Liberal Art?

Dear Dialecticians, Humanists, American Literati
nd Colleagues Across the Curriculum

Sustain Ability

Convention can bring sufficiency, but beyond

its walls, beyond “the structures we erect in

such glorious and proud detail, lies a spiritual

plenitude that human structures necessarily

obscure. In fact, it is because this fullness lies

beyond design that Krishna’s revelation must

come through disruption. (Lewis Hyde)

DISRUPTION : a monkey wrench tossed into

the smooth cogs and gears of the machine, a

bomb set off in the streets of Anywhere, a

student challenging the authority of a  teacher

in the middle of a class, a car accident in the

the crossroads,  loss of legs, loss of structure,

loss of supply, loss of relationship,  loss of life.

Who loves a rupture, disruption. interruption,

outside  interference,  outside evaluator,
sickness, bolt from the blue, accident,
emergence-y? Raise your hand.

HAP happens. happily.  No need to pursue.      

Imagine a context or environment where disaster,
crippling injury, neurosis, addiction, anxiety, panic,
broken spirit, body dysmorphia,  bottoming out,
cutting & constricting diagnosis were seen as Just
Right and prerequisite for Liberal Art & Lemonade.

The attractive power of the positive occludes the
descriptive power of the negative.

LIKE going into the cave with my miner’s bright
head-light turned on so as to study  “darkness”:
phdegreed, reflective, & refereed--wait'll they
get a load of this.

I don’t know how to argue-good.  My homeland
security system is disrupted & I generate defense.
and then offense. Oh no you  don’t.

I can think out of the box but don’t know how to talk
out-of-the- box in the box.

There’s a difference between describing and judging
but judging dominates. and  determines my describing.
Knowing it’s impossible for me to see things free of 
bias and prejudice makes it a possibility.

Need we argue?