State of the Liberal Arts.
(not
to be confused with Liberal Art)
appropriately stupid & knowing it:
hungering and thirsting
after
knowledge. It’s in
your pockets,
on your
tablet, I phone and
pad,
laptop
dancing & you can
video
me and
my class room
profundity,
Google
for accuracy and
forward
home to
Mom or your girl friend at
Duke—comparing notes and yawns.
Almost
lunch: check your e-mail,
instant
messages, Facebook, favorite
blogs
and shopping steals. Power
Point be
with us always, enumerating
what counts, what’ll be on the exam:
an
almost brave new world
sitting on
a Lexus,
driving a 20 mule team to
Cultural
lag in covered wagons.
Never
the
less: do what I say and please me
too so
as to pass my courses, take the
credit
and run. Life of the
mime.
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