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Old 04-29-2020, 05:12 PM   #30 (permalink)
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I am really liking this page https://enq.translatum.gr/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller. It's like small-g gospel:
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Did you know humans are more closely related to dolphins than chimpanzees?
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