It's very hard for a traditional person

to step out of their tradition

and investigate with the means that they never had.

Influence of Background

If you don't have the background to investigate

you don't know what to check with; you check with another metaphysician

and he's bound to sing your song.

So you say "I agree completely with you."

You don't say

"Do you have evidence to support that point of view?"

Free Will

The free will assumption, that there's nothing that causes it,

it's just a terrible assumption - that there's nothing responsible for it,

it's self determined.

"Self" meaning without cause.

Free will means "without cause."

Try thinking of something without an influence.

Blame

It makes it easier, much easier,

for society to flourish by blaming people

rather than taking into account

the physical factors responsible for the behavior.

Cause

And if you don't know what the cause is,

the greatest thing you can do is say

"I don't know. I'm gonna try to look into it."

But, how do you look into it?

There are laws that govern how you look into it.

Are you going to study those laws?

or are you going to look into it with the old value system?

The old value system will reveal nothing.

What you want

People are not that precise in their language.

Say "What do you want?" "I want access to the necessities of life."

They can't say that.

They've never been taught that.

They've been taught a roundabout way

of talking about things.

Values & Habits of Thought

So The Venus Project does not concern itself

with habits of thought or "success" as used today.

It concerns itself with the physical factors

that are responsible for our values.

If you want a better world you have to make it better.

You have to be...

this is what you must use: "ruthlessly honest."

Otherwise you can't make it.

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Video edit + photography Joel Holt