djdojo said...

Hey, I dig Bucky, but his influence was hardly that of a trimtab. He saw himself as something of an under-appreciated Messiah and imagined that sooner or later his visions would become widely valued and realised but that never happened and it ain't likely.

He got a few hippies and fashion-conscious corporations building geodesic domes in the 60s and 70s and has since been all but forgotten except by nerds like me. His visions were grand, some of his ideas were groundbreaking, but his influence was (sadly) negligible.

"... a few hippies and fashion-conscious corporations building geodesic domes in the 60s and 70s..." -- I think you are forgetting that almost every military radar and communication base dome uses the geodesic design to hide their inner workings etc from the elements and populations. No sin in dreaming and he ain't the first or last person on the planet who thinks he's a messiah. Comes with the patch.

While on the topic of 'walking on water' which seems to be a skill much in evidence here (as with show ponies). In my original longer spiel to you, that nobody wants to read, I suggested, among other things, that Wilhelm Reich and Gurdjieff and Ouspensky might also closely relate to Alexander and body-mind dynamics. If you are interested then try this as a sampler that I found interesting synthesising the two: www.akhaldan.com/ .