State of the Notions

Specimens
 
Dear Dialecticians & CATC.
 
My dad used to tell me,
 
“People are more important
           than ideas.”  
 
That’s a humanist view.
If you are inhuman and
misanthropic, you might
see it the other way around..
 
My daughter likes animals
better than humans-in-general.
My wife  worries about frost
destroying redbud & dogwood
and whether the Obama’s  had
a good time in Asheville.
 
I smash  ants on my desk
with no compunction and
consider ideas more important.
Dali Lama would disagree.
 
He’s right but  even if ants
and people and all living
things great and small ARE
more important  than  ideas,
I cherish  a  bias toward
state of the notions regardless
of nations.
 
Some ideas, if I don’t  fiddle
and fool and put them in play,
well – forget about it. What
possible good are they? 
People are more important
than dead..
 .   
               &&&&
 
Waiting for Goedel  who will
hoist me from my  bootstraps
and prove my incompleteness
theorems.
 
If you look at yourself too long,
you will see a monkey in there.
     Jean Paul Sartre’s aunt to
     Jean Paul Sartre  as a young man.
 
Critical Thinking: I don’t have
a leg to stand on, let  alone
ground to lever a critique.
                                  Epimenides
 
Nizan wanted to warn Sartre
of the dangers of remaining
aloof from politics. He failed.
Sartre knew that writing
required of every atom of his
energy, whatever the cost.
 
He had made his choice as
 an artist and an individual to
set himself against convention
and community.
 
To free oneself is nothing.
It’s being free that is hard.
                          Andre Gide
 
 I want to be Good so BAD.

xxxooo, Sam