Category: Courage to speak

My task is to bring back Bucky’s ideas and serve them up in bite size pieces so that you can use them to make change happen in your world. Bucky’s genius works toward any cause that ‘arcs with the truth’, and it is all actually quite simple.

Take Einstein’s E = mc2 for example. It’s super easy to understand if it’s explained simply: E represents units of energy, m represents units of mass, and c2 is the speed of light squared, or multiplied by itself. Because the speed of light is a very large number, and then you multiply it by itself, you can see the point that this equation shows how even the tiniest amount of matter can release a huge amount of energy, as in a single atom splitting in a nuclear reaction.

Or, as in one person writing to a president, or creating a meme that goes viral.

Bucky’s Synergetic Geometry explains that a triangle is the fundamental building block of the universe, the strongest structure in existence. Modern science is proving him right, as understanding of physics and biochemistry continues to grow.
Social Media creates a perfect triangle. It connects you, to others, through it — a three-sided phenomenon. A de facto digital democracy.

Bucky also called on us to reconnect to nature. Nature, after all, is the perfect designer. She has been at it for billions of years. If a living thing doesn’t abide by nature’s rules, nature expels it like a kidney stone. This is the pathway the human race is currently strolling down while we stare at beautiful behinds on our i-phones. Once we understand how nature works, we can do the same.  If we simply set out with the right objective, we can accomplish Bucky’s suggested mission: “To make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

To get there, he called for an ‘Anticipatory Design Science Revolution’, which sounds like an monster of an idea, but breaking down the genius makes it simple:

Anticipatory – Figuring out which way things are headed.
Design – Creating technologies and artifacts that maximize current technology.
Science – Accepting the truth of the necessity to adapt to nature’s principles.
Revolution – Turning things upside down to make it happen.

The first three are underway. The question is whether or not the “revolution” part is happening quickly enough. Most scientists say it’s not, at least not yet. The fact that we still allowing, even subsidizing, more and more desperate measures to extract fossil fuels from the ground (through Fracking and Tar Sands and building huge pipelines across continents) is surely ample evidence that the revolution has not yet begun.

It is long past time for it to start.

Bucky’s words, first said in 1965, should infuriate us all: “Because our tax-hungry government and our money hungry corporations (which run our government) have not figured a way to place a meter between us and the sun, we are not allowed to enjoy the vast supplies of free (solar, wind, geothermal, wave, etc) energy that could be powering the world.

The technology exists to create a clean energy economy. We only have to demand it happen. 

Only the individual has the power to do and say exactly what he believes. No matter what your age or station in life, you, as an individual, have the power to influence others.

We take power into our hands every time we pick up our phones. We can voice our opinions louder, quicker and easier than ever before. We can demand our government create a clean energy economy. We can demand our government develop a better relationship with our boss, mother nature. We can demand they stop “burning up the house to keep the family warm.”

I think if Bucky were alive today, he would ask us to make it a daily habit. Every day: Brush your teeth, comb your hair, read up and then and speak out about something you care about. Put some time every day into doing something for your fellow man. Focus on the environment, or peace and justice, children’s rights, whatever you care most about. If only a small percentage of the seven plus billion of us would start doing this, the revolution would ram right through the current nonsense of today like a herd of wild elephants.

Just like Einstein’s law, such a big concentration of even something very small could release a huge amount of energy.

Thank you for sharing Buckyworld.