LOL Slip. For the record, I have no time for lecturers who favour students because they like them, and my own promiscuity, legendary as it is, is factually fake. I'm a chronic moralist in matters of exploitation, not really even achieving Chris' delightful 'recidivist faithful monogamy'. The pain of morality is just too much for me to bear without being game for a laugh, as it too is socially fake. Grading on breast size seems as dismal as grading on feminism, postmodernism or whatever grisly paradigm a clique is confusing with thinking ability and virtue - though I wonder how I might fairly grade a Nazi. Academe is consumed with 'literacy', almost as though a monstrous regiment of grammar teachers is in charge. Thinking is often pretty non-verbal and often non-quantitative and I find it unreasonable to forever focus in these areas beyond some form of competence. Virtue seems unrelated to etiquette and politesse - many of our worst people are experts in manipulation through such stuff. My own brilliance was once held to sparkle with all the authenticity of cubic zirconium, but then I am always honest about not quite being the real thing. I wasn't even any good at 'shagging students' when I was a student and have always been somewhat bemused that it would have been so much easier as a lecturer and regretted that even though I regard sex as a broadly irrelevant pastime and good fun, that there are lines with regard to my own virtue I can't rub out. Pride may be involved - I just couldn't bear to hear an apparent conquest saying she had only screwed me for a first or upper second or to scrape a third - though if I am more generous to myself it might be that I am actually revolted by needing such satiation in a world beyond dreams. There are no 'Clinton stains'.
'No rules' is really just about experimenting to see what rules, what self-identity and so on might be holding us back - even what rules might allow more honest, creative lives. We may well be held back by fantasies that in reality are reactions to crushing bureaucracy and a morality that is little more than phoney prudishness. The fat girl with dyslexic problems ridiculed by her peers, castigated by the grammar teachers as stupid, who hangs on, is perhaps a real nuisance, yet eventually finds her way, has to be as important as the ex- stewardess flirting with lay physics and being easy on the eye on her way to a PhD in Australia, or even the blind guy who becomes your best friend after surviving patronising recommendations by the moral worthies to seek a qualification in basket weaving when actually the brightest student to darken their doors in a lifetime (actually achieving first class honours, PhD and eventually a senior lectureship himself). One possible alternative would be to sleep with them all, but one has to say this would make me sexist as I'm not gay and thus would disfavour men. In the end I am just not moral enough for this strategy, for to exempt just one (let alone a whole gender) from this grisly fate, would be to show preference! On 11 Sep, 04:02, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > .........and the Mexican version as > well.http://www.hispanicmpr.com/images/hmprphotos20072/hmprpatronbottles.jpg > > On Sep 10, 8:32 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ...and thus the original Greek concept of the Patron... > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Very interesting my friend. It's not that I don't concur but there > > > are some areas of gray and, as you well know, shadows sometimes > > > represent images that do not formulate the actual instance. Pat of > > > course can have us dancing about the galaxy in search of substance but > > > that does not negate the fact that we are still here in ME tossing > > > about speculations. Students do have their delusions of achievement, > > > some beyond logical comprehension. I'm just wondering how many > > > voluptuous students passed your elevated bar via the path of > > > libidinous satiation. Let's be real, for those of us who have been > > > there, the opportunity for preferential treatment at certain levels > > > can present a special challenge to the cerebral section usually > > > designated to be lobotomized. Creativity is a method to achieve what > > > one desires and sometimes one's desires can achieve what one wants to > > > create. > > > > On Sep 10, 4:22 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've appreciated the stuff on consciousness and other subjects we are > > > > never going to 'disentangle' of late. Someone was 'threatening' more > > > > on universes 'sprouting all over the place' from curved space-time > > > > (pace moi or a string necktie party round at Pat's perhaps). All in > > > > favour ... yet what about practical creative issues? > > > > I used to teach a module called Creative Organisational Practices and > > > > Analysis (where we could all come a croppa) - students from long ago > > > > often remind me it was an oasis in the desert of business teaching. > > > > There were no rules other than to produce a 5,000 word or equivalent > > > > project that I could feasibly fit with my own rules of scamming the > > > > bureaucracy. One story about the 'no rules' concerned the leisure > > > > studies lecturer who considered hammock sleeping on the beach as a > > > > clearly excellent project in leisure, though I did mention he was > > > > finally sacked after fourteen years of practice. Some of the work was > > > > so good it made Channel 4 television, some so bad I was reduced to > > > > marking the laughs of derision. The bull in the syllabus was silver- > > > > tongued and highly academic - an excellent cover for the FOFO teaching > > > > style and deconstruct the penguin ethos. No one ever failed, but a > > > > mark of 43.5% was covertly known to indicate my displeasure. One > > > > survivor even wrote her final dissertation as a comparison of > > > > management and the Dancing Masters of the Wu Li (high energy physics > > > > meets organisational aesthetics). Some said I was swooned by her > > > > prettiness, but she married a real physicist. The external examiner, > > > > agreeing my mark, spluttered this was the most dangerous work he had > > > > ever witnessed. Another did a photographic comparison of company > > > > mergers and marriage - presented at an International conference, > > > > topped only by another on the same theme by a Norwegian academic. > > > > Teaching, such as it was, varied from presentations of my own papers > > > > and people dragged in from the street, including Spike Milligan and > > > > Hovis Presley, a prostitute and some amateur magicians. > > > > I wonder what our views on practical creativity are? My course was > > > > inspired in part by a Peter Anthony book 'The Foundation of > > > > Management', opening with an assertion that the last place to send > > > > talented young people to learn about business was a business school - > > > > maybe they should spend time with scientists or Bohemians. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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