Negentropy
“Emerson himself spent
that April working on
“The Oversoul” and trying
to decide whether to buy a cow.”
Under the bushel of budget & homeland
economic house keeping affairs—size
matters & load, hiring needs and always
salary concerns, remuneration for work
done, compensation: a living wage for
crying out loud: this little light of mine…
hope singing
eternally, Weber-ian
optimism to cheer a
student body
with a collective
imagination against
all odds &
surround-sound environ
-mentalism…
…I’m going to let it shine.
Once the bottom line and fundamental
levels of the Mazlovian hierarchy are
satisfied, spirit will emerge & unfold
toward frontiers yet unknown. IDEA
awaits its embodimental studies and
leadership programs: inquiry, invention,
re-creation, renaissance & generation,
human nature naturalizing naively
naturally: the great sustaining sustainable
conversation all over again and again and
again:
“how do we make
community something
vital and
transformative, with a potential
for genuine
reconfiguration of who we are
and how we connect.” [Agenda
for the 30th
Annual Conference of the Association for
General and Liberal
Studies, Fall 1990]
“George Ripley had left his pulpit in May.
He and Sophia
having spent
the summer on
a milk
farm in West Roxbury
were determined to find a more concrete
means of reforming American Society,
which Ripley considered ‘vicious in
its foundation.’”
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