Being Academic

BEING ACADEMIC

My privilege and delight is my sustained

argument with militant atheists, fortress

fundamentalists, liberals, libertarians,

Lutherans. secular and sacred humanists,

democrats and republicans: and  while they

all express a wonderful array of diversity &

Variety of both Religious and Irreligious

Experience with admiral conviction of belief

& bias not to be disparaged or diminished—

we have in common our narcissistic, solipsistic

sealed-in homeland  security bells & whistles

preserving our impenetrable integrity,  virtue,

consistency, coherence holding our soul-self

together like anything come hello or high water

--more SAME than Different, more LIKE than

Unlike --and for that I'm eternally grateful.

Backing out of the faculty parking lot, on the

radio I heard a commentator admit that such

& such was 'merely academic'—and see: that

right there speaks to an attitude that might

could explain whatever inadequacy of higher

ed if not lower we often bemoan, and maybe

indicates what drives the re impoverished

insistent capability of Professional Education

Accrediting Systems to over-emphasize rubric

assessment of goals and aims and purpose and

demonstrable measurable outcomes assuming

that might improve the process. GetRDone: Lord

save us from the "Merely Academic."

Starving Liberal Artist Syndrome, call it. .
Or What Good is a Philosophy Major For

Crying Out Loud Disease  (WGPMFCOLD)

Something like that. Anyone can improve

my terms. I beg for differers.