A review by bill_swanson
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity by R. Buckminster Fuller

3.0

I read this book in the early 70s when I didn’t see how humanity would get out of the mess we had created. I appreciated his enthusiasm and optimism, but I didn’t really understand the choice we had between utopia and oblivion until I became familiar with the philosophy of Oscar Ichazo. Fuller tends to present the solution as technical, whereas Ichazo shows that this is fundamentally a spiritual problem. They both agree that the solution needs to be scientific: Fuller looks for a material solution and Ichazo proposes a spiritual solution.