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Meet Buckminster Fuller: Guinea Pig B

Suicidal at 32, he decided instead to become an experiment: what can one average man do for humanity?

America's funniest writer went bankrupt on a gadget — then circled the globe past sixty to repay every cent, voluntarily.

He stopped two national panics from his private library — on the strength of a handshake.

He commanded D-Day, drafted the failure memo in advance — and gave his name to the matrix on your whiteboard.

Failed farmer, failed businessman, store clerk — then history handed him a war and found out who he was.

He turned Voyager's camera around, and gave humanity its most humbling family photo.

He wrote the greatest novels ever — then at fifty asked why, and the answer changed his life.

Thirty-seven plays, every human type, and half the phrases you said this week.

The soldier-philosopher who explained why plans die on contact — and how to plan anyway.

Abandoned as a boy, he built history's largest land empire on merit, law, and terrifying resolve.