Just Call Me Bucky: R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist, was a man of deep thoughts and important words. In one sentence, in
Earth Inc., he wrote this mission statement:
Acutely aware of our beings' limitations and acknowledging the infinite mystery of the a priori Universe into which we are born but nevertheless searching for a conscious means of hopefully competent participation by humanity in its own evolutionary trending while employing only the unique advantages inhering exclusively to those individuals who take and maintain the economic initiative in the face of the formidable physical capital and credit advantages of the massive corporations and political states and deliberately avoiding political ties and tactics while endeavoring by experiments and explorations to excite individuals' awareness and realization of humanity's higher potentials I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less whereby in turn the wealth augmenting prospects of such design science regenerations will induce their spontaneous and economically successful industrial proliferation by world around services' managements all of which chain reaction provoking events will both permit and induce all humanity to realize full lasting economic and physical success plus enjoyment of all the Earth without one individual interfering with or being advantaged at the expense of another.
Best Wishes for the year-end Holiday Season, and a happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year for all of us on
Spaceship Earth™.
Posted by
abnu on Sunday, December 21, 2003 @ 8:44 AM
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