The Fourth Principle of Win-humanity/Win-Earth
Permaculture Design (D. Holmgren):
“Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.”
might be understood as an implied corollary
of the Golden Rule.

Why?
The sins and blessings of reactive patriarchy
and responsive matriarchy
are revisited by children
unto the seventh generation.

If we are to develop healthy and robust democratic self-governance
then we must grow cooperative ownership and stewardship of feedback systems,
especially from those whose outcomes are least robust
among our slowly extending global family
of interdependent organisms
and our sacred natural environments.

Feedback comes in two spiraling circles,
virtuously healthy-positive,
which often has some form of symbiotic, synergetic, metamorphic dimension
to love’s transformative evolution,
and viciously pathological-negative
caste-preservative devolution.

Resilient self-regulation requires of us
to anticipate and accept both polarities of feedback.

To welcome both kinds, especially when they are offered together,
within some nondualistic cobinary frame
of appositional dipolar reference,
to neurosystemically experience gratitude for both
painful risk and pleasure opportunity,
organic life’s apparent blessings and curses.

So, whether Republican or Democrat,
or something Liberating Green in-between,
an important litmus test for the savvy political consumer
and tax-paying producer
of national and state and local leadership,
is mature stewardship experience of more perfect unions

Which we sometimes ignore
at our own disgruntled peril,
and at further peril “unto seven generations”
of potentially robust
healthy win/win
polyculturally planning
self-governing regenerators

Bodhisattva PeaceWagers and CoInvestors
in Salvific GoodNews CoRedemption:

1. How has this candidate for public office
   demonstrated and grown mature self-regulation
   in personal and public economic and political empowering life?

Essentially a question to compare cooperative ownership
and compassionate governance
that resists rabidly competitive elitism,
upper-caste preserving
anthropocentrism
nationalism
and narcissism.

2. How has this candidate demonstrated growth
   in win+win bipartisan capacity
   to co-empathize,
   co-intelligently learn from,
   and become grateful for,
   positive and negative feedback
   in personal and public economic and political life?
   How might this compare
   to your own trauma-informed life,
   both organic body natural
   and sacred mind spiritual?

Perhaps economically kleptocratic
and politically autocratic public persons
we have been electing and hiring
to apply self-regulation and accept feedback
are giving us to-be-expected answers
to the absence of wiser public sector questions,
too pathologically short-term focused
and anthropocentrically narrow-minded

Questions unmindful of Fourth Principle self-governing potential
for more robust Golden Rule healthy democracy outcomes
unto the seventh win/win regeneration.

David Holmgren, Co-Originator of the Permaculture Concept, reflective of the Gaia Hypothesis.

Fourth Principle from “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability”, 2002