ROAD TO WISDOM: Thoughts on knowledge, ignorance, & social discourse

IMAGE: An image of two veiled virgins and mutant poem about knowledge and
       ignorance as well as some hints of a dialog that never really existed.
 
	The path ahh knowledge
	seemz narrow & straight
	but it's eazier
	thun alluowin' unawareness
	ta seal our fate

	The road ta whizdom
	might look steep & tough
	butt allowin' ignorance
	ta reign invitez
	far mure difficult stuff

Melissa:  (scratching her head) Is there a single path to knowledge?

Tim:      No. Such a notion is pre-modern and rather inane.

Satoru:   The whole metaphor is outdated. Ideological systems prescribing one specific 
          goal might have "paths." Knowledge itself, however, is pathless.

Liao:     (saluting him with a glass of beer) Point taken. Also, human languages tend 
          to be couched in feudalistic metaphors that creep up far too easily. 
          Beneath our rational surface, I suspect we are still very primitive.
      

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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A reflection on epistemology, markedness, and social discourse.
KEYWORDS:  epistemological foundations, declarative ignorance, unawareness, discoursal primacy

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2006 in Tokyo, Japan  / Finished: 2013 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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