FULLER'S WORKS IN TRANSLATION

We are excited to report that this past year has seen the publication of four new translations of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. We are pleased to share with you Jaime Snyder's preface to the most recent translation in Korean:

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I am very pleased to see a Korean language edition added to the list of translations that have been done for R. Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. This year we have seen the release of editions from China, Italy and Russia! These, joining current editions from France, Japan and Slovenia—and previous editions from Brazil and Germany.

Ten years after writing the introduction for the 2008 Lars Muller edition of this book, Spaceship Earth is certainly in a much more critical position—and more in need of an workable operating manual ! I write this while nearby the largest fire in California’s recorded history blazes, only nine months after the then largest fire in California history blazed in south. I often hear myself saying to people I meet, the state of the world "is much worse than we realize—and much better than we realize.” Life on Earth is under siege from our own species' ignorance; and at the same time, the design revolution which Bucky championed is bringing a new generation of tools and understanding that can significantly reduce the human footprint, paving the possibility for the manifestation of a truly regenerative world.

One of Bucky’s core questions was “what can the little individual do?” What is the trimtab that can turn our dire predicament around? In his own answer: during the last four months of Bucky’s life he did four day-long events around the United States entitled “Integrity Day”, to crowds of over 1000 people each. To paraphrase, he said we have everything we need to make the world work for all of Life—already on the shelf! The trimtab Bucky suggested was enough human beings demonstrating enough individual integrity to catalyze this great transformation.

From the February 26, 1983 event:

". . . to  come  back  to  why  we’re  here  today,  Integrity  Day. . . [This]  particular  experiment [ humans on Earth ]—don’t  forget,  we  really  are in  question . . . I  have  to  say,  I  think  that  we  are  in  some  kind  of  final examination  as  to  whether  human  beings . . . now  with  this  capability  to acquire  information  and  to  communicate—whether  we’re  really  qualified to  take  on  the  responsibility  we’re  designed  to  be  entrusted  with. This  is  not  a  matter  of  an  examination  of  the  types  of  governments, nothing  to  do  with  politics,  nothing  to  do  with  economic  systems.  It has  to  do  with  the  individual.  Does  the  individual  have  the  courage  to really  go  along  with  the  truth? . . . Are  we  really  going  to  carry  on  with  our  integrity?"

It all finally comes back to each one of us.

Each of us makes a difference—

the only question is what difference will we make!

Think of it: every iota, of every act, of every moment of our lives is a lever which can provide a force to turn our great Spaceship Earth to safe harbor.

Jaime Snyder

August 2018