“Organized” education has a fixation on standardization, seeking to remove both the messiness and joy from the one thing that all humans can do — thinking. Keep the joy. Keep the messiness. Let the standardization geeks punch themselves out. Even if one is in the most rigid state school, one can rise above the pedants. …
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Conspiracy or Natural Phenomenon?
Nobody asked but … If the military-industrial-government complex were capable of ruling the world, what are the chances that they would refrain from doing so? There is no conspiracy, per se, but there is the malignant growth of the power mad. Domination is the dark side of interaction. It takes no conspiracy for a stench…
Re: Treated Like Shit
Nobody asked but … What shall we do about treating children like shit? First we must understand that they are not in some class different from adults, then we can do to others as we would voluntarily wish that they would do to us. Secondly, we need to understand all of the ways in which…
Abducted
Nobody asked but … I frequently tell my students that a human-made system should have a user’s goal, otherwise it is just an inaccessible artifact. But I was kidnapped today by a functionary of the largest, and most lucrative, parking operation in the commonwealth of Kentucky — a functionary who obviously was a bit dim…
Astrophysics
Nobody asked but … Why don’t we need to regulate by legislation the motions, behavior, and phenomena of planets, moons, sun, stars? Why don’t we demand in writing the compliance and consistent reliability of geology, climate, tides, non-human sounds, and spectra of light? It is, perhaps, because we cannot control everything. Maybe we have our hands…
More !@#$%& Labels
Nobody asked but … I am both mystified and unimpressed with the current debate facing off libertarian brutalism with libertarian humanism. Either -ism is somewhat offensive to me. Firstly, they sound like something provided by external parties to provoke hostilities among libertarians. Secondly, the presumption that libertarianism has only two flavors is further offending. Just…
Who Will Be the ROADS War Lord?
Nobody asked but … As I was crossing campus a few minutes ago, I overheard one person ask another, “if you are required to wear seatbelts in a car, why aren’t you required to wear a helmet on a motorcycle?” My question would be, “why haven’t the framers of whatsgoodforyou required helmets in cars, and…
Assmanship
Nobody asked but … This singular game, which is so costly and so ruinous and so silly, is called statesmanship–which is different from assmanship on account of the spelling. — Mark Twain Surely this drumbeat for war is a sign, again, that the folks known as neo-cons will gravitate to any side if it gets…
Raising Children
Nobody asked but … ty Expanded Consciousness Kilgore
Words Poorly Used #49 — Zeitgeist
There are many versions of “zeitgeist” in use in the world today, but I refer here to the difference between Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s use of the term as compared to Peter Joseph’s contemporary expropriation of the term. According to David Burrell, “Schools of thought influenced by Hegel tend [to] see history as progressive, but…