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BICAMERAL_CITY

                                             January 29, 2012

Here's a story:

  Since the inception of the modern era,
  since the scientific revolution and the      We could tell other
  industrial revolution, we've all lived       stories about a multi-towered
  in a city of two towers.                     place that might more
                                               accurately reflect our
  The newer tower now over-shadows             own world:
  the old-- some even argue there's not
  much need for the old.                            science
                                                    technology
  But there are some of us who've walked            religion
  away from this bicameral city-- we                art, traditional
  envision a place of high, arching sky             art, modern
  bridges connecting our twin towers;               art, popular
  and someday they may be so interlaced
  that they've effectively become one
  structure.

There are these two modes of understanding,
two methods of approaching the world and
we feel in our guts that there must be
some way of blending these two into one.

And even if we're wrong in this monotheistic
impulse, even if there's no Grand Unified Method
that's workable, there ought to be some way of
at least defining the boundary between the two
methods.

   One is quick and deep, whereas
   the other is slow but sure.                  Understanding
                                                fast and slow?

                      We might:                       FIRE_MIND

                          Look to the arts
                          for understanding
                          where science fails.

                          Look to the arts
                          to see where science
                          has not yet gone.

                          Look to the arts
                          to see where science
                          should go.


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