Never on Friday
Lecture
Dear Dialecticians, Humanists, and Readers of American Literature.
IT’s an
Environmental Issue
IT, I
said.
Do I got
to be spelling IT out for you?
The Value of Wasting
Time
The Value of Using/ABUSING
Time
Which of these 2 representations would you say is
“privileged” as
the Dominant Paddy Wack?
Why?
1,) The practice of dialectic
is to put genuine and hostile opposition “in play” letting
neither team win or lose so as to generate the possibility
of a 3rd Term which
embraces and does no injustice to both or to the ongoing
rivalry and agon (contest) always going on and on.
Call this AESTHETIC
(I.E, “the” – the view, theme, thesis, theatre)
2) The tendency of the Humanist
(allow me to generalize for the sake of argument)
is to judge ONE as better than the OTHER., sending the other
to the cellar (say)
and welcoming the ONE into the kitchen.
Call this ETHIC – the Moral View.
3) You American
Literature Surveyors: this cartoon
represents potentially an archetypal opposition that might serve as a FRAME for
your reading over the semester: the work & and service ethic which drives
us on the one hand, and the Ivory Tower (desert island) School Mode (you know: “school” from schola
– “leisure time” ) which has been your
experience since early on, yes?
No? You haven’t felt
the leisure
time of “school?”
Nothing but work & service? Pity
Classrooms Without
Borders
Feel free to comment, react, respond, argue, or what’s a
college for?..
Hit Reply to All. Not reason the Good Times need to be confined
to twice-a-week in cinderblock under fluorescence,
true? Not these
days any more.
Best, Sam
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