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OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH

by R Buckminster Fuller, 2008  (Note: Page numbers in older editions vary slightly)

Introduction by Jaime Snyder

p 7
 
1            COMPREHENSIVE PROPENSITIES 21
A Forecasting 22
B Past & Current Circumstances 26
1 Isolation, Sovereign Nations 27
2 Great Pirates (GP) 28
3 Overspecialization, Intellectual & Otherwise 30
 
2           ORIGINS OF SPECIALIZATION 33
A GPs Strategies of Control: "
1 Isolation of Humanity "
2 Secrecy 35
3 Control Inventors 36
4 Divide & Conquer 39
5 Puppet Kings "
6 Over-Specialization in All Areas, Especially Schools 41
 
3           COMPREHENSIVELY COMMANDED AUTOMATION 43
A GPs (Great Pirates) Lost Control of World after WWI because Technology Went Invisible 44
B Erroneous Assumptions of GPs: 46
1 Entropy: Universe Running Down (Newton) "
2 Not Enough to Go Around (Malthus) 47
3 Survival of the Fittest (Darwin) "
4 Who Is the Fittest?  Class Warfare (Marx) "

C

Overspecialization 48
1 Species "
2 Tribes "
3 GPs as Industrial Production Money Makers 51
 
4       SPACESHIP EARTH 57
A Most Important Fact: Instruction Manual Deliberately Not Included 60
B Human Intellect Forced to Discover Self & Generalized Principles 62

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