The Whitney has a show about Buckminster Fuller, scientist,inventor, lecturer, thinker. I'm hoping to see the show but I read an article about him in The New Yorker yesterday. There was a lot of talk about his relevance today because most of his inventions were failures.
Maybe his true relevance is a source of inspiration for anyone who just likes to think and imagine. How many of us have any true lasting effect or recognizable contribution to our culture or history? Yes, we are part of cumulative effects but go back through the centuries and there are fewer and fewer people that you can name as individuals.
Maybe he was just a really interesting guy and it is enough to celebrate that.
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