Emergent Values & Phenomena

             

 

    Emergent Values and Phenomenon

             (Emergency Epistemology )

Spitting into the ocean, yes; but it’s the spitting

that counts.  Throwing rice at a rhino, yes,

but it’s the throwing that counts.

Not the rice, not the rhino,

not the spit, not the

ocean.

                -ING

is what counts if you are a verb.

On the other hand if you are nominal:

rice, rhino, spit, and ocean are what

counts  for you  

       

             

Dung beetles called Scarabaeoidea blindly roll

balls of elephant dung  colliding with others

of their  kind rolling their own holy smokes

&  out of that cloud of unknowing  bump and

grind: oops, beep beep  damnit, pardon me,  so

sorry,  rises up as emergent  phenomena  

habitations of air conditioned  condominium,

hallway & corridor, quarters for soldiers &  fungal

gardens,  nurseries, queens for central intelligence:

whole system information processing linked  to

the distribution of local food workers  provide.

        

Imagine this order of insect  pushing

Sisyphean balls of  elephantine excrement,

clods  of unknowing as far as whole & holy

is concerned (building-up our termite city

with rocks and rolls), taking care  of  getR

done business—covering ground &

      “ no one stands round to stare.

        It is nobody else's affair

        It couldn't be called ungentle
        But how thoroughly

                departmental.”

And yet, unknowingly—blindly and  with no 
ears to hear—our every action contributes to
the  building-up of the whole Formic  universe
across the curriculum..

How thoroughly edifying.