What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system–little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay of a segregated Country Club.
No, this is addressed to economic policy re-tirers. Keep the tire and the chairs, but let’s get the tread of our economy into a better therapeutic position.
Economic policy administrators are everybody, but some of us have more responsibility for larger populations and larger wealth deposits than oneself, and one’s household, and one’s own capacity to invest one’s own funds and future. Based on my own miserable failure in these areas, my best advise for public policy administrators is to do just the opposite of what I have done.
For example, do not invest your capital or equity in storage silos where your value will not have a chance to help fertilize local development–and it doesn’t get more local than a little Self Care, up to the point when Self Care becomes beyond what we can all do with and for others. Because, for instance, that would be breaking the Golden Rule. “Do to others as to self” implies do not do with others–of any species, during any time, or era, or generation–what they have not done with you. And, this Golden Rule is economic gold standard. I am here to tell you that this (0)-Sum Cooperative Value Network is optimally balanced for inclusive prosperity and equity. Economic Zeroism derives from Buckminster Fuller’s fairly famous “Trimtab Conjecture.”
Fuller, unlike myself, applied the Prime Permacultural principle of achieving broadest, most inclusive, system regenerative-efficiency (including combining economic and evolution normative paradigms within a shared ecological (0)-wave self-regenerative “Torus” Theory of Regenerativity) by minimizing all forms of dissonance, cost, loss, dismay, and decay. So he invested in himself and in others by planting, as ubiquitously as possible, this Theory of Regenerativity, published throughout his lifetime work, writing, thought, and deed, after about age 33, messianically enough.
Fuller lived as a Unitarian–investing 100% in more than his fair share of Universal Intelligence. But, he wrote like a manic Taoist:
- his fascination with fractal and dyadic relationships, especially between Yang/form and Yin/function,
- between intuitive understanding’s predictive relationship to deductive knowledge accumulation,
- and possibly even wisdom in their Prime Root pairing.
Fuller comprehended our Trim Tab optimized economic flow as deeply nutritious, resonant, resilient–with toxic backwash as our dissonant and competitive cultural and corporate alternative.
Cash on hand is a Trimtab opportunity for risk, for learning, for adventure, for investing in our shared Universally Intelligent Abundance. Investing in mindful and grateful cooperation with colleagues (but not authorities or “experts”–these were blasphemy to his sense of intellectual integrity), people who intend a community that feels like home–nurturing, and caring, and cooperative, where adults play nice, and all the kids are graceful–and not so blind.
The relationship between humans and their places is the story line of historical-cultural development. This cultural teleological view of history might, post-Bucky, bear the label ectosymbiotic evolution, a “positive” evolutionary trend (think “Positive Psychology” and “progress”). Basically, regenerative theory is a torus-formative Hilbert Space, filled with a positive teleological conjecture about our reason for being as a species.
Combining Julian Jaynes’ endosymbiotic evolutionary theory of how the bicameral LeftDominant-RightIntuitive hemispheres developed the capacity for self-consciousness and awareness of “not-self” as Other, with Fuller’s binomial metric information development, and Gregori Perelman’s (et. al.) (0)-soul Universal Group Theorem, I find merit in the conjecture that:
Greatest, most equitably and peacefully inclusive, reason for investing in the hypothesis that we are all in Earth gratefully and mindfully together, defines,refines, and minimizes any cultural remnants to the contrary.
So, look around, fellow Bridge-Builders, economic developers, philanthropists for the future of everything, what seems to be thriving, growing, resilient, here for the long-term? Perhaps the urgency of our Transition Generation’s position becomes clear when we suddenly realize that human biosystems, as we know and love them, are an endangered species when we analyze the long-term trajectories.
A few minutes with the Tellus Institute, Boston (www.tellus.org), provides ample evidence of not only why the current trajectory endangers our grandchildrens’ survival odds, but, more positively, indicates some economic policy changes that would be helpful. For example, making the assumption that if the short-term economic gains are at the cost of moderate- and long-term ecological risk (like violations of (0)-carbon airborne production that is not at least matched with adding soil-based carbon) then just tell yourself no. To behave dis-carbon-balancing is a violation of the Golden Rule and a global sense of the Commons, also known as common sense. So, philanthropists, where have you positioned your investment capital? Is it working with your community’s and species’ optimally balancing interest investments, or not so much?
Thich Nhat Hanh says of Buddhism, “knowledge is regarded as an obstacle to understanding, like a block of ice that obstructs water from flowing…. water can flow, it can penetrate anything.” (pp. 48-9, Being Peace, 1987). Considering the possibility that any somewhat sane and mature adult knows enough to perform more sustainably, more optimally, more wisely, as we plan our economies and investments, what is it that we fail to understand? If our economic, ecological, and social pathologies are a misunderstanding of information already profoundly and democratically accessible, what is at the root of our anomalous cultural consciousness?
In essence, Julian Jaynes might say this is a lack of articulation or resolution between the Left and Right hemispheres. In his view, the ethological (purposive) function of Left hemispheric evolution is for natural intelligence to escape from solipsism, gaining the capacity for self-definition through comparing environmental sensory messages with an “aptic” [NOT Consciousness!!!!] precameral awareness. Sensory awareness of messages not emanating from within could be distinguished from within messages because of this binary information developing brain system. Symbols and language and culture and information became the string of history, originated in this evolution of a Species capable of regenerating form and function messages across interior and exterior message receivers, scanning for confluent win-win maps and metaphors, analogies and metric systems, logic and deductive research, poetry and music.
Our internal nutrients and economies flow with richest understanding when this balance is achieved between left and right, exterior and interior, ecological value and economic value, Universal Intelligence and Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge, cooperation and active hope of contributing, teaching, helping, mentoring, facilitating; between desire and gift, mindfulness and gratitude, justice and peace, Yang and Yin.
Again, from those who are penniless and deciding how best to invest in this gifted moment and day, to those responsible for the investment of millions and billions of capital assets, as well as deciding how best to invest in your own personal gifted moment, day, and the future generations of all species: listen to your Right hemisphere’s cooperative development and investment story. That audio-visual sensory receptor driven Left hemisphere’s deductive knowledge is incomplete, and blocked, when not balanced with absolute Yin-faith that actively cooperative investments in inclusive synergetic evolution is the way to keep on going. As it was, so must it be. As without, so within. As bicamerally within, so binary communication development system regeneration without. In Bucky’s Bridge-Building world, we are all synergetically interdependent verbs, and positrons.
Invest in cooperative vocations, residences, communities, strategies, research and learning plans. Avoid competitive, survival-limited teleological assumptions, conjectures, missions, and corporate structures. Create cultural and ecological and economic music and dancing in revolving circles with those investments; not marching in competitive, extractive, lose-lose squares.
Cultural and economic EcoTherapy derive from consciousness of the Laws of Thermodynamics, of course, but, the Prime Root Law of Thermodynamics is the Law of Eternal Moment Thermodynamic Balance; what goes out, must come back in, and out again, regenerating frequencies of oscillating formed information (P) and reverse-functional Yin (NP) exformation, reiteratively bowing to Torus- graced “Namaste.”
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