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Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

Love

“Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole.”

Buckminster Fuller

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1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards

Behavior

“Dare to be naïve.”

Buckminster Fuller

Source: 1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), Moral of the work, p. xix.

“They are not multi-national, but supra-national — above nations. They don’t need any passports. They can go in and out of countries without permission from anyone.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Country

“But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Study , Reading

“Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Way

“Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Sense , Science , Way

“The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

World

“That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

“Politics is policy. What policy should you follow in view of the idea that there isn’t enough to go around — the power of the few, or the needs of the many? Political economy is based on misassumptions...”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Idea

“There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles.... The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

God , Behavior

“Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

Universe , Thinking , Parting

“It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. The essence of livingry is human-life advantaging and environment controlling. With the highest aeronautical and engineering facilities of the world redirected from weaponry to livingry production, all humanity would have the option of becoming enduringly successful.”

Buckminster Fuller

Source: From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

World , Life , Success

“War is obsolete. It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago… technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

War

“Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize… that it is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

World , Selfishness

“Selected quotes from the chapter on Synergy onwards…”

Buckminster Fuller

1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards

Quotes

“All previous revolutions have been political—in them the have-not majority has attempted revengefully to pull down the economically advantaged minority. If realized, this historically greatest design revolution will joyously elevate all humanity to unprecedented heights.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

“Society assumes that specialization is natural, inevitable, and desirable. Yet in observing a little child, we find it is interested in everything and spontaenously apprehends, comprehends, and co-ordinates an ever-expanding inventory of experiences. … Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life than its wanting to understand all and put everything together.”

Buckminster Fuller

1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Life , Understanding , Nature

“We have not been seeing our Spaceship Earth as an integrally-designed machine which to be persistently successful must be comprehended and serviced in total.”

Buckminster Fuller

1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Success

“There is so much stupid information, misinformation around. You can’t really get anywhere until you get out from under all that.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)

Stupidity