The Liberal Art Challenge
How to make a monkey
out of Common Sense?
Out of Received Tradition?
Out of Specialized
Knowledge and Expertise?
Out of Economic Theory &
Deep Ecology Technologic,
Secular Humanism and
Fundamental Dogmatism,
Logical Positivism and
Nu-Age Spiritualism out of
the latest in Medical Advice
and Health, Welfare and
Surgeon General Warnings?
Cave Concerns: culture and
convention and closet issues:
idols of the anthropomorphic
mind .
Imagine you are Jane Goodall.
Put yourself in her sensible shoes
—observing, scientist, her un-
common sense foregrounded:
watching primate business
to see what she can see. How
they’ll just vote.
It’s all good for Jane.
No such thing as a bad primate:
no failure to communicate, no
fault, flaw mistake, good or evil—
not from her pantheonic ambrosial
point of view. All chimp champs.
Now: imagine you are a chimp.
Now: play like you are a chimp.
AND a Jane Goodall, too, if you can.
Meta Disciplinary. Liberal Art.
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