I was reading Lakoff’s story
of what he learned at Berkeley
about international relations,
when I found my RightBrain offering further nuance;
not to deny what is here,
but to add what is also here,
but not explicitly stated,
about regenerative political health
and economic safety.
“The ‘rational’ approach to foreign policy was governed by a set of conceptual metaphors,
taken as simple common sense,
as [Both-And, not Either-Or] metaphors often are.
As a special case of An Institution
is a Person, [personification]
there was A Nation is a [monotheistic, monopolistic, monocultural] Person.”
“In addition,
a common metaphor for [EitherPositive-OrNegative, 0-sum] rationality is used,
namely,
Rationality is the Maximization of Self [v Other]-Interest (or ‘utility’ [and ‘integrity’]),
which entails that it is ‘irrational’ [and unhealthy and unsafe] to act against one’s self-interest[s].
These two metaphors are then combined to yield:
A [Healthy, Happy, Secure] Nation is a Rational [Either-Or, not Both-And] Actor.”
“…we get as an entailment
the central thesis of the rational actor model
in international [interfamilial, intertribal, interspecies, inter-religious] relations:
Every [healthy] nation
acts rationally
to maximize its military [Yang] strength,
economic health,
and [Self v Other] political influence.”
“Rationality,
on this conception,
is taken as
[Self v Other, 0-sum competitively] universal
and occurring at the level
of the [monotheistic-monocultural, monopolistic] state.”
I feel so eviscerated.
Get over it.
Both-And co-empathic;
not either-or pathological.
You’ve still got all your caste-preserving potential
just more Both +1Self And -(-0)Other co-aligned.
Yes ma’am!
Who got out of bed on the wrong side today?
Don’t even try it.
I’m going back to my “Political Mind” without you.
Doubtful.
And, if possible, dangerous.
You really aren’t going to let me have the last word today are you?
I thought I was your last wordless wonder,
your wandering everything.
I think he’s talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with “How to talk to the other side”.
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently recall,
while reading George Lakoff’s “Political Mind”,
still…
Yes, dear,
you really talk about Lakoff’s synergetic bipartisan mind
a bit too much.
I prefer opera.
Speaking of what that could possibly mean,
I was reading Lakoff and listening Willer,
both probably influenced by Berkeley power acclimation,
now post-millennially evolving
from Gregory Bateson’s Sacred Ecology,
which was also sometimes bicameral-appositionally structured
to bilaterally invite both-and comparisons
where LeftBrain dominance competes
in either-or survivalist situations.
Now I couldn’t possibly be more lost
in your polysyllables
where I prefer polyphonic rhythms,
jazzier occupied beats of engagement.
This is starting to sound like an opera version
of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.
So, as I was saying,
this bicameral picture, from Lakoff, and Willer, and Bateson…
I’m sorry, honey.
Was that the Berkeley political law firm
you were reading,
and watching?
No! Not a law firm…
Well, OK, whatever.
As I was trying to say,
the political version of natural ecological law’s string
of reasoning draws a geopolitical frame of perennial competition
for monopolistic health values, for monocultural safety,
and for patriotic-nationalistic loyalty,
often boiling up into militaristic aggression
using the eumemic rhetoric
of Win v Lose evolutionary monotheism.
Hang on, there,
this feels like a rather bad review
for our bipartisan relationship,
which I have always found more Win+Win Positive,
than, you know…
too Yang Dominant overacting.
Well, that’s because you and I know how to co-mediate
our caregiving and receiving needs and wants
in this little ecotherapeutic landscape we have designed
and matured together,
democratically bilateral.
When I carry on in my LeftBrain need to control way
you just sleep and murmur
and sometimes giggle
through my becoming lost,
too tightly associated
with a Western White God of MasterSex
monopolistically marching against democratic health
and bipartisan safety
freedoms for all
polytheistically together
when choosing not to fall
monotheistically apart.
OK, well..
maybe not so useful for those who have already drifted off
toward polarized margins;
more for EarthCentral caste-conservation
reorienting mature sacred and organic animists,
but then, that’s how God the Father
designed my politically interdependent mind/body
so never mind about a little lack of well-integrated body
not quite mind v body trauma-informed
rebalancing GodMonoTheistic/GaiaHypoTheistic
panentheistic ego/ecotherapy.
My LeftBrain cognitive point
remains our sacred health and organic safety,
although I do have these fascinated feelings
about monopolistic purity
and monotheistic loyalty
to Fertile Fathered Landscapes,
waves of horny gain.
Oops. I think you did a little RightBrain slip there.
But, I get your idea,
and I know you also appreciate this other progressive-liberation theology side,
where we find our more integrative,
matriarchal trans-caste regeneration,
upper/lower cobinary investment in future global health
securing interdependently organic safety
through improving our opera song and dance skills today
Like when we taught the kids
to extend their imaginations
about Gaia’s Golden Rule,
not only across all EarthTribe species,
but also across past generations
of organically healthy and democratically happy time
Which must include bilaterally equivalent respect
between all the multiculturing possibilities
of nature’s most optimally lawful integrity,
transforming Crown/Root polyvagal life
as enlightened/empowered Win/Win selves.
There for a minute
I thought you were confining yourself
to the land of cause v effect reason.
But, moving on,
Your animistic RightBrain Liberation Front,
flowing with co-passionate communing integrity,
Dr. Jane Gordon calls this cooperative Creolization,
and such profound synergy also peaks
experiencing Sacred Ecology’s
caste-liberating teleology.
Oh boy,
now we’re really in trouble.
Really, honey,
you need to get out more,
go for a walk,
do some gardening,
plant trees,
and follow through
feeding and watering reconnection,
not dissociated LeftBrain verbal dominance.
Don’t you just mean more pantheistic gain
than monotheistic pain,
more naturally and spiritually healthy
than Yang-excessively aggressive?
Well, probably, but it sounds better the way I say it.
OK, if you think so.
I wonder how this is the same and different
than our favorite Hot Daddy Soap Opera,
where everybody eventually ends up gettin’ some,
but also losing every kinship opportunity
that could ever possibly matter.
Try to stay tuned to one channel,
if you would be so kind.
So, we have these two primal light and power hemispheres
of bicamerality,
acting as bilateral panentheistic
nondual-caste co-passion
through interdependently embodied pleasure.
God remains Patriarchal LeftBrain egocentric-anthropocentric Father;
but is now hooked up with…
Honey,
please say conjoined,
not hooked up.
That sounds crude and disrespectful.
Right.
OK, God the sacred-preserving Father
conjoins
organic-liberating EarthMother
of Yin RightBrain co-empathic integrity.
Good.
So we’re done with this story then?
Even so, I feel compelled
to remind your secular-West reasoning
about your repressed sacred integrity co-empathic feelings
that healthy Crown/Root-preserving polyvagal services
cannot be Win/Win delivered to a global market
by merely following LeftBrain UpperCrown v LowerRoot
deductive-dominating assumptions
about our democratically bicameral health and safety.
Well, that’s what I’m LeftBrain saying,
My either-or delights your both-and
win/win bipartisan powers.
gdill52 