Liberal Art as Facebooking It

Silly as that might sound, look at the walls and home pages,
the streaming expostulation and commentary,  opinions and
response, transfer of noggin notions, ideas, videos, article
and it's pure ACADEMICS-going-on without the tuxedo-
formality, without footnotes in the mouth, er, ah, um, and
it-seems-to-me that for me characterize the stuff & sense
(no nonsense need apply) that constitutes how we do school
-room academics: dead, deadening,  deadly compared to
loose,  lively, &  wiggling all over the screen—half-baked
& baked, ill-formed & foolish, whiny & arrogant, serious
& playful, trivial &  profound:  mind minding  mindfully
right beneath our very “I.s”   Local Food, I call it.
Renewable resource. Largely untapped wind & see power.  
Perfect fuel for  the practice of Liberal Art.
 
Not the liberal arts, not talking about our majors & minors
& disciplines & vocational programs  equipping students
for jobs in chemistry & social work, biologists tending to
environmental  concerns of which there are always many; 
math people &  economists, humanists & humanitarians
offering  commentary & insight on ways to talk about
literature & history, work in the areas of  psychology
addressing problems in mental illness, addiction &
rehabilitation, sociologists tending to inner city  problems
& the elderly, anthropologists  working in far away countries
studying the nature of man—all the content & subject-matter
& skills & protocols & processes to do these various kinds
of jobs, work, vocation these liberal arts prepare you for. I'm not
talking about that.
 
I'm talking about Liberal Art:
the ART & practice of  addressing  attitude
and frame-of mind, spirit, habits and habitats
of humania: rehabilitation of  rehabilitations,
reconfiguring & reformatting emotional
formats & noetic configurations, recalibrating
structures that calibrate how  we think  and
say, see and assess, evaluate and judge and
choose: the deep grammar of uniquely
personal experience, the building of bias
and belief, prejudice and conviction—how
any conscious  system, self-corrects,
changes, & de-moralizes  without
DEMORALIZATION, know what I mean?
 
System-Change as opposed to symptom changes.
 
Grow up! we say.
Get Real!
Keep IT real!
 
We say things like that, indicating what I'm talking about
above: frame-of-mind change. Mind-Set reset. Attitude
Adjustment Readjustment.
 
The other day in Fine Arts & Humanities meeting, we
worried  about what to tell the parents of a child  who
wanted to study creative writing?  “But what kind  of a
 job will she get with THAT?”  was the concern. “My kid
wants to major in Philosophy: can you talk him into
 something sensible.”
 
See what I'm saying?
 
Liberal arts: choose a major to  learn a trade, get a job
—do work  & service & apply deferred gratification.
 
Liberal Art: something else.  self-governance, practicing
to  regulate hostile opposites: putting double binds, devils
and deep blue seas, rocks and hard places IN PLAY.   A
life-long practice and “fight-club” experience.
 
Otherwise: the instrumental, practical, & utilitarian values
dominate, which is why mother worries about  daughter
studying  creative writing even though she knows it's her
bliss & passion  
 
(“But she can't live on love alone.”)

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