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Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
- We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Today, the concept of synergy permeates everything from boardrooms to artspeak to hipster dinner party chatter — but it was Fuller who coined it as cultural currency in pioneering the study of synergetics, which concerns itself with the “behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.”
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Mind’s relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank’s storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Fuller points to the usefulness of useless knowledge as a critical element in this collective abundance and the salvation of our species: Specialization’s preoccupation with parts deliberately forfeits the opportunity to apprehend and comprehend what is provided exclusively by synergy.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Fuller decries specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposes a reframing of culture that could “get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.” At its epicenter he places the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by The Marginalian
Keely Adler added 2y ago