Einstein said imagination is more important
than knowledge, but he was biased. He could
sit in an armchair and ride the front end of a
light beam and like a bear going over the
mountain: see what he could see.
Image
L. imago – imitari : likeness, imitation.
representation
standing for
model
map
as-if (let’s pretend)
icon or, if cherished: idol
scapegoat: carrying the burden of
our meaning & significance
picture: showing as opposed to
words telling;
analogue as opposed to digital process
SEE as opposed to Hear (“obedience”)
verb as opposed to noun
-ing: ing-ing
I argue with conservatives & liberals,
fundamentalists and mainstream,
Republicans & Democrats, stupid
people and savvy, highly educated &
not so much, nice & nasty, disciplined
& polymath, politically correct &
anarchist, groan ups & students, but
cannot convince any of their ignorance
re their epistemological ways & means
(media)
Neither logic nor sermons, facts, stats,
data, polls change their mind-set
I spam colleagues always for the sake of
argument & hope for emergent values &
properties—sending provocations, genial
IED’s & stimulus packages for free,
always aiming always to put IT in play.
My presumptuous immeasurable and
unsuccessful outcome: to alter the collective
mind-set and local environ mentality.
I imagine it. .
Percolate maybe different kinds of thinking
than the kinds of thinking that got us here,
of at least thinking about kinds of thinking
while maintaining the ship of status quo
across the curriculum. .
Resilient resistance & paradigmatic
sustainability make good sense: bulwark,
ground and foundation for stalwart pioneering.
Continuity and established protocol are
nowhere more obviously needed than
in the classroom where students comply-
by-nature knowing they have to do me
as I like it because I have grade-gun and
ex-officious authority.
The system backs me up.
Take this down. Or else.
More efficient than argument.
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