Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Byzantine Rhetoric
More than a literary habit, nearly an expression of life, particular ontology
Based on pious principles, whose universal cosmology arose organically,
Upheld a relational hierarchy that fixed creation as franchise of existential
Wonderment.
Accordingly, manuscripts of classic works; encyclopedia, commentaries,
Translations, went prized for both forensic and commonplace obstacles.
Such documents operated opposite grammar else dialectic. Hermogenes
Trumped Minucianus.
Winning souls, per se, became currency like gold or gems. Whereas certain
Clergy disavowed pagan discourse, suasory talk ruled amidst other forms
Of connection. Language developed into devices for elevating not persons,
But positions.
Heightened sensitivity to possible social strata encouraged assigning arbitrary
Meaning to symbols, invigorated the use of words to craft realities. Semantic
Monging evolved to include the classification of information into imperious
Annals.
All in all, intellectuals were increasingly charged with assessing the attraction
Of things. Religious mentalities confinement breached many otherwise merely
Abstract perceptions. Probing nature by observation or experimentation stayed
Forbidden.
The Intervening Hundred Years
During the intervening hundred years, rare, significant freedom modifications
Grew in the midlands. Nationwide, rhetoric was fossilized, focused simply on
Power. Not til the revolt did downtrodden persons aver reinvigorated words.
No interesting developments followed, cept the use of labor camps plus jails.
Eventually, a countermovement swirled beside hushed latrine/locker natter.
That uprising played barely broad-ranging, narrowly a bygone phenomenon.
En total, no unique, time-bound trials occurred, only episodes of communal
Endeavors rooted in old-fashioned perspectives; all frontrunners were killed.
For decades, such remonstrations werent integrated into cultural terminology
(scarce social innovations altered the scope or emphasis on united talk until
Contributions to the foothold about fragmented the undertaking.) Meanwhile,
Many politic purchases were beaten down, additional leaders risked execution.
Although its inherent for laypeople to explore the morality/meaning nexus,
Victimization and the recovery of abused individuals can emerge as too dear
To promote reliable grasps of dealings; ethics often become an early casualty.
Junctions of wisdom and words probe painfully, create unmitigated tensions.
Contrariwise, empowerment, authenticity, inclusivity implore denied justice
Be restored, global solutions extend beyond mission prescriptions. Tousled
Discrete & institutional functions proclaim confusions launched by shared
Policy. Life quality matters. Every citizens expositions remain momentous.
Reflections on fact/value distinctions need to be clarified instead of sourced
To a priori arguments. When activities rotate objectified, some consequences
Cannot build futures, attach soundly to relations, respond favorably to fillips.
Recount, disparities abound amid discourses ubiquitousness, truths absence.
Yet Educational Systems
A shortage of research affects missed perceptions, our tendency to display
Consequences of educational systems. Without processes communicating
Critical thinking behavior, our sphere, increasingly, becomes a collectively-
Strengthened, egocentric contemplation buttressed by narrow knowledge.
Instrumental discourse, unlike intrinsic rhetoric, cant assess unseen items.
Though were expected to externalize vacant information when endorsing
Such venues, procedures button up employers, colleagues, careers, lovers,
Self, the general public, & bedrock values. Constraints confine options.
So, society inadvertently possesses more constructs than we may convey.
(We need to develop amended routes for understanding comportment.)
Meanwhile, human exchanges stay transactional. Cultures realized policy
Purposes remain bereft of valid grasps of the ethics phenomenology
Frameworks keeps gaping, doctrines continue being rendered in halves.
Most applications seemingly ever lack utility. Temporarily, civilizations
Just Guardians renounce their singular liability for shared actions.
Realized conditions of their answerability become visible when folks
Shared scruples chase validation of private feelings, sensitivities, truths.
The paucity of rules concerning scholarship, plus transmission, results
In freedom of thought, involving discerning amid morals & tenets.
No events exist in which institutions prolong being subjected to blame.
See, our tradition of standards draggles on denizens' capacity to compose.
We rely on intellectuals' self-imposed obligations. Later upshots fluctuate.
Depending on manufacture, timelines, questions of conjoint conventions,
Augmented amounts of metatheorized statements, learn or espouse facts,
Execute and referee group obligations, or articulate advantageous models.
Communal commitments for dialogue pile on developed awarenesses of,
Provided understandings per, created opportunities for clear-cut notions
Undergirding our connections. Rhetorical expertise once again conquers.
Weve potent instruments for transmitting motivational power, deciding
Destiny. If weighing phenomenal norms, present human nature, matters.
Intrinsic or principled purposes, however, endure being implied initiatives.
Influential, honorable drives, contrariwise, are explicated akin to terms of
Content. Their legitimization produces ways to organize talk, allows some
Development of reasoned judgment when acquiring, maybe manipulating
Data as appropriate to acts, actors, and theories of actions. Elsewise, most
Routes function to deconstruct, not to build or maintain public discussion.
Individual identities, in chorus, reputedly reenforce our citizenship talents,
Moreover, process our diminishing self-esteem, self-actualization. And so,
We truly transfer acquiescence onto complex, incongruous reality beliefs
Underlying linguistic adjudications, through our fresh community biases.
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