Wait. So … what?
I don’t have to … huh?
Just saw this quote:
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
(Wikipedia)
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
I like this. Really, I do.
As a woman over the age of 60, this whole “finding another job” thing is less than easy. Seriously.
Why didn’t we elect this guy President?
Dome house on the side of 520 (Photo credit: Lonnon Foster)
And why yes I am ignoring that whole “who would produce the technological breakthrough” stuff.
I mean. Really.
Did you ever see the house Bucky built?
(note: I used to think it would be cool to live in one of those houses. Original subscriber to Mother Earth News here.)
Happy Holly Project 
Einstein said, “everyone is a genius, but do not judge a fish by his ability to climb a tree.”
It would seem though that “Bucky” was either very young of very old when he penned this quote, by his own standards.
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Indeed.
This is the third time in about an hour someone has quoted this same Einstein quote. So either I need to hear it or it’s just Einstein day. 🙂
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No, I think I need to get a new book of notable quotes, maybe Albanian.
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“….according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist…”
I wonder if that applies to other burdensome existence things, like breathing? Maintaining a heart rate? Eating? I mean, growing and preparing all that food is such drudgery! The clean up alone is ridiculous. Whoever is going to invent that technological breakthrough and support me, really needs to hire us a maid and a cook.
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Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing”.
Sounds like something on a meme. Or an office post.
As I understand it this was in direct contradiction to the Malthusian theory of “how unchecked population growth is exponential (1→2→4→8) while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical (1→2→3→4)”
Malthus believed in “positive checks”, to avoid this … those which lead to ‘premature’ death: disease, starvation, and war,
Charming man. I’ll bet he was great fun at cocktail parties.
Oh, and ditto on the maid and cook. 🙂
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Mr. Fuller is now my new hero.
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Me too.
He also said “By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.”
Maybe he meant “effectively functioning political parties”.
Just a thought.
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Old Bucky apparently was OK with chewing on his thoughts instead of a meal, you know?
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Well, he did say “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
No indication of his age when the quote in today’s post was written.
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