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Monday NOVEMBER
15, 2010
GUEST:
(Originally aired: July 1974)
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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Some quotable quotes - R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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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......"
Education Automation
(R. Buckminster Fuller)
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"You must choose between making
money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive."
(Buckminster Fuller - 1983)
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“For
the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a
higher standard of living than any have ever known.
Only ten years ago (1970) the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point
where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become
enduringly successful.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, 1980
"To make the world work for
100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous
cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
R. Buckminster Fuller - "Vision Statement"
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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."
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.
THAT IS THE SAME YEAR
MOST RELIABLE MODELING'S
SUGGEST HUMANITY'S WEAPONS SYSTEMS
BECAME - AS THEY REMAIN - "SPECIES LETHAL". BOTH SIGNAL A NEW MOMENT OF
EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGE AND CALL FOR A
COMPREHENSIVELY CONCEIVED AND
INTELLECTUALLY AND ACTIVELY ADVANCED PARADIGM OF PARADIGM SHIFTS. IF WE HAVE
ACTUALLY BEEN EXISTING WITHIN A POST
SCARCITY ONTOLOGICAL CONTEXT FOR 40
YEARS "WANDERING IN THE WILDNESS" AS IT WERE - THAT SHOULD BE MADE KNOWN TO ONE
AND ALL INCLUDING OUR POLITICAL AND
INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP ELEMENTS. OUT
OF THE 200,000 YEAR TENURE OF OUR HOMO SAPIEN SPECIES ON EARTH IT MAY WELL BE
WE HAVE HAD TO (AND CONTINUE TO ACCEPT
AS A PRIORI )THE IDEA
THAT MATERIAL REALITY IS "SCARCE". CERTAINLY THE VERY PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THEORIZING THAT HAVE INFORMED AND
CHARACTERIZED VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR INHERITED ASSUMPTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS HAVE
BEEN PREDICATED ON THE ALL BUT UNQUESTIONED ASSUMPTION OF ZERO SUM SCARCITY.
FOR ONE TO WIN ANOTHER MUST LOSE. IT WOULD SEEM THAT BASIC ASSUMPTION OUGHT AND
MUST BE CHALLENGED IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE AND NECESSARILY ONE AND ALL
BE LIBERATED FROM THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF AN (ONLY IN OUR LIFETIME BUT NOW)
NECESSARILY OUTDATED - EVEN AS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED - ASSUMPTION.
ALL THIS WITHIN AN APPROPRIATE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT IF WE ARE TO AVOID THE SIREN
CALLS OF RETROGRADE AND RISK THE ANNIHILATION OF OUR ENTIRE SPECIES. WHILE
OTHERS HAVE ADDRESSED THE ISSUE IT WOULD STRONGLY BE SUGGESTED THAT BUCKMINSTER
FULLER HAS PROVIDED AN INTELLECTUAL BASIS FOR ACHIEVING THAT
TRANSFORMED ALTERATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS MORE AUTHORITATIVELY AND IN PRACTICAL
COMPREHENSIVE TERM THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE AVAILABLE TO US
REMEMBER THIS IS “DESIGN CAPABILITY” NOT THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND
ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS AND NOTIONS OF HUMAN NATURE (WHICH WILL HAVE
TO BE
SUBSUMED) INHERITED FROM HISTORY IF HUMANITY IS TO CREATE A "POST
MATERIAL SCARCITY" WORLD WHICH THE FUTURE REQUIRES AND COLLECTIVELY NOW
POSSESSES THE
MEANS TO ACHIEVE. TO BRIDGE THE TWO - TO LIBERATE RATHER THAN
ANNIHILATE - 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
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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More about R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BFI hosted a
series of events
around the 2010
Buckminster
Fuller
Challenge,
including the
conferring
ceremony for the
2010 Winner at
the National
Press Club and
"Architecting
the Future" at
AU's School of
International
Service.
Read more
June 3rd - Ryan
Chin and Michael
Lin from
Sustainable
Personal
Mobility and
Mobility-on-Demand
Systems provide
some exciting
progress the
project has had
in the year
since winning
the 2009
Buckminster
Fuller
Challenge.
Read more
The Buckminster
Fuller Institute
is dedicated to
accelerating the
development and
deployment of
solutions which
radically
advance human
well being and
the health of
our planet's
ecosystems.
Read more
A biography of
Buckminster
Fuller's
"thought
development,"
Ideas and
Integrities
presents an
intimate
self-portrait of
the experiences
and discoveries
behind his
groundbreaking
ideas and
inventions.
Buy now
Born in Milton,
Massachusetts on
July 12, 1895,
Buckminster
Fuller was a
renowned 20th
century inventor
and visionary,
who dedicated
his life to
making the world
work for all of
humanity.
Read more
© Buckminster Fuller Institute, 2010
Design and Development by
Cedomir Kovacev and
Ann MorrisImages courtesy of
the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller unless otherwise noted
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010
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