Buckminster Fuller on the Paris Massacre, Politics, Guns & the Survival of the Human Species

In the shadow of the Paris incidents, I again turn my attention to the wisdom and perspective of a great teacher and mentor - Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller. Although Bucky (as he preferred to be called) is no longer the household name he was a few decades ago when he was available to us in a physical body, some of us recognize that he was, in fact, one of the first truly global citizens concerned about all life on the planet he named Spaceship Earth. He consistently a very specific mission from 1927 when he was such a "failure" that he seriously contemplated suicide, until his death in 1983. That global mission and vision is reflected in the question he often asked himself and his audiences ......