08-05-2022, 05:51 AM
PATTERN-INTEGRITY ON THE RUN
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
(From https://www.quora.com/What-did-Buckminst...-integrity:)
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a genius and systems thinker of the order of Nikola Tesla and Charles Darwin. Some say he was the 20th century’s Leonardo Da Vinci. So why isn’t he more widely referenced and taught today? Well, one clue may be his writing, a sample of which is below:
"Man can and may metaphysically comprehend, anticipate, shunt, and meteringly introduce the evolutionarily organized environment events in the magnitudes and frequencies that best synchronize with the patterns of his successful and metaphysical metabolic regeneration while ever increasing the degrees of humanity’s space and time freedoms from yesterday’s ignorance sustaining survival procedure chores and their personal time capital wasting."
It's rare for readers of today to have the patience to parse through such dense prose [similar in some respects to the recursionary nested-contextuality of Henry James' late-period literary writing]. It’s too bad, because for those who do, there is a breathtaking wisdom and moral leadership to be found.
My reading of Bucky is predominantly metaphysical. Here is a collection of gems, which together form the throughline that I think is most important in what Bucky was saying.
* Wealth is not money; wealth is our knowledge of how to take care of ourselves, and reduce the restrictions on our degrees of freedom now and in the future.
* Humans are innately comprehensive, good at figuring out technology in response to environmental challenges; a man who lives in the tropics by the sea will invent a boat, but a man who lives at higher latitudes by a lake will invent a boat and a sled, because the lake freezes over in the winter.
* Throughout history, technological know-how has been sequestered by the smart men who worked in league with the strong men. These men used technological power and religious power to build great empires because they believed there were not enough (resources) to go around.
* Modern educational systems are mostly designed to reduce humans' natural competence and comprehensivity and turn them into specialists. Only the elite are allowed to embrace their natural comprehensive skills, which are easier, because they are innate to all humans.
* Technology has made it possible, since 1979, to realistically feed, clothe and shelter every person on the planet. The reasons we give for not doing this are ideological, not technological.
* Humanity's rising literacy rates mean that people are ready to self-govern and throw off the yoke of political and religious leadership the world over.
* As long as most people are convinced there is not enough life support on Planet Earth to support 7 or 9 billion humans, and therefore the only way to ensure security for them and theirs is to take the resources they need from others before others can take resources from them, people will not choose to change a system that is so cruel to so many, because they will believe it is a necessary way to apportion 'scarce' resources.
* Our task, then, is primarily metaphysical, and it is to educate everyone on Earth quickly enough so that they start engaging in social behaviors that avoid widespread species extinction.
(Waiting) To cut out the deadwood
(Waiting) To clean up the city
(Waiting) To follow the worms
(Waiting) To put on a black shirt
(Waiting) To weed out the weaklings
(Waiting) To smash in their windows and kick in their doors
(Waiting) For the final solution to strengthen the strain
(Waiting) To follow the worms
(Waiting) To turn on the showers and fire the ovens
(Waiting) For the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews
(Waiting) To follow the worms
Until the leaf falls
I've never seen a tree
Every time I go into the woods
Before the sundown
I never know the time
Before the sundown
I never know the time
Every time I go into the woods
I'm always certain
It hasn't been that long
I'm always certain
It hasn't been that long
Every time I go into the woods
I'm always learning
Things I've learned before
I'm always learning
Things I've learned before
Every time I
Every time I
Every time I go into the woods
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
(From https://www.quora.com/What-did-Buckminst...-integrity:)
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a genius and systems thinker of the order of Nikola Tesla and Charles Darwin. Some say he was the 20th century’s Leonardo Da Vinci. So why isn’t he more widely referenced and taught today? Well, one clue may be his writing, a sample of which is below:
"Man can and may metaphysically comprehend, anticipate, shunt, and meteringly introduce the evolutionarily organized environment events in the magnitudes and frequencies that best synchronize with the patterns of his successful and metaphysical metabolic regeneration while ever increasing the degrees of humanity’s space and time freedoms from yesterday’s ignorance sustaining survival procedure chores and their personal time capital wasting."
It's rare for readers of today to have the patience to parse through such dense prose [similar in some respects to the recursionary nested-contextuality of Henry James' late-period literary writing]. It’s too bad, because for those who do, there is a breathtaking wisdom and moral leadership to be found.
My reading of Bucky is predominantly metaphysical. Here is a collection of gems, which together form the throughline that I think is most important in what Bucky was saying.
* Wealth is not money; wealth is our knowledge of how to take care of ourselves, and reduce the restrictions on our degrees of freedom now and in the future.
* Humans are innately comprehensive, good at figuring out technology in response to environmental challenges; a man who lives in the tropics by the sea will invent a boat, but a man who lives at higher latitudes by a lake will invent a boat and a sled, because the lake freezes over in the winter.
* Throughout history, technological know-how has been sequestered by the smart men who worked in league with the strong men. These men used technological power and religious power to build great empires because they believed there were not enough (resources) to go around.
* Modern educational systems are mostly designed to reduce humans' natural competence and comprehensivity and turn them into specialists. Only the elite are allowed to embrace their natural comprehensive skills, which are easier, because they are innate to all humans.
* Technology has made it possible, since 1979, to realistically feed, clothe and shelter every person on the planet. The reasons we give for not doing this are ideological, not technological.
* Humanity's rising literacy rates mean that people are ready to self-govern and throw off the yoke of political and religious leadership the world over.
* As long as most people are convinced there is not enough life support on Planet Earth to support 7 or 9 billion humans, and therefore the only way to ensure security for them and theirs is to take the resources they need from others before others can take resources from them, people will not choose to change a system that is so cruel to so many, because they will believe it is a necessary way to apportion 'scarce' resources.
* Our task, then, is primarily metaphysical, and it is to educate everyone on Earth quickly enough so that they start engaging in social behaviors that avoid widespread species extinction.
(Waiting) To cut out the deadwood
(Waiting) To clean up the city
(Waiting) To follow the worms
(Waiting) To put on a black shirt
(Waiting) To weed out the weaklings
(Waiting) To smash in their windows and kick in their doors
(Waiting) For the final solution to strengthen the strain
(Waiting) To follow the worms
(Waiting) To turn on the showers and fire the ovens
(Waiting) For the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews
(Waiting) To follow the worms
Until the leaf falls
I've never seen a tree
Every time I go into the woods
Before the sundown
I never know the time
Before the sundown
I never know the time
Every time I go into the woods
I'm always certain
It hasn't been that long
I'm always certain
It hasn't been that long
Every time I go into the woods
I'm always learning
Things I've learned before
I'm always learning
Things I've learned before
Every time I
Every time I
Every time I go into the woods
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