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🗓️ 11 August 2022
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0:00.0 | Welcome listener to premium chapter 180 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Venus Project |
0:22.0 | Episode |
0:47.0 | I'm here to talk about a man with a vision as the late Jacques Fresco. |
1:08.6 | He was a self-educated industrial engineer who envisioned a future without what, without |
1:14.2 | war and even without money. A world in which there is no scarcity and no property. A world |
1:20.5 | in which all people are entitled to their fill of earth resources like clean air and water, |
1:26.2 | arable land, education, healthcare, energy and food. A world in which technology and |
1:31.2 | nature coexist to serve humanity. A world so peaceful and beautiful that inhabitants |
1:36.7 | can't conceive of the misery, hate and violence that we tolerate today. |
1:41.7 | Now the sounds like an idealistic communist utopia, but Jacques Fresco rejected both communism |
1:47.8 | and capitalism claiming that they were economic systems based on scarcity. Instead he envisioned |
1:52.9 | what he called a resource based economy, which he said was based on abundance. Before Fresco |
1:58.2 | died in 2017, he spent most of his very long life developing the broad details of this |
2:04.3 | futuristic vision. What the cities would look like, what the houses would look like, how |
2:08.9 | transportation would work, how to generate limitless clean energy for the entire world, and |
2:14.4 | even what people would do with their time after a scarcity is eliminated. Even purchase |
2:18.7 | a 22 acre estate in Venus, Florida, which he used to build his model home of the future |
2:24.2 | and show off models and drawings of his ideas. Along the way, he built up a stable of |
2:29.3 | admirers, gave lectures all over the world and was frequently interviewed by the media. |
2:34.0 | Now it's really interesting to me about Jacques Fresco, is that sounds like he had the |
2:37.8 | potential to become a cult leader. It sounds like all of the elements are there. He offered |
2:42.4 | a utopian vision. He was a kooky outsider. He had followers who believed in his radical |
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