March 20, 2007: the general

Buckminster Fuller:

All universities have been progressively organized for ever finer specialization. Society assumes that specialization is natural, inevitable, and desirable. Yet in observing a little child, we find it is interested in everything and spontaneously apprehends, comprehends, and co-ordinates an ever expending inventory of experiences.

and

The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naivete and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children

found in Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema

Posted by jeff at March 20, 2007 1:13 AM

Comments

Capitalism makes us grown up :)

All this from an architect. The most noble of all professions.

Jeff will you teach me how to put a video into my blog? I want to show wandyteeth what Honduras is all about.

jeff... i forgot my username and password. it was saved on my poor little mac that died. i haven't the faintest idea what my recovery word is either. can you help at all?

Children are our future yes, but if life sucks today then why worry about kids? I think we should just kill all of the children and worry about today.

Let's read books of trivia facts and funny quotes and thumbprint art.

i need to comment on your blog... preferably those from the '03 collection

what a bunch of bullshit, though I do agree that specialization is for ants.

The capitalist ideal is to be versed enough to tell the specialists what to do.

You and your fancy permalink. where can i comment on plastic bag homes!!! I have an email for you.

"When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time." - Kevin Arnold, "The Wonder Years"

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