Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Fuller , R. Buckminster (2008), Grunch of Giants, Design Science, Retrieved on 2011-06-01
Folksonomies: environmentalism innovation prescience Memes
01 JUN 2011
Emergence Through Emergencies
Very frequently I hear or read of my artifacts adjudged by critics as
being "failures," because I did not get them into mass-production and
"make money with them." Such money-making-as-criteria-of-success critics
do not realize that money-making was never my goal. I learned very early
and painfully that you have to decide at the outset whether you are
trying to make money or to make sense, as they are mutually exclusive. I
saw that nature has various categories of unique gestation lags betwee...Folksonomies: environmentalism innovation
Folksonomies: environmentalism innovation
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notesBuckminster Fuller explains that many of his ideas haven't caught on, not because they aren't profitable, but because our lack of foresight hasn't yet created a sufficient emergency situation to prompt their adoption.
01 JUN 2011
Spaceship Earth Has 150 Admirals
Spaceship Earth now has 150 admirals. The five admirals in the
staterooms immediately above the ship's fuel tanks claim that they own
the oil. The admirals with staterooms surrounding the ship's kitchen,
dining rooms, and food refrigerators claim they own all the food. Those
with a stateroom next to a lifeboat claim that they own the lifeboat,
and so forth. They then have an onboard game called balance of trade.
Very shortly the majority of admirals have a deficit balance. All the
while the s... 1 notes
notesAnd they are all working selfishly and plotting against one another while no one is steering the ship.
01 JUN 2011
Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe
Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe. The experiment is to
discover whether the complex of cosmic laws can maintain the integrity
of eternal regeneration while allowing the mind of the species homo
sapiens on the little planet Earth to discover and use some of the
mathematical laws governing the design of Universe, whereby those humans
can by trial and error develop subjectively from initial ignorance into
satisfactorily informed, successful local-Universe monitors of all
physic...
1 Can humans use their minds to discover and use the laws of the Universe to survive?
01 JUN 2011
Capitalism Derides the Human Invention
When individuals shunt the comprehensive cosmic regeneration into
exclusive advantaging of only their own survival and enjoyment and
succeed in prolonged local short-circuiting of cosmic regenerativity,
they disqualify the invention "human" as a reliable function of
regenerative Universe. They are just as irresponsible in the cosmic
system as the company employees who pocket the cash register contents
for their own account. This is cosmically true of a childless
multimillionaire maneuvering h... 1 notes
notesWealthy people reducing the survivability of their fellow humans work under the false assumption that there are insufficient resources for everyone on Earth.
01 JUN 2011
GRUNCH
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.
GRUNCH is engaged in the only-by-instrumentsreached-and-operated, en...Folksonomies: environmentalism sustainabillity
Folksonomies: environmentalism sustainabillity
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notesAcronym for the forces preventing human progress and sustainability for their own selfish gain.
05 JUN 2011
A Unique Statement of the Law of Universal Gravitation
The relative interattractiveness invisibly operative between any two remote-from-one-another cosmic
bodies, as compared to any other pair of cosmic bodies, equally distanced from one another, is
proportional to the multiplicative product of the respective couple's masses, and the interattractiveness
of any pair of celestial bodies varies inversely as the second power of the distance between them. Halve
the intervening distance and the interattractiveness increases fourfold.
1 That does not use the word "Gravity".
05 JUN 2011
Humans Don't Have Roots
In the very largest way of looking at planet Earth's socioeconomic-evolution events, we must observe
that humans are designed with legs and not roots. Yesterday, humanity developed temporary roots as it
cultivated its life-support food root-grown on the land. The metals made possible metal canning of food
and mobilization of machinery. Today, all of human existence depends on the swift, world-around
intercommunication system operating at 186,000 miles per second. We have transformed reality f... 1 notes
notesThrough science, we are evolving to become more free, free from biological roots and free from Capitalistic chains, where ownership of real estate holds us down.
05 JUN 2011
A Poem About What Makes Humans Unique
When I undertook to answer
My own 1927 self-questioning:
"Why have humans been included
In the design of Universe?"
My hypothetical answer of 1927
Was, and as yet is:
What impresses me most
Is the experientially demonstrable fact
That all living organisms
Other than humans
Have some organically integral equipment
That gives them some inherent
Physical advantage
In coping with special environmental conditions--
A plant that can and does thrive
Only under dense Amazon
River jungle conditions--
...In comparison to other species and our place in the universe from Buckminster Fuller.
