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Jacque Fresco - Paradise or Oblivion

A new documentary about the ideas and vision of futurist and renaissance man Jacque Fresco. Watching this soon, sharing this now.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Geez I found this hard to watch, so preachy...

Jacque Fresco: US has never been a democracy

Jacque Fresco: Zeitgeist Movement, New York

Zeitgeist Movement, New York

Zeitgeist Movement event which took place on March 15th 2009 in NYC at the BMCC TRIBECA Performing Arts Center. Only part of it, mostly the interview with Jacque Fresco, Peter Joseph and Roxanne Meadows, and some Q&A.

Jacque Fresco: Future By Design clip

Jacque Fresco: Future By Design clip

A must see documentary, check out the Jacque Fresco label for more.

"We talk about civilisation as though it's a static state, and there are no civilised people yet. It's a process that's constantly going on. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you're in the early stages of civilisation, or what they call civilisation." Jacque Fresco

"All the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to nothing unless it elevates humans to their highest potential, this is the aim of the Future by Design. " Jacque Fresco

Vincent Callebaut's Luxurious Floating Ecopolis

Check out Belgian Vincent Callebaut's floating ecopolis. Freshome talks about the project about being a possible solution to rising sea levels, unfortunately this is a luxury retreat for 50.000 (rich) people. I feel Jacque Fresco's Venus Project which has similar-looking water projects (and many more) but focuses on using a resource based economy is a better solution than that by far but it's great to see more of these projects.

Jacque Fresco Utopia

A fan clip with an ironic name, as Fresco states Utopia isn't what it's about (on his own YouTube channel there is a clip called "no utopia), it's about evolving ;)


Jacque Fresco Utopia

Another clip of the excellent documentary Future By Design.
Check out a playlist of Jacque Fresco clips here.

Jacque Fresco Interview podcast

Jacque Fresco Interview podcast from Jerrypippin.com

Scroll down and on the right hand side you can download it under the image with the embedded vid in the middle.

Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916) is an industrial engineer, architectural designer, social engineer and futurist based in Florida. His optimistic view and desire to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people stem from his formative years during the Great Depression. To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society.

"It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative." Jacque Fresco

Future by Design docu
The Venus Project
Jacque Fresco YouTube clips

Fresco & RAW: Scientific Method & E-Prime applied to Society

Jacque Fresco: (No) Utopia

The Scientific Method applied socially in a resource based economy, as explained in Jacque Fresco's work (Read this excellent essay: Future and Beyond by Jacque Fresco) and the excellent documentary Future by Design, - combined with E-prime (English without "is" or "being") that Robert Anton Wilson popularized - could lead to a society of much better understanding, tolerance and progress than we have now.


Robert Anton Wilson - Language, Reason & Reality

Jacque Fresco: Science and War

Jacque Fresco: Science and War

Jacque Fresco: Research & Development

Jacque Fresco: Research & Development

Jacque Fresco: People of the Future

Jacque Fresco: People of the Future

Check out this great article on Jacque Fresco's vision at Aquarius Atlanta

Future by Design clip

GEM FUTURE BY DESIGN

Be sure to check out the wonderful work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project

Alfred Korzybski

Since discovering Jacque Fresco's genius work and popularizing it as much as I can, I got contacted by an associate of his and I grabbed the chance to ask if his wonderful way of applying the scientific method to language and society was derived in anyway from Korzybski, who also influenced another one of my heroes Robert Anton Wilson so much, the answer was yes. So I'm gonna read this 900+ page monster of a book called Science and Sanity and put up a little post.

Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist most remembered for developing the theory of general semantics (also check E-Prime)

The essence of Korzybski's work was the view that human beings are limited in what they know by (1) the structure of their nervous systems, and (2) the structure of their languages. Human beings cannot experience the world directly, but only through their "abstractions" (nonverbal impressions or "gleanings" derived from the nervous system, and verbal indicators expressed and derived from language). Sometimes our perceptions and our languages actually mislead us as to the "facts" with which we must deal. Our understanding of what is going on sometimes lacks similarity of structure with what is actually going on. He stressed training in awareness of abstracting, using techniques that he had derived from his study of mathematics and science. He called this awareness, this goal of his system, "consciousness of abstracting." His system included modifying the way we approach the world, e.g., with an attitude of "I don't know; let's see," to better discover or reflect its realities as shown by modern science. One of these techniques involved becoming inwardly and outwardly quiet, an experience that he called, "silence on the objective levels."

Korzybski and to be
Many supporters and critics of Korzybski reduced his rather complex system to a simple matter of what he said about the verb 'to be.' His system, however, is based primarily on such terminology as the different 'orders of abstraction,' and formulations such as 'consciousness of abstracting.' It is often said that Korzybski opposed the use of the verb "to be," an unfortunate exaggeration. He thought that certain uses of the verb "to be," called the "is of identity" and the "is of predication," were faulty in structure, e.g., a statement such as, "Joe is a fool" (said of a person named 'Joe' who has done something that we regard as foolish). In Korzybski's system, one's assessment of Joe belongs to a higher order of abstraction than Joe himself.

Korzybski's remedy was to deny identity; in this example, to be continually aware that 'Joe' is not what we call him. We find Joe not in the verbal domain, the world of words, but the nonverbal domain (the two, he said, amount to different orders of abstraction). This was expressed in Korzybski's most famous premise, "the map is not the territory." Note that this premise uses the phrase "is not", a form of "to be"; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon "to be" as such. In fact, he expressly said that there were no structural problems with the verb "to be" when used as an auxiliary verb or when used to state existence or location. It was even 'OK' sometimes to use the faulty forms of the verb 'to be,' as long as one was aware of their structural limitations.

Anecdote
One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he suddenly interrupted the lesson in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row, if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit. "Nice biscuit, don't you think", said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. Then he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words "Dog Cookies".
The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to throw up, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet. "You see, ladies and gentlemen", Korzybski remarked, "I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter." Apparently his prank aimed to illustrate how some human suffering originates from the confusion or conflation of linguistic representations of reality and reality itself.

Future By Design

Zeitgeist Adendum [II]

Zeitgeist Adendum [II] trailer (full version here)

Featuring Jacque Fresco, Bill Hicks, George Carlin and more.


15 March 2008 Z-Day

Zeitgeist Addendum full version here
1st Zeitgeist remastered post

Jacque Fresco in Future by Design

Jacque Fresco in Future by Design

Just a few topics that might interest people who found this vid interesting: E-prime language (english without "is"), Belief systems and the 8 Circuit Model of consciousness (2nd circuit emotional territorial, divide & conquer through belief systems - people don't defend beliefs with logic, they ignore most or all evidence against them.) Spiral Dynamics theory. Integral Theory in general.

Future by Design, a documentary about futurist Jacque Fresco

Future by Design trailer

Future by Design website