[Edu-sig] Recanting

[Arthur]

kirby urner wrote:

> On 7/24/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I tried to hook people in by talking for hours and hours, in public
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Unfortunately, sometimes that is all they remember.  He was the 
commencement speaker at my sisters law school graduation in1973.  She 
remembers he spoke a long time. Pretty much, period. Logic would dictate 
that I attended, but I can't recall much.  One of those decades, for me.

I think that in presenting his ideas one needs to realize that to some 
extent he is a victim of his success in getting his ideas into the meme 
pool.

Spaceship earth (thinking, say, about the general consciousness 
regarding the threat of  global warming), eco-capitalism (i'm thinking 
about the success of Whole Foods, off the bat), and other ideas he might 
have been instrumental in lauching into the general collective 
idea-pool., seem today, on one hand, rather matter-of-fact and - to 
those who don't feel like the worst is by any means over - ineffective 
in changing fundamental things, fundamentally.

In the little web research I did this morning I find him being 
described, with admiration, as someone who was driven mad by the 20th 
century.

I've saved the 21st for that ;)

Art

Art

> He did, not I.
>
> I'm more focused on television, and splicing in the relevant geometry
> clips.  Fuller wanted people to develop "mind's eye" capabilities so
> sometimes skimped on the visuals (I recall his talk at Hunter College
> where the assistants started bringing colorful polyhedra onstage and
> he waved them back into the wings, saying something like "no, not yet,
> make them use their brains").
>
> Kirby
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