Provational Studies & Leadership Programs

Mission Impossible (Liberal Art)

Provocation,  if effective, provokes.

   If it provokes: it's ineffective.

Bad people "across the aisle" are
provoke-worthy &  generate much
criticism from Good people "on our
side"--no problem.

For the sake of argument,
to provoke Good-people-on-our-side
takes stalwart pioneering  toward
frontiers unknown until a sudden
outburst signals a mind field
transgressed.

Perfect, theoretically.

Trespassed outlaw territory is where
the practice of  dialectic might begin.
Agon: protagonist & antagonist, thesis
and antithesis in sustained worthy
opposition.

Not to declare winners and losers,
right  and wrong,  good guys & bad--
but to generate an emerging
synthesis that does justice to both.

      A mission Impossible
     (dialectic: the.practice)

Acknowledging impossibility is
prerequisite to the possibility
of possibility. 

Old time back-porch jamming.
'Soldier's Joy.'' 'Whiskey Before
Breakfast.'' ''Over the Waterfall."
Plink. Plank. Plunk.

Willful Suspension (Liberal Art)

How can I live with out idols?

Without my good-guys and bad?

Without my reasons why, my

interpretations and explanations

cause & effects, because & affects.

Blamations? Scapegoats? Bastards

across the aisle? Rights &  wrongs?

Likes & dislikes?  Rip-offs and

reductions? Legitimate and

illegitimate  judgment suspended

as well as  my belief & disbelief from

time to time so as to be a genius?

                    Samuel T. Cold Ridge