More Rigor! More Rigor! (Goethe on his death bed.)

I learned 2 words in college that stand-for my formal undergraduate
education: “homeostasis,” from my lectured, non-lab Biology course;
and “juxtaposition” from the darkened auditorium of my History of
Art course. Those 2 stick out and represent a whole for me. I make
them do that. I constitute it. They are pretty good notions. Almost
a matched  complementary pair.

On the one hand: a sense of dynamic systemic self-regulation:

the coherence we  love to celebrate. “Balance!” the kids call it and try

to themselves.  Homeostate your self for crying out loud! Get a grip!

The universe homeostatisticalizing moment to moment —don’ t you
bet? “A self-healing tautology” is how  Bateson calls IT. State of the Art

arting, I say.  S’allgood says Pope and Snoopdawg & so good sense

is always to be being made. What other operating assumption

justifies inquiry?

Juxtaposed to “homeostasis” on the other hand is “juxtaposition.”

I prefer juxtaposition to homeostasis: at least in the business of hire

education; “homeostasis” describes a state & I guess juxtaposition
does too, but I can juxtapose and can’t homeostate, know wha
I’m saying?

Homeostasis is beyond me. But I juxtapose like a son of a gun:

stick any X & Z next to each other and see how-it-is some Y or

other will certainly be revealed.  Every thing’s related, yes?

Reason begs for revelation and  any one can relate;

and relating relationships is what we do, true?  

And then we argue about it, some pre-critical thinking to establish

survival-of-the-fittest relays and relations that fit our conventions

and norms: I.E. yeug- to join: yoke and yoga, conjugate

and juxtapose.

The action of composing a juxtaposition might be described as

post-critical thinking & the crux of  the matter we call edification:

cerebral yoga, the yoking  of seemingly disparate nothing-but-

next-to-each-other phenomena—making connections. Constructing,

constituting, the making of sense  any here and now. Local knowing,

etc. Need  more terms  for this, the actual critical aspect of critical

thinking: a rough  and tumble business, yes? Noetic rugby, and the

violent bear it away.  Rip-off what’s useful and score. It’s a good

game and maybe the only one in town.  Or how would you frame it?

Critical thinking?

Specimen days: select what provokes & play with it.

Content is galore and glorious: good & plenty for critical

thinking and edification that we might could practice together

whenever we wanted to so as to get smart & smarter as well as

dumb & dumber and see how well the 2 directions are

always somehow related: homeostatically.