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Summary: Bucky's most potent book. A must read for global citizens!
Review: In 1981 I spent the best part of four months sitting on the beach at Laguna Beach, California reading / studying this book. That experience transformed my life and led me to begin working with the pattern integrity that was and is Bucky Fuller. Entering into the realm then led me to produce and present "lectures and seminars" to help other people appreciate the importance of that wisdom and to begin writing "translations" of his ideas for myself and others.Those writings eventually became the book Buckminster Fuller's Universe - an easily accessible translation of some of his ideas as well as a guide to understanding how his life affected the development of his famous operating strategy. Much of that operating strategy (for both humankind and each of us as individuals) is laid out in this book. Spend time with this book. Spend time with Bucky. He was wise enough to make available all that he learned during his fifty-six year personal experiment to determine what one individual could do on behalf of all humankind that could not be achieved by any organization no matter how powerful. Critical Path is but one of the artifacts he left for our enlightenment, and, in my opinion, it is the most accessible of Bucky's writing. It is not an easy read, but it is well worth the effort. I can personally attest to that fact that understanding and employing the wisdom that Bucky uncovered and shared has the power to make enormous shifts in people's lives as well as the welfare of the crew of the planet he named Spaceship Earth.
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Summary: An excellent book by an incredible being
Review: In this book, Bucky Fuller shows, in great detail, how it is possible for all humans to live at a higher standard of living with no one and nothing left out. This was an important book when it was first published in the early 1980's and is still a tremendously important book. Its purpose is to show how we humans got into the mess in which we find ourselves and how we can extricate oursleves. But before we can get to that point, we must understand the erroneous beliefs that keep us stuck, such as our belief in scarcity. This book inspired me. It taught me that each of us has the power to make a tremendous difference in the world. For example, the book's Introduction includes a letter that Bucky wrote to a ten year old child in 1970 in which he said in part, "The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done." This book will teach you that we can all live in harmony as brothers and sisters on this magnificient "planet earth."
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Summary: An excellent book by an incredible being
Review: In this book, Bucky Fuller shows, in great detail, how it is possible for all humans to live at a higher standard of living with no one and nothing left out. This was an important book when it was first published in the early 1980's and is still a tremendously important book. Its purpose is to show how we humans got into the mess in which we find ourselves and how we can extricate oursleves. But before we can get to that point, we must understand the erroneous beliefs that keep us stuck, such as our belief in scarcity. This book inspired me. It taught me that each of us has the power to make a tremendous difference in the world. For example, the book's Introduction includes a letter that Bucky wrote to a ten year old child in 1970 in which he said in part, "The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done." This book will teach you that we can all live in harmony as brothers and sisters on this magnificient "planet earth."
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Summary: This book is incredible, but not for the dumbed down masses!
Review: This book has some incredible ideas. Granted it is hard to read and probably not for the masses. Bucky has his own style of writing and many get turned off by it. But what he has to say does not fit into the normal speech/writing patterns of today's society. His views on the world are one-of-a-kind. Putrid? Not hardly. Those who rate this low cannot understand his message. I also would not recommend this as an intro to his thoughts. Try "Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work"
by Lloyd Steven Sieden, Norman Cousins for some insight on him, or check out the Buckminster Fuller Institute which has many of his books online.
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Summary: This book is incredible, but not for the dumbed down masses!
Review: This book has some incredible ideas. Granted it is hard to read and probably not for the masses. Bucky has his own style of writing and many get turned off by it. But what he has to say does not fit into the normal speech/writing patterns of today's society. His views on the world are one-of-a-kind. Putrid? Not hardly. Those who rate this low cannot understand his message. I also would not recommend this as an intro to his thoughts. Try "Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work"
by Lloyd Steven Sieden, Norman Cousins for some insight on him, or check out the Buckminster Fuller Institute which has many of his books online.
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Summary: Significant and broad-ranging
Review: This book, product of one of the best philosophers of the 20th Century, presents his own view of history, his life plan and strategies, and his basic overarching design principles. His view of Western History as the acts of the "Great Pirates" acting upon the rest of us is particularly useful. His warnings to make the best use of our resources or face disaster are also very apropriate
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Summary: Worst book ever
Review: This has got to be the most disgusting, putrid excuse for a book ever. I never quit reading a book in the middle, but this one... After a few chapters I just couldn't go on. First, Fuller does not know how to write. Apparently, he thinks that by writing words that contain about 5 hyphens, like, cross-combobulating-intersecto-spherical-containers, or slapping the word omni in front of a word, he sounds more profound or intelligent. Newsflash, Fuller: ya don't. His sentences are full of non-sensical buzzwords that don't add anything to the book As for the content, for a scientist, Fuller does not seem to apply the scientific method in the least. In the first chapter, he states his belief that humanity originated in Indonesia, not Africa as the common theory claims. That would be fine if he was able to back it up with some evidence other than speculations about what COULD have happened. The rest of the book is composed of self-aggrandizing statements about his 50-year experiment to prove that an individual can make a difference, the results of which seem to amount that the individual manages to build several geodomes and invent a new kind of map. In any case, don't read this book. Or read it just to see what a piece of garbage it is. Whatever.
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Summary: Critical Read
Review: This is the best book I have ever rea
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Summary: Incredible easy reading for amount of knowledge content
Review: This is the only book I have read three times in my life. The copy I have is falling apart and I'm buying another. He somehow explains nearly every significant advance made by man, in one relatively small, easy-to-read volume.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read in my 43 years!
Review: This is the single most powerful book I have ever read in my life so far! Bucky's thinking is brilliantly delivered in "Critical Path". I recommend this book to the highest degree possible. I think everyone onboard "Spaceship Earth" should take the time to read this amazing work before it's too late.
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