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Your ideas strongly relate to the message of the late Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa Society and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
by laotzu 11y ago
Your ideas strongly relate to the message of the late Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa Society and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just a couple quotes that your post made me think of:
>Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. We are moving away from a rooted life-style with a 95-percent rate of illiteracy. We are almost unconsciously drifting away from selfidentity with our ages-long, physically-remote-from-one-another existence as 150 separate, sovereign nations. Now the uprooted humans of all nations are spontaneously deploying into their physically integrated highways and airways and satellite-relayed telephone speakways, into a big-city way-stationed, world-around living system. We may soon be atom-bombed into extinction by the preemptive folly of the political puppet administrators fronting for the exclusively-for-money-making, supranational corporations' weaponry industry of the now hopelessly bankrupt greatest-weapons-manufacturing nation (the U.S.A.). If not bomb-terminated, we are on our ever swifter way to becoming an omni-integrated, majorly literate, unified Spaceship Earth society. The new human networks' emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-in - its-buildings world-embracing, physical communications network. The new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart-and-mind-pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries.
-Grunch of Giants (1982)
>I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology it's making a lot of trouble", so were going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and were going to dump it all in the ocean. And you discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation having gone through great pain. So we say "that's not a very good idea lets put all the machinery back where it was." Then, were going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now... scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living that anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you cant do it with the barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear the eye and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization.
- ThomPete 11y agoThats interesting and yes I guess they do correlate. It's not the global economy it's the networked economy. And so in order to understand economy we need to look at it non-nationalistically. Thats the only perspective where we will see whats going on IMO.