Reflecting back over the past, the problem with my functioning within a different [N. Ed.: or in my vocabulary, alien] culture has been specifically: trying to use a lot of mental power to treat what I consider to be peripheral issues seriously, whilst treating the very serious issues in my mind as if they were … More A Good Description of Reeducation
From Short-Circuit Signs: [I]t is hard not to notice how often standardized tests come up as examples of good, or at least acceptable, assessment – ironic because faculty are exhorted to take this stuff seriously on the grounds that doing otherwise will mean federally mandated testing. Sounds like a Foucauldian nightmare/farce, right? It gets worse … More Precisely
§ I am not one of those people who “loves” teaching or who became a professor so as to teach. As I always say, had it been my desire to teach, I could have stayed at home or chosen a place I wanted to live. Yet I experience a flash of longing when the zydeco … More Work Ethics
I have a conference in San Diego just after the semester ends. Especially since the university will not pay for the trip, I want to combine it with a vacation in California – I am not sure how long a vacation. Now I am trying to decide how to plan just the conference part of … More In Which I Need ‘Input’
A friend informs me that I am in utter rebellion against superficiality. It is interesting that she puts it that way; I would have only said I did not like superficiality. But it appears I am in utter rebellion against it. Reeducation said I was unfeeling but, I now discern, only meant I was not … More On Authenticity
This post is key. Axé.
I keep discovering that my experience with Reeducation is legion, and uncovering new evidence of why Reeducation is or was a program designed to lead backward in life. As we know, one of the more obvious anti-teachings of Reeducation was that one should not act to solve problems (this was “controlling”), but should ruminate upon … More Rewind
It is important to remember the many marvels of the Huasteca region, which is one of the world’s very best regions. “Video realizado por Antonio Meave para el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México.” Axé.
Now the radio is singing: Got my pistols loaded up and I’m Alabama bound. I have heard this song as got my ticket in my hand, going down to New Orleans, but no, it is got my pistols loaded up and I’m Alabama bound. I am back home in the sweet sunny South, making gizzard … More Gizzard Soup
Machiavelli, via Porch Dog: When evening arrives, I return home, and enter my study, and at the door I take off my daytime clothes, full of mud and filth, and I put on royal and curial robes. Having gotten dressed again appropriately, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where received lovingly by them, … More N. Machiavelli
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