Toward Encouraging Creative Engagement in an Environement of Critical Thinking or How I Learned to Live with the Bomb

Dear Dialecticians & Colleagues ATC, 

  Toward Encouraging Creative Engagement
   in an Environment of Critical Thinking, or
  as Gary H and The Composing Crew might
    call it: the Problem of the 2 Economies..  

           An Environmental Issue
   
                   Miss Dialectic
 
All my courses are a joke (get it?)
        and waste TIME.
 
This is the truth.
 
I.   Measured and assessed from the
standpoint and and in the terms  of
 your traditional (conventional)  course
(from first grade up), my  courses are
anti-thetical, ant-agonistic & contrary,
dia-metrically if  not dia-bolically certainly
dia- lectically opposed to the standard
expectations, protocol, and values of the
normative..
 
          A joke. Time: wasted.
          It must not be denied.
 
And yet they are almost identical with
every course: syllabi, assigned texts,
regular writing, discussion, if not lecture-
in-air then on paper (with pictures), in
some cases final exams, meeting regularly
inside rooms, under flourescence.
 
So what exactly is it, that separates
my courses from them other guys. that
generates (appropriately & undeniably)
the JOKE (get it?) & Waste of Time?
 
I'M ASKING: name the difference that
         makes a difference.
       Put your finger on it. 
 
 Indo European yek – “to speak”
   (“gem,”  “juggle,” “jeopardy,”
           “juggle,” “joke”)
 
 
II.   Given all that above (I ): can you
conceive of an environment where joking-&-
wasting TIME was exactly  the atmosphere
desirable and needed to accomplish certain
productive “tasks”?  Where fooling around
constellating, free associating, cracking wise,
cerebral wrestling, wrangling, slip-sliding away
ooof, bam, o that hurt, ah, aHA yes, Yes
YES  described exactly the collective and
individual frame of mind and attitude conducive
for certain kindsof learning radically different,
say, than information acquisition and critical
critical thinking in them other courses?.
 
A course of an other collar, call it.

Can you conceive of it?
Imagine if  you can:   from
the standpoint of these
values,  expectations &
protocols, the regular
course would certainly 
be felt as a joke and waste
of time—if not handicap.
 
 In I & II we have the grounds for dialectic:
 A hostile, opposition of values, incomparable
and incommensurate: can't measure either
in terms of the other without contamination
and reduction and the collapse, conflation
and confusion of the 2 values.
 
1)  Turn IT up (thesis/anti/thesis).

2)  Put IT in play.(protagonist/antagonist)
          Let neither side win or lose.

3)  Anticipate a synthesis that embraces both,
      does no injustice to either:a 3^rd term
      signifying the complementary
         relationship of opposites.
 
GET IT?  Best Joke in town. Maybe the
                       only one.
                
                 Miss Dialectic
                 Rubric This!