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Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity
R. Buckminster Fuller, with K. Kuromiya, adjuvant (1992)

Mr. Fuller writes that "humans are now at its turning point"- having the choice of following the path leading to extinction or continued survival. The political and military powers cannot solve the world's problems. To do so, humans have to "break away from the Earthian power structures" (referring to the government, religious establishment, military and financial powers)

He cites several reasons for the problems of the worlds:
1. misassumption that there is inadequacy of life support on our planet - which leads to competition and unequal distribution of resources and a marketing system which results in millions suffering from starvation (despite ample food production)
2. concepts such as a Malthus' theory on limited resources, Darwin's "Survival of the fittest", the X-Y-Z coordinate geometry and entropy, all which support the misassumption
3. the education system which "cultivate specialization despite the fact that each individual human is born physically and metaphysically equipped to function as a natural comprehensivist with a unique mind designed to ascertain and comprehend the generalized design principles governing interrelationships." (Taking an analogy from anthropology/biology - it has been determined that all known causes of extinction of biological species were consequences of overspecialization)
4. the existence of power structures, who, in order to continue their rule, use the grand strategy of "Divide and conquer. To keep conquered keep divided." He claims that, "despite all humans innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago, world power structures learned to shunt all bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers. The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier innate comprehensivist functions."

His belief is that universe is one which is eternally regenerative, where "we have the technology to establish five billion billionaires on our planet, if humanity is aware of their potential", and if we break down the boundaries of nations (which is impeding the free circulation of world's resources) and intergrate their resources. High technology has the capability to take care of the needs of everybody at a high standard of living. The prerequisite of having to "earn a living" is thus obsolete. If humans are not required to earn a living to provide survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive and spontaneously take upon themselves tasks that the world and society really needs done e.g. humanity's R&D and unselfish production of service for others.

His opinion regarding God: there is "experiental evidence of a cosmic intelectual intergrity at work in the design of the universe...since all cosmic scale inventing and designing is accomplishable only by intellect, and since it is not by the intellect of humans, it is obviously that of the eternal intellectual intergrity we call God."

The uniqueness of humans: Common to all creatures is the ability to learn by trial and error. However, only human minds alone has been given access to some of the eternal laws governing universe (maths, chemistry, electricity etc) Among the discoveries by human minds, 12 cases that stand out most are: Newton's law, concept of the cipher (the unknown variable x in algebra), Lavoisier's discovery of gaseous elements, Democritus' concept of atoms, EM waves (Hertz), gyroscope precession, Einstein's Relativity theory, Archimedes' principle of similitude, concept of wisdom, maths, radiation and gravity

He sees hope for the future- "Every child is born successively into the presence of less misinformation and great deal more reliable information."

His suggestions for solving the world's problem:
1. Distribute resources to all people
2. convert all high tech to livingry production
3. breaking down of boundaries of nations and political party traditions
4. break down the misconception of different races and classes of humans and Malthus-Darwinian assumption of inherent inadequacy of life support
5. equal rights of man and woman
6. recycling
7. free flow of information
8. melt down all metals used for weaponry and implement it for livingry
9. phase out fossil and atomic energy and live entirely on solar energy
10. using "synergetics" (behavior of whole systems is unpredicted by behavior of any of its parts when considered only seperately"), a system he devised which is consistent with the view of an eternally regenerative universe.

Mr. Fuller urges for the "continued recommitment of human individuals to the utter faith in the comprehensive wisdom and absolute power of the intellectual intergrity and love governing an eternally regenerative universe" and to escape the imprisonment in the "dark ages by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think" leading to the "ultimate escape from the misconception that cosmic supremacy is vested in little planet Earth's politicians, priests, generals and monetary power wielders."

*A little background on Bucky Fuller: R. Buckminster Fuller- inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist- is best known for the invention of the geodesic dome, the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. "In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called "an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity." Over the next fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable." (www.bfi.org)

.: 5/10/2002 :.

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