Wednesday, February 2, 2011
My Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism
The heart of thinking: drawing
distinctions (differentiating)
The heart of academics: arguing
them out.
The heart of liberal art:
relating them
A reduction, yes? Terrible reduction,
of course, that’s what fundamentalism
is, does. Reduces complexity.
A violation of the WHOLE.
The damage done when
I reduce!
The crime can go the other way.
I eclipse the simple, ignore the
generalization focus on
Diversity & The
Relativities.
“It’s all relative, Sam,” my students
rightly scold as clump together &
generalize for convenience sake.
“It’s all related, Sam,” they admonish
as when I cut & chop & reduce IT
to my haughty bits and pieces.
Differentiating.
See The Problem?
Damned (damaged and damaging) if I do.
Damned (damaged and damaging) if I don’t.
Damned, damnit.
Put this on my tomb stone. No sense denying.
Or covering-up. I’m a moving violator &
injustice-doer. Every move I make. Step
I take. Criminal discriminator: my
crimes of composition. .
Y trickseter jester jesus joker hermes etc.
any X any Z
The binary/dualisti predicament:
Lost on the bottom line: caught
between X & Z so to speak: rocks
and hard paces, devils and deep blue
sees. Path o' logic...
Pity.
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