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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

Towards An Animistic View Of Mental Illness

Before I start, I want to clarify a few things. Whenever I try and explain my thinking on this subject, there are always a few people who fail to understand what I’m saying. This is clearly my fault for not explaining myself carefully enough, so I’m going to start by laying out my credentials and [...]

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