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Relaxation. The mastck to sort things in the right boxes. Puh, stress relief. We don't need to think wrong stuff.
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'Dance like a butterfly sting like a bee' fair lady. Silence feels like cowardice to me Allan.
Hey Tony, glad to hear Andrew and Fran too! Who's this Chris fellow?
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I find this to be wise insight Andrew. A caveat might be the vulnerability of standing in no mans land, a lone wolf on many counts. This watchful, listening temperance may be natural to each in part, when it turns away we are surely damned to our less virtuous and hungrier wolves.
Parenting, like teaching can be a thankless task requiring incorrigible wit and a stomach for dark beers. I for one am glad to hear a good story even as a statue in disanimie (crap the Brits already made that word up). Lacking both I seem to have transintegrated on my path to enlightenment and landed back here. In flight from hell a falcon dive through a wall of fire meditation left me triple spinning with the thunder of a waterfall on my head to send me to my knees grasping the ground. It was almost downright 'spiritual'.
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The whole of Blake's teaching, -- and he was a teacher before all things, -- may be summed up in a few words.
Nature, he tells (or rather he reminds) us, is merely a name for one form of mental existence. Art is another and a higher form. But that art may rise to its true place, it must be set free from memory that binds it to Nature.
Nature, -- or creation, -- is a result of the shrinkage of consciousness, -- originally clairvoyant, -- under the rule of the live senses, and of argument and law. Consciousness is the result of the divided portions of Universal Mind obtaining reception of one another.
The divisions of mind began to produce matter (as one of its [[breve]]llvld(d moods is called), as soon as it produced contraction (/~d.lm), and opacity (Satan), but its fatal tendency to division had further effects. Contraction divided into male and female, -- mental and emotional egotism. This was the 'fall'. Perpetual war is the result. Morality wars on Passion, Reason on Hope, Memory on Inspiration, Matter on Love.
In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.
Imagination is thus the philosophic name of the Saviour, whose symbolic name is Christ, just as Nature is the philosophic name of Satan and Adam. In saying that Christ redeems Adam (and Eve) from becoming Satan, we say that Imagination redeems Reason (and Passion) from becoming Delusion, -- or Nature.
The prophets and apostles, priests and missionaries, of this Redemption are, -- or should be, -- artists and poets. Art and poetry, by constantly using symbolism, continually remind us that nature itself is a symbol. To remember this, is to be redeemed from nature's death and destruction.
This is Blake's message. He uttered it with the zeal of a man, who saw with spiritual eyes the eternal importance of that which he proclaimed. For this he looked forward to the return of the Golden Age, when 'all that was not inspiration should be cast off from poetry'. (13) Then, wherever the metaphors and the rhythms of the poet were heard, while the voices of the sects had fallen dumb, should be the new Sinai, from which God should speak in 'Thunder of Thought and flames of fierce desire'.(14)
http://www.csun.edu/~hceng029/yeats/yeatsprefacetoblake.html
I understand that most students at the university level aren't there to thinks and learn - it is more political (matter of economy). They are brainwashed to believe that going to university means making more money in the future and most are willing to regurgitate what is easiest to make the passing grade.
But I also know that some of what I learned and wrote during that time is some of the best of who I am, and somehow we integrate those experiences into the larger matrix of being. I would seem like a simpleton to myself if I went back and listened to a day in the life. I know because 90% of my written record during that time was tossed. That 10% is the essence of Molly Brogan still today. It must be hard for a teacher to see all that while in the thick of it.
As you can imagine, I like what Yeats had to say about Blake's treatment of imagination. Is free speech hampered by looking through this lens?
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Ed Norton was in a movie called the 25th hour that I really liked, and not just because his character's name was Monty Brogan. The plot line unfolded in the 24 hours before Monty went to jail and at one point, his friend turned to him and said, "wouldn't it be nice if you could take your dog to jail?" The chances of that happening anywhere seem slim but gee, wouldn't it be nice?I've never enjoyed competition but saw two boys through a few decades of it and watched the fruition of decency it can create in terms of cooperative effort, team work, camaraderie, strategy and physical prowess. Accepting victory and defeat with grace is probably the most valuable lesson that I saw them learn. When a group can get beyond personality and move as one toward a common goal it can be a beautiful thing. When that is obviously absent in a group the dysfunction can be painful to watch and the fruit becomes toxic or dies before edible. Competitive spirit when married to generosity of spirit is glorious. I saw my son help another player up off the field that had just tackled him hard (found out later he told him, "good hit!") I also saw him clash helmets so hard with a guy before the play started that it was heard loudly throughout the stadium, walk off and sit himself on the sidelines, taking the 20 yard penalty with his team. Was told later it was a move calculated by the team to stop the trash talk. (We won't get into the neck injury) But stomping on someone's knee to try to get him out of the game, while seen by some as just part of the competitive spirit, takes us into that win at all cost mindset where the honest competition is lost and the flavor of war is set.Free speech is a tricky thing when speech becomes more about inflicting pain and inflaming conflict than communicating. I thought it interesting that the moderators were seen as beast masters by the trolls in this group over the years, as if those roles are a necessary part of the psychodrama. It may be the nature of an internet group and the reason that most have a life span. Most reasonable people walk away from perpetual conflict. There are groups on the internet that thrive on it, and all the members engage. Then there are trolls on the internet whose personalities get more of a charge from the feeling of victory having disbanded a functional group with conflict. How does free speech come into play when speech is used as a weapon of war? That use may be ingrained in US culture, with political ads designed to smear and manipulate voters running for months before every election. I am sure that is what makes Netflix's business model successful. Gotta be.
Allan has a point about the narcissist. Using words as weapon is a major part of that personality disorder and the flaming narcissist goes of at the drop of a hat, willing to tell you everything that is wrong with you and how you ruin everything. but I think somewhere in each of us there is a narcissist, so fascinated with their own reflection that their awareness is stunted by their inability to look beyond it. It becomes a disorder when the fascination becomes obsession and projection, and war with experience becomes all that is known.
I'd say the time for such debates is now, within the relative calm. I completely understand and applaud the notion of giving people the space to learn and self govern. The no child left behind philosophy fell apart in the US when the inclusion lines fell so far beyond kids that could learn and self govern that the classrooms became chaotic and students became witnesses to teachers trying to manage disorder, and only able to do so. Kids throwing furniture, spontaneously masturbating on a regular basis and never passing a test set the class tempo and every class seemed to have a child or few that required al the attention. Teachers were frustrated because the old system of having schools capable of handling such students were already in place, but the rolls were diminished and very few students attended because of the new guidelines. It was costing taxpayers more and their kids were not getting better education, any of them. We were never leaving any of the kids behind, educating them all. But the labels of special education were so traumatizing that the grand experiment began and failed miserably.