Buckminster Fuller Quotes on Emergence and Society
Channel: thewiseturtle
Date: 2019-03-03

“Few realize that political action offers little solution to the world’s major problems. Few understand that the elite have created political parties in order to prevent real change from ever taking place. The political arena is merely the “sty” in which two or more mutually hostile agencies, created by the same hidden hand, get the chance to pummel one another. As alternative researcher Juri Lina so brilliantly put it: When the left wing Freemason is finished, the right-wing Freemason takes over. The point has been emphasized by many an insider: The elementary principle of all deception is to attract the enemy’s attention to what you wish him to see and to distract his attention from what you so not wish him to see – General Sir Archibald Wavel. The world’s power structures have always ‘divided to conquer’ and have always ‘kept divided to keep conquered.’ As a consequence the power structure has so divided humanity – not only into special function categories but into religious and language and color categories – that individual humans are now helplessly inarticulate in the face of the present crisis. They consider their political representation to be completely corrupted, therefore, they feel almost utterly helpless”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path 

"Parading in multitudes, [young people] demand that their political leaders take steps to bring about peace and plenty. The fallacy of this lies in their mistaken, age-old assumption that the problem is one of political reform... more and more [young people] around the world are learning of the new and surprising alternative to politics - the design science revolution, which alone can solve the problem.

[Young people] know that they need no more license to invent the tools that will make the world work than the Wright brothers needed a license to invent one of the most needed more-with-less tools - the airplane... Their revolution is a bloodless revolution that brings peace in the only way it may ever become effective - by elimination of the physical wants that always underlie war."

~R Buckminster Fuller (The Prospect for Humanity - article in the magazine Saturday Review – August 29, 1964)

“A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure 

(This video was filmed at the MIT Stata Center, where there is an art display of paper cranes as a memorial for the MIT police officer, Sean Collins, who was killed by one of the young men who exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013.)