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Grunch of Giants

By: R. Buckminster Fuller
Narrated by: Andrew Heyl
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With the appearance of Grunch of Giants, R. Buckminster Fuller consummates his literary canon, his panoramic lifetime survey of all aspects of the responsibility of human beings for their own destiny. This book is a modern allegory - his long-gestated myth-of the villainy of capitalism and the fecklessness of classic economics. For Fuller, the academic discipline of economics is irrelevant since it derives from an invalid assumption of scarcity. In fact, he has long argued that future historians of our era may subsume our business practices as a branch of mythology; thus it is not surprising that the word economic appears nowhere in his text.

Fuller’s myth is no idle fairy tale, since he faces his question - the question of a technological imperative which only he could raise with the deadly seriousness of satire. That question is: Can our system of national political sovereignties and corporate profits survive the inevitable technology revolution require to obviate wars by effecting a worldwide rise in the standard of living.

One of the functions of myth is to resolve contradictions in our culture. Grunch of Giants portrays the rising of multinational corporations in the paradoxical role of function both as the epitome of capitalistic selfishness and as the inadvertent vehicle for the dissolution of national political boundaries - the last deterrent to a one-world economy.

The result is more subversive of the property and profit values of the capitalist system than anything dreamed of since Karl Marx.—E.J. Applewhite, collaborator with RBF on Synergetics and Synergetics 2, author of Cosmic Fishing: A Memoir of Working With R. Buckminster Fuller

©1983 R. Buckminster Fuller (P)2015 Dauphin Publications
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The content is deep and may be hard to grasp at first. Bucky was a thinker ahead of his time, with ideas that could still be implemented today to improve our world.
He speaks at a very high level of thought, and those that grasp the concepts could see major changes in their perspective and approach to life.

A Bucky classic

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Robert Kiyosaki summed up Grunch of Giants really well. Large businesses and countries soak up money and they soak it up from all the people and they use their large influence not for the good of all but for their own interests. There is no leader, no official pact, but it is very real and making life harder for the average person. This book elaborates on this with examples and evidences, but it is very erratic and not linear in its ideas. I agree with the idea, but I'm not sure I am better off for having listened to this whole book...

Very Interesting stream of consciousness!

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The book was exactly what I needed to hear today! Thanks for sharing it with such fluidity.

The book and narrator fit together beautifully.

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