Jacque Fresco Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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

  Jacque Fresco

  Success, Music, Running

• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Today, Debt

  "Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World" edited by Arthur B. Shostak, M.E. Sharpe, (p. 198), February 7, 2003.

• If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Country, Technology

• Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, Agriculture, World

• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Different, Culture

• The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

  Jacque Fresco

  Venus, Today, Helping

• Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

  Jacque Fresco

  Agriculture, Engineering, People

• If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, Technology

• Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Today, University

• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, Today, Way

• Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

  Jacque Fresco

  Would Be, Today, Offensive

• 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

  Jacque Fresco

  Math, Thinking, Bridges

• We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Wisest Man

• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Worth, Car, People

• I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

  Jacque Fresco

  Our Society, Today, Type

• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Long, People, Insane

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