You take a big step in enlightenment when you realize that the first move in politics is picking up a gun.
Bucky Fuller was a big item when I was in architecture school. Heard him speak in person, once. Lent a whole new meaning to "stream of thought." One of those people where it's damn hard sometimes to tell if he was a genius or a looney. Maybe they go together.
Got to poke over an old Dymaxion car at a museum in Nevada once, too.