My educational system
has a diseducating problem.
How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.
Superficial disengagements
too much the reverse
of social capital investment
in re-educating research
fully engaged in cooperative design
Therapeutic redevelopment plans
by and for Elder EcoSystemically informed resident(s)
not so resonantly interested
invested
committed to trivial
and vicariously entertaining
audio-visual supremacy stories
Sometimes even exalting the frustrated bully
who just wants to help me get even
against a straight white patriarchal society
letting me down,
Settling for triumphalistic voices of hate
rebelling against deeply held consumer fears
of economic disappointment,
and with anger against unknown aliens
who have surely stolen my sacred patriotic birthright
Yet, more deeply longing
for our children’s health
and their children’s environmental wealth,
to become more cooperatively
and responsibly win/win engaged
in dialogue
Explicitly intended to care
for the ego- and eco-health
of present and future engaged,
not merely entertained,
regenerations of health care,
of kind share,
of win/win empowered dare,
enlightening educated wellbeing fare
Outstripping current pandemic
and urgent climate of disaster denial
investments
by surviving senior women,
already outnumbering fragile men,
in becoming my community’s mightiest
competitive Bingo players
With way more awesome learning experiences
potentially re-engaged as tutors
substitute teachers
facilitators
mediators
deeply committed to essential civic hospitality
and responsible fore-gifting,
forgiving,
coredemptive healthy love trust,
democratically researched wealthy
refulgently engaging truths
Rooted more,
rather than less,
in win/win cooperative
eco-political
multigenerational
regeneratively healthy engagement
As compared to win/lose
evolutionary competitive models
of dis-educational
dissonant debate
Short-term remembered
persuasive
partisan
polarizing
possibly entertaining competitions
in a disengaging
riled up
rabidly viral sort of headline reading way,
superficial,
not deeply win/win re-engaging
Which may also be
more techy true for young folks
mentoring
facilitating
mediating more resonant win/win dialogue
between their Elder novices
learning to deeply engage
in on-line worshiping stations
Speaking our loves
and passions through video phones
and zooming tablets
for educational purposes only
And social platformed laptops
recycling win/win engaging opportunities
for restoring multigenerational dialogue
virally spreading green cooperatives
Renewing political health-gifts
enlightening resilient economic
green research deals
for left-hemisphere fully engaged empowerment
Is also right-hemisphere
resonantly enlightening
polyphonic brightening
multicultural joy informing
Not necessarily superficial
or distantly vicarious
or trivially climaxing “BINGO”
More paid forward
gift economies
restoring
retelling
reweaving
re-storying
entertaining bicameral
newLeft and oldRight bilateral
profoundly integrating binomial
healthy co-educational
wealthy re-engagements.
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