Visionary Quote

Always one of my favorites, Bucky was an amazing writer, philosopher and inventor. To find out more about this true genius visit bfi.org.

Greater justice and economic improvement for the many is not always the result of social revolution. The Europeans’ guns overwhelming of the American Indian bow-and-arrow weapons was in most ways a retrogressive social revolution implemented by design-science revolution. It is always the design revolution that tips the social scales one way or the other. However, sum totally the combined design and social revolutions ultimately favor the many. Between 1900 and today, 60 percent of humans in the U.S.A. have attained a standard of living far in advance of those of the greatest potentates of 1900 while concurrently doubling the life-span of that fortunate 60 percent.

An excerpt from Grunch of Giants by R. Buckminster Fuller:

Never before in all history have the inequities and the momentums of unthinking money-power been more glaringly evident to so vastly large a number of now literate, competent, and constructively thinking all-around-the-world humans. There’s a soon-to-occur critical-mass moment when the intuition of the responsibly inspired majority of humanity, in contradistinction to the angered Luddites and avenging Robin Hoods, faced with comprehensive functional discontinuity of nationally contained techno-economic system, will call for and accomplish a world-around reorientation of our planetary affairs. At this critical moment will occur a realization by the responsibly inspired majority that the adequate capacity of the invisible technology to sustainingly support all humanity depends on all the resources, physical and metaphysical, being always and only employed for all of world-around humanity as a completely integrated techno-economic system operating entirely on its daily income principally of Sun-emanating energy.

  • Posted on January 09, 2009 in Quotes  |  
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One Response to “Visionary Quote”

  1. DArina Joy said:

    Feb 02, 09 at 2:07 AM

    What a powerful vision! He never ceases to amaze! This sounds true today more than ever & the best part is that we are on the verge of it happening, finally awakening not only to our true nature and purpose, but also taking wise collaborative actions to make this vision a reality within a totally integrated techno-economic system operating entirely on its daily income from Sun-emating energy! Thank you for sharing & inspiring as always! D :)

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