Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller

Videos, but they link to the transcripts too: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know

Bucky Fuller. The only person in history to have a form of carbon named after him†.

He calculated (he was an engineer) that, if we applied our tech and resources efficiently, we could provide for everyone "without disadvantaging anyone."

> Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

I have a ~77 year old friend who was recently telling me about going to Buckminster Fuller's lectures at his engineering university, circa 1968. He quoted Mr. Fuller as saying something like, "entropy takes things apart, life puts them back together."

The quote he referenced was probably something like this one:

“The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand” - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1222650-the-physical-is-inh...

Many people are so sure of their belief in entropy (aka "thermodynamics"). I like the idea that there's anti-entropy too.

Yes very nice theories he came up with and very sad to live in a world that's like the dirty, bloody, stained picture of this utopia.

We endure the current situation because of the greed and narcissism of a few who don't want to share. I suppose it was their parents and kindergartners who did a really lousy job showing them how to share and collaborate with others.

Why should they care if people have to starve when they could have a new yacht, beach house or another 50 motorbikes in their garage?

R.I.P. Fuller - you did a great service to all of us who dream of a better future.

> He calculated (he was an engineer) that, if we applied our tech and resources efficiently, we could provide for everyone "without disadvantaging anyone."

This is just putting a name on the problem.