¶ Fuller, R.B., As Harbinger of Society
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As a child he had such a bad eye defect that he thought his sister was telling tall tales when they compared notes about their visual world.
His vision was corrected with spectacles (he now also wears a hearing-aid), but, as an original independent thinker, his mental view of the universe has never quite coincided with that of other people.
At school he fell into the pattern of accepting authority, but “I didn’t seem to see things the way other people did,” he says.
Today, he describes himself as a harbinger of society-- a citizen of the world with a post office address at Southern Illinois University, a man “living in the frontier of the breaking pattern of humanity.”
“I find that what happens to me happens to the rest of society not long after,” he says. “If economics are going badly for me, for instance, I feel very sorry for the rest of the world because it’s going to happen to them not long after.” (At the moment, he adds, his personal economics are doing well.)
