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the wonderful ideas of Bucky!
“Instead of using their heads for battering rams in bloody revolution, humans can use them to carry forward the design science revolution which alone leads to the comprehensive success for all humamity for all time.” (introduction for “Earth, Energy, and Everyone”)
“It is only because of the universal assuption of the lethal inadequacy of life support that Earthians have politicians.”
“Their physical prowess being greatly inferior to donkeys, humans are clearly present in Universe for their mind functioning.”
“I am certain that none of the world’s problems – which we are all perforce thinking about today – have any hope of solution except through total democratic society’s becoming thoroughly and comprehensively self-educated.” (Critical Path, 266)
“You and I seem to be verbs – evolutionary processes” (Critical Path, 132)
“Life continually alters the environment, and the altered environment in turn alters the potentials, realitites, and challenges of life.” (Critical Path, 130)
“Effective exploration requires effective record-keeping.” (Critical path, 128)
“I sought to do my own thinking, confining it to only experientially gained information, and with the products of my own thinking and intuition to articulate my own innate motivational integrity insteady of trying to accomodate everyone else’s opinons, credos, educational theories, romances, and mores.” (Critical path, 125)
“Nothing could be more pathetic than the role that has to be played by the President of the United States, whose power is approximately zero. Nevertheless, the news media and most over-thirty-years-of-age USA citizens carry on as if the president had supreme power. All that he and congress can do is adjust to what the “free-enterprise system” has already done. They are riding on the snapping end of the power-structure dragon’s tail.” (critical path, 119)
“I call the CIA, ‘Capitalism’s Invisible Army’.” (critical path, 87)
“In 1900, 90% of USA citizens were living and working on the farms; in 1979 only 7% were on the farms, mostly as local supervisors for big, absent-ownership corporations.” (critical path, 87)
“To the Indians, it was obvious that humans could not own the land. There was never any idea that the people could own land – owning was an eternal, omniscient omnioptence unique to the greatness, universality, and integrity of the forever-to-humans-mysterious Great Spirit.” (critical path, 64)
“Nobody is born a specialist. Every child is born with comprehensive interests, asking the most comprehensively logical and relevant questions.” (critical path, 62)
“A sphere is a mathematically finite, omnisymmetrical closed system. A sphere is finite unity.” (critical path, 58)