Kiss a Cliche

Liberal Art ( as opposed to The Liberal Arts)
don't claim to teach any one what they
don't already know.  Just bringing it up
for re-cognition.
 
Kiss a Cliché

I have to compete with country & western
singers’ word-play bromides carting, clippetty-
clop, 3-chord   progressions of every thing I
hold up  to the light, what every one knows
already   damnit. nothing new;  anything good
I say in  class is on the car  radio driving  home
& wherever I go there  I am—me  & my friends
in low  places  heard it all  before. ..  
 
 “Collaborative genius,” says Keith Sawyer,
is  nurtured by an environment that encourages
failure—one that sees  the liability of clarity:
how lucidity  occludes the rest of a whole, the
remainder of the daze—the attention deficiency
that rides the underbelly of  attention efficiency:
the underbelly  of  attention efficiency riding the
underbelly of attention efficiency.

    Richard Nixon would say repeatedly:
   “Let me make one thing perfectly clear”

I have an addiction for clarity. My Homeland
Insecurity System demands  it.  How diametrically
if not diabolically  opposed a failure-encouraging,
clarity- suppressing environment would be to
institutionalized academia with its  sustainable
bias for cultivating  individual  not so much  
collaborative  genius.

Easy to test.
 
Declare:  “Might we not be encouraging
a little more failure & less clarity in this
classroom so as to nurture some local
collaboration & the mess &  guess, trial &
error and room for  play it  takes to get
better &  good at anything: making sense
-of-our- own  in particular  as opposed to
 buying itshrink-wrapped  off the shelf.
Rolling our own holy smokes. Got to kiss
a toad. Reinvent wheels.  Garden without
tuxedos.

Nothing new here.  Get it?