Did You Think IT was about Sustainability?

 
“Held aloft in Apollo’s hands,
he cut loose an omen,
an exhausted belly slave,
a rude herald of worse to come”
(The Homeric Hymn to Hermes)
 
 
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
 
This link: forwarded toward  the FlowHopper by a student
responding to theGellert-Gilbert  link.  But it’s the MEDIA
that’s the message, yes? —whatever the message appears to be.
 
THAT we can be trading links and lectures, finger-tip lyceum,
desk-top symposium,thesis & theory, on-going converse
action across the  curriculum whatever the token content
subject-object matter.  That’s the  deal, true?  That there’s
already a space/place for, say, sustainability talk or creativity
talk or loose strategicplanning talk or the future of higher ed
or Shakespeare talk. Content is galore. It's the shape of the
environment and it's shaping that counts.
 
IT is like two significant others quarreling over who did
the dishes last,who took out the trash,  balanced the
checkbook, and IT’s really not about any of those deals,
true?   It’s about the relationship. IT, I said.
 
Priorities:
 
Did you  think
1) IT’s primarily about SUSTAINABILITY?  Or

2)  about creating some  space for a sustainability
habit of mind? Or

3) just creating space for gymnastics—what they
call gymnasiumin Europe (literally: naked training):
a meta-environmental issueand concern.

(Not steep slopes &a polar bears,  light bulbs and
recycling —not that environmentalism.  The Other
Environmentalism.)
 
1) creating the space (flowhopper) precedes
2) a putting-it-in-play shared attitude, precedes
3) any particular subject-object matter like, say,
sustainability becoming a habit of mind.  Maybe
not chronologically in that order, but those are
discrete modes that always need to be acknowledged
and juggled, as it were, in manners of speaking.  .

Otherwise it’s all just testimony,
declaration &; wishful thinking.  
Need we argue? I wish we could.
Something there is that doesn’t
love a brawl. Probably there's a
cultivate-the-garden-for-local-food
metaphor that might couldframe this
better.  (Did you know the original
meaningof the word  "liberal" isn't
freedom--the vulgar Latinatesense--but "to mount up, grow.")

xxxooo, Sam