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The thing that this article mentioned and that your comment doesn't pick up on is that there is a new biography out on Fuller. This article is a quasi review, a
by cxr 4y ago
The thing that this article mentioned and that your comment doesn't pick up on is that there is a new biography out on Fuller. This article is a quasi review, and the contents of the new book doesn't consist solely of uncritical praise. It's a proper biography and contains details that weren't widely discussed before. Unsurprising: not everything about a person's life will be good.
Opining about why people are talking about the less rosy aspects of Fuller's life right now is like if you transported yourself back to the release of Isaacson's biography on Jobs and concerned yourself with why people were discussing the negative details regarding the incidents that Isaacson wrote about.
The author worked with bfi.org to write the book. Calling this "hating on Fuller without understanding his work or ideas" or an attempt to cancel him is silly. (Not least of all because, you know, he's dead.)
- _yb2s 4y agoThanks for the context. I have been confused to see so many seemingly out of the blue critical posts about Fuller recently, and wasn't aware of this biography. I'm sure he's far from a perfect person... but his ideas have really had a positive impact on my life, and it would be a real shame if he was relabeled as a con artist that created nothing of value, thus discouraging others from benefiting form his books and ideas.
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