i seem to be a verb…

• === the end: Bucky Fuller “I Seem To Be A Verb”; info: http://tinyurl.com/cqv7rn === 26days
• (Man was designed with legs — not roots) Man can do anything he wants. 26days
• Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and Universe is ahead for all of us. 27days
• Experiment is always valuable. You can’t learn less. You can always get nearer to the truth. Language can be a block to reality.) 28days
• Man, as designed, is obviously intended to be a success. Success: not a bad thing to have “hanging over your head.” 29days
• Political commercial sham false premise institutions will vanish with startling rapidity. 30days
• Intellectual integrity will win tomorrow’s battles with accelerating inexorability. 31days
• Humans can now whisper in one another’s ear from anywhere around the world. (Be sure to entertain all your emotions.) 32days
• Man freed of special case superstition by intellect has had survival potentials multiplied millionsfold. 33days
• …total man may be going through a total wave of transformation into an entirely new relationship with the universe. 34days
• Possession is becoming progressively burdensome, wasteful, obsolete,… 35days
• Within 10 years anything reasonably think-upable by science fiction will probably have been realized. 36days
• Least favorable environment for study is schoolroom and closely-packed desk prisons. Real schoolhouse is in the home and outdoors. 38days
• Ages 0 to 4 are biggest “school” opportunity. Child is trim tab of the future. 38days
• Human being has great potentiality, but many wires get disconnected. 39days
• Every child is born a genius: Ninety-nine percent are degeniused by early post-natal circumstances. 41days
• Scientist are utterly irresponsible regarding pro-vs.-anti social disposition of “eggs” they lay in the laboratories. 41days
• Artists are now being recognized as extraordinarily important to human society. 43days
• …it is approximately impossible for world society to comprehend that changes in next 30 years will be far greater than in last 100 years. 44days
• We are living in a world where change is normal. Because prime evolutionary transformations are invisible,… 46days
• World society is operating almost exclusively in inaudible nonvisible area of physical universe. 47days
• Nature doesn’t have separate departments of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics. 47days
• Nature always does things in simplest most efficient way. All nature is based on triangles. 48days
• …by making him feel that in return he is in a socially culturally preferred, ergo, highly-secure, life-long position. 50days
• Specialization is only a fancy form of slavery wherein the “expert” is fooled into accepting his slavery… 51days
• Automation has made man obsolete as physical production and control specialist — just in time. 52days
• Automation can produce wealth beyond all our needs and dreams. (We’ve always had automation. What’s happening to your lunch?) 52days
• …– a slave automaton. (By 1975 China may be most impressively modern nation, highly automated.) 54days
• Evolution is apparently intent that man fulfill a much greater destiny than that of being simple muscle and reflex machine… 54days
• …computer’s superhuman range of calculative capabilities can and may all political scientific religious leaders face-savingly acquiesce. 56days
• It could and probably will be provided by the utterly impersonal problem solutions of man’s antibody, the computer. Only the… 57days
• New, physically uncompromised metaphysical initiative of unbiased integrity could unify world. 58days
• To each of us environment is everything that isn’t “me.” 58days
• …but all the important critical events realizing that revolution just happens. Only the impossible happens. Probability unreliable. 59days
• Greatest single revolution in human affairs has been ascendancy of intellect’s intuitive mastery over the physical… 60days
• Thinking is the consciously disciplined separation of relevant feedback from irrelevant feedback. 62days
• Mind discovery generalized patterns apparently governing all special case experiences. 62days
• Intelligence should be recognized as a global resource. Brain stores retrieves special case experiences. 64days
• (If you can produce it, you can afford it. If you can’t produce it, you can’t afford it.) 65days
• Design science, invention revolution could elevate poverty to haveness. 66days
• Every time we use real wealth it increases. Intellect must increase wealth to eliminate poverty. 67days
• Real wealth — indestructible, without practical limits — is combination of physical energy and human intellect. 68days
• Basic you-or-me-not-enough-for-both-ergo-someone-must-die tenets of class warfaring are extinct. 69days
• Malthus is wrong. There is enough to go around. 69days
• War over population hunger disease would cease to exist if “haves” devoted larger share of their industrial budget to world livingry. 72days
• …increasing population at ever higher standards of living than any human minority single individual has known or dreamed of. 73days
• …of world’s comprehensive resources, rendering those resources capable of supporting one hundred per cent of humanity’s… 73days
• World’s prime vital problem: How to triple swiftly safely satisfyingly overall performance realizations per pounds kilowatts manhours… 74days
• Greatest fact of century: We can make life on earth general success for all people. 76days
• All the fundamental problems are world problems. Man knows so much does so little. 77days
• Weaponry has always been accorded priority over livingry. Only two alternatives — Utopia or Oblivion. 77days
• Each human is a whole universe. We have 28,000 pounds of explosives for each human being on earth. 78days
• Theirs will be the most powerful constructive revolution in history. Earth is a very small spaceship. We are all astronauts. 79days
• Today’s students, reared by television, “the third parent,” think world. They think demand justice for all humanity with no exceptions. 81days
• Half-century of subconsciously developing world revolution is crossing threshold into human consciousness and ultimate popular support. 81days
• Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers. 82days
• Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. 83days
• Society neither hears nor sees the great changes going on. 84days

—R. Buckminster Fuller

I Seem To Be a Verb