We cannot let a 50-year lag stop us

If you are one step ahead, you are a genius. If you are two steps ahead, you are a nutcase.

This quote was shared with me this week. I fit the nutcase category. However, I suspect that may be changing as sometimes, when you hang out on the edge for long enough, people begin to join you. 

My mentor, Buckminster Fuller, discussed the lag time between an idea and its mainstream acceptance. He performed some mathematical and historical calculations to indicate that changes in some areas, like housing, took at least 50 years.

We cannot let a 50-year lag stop us from launching the idea. 

Just as the best time to plant a tree is today, even if it will take beyond my lifetime to mature.

Out on the far edge lives new language, models and ideas that are almost indigestible to today’s culture. 

Yet there is a longing. A felt sense of something missing.

A deep desire.

People are seeking that which they cannot name or know.

The best way I know to satiate the longing is to build the future today, to say, “Here, look. This is what is possible.” Doing this from within an entropic system designed to amplify hate and perceived scarcity has its challenges.

That is why we must give our boldest, most committed efforts now to create the more beautiful world we sense is possible.

Join me in creating a Syntropic World.

Photo April 6th 2025, Article written April 6th 2025