Finally reading some Bucky Fuller in the original as opposed to glosses and Wikipedia. He seems to have been equal parts humbug and savant.
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I found the density of invented words & sentence structures frustrating.
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It’s like if there were one good idea hidden somewhere on every Dr Bronner’s bottle.
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to go off on a tangent, would love to do a demographic study on the use of "humbug"
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The original techno utopian. Spellbinding as a talker (I attended a lecture in early 70s). Hours with no notes. Brilliant at times.
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feel like most savants were part humbug; not sure if that relationship goes the other way too.







