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Cole Katane

Mon 10/16/23 07:10 AM

My contribution to education (came up with this last night…I believe it to be significant). I call it Tools of Leisure. Education is hypothetical. In regards to my own education, I cannot approach the thought, or consciousness, of being uneducated; put simply, I exist, in perfection of thought, without social conformity and counting dollar bills that disease the mind with false identities. I exist as evident intelligence or whatever contrived word the system will label me. I enjoy myself or I do not enjoy myself; these thoughts have significance in this life. How to deduce a symbol, dot an “i,” or drive a machine, are methods that have buried themselves in society. Existing not for any truly significant conception or realization, they are but “tools of leisure,” that, in fact, limit experience. Cognizance is the knowledge, or principle, that is necessary (why we are born with it), and education of proposed purposes and questioned relevancies is unnecessary, and therefore, unnatural. If my mother had chosen to give birth to me in a jungle, desert or outer space and never encountered systematic society, my cognizance could have remained unscathed, or perhaps, more refined. I would serve as a true symbol of conscious freedom. Indeed, words would be ineffable, yet, I never would have seen those TV shows and re-runs, subjecting myself to all the insignificant data that education imbeds. Using society as its vehicle for a relevance, education begins to ultimately reverse and pause all time. Perhaps chaos, law and order would have ceased, or not been required to exist, had the idea of education never been conceived.

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Chqinitout

Mon 10/16/23 03:20 PM

If you had been born in a jungle, desert or outer space you would still have been learning, just a more survivalistic type of education. But I do see what you mean I believe. I once had a teacher say to me, you're going to be somebody someday to which I replied, but I am someone. Women were once (not long ago) more desirable heavy set but television has changed that alot. We're still in a jungle, but it's money, fame and power that dictates whether or not you are someone in this jungle.
Nice poem, thanks for sharing.
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Chqinitout

Mon 10/16/23 03:20 PM

If you had been born in a jungle, desert or outer space you would still have been learning, just a more survivalistic type of education. But I do see what you mean I believe. I once had a teacher say to me, you're going to be somebody someday to which I replied, but I am someone. Women were once (not long ago) more desirable heavy set but television has changed that alot. We're still in a jungle, but it's money, fame and power that dictates whether or not you are someone in this jungle.
Nice poem, thanks for sharing.