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The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe.

Buckminster Fuller#49

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Fuller believes youth are moving toward a cooperative, classless global society via technology and data.
In plain terms
Young people are rejecting old divisions and seeking unity through information.
What can you take from it?
Access to truth and cooperation can guide humanity forward.

Where it applies

  • education
  • activism
  • leadership

Putting it to work

  • share verified data
  • reject division

Questions to consider

  • How does data change views?
  • What divides us still?

Another view

Old systems may resist this change forcefully.

More from Buckminster Fuller

  1. It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

    Permalink to quote #48
  2. Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.

    Permalink to quote #50
  3. The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.

    Permalink to quote #47

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