Reception
Throughout his life Fresco and his work has been the subject of many radio and television programs, as well as many newspaper and magazine articles, the writers for which have labeled him a "dreamer," an "eccentric," an "utopian," an "idealist," a "crackpot," a "charlatan," yet, concurrently, a genius, a prophet, and a visionary. Some feel that his ideas are impractical, idealistic, and/or borderline science fiction. The books Nineteen Eighty-Four or Brave New World are sometimes referenced in relation to the future he envisions. These attitudes continue today across some Web sites. Even further, some claims have labeled him a cult leader due to his figurehead status in The Zeitgeist Movement. Others accuse him of affiliations with conspirators of a New World Order. Fresco dismisses these accusations.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
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