"The Damned Human Race" (I find this defect to be "the Moral Sense.")

Possible Organizing
Meta Force:
 
Emergent Phenomena Across
The Curriculum
or
Stalwart Pioneering Toward
Frontiers Yet Unknown
or
Boundaries Without Courses
or
Courses Without Boundaries
or
Cultivating Local Food for Thought

etc..
 
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 I The Principle of Least Effort
           (Nature’s Way)
 
Emerging properties (if not values)
are always going-on: state of the
evolutionary art regardless—like a
tree falling in  the woods: it don’t
care who hears or doesn’t.  Crash
and burn—the  slow smokeless
holocaust of decay..
 
  II.   The Path of Least Resistance
        (Human Nature’s Way)
 
Don’t we want to make things right
and achieve Peace (Least Resistance)
best we can according to our own
terms of desire and lucid scheming
rationality? 
 
We call it sustainability these days
and even if it involves  a lot of
resistance, we will still take the
path of least resistance over all,
true?  No one will create conscious
obstacles for himself—unless it’s
framed as game or sport.
 
Right there—coming to individual
if not collective terms with the gap
between Nature and Human Nature,
isn’t that where all the action is?
 
Thy-Will-Be-Done (so to speak),
regardless of My Willy-Nilly, &
why can’t the 2 Just Get Along?
 
Characterize IT anyway you like.
 
There’s a difference between

          I) Nature  and
  II ) Humaniac Nature, that’s for sure,
                and then
  III ) the nature of the relationship
 can be called the crux of the matter.
 
          nature Yhuman nature
 
HAP on the one hand & all the Ways
we humans Talk-about-Hap  un hap-ily
& there’s an abyss  between the 2. true?
Yawning.Incommensurate.

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Re Gen Ed (or “the Core”) which we need
to keep in mind is not necessary, nor a feature
at such prestigious places as Brown and used
not to be at Amherst so we are dealing with
an arbitrary construct and  can reinvent the
wheel to fit our own local wagon…here’s a
dilemma. I carry:
 
   I  On the one hand, I would have no
      child left behind.
 
   II. On the other hand: if only one
     “gets it” (eureka) —I’m delighted
       and hello with the rest  of them if
      they can’t take joke or  juggler.
 
How can I honor & do justice to  both
pedagogical truths (assuming the terms
can be improved, of course)?
 
“…the holistic goal [characterized by
 “completion” not “perfection”] tends to
 differ from that of morality, which is
 commonly found in many philosophical
 or religious systems.”  

That damned moral sense!
Samuel Clemens fulminates..
Was be being condemnatory
or simply descriptive?

"I wouldn't walk across the street
to save the world," said Thoreau.
Was he being arrogant, or
simply humble?

xxxooo, Sam