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RBF Definitions
“I’d like to answer one more sort of challenge we had a little earlier, and that is that I’ve learned not only this grand strategy of not trying to reform the individual; to assume that the individual can concentrate entirely on rearranging the scenery in permitted ways to make it more favorable for life-- to demonstrate its capabilities. I have also learned that where you see things that need to be done-- you can see the scenery can be rearranged. Your experience tells you that scenery can be rearranged to a higher advantage for man. . . And there’s nobody to tell you to do it. . . You will try to do something about it, to rearrange it, and then he says, ‘What have you done?’ And then you explain what you’ve done and how it works, and then he says ‘Well, that’s very interesting,’ but then goes right on about his regular business. Then I find that there’s always an emergency, when you have to have something waiting there. So my whole strategy is-- and I’ve been able to live now on the frontier without anybody guaranteeing me anything, or telling me what to do-- taking the economic initiative and trying to find out what nature needs to be done.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game at NY Studio School 12 Jun-31 Jul’69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 68-69.
