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Reweaving Peace

Now that Restorative Justice
has raised her Gaian ecological purpose,
to restore polyamorous peace
in polyphonic
polypathic Turquoise Eden,
how do you continue to justify
a win v lose Retributive Justice evolutionary philosophy
of law and moral order
as contributing to healthy
win+win
regeneratively revolutionary democracy?

Asked the social systemic trauma Judge
of UnitingNations jurisdiction.

Restorative Justice
was never intended to be effective
when either victims or predators
are unwilling,
often incapable,
of re-engaging in cooperative
interdependent
every body wins dialogue,
egalitarian discernment
in-between Trust
and MisTrust
and hostile DisTrust
and restorative ReTrust.

So you argue
win+win regenerative assumptions
of self-conscious+other-sentient creatures
are not safely,
and not realistically, accessible
for all the healing dreams
and therapeutic purposes
endemic to our Gaian muse of peace?

An insufficiency
of experience
with healthy democratic revival;
yes.

And, where victims and a healthy society
are presumed Winners
by punishing scofflaw Losers,
how will continuing to primally rely on win v lose retribution
lead us toward this noble,
and unconditional loving goal
to achieve healthy democratic peace
for all Earth’s regenerative creatures?

Retributive Justice
is the State’s weapon
to protect the Common Good
from further injustice,
a deterring threat;
not a tool
or medicine
toward an effectively remediated peace,
domestic
or international,
private
or public resilient health.

How do you respond
to therapeutic win+win possibilities
of multiculturally mediated dialogue
to bring together victim compassion
with wrongdoer remorse,
without corporeal threat of criminalization?

Retributive Justice outcomes threaten further
release and parole caseloads,
recidivism,
imprisoned and exploited populations
of marginally surviving misfits,
disproportionately poor
and dark-skinned

Traditional patriarchal systems
do not over-invest
in democratic health
or economic opportunities
of our predative
and victimized,
traumatized
and terrified,
despised
and marginalized,
raped
and pillaged citizens,
as these are not well-established
in win+win cooperative investments.

I’m not sure
arguing against further patriarchal
competitive 0-sum capital investments
helps your justice through matriarchal cooperative
cause.

You invite the World Court to question
whether anyone is capable of sufficient trust
in resonantly democratic peace,
internal and external,
anthropological and ecological,
to actively communicate egalitarian
restorative
healthy democratic choice-making

Facing toward compassion,
facilitating co-empathic communication disciplines,
expanding EarthFirst nonviolence
to therapeutically mediate Gaian Hypotheses.

Well, actually I invite the Court
to recognize
Gaia has already recreated
and regenerated thriving
bicameral balancing minds+bodies
crowns+roots
capital+physical
ethos+eros
compassion+pleasure
cognition+intuitrion
consciousness+sentience

So unconditional love
doesn’t really notice
if I would prefer to debate
against some ultimately punishing
win v lose diminishing
dissonantly patriarchal
distantly monotheistic
and anthropocentric
DisUniting Nationalistic Judge

Left hemisphere verbally dominant
outspoken ex cathedra
prejudiciously judgmental god
imprisoned in StraightWhiteMan’s image.

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Healthy Democratic Civilizations

Imagine your healthiest body
is a democratic
ego-mind/eco-body
bipartisan empowering organism

Ideally,
most nutritionally,
nurtured by an also open,
living,
dynamic win/win preferential,
evolving,
revolving organic home,
in many anthropological times and places
also known as sacred MotherEarth.

Notice
your democratic mind+body
is an open
holistic
ego+eco-centering
co-invested re-centering,
co-acclimating interior+exterior
bilaterally systemic infrastructure
for democratic health,
rooted in mutual trust.

If your brain is in charge,
this is a democratic charge,
a coordinating
complexly inter-communicating
organic whole system responsive responsibility,
leaving no individual organ or health function
irresponsibly behind,
shunned,
shamed,
solely blamed

Not an autocratic,
from above,
hierarchically patriarchal,
anthropocentrically capitalistic
thought-mind over felt-body matter

Not a republican authority
on upper-caste,
above the neck,
defensive rights,
incapable of long-term
win for leftbrain dominant spirituality
only at the cost of a lose
for rightbrain organic
interdependently felt naturality,
mental+physical health,
bicameral communion intelligence

Bilateral ego+eco communing communication
looking for win+win neurological
whole organic system
democratic resolution
of spiritual v natural wealth issues,
pathologically autocratic cancers,
effective v affective predations,
viral dispassionate dissonance,
rabid and rogue kleptocratic behaviors,
win v lose anthropocentric ego-inflations,
lose+lose anthropological terrors
and global EarthMother decimations,
rather than win+win wonders,
sacred awe of organic Earth’s resiliently healthy
democratic regenerativity.

Now, recall important political statements
influencing your own development:

A family is not a democracy.
A classroom is not a democracy.

Both implied “should not be” statements
almost certainly true
in your own predominant civil empowerment v disempowerment
formative experience,

Embracing win v lose
either-me/or-you empowered competitions
between autocratic teachers and preachers
and not yet mature and experienced
sometimes you solo win,
and usually cooperative children,
maturing civil adolescents
and organically co-passionate young adults
don’t solo win.

Many of whom,
especially those poorer and darker,
will graduate into military-industrializing subcultures
of fear, anger, and threat

Where patriarchal
leftbrain dominant plutocracy
of commanders
over indentured pawns
become reduced to untrusting tools
and win v lose assumptions
that civilization defense requires
high risk,
and high priced,
strategic weapons.

These young brainwashed adults
will certainly not be gathering richly diverse trust experience
in democratic dialogue
over autocratic debate
about the comparative strength
and weaknesses
of win+win caste abolition
of uncivilized injustice
for restoring anthropological+ecological democracy.

So, is it possible to still hear
indigenous sentient wisdom?

Families, like classrooms,
intending young life healthy empowerment,
rather than autocratic disempowerment
of lesser Other
alienated people and alien species.

Not yet mature democracy
grows roots by experiencing robust compassionate Trust,
rather than an unintended civics lesson
in rabid leftbrain anthropocentric autocracy,
as if capitalism
and homophobic whites-only patriarchalism
were historically inevitable
ecosystemic trauma
and anthropocentric apartheid.

As if mutually mistrusting families
and classroom competitions for individual winner power
were democratically healthier
than win+win cooperative models
for shared mind+body
sacred+organic
spirit+nature
ego+ecosystemic
evolutionary civilized wealth

Resonant trust
resilient love
compassion+pleasure

Imagining our healthiest bodies
on our wealthiest days
within anthropological+ecological
co-relational systems
are therapeutically democratic

Self+Other empowering
Anthro+Earth responsible
co-responsive civility
among win+win organisms
non-violently communicating
advocates for polyculturally intelligent
restorative polyamorous EarthFirst Peace
informing and transforming
local democratic justice.

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Healthiest Wealth of EcoFeminism

We each and all have, I suspect,
a felt awareness
that patriotism
risks degenerating into fascism,
as loyalty
risks bullying.

Isolating nationalism
self-righteously defending weaponized caste supremacy
and patriarchal privilege of one’s State
moving toward fear-mongered isolationism
supporting competitive polarization
predative politicization
of “self-made” capitalism

Rather than appreciating our solidarity
as anthropocentric nations resting and wrestling
and co-investing
on interdependent continents
articulating green/blue loyalty
to the Gaia Hypothesis of Win+Win integrity
of self+other governance

And no less self-identified sacred State
of Father Sun
or organic Tribe
of Mother Earth,
avoiding dissociative incontinence
whenever possible.

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After School Jam Session

How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I’m not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum’s natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken over deep learning development.
Who is Howard Odum
and how does his natural trinity
diverge from my traditional Holy Trinity?
Or, maybe it doesn’t.

Howard Odum was an early systems theorist
who studied ecosystemic trends
of nutrition building and disintegrating
of sustainable polycultural balance
and runwaway monocultural disasters
like climate and culture and communication
anti-nutritional pathologies.

Did you just say
climate change derives from monocultural overshoot,
an anthropocentric weed patch
taking over our communal garden,
also known as organic Earth?

I guess,
but in this case the weed patch
is over-commodified
LeftBrain dominant
anthropoids.
Odum’s natural trinity of altruism
is about climates of interdependent health,
and not for developing monocultural monopolies
like monotheistic anthropocentrism.

I’m sure I missed this class,
if they even had it back in my Baby Boomer day.

You probably just got the Holy Trinity part,
when you studied metaphysics.
I don’t think they were teaching organic physical theory
when you took MultiCultural Civics Organization classes;
although Howard was published well before your high school years.

It probably took a while for educators
to sort out the health and wealth significance
of ecosystemic balance,
rather than merely lecturing against issues
of unsustainable imbalances
hoping for healthy democracy optimizing,
polyculturing,
and, thereby, self+other polyamorous systems
as win+win wellness,
and not so much win v lose sickness.

Anyway, so is there a summary version of this natural trinity
that you might share?

Well, yes, I suppose the basic idea is as simple
as any convex and therefore also concave co-binary triangle.

I’m already lost.
No recall of convex and concave
in my Holy Trinity.

Oh, right…
you missed postmillennial Bucky Fuller metrics too.
Let’s see…
OK, Odum’s natural trinity
is a dynamic model for balancing organic energy investments,
but at two levels.

The individual anthropocentric biosystem.
And, the collective EarthMother pro-life support system,
conceived as a nondualistic
ongoing space/time
body/mind ecosystem
sharing Earth together
as one organic/sacred
pleasure/compassion-seeking Body.

At both of these levels,
individual and higher-order interdependent civil,
about a third of energy invested into the system
is required for healthy metabolic regeneration
of each and every organic ego-system.

Another consumed third of energy
feeds back to (concavely) sustain mutually subsidiary bioregions,
providers of interdependent fuel and energy and relationship.

The last captured third of energy
produces re-investments outward
to what Odum calls
“higher-order [convex] system controllers.”

Do you have an example?
What might be one of my potential investments
in a higher-order nurture/nutrition system?

Well,
in class
the hierarchical trinity we used
was grass in relationship with rabbits
in relationship with a predator,
like a fox,
for example.

So the rabbit’s energy waste fuels the grass,
and the more vulnerable rabbits feed the foxes.

Yes, especially the young and lame.
The ones who see and sniff and move less well.

I don’t see how that works out so well as a trinitarian third.
If you are young or lame or blind, especially.
But how does Odum approximate this one-third math
at the individual creature level?

That’s what we’re talking about in class.
I would imagine
if you view successfully hunted and devoured
from a predator’s perspective
you might feel the prey had made nearly a 100% re-investment,
perhaps omitting the larger bones,
in your higher-caste controlling species.
Perhaps a hungry pride of lions.

This natural trinity of altruism
seems to suffer in the end
from gluttonous taking without needing
and less compassionate giving without needing to be asked,
which is what I thought altruism was more about.

I suppose Odum was imagining a healthy polyculturing life-support system
as a resonantly deep-concave and wide-convex whole organic system,
in which about one third of ego-support generation,
as seen from a monotheistic perspective,
redeems the other two-thirds sacrifice
by feeding the metabolic thrival needs
of higher-order predators,
controlling risks of overpopulation,
leading to monocultural climates and communications
of descending, and increasingly rabid,
monopolistic pathology.

You mean like mother pigs eating their young
to better feed those remaining in her litter?

OK, if that actually happens
I’m not sure I wanted to know about it.
Also, if that happens,
then we are talking about an out of balance survival system
between older and younger generations within the same species.

Perhaps Odum was speaking of some Gaia Hypothesis balance
of energy and communication transfers.
Really big picture.
Global.
Polypathic energy exchanges.

And maybe higher order systems
are not limited to upper-caste predators.
Perhaps a higher order ecosystem
might nurture bioregional victims
of Earth’s imbalance,
especially our young and wounded
unenlightened and disempowered
by sensory blindness
and malnourished ego-identity expansion,
continuation

Until we each rediscover
that pain and loss and death
could be revisited
reconceived
reconnected
re-ligioned
as equal to two-thirds of compassionate life
and polyculturing gain
through monoculturing absence,
concave emptiness,
loss of egocentric Win v Lose investment,
divestment of upper-caste monotheistic self
as re-investment in Whole PolyCultural System
compassionate communion balance.

So, that would be the inter-religious connection, then,
between Odum’s natural trinity of altruism
and Christianity’s Holy Trinity
of and for EarthMother’s polytheistic
polyamorous altruism.

Where is Holonic Spirit
in this nondualistic trinity
of convex-eco control
with concave-ego nurturance
co-binary producing resilient healthy wealth
of ego/eco-systemic Whole Organic Earth?

That would be the middle ego/eco
co-passionate/pleasure
mind/body balance,
growing out to extend family identity
to include gratitude for annoying cousins
unenlightened politicians
disempowering judges
extending on through our individual biosystemic losses
pains
aches
depressions
systemic traumas
dispassionate/displeasing challenges
to personal higher order thrival.

So, with all that said,
do you both think and feel
that you learned anything enlightening
and empowering at school today?

As I said, maybe.
I’m not sure yet.

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Second Principle of HealthCare Planning

Obtain a regenerative yield,
a positive,
rather than negative, feedback loop,
better than a dissonant feedback screech
of mental v physical madness,
politically powering parties become monotheistic mobbing beatdowns,
economic corporations become cancerous hoarders,
churches designed by and for
hierarchical caste inequalities of mind v body irresponsibility
for plutocratic calculating authorities, dogmatically hetero,
male dominant

and don’t even ask caste preserving them
to start thinking outside their god-given gangs
about transgenderal nurturing opportunities
within Earth’s nondual co-arising Paradise
at hand.

How do we distinguish
between a healthy garden and a weed patch?
By nurtured nutritional outcomes,
positive yield,
inclusively diversifying so more robust profit
growing healthy wealth polyculturing potential,
including harvesting of seeds and bulbs
for our next even more cooperatively self-governing regeneration.

How do we distinguish
between a church or temple or synagogue
and a courthouse?
As above.

How do we distinguish
between playing with abundant cooperative vocations
and working against competing scarcity?
Same answer,
where seeds and bulbs
are cooperative,
organic,
unfold reverse-hierarchically, from within,
composed of complex interdependent relationships
which nutritionally enable together
Earth’s Common Cooperative Garden
producing positive nutritious yields

Health wealthing again,
for future faithful self-with-other
ego/eco balancing
regenerators,
doing our best to obtain a positive every-day
at-home
responsible yield for us, together
cooperatively-held, owned, governing,
nurturing and nutritious
common-sensed neurological authorities.

The First and Second Principles of Permaculture Design:
Capture and Reinvest
associative and productive yields
and not so much the other yucky
dissociative debris
and dismay.

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Cooperative Rooted Capital

Capital means head,
whether healthy or swollen.
That leading toward healthy wealth place
and pace.
Capital is where my head is at today.

Capitalism may be where my competing head has turned
while social and natural eco-capital
could become where our cooperative hearts evolve,
revolve,
resolve,
resound,
rebound,
refound,
reconnect
inter-religion.

Hearts, like minds,
are bicameral,
with bilateral arms and legs,
eyes and ears,
and even nostrils,
are bipartisan
sensually stereophonic
stretching dance to rhythmic sound.

Capital grows where my Either v Or deductive head works out Win or Lose
and revolves more therapeutically
where my BothCrown AndRoot in-between heart plays out
and in,
up and down,
diastatic through stasis,
regenerative then degenerative,
love before fear
of ego-loss,
to re-ingenerate again.

We can throw our capitalistic arms against each other
yet we all breathe and beat
this same cooperative capital
wu wei,
MidWay
Yang with Yin

Win anthropological + Win ecological.
equivalently anthro-eco
bicamerally logical
neuropsychological wealth
mind+body health.

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Gaia’s Matriarchal Thesis

Once upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God’s election and predestination.

Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privileges of humane Earth’s regenerative grace.

Election is more democratic.
Selection based on God’s vote for mercy,
apparently,
because one of these stories
is God’s preferential option for the poor,
meaning God’s most merciful election
selection ballot cast on behalf of capitalism’s
loser scum of the Earth.

Now here we have some patriarchal creative tension building
as necessary for every EarthMother’s well retold story.

Because patriarchal writers
with good and kind hearts
blather on and on about God as advocate for those least wealthy
within our competing social systems,
yet forget to solve this more maternal riddle
of God’s predestination of poverty
in the first place
of vulnerability,
of incapacity,
of unease
more normal within embryonic life systems
than typical in maturely developed self-defending systems

Evolving baby-mother co-nurturing dependencies
into adult-adult interdependency,
active trusts of cooperativity,
mutual selection and election and preference
for those within our daily and weekly realms
with greater needs
and insufficient resources
to participate in story telling
on our own two self-advocating feet.

PolyCultural theologians
remind us of Gaia’s apparent creation story preferences
of simple, but not impoverished, relationship designs:
FatherSun’s predestined EarthMother
and all Her integral organic systems
to begin with,
and developmentally prefer,
modesty of interdependent scale.

Earth shall select,
and find good and healthy,
what is cooperatively well-designed
for long recycling life

Regenerated from reliably accessible materials,
rich in their redundancy
so poor in their stressed individuality,
enriching through mutual election,
impoverishing in our anthropocentrism
which is a most immodest stepson
of patriarchal monotheism

Autonomous predestination
tensioned with mother-child nonduality
co-arising selection of wombed regenerate function
universally electing unitarian Gaia’s EarthTribes
of cobinary nature-body
predestined to prefer spirit-mind co-passion

Appositionally co-arising
health-wealth manifest retention,
predestined interdependent systems
of co-empathic relationship.

Gaia’s humane-divine lives
grow democratically maintained,
yet not maintenance-free
of monotheistic
anthropocentric hubris.

PolyCulture’s Gaia
predestined by selecting
multi-purpose and easily co-adapting co-acclimations,
democratizing caste-abolishing fertilities
of transformational design preference;
the opposite of planned devolutionary obsolescence,
and mutually assured economic and ecological destruction.

This story of Gaia’s predestination and election
begins with two co-arising centers.

Early tribal fires of narrative memorization
and bedtime homes of matriarchal retelling
by those who were less likely to write the Great Patriarch’s
predestined history of individual strengths
and more likely to recall women and their too-often orphaned children
as MotherEarth’s selected
first choice for recreating even more nurturing inclusion

Designs of humane-divine protrusions
nonviolently co-arising
through impoverished roots and naked hearts
with regeneratively revolutionary ideas
about Earth’s preferential predestinations
for cooperative organic governance
over dogmatic competitions

For resiliently redundant designs
of nutritional nurturing selection
within each and all of Earth’s co-designing climates
preparing the way for Patriarchal God’s
too-independent, dualistic voice,
self-selecting and predestining
further fires of LeftBrain narcissistic dominance.

More polyculturally inclusive designs
recognize God/dess’s DualDestiny Voices

To catch and store, then re-invest, energy
information
communication
also retells Mother Earth’s
universal predestination
of organic co-relational catchment
storing and restoring and restorying
Self/Other co-redemption
bilateral YangMind/YinBody

Just another ego/ecosystemic re-creation story,
where everyone lives happily
and wealthy/healthy resilient
ever after regenerative
win/win nondualistic
catch and release
life and death
predestination.

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Natural and AntiSocial Capital

Hybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
transforming tastes toward richer anticipations.

We have all heard of social capital
and perhaps natural capital,
of social democrats and antisocial plutocrats
and cooperatively owned capitalist corporations,
including dipolar dialectical republics, perhaps.

These are all forms of restoratively healthy intent
to grow cooperatively nurturing ecopolitics,
as contrasted to retributive antisocial trends
toward further climate and political landscape
reactionary pathologies,
alien-fear and WE-FIRST! anger incensed,
flavored,
darkly infested.

For example,
early Christians believed the death and resurrection of their loving Messiah
reincarnated within their own cooperative nurturing diverse communities
would restoratively inoculate them
from a jealous YHWH’s apocalyptic
post-millennial
revolutionary climate changing war
against those who killed His divine-humane hybrid Son.

Now, within Christian cultures some two millennia later,
saying one does not believe in following Jesus
has become equivalent to not believing in the superior power of love
over hate
anger
fear
and greed.

Monotheistic-anthropocentric climate denier claims
have become internally contradictory,
oxymoronic,
and self-defeating,
self-denying

And Earth-denying in a larger capital cooperative sense
of climate progress
internal+external co-passionate health emergence.

For example,
you might have heard:
I don’t believe that bipartisan Win+Win ecopolitics
could ever become more culturally resonant and robust
than continuing Win v Lose militaristic capitalism.

And yet,
whether you have faith in cooperative restoration
as more robust than competitive retribution
does not change the evidence of evolving history,
beginning at Empty
and climate developing toward fully interdependent
evolving revolutions,
flowers and their next-generation seeds,
their synergetic democratizing potential,
within Earth’s moist humus

Revolving eco-redemptive events,
evidence of Gaia’s radically pantheistic love
overpowering dehumanizing privileged monotheism

God-killing wrath
against our own mortality,
and the daily humiliations of ego competitions never conclusively won,
growing mistrusts,
weeds,
dying thorns among redolent roses.

Climate change
is about both climatic degenerative trends
and climate regenerative nurturing possibilities
for politically cooperative global and individual peace
with ecojustice,
economically and elegantly ecological.

Yes,
climate change is about apocalypse
and critical-crisis revolutions
within ecopolitical patriarchal
and political-economic domestic matriarchal
harmonious choices and ballots of healthcare loving discernment
over dis-harmonious debates and competing hate ballistics.

But,
saying we do not believe in this revolutionary end
to LeftBrain competitive EitherWin-OrLose dominance
is unenlightened about humane wants
and disempowering. divinely embodied needs

LeftBrain dominance is the capacity and odds and ends of language
to speak active trust,
to admit ambivalent mistrust,
to declare unredemptively active distrusts.

LeftBrain Might-Makes-Right-And-Bright v WrongWaste
doesn’t care if you believe in its dominating history,
every time you continue feeding yourself
and your children
with your dominant right hand
your LeftBrain actions confess
your appositionally dipolar
enlightened mind
empowering body praxis.

It is as if your right hand
is not aware of what your less socially nurtured left hand
is not doing
as equivalently
as nutritiously
as capital-invested
powerfully.

Eschatology and revolutions
millennialism and global and even personal climate crises
are all about social-natural cooperative nurturing re-investment,
extending out,
democratizing,
reconnecting,
religioning,
healthing our Golden Capitalist MindBody Rule,
to love FatherSun and MotherEarth as oneself
is to cooperatively nurture capital investments
in doing to and with Earth’s matriarchal womb
as we would have all other interdependent
capitalized LifeForms
and forces
and flows
and neuro/eco-systemic bilateral hybrid functions
bow namaste with regenerator us.

Patriarch Yang-Sun
and Matriarch Earth-Yin
co-evolved their cooperative nurturing Golden Rule,
EcoSystemic Harmonics,
long before divining minds
with human bodies came along
to evolve our LeftBrain capital-dominant sacred scriptures
speaking re-creation experiences oft-retold, then written,
of climate pathological degenerations
and revolutionary climate ecotherapeutic restorers,
democratizing organic sanctification
through social nurturing capital re-investments.

Hybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
transforming tastes toward richer anticipations.

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National Public Radiators

National Public Radiators

All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our children
and their children,
and so on.

While this has often felt like a guilt-inducing headache,
I was drawn into a list of statistics about NPR listeners.
Contrasts between those who do listen
and those who do not,
and,
most likely,
those who send in dollars,
and those who do not.

At first the list seemed random.
More likely to recycle,
to attend live theater,
go to the symphony,
grow gardens,
bake their own cookies,
read bedtime stories to their kids,
read anything at all.

And then I realized we are looking at social capital;
growing and re-investing in social capital.
What a permacultural designer would relabel
and spread across endangered soils and waters and souls
as eco-capital re-investment;
re-investment in ourselves
in each other’s talents and ideas and skills
in Earth’s re-creative abundance.

The economic thing sometimes not noticed
by cooperative eco-civilization re-investors:
high consumers tend to also be high producers.

So, while they didn’t say so,
I have heard it said elsewhere,
NPR listeners also list and lust heavily toward higher education

And rabid to-the-roots,
Straight White Male Privileged Victory Or Die,
Republicans know what that means.

Why isn’t eco-capital investment as robust
in traditional Republican neighborhoods,
as in more multicultural Democratic necks of woods
and urban forests?
Or is it?

While there may be as many answers
as there are MAGAs who do not invest in NPR,
I suspect those Republicans who prefer to NPR listen,
rather than RightWing AM Rant,
also find this positive correlation between deeper learning
and active eco-civilized re-investment troubling
to their centrist nurturing instincts and orientations.

It seems difficult to listen to an International Public Cooperative Economy
while simultaneously expecting positive outcomes
from partisan egocentric and anthropocentric
nationalistic success is divinely inspired
by God’s Invisible Hand of Independent Might Makes Right
caste preservation strategies
intentions
without public venial mentions.

While it seems harsh and judgmental
to speak cooperative prophecy to competitive strength,
we might do well to remember
with Paulo Freire
that teaching is best practiced as mentoring,
and mentoring always prefers cooperative,
more than competitive, learning
and deep listening relationship.

Political mentoring relationships that work,
whether you are part of an academic research community,
or part of an architectural design and implementation team,
or part of a cooperatively owned and self-governing corporation,
require YangStrength of balance
to fall on the side of harmony,
healthy resonance,
both-and nutritionally inclusive and diversifying wealth

Rather than snarky narcissistic capital disinvestment
through autonomous competitions,
in a monocultural assumption of EitherGod/OrEvil fundamentalism
where Earth’s historically polyculture-preferred evidence
more resonantly broadcasts Both/And
eco-civilized re-investment.

Love powers refine
political power of Win/Win cooperativity,
Fear powers define
mistrusted Win v Lose competing disempowerments

We could not have healthy and reliable growth
of empirically-supported and verified public information,
much less wealthy faith re-investment economies,
unless the power of positive eco-capital investment
overwhelms and absolves powers of negative ego-decapitation
independent capitalistic disinvestment.

But then,
I am one of those Earth-patriotic Public Broadcasters,
so sometimes my multicultural balance
can become as useless as a soap box
without two feet planted
on sacred organic ground,
not not double-bound

Starting with a head cold
and ending with an overheated brain.

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The Dance of Fear and Love: Understanding Appositional Relations

This ancient apposition
between fear and love,
distrust and trust,
where fear reigns, love has already faded into too-distant hope;
where love co-integrates
fear can naught but evaporate.

Dipolar appositions
are bipolar oppositions wearing newer wings
of more robustly Win+Win polyculturing wealth
impoverishing Win v Lose anti-resilient
not so brilliant
polarizing pathology.

Appositional contrasts speak in transliterating dialects
trusting co-passionate truths of balanced resonance
and distrusting degenerating dissonance,
arrogance,
confusion,
apathy,
absence of sustaining interdependent curiosity,
dipolar co-gravitating courage.

Those who dance through polyamorous designs
for polyculturing love’s integrative outcomes,
extinguish LeftBrain’s angry anthropocentric fears
disintegrating narcissistic outgo.

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