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History of Mean Economists 404

This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.

First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment income,
could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households
per year.

Are you kidding me?
Where do you come up with those numbers?
And that many full-time working two-parent households?

Out of my mean Republican National Party imagination.
If you imagine
as many households with earned and investment income
of $1,000,000 per year
as there are destitute households
with $0 earned/investment income,
and the remainder of us lie
evenly along straight
or even bell-curved symmetrical lines
between $0 and $1,000,000,
then USA mean annual household income
could be imagined as $500,000 per two-parent household.

Well, maybe…OK,
for the sake of this thought experiment.
So what does that have to do with the price of carrots?

Cost of living,
with or without carrots,
is more of a Democratic National Party issue
where we turn to how trickle down capital acquisition and flow patterns,
including reinvesting and relocating in cheaper labor-saving areas,
are more depressingly influenced by median income,
as compared to this more mean-spirited average US two-parent income.

In other words,
when Republicans imagine which economic policies
are within their realm of self interest,
they imagine themselves at least average,
or above, even better,
so when candidates promise lower taxes
and deregulating fees
for business and farm and patriotic industries
of all good two-heterosexual parent families,
Republican voters imagine such candidates
speak also of and for them
because they see their incoming as at least potentially
within responsible sight of this average earned
and investment returned
income,
and preferably above all those unwashed immigrant indigent others.

But,
the Democratic National Party,
in its most globally liberating green best center,
speaks not of mean economic incomes,
but of the growing and depressing distance
between average national income
and shrinking median global income.

Median.
That’s the most popular number, right?
Like if more households bring in $30,000 per year,
than $29,000 or below
or $31,000 or above,
on a scale from $0 to increasingly astronomical,
then the median would remain $30,000.
But, the average could be lower or higher,
depending on whether there are greater positive deviations from the median
or more totally disintegrating deviations
down toward zero-sum,
you lose everything,
go directly to jail,
do not even think about passing through Go again.

Yes.
So if you are a median democratic global economist
you are noticing
as the number of billionaires goes up,
the gap between average income and median income grows
in an alarmingly unhealthy direction,
the opposite of erection,
or even self-with-other regeneration.

If this growing great transitional divide
between our really big winners
and our truly transient and hopelessly non-transcendent
is trending in this politically depressing uneven direction,
why is that?

Because competition-rooted WinLose zero-sum Capitalism
follows successful acquisition of capital
to breed further disproportionate acquisition of capital.
Cooperative-owned and self-matriculating WinWin
trickle down and out
to equilaterally trickle up and in
to re-trickle down and out
requires a bilateral WinWin
self and other regenerative equivalent balance co-intention
more typical of a matriarchal mentoring nutritional cooperative network
than a patriarchal mean economist
wanna-be an effective open market
mutually free to monoculturally overpower the hapless competition
player.

Well I was taught
if you don’t want to share your toys
you should never have brought them into the sandbox.

That sounds like global median ecopolitical enculturation.
I was taught
if somebody tries to borrow your toys,
hit back.
More of a sandbox bully anti-culturation.

Imagine how this capitalist sandbox must look
to a hungry and thirsty adolescent survivor
living in one of Earth’s growing ecopolitical deserts,
watching further climate pathologies
unfold across hopeless skies
and swelling tsunamic oceans.

I thought this was Mean Economics 404.

Yes, but it sounds more hopeful
as Cooperative Median Economics 101.

 

 

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Which Came First?

Who would argue
about which came first,
regeneratively intelligent design,
or a decomposing degenerating natural Earth?

No one.
To do so is too patently absurd,
when we choose to see these two
not only as oppositional cause-effect,
but also as appositional
dipolar co-arising balance
of regenerative information
tacitly implied within decomposing energetic balance.

The very idea that either regenerating purpose
or degenerating nature
could originally, foundationally, come one before the other
appears and feels anti-ecological,
like choosing WinLose degenerative static being
over WinWin positive equals double-binding negative deviant
regenerative/degenerative co-arising
toward further multi-generational co-becoming.

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Cooperative Health Expectations

We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth’s limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and yet with more reclining information supporting slow-growth
of recycling resources
such as political Earth-centric outcome campaigns
and multicultural ecotherapeutic health policy development.

Nondual co-arising dipolar philosophers
bring on this primacy of energetic as ecological-information
forces and flowstreams.
Body is to nature
as mind is to spirit,
as mindbody is to natural enculturation
of cooperative bio/eco-spirit.

Anthrocentric LeftBrain nature
evolves to co-support,
co-mentor,
to eco-messiah,
to ecotherapize
Earth’s regenerative nature more
and degenerative denaturing climate less.

LeftBrain thought
evolved from Elder RightBrain
experiential-ecological form with regenerate function,
formative temporal causes
with co-functioning effects,
cycling and recycling our regeneratively healthy
original constitutional intent;
ego subjects
with eco-objectives.

Reductionism simplifies metaphysical realities
of our deconstructing industrial cultures,
extracting short-term revolutionary transitions
from longer-term evolutionary eco-creolizing productions.

Through LeftBrain’s history of emergent dominance,
Yang-nationalistic strength over Yin-cooperativist flow
of matriarchal-domestic
reverse-hierarchical
co-responsibility trends,
we have overshot, overgrazed Earth’s store of ancient energy,
to return now to Left-Right healthy cooperative thrival
or human unhealthy might makes right
toward WinNow-LoseLater entropic survival,
with rapidly decreasing short-term quarterly returns,
much less a full four years of competitive nihilism.

Regenerative whole ecosystemic theories abound
from WinWin game theory
to dialectical nature/nurture ecosystemic co-arising materialism,
to regenerative as notnot degenerative bicameral cooperative ecosystemic theory,
to ecotherapeutic design sciences.
Perhaps Buckminster Fuller’s eco-synergetic cooperative EarthDesign geometrics
predict PermaCulturally Cooperative EcoTherapeutic Design,
but he,
better than most,
wrote and spoke from both sides of his bicameral brain,
as, I suspect, did Julian Jaynes himself,
as Edward De Bono saw bi-lateral co-intelligence.

How does degenerative energy descent into further climate pathology
also invite regenerative slow-growth information
emerging comprehensively cooperative positive deviance
of ecotherapeutic health and safety
as original cause and intent
of Mother Gaia’s matriarchal/patriarchal co-emergence?

Permaculture
is whole-open ecosystemic,
therapeutically integrated
cooperatively multicultural
design LeftBrain science
with RightBrain arts and humane-divine nondualisms.

Polycultural outcomes,
the original intent of permaculture health design,
re-apply health-wealth optimization prescriptive sciences
and descriptive arts of experiential sensory noticing
to regenerate long-term well-being of Earth,
and Her Tribes,
including those speaking within each bicameral ego’s heart
and mindbody.

Permaculture,
to paraphrase David Holmgren,
seeks a wholistic healing integration
of ecopolitically cooperative values
through ecological bicameral perspectives,
comprehending a multicultural canvas of nutritional evolution,
no longer restricted and confined
by any LeftBrain dominant
competing
nationalistic over-competing industrial society.

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A New MultiCulturing Dawn

Theoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is probably LeftBrain patriarchally dominant.

Exceptional Left-Right bicameral ego/eco-consciousness,
of natureLeft-spiritRight nondual co-arising experience,
erupts from the creolizing soil
of your diurnal polypathic
ergodically liturgical
energy is information
as fake nothing-new entropy is disinformation
as regenerativity is notnot degenerativity
hum-drum cooperatively polypathic days and nights.

This implies that regenerative ethology,
exploring your eisegetical experience of nature-spirit’s nondual purposes,
within as without,
is a Left-Right
co-empirical deductive/inductive
health science.

With polycultural and multicultural outcome intent,
we invite both Left-deductive empiricism
and Right-inductive Personal Knowledge,
a tacit, more than explicit, dimension
(see also M Polanyi and D Bohm and E De Bono and J Jaynes)
as comprehensively balancing co-arising knowledge
(see also B Fuller on distinctions of ecological cooperative bilateral comprehension
as therapeutically contrasted against
merely ego-anthro-centrically deductive word-choice competitions
of EitherOr oppositions,
where BothAnd appositions
serve more synergetically WinWin healthy-well).

If we believe,
perhaps with our Buddhist nondual co-arising friends,
that the ego mind can become an empty-blank slate,
this is merely the exceptional pause to remember
the interdependent polypathic construction
of all specific knowledge,
including foreknowledge,
content and contentment,
as opposed to more LeftBrain dominant
cognitive-affective clouding dissonance.
When Earth is EmptyLeft
the Universe appears Interdependent-Cooperative inductive Right.

Other EitherOr dichotomies
therapeutically best also comprehended
as BothAnd co-arising dipolar appositions:

Erotic-natural and Agapic regenerative ecopolitical nurturing
biosystemic sensory-neural rootedness,
of fractal/developmental/dialectical-DNA and RNA, for example.

Deductive LeftBrain languaged knowledge
seeking Inductive RightBrain revelations
of ecopolitically cooperative revolutions.

Theoretical deductive-reductive abstractions of rationalism
redrawn and remembered from experiential-affective ElderRight
ecological learning
distinctions between regenerative long-term
and degenerative short-term re-acclimations
of Bateson’s Sacred Ecology,
nightmare to daydream daily cooperative adaptations,
creolizing nutritional supersessions
from enslavement to LeftBrain dominance only
to full-free multiculturing liberty
to dance with Left-Right Bodhisattva Messianic PeaceMakers.

Nature’s LeftBrain Yang-strengths
optimizing while nurturing RightBrain’s Yin-flow.

Anthrocentric competitive Yang-LeftBrain paid-out-forward messianism
and WinWin pregnant co-arising
EarthMatriarchal YinSquared-Fractal c-squared, e-squared
MultiCultural CoEnlightenment
(see B Fuller on compare/contrast of spatiated c-squared
with temporal-bilateral linear Eulerian-squared
prime metaphysical relationship).

So nature and sexuality and ecotherapeutic messianism
do all fit together
to include our humane-divine full bilateral spectrum
of homo through hetero sexuality,
with bi and transexuality somewhere in-between,
Tipping Points
to help the rest of us
heal ourselves of unseemly Yang-dominant bias,
where homo means anti-hetero
and hetero devolves into anti-homo,
and white means anti-black
and black means anti-white,
and North means anti-South
and South means anti-North,
and Western Capitalism means anti Eastern Cooperativism
and Eastern Nondual Cooperativism (Taoism-Buddhism, etc.)
means possibly also Western Creolizing EcoCapitalistic InterRelationalism.

One is naturally a man
or woman
or someone multiculturally in-between,
reminding us
there are many healthier ways to become a bicameral polypathic man,
as accessible as a therapeutic daydream
comprehending this new diurnal dawn.

 

Strongly influenced by, informed by, energized by, pp. 53-55, “Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First Century, Dale B Martin, 2017. Although, if I have distorted his clear-light Christian message and multicultural intent, these faults are my own.

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Lady Liberty’s Pregnant Opera

A beautiful,
radiantly pregnant,
lady liberty
swings back and forth across this Left to Right predominating stage
of ecopolitical history.

As she recesses toward Left stage climax
she recedes from LeftBrain audience’s co-evolving view
for one ecstatic, yet anticlimatically ambiguous, moment
sweeping a revolutionary change
away from monocultural wardrobe,
to re-emerge in royal blue skirt of virginal regenesis
and full-breasted naked multigenerational torso
laughing with us
at how hilarious this permaculturing bicameral opera
has resolved ultra-violating tensions
and nuclear divisive fears
of nature-spirit fertile fusions.

This pregnant lady sings
in full-octave resonance
with us
as we become HerStoric ReStaged,
degenerating mere audience of hypnotic LeftBrain dominance
to once again regeneratively act our nondual co-arising stage presence,
swings of spiraling ego/eco-consciousness,
as day invites dream
dawning yet another radiance
singing,
liturgical dancing evensong.

We’re not even theoretically together
until this humane Lady Liberty sings
co-operatively with us,
globally togathering,
consuming and producing full-octave resonant resolutions,
resolving swinging spirals
Left to Right to regenerate Left again
toward Yin/Yang eco-dominant circles
away from Yang dominating over Yin.

YinRight inductions revolting toward lighter revolving operas,
replacing ecopolitical patriarchal terrorism
with matriarch/patriarch musical-comedy
agapic with erotic,
cooperatively owned economics
with bicamerally co-governing politics,
no longer waiting to conjoin
this creole singing
pregnant virgin’s
eco-laughing operations.

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Therapeutic Homes

Consider a beehive
and/or an ant nest,
and call it holistically holonic,
egoQueen and eco-proletariat balancing regenerativity,
Beloved cycle-climaxing Community.

Now look at the manual/womanual service sector
as co-responsible co-redemptive CareGivers
and the cooperative-matriarchal Queen
and her fertile multigenerational authoritative function
as perfect CareReceiver,
co-investing in long-term mutual future optimization returns
of healthy regenerativity
continuously slow-growth projected
for long-term CareGiver/Receiver health-wealth ecopolitical abundance, resonance,
recycling resolution.

Now notice,
while we might see bee and ant ecology of CareGiver/Receiver
as creolizing, syncretizing, transubstantiating
mutually co-relational primal relationship,
yet the CareGiver employment sector
in LeftBrain dominant human ecopolitics
has become increasingly competitive WinElite-Receivers
contending with Loser-NonElite CareGivers.

Wealth receivers
and health service providers,
domestic matriarchal nurturing laborers
have turned what was rich creolic mutual nutrition
into a ghetto employment sector
for those who have nothing more valuable to offer
our capitalist-survivalist Either/Or
monoculturing degeneration,
over-feeding CareReceivers into WealthHoarders,
growing ecopolitically revolutionary,
and revolting, boundaries
around shrinking service economy ghetto-dwellers
with full-growing feelings of over-populated futility,
competitive LoseLose terrorizing/terrorist rabidity.
For healthier cooperative ownership and self-governance,
consider a beehive
and/or ant in his/her nature/nurturing creolic nest
of appositional Both/And role identification,
rather than EitherOr Win/Lose
LeftBrain egocentric anthrocentric
CareReceiver un-naturally dominant reification,
predicting further LoseLose degenerative trends
of over-competitional grazing and hazing,
feeding off the proletariat CareGivers
rather than feeding and breeding with.

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The PermaCultural Brain Surgeons

Honey,
please don’t even try to get me interested
in your Cranial Ontology Department.
You know how the name itself
puts my brain to sleep.

Yes I noticed your tendency to snore
when I am thinking out loud,
with tender thoughts about glial climate cells
holding up all that neural landscape in your mind.

Sounds more like Brain Architecture to me,
and I prefer my architecture out where I can look at it.

I thought so.
So why isn’t your PermaCulture Design Department
called the PermaCultural Therapeutic Design Department,
so your therapeutic ecoconsciousness could be better marketed
for all to see?
You are the health and nutrition regenerativity people;
the public-private health development scientists and artists, really,
rather than restricted to outside edibles and ornamentals,
stimulating neural-glial flowing smell and taste therapies,
polypathic as well as polycultural ego+environment regenerating
creolizing
healthy-wealthy outcomes.

Oh, leave us alone,
we have plenty of environmental climate messes
in our cranial ontological confusion already.

I was hoping to be helpful;
not sniping.
When I imagine matriarch-regenerative organized glial cell networks,
I wonder if they respond to music and fragrance therapies,
artistic-symmetric rhythms and patterns,
especially fractal-holonic,
like regenerative DNA tissue its Original Matriarch/Patriarch Equivalent Self,
double-bonding with color wheels and rainbows,
eight-note octaves of both majorYang and minorYin,
biaxial dipolar appositional co-arising equanimity,
like surf and wind sounds, ebbingYin and flowingYang,
as PolyPathic Yang = Not(Not-PolyNomial) Energy/Entropy, Information/Exformation,
as Win-Positive Deviance = Not(NotLose) DoubleBinding Appositional Negative Deviance-Squared/Fractal Tipping Points
between neural landscape therapeutic design
and glial-embryonic enthymematic climates
of bilateral-bicameral ego/ecotherapy.

Again, dear,
I appreciate your intent,
but, although PermaCulturists do have polyculturing therapeutic intent,
we are not into interior design, so much,
like surfing-breathing wallpaper
displaying primordial embryonic nutritional seascapes.

I doubt you could embrace surfing spiraling landscapes
without also seeing
and smelling
and hearing with dipolar co-arising and co-ebbing glial networks,
bicameral balancing in therapeutic favor for Win = Not(NotLose)
ecopolitical
multicultural
polypathic justice as also peace.

Neural Yang networks
floating in Yin double-binding appositionally dipolar climate balance
is like experiencing both your ego-point
and your eco-home 3-dimensional environmental spacetime-line
through a temporal long-term multigenerational matriarchal tree
as contrasted with a neural-atomic-digital bionic coaxial patriarchal way.

Glial may feel RightBrained to you dear,
in that cerebral phylogenically reproductive ecoconsciousness of yours,
but to me your words and revolving images
flow and ebb more Yin Both/And heuristic,
reiterating time and rhythmic patterns,
fractal-midway octaves sung full majorYang co-operatic
as neurons define LeftBrain Yang
WinWin mutual love and hopeful therapies
more powerful than LoseLose mutual denials
of both right now and future
as reweaving past nature-spirit nondual spacetime.

Well,
at least you’re not snoring yet,
although I do see those lovely eyelids drooping.
So, if you do drift off,
see if you can find any permacultural WinWin resolutions
of degenerating long-term Either/Or climate pathologies
with short-term to immediate right-now Both/And notnot-Lose
co-redeeming equities for your exegetical LeftBrain deductive positive neurons
with your eisegetically bilateral-networking RightBrain inductive notnot glial cells
and seas
and surfing, spiraling seasons
of past through present through future ecopolitical health
and cooperative ownership
and co-redemptive neural-glial safety.

Oops, I think I lost her.
Have a well deserved nap, my dear.
I think I’ll do the same,
maybe our glial scents and tastes will hook up.

Don’t talk dirty, dear.
Unless you mean it.

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Higher and Deeper Powers

I was noticing that those in the Unitarian Universalist Association,
with which I am more or less anonymously affiliated
in some far too abstract way for personal comfort,
believe in three prime sources for their (our) truth search,
rather like a revised holonic trinity,
equally at home for Buddhist monk
or Islamic or Christian not-quite-so-fundamentalistically BothAnd alive.

The first of these is a Higher Power.
Now this must have been written by the Yang Universalists
within the Universal-Unitarian assembly,
because every wholesome Yin Unitarian knows
that what is a Higher Power for Universalist Yangers
is also a Deeper Power for Unitarian Yinners
bilateral BothAnd winners;
so, a HigherYang/DeeperYin Power.

Then we come to the second source,
YangLife and YinDeath.
Now any fully bicameral balanced Unitarian-Universalist,
just as any Taoist,
knows there is always something of Yin within Yang
and vice versa.
Just as there is something of our daytime lives
in our nighttime dreams,
and sometimes our inductive dream work
presents bilaterally incisive insights
into next morning’s Tipping Point meditation
on and for and of the breathless balance
of ego- and eco-consciousness,
empathically trusting in healthy YangLife
and safety of exhaling final YinDeath,
leaving further climatic paradoxes
and coaxial dialectic nondualities
for future regenerations to sift through,
notice,
comprehend and decompose,
and then reweave again,
as full-octave light emerges from dark
so life emerges from embryonic death
the absence of discontinuous life at egocentric levels
posing both risk and opportunity
in wider and deeper nutritional Earth-centric becomings.

Finally, we have sacred texts,
the YangLogos and YinMythos of experience
reflected in the memory language of Wise Elders,
presumably filled with both Higher and Deeper Powers.

So, that’s it.
We have the Higher PatriarchalUniversalist Power
with the Deeper BiCameral Learning MatriarchalUnitarian Power
living and dying to WinWin nature-spirit nonduality together,
as written in the fusing-fractal DNA and RNA
of each sacred ecological phylogenically regenerative
and co-operative
reproductive rights and wrongs re-creation story.

Now the 3-Source trinitarian story takes us to the 7 Principles,
which some permaculturists would expand out to 12,
while spiraling octavists, and maybe sufis and artists, stop at 8,
but nature reweaves as a regenerative bilateral-fractal 4
seasons of health and safety regenerativity,
or cooperative ownership and self/other governance,
if you are a Yin-Unitarian NonZero-Sum economist
or a Yang-OneEarthClimate politician
or possibly even nondual BothAnd alive and growing
out your extending UU-Taoist family,
tribe,
species,
planet,
the wu wei in-between horizontal and vertical spacetimes
where Earth and Sun/Moon radiant Sky
nondually co-arise seeds,
trees,
and other bilateral root and branching health and safety systems
seeking both Higher and Deeper Powers
of reproductive
reweaving continuous life and discontinuous death,
sacred regenerative texts;
not to become confused with degenerative twitters.

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The L Word

The L word,
like the N word,
labels no one with healthy homeostatic balance within society,;
no conservative fellow-conservationist of culture
that we would want to be
and creolizingly become.

The L word
is a political caricature,
a despotic stereotype,
of what is too often economically proven
as also a faithless hypocrisy.

An authentic political person
favoring liberating inclusion
within our systemic power structures
cannot also be an economic autonomous ownership conservative.

A politically bilateral cooperative management model,
where responsibility goes up as authority comes down,
is ultimately supported through cooperative ownership
as public health
stewardship for optimizing multicultural wealth.

To own the L word
is to cooperatively own Earth,
including our nondual co-arising
nature-spirit,
descriptive-prescriptive,
logos-mythos,
yang-yin,
left-right,
deductive-inductive,
double-binding ecopolitics.

Old School Libertarians
had faith in conserving political freedoms for co-empowerment.
PostMillennials would also liberate
our faith that growing economic cooperative ownership,
and self-with-other governance,
is a normative therapeutic prescription
but also an ecological description
of how we organically have derived
optimal regenerative
multiculturally positive outcomes
throughout both history and herstory,
both economically co-owned
and conservationally co-operatively managed.

Who cooperatively owns and manages
your not primarily for elitist profit-growing enterprises,
plans,
designs,
projects,
corporations,
incarnations?
Is it your celestial Board of Directors
and your monopolistic CEO?
Or do you cooperate your days and nights through family-owned busyness and playfulness,
through your local economic and political cooperative networks
of co-owned industry and recreation,
transportation and communication,
communing self/other transport,
your cooperative interdependent ecosystemic States,
your Earth interdependent international economies?

These are each and all for ego/eco-therapeutic climate-liberating health
accruing cooperatively emergent slow-growth wealth
through WinWin regenerative games and choice-making
and self-with-other ownership of our cooperative game ourselves.

This cooperative matriarchal/patriarchal Organic Garden
is already multicultural Shabbat here,
and still not quite cooperative therapeutic economic ownership
of and for regenerative self/other-gratitude governance;
not just anti-climatically yet.

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The Fourth Principle

The Fourth Principle of cooperative ecopolitical design (D. Holmgren):
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
One might read this as an implied corollary
of the Golden Rule.

Why?
The sins and blessings of the patriots and matriots
are revisited by and with 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.

Feedback comes in two trends,
regenerative-positive,
which often has some form of creolizing, creative, recreative dimension
to love’s evolution,
and degenerative-negative.
It is important to accept both kinds,
to welcome both kinds, especially when they are offered together,
within some nondual co-arising double-binding frame
of appositional dipolar reference,
to become grateful for both kinds,
to express this gratitude for both kinds,
life’s apparent blessings and curses.

So, whether Republican or Democrat,
or something Libertarian Green in-between,
an important litmus test for the savvy ecopolitical consumer and producer
of national and state and local leadership and maturity
that we sometimes ignore at our own disgruntled peril,
and at further peril “unto seven generations”
of potentially robust regenerators,
from Bodhisattva PeaceWagers and CoInvestors
to CoMessianic Salvific GoodNews CoRedeemers:

1. How has this candidate for public office
demonstrated and grown mature self-regulation
in his/her personal and public economic and political-relational life?
Essentially a question to compare cooperative ownership and governance trends
with overly competitive elitist and supremacist egocentric trends.

2. How has this candidate demonstrated growth
in regenerative capacity
to absorb,
learn from,
and become grateful for
positive and negative feedback
in his/her personal and pubic economic and political life?
How might you compare this to your own life,
both naturally organic and spiritual?

Perhaps the overly competitive economic and politically aggressive public servants
we have been electing and hiring to represent our healthiest interests
are the to-be-expected answers
to the absence of higher-priority questions,
too degeneratively short-term focused
and polarizingly narrow-minded,
questions unmindful of the Fourth Principles potential
for more robust Golden Rule cooperative outcomes.

David Holmgren, Co-Originator of the Permaculture Concept,

Fourth Principle from “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability”

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