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"Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?"
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA
R. Buckminister Fuller
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The important concept mention in the Manual which we pay no attention to is 'synergy.' Coined by Fuller, synergy means we can not understand the whole by understanding it's parts.
Earth came with lots of room for error to allow for her ignorant inhabitants to evolve. As we've evolved, Earth's room for error has slowly shrunk. We are at a point were we have learned much about all the parts and micro ecosystems that create our greater ecosystem. We have also figured out how our behaviour has messed up a beautifully self-contained environment which recycles and regenerates on her own, but we still don't fully understand the whole system and ultimately we pose as a threat to new ecosystems we may inhabit in the future. The reason being that we are programmed in our ways of living by hastey consumerism and capitalism and 'unnaturally' we will take these erroneous methods with us.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The important concept mention in the Manual which we pay no attention to is 'synergy.' Coined by Fuller, synergy means we can not understand the whole by understanding it's parts.
Earth came with lots of room for error to allow for her ignorant inhabitants to evolve. As we've evolved, Earth's room for error has slowly shrunk. We are at a point were we have learned much about all the parts and micro ecosystems that create our greater ecosystem. We have also figured out how our behaviour has messed up a beautifully self-contained environment which recycles and regenerates on her own, but we still don't fully understand the whole system and ultimately we pose as a threat to new ecosystems we may inhabit in the future. The reason being that we are programmed in our ways of living by hastey consumerism and capitalism and 'unnaturally' we will take these erroneous methods with us.
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