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Considering the Moral of R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking.
This brief page, with its first sentence, "Dare to be naïve," feels more oasis-like to me the more I re-read it. There is an ur-optimism here, stated with an ungainliness that is nonetheless transcendently elegant: "It is inherently potential in the integrity of eternal regeneration and the inherent complexity of unity that god is the unknowable totality of generalized principles which are only surprisingly unveiled, thereby synergetically inaugurating entirely new, heretofore unpredicted-because unpredictable-ages ."
Fuller seeks the pattern of McLuhan's sensory mosaic; perhaps his approach, his naivete, is an intuitive approach to the original whole and harmonious ratio of the senses, prior to the closing and outering that McLuhan sees as the effect of our own technology on us.
We can already read and feel the endless bounty of Universe as Fuller perceives it in this very brief Moral: "eternally regenerative," "omni-interaccommodative," "heretofore unpredicted-because unpredictable-ages," "astronomical myriads of new, special-case experiences and problems to be stored in freshly born optimum capacity human brains." Already Fuller bombards us with a sense of Universe sensuously contradicting our received anxious default conception of our world as hostile, austere and bounded, where scarcity is the rule and where each of us must jealously and without respite guard that which is ours.
With that default sense of scarcity and danger, of course we build walls and make orders to keep the others out. In Fuller's conception it feels as if the walls fall before we can build them, the orders become self-evidently selfish and silly, the sense of scarcity and danger evaporates from mind and heart as a bad dream upon waking.
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