New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
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New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
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Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#2The point is not to re-evaluate Fuller, but to become aware of our vulnerability to taking such persons at their own estimation of themselves. There have been a vast number of examples, down history, many with extremely harmful consequences. We should have learned by now to spot this category of error and train ourselves out of it. It is at least as important, as a universal baseline skill, as elementary mathematics.
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#3How can you read the thesis?
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#4Today, he would be either a Silicon Valley VC investor or living in a homeless encampment in Oakland.
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#5The point is not to re-evaluate Fuller, but to become aware of our vulnerability to taking such persons at their own estimation of themselves. There have been a vast number of examples, down history, many with extremely harmful consequences. We should have learned by now to spot this category of error and train ourselves out of it. It is at least as important, as a universal baseline skill, as elementary mathematics.
In order for someone to gain enough notoriety for people to even get curious, that person has already snookered greater than 1 people. SBF, Madof, Holmes would all qualify to me
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#6When do we get the doctoral thesis examining the author of this thesis as a charlatan?
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
#7Today, he would be either a Silicon Valley VC investor or living in a homeless encampment in Oakland.
An investor, or a founder?
Re: New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'
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#9The very recent (and IMHO very good) "Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller" by Alec Nevala-Lee more or less says the same thing.
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