[New-Poetry] ideology--my terminology

[Anny Ballardini]

Congratulations BOB!
Listen, is there a link, can one order online?
Take care, Anny

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From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views" 
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] ideology--my terminology


> I'm still not up to posting on my terminology for ideologies and related 
> outlooks, but I said I'd post them, so here goes.  First, I need to define 
> the four character-types in my psychology: the rigidnik, the milyoop, the 
> freewender and the ord.  The names, I hope, are self-explanatory.  Think 
> "milieu" when reading "milyoop."  These are similar to Reisman's 
> inner-directed, other-directed, and autonomous personality types, with the 
> ord being just an ordinary person.
> According to my psychology, each of use constructs various "knowleplexes" 
> or knowledge-complexes.  The building blocks are "knowlecules," which 
> rhymes with "molecules."  Knowlecules are, in effect, stored data, each 
> representing a thing.  Knowleplexes are combinations of related 
> knowlecules that represent a person's understanding of a science, or city, 
> or anything complex.  Knowlecules are sort of words or phrases, 
> knowleplexes, books.
> I posit that a rigidnik's knowleplexes are generally . . . rigid.  Bad 
> ideologies when concerned with ideas.  Narrow, logical for short 
> stretches, but not over-all.  Based on insufficient data, impervious to 
> criticism.  Usually humorless.  Usually reactionary.  Almost always 
> authoritarian in some way.  Prone to binary thingking.  I call them 
> rigidniplexes.
>
> Most of a milyoop's knowleplexes are the reverse.  Full of holes, 
> logically inconsistent, ever-changing.  Stoopit.  Milyooplexes.
>
> The knowleplexes of all us Freewenders (as everyone posting to New Poetry 
> clearly is!), however, are nearly always good ideologies.  Open to 
> criticism, wide-ranging, logical, for the most part. Unyielding where they 
> ought to be, flexible where they ought to be.  More error-prone than 
> rigidniplexes, but correctable, as rigidniplexes are pretty much not. 
> Wendriplexes.
>
> I'm not sure what I call an ord's knowleplexes.  They are like the 
> freewender's except . . . ordinary--more limited and unoriginal. 
> Actually, all character-types have a lot of ordinary knowleplexes, and 
> some of each of the other kinds.  But one kind usually dominates.
>
> That's it for the introductory sound-bites.  It gets much more 
> complicated.  And it's based on a wacked out theory of brain-functioning. 
> To find out more, order a copy of my Shakespeare and the Rigidniks, which 
> has a chapter on it, and an appendix about the theory of brain-functioning 
> (with diagrams)!  $20 ppd, from me, at 1708 Hayworth Road, Port Charlotte 
> FL 33952.  Around 250 pages, laminated covers.
> While advertising, I must report that also soon to be available at the 
> same price is my From Haiku To Lyriku, which is mainly a discussion of 
> contemporary North American haiku and the many short forms of poetry that 
> I claim have evolved (in part) from it.  At worst, it's a pretty good 
> anthology of minimalist poems from mainstream haiku to various kinds of 
> little-studied short poetry including visual, language and mathematical.
>
> Forgive the commerce, but I just paid $1500 to have 100 copies of each of 
> these published and my credit card debt  is mounting!
>
> --Bob
>
>
>
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