Thu 29 Nov 2007
I started this Wikipedia page on Professor Robert Guadino seven months ago. Surely we have some readers who could add to it. Previous discussion of the importance of “uncomfortable learning” here.
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November 30th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Gaudino and Uncomfortable Learning:
Uncomfortable could mean getting out of your stupor to labor or toil over something that engages your individuality from the droll and toll that television heaps upon the mob.
Perhaps planting rice in the fields of Vietnam. Having sex with animals. Eating snot.
Experiential learning is a great concept providing the basis of one’s undertaking is challenging the student to perceive their exchange in a meaningful manner that would either lead to scholarship or a transformative experiential episode that would exponentially lead that person to a profound realization.
Perhaps fasting for forty days and nights. Canoeing down a river for thirty days and living off of insects and lizards and snakes.
Total immersion may be beneficial but it must be a positive outcome rather than an exercise in behavioral confirmation such as LDS who do mission work in order to transformationally become confirmed Mormon obervers.
Mentors who exercise proper judgement can be instrumental in the positive outcome of these experiences. Having good judgement is essential.
I would suggest to one and all that the uncomfortable learning you seek allows you to understand the overwhelming influence that conformity to suggestion and the exploitation of our human bio frequencies engages our very individual souls. One does not necessarily have to emulate Mother Teresa or the Dalai Lama or Mahatma Gandhi. One needs to walk into the desert away from the slavery of technology and come in tune with one’s bio rythmic self.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:11 am
David: I believe that again we have another head case loose on this blog.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Information and technology has been a development of the instrument of power. Little has been given of the consideration of the fact that human beings would be needed to wield information and technology and that human beings must live in a compartmentalized world that it was creating.
Information and technics is the elaboration of ideas based primarily on an exploration of the nature of raw materials and data and the inanimate and only incidentally making any concession to the contrary nature or the organic and that of man.
Information and technology is is the incarnation of efficiency and as such its rhythm and pace is alien to all organic functioning, to all things human.
Our entire working relationships are dependent upon the processes, methods and understandings that is inhuman and dehumanizing, and thus we do not see, perceive, the havoc such systems and works bear upon our relations and the effects on human life.
Is Man now forced into the relation of his image to that of information bases systems and technology? Are we to be sacrificed upon the demands that systems have upon us arising out the demands of efficiency against human demands and needs? And where one dominates, the other is sacrificed.
Thus through the Gaudino projects of “uncomfortable learning”, we need to examine living from that of sanctioned slavery to that of the emancipation of manhood. For we stand or fall by the kind of men we are.
Ruskin: “Industry without art is brutality.”
The informational and technological era has displaced people on an unprecedented level. It has become a precursor to the death of our culture. We have no homes or homesteads. We increasingly live in temporary or artificial dwellings. There is a less and less need of homes, of having a home, much less a family, of having a signficant other.
The very mark of living is individual differentiation. Information and technology undertakes to put everything into uniformity. Mass education creates mass mind. The only advantage of information and technology is the ability to maximize wealth and power.
To help prevent our nation becoming a helpless horde we must attempt to re-enervate our lives through “uncomfortable learning” whereby we experience our inner selves, our uniqueness apart from the internationalization of man from organic life and the planet.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
There it is again.