Being Your Own Guinea Pig?
Guinea pigs are cute furry animals largely used in lab experiments. Researchers cage them, feed them, then inject them with what medicines or potions they are mixing and monitor how the cocktail works. They use the animals because experimenting on humans is either too costly or too ethically problematic.
Reading about Buckminster Fuller, I got to learn that this “crackpot futurist” used to call himself Guinea Pig B. Fuller was highly experimental and very inspirational, let alone one of the world’s most original minds.
I like that experimental touch in life and I especially value Fuller, and now have him on my eccentric to-meet list, because he said:
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
I think Fuller embodies one version of what I see as a wholesome human being. That is a person who thinks in cosmopolitan terms and always looks at the big picture, someone who discusses ideas even if they cause headaches.
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