Measurable Objectives

Reductionism
 

     

            What seems the

                succession

         of thought is only the

           distribution of the

           whole into causal

                 sequence.

Emerson: commenting  on the difference

if not relationship between  thinking on

the one hand  (so to speak) and on the

other hand  its manifest expression as  

linear sequence  and  succession one

after the other, time after time like these

words on a screen: sequential.

But the  thought is whole:
an  all-at-once-ness

parsed into beginning-middle-end,
simultaneity translated into cause
&  effect, eternity chronological-ized:
the song over but the melody lingering on;

how  could it be otherwise?

I am a miser: holding on to what I got:
this & that & that. No way can  I let go
my  because & affect, reasons-why,
 explanatory  interpretations &
blame-ations, escape- goating
terms of desire one after
another in  time and space.

Might as well say—

                       my head  stuck in

                     a bucket of water—

“Breathe, Sam: just breathe:
you’ve got  gills you never imagined.”

Spirit on the one hand  reduced to letters

on  the other hand: words,  sentences
I can sulk over, sanctify, quibble &
correct.

                    

Here’s how.. Here’s why.. Here’s when.

Me measuring all things & no things,
so as to see  &  say  hap happening happily
one thing  after another  reducing the whole
into  causal sequence  for the  sake of convenience
if  not always convention.  (Usually convention.)