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Buckminster Fuller on the nature of changing things

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Bateson on Story

This is a very serious matter… that the way that human beings think, certainly the way that I think, is in terms of stories… Now what is a story? A story, if it so please you, is a metaphor… If you look at these two plants, you will see that they are essentially metaphors, one [...]

What is the difference…?

What is the difference between the apple, and the taste of the apple on the tongue?

I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

One of my favourite quotes of all time. And it makes sense to me to approach one’s own convictions with a degree of humility, flexibility, joyful uncertainty and playful doubt. Bob did it so well.

I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

I strongly suspect that a world “external to,” or at least [...]

Everything is alive

Everything is alive. What we call dead is an abstraction
David Bohm

I seem to be a verb

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.
Buckminster Fuller