"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
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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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