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 didnโt 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.
Jacque FrescoThere is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.
Jacque FrescoThe 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?
Jacque FrescoSelf-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.
Jacque FrescoWhen education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
Jacque FrescoI have no notions of a perfect society, I donโt know what that means. I know we can do much better than what weโve got, Iโm no utopian, Iโm not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we donโt live that way, weโll kill each other and destroy the Earth.
Jacque Fresco