I find Jacque and Roxanne's behavior to be absolutely hypocritical at this point, as has been stated that Jacque seems to be more concerned with his own ego than with cooperating with TZM (the only people interested in his ideas.)
For me, as someone who has purchased their book and dvds and even donated $100 to their movie fund, I feel betrayed by this childish behavior towards Peter, someone whose every public word I have read or listened to over the past 2 years and whose sincerity I trust more than Jacque or Roxanne's. Peter has given so much time and money to their direction that bad-mouthing him seems so uncalled for and ridiculous.
The only understandable hypothesis I can come up with is that Jacque's "mental equilibrium," as he likes to refer to it, is off because he feels the pressures of time (death) closing in on him. He's 95 years old and after getting sick several times in the past year from all the touring and work, he may be losing some self-control. I can only imagine that if I were him and I were afraid I were going to die any day I would certainly be impatient with Peter not being around as often as possible to make sure he's sucked up everything I have to tell him. That video of Jacque didn't seem like the Jacque I met, and he certainly is not representing his own values very well (all the emphasis on communication and semantics to make judgments on Peter without talking to him first???) I can also see how Jacque might feel a little be insulted by what he perceives as condescension from someone so much younger than him, not technically trained or scientifically inclined, to succeed where he has failed in communicating these ideas to a wider audience than they ever could have, in a much shorter span of time.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they just took the money and ran, so to speak. Once they realize their funds for this movie stop coming in, they might just shut down the donation widget and use the money on themselves, (or to build more stupid models for 30 years.) What I think a BETTER use of their money would be instead of building models, making silly videos reiterating the same basic points over and over, or even this movie, would be to TAKE OUT PATENTS on all of Jacque's inventions/designs. The $30,000+ they already have can certainly do this, and after these patents are claimed for whichever designs the patent offices accept, those designs can be made available OPEN SOURCE and FREE with no worries of them being exploited for profit. Jacque is definitely a pre-open-source mentality and probably takes offense to the idea of giving away his hard work for free, but seriously, he's going to die soon, why should he care? Might as well make the world a better place in whatever way he actually can, right?
