To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

Monday, September 02, 2019
 

Homo Scientificus
 
Making propositions
Testing hypotheses
Capturing human nature
In a dull thesis
 
Planning surveys
Drafting instruments
Fitting into circles
Square accoutrements
 
The material world lends
To fixities and predictions
The ambitious man proceeds
To unlock his own essence
 
Rats in a lab
He observes man and portends
Not struck by the irony
Of experimenter becoming experiment
 
As objects in the world
To deconstruct and derive
Humanity to its very core
Is his ongoing strife
Yet one would question
Assumptions of this kind
That attempt to unlock consciousness
With itself -- the conscious mind


~Me