¶ Fuller, R.B.-What I Am Trying To Do
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But the fact is I really am pure guinea pig to me… Back in 1927… I committed myself to as much of a fresh start as a human being can have-- to try to go back to the fundamentals and see what nature was really up to. But I was all alone, and up against the massive corporation and the massive state. ‘Can the unsupported individual really get anywhere?’ I asked myself. Because I’m not impractical I’m not a blind idealist. How could I work in the system without capital backing? And I came to the following conclusion: In the Universe everything is always in motion, and everything is always moving in the directions of least resistance. That’s basic. So I said, ‘If that’s the case, then it should be possible to modify the shapes of things so that the follow preferred directions of least resistance.’ I made up my mind at this point that I would never try to reform man-- that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions…
