The Fullerine Effect

Well, this book, Critical Path, is certainly challenging. I feel impelled to re-examine the nature of my existence and my assumptions/beliefs about my life. Everything I have read thus far, has within me a natural, easy agreement. So now I ask myself; how did I get this far without having come to these conclusions myself? It is clear to me that with just a little reflection, I could have done so, but I didn't. Bucky very generously points out that he did not come to these ideas until he found himself in dire straits, and thus he expects that omnihumanity won't come to them until then either. So these clearly logical and intuitive ideas, which are not mutually exclusive modalities, have penetrated me or more accurately have begun to take root from within. I recognise that Fuller has articulated beautifully the notions with which I have been struggling most of my self-aware life. The dreadful sense that exploiting oneself for money was a reprehensible waste of a glorious life. That one had to "earn one's living", that is to justify one's continual existence on this planet at the expense of another. That being born and contributing to society in the best way one could was only validated by monetary reward. That being   poor was an indictment against one's fitness to live.