Environ Mental Issues
(Converse-Action in Class)
David raised the question: what's it LIKE
to read a book for 4 hours? To come out
from under the submersion in another
person's minding.
He didn't say it that way. I am putting IT
in my own terms—me: poor listener,
always revising the environment to
suit my bias and belief systems.
“Was it Fiction or Non-Fiction you were
reading?” I asked, thinking it might make
a difference. that made a difference.
Ella questioned the MEDIA tech. we swim
in—all wet, as it were: soaking in e-
communication, laptops, desk top,
e-phone, cell phone, I-pod,
ear bud.
Something like that.
LIKE, I said. I'm not claiming I got IT exactly.
I do the best I can. It's the same walking thru a
field as walking thru a mall as sitting in a class
room. My attention is deficient, and selective.
Don't I filter the whelm to suit my orientation?
Of course. Don’t you?
Kyle claimed he didn't mind all the media.
Someone else may have said,
“Whatever you say about The Media:
it’s US using/abusing IT for crying out loud.”
Guns don’t kill people. People do. And the
MEDIA is not the problem. The MEDIA is
the message, are you going to kill the messenger?
There's a common sense
EXPECTATION
that we ought to be able to communicate
in our own terms of desire: —get it right,
listen, pay attention. Be kind. If only we
tried hard enough.
This is Age of Enlightenment Thinking.
It's killing us. “Perfectibility of Myn.”
setting us up for an Agony of Expectation.
Give me the Dark Ages. Didn't they know
better? Us: full-of-flaw, greedy, hungry for
love, imperfect Beings, or, as Alan Greenspan
said:
What?
What the?
What the hell?
Wearen't smart enough as people to rule the
universe, let alone the
paradise shifts of the Economy. You got a
problem with that?:”
That was the gist of IT anyway. Not quite his
words: his spirit before the Congressional
Scape Goating Committee
Anyone who watched it can improve my
terms and images, or what's a college for?
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