Buckminster Fuller on an Economic System Based on Abundance not Scarcity
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- čas přidán 25. 09. 2012
- Buckminster Fuller knew it was possible to feed clothe house and educate every man woman and child on Earth... and that our current economic system is based on the belief that we can NOT do that. He developed The World Game as a method for helping people learn how we can all work together - on a global basis - to make the world work for everyone.
"We are powerfully imprisoned in these dark ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think."
-Buckminster Fuller
+silversobe Think of the power and influence in our world today because of this contribution itself, this very statement, this idea that he expressed with his life. The power of that one message, to escape social conditioning. www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/deepening-your-spiritual-practice
Born July 12, 1895 Died July 1, 1983 (11 days shy of his 88th birthday). I wrote "age 88" because he was 87.97 years old, which is close enough to 88 for me (and you too, I hope).
"The model of all economics is nowhere nearly enough to go around. This is completely ignorant of what you can do with modern technology. We have the option now to make it, to take care of all of humanity at a higher standard than anybody has ever known." ~R. Buckminster Fuller
true revolutionary thinking! i can think of a similar architect - Jaque Fresco
Beautiful, Bucky was way ahead of his time!
Most inspiring two minutes, and really making a point for #abundance which we can as the human race make possible today. The tools to collaborate across boundaries in time, space, and discipline are there. h/t Steve for sharing this amazing interview!!!
The interviewer is the legendary Tim White of Sightings.
Abundance is not about providing everyone on this Planet with a Life of Luxury - rather it's about providing ALL WITH A LIFE OF #POSSIBILITIES.
- Peter Diamandis, Visionary Author of 'Abundance' & 'Bold', Founder of Singularity University
Great short video. I found we need more short Bucky Fuller videos. Please add english captions if possible. Thanks
Happy Birthday, Bucky!
Bucky died in 1983 at age 88. The video says he is almost 90. So, my best guess is that the video was made in the early 1980's.
Yes the father to the Venus Project and the resource based economy.
Abundance can be easily achieved , the monetary system controls the slavery system (deprivation l).
The "needs" of the individual can never be met as the "needs" are a moving target.
If you asked someone a century ago what their needs were you'd get a completely different answer if asked today , however , our true needs never changed.
Love,health and freedom , none of it can be bought , none have a monetary value.
Bucky Larson: Born to be a star!
With #Greece constantly in the news, and not for the better (yet), worthwhile to rematch this short interview with "Bucky" h/t Steven Brant
I have a map that Bucky would have loved, I think! Do an image search for "Turil Life Earth Mission" to see it.
Does anyone know where one can find a transcript of this video? Is it an excerpt from a larger movie?
+Paul Gowan There is no transcript that I am aware of. It is not from a movie. It's from an interview video that was only slightly longer than what is posted here. I edited that video down to focus on the economic issue of abundance vs scarcity
+Steven Brant
Could you correct some of the errors in the transcript below?
Narrator: ""... and behind the philosophy is one man who spent a lifetime helping people do more with less. This is R. Buckminster Fuller, known around the world as "Bucky". Now almost 90, Bucky Fuller is a cult figure to some. He's been called the earth's friendly genius. While many folks have never heard of him. He has one of the longest entries in "Who's Who", listing him as architect, writer, poet, mathematician, inventor, artist and more. He coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth" but his purpose has never been seeking fortune or fame.
Interviewer: The world isn't working for everybody. Why isn't it?
Bucky: Because they are trying to solve all the world's problems with politics. And politics is based on ?? [NOT SURE ABOUT THE WORD USED HERE 0:46-0:47] policy, "How do you cope with the fundamental inadequacy of life support on our planet?" And all the great, ?? [it seems like Bucky was going to say something else and then changed his mind]... model of all economics is "nowhere nearly enough to go around." This is completely ignorant of what you can do with modern technology - that we have the option to make it - to take care of all of humanity at a higher standard than anyone has ever known. World Game is being able to see our whole world at once.... ???? beautiful map without any distortion of relative shape or size or partsas a basic background as one world island in one world ocean.And on that we are able to show where all the resources are. ???? show where all the people are. ??? show where all the possible artifacts are that might be developed.
Narrator:At a recent World Game session at U.S. International University in San Diego, one of the World Game players knew well how small and fragile the world can look. Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut from the first moon landing. [???? is the following a quote of Mr. Aldrin or Bucky?????]
"We have the technology available to give everyone on earth the highest standard of living in history, or, we can destroy ourselves."
At the end of the session, thousands of red chips are scattered over the map - one chip for each nuclear bomb in the world today. Buckminster Fuller has proved his point.
.... ???[ it sounds like there is a cut here ]... thick glasses and hearing aids, keeps moving around the world, quietly helping us see things as they are, and as they could be.
Jacques Fresco used some of Fuller's ideas, yes.
listen to jacque frescos lecture on "invention"
i use quotes from his canon liberally
What year was this?
The early 1980s. Bucky died in 1983
I used to think as this man, that we could increase quality of life globally; then I had an epiphany that ran parallel to Jevon's paradox posed in "The Coal Question" and a repeated experiment in the Khazzoom-Brookes postulate, and also elucidated in the "Tragedy of the Commons."
If we increase quality of life for people who don't share the goal of sustainable living, they will simply out breed and consume more than those who would act responsibly. Effectively, the mere act of helping the unfortunate weakens the entirety of the outcome.
"To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature; without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man." -John Locke
skeetorkiftwon great points man. Thank you. I love to see intelligent counterarguments after watching a video for which I share a perspective.
When There is enough and Sense of Stable Security, All has tendency to Share.
Have you Read/heard Osho?
The myth that you're perpetuating here is that there are living organisms that don't want to be healthy. This is all we ever want, and only cause harm when we are lacking our needs. Maslow showed how humans increase their ability to focus on solving problems (increasing the health) of larger and larger circles of life as their needs are met. The only tragedy is when some individuals are discriminated against and not allowed the freedom and access that they need to take good care of their bodies, their families, and their world.
Yes we can achieve it. But there is no motivation in capitalism to achieve this.
Correct. Capitalism's current underlying design philosophy is scarcity. That is how money is made. But a disruptive technology could change that. Have you read "Blue Ocean Strategy"?
The basic problem with all the utopian strategies is human lazyness. Take steel for example, there is plenty of iron ore in the world for all 6 billion of us to own a ton, but to dig it out, and turn it to steel takes lots of hard work. How many people in the world have spent 16hours working in a steel mill, or iron mine. The answer not many, the result? We don't have enough steel for everyone on this planet to even own a skillet, let alone a car. Every scheme to "redistribute" wealth ignores this basic fact.
Capitalism at least rewards those not too lazy to get out of bed, and work.