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Buckminster Fuller
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:26am |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:30am |
| Coolness: 71690 | "When we approach our problems on a universal, general
systems basis and progressively eliminate the irrelevancies, somewhat as we peel petals from an artichoke, at each move we leave in full visibility the next most important layer of factors with which we must deal. We gradually uncover you and me in the heart of now." |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:42am |
| Coolness: 71690 | Humanity has the option to succeed...
Civilization has been in the midst of a design revolution which is continuing to accelerate the efficiency of technological performance, resource utilization and communication. Research over the last 25 years suggests that, as a result of this trend, humanity now has the historically unprecedented option to produce a high standard of living for all people on an ecologically sustainable basis. The existence of such a profound possibility remains largely obscured and on the outer-most fringe of public dialogue. Given humanity’s enormous impact on the Earth’s natural systems, compounded by the prospect of our population doubling within the next fifty years, well-informed debate concerning this unparalleled opportunity for comprehensive planetary success must take a place on center stage. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» musork replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:42am |
 Coolness: 49775 | you should check out his book I am a verb he wrote it in collaberation with McCluhan and is fucking awaesome! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:50am |
| Coolness: 71690 | McLuhan is another crucial thinker.
Bucky's "Everything I know" 42 hour lecture, transcribed, and in audio, and video is on the aforementioned site, as with some other books. How sweet is that!? “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.” - Buckminster Fuller |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 9:54am |
| Coolness: 71690 | “Humanity is moving ever deeper into crisis - a crisis without precedent.
First, it is a crisis brought about by cosmic evolution irrevocably intent upon completely transforming omnidisintegrated humanity from a complex of around-the-world, remotely-deployed-from-one-another, differently colored, differently credoed, differently cultured, differently communicating, and differently competing entities into a completely integrated, comprehensively interconsiderate, harmonious whole. Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely within its cosmic-energy income instead of spending its cosmic energy savings account (i.e., the fossil fuels) or spending its cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e., atomic energy)-the atoms with which our Spaceship Earth and its biosphere are structured and equipped-a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedentedly cold midwinter night. Humanity's cosmic-energy income account consists entirely of our gravity-and star (99 percent Sun)-distributed cosmic dividends of water power, tidal power, wave power, wind power, vegetation-produced alcohols, methane gas, vulcanism, and so on. Humanity's present rate of total energy consumption amounts to only one four-millionth of one percent of the rate of its energy income. ...Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.” - Buckminster Fuller, from the introduction to Critical Path |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 10:21am |
| Coolness: 71690 | A LITTLE MORE ABOUT BUCKMINSTER FULLER
In 1927 Buckminster Fuller began a 50-year experiment using himself as the guinea pig. He proposed to discover what he–an average man with neither money, nor corporate or governmental backing–could do on behalf of all humanity. Most broadly (and most ambitiously), he determined to find the principles which govern the Universe and apply them to the basic and persistent problems that plague humankind (e.g. shelter). A major barrier to the success of this experiment is society’s persistent assumption that needed human resources are scarce. Warfare is society’s most destructive way to defend a group’s existing resources and acquire others. Fuller sought to shift humanity’s focus away from applying its best resources to creating and refining weaponry. He sought to deploy those resources to "livingry," i.e. to the progressive betterment of all human beings through to human problems. His goal was to bring on this shift by changing the environment, not people. With his wide experience in science, mathematics and industry (especially the building industry), Fuller saw that technology was bringing radical changes to human society and would bring many more. If and when it is fully and properly applied, Fuller was convinced it could raise 100% of humanity to a level of previously unimagined success. Advanced technology allows people and goods to move freely around the world, increasing mobility and decreasing the traditional rootedness of human cultures. .globalization proper. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 10:50am |
| Coolness: 71690 | Bucky’s Self-Disciplines
I decided that Nature might support a man who was doing what Nature wanted to be done and concluded that I would be informed by Nature if I proceeded in the following manner: Use myself as an experiment to see what, if anything, a healthy, young male human of average size, experience, and capability with an economically dependent wife and new born child, starting without capital or any kind of wealth, cash savings, credit or university degree could effectively do that could not be done by great nations or great private enterprise to lastingly improve the physical protection and support of all human lives. Commit all of my productivity toward dealing only with the whole planet Earth and all its resources and cumulative know-how. Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. Seek to do my own thinking, confining it to only experientially gained information. Seek to accomplish whatever is to be attained in such a manner that the advantage attained would never be secured at the cost of another or others. Seek to cope with all humanly unfavorable conditions by searching for the family of relevant physical principles involved. Reduce my inventions to physically working models and must never talk about the inventions until physically proved or disproved. Seek to reform the environment, not the humans. I am determined never to try to persuade humanity to alter its customs and viewpoints. Never promote or sell either my ideas or artifacts or pay others to do so. All support must be spontaneously engendered by evolution’s integrating of my inventions with the total evolution of human affairs. Assume that nature has its own gestation rates, not only for the birth of each new biological component, but also for each inanimate technological artifact. Seek to develop my artifacts with ample anticipatory time margins so that they will be ready for use by society when society discovers–through evolutionary emergencies–a need for them. Seek to learn the most from my mistakes. Seek to decrease time wasted in worried procrastination and to increase time invested in discovery of technological effectiveness. Seek to document my development in the official records of humanity by applying for and being granted government patents. Above all, seek to comprehend the principles of eternally regenerative universe and discover how humans function in these principles. Seek to educate myself comprehensively regarding nature’s inventory of chemical elements, their weights, performance characteristics, relative abundance's, geographical whereabouts, metallurgical alloys, and chemical associabilities and disassociabilities. Seek to comprehend the full gamut of production tool capabilities, energy resources, and all relevant geological, meteorological, demographic, and economic data. Seek to operate only on a do-it-yourself basis and only on the basis of intuition. Plan for my design science strategies to advantage the new life to be born on Earth, life born unencumbered with the conditioned reflexes so prevalent today. Commit whole-heartedly to the above and pay no attention to "earning a living" in humanity’s established economic system, yet find that my family’s and my needs are provided for by seemingly pure happenstance and always only in the nick of time. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» musork replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 11:18am |
| Coolness: 49775 | is funny when I first discovered bucky and mccluhan back in cegep in the middle 80s (Im 36 so it was a long time ago for me) I eqally got excited Im happy to see that thier theories are not ignored now that we are in the year 2003 since most of thier work was done in the 60s and 70s... :)
great thinkers are great thinkers period... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 11:25am |
| Coolness: 71690 | yeah i found out about buckminster fuller in a book my father had lying around many years ago
for some reason I just felt an urge to rediscover him and his wonderful ideas (maybe because I am working at an environmental engineering company) oh, and neil, we are in the year 2004 :P :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 11:28am |
| Coolness: 71690 | (for those who don't know, buckminster fuller conceived and designed the geodesic dome at terre des hommes here in montreal) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» musork replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 1:42pm |
| Coolness: 49775 | Originally posted by *COUNTRY~BOY...
yeah i found out about buckminster fuller in a book my father had lying around many years ago for some reason I just felt an urge to rediscover him and his wonderful ideas (maybe because I am working at an environmental engineering company) oh, and neil, we are in the year 2004 :P :) douh yeah its 2004 my bad hahahaha... sorry my brain has been fary all day... cool your pop turned you on to bucky my pop turned me on to mccluhan and kraftwerk when I was 10... props to cool fathers... enviormental engeneering is cool man!!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Jan 29, 2004 @ 1:48pm |
| Coolness: 71690 | my pops turned me on to kraftwerk too :) |
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