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Everything I Know, Section 11
gist
R. Buckminster Fuller opens with love for obstreperous humanity, then returns to artifacts: the fog gun that cleans without soap, polyester radomes, Montreal's Expo 67 sphere, and tetrahedral floating cities. More than 100,000 geodesics exist because each first use was a case where nothing else would do. He will not use a word without a clear experiential reference.
ideas
- Love is the working affection. He treats humanity as obstreperous yet lovable, and the seminar as a shared mystery rather than a performance.
- Fog beats soap. Compressed air with atomized water scours pores without breaking skin; Chicago dermatologists already call soap the worst cleanser.
- Domes scale from radome to Expo. Polyester radomes, Montreal's 250-foot Expo sphere, and Triton floating cities are one geometry at different sizes.
- Emergency adopts what promotion cannot. Over 100,000 geodesics exist because each first use was a case where nothing else would do.
- Words need experience. Complexion 1975 refuses any word without a clear experiential reference meaning.
quotes
“I really do love humanity.”
“So I was getting into what I called the “fog gun” experiments”
“Now, there are over 100,000 geodesic domes around the world.”
“not allowing myself the use of any word that I don’t have a really clear, experiential reference meaning for.”