Species Attention Deficiency Disease

Dear Colleagues on both Sides of the Desk.
(Courses w/o Borders)  

Species Attention Efficiency
               Disease.
 
Is our College Liberal Arts
Program Worth $ 140,000?
 
What can be said
( like what can be counted)
 isn't what COUNT counts. 
 
It counts (what can be said)
I'm not saying it doesn't.
I'm saying it counts so
much it obscures what
COUNT counts &
can’t be said.
 
COUNTS and counts signify 2
incommensurate “levels” (what
Gary H. calls economies)  of  reality.

The  Really Real & the real—and
this silly play with words could
indicate  something like their
inadequacy & our confusion
and how-it-is  one level
(economy) eclipses if
not occludes the
other level
(economy)

And that's what really really counts
Really really really counts. To know
that economically. 

The level of what can be counted
interferes with the level of what
REALLY COUNTS and can't be
counted.  And the real hides the
really real.
 
Nothing new here.

We know the  difference between
them. Maybe not so much the
relationship.
 
Up for grabs? 
 
And the same with “measure”
which eclipses if not occludes
the not measure-able.
 
Little Jack Horner, sticks in his
thumb.  PLUMBS! 
 
Of course.
 
Should be obvious:
obvious is evident.
Evidence obscures
what's indescribable,
ineffable, inchoate.
 
Plumbs!
   And O what a good boy am I!
 
I tell my students, for what it costs
to take this course, you could buy
a decent 2^nd hand motorcycle and
do a road trip to Santa Cruz.
 
What counts?  COUNT counts?
How much do your  measurable
aims and goals cost? Let me count
the ways and means. We can argue.

xxxooo, Sam