SYNERGETICS:

PLAYING HARDBALL WITH A BUTTERFLY

Desk-top here. Two volumes of Synergetics by R. Buckminster Fuller, my American Heritage dictionary, my typewriter, and my Sony Walkman blaring radio programs into my brain. The FM radio programs are octaphase unzippings of narrative lines which I am able to appreciate when I can differentiate the operative polarities that make the local equatorial peregrinations a systematic unfoldment teaching about what, in pure principle, is the outcome when principled oppositions give rise to human consciousness getting “all out of order” event beads stringing in for brain processing. “We have a story to tell you” the event beads whisper. “We come from far far away, from a galaxy matrix of long ago happenings.” I either settle back for a satisfying and principled Star Wars scenario, or I change channels.

Dr. Fuller would wonder about his readership. He worried about disconnection. Kids won’t read the stuff because, sure, it is thick with principled accountings of “what’s next” given opposing line-ups like you wouldn’t believe. But kids are more interested in sports. Wavilinear corkscrewing of forward moving “pigskin” (an octahedron with a precessed internal member launched for between-systems energy quantum transfer), spherics with yin/yang stitching profiles, touching bases, things like that. A baseball seen from the side looks like a Chinese yin/yang circle. What happens when all American gamesmanship encounters ancient Chinese language games? Synergy, of course.