Origin of Humor, Science, Art

Dear American Literati, Readers in Humanities, Dialecticians.
and Colleagues Across the Curriculum. (Courseing without
Borders Series)
 
   ORIGINS ORIGINATING ORIGINALITY ORIGINALLY   
 

 
CLASH, CRASH, COLLIDE: when 2 or more “matrices” (frames of
mind, realms of culture, custom, disciplines, traditions) bump into
each other at the cross roads, so to speak, THAT RIGHT THERE
is the  origin of
 
humor (ha!)    -     a reversal of frames of reference
                                   (release of cognitive tension)
science (aha!) –    fusion into a new synthesis, discovery
                                              (Eureka!)
art (ah!)    -           illumination of incompatibles, symmetries,
                                paradoxes etc: ritual & arts.
                                           (catharsis)
 
Mahatma Gandhi, spic & span in white
loin cloth & wooley winter scarf steps
from his limo, hits  black ice and,  kinetic
body language & gesture galore,  flails
to avoid the fall of man,  landing  splat-
solid on  the  side walk —askew, askance,
akimbo  
 
Collision of 2 matrices:
proud appropriate dignity on the own hand,
humbled appropriate indignity on the other.
                 HA!  AHA!   AH!
 
The humor may be obvious. 
Consider what science could generate.
Sandal crampons?   And as for ART.
Ah the humanities  born &  born again
at the crossroads—birth of the blues and
the devil’s hangout.  
 
Gregory Bateson spent his last months and days
at Esalen on Big Sur outside San Francisco. Early
80’s—fully aware of the whack-o, castles -in-the-
sky  character of  New Agers. 
 
Raised a hard core savvy atheist by his British 
empiricist father and spending his life time as
biologist, anthropologist, old school (then new
school) cyberneticist:  systems, information,
and  communications theorist:   by the end of
his life he was aware of the inadequacies of both
science and mystical-ism 
 
“A pox on both houses,” he proclaimed,

But Gregory New Agers as a necessary corrective
to a Righteous Science  blinded by its own rationalistic,
logically positivistic lite & lucid schmes: aims, goals,
&   measurable outcomes same as it ever was.
 
Rationalism and Irrationalism
& why can’t the Just Get Along?
“The doctrine of hatred must be
preached as the counteraction
of the doctrine of love when that
pules and whines.” says Emerson,
more or less in the same dialectical
vein more and less on the same
page.

HA!  aHA!  Ah!