I present, for no particular reason, the King of Morocco.

Smudge wrote:

I have no problem believing this. And society will self destruct unless we plan for the coming inevitability.

PS -- Conservatives; tax credits aren't going to cut it. Wake the fuck up time.

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/47-of- … university

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

choad wrote:

Yuh and I'm condemned to spend the rest of my days knowing I spent a pleasant half hour interviewing Bucky a couple years before he died and only realized on deadline I didn't have coherent thought on paper and couldn't recall a word of it.

It sounds like you were mystified by him and his presence. I'm sure I would have been.