What opposes enlightenment?
Endarkenment?
You know, like dusk,
evening,
end of a day
through end of time
on living Earth.
What opposes empowerment?
Disempowerment.
What might oppose Earth’s enlightenment
and/or empowerment?
For me
or throughout all multiculturing history?
Possibly both?
I see ego darkness,
depression,
fecklessness?
inability to cause
and/or perpetuate health,
safety,
individual powerlessness.
Do disease
and insecurity
and lack of effective power
feel like ways of experiencing poverty,
absence of healthy robust choice
for you,
as seems to be true of my experience?
Yes,
but poverty does not feel like a synonym
for dark feelings
or disempowerment.
Poverty, like racism,
feels more political,
economic,
more ecosystemic.
What is the opposite of ecosystemic enlightenment
and/or empowerment?
Ego isolation,
unsystemic pathological darkness
and/or disempowerment,
disease,
nonemployment,
absence of meaning or purpose,
economic depression,
recession,
political suppression,
dissociative sublimation,
narcissistic idolatry,
monoculturing rage,
violent zero-sum win/lose capitalism,
religious-cultural apartheid,
ecopolitical suicide,
globally generic genocide,
climate exhaustion,
ego-autonomous annihilation
Do these seem to oppose global
and individual
and local enrichment
for you?
as they do for me.
Perhaps what opposes positive multilateral energy
is always some unilateral form,
political
personal
familial
social
psychological
neurological
theological
ecological
economic
cultural
religious,
of impoverishing experience.
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