Anti-Industrialization

“LIBERAL”

is originally
somewhat
agricultural:
in meaning:
from leudh² :
to mount up;
to grow.

How it got the connotation it
has now: to liberate, extricate,
deliver not to mention stay
loose & free as opposed to
conserving, miser-like: hold on,
hold on to what I got—my
misery;

any one can guess, put it in play:
how “growing” is replaced by
loosen-up for crying out loud,
don’t be so up tight.

Liberated: groan up.

Fred Solomon used to chide me
for fooling with original word
meanings & etymologic. What
counts is how a word is used/
abused NOW, he would insist.
Common sense, not
uncommon.

We first disagreed under the El
in Chicago—attending a work-shop
conference on Critical Thinking.

“Suffering’s a good thing, Not
a given--accomplishment. " I was
insisting: ‘to bear up under, to
stand it’: who wouldn’t want to
know how to do THAT?”?

“Give us your children,” I would
urge Richard Blomgren and his
staff to proclaim, on the road,
in the view book.

“We’ll teach them how to suffer”

Could be our new niche seeing as
sustainability's now politically
correct—not that there’s
anything wrong with
THAT.

Liberate Liberal art.
We’re not for every
body crying out loud.
You might not be for
everybody either.