Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship pdfdrive com

~ Jacque Fresco, Futurist
THE 6 SEEDERS CODING YOUR INDOCTRINATION
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eeders indoctrinate and/or disseminate. Either individuals or institutions,
seeders are responsible for getting the software into your head, and keeping it
there. Whenever 
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doctrine risks exposure or faces scrutiny, it’s a
seeder’s job to reeducate, or worse, shut down the debate entirely. Such
“reeducation” could be a flawed study, an article, or some other anecdotal item
pushed by a biased party using one of many logical fallacies, often arguments
based on emotion rather than fact. And in many cases, the person questioning
convention is branded a quack or an extremist.
For instance, had you lived in tenth-century China, you would have been
taught the Earth is flat. The seeders, both compromised and prejudiced parties,
then disseminate the lie.
With a compromised party, the seeder is an authority figure, usually a parent
or a teacher, who merely parrots what they learned or lived. 
Twenty years ago my
teacher taught me “flat Earth” and now you will learn it too
. With a compromised
party, there isn’t malicious intent. The afflicted party is unknowingly
miseducating you so that you “fit in” and are “normal.”
In the other case, a prejudiced party knows the accepted presumption is a lie
yet profits from its ongoing falsehood. In our flat-Earth tale, a prejudiced party

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could be a government, the media, or a businessperson.
For instance, let’s say you live in a small coastal village landlocked by
impassable mountains. The village leaders tyrannically suggest every citizen work
sixteen-hour days, six days a week. The village plutocrats, thanks to a profitable
tax system, live lavishly and work sparingly. They also know the truth—the Earth
is not flat—but through benevolent, state-sponsored education, they teach the
lie: “The Earth is flat, and sailing away is ‘dangerous and risky.’”
But trouble brews. Outside town lives a young boatman who dishonors the
village chieftains and claims the Earth is round. Behind his outlandish claim is
another claim: he says he’s successfully sailed the ocean and found a better way
of life. Upon hearing such blasphemy and knowing its threat to the village’s
economic prosperity, the leaders (who control the media) publish news stories
smearing the boatman as a crazy lunatic. Other label his reports as “fake news”.
As such, the villagers dismiss the boatman and remain pliant to the cultural
system their leaders have ordained, not knowing a better life is just a short sail to
the east.
Our world suffers a similar scenario, thanks to six seeders who have made the
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OS as ubiquitous as Instagram narcissism.
Those seeders are:
#1) FRIENDS AND FAMILY: OUR LIFE SUCKS, SO YOURS SHOULD TOO.
I studied finance at college. Not because I enjoyed math, but because my
family instructed, “The money is in finance.” My uncle was a successful Fortune
500 financial executive so instead of studying entrepreneurship, I was steered
into depreciation formulas, standard deviations, and portfolio theory. After four
expensive years, I earned a finance degree, despite being a creative, left-handed,
crayon-the-wall deviant who loved math as much as a prostate exam.
After earning the accolade and hating every class, I had a gut check: “Shit, I
can’t do this for the rest of my life, even as a ‘fallback’ for entrepreneurial
failure.” So I stayed and got another degree, one better suited for
entrepreneurship: marketing.
In every case, the 
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’s epidemiology starts with family.

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As a child, you’re as defenseless to imprinting as a toddler is to his stinky
diapers. Its first upload comes from your parents because they too are living by
the same 
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. They want what 
they think
is best for you, and unfortunately,
what’s best in their eyes is “normal” and “safe.” Take for example these two
accounts posted at The Fastlane Entrepreneur Forum:
(1)
When I was a youngster, I saw a Porsche and my dad had a new Toyota Camry. I
asked my dad, “Why does the guy driving the Porsche have a better car than us?”
My father told me it’s because he was lucky. So I thought, “OK, I hope I grow up
lucky.”
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(2)
I was in Subway for lunch when a Lamborghini rolled by, eliciting a lot of head
turns and chatter. At the next table, I overheard a son ask his dad how to get a
Lamborghini. The conversation went like this: “Well son, a Lamborghini is a lot of
money! If you want to get one, you’ll have to work hard in school, get into a good
college, and get a good job at some place like Microsoft. By the time you’re my
age you would be able to afford one. And that, my son, is how successful people
do it.” 
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While these two examples glorify flashy cars as a success standard, they
represent more: To a child, these cars personify dreams, much like when I was
young. Unfortunately, after your parents squash your childhood dreams—you’ll
never own a Lamborghini unless you’re lucky—you’re hit with life’s 
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bullshit: get good grades so you can get into a good college so you can get a good
job, work hard, finance a house and a car, and live exactly like we do.
But it doesn’t stop at family.
Friends and colleagues are also potent seeders. Yes, the ones who are broke
and miserable. The ones voicing such concerns as “that’s a bad idea” or “that’s
not realistic.” For these naysayers, their accomplishments are few while their
excuses are plenty; the American Dream is dead and something else blows the
blame: the economy, the boss, the evil globalists, the evil Republicans, the evil
Democrats, or the sun shining in late June.
Unless you have carefully cultivated your friends and coworkers, chances are
they don’t want you succeeding beyond their own success. Ever tell your peers
you got a new job? Notice the likes and congratulations. But tell them you quit
your job to go after your dream? #Stinkface. Unfurl the umbrella for the
hellstorm about to rain. You’ll be bludgeoned with dire warnings and caveats.
Translation?

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divergence is unacceptable. You must be like us. You must stay
within the lines of the nine-to-five model. Speak of anything outside the formula
and watch the spaghetti fly. Watch friends drop. Watch loved ones doubt you, or
worse, disown you.
Unfortunately, in Asian and Indian cultures the 
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has a choking grip
and a higher price for deviation. In multiple instances, young immigrant
students have vented frustration on my forum because they hate the path they’ve
been forced to take, but their parents insist because of cultural expectations.
Parent says, “Be a doctor!” Child says, “No, that doesn’t make me happy!”
Take for example this forum comment:
Long story short, I dropped out of school to start a business. Now I am looking for
a job just to pay the bills while I chip away at my mission. However, my parents
don’t believe in my ideas. I don’t have a problem with all the scrutiny and the
yelling, but the tables have turned. My parents are more emotionally involved. My
mom is depressed and says I need to be realistic; otherwise, I am going to end up a
loser at a dead end.
My father says, “Look what you’re doing to your mom; she is lost because you did
not finish your degree and get a job with a big company.”
Now I am this horrible deadbeat son. Like many immigrant families, it’s get a
degree and a nine-to-five with a huge corporation or be a loser. 
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Sad that 
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noncompliance means being labeled a loser. Or worse,
family banishment. Parents are not encouraging dreams. Instead, we’re
smothering our kids with sacrosanct traditions and antiquated templates for
living. The truth is, some parents would rather enjoy the prestige of having their
kid be a miserable doctor ready to jump off a cliff over a happy human being.