APRIL 9th 1999 Desovereignization GRUNCH Never before in all history have the inequities and the momentums of unthinking money-power been more glaringly evident to so vastly large a number of now literate, competent, and constructively thinking all-around-the-world humans. Theres a soon-to-occur critical-mass moment when the intuition of the responsibly inspired majority of humanity, in contradistinction to the angered Luddites and avenging Robin Hoods, faced with comprehensive functional discontinuity of nationally contained techno-economic system, will call for and accomplish a world-around reorientation of our planetary affairs. R. Buckminster Fuller Cant Fool Cosmic Computer Grunch of Giants (St. Martins Press, 1983), pg. 89 So does Fuller encourage hot heads to rise up and overthrow the oppressive state apparatus? No. Remember, this guy received the Medal of Freedom from President Ronald Reagan. Desovereignization is a natural evolutionary process stemming from the inevitable effects of globalized communications and trade -- and is already very far advanced. Fullers Grunch of Giants, a sequel to Critical Path, is about the power of post-LAWCAP supranational corporations to counter the brain dead approaches of the selfishly preoccupied sovereign politicos -- approaches which continue to have extremely unprofitable and disasterous consequences. Fuller clearly documents how todays sovereignties are largely sponsored entities, sustained behind-the-scenes by nebulous global financial networks which keep our governments afloat, and in debt, because this serves our interests. [4] Just look at EPCOT (Disneys Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow). Corporate pavilions dominate Tomorrowland (the future). On the other side of the artificial lake (the past), nation-state pavilions come across as so many quaintly antiquated and commercialized cultures. The once proud nations have been reduced to so many moneymaking theme park tourist attractions. [cr] from Grunch of Giants LAWCAP In his book Critical Path, Fuller traces the evolution of lawyer-capitalism (LAWCAP [5]) from its Malthusian origins. The LAWCAP dogma of scarcity, upon which modern economic theory is based, pits exponential population growth against a merely arithmetic increase in food supplies. But know-how, humanitys competence as a metaphysical entity, is also increasing exponentially, and todays capitalism is centered around intellectual assets more than physical ones. The ability to do more with less, to ephemeralize our technologies to a point where humanity is capable of providing itself with sustainably high living standards, derived entirely from renewable energy sources, is another consequence of our increasing competence which Malthus never predicted. When living standards rise, as measured by kilowatts per capita for example, birth rates are seen to fall. We have a chance to get ahead of the population curve with new global university lifestyle options, wherein the process of learning a living is potentially productive, rewarding, and life-long, for all the worlds students (consider yourself and your family enrolled). See:•GST: Brainstorming New Scenarios for our Global University •A Contribution to General Systems Theory •On-line text of Grunch of Giants by R. Buckminster Fuller, courtesy of the BFI
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