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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BUCKMINSTER FULLER
GRAPH FROM HIS "WORLD GAME" FINDINGS OF THE PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD
POPULATION WHO COULD BE SEEN TO BE “HAVES” IN THE MODERN EXPERIENCE IN
TERMS OF OUR ABSTRACT TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED “CAPABILITY” TO PROVIDE
“LIFE SUPPORT” TO THE WORLD POPULATION. FURTHERMORE BOTH “GROWTH AND
EQUITY” COULD BE REALIZED WITHIN AN ECOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE MANNER
THROUGH THE INCREASING ELEGANCE OF “GOOD DESIGN TEMPLATES – “DOING MORE
WITH LESS”. THINK MOORE’S LAW WRIT LARGE. HE PROJECTED FROM THE YEAR
1952 “A TWENTY YEAR PERIOD OF IMMINENT CRISIS TO ALL HUMAN INSTITUTIONS
AS WE APPROACHED AND CROSSED THE 50% MARK." HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE IN
THE BELIEF THE PROCESS HAD ACCELERATED AND THAT WE CROSSED THE 50% MARK
IN 1970.
REMEMBER THIS IS
“DESIGN CAPABILITY” NOT THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONAL
ASSUMPTIONS AND NOTIONS OF HUMAN NATURE INHERITED FROM HISTORY. TO
BRIDGE THE TWO IS MANKIND’S MOST PRESSING CHALLENGE. HE PROVIDED THIS
MAJOR PREMISE "PATTERN" TO HELP US ENGAGE IN THE BRIDGE BUILDING WORK.
H.H.C.
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Polymath / Visionary / Architect
Inventor / Philosopher / Author
Comprehensivist / Poet
Proponent of a
"Post Materialistic Scarcity Economic Ontology"
following the year 1970 - Seen By Many as perhaps
THE Major Premise of Fuller's Many Contributions
to Improving the Human Condition Within the
