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World Game

World Game explores the finite time-energy accounting system we call Bitcoin through the work and design philosophy of Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller.

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2025-05-21 00:30:35

"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool [Bitcoin], the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-20 02:45:28

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Thanks for my first zap @nprofile…jymf 👊

2025-04-13 02:45:57

Buckminster Fuller understood housing prices were propped up:
"Realistically exploring, we find that only two percent of the U.S. population own their own homes outright, which therefore places the essential custody of this 'home’ inventoried accessory and arterial system tonnage within the control of corporation trusts or government. Though holding ultimate title foreclosure powers, the government to date has laboriously supported rather than challenged the corporate and trust prerogative over this tonnage, in order to avoid the political disturbances threatened by realistic inspection of the deflated functional value to which this junk tonnage is collateral throughout the vast ‘‘securities’’ structure of the country."

2025-04-12 19:48:16

Buckminster Fuller's grandson has excellent advise for approaching his body of work:
"For those of you reading Bucky for the first time, I offer a few specific tips for your journey through his universe. You may find, with the pulsation from the macro to the micro, from the comprehensive to the incisive, that your mind is stretched and turned in a way that is, at first, disorienting.
Think of it instead as a re-orientation—a real orientation that can at first be dizzying. Give yourself a lot of time. His books are thinking tools, catalysts for “shape-shifting,” for leaping far beyond the “box” of normal habitual thought processes. Perhaps a dose-a-day will be your pace, to thoroughly examine and digest the ideas as they come—paying attention to the changes in your own awareness …daily, weekly, even monthly.
Be encouraged: like learning a new language or a new computer program, I trust the current brain researchers would confirm that reading Bucky is just the kind of endeavor that can help us build brain cells and their interconnections."
Sound familiar?
Yes, Bucky's work will take you through everything from the physics to philosophy of the proverbial Bitcoin rabbit hole.

2025-04-09 14:33:54

Buckminster Fuller warned us exactly 50 years ago.
“Nothing to stop the US Treasury from issuing 2050 notes, but for how far into the future can [they] keep selling USA promissory notes?”
He often said he was thinking 50 years ahead, and that puts us at, well, 2025.
Here we are.

2025-04-05 06:37:24

I saw that a technology which produced total economic success for humanity could eliminate the fundamental causes of war.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:26:26

The do-more-with-less invention initiative does not derive from political debate, bureaucratic licensing, or private economic patronage. The license comes only from the blue sky of the inventor’s (Satoshi’s) intellect.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:18:51

The present wealth accounting is unrealistic. Our obsolete economic account is registering only swiftly multiplying national deficits.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:07:08

We are in for a world of economic accounting revision of first magnitude. We will switch from a negative (fiat) to a positive (bitcoin) world economic accounting.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-26 15:57:09

Buckminster Fuller understood that people would feel threatened if anyone questioned how they see the world.
"People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules, and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening—for anyone to question squareness. They do not like to hear that rectangularity may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-25 15:19:49

"The computer will show that 70 percent of all jobs in America and probably an equivalently high percentage of the jobs in other Western private-enterprise countries are preoccupied with work that is not producing any wealth or life support—inspectors of inspectors, re-underwriters of insurance re-insurers, [zombie company] promoters, spies and counterspies, military personnel, gunmakers, etc."
—Buckminster Fuller
#nevent1q…ak8f

2025-02-24 06:04:17

Is this the biggest misallocation of resources no one is talking about?
"You shouldn't be in business."
@nprofile…mwnq
https://m.primal.net/PJDF.mp4

2025-02-22 20:18:05

Buckminster Fuller understood that centralizing or decentralizing is the wrong question. The right question is, how decentralized is decentralized enough?
"I have listened with great interest to discussions regarding decentralization and centralization, and I have thought that the question of whether it is valid to decentralize or centralize is unanswerable because it deals with one one-way sign in two-way traffic. It is a static question in a dynamic universe."
Gold is static; Bitcoin is dynamic.

2025-02-21 16:14:44

When Buckminster Fuller was asked by a 12 year old boy, How would you suggest solving international problems without violence? He answered:
"I always try to solve problems by some artifact, some tool or invention that makes what people are doing obsolete so that it makes this particular kind of problem no longer relevant.
My answer would be to develop a world energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on the same grid. All of a sudden, there would be no problems anymore, no international troubles.
Our new economic basis wouldn't be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt hours."

2025-02-20 16:17:24

Buckminster Fuller understood that people how feel threatened if anyone questions the way they see the world.
"People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules, and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening —for anyone to question squareness. They do not like to hear that rectangularity may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality."

2025-02-20 06:44:42

"The only thing that's expendable is what we do with our time. Everything else is cumulative."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mhjz :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJIJR6V1Wn8

2025-02-20 06:20:25

Buckminster Fuller understood you cannot own physical property.
"Physical "ownership" is antientropic—ergo, eventually unsustainable."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mhjz :
https://youtu.be/1PkMFIa7rmQ?t=984

2025-02-19 21:52:45

We are not used to thinking of reality as submitting to a "finite accounting system," but Buckminster Fuller was convinced it does.
Fuller would philosophize:
"You cannot have a fraction of an energy event."
"Nature does not use Pi."
He understood the importance of having an accounting system that mapped to reality.
Without a true accounting system, we would be lost and misguided.
I can't help but look around and see that he was right.

2025-02-19 16:07:58

Buckminster Fuller understood we had to design our way out of cyclical violence.
"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…uq9q :
https://m.primal.net/PDBv.mp4

2025-02-19 16:01:52

Without a Lever, one cannot experience the feeling of Leverage.
Without Bitcoin, one cannot experience the feeling of Ephemeralization.
@nprofile…uq9q :
https://m.primal.net/PDBc.mp4

2025-02-19 15:52:41

Buckminster Fuller understood our intimate relationship with the environment.
"Life continually alters the environment, and the altered environment in turn alters the potentials, realities, and challenges of life."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq :
https://m.primal.net/PDAw.mp4

2025-02-19 15:47:45

Buckminster Fuller understood the need to avoid counterparty risk.
"It is prudent not to go to another man's island without your own boat."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq words of wisdom:
https://m.primal.net/PDAe.mp4

2025-02-19 15:39:44

Buckminster Fuller understood that it takes our minds more than one experience to understand the significance of an idea.
"It takes literally four experiences for [the] mind to discover that there is an interrelationship significance going on here that was not to be evidenced in one experience by itself."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq here:
https://m.primal.net/PDAB.mp4

2025-02-18 18:29:42

The Bitcoin network is an open and permissionless protocol with an insatiable appetite and buying capability.
"You can't have mass production without mass distribution. You can't have mass distribution without mass consumption. You can't have mass consumption without mass buying capability. We need a broad spectrum of those who could participate."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq
https://m.primal.net/PBsI.mp4

2025-02-18 18:20:01

Buckminster Fuller understood knowledge was an antidote to fear.
"The many who are not literate about what’s going on will be terribly scared."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq
https://m.primal.net/PBre.mp4

2025-02-18 04:58:14

Bucky and Satoshi both understood the existing system increasingly relied on trust, and that it could be taken advantage of:
"As time is saved by progress, and time is in everything, all material products of industry must necessarily become lighter and lighter. It is worthy of note that this will be definitely reflected in the mirror of economic progress, the stock market, provided the time savings progress is balanced by the increase in good faith, and may be taken advantage of by those who intelligently acquaint themselves of this fact."
—Bucky

2025-02-17 01:12:54

Satoshi has the fingerprints of a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist.
"Designing the new [time-energy] accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist." —Bucky

2025-02-14 01:19:58

Cuts from a conversation with @nprofile…mwnq with thoughtful insights about:
Building on those who came before us
Passive vs active resistance
Protocol or Principle
Working for 8 billion people
Maps and perspective
Free markets, technology, and deflation
Networks
Energy infrastructure
A new hurdle rate
Education
Full conversation coming soon...
https://m.primal.net/OevF.mp4

2025-02-14 01:15:03

Excerpts from a conversation with @nprofile…uq9q
packed with insights about:
Buckminster Fuller
Digital Real Estate
Housing
Architecture
Bitcoin
Technology
Full conversation coming soon...
https://m.primal.net/Oeuo.mp4

2025-02-14 00:31:44

"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
-R. Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-14 00:31:21

Bucky often referred to himself as a "trimtab"—a small rudder that can change the course of a large ship with a small amount of force. It was his analogy for how any single person can start to make a big difference. Satoshi put this into practice.

2025-02-14 00:30:40

Bucky understood there is a gestation rate for ideas and inventions.
“Even after ‘discovery,’ inventions often remain popularly unrecognized and unemployed for long periods.”
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:30:13

Satoshi understood Comprehensive Anticipatory design science.
"Designing the new accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist."
—R. Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-14 00:29:47

Bucky understood we had a solution; it just wasn't widely understood yet. That is beginning to change.
"Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:29:05

Bucky understood tools are amoral:
"The military also buys soap and water, but
that doesn’t mean soap and water must be boycotted
by those who hate war. They also buy pencils, and
it’s perfectly clear to me that a man could use a
pencil as a dagger or he could write a prescription to
save a child’s life. So how tools are used is not the
responsibility of the inventor."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:28:34

Bucky understood how a system designed for failure will drive people to altcoin casinos:
"The deep-seated proclivity of humans to gamble their monies is founded on the working assumption of human consciousness that individuals are inherently programmed for failure and that only cultivated luck can divert the individual from his negative plight."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:28:07

Bucky understood our monetary system was upstream of our energy problem.
"How much of our energy problem is the result of our accounting system?"
"Our present accounting system is at the roots of the energy problems of today."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:27:34

Do your own thinking. Don't trust; verify.
"I say I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that’s what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. We’re all on the frontier, we’re all in a great mystery–incredibly mysterious. Each one possesses exactly what each one is working out, and what each one works out relates to their particular set of circumstances of any one day, or any one place around the world."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:23:23

Bucky understood how important and valuable ideas were:
"There is no loss so great as that brought about by the procrastination and loss of an idea."

2025-02-14 00:23:07

Bucky understood the problem with the existing monetary system was its reliance on increased good faith (trust).
"As time is saved by progress, and time is in everything, all material products of industry must necessarily become lighter and lighter. It is worthy of note that this will be definitely reflected in the mirror of economic progress, the stock market, provided the time savings progress is balanced by the increase in good faith, and may be taken advantage of by those who intelligently acquaint themselves of this fact."

2025-02-14 00:22:42

"The very word 'inflation' is a deliberately deceptive term adopted to exploit the easily misguided human reflex conditioning. It was spontaneously chosen to obscure the fact that all non-holders of corporate shares are being legally robbed." —Bucky

2025-02-14 00:22:28

Its permission-less. No one is stopping you.
"And 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?" —Bucky

2025-02-14 00:21:27

Bucky understood knowledge is the antidote to fear:
“The many who are not literate about what’s going on will be terribly scared.”

2024-11-22 17:46:50