Grunch* of Giants [*Gross Universe Cash Heist]
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Here Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life. In the form of a modern allegory, he traces the evolution of these multinational giants from the post-World War II military-industrial complex to the current army of abstract legal entities known as the corporate world.Tags
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Bucky Fuller, as his fans affectionately call him, sat at a fascinating intersection of techno-utopianism and permaculture (although it didn't go by that name yet). Today, these fields are diametric.
This is the last book Fuller wrote, published the year of his death. It's short, and a bit of a mosaic or hodgepodge, covering ancient history, mathematics, politics, business, and number of other issues. It is part-autobiographical. Fuller believed that we had achieved a level of technological development that we would be able to shift from weaponry over to "livingry" over the next 50 years, and that all humans would be able to be sufficiently provisioned. Although he's right in regard to the physical realities of our world, he seems to show more have underestimated the cultural and financial customs society is unwilling to forgo, meaning that we now have a record number of impoverished people.
In the book, Fuller claims that inflation is due solely to corporate collusion. I've never heard this accusation before (it generally being blamed on the federal reserve), and is likely worth further consideration. At the same time, it seems that he believed in investment, and was suggesting that Social Security be invested in corporate stocks. show less
This is the last book Fuller wrote, published the year of his death. It's short, and a bit of a mosaic or hodgepodge, covering ancient history, mathematics, politics, business, and number of other issues. It is part-autobiographical. Fuller believed that we had achieved a level of technological development that we would be able to shift from weaponry over to "livingry" over the next 50 years, and that all humans would be able to be sufficiently provisioned. Although he's right in regard to the physical realities of our world, he seems to show more have underestimated the cultural and financial customs society is unwilling to forgo, meaning that we now have a record number of impoverished people.
In the book, Fuller claims that inflation is due solely to corporate collusion. I've never heard this accusation before (it generally being blamed on the federal reserve), and is likely worth further consideration. At the same time, it seems that he believed in investment, and was suggesting that Social Security be invested in corporate stocks. show less
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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, the innovative thinker, engineer, and inventor, was born July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts. Despite early failures and tragedies, including his being expelled from Harvard University twice and the death of his four-year-old daughter, Fuller went on to achieve many successes. He is best known for inventing show more the geodesic dome; his design has been used in structures all over the world. Besides Harvard, Fuller also attended the U.S. Naval Academy, and was a professor at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of Synergetics: Explanations in the Geometry of Thinking, a book that discusses the utopic role technology will play in the future. Critical Path is the book Fuller felt was his most important. It outlined his plan to rejuvenate earth through the use of technology. His last book, Grunch of Giants, summarizes his most important ideas. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1968 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. In 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Grunch* of Giants [*Gross Universe Cash Heist]
- Original publication date
- 1983
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- Buckminster Fuller
- Epigraph
- Fee-fie-fo-fum
I smell the blood of a Britishman
Be he alive or be he dead
I'll grind his bones
To make my bread - Dedication
- I dedicate this book to three women: one of the nineteenth and two of the twentieth centuries. First to my great aunt, Margaret Fuller Assoli, who with Ralph Waldo Emerson co-edited the Transcendentalist magazine,... (show all) the Dial, and was the first to publish Thoreau - and herself authored Woman in the Nineteenth Century. I am sure Margaret would and probably does join in my enthusiastic support and co-dedication of this book to Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, and to Barbara Marx Hubbard, founder of the Committee for the Future, for their effective inspiration to the young world to do its own thinking and to act in accordance therewith.
- First words
- Forward:There exists a realizable,
evolutionary alternative
to our being
either atom-bombed into extinction
or crowding ourselves off the planet. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Can't Fool Cosmic Computer: (G) the individual discovery of God by a vast majority of human individuals - not the discovery of religions, but the discovery that each and every individual has an always-instantly-open, no-intermediary-switchboard-authority-to-contend-with, no-interference-of-any-kind, direct "hot-line to God": i.e., the weightless, nonphysical communication occurring teleologically between the differentially limited, weightless, nonphysical, temporal, special-case mind of the individual human and the comprhensively integrated, macro-micro unlimited, weightless, eternal, generalized mind of God.
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