Process and Product & Why They Don't Just Get Along

PROCESS on the one hand
PRODUCT on the other.

Cartesian, say: the difference between
verb-ing and noun-ing on the one hand
and a verb and a noun on the other.
 
Two different “substances?”  No.
A cerebral distinction: all in the minding;
but the difference is substantial, so to speak.
Between velocity  and position, say: moving
and standing still.  
 
    
   I verb and then I nominate.  
 
A Unitarian-ist, I  hate "dualities" and the
either/ors they foster: agonizing between
rocks & hard places: let me eat cake and
have it too, damnit: why can’t we all  just
get along!

Wrestling, wrangling, wiggling, worming,
writhing, monkey wrenching: a wretch like
me all my not so-called  professional life
caught between processing devilish
pedagogical details & saluting measurable
productive deep blue sieves.     

I talk process in the terms of finished product
&  collapse a sphere into Flatland. Here’s
how to write “The Raven," I might, say,
take this down: :
 
Do it just like a thesis-driven, index-card
referenced "research" Eng theme or
anthropological phdegreed type deal,
socio-logical poster politically scientific
bullet and power point presentation!
 
It’s all ONE unified matter of  knowing
what you’re doing, where you’re going,
grade-gun controlled logical steps: an
exercise in clarity and lucid scheming so
as to occlude the muse, eclipse your
idios daemon & strangle the baby  in its crib
—so to speak.

Flatlander by inclination, propensity, conspiracy,
convenience, convention, culture, consumer by
nature and nurture. I love me some Finished Product.
An untransformed Commodification-ist. 

Process is a mess, trial & erroring oops, oh shit,
damnit, yes,Yes YES  like that. It don't  conform
to my Finished Product Clarity but moves in a clods
of unknowing--what? what the? what the hell?

Anyone who don't know what I'm talking about has
either never fallen into obsessive, compulsive love:
creating & making sense, moves & movies, jokes,
poems, novels,  models, home runs & omelets, or
is loyal to the give & take of industrialized education's
assessable Finished Product Values, anti- emergency,
predetermined goals, aims, full body-scanning
iron purpose.:
 .          
                process / PRODUCT
        Both of these are not like the other.  
 
I'm not saying P&P (Gary Hawkins  calls them the
2 Economies; I say  Playboy &  Puritan) aren't
complementary values and relative.  Because
they are. But HOW?  That's the  Liberal Art.
Need we argue?  I wish we  could.
Sustainably. . .

xxxooo, Sam