[Wittrs] Re: Modeling 2nd / 3rd powering etc. (tetrahedral mensuration)
- From: "kirby_urner" <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:15:24 -0000
--- In WittrsAMR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Justintruth <wittrsamr@...> wrote:
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> On another note, I will pass on some hearsay to you. I was told that
> Fuller spent a night at a house that had a copy of some of Teihard de
> Chardin's books. They claim was that Fuller was found in the basement
> crying after he had stayed up all night reading. He was moved to tears
> because he realized that Teihard de Chardin was dead and that he had
> missed his chance to speak to him. Its definately unconfirmed rumor
> but if you are interested perhaps it could be traced to first persons.
>
Interesting story. Had not heard it before. Can't corroborate,
though I will say "teleology" is one of the entries in 'Synergetics
Dictionary' -- relates to "voltage pressure" in Fuller's lexicon.
In Buddhist translations, I've seen "the fury of being" for this
pressure (to evolve, to be all we can be).
> Sometimes our intellectual climate pushes the idea that an idea can be
> mine to such a point that we are hiding our ideas and selves from each
> other so that our ideas are not "stolen". I think Linus Pauling and
> Watson and Crick had that happen to them and, unfortunately, I think
> Bucky never recovered from the Dymaxion experience, never trusted
> enough and consequently his interactions with some key people never
> occured and the challenges that should have been leveled at his work
> early never occurred. He ended up being therefore more of a quirky
> side show albeit one of stunning success. How much better it would
> have been had the environment been more honest.
>
He did sit on his philosophy for a goodly long time, in part to have
a track record behind him when it was finally published.
He certainly met with a lot of key people. The dishonesty of the
environment (the misinformation therein) is still a challenge for all
of us I'm thinking.
Pauling might have gotten the 3rd Nobel for the structure of DNA had
he been allowed to leave the country and meet with Watson and Crick
earlier. He was denied a visa however, given the McCarthyites were
quite paranoid about the guy.
> That having been said I do not think that Synergetics was a coherent
> metaphysics. I poured over it a long time ago and it seemed too
> dependent on geometric metaphor. It seems to be afflicted by a
> confusion of physics with metaphysics which is at the core of a kind
> of secular fundamentalism. I prefer to separate them clearly in order
> not to fall prey to fundamentalism.
>
It's a difficult work and yes, geometric metaphors are at its core,
by design.
You might want to skim the new Wikipedia article on Fuller's
Synergetics as I think it does a pretty good job of distillation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergetics_%28Fuller%29
I tend to pigeon-hole Fuller as an American Transcendentalist (vs.
just New England). His great aunt was Margaret Fuller Ossoli as you
likely know.
Did you ever look at 'Grunch of Giants'? He received a Medal of
Freedom from president Ronald Reagan after this came out. That's
interesting American history in and of itself, regardless of one's
verdict re Synergetics.
http://www.bfi.org/?q=node/406
Kirby
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