Academic rigor creates rigor mortis
The error of, and dehumanization that results from, building upon a prior body of work.
2500 years of philosophical and academic rigor creates human rigor mortis and vacant education by suffocating individual initiation and public connection, relationship and acceptance. It subjectifies, separates, isolates, mystifies, vacuumizes and eviscerates ultimate meaning.
Why does Western Civilization start from and draw all its truth by starting at the Greek Civilization? 1.) The Greeks had a public realm that valued immortalizing people stories–their deeds, actions and words so that they created a body of work unprecidented in prior history. 2.) Political forces invalidated and erased ethically and politically undesirable African, Egyptian and Mesopotamian (Arabian) civilizations that were actually the sources of Greek and Roman philosophy and knowledge.
The indoctrination, prioritization, channelization, and limitation of gaining wisdom, learning knowledge, obtaining education, being considered qualified to increase society’s productivity, and making historical progress through the harsh inflexibility and unyielding methodology of precisely and exclusively building upon existing bodies of work as the singular method for educational and social achievement has killed mental curiosity, emotional passion, new learning initiation, group achievement, self-guided mastership, speaking and acting in the midst of others, self-disclosure, mutual acceptance, story telling, immortalization of the human experience, ownership of discovery, insight, intuition, breakthrough, invention, solution, and a personally distinct and unique learning process that is different for every person who has never before and never again will be like anyone else in the history or future of the world.
It creates a fear based, action suppressing, blaming, vengeful, retaliatory, judgmental, promiseless, ruler-subject dichotomy. It creates a meaningless, repetitive, offensively connected, inappropriately disconnected, superficially dominating, practically absent, cyclically stagnant pedagogy that is praxis deficient. It saddens, frustrates, becomes obsurd, a waste of effort; reduces richness of interest and genuine intention to every manifestation of a hollow frame and shell, creates hiding through superfluous goodness or enraged criminality, contributes to the lie and useless purpose of the meaningfullness of means and ends and therein propagates the dehumanization of people in their careers and lives. This is opposed to living in cooperation with a balanced acknowledgment of human plurality with sustainable continuity through action, speaking, forgiveness and promise of increasing knowing and kindness. On the subject of conversation, connection, relationship: Democracy is about debate not hate.
from a discussion between Raul Nakasone and Robin Hood and Hannah Arendt

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