Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller: "The Most Idealistic Is The Realistically Most Practical"

 

Alan: This is the quotation I tried to summarize.

Dear Whitney,

Meeting you at Ixtapa was the most luciferous occurence in my whole day!

A God-send.

What fun putting out probes with you!

Here is Wikipedia's entry on Bucky Fuller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

If nothing else, read the section titled "Depression and Epiphany": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Depression_and_epiphany

And here is a copy of Bucky's "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth," the brief but enlightening book that changed my life (while living in Cincinnati) after friend Paul Schulte introduced me to Bucky: http://designsciencelab.com/resources/OperatingManual_BF.pdf (Next time we meet, have me tell you the story about Paul bumping into Bucky in an airport.)

I obtained the link to "Operating Manual" from Wikipedia's article about the book itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth  

Some people find Bucky's writing style odd and cumbersome. 

I find it charming and to the point.

Other Bucky resources:

Pax on both houses: Buckminster Fuller: "I Seem To Be A Verb"

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/buckminster-fuller-i-seem-to-be-verb.html

Aug 30, 2015 - Buckminster Fuller's Brilliant Metaphor for the Greatest Key to ... momentous in transformation and growth, both as individuals and as a society.

Pax on both houses: Buckminster Fuller: Yahweh Seems To Be A Verb

Aug 30, 2015 - When Yaweh first identifies "himself" in the Old Testament, "he" says "I am who am," a quintessentially existential utterance that uses the verb ...

Pax on both houses: Buckminster Fuller's Attempted Suicide... And ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/buckminster-fullers-attempted-suicide.html

May 1, 2013 - Richard Buckminster Fuller remains the most fascinating member of the ... and he died holding twenty-eight patents for devices to house and ...

Pax on both houses: People Who Don't Agree With This Post Are "The ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/people-who-dont-agree-with-this-post.html

Oct 11, 2015 - Pax on both houses: Buckminster Fuller: Yahweh Seems To ... paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../buckminster-fuller-yahweh-seems-to-.

Pax on both houses: Buckminster Fuller, Carl Jung And Getting Better

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/buckminster-fuller-carl-jung-and.html

Apr 15, 2016 - Alan: Carl Jung says -- and I summarize from memory -- that he never had a patient who "got better" except through immersion in a new ...

Pax-Shalom-Salaam

Alan

PS You might be interested in the origin-and-evolution of the term Spaceship Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth

PPS Please re-mind me. What was the name of Steiner's materialistic antipode to the world's luciferic strain? 

Bucky

Wikiquote

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

"Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth," By Buckminster Fuller - Free Online PDF File  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/operating-manual-for-spaceship-earth-by.html

Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller: What Happened After He Attempted Suicide

  https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/buckminster-bucky-fuller-what-happened.html

... which reminds me of the dedicatory note to my personal "Operating Manual"

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

(Actually, this quotation is a mistaken rendering of the original. It is better I think, but still mistaken. http://www.intropsych.com/ch04_senses/whole_is_other_than_the_sum_of_the_parts.html)