We Will Need More Critical Thinkers Going Forward

Dear Colleagues Across the Curriculum
    (Coursing w/o Borders Series.)

I posit that going forward, we will need
many more critical thinkers who can
learn quickly and create processes to
 produce cogent responses to rapid
                changes. (John Brock)
 
I’ve been rowing across the Atlantic this summer
—solitary, isolate, insular: row row row my boat.
Swimming from Cuba to Key West without a shark
cage; biking to Iowa & hiking the Appalachian Trail
with nothing but online Face Book and E-mail
converse-action easily postponed  joy I’m determined
to pone for all its worth; beats flying to O’Hare to
confer with academics at the Radisson, cash-bar &
presentations, name tag collegiality, Bo Diddley Squat
& Jackshit convivial  co-conveners regulating discussion
on Kant’s  categorical imperative plus I don’t get any
action from local colleagues across the curriculum who
know better so I’m  grateful for media forum that smart
people sometimes eschew & disparage as if it reduced
our capability to think for ourselves let alone
                      critically.

Hyde Park 24/7/365
 
Ashley wrote: "I see it everyday at the store,
 people write "ur", "sry" and "luv" on a girft
card- even on sympathy cards, grammar and
spelling have gone to hell. not to mention kids
cant think on their own, need to know some
thing,  they look it up on the internet on their
iphones, no need to really take the time to
learn anything any more"
 
They might could learn Critical Thinking now that
the age of information, media saturation & laptop
dancing has made the issue of content and subject-
object matter secondary; of course it always feels
like we're going hell in a basket of hands, let every
thing me dismay.  Affective entropy--losing it. Gone
the good old days when we were good.
 
It’s not easy being misanthropological.  Anthropology
rules my Habits & Habitats of Humania &  where do
I  stand outside the  pox?  No grounds for leverage.
Sphinxed.
 
Always an environmental issue.
Edification: building up a shared 
shine so we can fight it out, argue:
put your left foot in & shake it all
around this way and that,  inside
out, upside down & over the water
fall, clamor and caterwaul and a
good time had by all  Otherwise:
forget  about: more critical thinking
and processes to produce cogent
responses to a rabidly changing
whirl.

Need we argue?   xxxooo, Sam