Get your own
 diary at DiaryLand.com! contact me older entries newest entry

2007-07-21 - 12:08 a.m.


A problem with the explanation for exceptional skills, grades performance, aside from a majorly destructive top-down level out all the strange factors is the Wests distorted inheritance through the Greek line of arete. (I've been told by the products of higher education that simplification of writing style is not looked upon positively because it may accidentally channel unconscious ideas into the wrong areas, so the following ideas are complicated, meaning, not in any order really, just thrown about carelessly). Failure is necessary and has roots lying open and sensitive, still tangled up and in schooling and the terrible schooling of those modern subjects when combined like say genetics with business management(outside of things like Puppies or Snakes) is that by overlooking active hands, the hands that are firmly on the ground, active hands cannot be praised unfortunately but according to the logic, the active hands cannot be blamed (and the proof is somehow always fermenting in some other persons pudding, strange how that works) Unfortunately, when stuff like genetics or individual effort are finally deflated as explanations for success(es), these constant small demonstrations of excellence or arete seek explanation elsewhere and perhaps that's why there is not now and so likely never will have been a single child left behind. We will all finally be in heaven, in other words we will never be able to realize it! Finding this "elsewhere" is among the many tasks of modern semi-united active hands on the ground. I would like to argue that modern individual demonstrations of arete mirror pure historical process and that arete was and (unfortunately still is) a part of this process meaning quantifications (itself cultural-hx process) would be like reflecting the nothing of a nothing, or a shouldn't have been with a shouldn't have been and when those two get it on, well, that leads to the next generation of wankstain shoppers. In other words "No Child..." is bound to be a big success. Among Greeks, arete was really a quality potential belonging to the upper class. The idea that an unproper/improper person could have a stake in society was ridiculous except in Oddysey places. In Fagles' Homer a pig farmer and maybe even Argos demonstrate it, but they are working really still within their capacity, their training, their duty. So arete, for lower creatures anyway, comes attached to something with either a big or small hitch, depending on if or if not you are an optimist/pessimist, owner/slave for wage.

"It's A system where, in the words of an American baseball coach, "Nice guys finish last" or in my slightly more aggressive formulation, garbage rises."
Michael Albert

 

previous - next

 

about me - read my profile! read other Diar
yLand diaries! recommend my diary to a friend! Get
 your own fun + free diary at DiaryLand.com!