Sampling

Representative

Fundamentalist. I am basically a
consumer: cerebral and somatic.
Interested in Product not how it
was made or done. Mall-walker:
attention efficient for my needs
& wants; deficient & ignore-ant
of all the rest.

With field-work, the same:
hedgehog, couple of crows,
morning glory in the corn
stalks. That’s it. Rip-off.

Howard Cosell at best: sampling.
Critical thinker commenting on the
moves of others—no, no, that
won’t do. Yes... not bad. I know
what’s good & what isn’t.

A movie-goer.
Thumbs up.
Thumbs down.

Spectator:
I watched 2 hours of
So You Think You Can Dance
& had opinions on all contestants
plus the judges. Did you see
Michelle O’s purple dress?

My life is naturally lived at the bottom
of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Insatiable
Needs & Ongoing Unrequited Love:



Physiology.
Safety.
Belonging:
housekeeping concerns:
homeland security:
ecological
economical.
Greening sustain-ability issues
I have with me always. Once met
once & for all, I will pursue
self-actualization: its liberal art. .

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Dusty B. parked his Triumph in the middle of his
studio classroom and no student saw it. Elephant
in the room. Saw it maybe, but no mention.
Not included in the syllabus.

Poe hid the purloined letter in plain
sight so no one would pay it any
mind.

Two art students stopped by yesterday
wondering about “greening” and
“sustainability,” contemplating
what to do with words &
images when they’re
co-opted.

Well...what then?

American Spirit cigarettes are
less industrialized than Marlboro.
More eco-friendly. Smaller carbon
footprint. You can say they are not
but for all practical and commercial
purposes: they are.

Some get taken in by this, but if
you've had your liberal education
in critical thinking: not so much.

Like haircuts & bell bottom pants,
tattoos & religions: fashions come
and go: some slow to pass others
fast but we see right thru the
transparencies

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COURSE

What're you majoring in?

COURSE.

Course?

Yes: COURSE,
of course: I've been
majored in COURSE
all my life. I'm good at it.

What's COURSE?

The shape of anything you take.
COURSE is the structure, the media
of hire education: its delivery system, form
& formulator, package packaging, box-boxing,
parts-parceler: one sizing fits all the deep grammar
of institutionalized learning.

Token topics may differ, sure: we celebrate
diversity; but assembly-line structure remains
the same:

syllabi-determinating
textual harrassmental,
quizzes and exams to
encourage if not force
the issue; paper-writing
of course research to
compare, contrast,
generalize, specify,
maybe abduct if you're
agile & can get away
with it; in-class contact
time to profess & educe
& put into play the nature
and constraints of its
content matter could
be art history, maybe
women's studies, chemistry,
statistics, Buddhism, Age of
Enlightenment, Global
Economics, Environmental
Policy, Intro to Clawhammer
Banjo: Transcendentalists &
Romantics… whatever.

This is how-it's-done delivered, processed.
Always has been. Don't let your soon-forgotten
bottom line, subject-object matter & all the
seeming variety of educational experience occlude
the deep ecological significance of The Structure
Which Mediates: box boxing possibilities and
sustain-abilities and determining the tolerances
which permit your margins of error
& rooms for play.

Course is what we walk away with—the invisible
work program that flies in the night right thru grad
school if we pursue higher hire degrees just like
college which is just like high school—more SAME
than Different. But that's what we sustain and are
sustained by: sustaining & sustainable courses
our sustainabilities. Courses-R-Us.