My Depravity (Academic and Powweless to Prevent it)

Dear Colleagues.
 
Walking away from Glad yesterday afternoon I realized the
depth of my  academic depravity:
 
           I love converse action more than solutions.
 
The cerebral & affective journey I value more  than the measurable
outcome which is the destination.
 
           I’d rather talk the talk than walk the walk.
 
The process counts more for me than the finished  product.
 
Imagine me on the same task force or in a classroom with ones
primarily anxious for outcomes, results,  solutions in hand.
 
            We wouldn’t Just Get Along, true?
 
The 2 sets of values which I characterize thusly:
 
         walk on water      walk on eggs
             (wow)                 (woe)
 
            process                  product
            liberal                    instrumental
           “amateur”              “pro”
 
are “hostile” – vinegar and oil       Need we argue?
 
From a whole-istic overview they are as complementary
and as essential to our temper and environment as hot & cold.
 
But for that complementary relationship to be realized,
it has to be acknowledged that our professional concerns with
 
instrumental,
getRdone,
finished product,
find a solution,
measurable outcomes
coherence, consistency, & clarity bias
our work & service values
 
are the dominant pair of dimes and can’t easily tolerate the
antithetical antagonistic opposing values of process and the
Liberal  Art which I would s pell out as non-instrumental,
non-getRdone, non- finished product, non- find a solution,
non-measurable outcomes, non-coherence, non-consistency,
non-clarity  non- work& service  values that never the less
might be recognized & cherished as mothering invention, 
innovation and the  finished products we salute.
 
General Education might address this  relationship and consider
it an environmental and pedagogical issue as primary & fundamental
 to content and thematic concerns with triad and  application &
global  citizenship &  critical thinking & communication & inter-
disciplinarity which, by the way, yesterday/s meeting was a perfect
representation of our own mastery of these valuse here at home
where charity begins.
 
Ways of Talking:  I heard chemists and biologists speaking,
sociologists and psychologists, theater people and math, literary
critics,  historians, legal expert on harassment…
 
A field study right under our gnosis. Local Food for crying out
loud:  sampling our  interdisciplinary critical thinking and it’s
efficacy in problem-solving and generating measurable outcome
attainment..
 
Takes a pillage
 
Thankfully, Paula stated she was in no rush and would rather do
IT right than quick, which suggests to me  an appreciation for
Process as much as for Product. which is all I’m asking for
over and over: redundant and whiny and inarticulate and always
asking for help: me  committed to sustaining my foolish liberal art
crusade because I'm an amateur &  I love it. --the process whatever
the product if ever. 
 
xxxooo, Sam 
 
Always begging for those who beg to differ so as to sustain sustainable
converse action on-facultyL 24/7/365  in this media & information
suffused  post-literate neo-oral brave new world.