BUCKMINSTER FULLER BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS BY FULLER: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapters 1-4 Chapters 5-8

- OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH -
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by R Buckminster Fuller

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1            COMPREHENSIVE PROPENSITIES 9
A Forecasting 10
B Past & Current Circumstances 14
1 Isolation, Sovereign Nations 15
2 Great Pirates 16
3 Overspecialization, Intellectual & Otherwise 18
2 ORIGINS OF SPECIALIZATION 20
A GPs Strategies of Control: "
1 Isolation of Humanity "
2 Secrecy 22
3 Control Inventors 23
4 Divide & Conquer 25
5 Puppet Kings 26
6 Over-Specialization in All areas, Especially Schools 27
3 COMPREHENSIVELY COMMANDED AUTOMATION 30
A GPs (Great Pirates) Lost Control of World after WWI because Technology Went Invisible 31
B Erroneous Assumptions of GPs: 33
1 Entropy: Universe Running Down (Newton) "
2 Not Enough to Go Around (Malthus) 34
3 Survival of the Fittest (Darwin) "
4 Who Is the Fittest?  Class Warfare (Marx) "

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Overspecialization 35
1 Species "
2 Tribes "
3 GPs as Industrial Production Money Makers 38
4 SPACESHIP EARTH 44
A Most Important Fact: Instruction Manual Deliberately Not Included 47
B Human Intellect Forced to Discover Self & Generalized Principles 49

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