Your post is strangely timely as I noted an old professor of mine was teaching a course that interested me. No thanks! Some women find the attentions, lures quite creepy. Now, he must be in his 70's or 80's- with dyed hair- yuck!
On Sep 11, 11:08 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.- Hide > > > > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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