Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco, is an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Fresco is self-taught and has worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 March 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational wish world
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
thinking cities way
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
venus today helping
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.
hurt moving government
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons
today would-be offensive
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
people wish heritage
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
political problem
Our problems are technical, not political
want world kind
We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.
soldier machines killing
Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
offering alternatives enough
It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
hate organization ku-klux-klan
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.
greed culture prejudice
We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture
mean individual-choice people
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.
today our-society type
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.