves.
Dream
Intelligent
Goal
At The Beginning Of World War Ii The U.s. Had A Mere 600 Or So First-class Fighting Aircraft. We Rapidly Overcame This Short Supply By Turning Out More Than 90,000 Planes A Year. The Question At The Start Of World War Ii Was: Do We Have Enough Funds To Produce The Required Implements Of War? The Answer Was No, We Did Not Have Enough Money, Nor Did We Have Enough Gold; But We Did Have More Than Enough Resources. It Was The Available Resources That Enabled The Us To Achieve The High Production And Efficiency Required To Win The War. Unfortunately This Is Only Considered In Times Of War.
War
Fighting
Winning
When They Say All Men Are Created Equal, That Bothers Me. I Told You Some Are Thin, Some Are Heavy, Some Have Better Eyesight Than Others. I Don't Know What That Means. I Think They're Trying To Talk About Equal Opportunity And I Know That Doesn't Exist. If You Don't Have The Money To Go To College, The Word 'equal Opportunities' Mean Nothing
Mean
Opportunity
College
There Is No Way You Can Think Outside Of Your Culture.
Thinking
Culture
If Your Values Are Not Related To The Earth Or Realistic, You'll Believe In Things That Aren't So, Which Will Hurt You In The Long Run, And As A Species, Too.
Running
Hurt
Believe
Anthropology Studies Different Cultures; Mainly Primitive, But It Doesn't Think Its Own Culture Is Primitive, Unfortunately. There Is No Field That You Can Study Today That Isn't Trapped In The Culture In Some Way. It's Hard To Escape Your Culture.
Thinking
Different
Culture
If All Things Keep Changing, How Can You Become Sane?
Sane
All Things
Ifs
We Are All Victims Of Culture.
Culture
Victim
It's Wrong To Criticize Government Without Offering A Possible Alternative.
Government
Offering
Alternatives
I Don't Want You To Trust Me, I Want You To Question Everything I Say.
Want
Trust Me
I Want You
I'd Declare All The World's Resources As A Common Heritage Of All The World's People And Get Them To Join And Become One Nation Who Takes Care Of The Environment, The Earth, The Atmosphere. I'd Abolish All Separate Nations Because They Are All Corrupt.
People
Atmosphere
Heritage
Youre A Rich Man, Why Arent You Smart?
Smart
Men
Rich
We Are Not Taught To Be Thinkers, But Reflectors Of Our Culture. Let's Teach Our Children To Be Thinkers.
Inspirational
Children
Reflection
This Is Not A Dictatorship, This Is Based Upon Scientific Evidence To Support A Given Project. If You Want To Put Up A Building, Say Half A Mile High, The Material Has To Be Available. Using Statistics Is Not A Dictatorship. It's A Method Of Getting The Most From Existing Resources.
Support
Half
Want
You Have To Take In The Whole Picture, And Ask, "what Is It You Want? What Kind Of World Do You Want?" So, I Have Drawings Of Different Cities. Those Cities Have An End Goal; They're Not Just Cities. The End Goal Of Those Cities Is To Make Things Relevant To People That They Respond To. There's No Other Way.
Cities
Drawing
Goal
We Have To Learn How Scientists Arrive At Decisions. Once You Use The Scientific Method, It Doesn't Mean That Your Decisions Will Be Perfect. They'll Be Far More Accurate Than Just Opinions.
Mean
Perfect
Decision
Notions Of Good And Evil Depend Entirely On Social Context. It Is Not That People Are Good Or Bad, They Are Raised In An Aberrant Or Twisted Environment.
People
Evil
Environment
If Nations Join Together Now, Before The Big Collapse And Share Their Resources, They Can Maintain A Level Of Sustainability. Sustain The People That Is, And Not Banks And Businesses.
People
Together
Levels
Living Through The 1929 Great Depression Helped Shape My Social Conscience. During This Time, I Realized The Earth Was Still The Same Place, Manufacturing Plants Were Still Intact, And Resources Were Still There, But People Didn’t Have Money To Buy The Products. I Felt The Rules Of The Game We Play By Were Outmoded And Damaging. This Began A Life-long Quest Resulting In The Conclusions And Designs Presented In The Venus Project.
Games
Play
Long
Democracy Is A Con Game. It’s A Word Invented To Placate People To Make Them Accept A Given Institution. All Institutions Sing, ‘we Are Free.’ The Minute You Hear ‘freedom’ And ‘democracy’, Watch Out… Because In A Truly Free Nation, No One Has To Tell You You’re Free.
Freedom
Acceptance
Games
We Are All An Integral Part Of The Chain Of Life.
Chains
I Asked Myself, 'how Are You Going To Change All These People, They Have Different Values, Different Customs, Different Language, Different Interpretations?' So That’s The Time I Joined The Ku Klux Klan In Miami. The Reason I Joined Is To See If I Could Change Them. So I Dissolved That Organization In A Month-and-a-half, Alone. [applause] Then I Joined The White Citizen Council. The Wcc Hates Foreigners – All Foreigners. So I Joined That Organization; I Dissolved It In One Month.
Hate
Organization
Ku Klux Klan
We Have More Than Enough To Take Care Of Everybody On Earth At This Time. If We Have A Shortage Of Anything, It's Very Easy For Science To Make A Substitute Material. There's No Shortage Of Anything Except Brains In Washington.
Brain
Earth
Care
If Technology Does Not Liberate All People For The Pursuit Of Higher Aspirations In Human Achievement, Then All Its Technical Potential Will Be Meaningless.
Technology
People
Achievement
We Don't Want To Hurt Anybody, Kill Anybody, Build Any Prisons, Or Build Police. We Want To Make It Unnecessary For People To Steal - So They'll Have Access To Medical Care, Health Care, Decent Housing, All People, All Over The World. As Long As You Don't Share Your Resources, You Are Going To Have Trouble
Hurt
Long
People
Armies Are Created To Protect An Established System, Not People. In The Future, An Educated Humanity Will Not Stand For War.
War
Army
People
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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