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We're all quite mad, and any one of us could be made ridiculous through exposure of our beliefs; and, under pressure to defend them, we could all be made quite dangerous. We get along because our public declarations of identity suffice in societies whose beliefs have been made conventional and secure through precedent. These public declarations include dress, language, common interests and aversions, and all the nuance we've learned to signal our fitness for one society or another. Once identified as fit, it's necessary to maintain our authenticity. But none of our identities are natural, no one is more authentic than another. We're comfortable in roles we've been practicing since birth, but they're roles just the same, parts we play, identities which we'll quickly discard in the absence of the societies they're suited for. World travel and cross-cultural experiences can seem to erase the pretense and leave our true nature exposed. But we adapt by playi...

Fuller described the "Jitterbug" transformation as the loss of the nucleus, causing the vertices to move closer to the center and creating the icosahedral shell. But if the vertices of the icosahedron are closer to the center than the vertices of the vector equilibrium, then why does it expand? The faces move closer together, but the vector equilibrium and the dodecahedron occupy the same, minimal, amount of space, and it's the icosahedron that occupies the most space. If Bucky didn't know this, it's surprising. But he didn't have access to 3D computer software. He only had his physical models. From an isotropic perspective, the vector equilibrium does, indeed, appear to shrink during its transition into an icosahedron. Jitterbug in VE phase -- Isotropic Jitterbug in Icosahedron phase -- Isotropic But from other perspectives, it's obvious that the icosahedron phase is the point of maximum expansion. Jitterbug in VE phase -- parallel p...