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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
so after skipping the bullshit conman chapter about GST bucky fuller goes into "synergy". which was more meaningful back in the 60 than after it got incorporated into corporate lingo.
but there you can see where he's trying to go with things. earth as a spaceship, sure. where it gets interesting is in his theory of wealth and in the transcendence of scarcity and the inadequacy of the gold standard (cue tesla).
he makes leaps of thought so 1/2 of it comes across as bullshit and 1/2 of it makes a kind of intuitive sense.
but redefining wealth is not a bad idea at all from the perspective of the planet as a whole.
and his mockery of "the cost of things" and how that gets thrown aside when there's war is great.
hmmmm....
gotta finish the rest today if i get a chance. im thinking w/ the polar caps melting this is becoming timelier than ever.
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Why skip General Systems Theory? It's not a long book, and I think if there's a lynchpin, it's probably in this chapter somewhere. This is the one with the chicks, yes?
It's unrealistic, especially now, to think there's any hope for an interconnnected, regulated "crew" for this ship. But I think we ultimately have the capacity to get there, as long as we, y'know, "think big."