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If You Remain Conventional And Don't Change, You'll Get Along. You'll Get Along In The Limited Forms Of Insanity That Exist Out There. You'll Never Be Able To Keep A Marriage Together, You'll Never Be Able To Keep Anything Together, Because The Whole Goddamn Thing Isn't Together.

This Is Not A Dictatorship, This Is Based Upon Scientific Evidence To Support A Given Project. If You Want To Put Up A Building, Say Half A Mile High, The Material Has To Be Available. Using Statistics Is Not A Dictatorship. It's A Method Of Getting The Most From Existing Resources.

You Cannot Approach People Who Think Differently With Reason And Logic If They Don't Know What That Means. First, You Have To Appeal To Their Values To Start With. If You Attack Them, You Lose Them.

Learning To Be Flexible In Values Takes A Very Long Time...of Course I Felt A Little Uncomfortable During Questioning The Concept Of God, But Then Reading About The History And Evolution Of Gods. There Were Many Different Gods: The God Of War, The God Of Peace, The God Of Love, Which Was More Like The People That Invented Them. They Behaved, They Got Angry, They Made Sacrifices, They Created Floods When They Didn't Like The Way Things Are Going. This Didn't Come Through As Superior Intelligence.

The Social Designs That Are Proposed In [the Venus Project] Merely Provide The Opportunity For Individuals To Develop Their Fullest Potential In Whatever Endeavor They Choose Without The Fear Of Loss Of Individuality Or Submission To Uniformity.