Friday, January 21, 2011

Assess This: A Thesis with no Antithesis (like a razing in the sum)

Dialectic

THESIS: let  SACS stand for our Thesis, representing the
Whole as in many ways it seems to.

ANTITHESIS: SAM--I'll stand for worthy opposition, the
enemy you got to love if you practice dialectic.

Unlike mere debate where the idea is to collect enough data
and savvy presentation so as to defeat the opposition, and
unlike mere dialog where the ideas is to minimize opposition
in order  to get on the same page and getRdone (something,
anything) damnit in this case compliance.

dialectic incorporates and co-opts debate and dialog while
sustaining the opposition so than no "side" wins but rather
something new emerges out of the tension and conflict.

Emerging values and phenomenon: synthesis that doesn't
collapse the agon but does justice to both thesis and antithesis.
Liberal art, call it. .

My  thesis (from the antithetical side):  we might could be doing
equal justice to assessing and evaluating the Generative,  the
economy of  composing--the mess & guess margins for error &
 rooms for play, that helter-skelter pin-ball action & reaction that
mothers invention and nurtures innovation  providing sacs fifth
avenues with products we want to account for, display, salute,
consume. 

Otherwise IT'ss just the sound of one hand slapping.
MY only need is to know that
YOU know what you're doing
and when....so it's a good idea
to get it on paper and filed
someplace where you will be
able to find it, not to mention,
use it!

IT, I said.  ( I love the sinner, honest: IT's the sin I hate.)

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable
that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his
mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the
things that go with good judgment.

He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity,

or by the dumb certainties of experience.

He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. 

Indeed, the  common phrase for insanity is in this respect
a misleading one.

The madman is not the man  who has lost his reason. 

The madman is the man who has lost everything except
his reason


The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast,
a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of
the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he 
has a  touch of the madman... just as the madman
is quite sure he is sane.        
G.K. Chesterton. Orthodoxy

xxxooo, Sam  

(Hit reply to all: improve my terms;
turn up the opposition; keep IT in play,
or what's a college for?)

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