New thinking in actions for men.

After being catapulted from an ordinary family life to being a new entrant to the Men's Movement at the beggining of 2005 my 1st 4 months were taken up with looking for the support I needed personally from "official" sources and then from 1st the traditional support groups and charities and then the less mainstream groups.

Whilst everyone seemed to be doing something interesting and the consolation aspects were well covered I could actually easily wipe my own tears away. However for the real issues that I needed help with the best on offer was we might get things sorted in a few years but it could take ten if at all.

Without to much effort some google searches produced official documents that showed govs accross the world we actively creating the problems as a part of a rather dubious social engineer agenda. Had I actually gone mad or would I wake up from this Kafkaesk nighmare I wondered.

I actually checked and had a mental health assesment and the official verdict was no I am not mad, nice to know but that in many ways that made it worse as it was the world had gone mad and forgot to include me, I had suspected it for some time but even BBC News24 does not do the madness justice.

Almost daily I find myself in almost manic laughter as I see or hear about new aspects of what looks like that institutionalised insanity is now official policy and I wonder if this is what it was like before Rome crumbled from the excesses on the inside.

It became very apparent that, my family, my home town, my country, nay the whole world would and society as we would like know it would probobly become increasing more hopeless for more and more people, rather than things advancing some one or some people had decide we should not go forward to any glorious future and niether should we reverse to some idealistic past but insted put some sugar in the tank and knacker the whole thing.

And yet one of my heros R Buckminster-Fuller that great philosipher, Scientist, Inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist 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.”

This man who failed at virtualy everything untill he took charge of his own life as an experiment is an ispiration to us all.

As early as 1959, Newsweek reported that Fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by the year 2000. In 1977, almost twenty years later, the National Academy of Sciences confirmed Fuller’s prediction. Their World Food and Nutrition Study, prepared by 1,500 scientists, concluded, “If there is the political will in this country and abroad . . . it should be possible to overcome the worst aspects of widespread hunger and malnutrition within one generation.” Even with tragedies like Ethiopia and Somalia, it is becoming clear that, as Fuller predicted, we have arrived at the possibility of eliminating hunger and poverty in all the world within our lifetime.

Buckminster Fuller was truly a man ahead of his time. His lifelong goal was the development of what he called “Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science”–the attempt to anticipate and solve humanity’s major problems through the highest technology by providing “more and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources.”

Fuller was a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.” Some were built as prototypes; others exist only on paper; all he felt were technically viable. He was a dogged individualist whose genius was felt throughout the world for nearly half a century. Even Albert Einstein was prompted to say to him, “Young man, you amaze me!”

In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and new-born daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called “an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity.” Over the next fifty-four years, he proved, time and again, that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable.

During the course of his remarkable experiment he:

•was awarded 25 U.S. patents
•authored 28 books
•received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities
•received dozens of major architectural and design awards including, among many others, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
•created work which found itself into the permanent collections of museums around the world •circled the globe 57 times, reaching millions through his public lectures and interviews.

Buckminster Fuller is best known for the invention of the geodesic dome–the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. The geodesic dome is able to cover more space without internal supports than any other enclosure. It becomes proportionally lighter and stronger the larger it is. The geodesic dome is a breakthrough in shelter, not only in cost-effectiveness, but in ease of construction. In 1957, a geodesic dome auditorium in Honolulu was put up so quickly that 22 hours after the parts were delivered, a full house was comfortably seated inside enjoying a concert.

Today over 300,000 domes dot the globe. Plastic and fiberglass "radomes" house delicate radar equipment along the Arctic perimeter, and “radome” weather stations withstand winds up to 180 mph. Corrugated metal domes have given shelter to families in Africa, at a cost of $350 per dome. The U.S. Marine Corps hailed the geodesic dome as "the first basic improvement in mobile military shelter in 2,600 years." The world’s largest aluminum clear-span structure is a geodesic dome which houses the “Spruce Goose” at Long Beach Harbor. Fuller is most famous for his 20-story dome housing the U.S. Pavilion at Montreal’s Expo ’67. Later, he documented the feasibility of a dome two miles in diameter that would enclose mid-town Manhattan in a temperature-controlled environment, and pay for itself within ten years from the savings of snow-removal costs alone.

Fuller was one of the earliest proponents of renewable energy sources–solar (including wind and wave)–which he incorporated into his designs. He claimed, "there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance." His research demonstrated that humanity could satisfy 100% of its energy needs while phasing out fossil fuels and atomic energy. For example, he showed that a wind generator fitted to every high-voltage transmission tower in the U.S. would generate three-and-a-half times the country’s total recent power output.

Fuller originated the term “Spaceship Earth.” His Dymaxion™ Map was awarded the first patent for a cartographic system and was the first to show continents on a flat surface without visible distortion, appearing as a one-world island in a one-world ocean. His World Game® utilizes a large-scale Dymaxion Map for displaying world resources, and allows players to strategize solutions to global problems, matching human needs with resources. His Inventory of World Resources, Human Trends and Needs was created to serve as an information bank for the World Game.

In some ways, Fuller’s most significant artifact is the extensive personal archives that he maintained throughout his life. Buckminster Fuller died in July, 1983, leaving behind him a thoroughly documented 56-year experiment–a testament to the effectiveness of individual initiative.

http://www.bfi.org/

It was then a simple step for me to decide on a similar experiment with my own life what can one man do to change at least my own country not in ten years but inside one or at least to be a catalyst for that and to work with others, I have met a number of others who see the great and overarching imperitive to ensure that our society is not sunk completely by this spreading madness, who else will take up the standard of free men and fight for a sane society?

Do not doubt you and your families are under attack but it is not by terrorists and the fight is not with guns or bombs but you are being called to volunteer just like in a real war or as a home guard, each man or even woman can do some thing, join us by saying to yourself or even asking us or others what can I do?

We almost like young children need to at least learn to say NO!