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Polynomial v. Not Polynomial Time and Space

We can approach this issue about how to optimize the syntax of digital information trends, and the timely analysis of these trends, with a dual hypothesis, to see which is more productive of a healthy and wealthy past, present, and future.

P is not equivalent to NP:

The proposition “Polynomial information is non-equivalent to Not-Polynomial information” has been our scientific, deductive, and metric-analytical encultured assumption, our “Binary Business As Usual”. Doing so, however, fails to explain why digital information is reliably binary-syntaxed information. There is an implied assumption of electromagnetic balance within binary equivalent structure of informing trend analysis. We have not rationally explained why some issues, problems, algorithms, variables, nomials, memes, paradigms, facts have resonantly resolvable solutions, while others calculate their way into infinity. Which issue and algorithm will produce which outcome, rational v. irrationally indefinite, is rather like trying to predict and  segregate revolutions from evolution.

P is reverse-equivalent (nondual dipolar co-arising) to NP:

If, however, we start with the heuristic assumption that P=NP, where might this take us toward explaining outstanding teleological, economic, ecological, sustainable health as wealth, and perhaps even cosmological issues?

Game Theory: +Win (P) = {-/-}equi-valent Not-Lose Draw (NP)

Group Theory: Explicate [D. Bohm] Convex Boundary +0 = {-,-} Implied Co-Gravitational Concave Prime Relationship (Perelman, Thurston-on 4-Prime elliptical binomial dimensionality)

Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics: +0 Core Vertex = (-)0 Core Vortex “black hole”

Dual-Transparent Cosmology Origination Story: +0 Dark Matter =  {-,-}0 Dark Energy [Zero-Dimensional Binomial Gravitational co-arising relationship]

Taoism: +0Yang Form-Power = {-,-}Yin-Yin Midway optimal-flow function, reverse 1- temporal/3=spatial, 4 dimensional equi-valent Commons.

Information Theory: +1 Octave QByte = {-,-}0 = 4(+)/4(-) QBit Electromagnetic 4-dimensional Fractal Balance

Permacultural Systems Theory: Regenerative Energy = “Square” rooted 4-dimensional Decomposing Gravity, “reverse-hierarchical cognitive/neural tree-structure”;

yielding: Thermodynamic Primal Balance Principle of embryonic DNA/RNA regeneratively encrypted function.

These diverse paradigms each appear premised on the more primal assumption that life and thought and language, the universe co-arising within and without us, folds and unfolds bi-nomially, in a cosmological embryonic soup with metric ecologic that +space = double-binding (-,-) time,

as +Mass [physical-photon universe] = double-transparent (-,-) ergodically balancing (0)-Core binomially co-arising Gravity as Reverse-Time Ex-Formating Commons = (+)/(-)c-square rooting, precessive, implicate disorder with binomial/binary nondual co-arising syntax.

Permaculturally speaking, the metric observation that P=NP can be equivalently translated as Yang=YinYin (win-win cooperative economics and ecological prime relationship) within 4-equi-dimensionally co-evolving interdependent systems.

 

 

 

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Medicated Breath

I breathe in sunshine
to breathe through rain.

I breathe in laughter
to breathe through pain.

I breathe in and up
to breathe down thru-out.

I breathe in language
to breathe through syntax.

I breathe inside
to breathe through all sides.

I breathe in DNA languaged You
to breathe through RNA instinctive me.

I breathe in Left-brained dominant you
to breathe through Right-brain permanently-encultured me.

I breathe inflating ego
to breathe eco-conflating,
double-binding,
Self+Other time.

I breathe in convex information
to breathe through concaving dissonant co-arising noise.

I breathe economic expansion
to breath through ecological contractions,
decomposition,
purgation.

I breathe in Eco’s Plan A
to breathe through Ego’s balancing Plan B.

I breathe in zen zero nondual form,
to breathe through tao Yang-Yin balancing
ergodic/ionic binomial
mutually-gravitational co-arising function.

I breathe in yolky embryonic paradigms
to breathe out revolutioning Time’s polypathic ecologic.

I breathe in what matters [+Polynomial]
to breathe through optimally healthy midway double-dark energy
[(-,-) Polynomial]

I breathe in 0-soul theorems
to breathe through 0-sum economically full-living cooperatives.

I breathe in rich nutritional health and well-being
to breathe through wealth of form and function.

I breathe in ego-Win!
to breathe through not-not eco-win.

I breathe
to breathe through you,
as us.

I breathe in transparent-mirror ego compost
to breathe out eco-seeds of regenerating culture.

I breathe in nondual coincidence
to breathe out co-arising,
self-balancing perpetuation
of mutual mentoring gravitation.

I breathe in yes
to breathe through polycultural not not yet.

We are breathing together
to breathe through remembering syntax
of permacultural time’s diversely seasoned articulations.

The family and living planet that breathe together
stay together.

The family, planet, that doesn’t,
well…not so much.

I breathe in sunshine
to breathe through rain.

Note:Influenced by Dr. Robert Norton’s ethological theory of communication strings, following a geometric and logical fractal rhythm.  See “Communication & Consequences: Laws of Interaction” (1996), Robert Norton and David Brenders; essential reading for poets and would-be-effective-public-facilitators of communication and inclusive policy development, especially health and economic policy.

 

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Darwin’s Double-Dark Dilemma

Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for those YangStrong
while Darwin’s Cross and his own eyes
clearly disguised
camouflaged ectosymbiotic thrival of deepest flexible fit-in-edness.

Fullerian synergy.
both within and between polycultured communities and creations,
natural recreations,
ReGenitor’s co-redemptive grace-gift
a pointy-poignant Tipping Midway Rudder,
Yang sustained as ecto-entity through YinYin Win-Win endo-duel tippity,
for Yang/Yin mutually comprehending fitness,
breathing through past anger with future-fear,
toward balancing love’s active endo/ecto comprehensive consciousness.

If only our early-encultured CD of evolution,
had more faithfully looked up and out,
less endo-symbiotically withdrawn,
as Bucky the Fullerest did cooperatively shout,
ubiquitously pout,
prophet of future’s positive spout
flowing Solar-Systemic re-fusion of energy
still photosynthesizing light’s Commons co-op horizon.

With Sun as shamanic Progenitor of RNA, then DNA,
and Mother Earth as pre-genetive virginal womb,
egg white nutritionally composting egg yolk,
provoking primally cooperative metasystemic transactions,
natural contractions with requisite expansions
issuing diverse relay racing genes,
needing to win-win to eco-redeem this global EarthTribe Team.

This problem of evolution’s Win-Lose Evil,
like Kuhn’s problem of incommensurable co-arising of paradigms,
resolves as Manifest Dual/Duelling-Destiny,
dying breath through inductive rebirth,
Yang’s natural economic strength can’t sustain life
without Yin’s double-RNA encoded bicameralogical ego-defiant Right brain
flexibly Jaynes balancing revolutions of temporary death to identity
co-mingling with Yang’s deductive-reflective notice,
prehensile prancing
in without
as EcoUs within.

The political economics of nature challenge just enough
to potentiate optimal cooperative Win-Win transactions
tipping-point midway interactions
ecotherapeutic as metasystemic relationships of stimulating Positive Yang
deducing responsive Double-Negative Yin’s boundary death issues;
synergetic fusions.

Competitive eco-bio-logic
pinch-hits and hints toward primal peace
when revolutioning double-bind dissonance,
resolving double-bind dissonance,
personal, familial, and tribal,
discerning tipping points of optimally resonant double-negative
wu-wei decompositional discernment of sub-prime co-arising trends,
outlining our means to fusion’s full-octave
perma-cultural contentment,
balancing of loose unraveling ends and outcomes,
our Win-Win Intelligence
positive evolutionary Way.

To evolve all ectosymbiotic solar seasoned days,
we resolve our resonantly endosymbiotic solar/lunar cycling
ringing
singing
story-telling strings of Double-Dark Holed night-too-bright.

Bucky’s response to Darwin’s Double-Dark Dilemma,
thriving cooperative win-win systems
of primal fitting-in-ness,
challenging each and all to do our best
to win together:
to optimize positive systemic natural revolutions
of principle and order,
design an optimal evolutionary environment;
to purge ourselves of insubordinate competitively gluttonous economics,
invest more in mutually subsidiary cooperative deep ecologic,
metasystemic justice;
ringing greater resonance in octaved natural systemic circles,
not-quite-so-much Independence Daze of Nationalism over co-operating Earthism,
minimizing Lose-Lose marching in mutual-immunity squares
of autistically demented,
collectively encultured competition-craze.

Decompose within as without,
to regenerate without within,
before as after,
to reflect after as if before,
response as stimulus,
effect as cause of what came after,
object as subject of mutually intelligent interest,
objectives as subjects of mutually cooperative subsidiarity,
nondual co-arising intent,
dissonance as still-contentious potential confluence
to resolve content-full dia-resonance,
Yang as Yin-Yin
to Yin optimally inclusive Yanging sustaining ecto/endosymbiotic life.

Thank you Uncle Charlie,
you did good.
Now, please go rest in peaceful co-arising bliss.

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Greeristic FreeVerse to B. Sanders

Obamystic Preludes: Things we wish tomorrow for today

Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also more than sufficient ignorance
to cause comprehensive disease.

Knowledge is not optimally resolved
resonantly revolved
accurately measured
in deductive-only information,
rational knowledge is optimally measured with health-trend outcomes.

If competing for attention is too tiring,
wilting you outside and in,
try cooperating for retention of solidarity
through mutually subsidiary engagement,
co-prehension,
attendance to co-emergent healthy outcomes.

If we want soldiers of and for good,
then they need mentors
with cooperative gaming strategies
to achieve and sustain
globally self-optimizing healthy wealth.

If we want to avoid nightmares
then we end each day embracing our daytime health/wealth stallion stories,
counting our best cooperative assets
for sustaining life through another night, and generation.

If we want to optimize our wealth of mental health
then we decompose “nondual co-arising confluent memory,”
both binomial-analogical and binary-digital,
toward regenerative multisystemic comprehension.

Too much hated war and violence,
then what do all sides do to sustain their anger?
Too much anger,
disproportionate to resources required to sustain?
Then inclusively discern what we collectively fear about death
as lack of fully comprehensive eternal life
for our polyculture-trending future generations,
and ourselves,
today,
here and now.

Too much disabling and unhealthy paranoia,
depression and suppression,
repression and ignorant impressions
substituting Win-Lose hope of wealth
for Win-Win health
as our shared value for diastatic life?
Then uncover
and discover
and recover
opportunities for cooperating active love
co-arising from the opposite side of the fear/anger spectrum,
refusing to feed your nightmares.
by relentlessly watering our interdependently co-arising health.

Transitioning from competitive Win-Lose
global and domestic policies
toward cooperative Win-Win logistics:

1. Begin with military defense and insurance expenses anticipated for next year.

2. Add all competitive BusinessAsUsual industry subsidies,
tax credits and deferments,
financial investments.

3. Divide the total competitive-aggressive Win-Lose military-industrial expenses
by two;
(1) and (2) above.

4. Invest 50% in a new Peace Corp
with Permaculture EcoTherapeutic Win-Win Design and Development
Mentorship Training,
with requisite alternative-technology tools and resources.

5. Invest the other 50% in a new Americorp/VISTA
with the same multisystemic cooperative networking
mentorship model,
a most cooperative polyculture!
placing interns to co-organize local cooperatives,
health/wealth optimization guilds
composting ecological abundance economies.

Insufficient comprehension for fully co-emergent consciousness
is also more than sufficient decay
to cause cosmo-dislogical disease.

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Race Management

Slavery
enslavement
force of self-imposed ownership
overpowering another’s ego-ownership,
anthro-morbid,
collective ego-morphic tolerance of identity rape,
and the fear and anger, together building hate,
from which enslavement derives;
a culturally camouflaged nondual co-arising relationship
of codependent despair,
self-hatred.

Enslaving force perpetuates Ego’s full-blown angry reduction
in self-identity,
deduction of self,
as someone who could “own” another’s Ego-healthy will
for equivalent freedom from my freedom
to enslave another’s life,
exterior and interior.

Slave and poverty development owners
internally enslaved by our own hypocritical hubris,
swimming upstream into economically encrusted perpetuation
of cognitive and affective dissonance,
chronic internal homelessness,
hopelessness that I cannot afford to be better,
healthier,
than I am.

Those nations,
corporations,
families,
individuals
codependently addicted to retaining
and further developing
vastly disproportionate wealth deposits,
divorced from our own cooperative health and well-being investments,
not only steal from those without enough to thrive,
but also slink away from our own collective mental health,
anxiously fearing freedom’s inevitable reparations,
struggling to repress awareness of nondual codependent enslavement
into entropic death of species.

Hatred combines anger about past with fear of future.
“Anger Management” politics might choose a more transparent therapeutic label,
“Hatred Co-Arising Suppression”.

Decomposing hatred first breathes through “I am Anger,”
listening for Time’s healing simmer,
then decomposing anger about past violations
to embrace rational fears of deadly toxins
enslaving your equitable prospects for a healthy future.

It feels healthy to remember we are Anger
with ourselves
and with each other,
but not against ourselves or others,
for perpetuating enslaving hatred
for stealing wealth from those without sufficient health to thrive
to feed our own unhealthy enslaving greed.

Slavery nondually imposes greedy ownership,
dreadful wealthy lust for power
co-arising with holistic health’s decreasing power,
globally and personally,
without as within.

Very bad karma,
total lack of grace,
not our way to Win-Win race.

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The Civil PolyCultural Revolution Party

“Before the party begins,”
said the Permaculturist to her pupils,
Yang on the Left,
Yin twins on Right,
processing nondually,
“a brief reminder.
of how to enter a room with appropriate balance.”

“This Party Door to life is not hinged for the right-hand dominant side
to swing open and closed
at Ego’s Win-Lose competitively unilateral convenience.”

“Our Party’s threshold toward Win-Win love
is a revolving door,
(0)-soul centered, geometrically, metaphysically, ecologically, and economically,
thermodynamically and gravitationally and cosmologically.
ionically and ergodically,
bionically and binomially nondual co-arising teleology,
logically and fractally dynamic,
revolutionary.
Our PolyCulture Party massively co-hosts
and energetically mentors
this universal spacetime,
on the other nondual side of this classroom’s revolving threshold door.”

“Please continue to push into the Door from the LeftYang position,
while pulling toward your Ego from your RightYin;
either way and both together, nondually.”

“Please avoid messy tangles of arms and legs
and bicamerally dissonant heads
by retaining positive clockwise revolutionary potential,
as opposed to counter-revolutionary BusinessAsUsual
for entering the classroom.”

“This PolyCulture Party celebrates our co-arising design and development,
light dawning with the flow of Time’s eco-natural system,
spinning Left to Right,
then back to Left,
iterative bicameral revolutions toward closure
of our Originating Story,
(0)Mega Tipping Point
Core Pendulum of Time
with Bicameral Enlightenment
for full-octave Party brights.”

“Today,
feeling your light of polycultural wisdom,
after you have finished all your empirical scientific research
for sufficient deductive/inductive
nondual co-arising
Win-Win double-negative logistics
and statistical dipolar trend optimization,
then,
and only then,
please step into the PolyCulture Party threshold,
become the zen nondual-Tao Door,
swing positively on Left-deductive,
and double-negatively on Right-intuitive/inductive.”

“Again,
please sustain these two bicameral frames,
simultaneously confluent
to flow nutrients out Left and wisdom in Right’s dual-dark atmosphere
in temporal and proportional alignment
for optimal thermodynamic balance,
and proactive, yet nonviolent, love.”

Yang and Yin-twins wend their weignt along Golden Ratios and Rules,
toward their nondual and dipolar,
correlational
co-arising
PolyCulture Revolution Party.

Your Bicamerally Balancing Time.
Your TriSpaceDeductive with BioTime’s Co-Inductive Memory Moment.
Your Mental Wealth of Health.

Our cooperative Win-Win ecosystemic revolutionary gaming party,
with health/wealth organic snacks,
locally grown and harvested,
decomposed and regenerated,
lived and died and relived
through future generations,
and back to once upon our co-arising dual-dark Time.

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Fear of Death Meets Love of Beloved Life

Freedom from Ego’s death
vistas freedom to eternally recycle Eco’s love for life.

Freedom from competing and hoarding,
envy and jealousy,
craving and Ego’s negatively deduced attachments,
re-presents freedom to fully and deeply
design and deploy,
incubate and cultivate and develop Love’s Co-Operative,
Eco-Solidarity.

Freedom from I-Win so You-Lose Dominator Game Identity
reverses ecosystemic freedoms
toward optimally double-Yin Win-Win CoRegenerator,
born again Earth’s salvation,
esoteric Eco-Terra Tribe of Permaculturists.

Beloved Community dreams incarnating
swimming freestyle flight
from dawn through night
greet eternal twilight’s warm right
evolving double-binding bright ecstatic light,
within identifying without within
just right.

Ego’s fear drains deadly stasis,
until Dominator Ego graces Midway Ego’s Eco-Identity,
love as life flows Eco-Fully,
Earth’s DNA kinutopia.

Fear fertilizes
as anger cultivates functional ego-ionic contraction,
purgation,
reverse-yang force.
Love revolves functional diastasis,
Beloved Climax Polyculturing RNA/DNA Inclusive Community,
reverse double-bound grace-filling information
open-sesame systemic,
full yinyin Win-Win economic ecologic flow.

“Death” and “Life” confuse Ego’s valley volleying language
for Echo’s recycling resonantly resolvant syntax,
universal radiant co-gravitational breath,
deducting Yang inhale dominance
to co-operatively induct YinYin’s binomial exhale.

If fear of love is Quirky,
then love of fear is double-qubitishly Dark.

 

Note: The reference at the end is to quirks and double-qits as in http://www.billlaportebryan.com “Theory of Everything”. I believe what Laporte-Bryan calls “qits” are what others call qubits, but qits, unlike qubits, are quintessentially binomial boundary, temporal-only, placeholder function, which appear as a prime-binary, mutually heuristic balanced divide, in digital organization of analogical information. If so, then “polynomial” information is also, more specifically, quintessentially binomial-co-relational, temporally-coincidental, information. This may also be related to larger issues within paradox and language about why double-negative information is redundantly dipolar with positive information, and why Not-Not Polynomial Iconic Language as algorithm is formally equivalent to Polynomial (Positively-expressed Binomial) Language. See the Clay Math Challenge, P v. NP.

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QuintEssential PlaceHolders

Yin/Yang
Ch’ang as “Constant”
natural law of growth and decay
yanging and yinning,
logically necessary alternation of opposites
universally permacultural law: exterior nature as inner conscience communicant
Interior Landscape of eco-Ch’ang ego’s Exterior Landscape operatives
eco-self as “true nature”
exegetical identity of co-passioned operation
natural 0-dimensional Core identity “soul” functioning bicamerally
expressed as Exterior natural landscape–Left (ego) deductive convex
WITH Interior natural landscape–Right (eco) intuitive concaving implied,
predicated, predicting, Fuller’s precessive
ordaining ordination,
TwoTime Being quintessential and mutual Placeholders
for One holy-fractal Universe.

Placeholders: SpaceTime Quintessentials:
death: life
winter: summer
Uracil: Guanine
Zero: Fractal
0: 3
1: 4
fractal: octave
0-dimension: 3-dimension
time: space
light: place
transparency: full spectrum octave
Tao: Yang/Yin-squared
Hydrogen: atomic 120
aptic: synaptic
enthymematic: reiterative
monomial: polynomial
monoculture: polyculture
boundary: unity
dissonance: confluence
chaos: integrity
intent: habit
humor: gravitas
tipping point: closing curtain
cell: organism
set: universe
icon: culture
communication string: community
subject: objectives
meme: transactional network
QBit: Reverse Hierarchical Win-Win Climax
Double-Dark “C”: Enlightening Bionically Regenerative “L”
Not-Not Monomial: Positive Polynomial Bilateral Co-Relationship

Zero-dimensional
primal placeholders
concaving within this fractal
holonic
spacetime dimensional Earth-Universal Con-Science.

Ordained ordination
as co-redemptive coordination
as co-operative ecological eco-normics.

Ordained by Host embryos:
Time, progenitor of trinitarian dimensioned space,
RNA, progenitor of DNA bicameral places
faces
forms with hopeful polycultural economic functions,
communication strings of permacultural memory
forming futures,
decomposing past regenerations.

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Biconic Language

Passion speaks as the child of reductive suffering.
Peace instinctively feels childlike kindness.
Contented,
content-full,
mindful therapeutic child of time’s bipolar identity contention.

Passion, without kindness,
necessary for comprehensively contented consciousness,
but not quite yin enough.

Peace, without suffering fore-giveness for anger and fear,
redeeming these negative investments,
necessary for full-love mindfulness
yet not quite yang enough.

Co-passionate peace,
dipolar bicamerally harmonizing
Earth’s full-octaves
of informating polycultural function,
eternally regenerates
Time’s spatial econtented
informational
in-teleo-dance,
in-tell-advance,
deductively intuitional intelligence
as universal con-science,
co-science,
re-scienced,
re-deductively synchronic,
re-connected, re-volutioned,
re-ligioned,
re-logosed,
E-logos,
Polynomial Eco-Peace (+)
OVER
Co-Passioning (-,-) Binomially Bicameral Ego-Purgation.

We each incarnate to redeem our Ego investment,
born of Earth’s DNA regenerating coins of language
double-negative binding parental Ids
create a SuperEconomic stickly bliss.

Karma
(evolution, incarnation, grace, research and design, deductive logic, stimulus and response, before and after, cause-effect)
grows a rich compost,
our reasoning souls
and seasoning soils
get out of time what ego-economic intent
and eco’s-logically instinctive RNA-rooted praxis
cooperatively regenerate into it.

Soil enrichment
and soul regeneration
are two landscapes
of one ecotherapeutically permacultural practice.
Browns are decomposing peaceful yins.
Greens are regenerate yang copassions.
Stir with just right contention every night,
to emerge into your new day
of comprehensively organic intelligence.

Binomiality is 0-dimensional
predicated,
predicted, precessive mutually gravitational,
natural magnetic systemic,
implicate,
implied,
instinctive,
camouflaged,
tipping point boundary,
concave/convexly enthymematic,
within each monomial,
within all holonic polynomials,
whether convex(+) or concave(-) in-formating.

Nomials,
memes,
form with function,
yang with yin,
speak an interdependent holonic language of bi-fractal octaves,
whether light or dark,
or both,
as do RNA,
and DNA,
protons with electrons,
are bicameral informating processors,
with ego-Left proton deductive inhalation
balancing
eco-Right magnetic instinctive DNA/RNA Elder Memory expiration.

Breathe in contenting peace
by breathing out contentious co-passion.
Breathe in compassion
by breathing out peaceful co-prehension.

Breathe in permacultural co-operating economic praxis
to breathe out polycultural ecological consciousness.

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On Eco-Logical Economics

If you have not read Riane Eisler’s “The Real Wealth of Nations” (2012) and John Michael Greer’s “Wealth of Human Nature” (2011), please do at least read one or the other.

Eisler thinks it is time to replace an overly-dominant, capital-based, competitive cultural understanding of Business As Usual Means Marginalized Lives Don’t Matter, evolved through the Industrial Age. She contrasts this with our “real”, but undervalued wealth of nurturance and care-giving. This is an explicit feminist perspective on economics and the logic and balance of ecologically-informed economics. My only complaint is not about what she has written, but about the “sin” of omitting all the vast financial and cultural research on co-operative economics, which seems to incorporate values for recycling, repurposing, rehabilitation, zero carbon footprint lifestyle intentions, as well as the organizing of co-operatives around child care, elder care, household cleanliness and order, landscaping, cooking and preserving, gardening and farming.  These are all cultural elements of what Thich Nhat Hanh would encourage us to think of as a nurturing-nutritional economy v. a domineering-toxic environment of oppressing and suppressing our natural and ecological instincts.

John Michael Greer’s analysis of our capital/commodity competitive Business As Usual economics-as-financial-transaction monopoly and monotony is entirely symbiotic with Eisler’s blistering critique.  His alternative trend view is more eco-logically focused as a logic that is our undervalued HUMAN natural wealth. If we follow what is ecologically rational more, and avoid further investment in what is merely more competitive ego-investment of an anthro-culturally supremacist species, we may have more sustainable hope for our collective future. Like Eisler, however, Greer fails to take that one additional ecological step, to notice that organic living nature is essentially co-operative until the point when trends start moving toward decay and devolution.  Economics, whether competitively-rooted in Win-Lose capitalist Game Theory, or cooperatively-rooted in Win-Win positive evolutionary Game Theory, is relational network praxis of ecological systemic intent, continuing our cultural revolution toward comprehensive consciousness.

Transactions and relationships are synonymous as reiteratively equivalent communication strings of memory and cultural history, whether we are speaking of micro-economics, or macro-economics, or both.  Our prime ecological assumption is that we live in a positively co-operative evolutionary environment, too often troubled by negatively competing Win-Lose strategies and logistics assuming a shortage of “wealth” resources, which may be reminiscent of Anderson’s “Emperor with No Clothes.” If the socioeconomic and too-long encultured pathology of over-valuing competition are precisely what point to their own nakedly devolving and decomposing future, then hope dawns with this red horizon; our socioeconomic therapy is a deeper permacultured economics of co-operative ecology, design, and developmental praxis.

At the micro-economic personal and familial and local community levels, I have found the following areas of discernment on “Win-Lose Competition Economics” v. “Win-Win Co-Operative Economics” useful:

  1. Purchasing decisions: Housing, transportation, utilities, food, insurance come immediately to mind as having rich potential to benefit our shared environment and my personal checking account and the quality of my relationships with family and neighbors when approached with a “Group Purchasing Co-Operative” intention.  When do I need a car and when do I not, and do I know other people, or is there some way I could get to know other people, who might answer that question in a way that is mutually compatible with my answer?
  2. Investment decisions: Insurance shows up here again, with retirement investment, and even regular savings and checking account relationships with financial institutions and companies who will use my payments to invest in what, exactly? I am increasingly uncomfortable with knowing that many insurance and financial corporations are taking my capital and investing it in Business As Usual, especially as it occurs to me that there are ways to invest in cooperative funds investing solely in my region of habitat, excluding those businesses with toxic outcomes for our shared environment, other species, and also for their employees, and giving preference to investments in worker- and resident-cooperative ownership.
  3. Relational decisions: While purchasing and investment are also relational, we usually think of them as transactions. So, this broader category continues to evolve on my own path toward a more comprehensive ecological co-operative consciousness. How do I choose to respond to messages from my own family that betray contention between egocentrism and eco-logical balance?  These are at least potential opportunities for some rich conversation about what we value, including sustainability of life, and what we disvalue. As I am now well-immersed in my twilight years, it becomes increasingly obvious that what I have always enjoyed about my internal contentions is how they have a way of resolving most resonantly when my egocentric left-brain embraces my ecocentric right-brain’s intuitions for right-relationship, for what is, after all, transparently eco-logical.

Eisler and Greer both point to some public policy and priority changes that would help each of us sustain our ego-eco alignment. I agree with all of this agenda.  I further believe that the principles and ethics of Permaculture could be more broadly applied to any evolutionary paradigm for relationships, transactions, actions, being and becoming on planet Earth, within our bodies and families and neighborhoods and ecosystems. Some principles that feel permacultural, but may not appear in your sustainable agriculture text:

  1. Never give up. Always, whenever possible, give downstream to enrich solidarity with those living more marginally than you are. This applies to investment and purchasing decisions, as well as all relational discernment.
  2. Don’t give out after struggling and suffering against; always give in while struggling and suffering with others, nature, human nature, your own ecologic.
  3. The best case scenario for sustaining  a Win-Lose Game, is to embrace Win-Win logistics and strategies whenever you can find a regenerative way to do so. Otherwise, the ecological long-term conclusion of Win-Lose ego-domination logistics is you might possibly win, but only after everyone else understands themselves as “losers” in your eyes; a pyric victory with deadening cost to water, soil, air, and the former wealth of human nature.

 

 

 

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