For the last two decades the world powers have been spending 200 billion annually for armaments and only negligible amounts to assuage poverty. The most powerfully armed control the world’s wealth. Power and muscle clearly continue in the world’s saddle.
Whether human beings will be on our planet in the 21st century depends on whether mind has reversed this condition and has come into complete control over muscle and physical power in general and as a
consequence of which the world will at last be operational by humans for all humans.
— 2025, If… - Buckminster Fuller - Tools Ideas Environment - Whole Earth Catalog
