Moral Matrix Re-Matrixed?

  Dear Ali et al,
 
For the sake of argument, let the word
“critical” include “creative”  so that the
two values are seen as Siamese twins,
hostile, sure—you bet, how could it be
otherwise?. But complementary and
necessarily related and both invited
into the kitchen with the cupcakes.
.  
 What would the rubric look like that
 would measure, rate, estimate and assess
 
 Collective “Critical”       
 ( creative ) Thinking:
 
a bunch of critical thinkers critically
thinking together en mass, like old
time back porch  music, say—or
jazz , cirque de soleil maybe, & a
GOOD  time had by all.
 
Would it look the same as a rubric
for a single critical thinker?  Same
terms & standards?   
 
Or might it be radically different:
the nature & assessment of Critical
-Creative  Thinking as a Whole versus
the creative-critical thinking of its parts?
 
I’m asking. I think on these things
sitting in class and seeing critical thinkers
from all disciplines and wondering what
it would be like to have them critical-
creative thinking in concert—so to speak.
Not scripted sheet music-stands all on
the same page kind of concert.  Concerto.
Fugue it for crying out loud.  
 
Just on my hall: a Phenomenologist,
Modern Colonialist, Creative Non-
Fictionalist, Playwright & Gothic-ist,
Poet, Grammarian & Rhetorician,
Administrator, Hagiographist,  Coyote
Documentarian and Ornithologist.,
Mao Apologist… All that surface
difference &  each one: a critical thinker,
and that’s just one  floor in Jensen:  
 
critical thinkers  
critical-thinking
critically.like
anything.
 
I imagine collaborative genius unleashed,
untapped  resource &  local food-for-thought –
cooperative competition: “allow, Therefore,
that  in the planetary scene Your disaffected
flagellants, well-stuffed, Smacking their muzzy
bellies in parade, Proud of such novelties of
the sublime,  Such tink and tank and tunk-a-
tunk-tunk, May, merely may, madame, whip
from themselves  A jovial hullabaloo among
the spheres. This will make widows wince.
But fictive things  Wink as they will. Wink
 most when widows wince…. (Wallace Stevens)
 
But I doubt  assess-mental standards
and rubric measure-mentalism that works
so well for individuals would be what might
provoke, promote and generate Collaborative
Critical-Creative  Thinking. amongst ourselves.
What do you think?
 
It’s an environmental issue. Creating a moral matrix
of the kind that what might be inconceivable in one
environment and yet felt among the scholars as
de rigorous  in another.
 
In the 50’s, say, few kids would  wake in the
morning toying with the idea of getting a belly
button pierced or  tree tattoo running  out of
their butt crack.  Never would have occurred.
Would have been an some immaculate conception.
 
Didn’t have the Moral Matrix for it.  See what
I’m saying? An environmental  issue. Got to be
turning attention to our environment—what it
promotes and constrains among the colleagues
on both sides of the desknvand not just to our
rubrics and stuff.
 
xxxooo, Sam