Buckminster Fuller at Home in the Universe

The reasons for his hold upon the young are quite simple. They believe in him because he believes in them — believes that their uncluttered, tradition-spurning minds will lead humankind out of the wilderness of fallacious reasoning and outworn concepts into a glorious era of new enlightenment when, by the intelligent use of never-diminished energy and by ephemeralization — doing ever more with less — all men will enjoy a standard of living as high or higher than the most fortunate 5 percent of now-living people. In short, among the clamorous voices of doom and gloom he alone gives them hope and a reason for being and striving.

Core structure

• Raging Optimist
• Beloved Island
• Not So Fair Harvard
• Love And War
• The Happiest Years
• Alexandra

Main ideas

• Until he was four years old, Bucky's world was confusingly nebulous (he was severely farsighted before being fitted with glasses).
• Bucky loved to dance, and one evening particularly enjoyed dancing with one of the older girls, aged nineteen.
• Bucky commanded the Whisper very briefly during his naval years.

Why it matters

It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, presenting the optimistic, biographical foundation beneath his later worldview.

See Also

• Alden Hatch (Alden Hatch) — related figure

Sources

• buckminster_fuller_at_home_in_the_universe/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
• buckminster_fuller_at_home_in_the_universe/ — source project root