It is cool to be f*cked-up.
If this fact isn’t taken into account (the cool:
its anti-heroic heroism), no way do we make
any progress understanding the amazing whirl
of narcotic anesthetics: anecdotal wheeling &
dealing seemingly outlaw non-conventional
nicotine, pharmaceutical stimulant, downer,
study-aid restless legs addictions (the binging
& the purging & the cutting & the jogging
& wellness obsession as much a root as
symptom.)
Overall: it's cool.
It’s very cool to be f*cked up.
If this fact is not factored in—
then forget-about-it, .required
sessions with Art Schuster
not with standing.
Watch Rachel’s Wedding.
One of our rotating Netflicks
available at the circulation desk.
We’ll talk.
“Young Goodman Brown”
Don’t you love it when you go into
a class, toss a bone and let loose
the dogs of roar?
If Goodman was a Badman
then he’d a been a Goodman,
but he insisted on being a
Goodman so he was a
Bad man
& all hell breaks loose,
pandemonium. What?
What the?
“You contradict yourself, Sam.
Oxymoron!
Not letting me get away with
murder or taking it sitting down,
yet to learn the promise of paradox.
“His dying day was gloom,
a life of quiet desperation!”
Should have joined up with the Devil,
his communion & all them presbyters:
pastors and preachers, congressmen
& teachers, husbands and wives (little
babies lost their lives) judges & juries,
butchers & bakers & hedgefund
projectors—and then FAITH, too :
gone with the wind.
Young Goodman resisted, refused.
And so: he was a Badman..
Observations, insights, opinions,
fly on broom sticks trying to make
some clean sweep, come to terms,
nail IT down for crying out loud: the
ambivalence, ambiguity, uncertainty,
immeasurable jovial confusion neither
denied nor postponed Joie de vivre.
This is your liberal art. Not to be
collapsed, conflated, and confused
with the liberalarts. It's why we
require GenEd from our environ-
mental scientists et al.
(PS: I've never had a class go like
that mere representation: wondrous
uproarious play of mind, cerebral
& affective fire. I made it up
for the sake of argument.)
xxxooo, Sam
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