Western Empiricism

If Western Empiricism were only understood?
Then, classrooms would build squares
And test out the Quadratic Equation.
They would cut their squares, and see
The beautiful workings of geometry.
They would do calculus, and find it precisely
Forecasts measurements---they would test
It with the forces of Gravity.
They would see circles’ circumferences
Were Pi, if the diameter of a circle were one.
They would predict the volume of spheres;
They would understand the reason spheres
Are calculated, and they’d see by water displacement
That the calculations are 100% accurate.
They would, in remedial math courses,
Learn algebra through physics and electricity.
They would learn how electricity works
By testing it in the classroom.
They would measure velocity and distance and time.
They would learn geometry through Euclid,
And connect the limitations of physical reality.

Instead, our students are bombarded by deduction
Without any a posteriori understanding of why?
Deduction within deduction, within deduction---
If one has perfect logic, yet not a fact to use with it,
Then one can prove about anything---
So long as the logic is sound, it creates beautiful works of art.
Yet, to understand the simple nature of reality
Is to understand the subtle nature of how real world
Events dictate the interpretation of history.
That a word is as accurate as a scientist’s compass.
Should we know history… See history…
Understand Shakespeare for what he truly said,
Not what we had liked him to have said;
We would not pervert the science of the soul.
For, the mere fact that we make a lovesong
Of a man with his eleven year old son
To be an erotic evocation of a gay relationship
With a Duke--- There’s something perverted in our knowledge.
The fact that Fantasia’s nudity is seen in perverted light;
It means that someone must feel a cherub is erotic.
Not, however, to see the metaphor of erotic lovemaking
Which brings upon Cupid’s form from the womb.
No… Cupid is erotic, Shakespeare is singing love songs about his son.
Why I cling to my Bible is that it helps erase that nonsense
An align my soul back to understanding things
Without the perverted intrusion of sensualities
Which ought not be interpolated into the text;
Save that an individual is perverted beyond all measure.
Yet, because we live in a perverted culture
Cupid is erotic, and Shakespeare sings erotic stanzas
To his eleven year old son Hamnet, whom the poem
So clearly is talking about by reference a dozen times to death’s deparation.