I would like to offer the following as a critical warm-up to the following “economics” article from the Times (from 2010) about the “value” of the Kindergarten experience. First, be clear, I think these early grades are THE most important in terms of the relationships we maintain with institutional power and control. After two centuries of running the economic affairs of the world according to…
Absentee America
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From Foreign Policy to School Systems
Recently I started working in our school system as a “preventionist.” This is basically an aide position and paid that way. The job posting required no degree and simply a GED as education level. Preference would be given, though… All that was indicated otherwise was, “should be able to work closely with a literacy coach.” My comments have zero to do with the work which…
Lord of the Level Loadstone
Thou Vain Toy, Part II [ PDF Link ] How can we be done perspectivizing? Yesterday I offered a load of underlinings from an essay by Morse Peckham. As a kind of “proof” text I suggested Ahab’s smashing of his Quadrant as a stance against the “sight” heavenward rather than keeping one’s eyes “level” with the horizon (how Emerson would protest!). But Ahab is not against technology…
Thou Vain Toy
For Bobby C., underlinings from an essay by Morse Peckham, “Man’s Use of Nature,” offering powder and ball to my NO! in thunder. And, perhaps as expected, Ahab will have the last word. *** An ideology explains the world, and justifies our behavior in it and towards it, and validates that behavior. An ideology tells us what to do and tells us that we are…
The Binary Whole?
The militarization of life requires a binary mind, one prepared by ignorance for fascism. Black and white. Good and Evil. Us and Them. Terrorism and Patriotism Mine (Not Yours). This is the mind grown thoughtless via the Image. This is devotion. This is technology.* This is nations. This is possession. Possession is 9/10 of the law; of love; of loyalty. *** For, d’ye see, rainbows…
Where Be Your Tygers?
Let this serve as a kind of literary addendum to yesterday’s post. And let us first mark out some territory. Perhaps there are two ways that humans MEAN as beings. 1. The animal that may become a god. 2. Animate matter that will decay. That’s broad, sure, and I know there are other ways to elaborate our thingness. But hey, a guy’s gotta start somewhere….
Minecraft, Or The Play’s the (Latest and Last) Thing
UPDATE: A Literary Addendum I know a boy who plays Minecraft somewhat as if it were his quest to reach the nirvana state that comes of internalizing the Jesus Prayer. I suppose he substitutes “Steve” for Jesus. I argue with him instead of taking away the laptop where he lives within this frame. However, you cannot argue with a mind trained via unconscious, unwilled, willfulness….
What Hair Styles!
2,500 years doesn’t make a vanity smack-down less potent. 17th Century, A.D. Milton Adam (Paradise Lost, Bk 4, 300-03): His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar’d Absolute rule; and Hyacinthin Locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustring, but not beneath his shoulders broad: Uriel (Book 3, 636-42) And now a stripling Cherube he appeers, Not of the prime, yet such as in…
Heat & Light
Think of all the religious imagery that depicts fire as Satan’s element–Lucifer’s light is flame and it burns, but it is how the deep is illumined–the cave sees not moon nor stars nor sun at noon. Now, think of our assumed greatness as a species. How do we “evolve” into the masters of the planet? Which element aligns us with which supernal being? Lucifer’s nemesis,…