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Human life began in the atolls of the South Pacific, where the average sea temperature is closest to that of the human body p. Rather than evolving from simpler organisms, humanity was of extraterrestrial origin and other organisms evolved from us p. From this base, humanity developed boat-building in Southeast Asia and colonised the rest of the planet p. There is evidence that the Bronze Age began in Southeast Asia p.

Fuller's Dymaxion World Map is used to show the distribution of humanity over the Earth's surface. Over half the population lives in the regions watered by the Himalayan glaciers p. Our knowledge of the spherical shape of the Earth is central to our understanding of ecology p.

This knowledge probably originated in prehistoric times, was certainly known to the Ancient Greeks, but was then suppressed for centuries by organised religion because it was incompatible with the official story of a Heaven above and a Hell below p.

There has been an evolution of religious ideas from those of the Egyptian pyramid-builders, whose ambition was to deliver a single individual, the pharaoh, into the afterlife, to the modern belief that everybody has a right to enjoy life on Earth p. Human history has been shaped by the continual growth and success of greed.

City-states were the first institutions to make organised use of extortion p. This was then followed by the growth of international trade, which appropriates the wealth of the planet for its own ends.

Corruption in the form of 'lawyer-capitalism' has led the U. Eventually the U. Fuller's diary, the 'Chronofile', is intended to show how much a single human being with little money can do to influence world affairs p. The mechanical principle of precession is used as a metaphor for the ability of a person to influence the world by applying pressure in an unconventional direction p.

Fuller's religious beliefs are explained p. Fuller observed that when he did things for the benefit of others, it had a positive effect on his life, but when he did things merely for his personal benefit, the outcome was negative. This eventually led him to the proposition that if he dedicated his life to the betterment of humanity, he would achieve the greatest positive outcome. So he decided to live his entire life as an experiment to prove or disprove this proposition.

He writes p. I assumed that nature would 'evaluate' my work as I went along. If I was doing what nature wanted done, and if I was doing it in promising ways, permitted by nature's principles, I would find my work being economically sustained—and vice versa, in which latter negative case I must quickly cease doing what I had been doing and seek logically alternative courses until I found the new course that nature signified her approval of by providing for its physical support. Wherefore, I concluded that I would be informed by nature if I proceeded in the following manner:.

The Geoscope is a large-scale, animated globe of the Earth intended to help people visualise the spatial and temporal patterns of human activity, either in real time or replayed at different speeds. If the human mind is presented with all of this information at once, it should be able to use its visual pattern-detecting abilities to solve complex problems such as weather-forecasting, resource conflicts, and wars p.

Geodesic domes will be built to enclose entire cities p. The World Game is a simulation of global economic activity. Computers can be used to calculate the optimal answer to any economic, technological or social question. The computers will tell us that the true cost to the environment of using fossil fuels is prohibitive, and renewable energy should be used instead. The true energy cost of a gallon of gasoline is more than one million US dollars.

The amount of scrap metals in circulation means that no more mining is necessary p. A global electrical supply grid will enable more efficient use of energy, and make intermittent renewable energy more practical p. It costs There can be no planetary equity until all the sovereign nations are abolished and we have but one accounting system [i.

The world's population will stop increasing when and if the integrated world electrical energy grid is realized. This part of the book explains Fuller's plan to set humanity on the path to a sustainable existence with no need to fight over resources. Education is key to improving humanity's living conditions p. The Apollo Project had a critical path of two million tasks, one million of which required new technological solutions p.

Fuller has applied a similar project-planning approach to the saving of humanity, and has created a list of critical-path items p.

We are being taught by all the foregoing to assume as closely as possible the viewpoint, the patience, and the competence of God. Unlike the Apollo Project, the critical-path items in the project to save humanity can all be accomplished with existing technologies p.

A global video education system must be developed p. I am certain that none of the world's problems The drive to make money In Los Angeles, private-incinerator and later car-pollution laws were passed to shift the blame for smog from industry to citizens p. Today, big business Now only the world's people are left bound within their respective national pens. The first task in humanity's critical path is to build a global electricity grid p.

The second task is to provide movable dwellings for all - city-sized and family-sized domes p. Fuller has the following designs ready for production: the Fly's Eye Dome p. Louis p. Fuller has always made himself easy to dismiss by wandering off the deep end of optimism, but a reading of Critical Path shows that the author, like Karl Marx, arrived at his vision of the ideal only after a serious attempt to understand the evolution of human affairs.

Toggle navigation. Buckminster Fuller Critical Path Pdf. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist.

Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term 'Spaceship Earth,' his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought. All the perpendiculars then. At the same scale a human Earth. New Year's Eve, December 31, I was four and my eyeglasses and was deeply excited at all that At p. The British Empire was at its height of power and splendor. The "world," as we know of it in after two official world wars and a third much more prolonged and ruthlessly vicious, unofficial world war, was ut-.

Observing so many ships loaded with so. I'm sure that amongst the earliest of human beings, every once man was born much bigger than the others. He didn't ask to be he was. And because he was bigger, people would say each in esoteric. I can lick any one of them, The most important initial instinct of the most pow-. Thus, our considered king. King, I understand the language of your enemy over the hill, and you don't.

And I heard him say what he is going to do to you and when he's going to do it. You let me know every day what my enemy over the hill says he is going to do and a big mistake to cut. Arithmetic, mind only your own business. Each one minds only his own business. I'm the only one that minds everyone's business. That is exactly why bright people today have become streamlined into specialists.

Nobody is born a specialist. Every child is born with comprehensive ininformed, unwatched, and with time of their. Each has special, organically integral equipment with which to cope successfully with special conditions in special environments.

The low-slung hound to follow the Earth-top If nature. The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk the stars.

Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed. The water's murmur is the voice of. The rivers carry our caand feed our children. If we sell you our land, you must remember, and teach your children, that the rivers are our brothers and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.

The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's grave behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care. His father's grave, and his children's birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things of land. Our ways are different from your ways. The sight of your pains the eyes of the red man. There is no quiet place in the white man's.

I am a red man and do not understand. The air is precious to the red man for all things share the same breath, the.

The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh. And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred as a place where even the white. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white.

This earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo. Where is the thicket? Where is the eagle? The end of living and the beginning of survival. This is how animals like tigers got out to now-. In following the evolution of human power structures we are now particularly interested in the humans who found themselves confronted with a tidal wave of wild animals. Those who were overwhelmed became aggressive hunters, and those who were not overwhelmed became peaceful domesticators of the animals.

Some of the most aggressive men mounted horses, moved faster. They kept themselves warm with clothing made of the skins of the animals and also with environment-controlling tents. Each day along comes the man on the horse. He says, "Isn't that too bad. I told you it was very dangerous out here. Sheep disappear out in the wilderness, you know. For the first.

The ownership-claiming strategy soon evolved into horsemounted warfare as each gang sought to overwhelm the other. Then the frequently. Thereafter emperors psychologically fortified the cosmic aspect of their. In another set of events that opportuned the power structure the land bar-.

The caravaners would say, "Let's exchange goods right here. You need something; I have it. The head horseman says, "It's pretty dangerous exchanging valuable things out here in the wilderness. We have been doing this for many generations. The agrarian-supported city-state works in the following manner: For example, we have Mycenae in Greece, a beautiful and fertile valley.

It is ringed. You can see the mountain passes from the high in the center of the valley. With their large ships made possible by this type of construction, sailors came to cross the ship, suggested to. Ships could take the short.

The Trojan horse was the large wooden ship that did the task of horses out of whose belly poured armed troops. At this time the power structure of world affairs shifts from control by the city-state to the masters of the lines of supply.

At this point in the history ships. In their western Mediterranean and Atlantic venturings the Phoenicians their ships. There being as yet no Suez Canal, the new world power structure centered in the ship mastery of the line of supply finally forcing the. Turks, Constantinople in due course was taken over by the Turks tablished the Byzantine. The latter route was not economically competitive but was the route of travel of the ship-designing and -building arts that in due course brought the stoutly keeled, heavily ribbed, big-bellied ships into the Mediterranean.

With the world three-quarters water the bigger ship-producing was the beginning of a complete change. Crete was called the Minoan civilization, the bull civilization, worshippers of the male fertility the time. Veenetians, Phoenicians. Punitians, Puntits, Pundits. Punic Wars. Pun in some African Colored. This soon brought metal coinage into the game of world trading, with the coin bearing the image of the sovereign of the homeland of the Phoe-.

If the ship did. It was under analogous circumstances of financing inter- Americanual travel as well as of vaster. The people doing the risking came to the banker for advice. In such a sition in. Lakes, then southward on the Mississippi to join with these lower Mississippi colonists exploring. Though motivated by distinctly different northern and southern reasons for doing so, we have the east-coast North American British-blood people breaking away from the Old World through the American Revolution.

In our tracing of the. American Revolution, the power structure behind it did not lose the war. The most visible of the power-structure identities was the East India lost the. Elizabeth in happened to have thirteen red and white horizontal stripes with a blue rectangle in its. American Revolution. Displayed on the stairway landing wall together with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted on canvas, the flag was paint-.

Both were great landleaders of the. With the Revolution over we have Alexander Hamilton arguing before it was not the intention of the signers of the Declaration.

Hamilton went on to argue that the United States government so formed would, of course, need money from time to time and must borrow that money from the rich landowners' banks and must pay the banks back with in-. This is where a century-and-a-half-long game of "wealth"-poker representative government did with the.

Then the great landlords loaned parcels of to sharecropping farmers,. The landlord had his "tithing" barn within which to store the grains collected in the baskets fiscus. Obviously none of this natural. Morgan and Company. But, as with uncalled poker hands, nobody ever knew what the "wealthy" really had.

I was a boy in a "comfortably off" family, not a "wealthy" family not wealthy enough to buy and own horses and carriages.

To me the wealthy seemed to be just "fantastically so. Why was it called the First World War? All wars until this time had been fought in the era when land was the primary wealth. The land was the wealth because it produced the food essential rich get richer.

They exhausted the farmproduced food supplies and trampled down the farms. War was local. In , only five years after Malthus's pronouncement of the fundamental inadequacy of life support on planet Earth, the telegraph was invented. It used copper wires to carry its messages. This was the beginning of a new ers. Metals greatly increased the effectiveness of the land-produced foods. Metals were found often, but not always, in tries. Mine ownerships were granted by govern-. Because the world-around-occurring metals.

The "outs" saw that the British Navy was guarding only the surface of the sea and that there were proven new inventions the submarine, which could go under the water, and the trol of the world's high-seas lines. If the line of supply that kept the war joined on the European continent broke. In , three years before the U. Morgan, as the "Allies' " fiscal agent, began to buy in the U. Because the "ability to pay later" credit of the Allied nations could not be stretched any further, the only.

Within one year the million armed and trained U. With the line of supply once more powerfully re-established by the U. Navy and its merchant fleet, it became clear that the "ins" were soon going to win. Morgan, now representing the "allied" power structures' capitalist rived in France, they entered the line of battle.

We will win the war and then stop the armaments production. You're going to pay is. With the U. Congress's formulating of the legislation that set up the tax, "we the people" had, for the first time, a little peek into the poker hands of the wealthy. But only into the amount scheme of the annual income.

Because the debt to the U. There was enormous potential productivity wealth of wealth-producing capability that had never before existed, alone as a consequence of war. In there were no bank-supported time. Many accepted orders for more than they had the mechanical capability to produce. Their hometown financiers vidually. They named their new venture the Chrysler Company.

Dillon, Read fired the auto company presidents, who were primarily interested in new-cardesigning, and replaced them with production engineers. Wall Street followed. They made drawings of the new models, which mudguard and radiator changes with no design.

This was the beginning of the downfall of the world-esteemed integrity of Yankee ingenuity, which was frequently, forthrightly, and often naively. The owners of the farmlands today are no longer "farmers" or even humans they are the great business conglomerates.

What began. Carter making enormous payments to appease big corporations for cutting off vital grain. There came a "pecking-order" point when the central Chicago banks foreclosed on. This occasioned the U. Congress voting to accelerate by four months the presidential inauguration of Franklin.

Their marble-walled, steel-barred, ibly vaulted. Church's world organization, which for a pittance acquired many extraordinary properties at that time, which vents, colleges.

They don't like socialism, but," said the New Deal leaders, "the fact is that we, the American people, are going to have to guarantee our own bank accounts. People don't like to keep their money under their mattresses equal. Society will think well of 'we the people' as the government,. They had no idea it went out on loan within minutes after it came in. In , '34, '35, and '36 the investigated the banking system ers. The New Deal completely separated from banking what Morgan and many of the private banks had been doing taking deposit money a postmaster.

The banking story is best told by a poem that was, at that time, allegedly composed by Ogden Nash but was never to my knowledge formally published and copyrighted.

It was, however, memorized and widely recited from copies often typewritten by those who remembered it:. Our parents forgot to get wed. Did a wedding bell chime, it was always a time When our parents were somewhere in bed.

Your banker, your broker, your Washington joker, Three prominent bastards are we, tra. She became a happy mother of an infant which was I. Whenever she was gloomy, I could always make her grin,. Was an overwhelming tendency for criminal assault. His philosophy was simple and quite free from moral. Well, I didn 't go to college but I got me a degree.

I reckon I'm the model of a perfect S. I remember Daddy's warning that raping is a crime,. Works Progress Administration, which provided jobs for approximately anyone who wanted them artists, mathematicians, etc. New Deal seemingly didn't give money The U. But in the end the government rarely collected on the loans and nally just forgave the. The New Deal had also pledged itself at outset to take care of the "forThe government voted minimum-wage limits of a substantial magnitude.

The economy was going again. People were getting more and more jobs how many depended upon how many prime contracts the government gave out. World War II was clearly looming ahead. The New Deal gotten man. Treasury Department as "an operating expense" and also to be deducted from income before calculating income taxes. With the termination of Morgan's control of as those of U.

Great Crash of came and events of the Depression occurred, as already related and the great poker hands were called,. Since the Wall Street lawyers and brethren in other parts of the country. Wall Street lawyers very informally, but very seriously, organized far-aheadin-time research-and-study teams consisting of the most astute corporation.

In the mid-nineteenth century mass production of in history,. Suddenly we had a completely new form of capitalism, which required both the large-scale financing and integration of metals, mines and mineowners, metals refining and shaping into wholesaleable forms,.

The Morgan-escaped managerial capitalists said, "I'm gothe rate at which if we pay our stockholders dividends we can pay dividends is directly dependent upon the rate at which our production wheels go around. To keep our wheels going around, we don't care whether we are using scrap metals or mined metals. As a matter of fact, the metals-as-scrap are usually more refined than the metals coming out of the whether from obmines.

They cost less, so we're better off using the scrap solete buildings, machinery, armaments, railways, or ships. The mining companies found that industry would not buy ingots of their They found that they had to turn their metals into tubes, bars, sheet,.

The change came in the form of many new armament designs for the clearly approaching World War II. The new designs released as "scrap" the metals from obdesigns called for. Roothe time of. With their powerful position established with the government, the U. New production tooling would cost them. That was the beginning of the end for the U. In the late s the "Big Three" automobile companies of America. This continuing deceit of the customers. Throughout all pre- World War II years employers had maintained unemployed people were unemployed because they were unqualified for vival, socially.

Eisenhower had no political conviction, one way or the other. His vanity was excited at the idea of becoming president of his get the victorious,. They convinced Eisenhower that "the U. They had him cut all price controls, all rent controls, all interest-rate controls; they had him terminate anything that was stymieing the making of big.

The CIA of money to do X tasks. I call the The great U. Furthermore, I was able in that issue to study carefully all the foreign investments made in America all the way back to its coloing electrically generated and. The East India Company, whose flag I have shown to be the origin of ours, was a private enterprise chartered by the British.

In America had bullion gold in the world in the. But with that much gold out of the Pandora's box of it provided a "gold lever" with which to. All countries outside America had gone off the gold standard. In the course of international monetary negotiating that accompanied.

But the main obof the Wall Street lawyers was for the corporations to get out from. In the American people had saved the corporations by subsidizing them; then, twenty years later,. This irreversible trend continues. Franklin Roosevelt, exercising war powers given him by Congress, in fect instantly appropriated.

World War II effort. He was also a bril-. All that was necessary to correct the situation was to give contracts to private enterprise to carry scientists. Strauss assured Eisenhower that the corporations would take on. Physical land italism. The whole of atomic development was know-how. The ism,. Energy in either of. Because of the foregoing it was now possible to maintain that hidden know-how capability within private corporate walls.

Since 99 percent of humanity does not as yet understand science's mathematical language, than. Through the national defense budget's armaments development, all the once risky research and development costs of enterprise are paid for by the public through taxation.

Since their subsequent epochal. After vast stock. In the king of Saudi Arabia said to a leading large oil interests,. There's no question that the few sential to. The "gas crisis" re-established "rational" public yielding to. They have kept their U. America haven't realized that these companies are officially situated elsewhere despite the incredible amplification of those great corporations' annual profits,.

Sum-totally, what has been taken from the people of the U. Everything we have reported here has been published other, but with the individual items often so far apart. As a consequence the total picture presented here is approximately unknown to any but the Wall Street lawyers' grand strategists, most of whom are no longer alive.

In this book, Critical Path, often to the lawyer-resurrected "capitalism" that. American-flag-flying storefronts in the U.