¶ Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927 (1)
← Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927 | Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927 (2) →
Index Entry
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"I felt I was a low-average man. It occurred to me that the world was largely made up of people precisely like that. So I resolved to determine if there was something the little individual could do to help his fellow man, to see if there was something the individual could do that all the vast corporations couldn’t. . .
"There is nothing in the system of checks and balances of giant corporations that produces a breakthrough. We keep the system going by deliberately introducing inefficiency. . .
“Humanity has been doing the right things but for the wrong reasons. We’re told that the Golden Rule is beautiful and all that, but the hard economic fact is that there’s not enough to go around. It’s you or the other guy. I tried very hard to play that game until I was 32. But I discovered then that I wasn’t doing my own thinking, according to the rules of the game, I was told I was impractical. So I tried to open up again the valves of sensitivity. I resolved to discipline myself not to talk to anyone else unless they asked me. . . and then to give them my very best insights.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Jm. C. Lyon, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 Nov’72
