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(Page 2 of 2) Transology by Dan Bieger
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I want to know something no one else knows and I don't see how you can do that without specializing and no PSAT test will earn me admission to a specialty field."
"Have you considered that TA is a specialty field?"
"No, it isn't. Transaction analysis is a combination of what used to be physics, organic and non-organic chemistry and math. And before you go on, so is Transposition Analysis and you really can't do TA without doing TPA. No matter how you cut it, each of the Personalized Standard Achievement Tests forces you to spout some transology."
"There is Trans World Administration," the Counselor offered.
"Which is a conglomerate of trans-national geopolitical economics, history, all the anthropological subsets, and industrial psychology and Transpersonal Integration is a conglomeration of what used to be psychology, psychiatry, sociology, linguistics, all the anthropological subsets, history, literature, painting, and sculpture."
"I see the problem. Can you, perhaps, give me an inkling of what kind of knowledge would satisfy your yearning?"
"Well, how many people are aware that the Moors used the hair inside the mouth of a cat for their most precise paint brushes. Or that some parchment, some very fine parchment derived f-rom a long extinct Andalusian mountain sheep?
"Both instances of history, archaeology, chemistry, biology, art, and literature. Another transology, I'm certain.
Carl considered this for a minute. When he answered his voice had a speculative quality. "You know, you're right. I couldn't understand why either of these facts would be true without the necessary referents. There may be an argument for transology, after all."
He thought for a moment, the Counselor maintaining the ambiance while he did so.
"Okay, I want to study some transology that provides me the necessary referents to narrow my study to something no one else has seen."
"And you wish it to be connected to the Moors?"
"Not necessarily, just something that no one else has discovered."
"But, that is the point of education, Carl, to help you to understand what is not yet understood so that you pursues the necessary knowledge."
"Sounds awful convoluted."
"Try it this way: the educated man knows what he does not know."
Carl laughed. "You mean the purpose of education is to demonstrate how stupid we are?"
"Precisely. With the corollary of providing the tools to rectify the situation."
"Okay, then. That helps a lot. Now, I can get a handle on which PSAT I want to take. Thanks, Dewey."
"That isn't my title, Carl."
""Close enough for government work, Dewey. Close enough."
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