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splittingTimes on July 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (1975)

I too got exposed to him via the Venus project and Robert Steele's "open source everything manifesto"[1]. Having read Jacque Fresco [2] and found it clear and easy to follow, I tried to read Bucky's book "ideas and integrities" [3], but his almost stream-of-conciousness kind of writing style is so opaque and non approachable (to me at least) that I had to give up.

Can you recommend anything from him that is more readable?

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[1]https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Robert-David-Steele/dp/1583944435

[2] https://www.amazon.de/Best-That-Money-Cant-Buy-ebook/dp/B077...

[3] https://www.amazon.de/dp/B004WH04LM/

fuzzfactor on July 7, 2020 [–]

"Earth, Inc." is less than half an inch thick.

Even though I'm a man of few words, I guess I've read a lot of material from various authors anyway.

But I only retained three books I picked up in the 1970's, and this is one of them.

Only read it once, and it's lasted my entire life.

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