We need to talk.

Is this one of those times
where you need to talk
and I must pretend to listen
while you rant?

Well, yes,
if you could extend this favor.

Your topic?

Social Darwinism.

Isn’t that the birthplace of unfettered Capitalism
and Fascism
and Totalitarianism
and anthropocentrism,
and plutocratic caste preservation
where greed to breed
and bleed-out others
is doing what comes naturally?

Umm, yes.
Or at least those are its long-term degenerative faces.

Do you find any hope
for a happy face
when talking trauma at me
about predation and piracy,
chronic competitive survival issues,
and other unhappy endings?

Yes.
I mean no..

Yes and no,
which is it?

Exactly.
That’s why we need to talk.

And listen better together.

Yes, to both sides of Darwin’s evolution;
I mean, our ecological devolution,
and both.

The Win v Lose competitive survivalist’s zero-sum side…

And the sexier
but unprivileged
nurturing nutritional side
of Win+Win transformations
in cooperatively thriving
global healthcare.

Yes, this living organic world
in which rights and responsibilities of reproduction
are Earth’s more matriarchal cooperative vocation,
understory of all our blood and gore
climate of pathology,
competing monocultural
and monotheistic
and monopolistic histories.

Please tell me we are not heading
to Left and Right reprise,
for this anthem grows exhausting
to my cooperative bicameral ears.
You preach to our gospel choir
as if we were invoking Darwinist piracy
rabid plutocracy
vapid supremacy
rather than socially regenerative evolutionists
of peace restoring democratic justice
for all sacredly organic creatures.

My chronic frustration shows
only to those who already agree with me
unlike our alien enemies
who will not Win+Win
listen for Both-And
Common ComPassionate Communication.

Well baby, we all can hear in stereo,
or at least most of us can.
Just lay out Darwin’s Both-And experience
and scientific v sacred observations.

I’ll try to keep this short.

Already too late for that
I fear.

Darwin,
biologists,
and human people with reproductive compassion,
or even just recreative pleasure intent,
breathe and beat
sing and dance
within Earth’s cooperative rhythms
of Win+Win historically fertile associations.
If this were not our understory of eco-political
multigenerational
polyculturing progress
toward enriching long-term growth,
then Win v Lose dissociations
of prey v predator
could not sustain
as a co-passionate health norm,
a profoundly holistic mutual acclimation status,
rather than a monopoly-building thrival of the fittest story
of resilient economic empowerment
and resonantly democratic enlightenment.

So you would remind us
of what we already know from cooperative sexual experience.
Any organic system,
to remain a viable system,
must capture a Win+Win double-binding positive feedback yield
within its interdependent environmental relationships
adequate to sustain reproductive development.
Those systems that fail to achieve
predominant production of WinInternal+WinExternal outcomes
become consumed by Win v Lose survivalist struggles.
Failure to Win+Win thrive
through ego/eco-systemic mutual acclimation,
destined to expire through exosmotic depletion.

Yes,
I hope that was why we needed to talk sequentially
and listen simultaneously.

But,
what about this Type A personality argument,
that too much contentment,
hoarded wealth safeguarding egos from discomfiting challenges
and Win v Lose threatening competitions
produces Queen Bee satiated outcomes,
absence of motives to get ahead
or behind something better,
and long-term dysfunction
of over-bloated navel-gazing egos
and upper caste preserving families
and elitist tribes
and an anthropocentric yet inhumane species?
Nothing breeds survival failure
like too much Win v Lose success.

That is,
although I hesitate to say it,
LeftBrain EitherWin OrLose neoliberal propaganda,
deductively reducing RightBrain’s BothWin+NotLose
co-empathically felt capacity to imagine cooperative intent.
LeftBrain verbal dominance is too seldom discomforted
by cognitive-only barriers to active ideological cooperation.
Win+Win systemic supports for co-ownership and democratic governance
without which reproductive physical health rights
and mental health lefts bipolar dissociate,
leading to self-dissatisfied suboptimizing depressions,
lack of regenerative motivations
in which organic body needs for kind touch
becomes dissociated from
sacred mind wants for compassionate communication
setting our neurological stage for chronically stressed Type B behaviors,
like self-anger and loathing,
fear and paralyzing paranoia
about overcrowded climates of growing pathology,
Earth’s manscapes and landscapes
of deadly Win v Lose demise.

I’m not sure what is my double-binding both-and positive take away
from all that,
much less yours.

I wish we could stop hearing Social Darwinism
as an antisocial commitment to bottom-line capitalism.
Darwin,
like all those enraptured within Earth’s reproductive
re-connecting
re-ligioning nature,
heard and saw both our cooperative Win+Win
thrivalist understory
of domestic fertility
and the competitive Win v Lose survivalist history
of predative piracy overwhelming preyed upon victims
Praying that someone else will be today’s weaker loser,
even if I might have to help Mother Nature along
just a bit
by giving some other barely standing person
a nudge under the irreligious train
so the rest of us have more room
to get on
and stay on our trembling train
for one more daily ride
before perdition.

You know, dear,
sometimes I get lost in your mixed metaphors,
and yet the days of the Great MonoTheistic Train
requiring a daily human sacrifice of pleasure
to continue our torturous ride through dispassion
feels largely anachronistic
as well as anthropocentric.

I hope that’s true.
Yet, I hope we might all cooperatively board
a more diverse SocialEvolution Train
of LeftMind thoughts
and RightBody feelings
Both-And bipartisan
Win+Win ecological thrivalism,
to let go of Left v Right
Either upper caste preservation
Or lower caste abolition,
Win v Lose short-term survivalism
triggered by systemic RightWing trauma.

Sounds more like a prayer for revivalism
of reproductive rights and wrongs
of social ego/eco-systemic bountifulism.

Did we talk Peace?

You tell me.
You’re the one with Type A need
to competitively talk and act out
in your speaking means not listening
singing means not dancing
dominating dissociative way.
When I speak,
I assume the only person deeply listening
for what you might care to engage next
is me.

Which is why we need to talk more.

Maybe, so we can listen more deeply
and widely.
But also why you always want the last endless word.

I resemble that.

[Yes you do,
but if I say this out loud
then you will continue talking
about what both is and is not socially true
and when
and where
and why;
an anthem more reproductively sung
and horizontally danced
by a Win+Win hopeful cricket.]

I can still hear you,
you know.
I feel more like a hammering away red-headed woodpecker,
hungry;
not ever, even once, satiated.