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v R. Buckminster Fuller Critical Path Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Adjuvant CONTENTS Foreword — (ix) Introduction: Twilight of the World's Power Structures (xvii-xxxviii) 1. Speculative Prehistory of Humanity 3 2. Humans in Universe 25 3. Legally Piggily 60 II 4. Self-Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller 123 ...

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v

R. Buckminster Fuller

Critical

Path

Kiyoshi Kuromiya,

Adjuvant

CONTENTS

Foreword

—

(ix)

Introduction: Twilight of the World's

Power

Structures (xvii-xxxviii)

1.

Speculative Prehistory of

Humanity

2.

Humans

25

3.

Legally Piggily

in

Universe

3

60

II 4.

Self-Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller

5.

The Geoscope World Game

6.

123

161

198

III 7.

Critical Path: Part

8.

Critical Path: Part

One Two

9.

Critical Path: Part

Three

10.

Critical Path: Part

Four

229

252

270 309

Appendix

1.

Chronology of

Appendix

2.

Chronological Inventory of Prominent Technological,

1895 to Date

Index

411

Scientific Discoveries

Economic and 378

and Artifacts

Political

Scientific,

World Events:

347

Foreword

It

the author's working assumption

is

meaningless. This

that the

words good and bad are

based on science and not on opinion. In 1922 physicists

is

discovered a fundamental complementarity of disparate individual phenom-

ena to be operative

in physical Universe.

This was fundamentally amplified

with the subsequent discovery of the always-and-only-different, always-coexisting proton

and neutron which, with

positrons, neutrinos,

No

their always-coexistent electrons,

and antineutrinos, are eternally intertransformable.

longer was valid the "building block" of the Universe.

ered that unity was plural and at

minimum

tations are essential to the successful

sixfold. All the

It

accomplishment of eternally regener-

ative Universe. Science's discovery of

fundamental complementarity has

frequently occasioned individual scientists' realization that the tive

was discov-

intercomplemen-

used as the opposite of the word positive

is

word nega-

at best carelessly

and mis-

informedly employed. Since complementarity Universe, the

essential to the success of eternally regenerative

is

phenomenon

nor can

tofore as

good and bad are

it

identified as the opposite of positive

cannot be

be bad, since the interopposed phenomena known here-

negative,

regenerative Universe.

essential to the 100-percent success of eternally

They

are both good for the Universe.

many fundamentally complementary aspects of Unihole is not a negative. As implosion is to explosion, the

Science recognizes verse.

The black phenomenon

black hole hole

is

is

the inverse phase

to the inside-out,

—the outside-inning phase—of cosmic good and bad —or

What humans have spontaneously itive

and negative

expanding Universe. The black evolution.

identified as

—are evolutionary complementations

in

as pos-

need of more ac-

curate identifications.

IX

x

Critical Path you want

If

your ship to windward through a narrow passage, you

to sail

have to do what

windward"

sailors call "beating to

—

first

you

sail

on your

port tack, then on your starboard tack, then port, then starboard, again and again, not left foot,

This book

is

I

walk right

foot,

written with the conviction that there are no "good" or

"bad" people, no matter how offensive or eccentric seem.

We

on your "good tack" and your "bad tack."

not right foot, wrong foot.

am

confident that

if I

known humans,

stances as any other

to society they

may

were born and reared under the same circumI

would have behaved much

as they

have.

There's a short verse written long ago by an English poet and teacher, Elizabeth Wordsworth:

If all good people were

And

all clever

clever,

people were good,

The world would be nicer than ever

We

thought that

But somehow, That the two

it

'tis

hit

possibly could.

seldom or never

it

off as they should;

For the good are so harsh

The

you think you

If

identify with

anybody

I

ple.

God

included

What

designed people.

humans

am

You and

trying to

do

is

I

didn't design peo-

to discover

we humans

if

For many years

I

God

permits us progressively to

hesitated about writing this book.

God

has introduced

many, many thousands of humans. Quite a few of those have had decision-making powers that could, and often did, major ways.

sands of decisions cisions

Much

made by

inadvertently

know and

are to continue in Universe.

to

affairs in

why God

in Universe.

I'm trying to find out what preferably to do

I

be sure to remember

in this book,

don't have any "good" or "bad" people.

that

me

to the clever,

clever so rude to the good.

I

have known

affect

human

of their decision-making integrated with thou-

other Earthians.

The

integrated thousands of de-

were compounded with a myriad of unforeseen

technological, exploratory,

and environmental happenings. The individual

decision-makings and unforeseen happenings around the world and in Universe at large altogether synergetically produced historical

results

not

contemplated by any. Such noncontemplated-by-any results constitute evolution

In

—the

my

will of

God.

eighty-five years

I

secret, critical information.

have often been privy to what was

Time and change have

crets. In piecing together the significant

at the

time

"declassified" those se-

components of world-around hu-

Foreword

xi

my

inanity's evolutionary trending,

by information confided information, which

in

now

is

me

ing that

my

all

My

I

am

by others. In recollecting once-confidential

essential to

evant evolutionary trendings,

I

my

humanity

all

an adequate comprehension of

hope no one

being a traitor to

friends but to

have frequently been illumined

insights

rel-

make the mistake of thinkNot only am I being loyal to

will

friends.

—without whom there would be no

life.

reasons for writing this book are fourfold:

(A) Because this

am

I

convinced that

book has

my

(B) Because of

of extinction

always to

promptly (C) Because

human knowledge by human survival.

others of what

essential to

driving conviction that

only the truth, and

right

am

is

all

of humanity

each one of us does not dare,

if

tell

—

I

to say

now and

is

in peril

henceforth,

the truth, and to do so

all

now.

convinced that humanity's

fitness for

continuance in

the cosmic scheme no longer depends on the validity of political, religious,

economic, or social organizations, which altogether here-

tofore have been

assumed

(D) Because, contrary to (C),

now depends (1) (2)

(3)

The The The

(4)

I

am

many.

convinced that

human

continuance

entirely upon:

intuitive

wisdom of each and every

individual.

individual's comprehensive informedness. individual's integrity of speaking

individual's

The

to represent the

own

within-self-intuited

and acting only on the

and reasoned

initiative.

individual's joining action with others, as motivated only

by the individually conceived consequences of so doing. (5)

The

individual's never-joining action with others, as motivated

only by crowd-engendered emotionalism, or by a sense of the

crowd's power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one's

We ing

is

ferent.

all

see things differently. Seeing

sensing. Smelling

And

our

circumstances.

is

sensing.

own is

intellectual convictions.

sensing. Hearing

What each

different senses are differently effective

Our

different sensings of

is

sensing.

faculties.

The

is dif-

under ever-differing

individual brains coordinatingly integrate

our different

Touch-

of us happens to sense

all

the ever-

integrated product of our

multifold individual sensings produces awareness. Only through our sensings are

we aware

of the complementary "otherness."

Awareness of the "otherness"

is

information.

The complex of successively

experienced informations produces interweaving episodes

—and the complex

of special-case-episode-interweavings produces the scenario that our brain's

memory banks identify as our individual being's "life." The way only-our-own, individual integrity of being

responds spontane-

Critical Path

xii

own exclusive sensing of any given otherness episode is mean when I use the word feeling: How do I feel about life? How feel about it now? and again now? Our feelings often change. What

ously only to our

what

I

do

I

do

I feel

.

One

that

.

.

need to do about what

I

am

I

feeling?

many wonderful human beings that I've known who has afhuman beings in a markedly inspiring degree was e. e. cum-

of the

fected other

mings, the poet.

He

"A

wrote a piece called

which

Poet's Advice,"

I feel

elucidates

years ago at age thirty-two, jettisoned

"little I," fifty-three

all

that

I

why had

ever been taught to believe and proceeded thereafter to reason and act only

on the basis of why, acting

entirely

on

my own

initiative, I

operating only on behalf of all humanity

human

life

on our

sought to discover what,

—

in attempting to

planet,

if

any-

produce sustain-

and metaphysical advancement of the

ingly favorable physical

able by the individual,

also explains

by a penniless, unknown individual

thing, can be effectively accomplished

all

Cummings's poem

direct personal experience.

which omnihuman advantaging

integrity of

task, attempt-

inherently impossible of accomplishment by any

is

nation, private enterprise, religion, or other multipeopled, bias-fostering

combination thereof.

A POETS ADVICE A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This

A

may sound

lot

easy. It isn't.

of people think or believe or

know

And

believing or knowing; not feeling.

they

poetry

feel

thinking or —but —not knowing or bethat's

feeling

is

lieving or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn

man

being can be taught to

lieve or

you know, you're a

to think or believe or

feel.

lot

Why?

know, but not a

single hu-

Because whenever you think or you be-

of other people: but the

moment you

feel,

you're

nobody-but-yourself.

—

To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any

day, to

—

human being can fight; and never stop fighting. As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing

do exactly If,

at the

feeling,

is

quite as easy as using

this nearly all of the

you

end of your

first

time

words

like

somebody

—and whenever we do

it,

ten or fifteen years of fighting

find you've written

one

line

else.

we

We

all

of us

are not poets.

and working and

of one poem, you'll be very lucky

in-

deed.

And

so

my

young people who wish to become poets is: do someunless you're not only willto blow up the world die. you till and fight work and

advice to

thing easy, like learning ing,

but glad, to

feel

all

how

—

Foreword

Does It's

Or

xiii

this

sound dismal?

the most wonderful

so

It isn't. life

on

earth.

I feel.

—

cummings

e. e.

Exploring, experiencing, feeling, and strictly

and only on

my

—

to the best of

individual intuition,

I

my

ability

became impelled

—acting

to write this

book.

I'm not claiming to be a poet or that

this

book

mings well enough to be confident that he would ten

it.

is

poetry, but

feel

I

happy that

knew cumI

had

writ-

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CRITICAL PATH

INTRODUCTION:

Twilight of the World's Power Structures Humanity

moving ever deeper

is

into crisis

—a

crisis

without prec-

edent. First,

it is

a crisis brought about by cosmic evolution irrevocably intent

upon completely transforming omnidisintegrated humanity from a complex of around-the-world, remotely-deployed-from-one-another, differently colored, differently credoed, differently cultured, differently communicating,

and

differently

competing

sively interconsiderate,

Second,

we

entities into a

completely integrated, comprehen-

harmonious whole.

are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution

irrevocably intent

is

also

upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful,

able to live sustainingly at an unprecedentedly higher standard of living for

Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely

all

within

its

cosmic-energy income instead of spending

ings account

(i.e.,

the fossil fuels) or spending

equipment account

(i.e.,

atomic energy)

its

its

cosmic-energy sav-

cosmic-capital plant and

—the atoms with which our Space—a spending

biosphere are structured and equipped

ship Earth and

its

no

than burning your house-and-home to keep the family

less illo...