Dialectical Materialism: integrating the triad

Dear Dialecticians and Colleagues Across the Curriculum

Dialectic Materialized (as it were)
Building Blocks for Bucky Fuller:

You might remember Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes:
(which he raised, for the first time down the road at Black Mountain
College in the 50’s—maybe 40’s)…





…a mad scientist who invented geodesic ways to solve world housing
and transportation programs except that his inventions didn’t COG into
the existing system and so bounced off the culture like rice off a rhino.



He considered the tetrahedron



the basic building block of the universe: simplest and strongest
fundamental structure. If you count the sides and the corners:
there are 4. If you count the edges, there are 6 More
than 3.

3’ness has been translated from an intellectual (mind) notion
into a physical manifestation (embodiment) in time & space—
but you might could “sense” the progenitorial pyramidal
3-ness that fathers IT.


Geometrics. Mapping mind & matter so as to represent.

There’s a difference—between mind and embodiment.
And then: a relationship. The relationship = that 3^rd term
we like to conjure when we are playing dialectic without
doing injustice to the tensile polar & hostile opposition of
the contraries that generates it

IT, I said: the 3^rd term.

Reductionism, yes—sure: so as to be able to juggle
complexities without doing injustice to simplicity—
and always for the sake of argument. or what’s
a college for?

xxxooo, Sam