Google Buckminster Fuller
Google Marshall McLuhan
etcetera etcetera etcetera
Google the King of I Am
Land Use and Schooling
The
and Agricultural Register
reported on January 27,1841,
that it was the intention of
[George] Ripley and a few
supporters, to establish a
“Practical Institute of
Agriculture and Education,”
the design of which “was to
furnish the means of a liberal
education to those who are
not intended for the learned
professions.”
“It was the purpose of the
institution …to combine the
cultivation of an estate
with the management of
a school.”
Google Delano
Google Brook Farm
Google George Ripley
Google N. Hawthorne
Google Margaret Fuller
Google R.W. Emerson
Google Transcendentalism
etc. a constellation, plethora,
web of information, facts,
fictions, figures, statistics,
data, biographies, histories
of German migration and
etymologies, medical
diagnoses & myth, laptop
dancing at my fingertips:
every one an autodidact as
smart as the smartest kid in
the class if she knows how
to put it in play; the media
and its hi technology having
subordinated “acquisition”
in the business of hire
education-- to
learning,
Theoretically.
Sustainable Buttfarming.
Where ever we go, there we are.
Cultural lag prevenes as usual,
quite normally: the educational
transformation from agony to
agon from ooo my gawd to
holy smokes & mirrors!
Play & Be Played.
Yearning how to put IT
in play, learning how
to play with IT.
IT, I said.
No one but a quibbler would
quibble with what IT means.
A Surface Grammarian, perhaps.
Superficial Sustainability Expert.
Composition teacher, of course:
paid to quibble. Assessmentalist.
Minute Particularist for whom it
is necessarily necessary to establish
IT before discourse can improve,
accelerate, achieve velocity,
cover ground:
Necessary: to quibble over
devilish details, yes, sure.
But not sufficient.
Brook Farm failed after 6 years.
24. The down-the-road artist-
farmers would come over to
Warren Wilson for agricultural
advice re: sustainable land use,
and watch black & white
movies with us.
months at BF. but quit—the
work program interfered with
his other work program.
The 2
and Consumer, Maker and
Give & Taker & can they Just
Get Along? Esp. in these amazing
hell-harrowing daze of meta-sustainable
transformation across the continental
divides going on
I'm just asking. It’s obvious I need help.
Maybe some of you would improve
my terms and images: frame IT better.
IT, I said. Do I have to keep trying to
be spelling IT out?.
xxxooo, Sam
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