Ronald Rational & The Irrationalists

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face.
The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or
in the friend's parlor.                                              Emerson
 
            "Neither logic nor sermons convince,"
                                                      says Whitman;
   
       REPRESENT: Making Sense of One's Own. .
            (Fiction Fashions  Fact and Faction)

Here’s my  representation of HAP Happening: happily, of course:
how could it be other wise?  Hap happens.
 
              
                                  Fig. 1

Inadequate, I admit it. Monumental reduction. A crime,
really, rip-off against the WHOLE.  The more pieces
and fragments the better if  not  always the merrier, like
blind men standing around the elephant in the room
announcing  their points of view. Put them all together
and we still wouldn't do justice to elephant and it helps
if we share that sense of inadequacy and injustice.

Try and represent HAP your own self: HAP in general.
HAP over all. Happiness as opposed to pursuit, unless
it's the pursuit and not the destination that counts for you:
never the less, represent IT.

Given the given rhizomatic-like sprawl represented in Fig 1
(above), here’s what I have to do to make  my sense of  Hap 
Happening in my own and species terms of  desire. Something
like:
      
                            Fig 2

Something like that: see how I'm forced (?) to reduce and
translate the  simultaneity and all-at-once-ness into a
hierarchical rationalism of  ratios and relationship in terms of
what works for me—instrumental & practical as far as my
agenda is concerned if I want to get any work done. Make
me some common sense: got to filter and translate the
all-at-once-ness to sequence and consequence,
beasuse & affect—can’t we all  agree?  

A kind of natural; and necessary selection I call becausality
Allowing the emergence of linear relationship & explanation,
blamation in  accord with my bias & belief and agenda.  I
like to call it  e-scapegoating because it lets me put the burden
of the  whole on parts that shape & carry the significance
of my golden intentions. 

Can you see the difference  between  HAP HAP-ening
Hap-ily on the one hand (fig 1) . And my  ways of construing,
composing,  aculture-izing, conventionalizing and talking about
HAP happening conventionally if not conveniently (fig 2) on
the other hand?
.
    I.  HAP  <-->    II. Ways we Talk about Hap
               III.   Ways we talk about
                         ways we talk
                           about Hap.

II = common sense, convention, disciplines, traditions.
III = liberal art.

All very concretely abstract, I know. Fundamental:.
radical, reduced,  root efforts  to represent differences
& relationships & ratios of aware-to-unawareness of
the differences and the relationship between hap happening
and the ways we talk about hap happening  that might
provide a  basis for addressing  the ongoing  riddles of
the riddles of the Sphinx.as opposed to preoccupation
with the symptoms of social injustice across the universe,
imbalance of power struggle, tea party anger,  privilege
and under-privilege, sustaining sustainability concerns,
greening of America, bullying in schools and school-buses,
unnecessarily harsh judgment in dancing with the stars. . . .   .

    
                              fig 3

Archimedes: liberal artist  evidently finding or
making some solid ground to lever his universe.

xxxooo, Sam   (feel free to hit reply or reply-to-all
and we can sustain this possible converse-action
on HAP and Hap-iness and the role of
REPRESENTATION--rational and irrational..)