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date: 2023-07-11 • category: summaries • page size: $PLACEHOLDER

Writer: {{Buckminster Fuller}}

Origins of Specialization

But specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the “expert” is fooled into accepting his slavery by making him fell that in return he is in a socially and culturally preferred, ergo, highly secure, lifelong position.

Extinction in both cases was the consequence of over-specialization
Inbreeding and specialization always do away with general adaptability
This is typical of the way in which extinction occurs - through over-specialization
Evolution consists of many great revolutionary events taking place quite independently of man’s consciously attempting to bring them about.
I find it very important in dis embarrassing ourselves of our vanity, shortsightedness, biases, and ignorance in general, in respect to universal evolution, to think in the following manner.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredictable by the separately observed behaviors of any of the systems’s separate parts or any sub-assembly of the system’s parts

What we now have demonstrated metaphysically is that every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
Wealth is anti-entropy at the most exquisite degree of concentration. The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the meta-physical