Dear Dears, what CAN the Matter Be?

The Crux of the Matter?

"It's not going to happen, Sam"

Sam, you are pointing toward something deeper.
I'm not sure what to call it.  We need an anthropologist
or a sociologist! Or a linguist?  Let's work on defining
"the invisible hand"...

If I were one of those advocates for "social justice"
(we all are, aren't we?) I might ask: Is the failure to
address anomalies in a system (i.e., ineffectiveness
or unintended difficulties) a reflection of the belief
in the inevitable aberration on the part of a few
(the failure of the weak in the face of the rightness
of the rules)? Or is it a symptom of a belief in the
system over the rights and prerogatives of the
individual?

Shouldn't we look to see the ways in which certain
routinesprotect the status (quo) of those who
perpetuate them?                RB
                  
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RB: we've got on the one hand and on the other, in
residence, an anthropologist and sociologist, linguist,
economist, humanists and artists, a range of scientists
environmentalists, landscapers & farmers, local food-ists,
heavy duty crews,  presbyterians,  catholics, jews,
buddhists, hindus, atheists, agnostics, administrators:
resource galore. A community if not of starving liberal
artists, liberal at least. .

Probably need something equivalent to local oil spill as
catalytic conversion: conviction of spin or something
deeper, crucial, to spark sustainable converse  action
across the curriculum.

Like this back & forth & back & forth endlessly
rocking origins originating, authors authorizing
authority authoritatively. What is it about
cultivating emergent values &
phenomenon that we just
don't understand?.

                       ASSESS THIS:
               Triple Threat Assessmentalism

1)  Assessment of PROCESS on the one hand.
2)  Assessment of PRODUCT on the other hand.

     And--IF  those two radically opposed and
     incommensurate kinds of assessment are not
     collapsed, conflated, and confused into
     Finished Product-ania...

THEN:

3) Assessment of the ratios and relationship
    between Process Assessment and Product 
    Assessment on the third hand.                
          
Assuming  our assessment of our assessment is
assessed ably in all 3 realms, we might could
then talk instrumentally about Evaluation
amongst ourselves.

Fortunately, we have the e-technology & time
if not yet the awareness or inclination to engage
in this  ongoing Assess&Evaluate process 24/7365
--as professionals professionally committed to
professing.

OR, if you prefer to re-frame it: as amateurs in play
always for the love of it. Does it  amount to the same
thing, either way?   Amateur? Pro?

Or is there a difference that makes a difference?

Let me know, before you take off to Amherst
Or after: assess and evaluate  and report back,
the pro-to-amateur ratios in Massachusetts.
That would be a good thing.

.xxxooo, Sam