R.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
(July
12,
1895 –
July 1,
1983
R.I.P.)
Polymath / Visionary /
Architect
Inventor / Philosopher /
Author
Comprehensivist / Poet
Author: Among Many other Works & Books:
Critical Path
"We must do
away with the absolutely specious notion that
everybody has to earn a living.
It is a fact
today that one in ten thousand of us can make a
technological breakthrough
capable of
supporting all the rest. The youth of today are
absolutely right in recognizing
this nonsense
of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs
because of this false idea that
everybody has
to be employed at some kind of drudgery because,
according to
Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify
his right to exist. So we have inspectors of
inspectors
and people making instruments for inspectors to
inspect inspectors. The true
business of
people should be to go back to school and think
about whatever it was they
were thinking
about before somebody came along and told them
they had to earn a
living." R.
Buckminster Fuller
&
"GRUNCH
OF GIANTS, GROSS UNIVERSE CASH HEIST"
There is no
dictionary word for an army of invisible giants,
one thousand miles tall, with
their arms
interlinked, girding the planet Earth. Since
there exists just such an invisible,
abstract,
legal-contrivance army of giants, we have
invented the word GRUNCH as the
group
designation—"a grunch of giants." GR-UN- C-H,
which stands for annual GROSS
UNIVERSE CASH
HEIST, pays annual dividends of over one
trillion U.S. dollars.
As world society divests itself
of that which experimental evidence demonstrates
to be
untrue and embracingly enters
into its computer the mathematical formulae of
all that can
be experimentally proven to be
true, all the socially, selfishly malignant
characteristics of
the giant may vanish and the
omni-pro- social-advantage-producing
capabilities may
prevail and flourish.
--
R.Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants, 1983
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“The most
astonishing thing about Spaceship Earth: it
didn't come with an operating manual."
"What usually happens in the
educational process is that the faculties are
dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so
that by the time most people are mature they
have lost their innate capabilities."
"Now, if you
were world master, you would not be at all
worried about being displaced by a dull one. You
would only be apprehensive of and on guard
against the bright ones. There is the old
strategy of "divide and conquer." Anticipatory
"divide and conquer" is more powerful than tardy
"divide and conquer." The old masters, then, in
order to prevent themselves from being displaced
from their great ocean mastery deliberately went
to work taking the young, bright ones as they
came along, and divided them up anticipatorily
into non-self-integratable specializations,
which made them completely innocuous as
challengers to comprehensive grand-strategy
thinking and practical-affairs integration. The
bright ones thus became subject to integration
of their high potential only at the masters'
command......"
Polymath / Visionary / Architect
Inventor / Philosopher / Author
Comprehensivist / Poet
Proponent of a "Post Materialistic Scarcity
Economic Ontology" following the year 1970 !
Seen
By Many as THE Major Premise of Fuller's Many
Contributions to Improving the Human Condition
Within the
Larger Ecological Order.
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The program can
be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you
tube link below:
Buckminster
Fuller World Game Synergy Anticapatory
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(Originally aired: July 1974)
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