Right where you are sitting now : further tales of the illuminati by Wilson Robert Anton 1932-2007

Author:Wilson, Robert Anton, 1932-2007
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Occultism
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : And/Or Press
Published: 1982-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

106 / RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE SITTING NOW

no distortion of land areas) is becoming almost as familiar as the Mercator projection and gives a more accurate view of our planet. In a recent issue of The Futurist, Barbara Marx Hubbard spoke for millions of his admirers when she wrote, "R. Buckminster Fuller is emerging as an archetype of the future: a new image of man . . . Fuller's very state of being is a historical event."

Yet for all that, Bucky Fuller (as he wants everybody to call him) is—hke Einstein in the 1930s—much more admired than he is understood. Many still regard him as a brilliant crank, tossing off marvelous inventions and incoherent philosophical notions like a Ben Franklin on acid. His most important scientific tenet—which is that he has discovered the coordinate system of nature—is regarded with skepticism by most mathematicians. His social philosophy, from which all his work actually grows, is often dismissed as Utopian and "visionary."

The coordinate system of nature, according to Fuller, is synergetics, the synergetic-energetic geometry he has been developing since 1927. This bold assertion, if it were accepted, could set Fuller high in the history of scientific discovery, but it is rejected by many mathematicians. One of the new revelations and great shocks of nineteenth-century geometry— that Euclid's system was not the only possible one—was demonstrated when Gauss, Lobachevski and Riemann each produced a non-EucHdean geometry. Since then, there has been general agreement that the Universe does not use one geometry; we can invent many geometries depending on our purposes and the magnitude of the space being studied. Fuller sounds naive in claiming to have the "real" geometry.

Nonetheless, Bucky will not back down. He argues that our world view has been hung up on the cube, but that Nature is more profitably looked at by means of a coordinate system based on triangles, rather than squares. Nature is always economical, he says. His geometry is designed with this economy in mind; that is why his famous domes, based on Nature's most stable shape, the triangle, deliver more stability

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