i heart bucky fuller
Mar. 10th, 2007 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxI'm reading Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path. Fuller? Is my new boyfriend. Before he even really starts into what he's going to say in the book, he flat-out says economics is wrong. That all economics is based on notions of scarcity, that most of "developed" culture is about self and competition as a result. And that it's all rooted in one false assumption: the history of engineering, even though it's tied to that same culture, is all about the potential for efficiency and eliminating scarcity.
Like the cotton seed that could feed everyone with the right bioengineering.
I avoided reading Fuller cause my old boyfriend, who introduced me to his concepts (mostly about tensegrity, though, not his whole worldview) in the first place, talked about his writing like it was impossibly dry and scientific. It's not at all. I mean, he says all the stuff about economics with a slight old school science dude vibe, but he also sums it up - it's not you OR me; it can be you AND me. He's a poet.
I think he'd like LJ, too.
Like the cotton seed that could feed everyone with the right bioengineering.
I avoided reading Fuller cause my old boyfriend, who introduced me to his concepts (mostly about tensegrity, though, not his whole worldview) in the first place, talked about his writing like it was impossibly dry and scientific. It's not at all. I mean, he says all the stuff about economics with a slight old school science dude vibe, but he also sums it up - it's not you OR me; it can be you AND me. He's a poet.
I think he'd like LJ, too.