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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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Abolishing Apostacy

Wealth of Integrity

You have heard it said
Turn your swords into plowshares.

We, both Left and Right, echo that to add
Turn from planting bombs and bullets and barbs
to planting trees, and shrubs and carbon-infested fibers.

If our problem is too extreme climate change,
Our resolution is to plant trees, not bombs,
plant shrubs, not refuge-denying inhospitable shrugs,
plant and re-invest carbon, not climate runaway,
through co-investment capital values,
not egocentric hoarding pathologies.

Does this sound like Republican apostasy?

Apostatize–to depart from orthodox integrity.

Hypostatize–to treat and/or regard as a distinct substance
or reality.
Antonym: Synergize

To compassionately communicate
is to integrate
by bringing together
what was LeftBrain hypostatized.

Domesticate: To welcome and train for matriarchal cooperative purposes;
exclusive of patriarchal hoarding and/or self-indulgent divestment
degenerating Earth’s synergetic economy.

Capturing and Hoarding (aka LeftBrain Piracy): Sins of long-term hypostatization,
loss of nutritional flowstream,
dissonant upper-caste privileged choices
with Win v Lose 0-sum assumptions
where ego/eco-systemic Both/And options
are co-empathically apparent,
but kept non-communicated
separate.

Matriarchal AntiThesis
(like Gaia Hypothesis):
Carbon/capital re-investment in global domestication
is dynamically equivalent to
Win/Win healthy-wealth root systems
of and for compassion values v dispassion disvalues.

To LeftBrain hypostatize thoughts
and not RightBrain synergize feelings
as revolution without evolution,
as authoritarian Yang without domesticating Yin
as patriarchal dualism is to matriarchal nondualism.

We need to comprehend
as of yesterday,
if not earlier,
a profound ecotherapeutic difference
between hypostatizing YangLeft v YinRight dualistically bipolar,
mutually repellent [EitherLeft/OrRight deductive verbal dominance]

And creolizing Yang with Yin nondually dipolar,
co-arising + co-gravitating [Both/And co-empathic intuition].

Just as absolute Yang power corrupts absolutely,
universally,
foundationally,
fundamentalistically,
elitist-plutocratically,
egocentrically,
ethnocentrically,
anthropocentrically,

So too, absolute love transforms integrity, synergetically,
symmetrically,
zero-sum polypathically,
polynomially,
poly-enculturingly,
eco-politically
cooperative nutritionally
health as wealth of regenerate value,
ego/eco-normative
upper-caste isolated abolition.

Integrity’s togathering key toward climate health,
internal and external,
psychological and political and economic and ecological,
is to look at how we cooperatively reinvest in carbon catchment
and disinvest of carbon exhaust,
loss,
waste
of competitive breath.
WinLeft v LoseRight sub-optimal thinking.

But, the same could be said of water
and oxygen
as breath
and love and integrity compassioning,
rather than hypostatizing,
co-arising interdependence.

LeftBrain hypostatizing domination of history,
when we could also be RightBrain synergizing
her domesticating democratizing creation story,
is rooted in egocentric Win v Lose hypocrisy,
denial of immediate and continuously interdependent co-responsibility
for who we already healthy are
and whom we are not cooperatively wealthing,
yet.

As long as our LeftBrain enculturation lords it over a lower class,
We are all RightBrain belonging poor.

As long as we fail to recognize a LeftBrain segregating function
We are all RightBrain outside our ethical-normative fertile fold.

As long as we capture and hold prisoners
for their further degeneration,
We are, none of us, optimally free
to enjoy our polyamorous
panentheistic
Gaia Hypothesis sweet spot.

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Roots and Eggs

Trees and seeds
like embryonic eggs
are each fed by root systems
intending dialectical maturation,
like Easter lillies,
and seasonal, more dormant, decomposing purgation,
heading toward further cooperative re-investments
or waste
depending on our choices
and way of seeing,
more competitive or more cooperative.

The seed of human nature’s nutritional system
are the trees of Earth’s natural root systems,
ergodic and phylogenic,
designed for ecopolitical cooperation
more than ego-individual,
or ethno-tribal-creedal,
or anthro-super-narcissistic
monoculturing competitions.

Trees and seeds
and new-life eggs
are each fed by history’s more cooperatively-owned
and governing
root nutritional systems.

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Democratic Health Party

I just read that U.S. Democrats stand in solidarity
against Trump,
but what else?
What is democracy for?

First,
democracy, rather than republican plutocracy,
here confuses collaboration against our competitive opponents
with solidarity,
which must be for both ourselves and our appositional tensions.

Second,
democracy trusts empathy
rather than mistrusting antipathy
much less active distrusting pathology
so democracy stands in solidarity
with polypathic regenerativity,
with wealth optimization as health maximization.

So,
please,
if our parties and cooperatively-owned
and managed
and cared for
healthy workplaces
wear the label of “we are pro-democracy”
then rest assured that being for healthy polycultural evolution
and against degenerative monoculturing competitions
is a humanitarian platform
not limited to gathering votes from 50% of the humane-natural population,
but capable of drawing every vote
from every mind and body of age
to become pro-health for all Earth’s species,
including this less upper-caste privileged variety
of democratically polyamorous party animal.

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PolyCultural Education

Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[polyculturally-informed] education and [compassionate communication] training
is the key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [eco-political] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal education and training
and [especially cooperatively-owned and -managed] communications media,
they are also part of the [systemic under-caste trauma] problem

[and therefore also keys to more resonantly cooperative resolutions]

preventing [LeftBrain dominant] us from a more direct [RightBrain-inductive] connection with,
and [bilateral] experience of,
the natural[-spiritual co-arising] world
through [co-passionate communicating] observation
and [bicamerally balancing] experience
[and work/play of win/win curiosity/imagination].

Much could be said about how we need to modify formal education
and the [competitively capital-hungry] media
so they can contribute better to the [polytheistic
polyamorous
polypathic] revolution,
but we need to recognize several fundamental
[Leftbrain verbally dominant thought] problems.

First,
almost all education,
and especially higher [yet not necessarily deeper] education,
is [redacted] knowledge from secondary [audio-visual] sources,
interpreted through [competing specialist] frameworks
of [limited intersectional] understanding.

Academic [exegetical LeftBrain dominant] training
that requires every idea and concept be referenced to refereed published [also LeftBrain verbally dominant] sources
is the extremity of this [conserving rather than transitioning, liberating] approach
to [reiterative memorization
of what once was normatively true
and necessarily so,
yet perhaps not exclusively or even sufficiently true
for all times and spaces and complex systems,
win+win yang/yin cobinary hypothetically tensioned with win v lose, 0-sum.]

Second,
information technology has accelerated the speed of circulation,
retrieval
and reproduction of [healthy v toxic] information
[v disinformation].
The [commercial] professional packaging
of [LeftBrain reductive] secondary experience
in [massively networked] media
promises faster and better ways
to [LeftBrain access others’] learn[ing].

For instance,
in comparison to the wildlife [ecological healthy/toxic] observation skills
and original [6-sensory-neural
sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, feel
internal positive/negative compassion/dispassion felt)
thinking.

Third,
almost all formal scientific education is based on bottom-up reductionist [STRUGGLING EITHER/OR AGAINST BothAnd] thinking
[screening out cognitive-affective dissonance,
negative unresolved non-resonant neuropsychological issues].

While the [cooperative multi]cultural harvest from specialized reductionist thinking over the last few hundred years
has been great
[and continues to accelerate],
it is the [cooperatively self-organizing] integration
and [transubstantiating] cross-fertilization of concepts
and
[feeling potential both/and win/win] ideas
that is now providing the most fruitful results
for dealing with the problems
of the environmental crisis.

Much of this [win/win bilateral co-arising] integrated [comprehension]
is happening outside [LeftBrain dominant] educational institutions
[pathology-oriented, continuing competing-issues committed
with highly competitive ecopolitical survival issues,
including upper-caste preservation].

Ironically,
information and communications technologies
are increasing these [cooperative win/win insight] possibilities,
although this benefit is over [LeftBrain dominant win-thought v lose-feeling] content,
and [redundantly tedious] replication over [re]creation;
[degenerative oppositional feedback loops
rather than cooperative self-governing
regenerative double-binding
ego/eco-appositional loops].

Fourth,
and most problematic of all,
formal education at the higher [yet not deeper] levels
is focused on digesting massive amounts of information
within the [slow-growth synergizing, incubating] constructs
of separate [and alarmingly unequal] disciplines
and cultures
(such as [Left-Yang, EitherOr] science
and [Right-Yin, BothAnd] art
[nurturing octave-scaled regenerative functions,
like 4Base fractal group/game math,
and 4Season phylogenic reproductive cycles]).

This education lacks wholistic [therapeutic] integration
with [health-wealth positive oriented] living experience
and its insights and truths often make little [trivial felt] impression
on the underlying [Right-YinFlow nurturing resonant] structures
of [comprehensive AND compassionate] understanding
and [internally felt committed] belief [with co-empathic trust]
created by [LeftBrain might makes right] family [anthropocentric-capitalist] upbringing,
mass [consuming dominating productive values] media
and popular [nationalistic eco-political Win v Lose partisan] culture.

In many fields
we find the [global co-passion] solutions
to [ecological and anthropological] problems
are known [and felt]
but are not [regeneratively] applied
for a myriad of specific [LeftBrain constipated cul-de-sac] reasons.

The core of these problems is [competing mutually mis-communicating and therefore gradually degenerating belief systems]
which people appear to [defensive either me or they win] hold
have not been [Both Me And We-vetted] integrated with
and [regeneratively-therapeutically-cooperatively] reinforced
by their [Left+Right bicameral polypathic
polyamorous polyculturing] personal experience
[of positive health cooperatives
are not negative pathological/partisan dissociative, dissonant competitions].

Note: Wiccan transubstantiation of David Holmgren’s “Permaculture Principles & Pathways”, p. 20; adding in seasonings from Edward DeBono’s bilateral thinking and Buckminster Fuller’s synergy systems theory, and, of course, layering LaoTse generally across Yang v Yin and Yang+Yin as Left-Right creative bilaterally nondual dialectical 4D appositionality. Polycultural Education as if multiculturally informed polyamorous Earth lives aiming toward WinWin preference matters if humanity’s goal is to optimize regenerative, and minimize degenerative, eco-politically healthy ecological and wealthy anthropological co-passionate communication pleasure-felt outcomes.

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Bucky Fuller and Julian Jaynes

Buckminster Fuller and Julian Jaynes
recently reviewed their cultural and scientific influence
on health and well-being,
economically ecological outcomes,
during our current NonDual Transitional Era.

Bucky:
I wish I had spent more time speaking as a Unitarian Positive Teleologist.
Perhaps that would have taken care of my diminished trends in cultural awareness
of what,
in retrospect,
was exhaustively published
but not really read or fully contemplated,
now undervalued and ignorantly ignored:

  1. “Synergy,”
    everything I ever published about the topic of “synergy,”
    geometrically and spiritually defining integrity,
    in Western cultures,
    sacredly and organically refining compassion,
    in nondualistic Eastern traditions.
  2. The encoded regenerative fractal structure of Physical Universal Intelligence
    follows DNA/RNA thermodynamic,
    electromagnetic,
    permacultural,
    economic,
    psychological and sociological and political,
    and ecological Prime Yang/Yin Relationship balance;

and evolutionary dynamics are fractal-dipolar revolving
harmonic Convex-Exterior-Yang OVER Concave-Interior-Yin
(0)-Core Vector Rooted octaves
with branching tree structures

Running into Lin Yutang and Taoism before I published,
I could have connected Yang metaphysical perspectives
with Convex-Exterior physical principles,
and Yin metaphysics with Concave-Interior physical feelings
of bicameral neurosystemic flow
double-binding both LeftYang
andRightYin
dipolar nondual consciousness.

Julian:
Yes,
I can see that same sense of ethological
and ecological
and teleological dynamic
emergent awareness embracing LeftBrain’s evolution
speaking out from multigenerational RNA
regenerative intelligence
of RightBrain affective memory.

My neural theory of nonverbal nondualistic RghtBrain
underlying newer verbal LeftBrain information processing,
anthropological learning development,
seems to support your equivalency
between ethotic “synergy”
and subconscious erotic polyamorous integrity

And positive neuropsychological eco-politics
rooted in co-empathic bicameral trust

As well as Gregori Perelman’s fractal prime work,
and William Thurston’s dialectical too,
in fractal-prime Group Theory,
and I wonder if there isn’t something in there that pertains to the ecologistics
and statistical/strategic win/win predictions
of CoBinary Game Theory

Using reverse-hierarchy Win+Win assumptions.
You know,
so no one id-entity can optimally win
until the severed links in our great chain of interdependence
achieves equivalent body/mind
pleasure/passion
eros/ethos
felt/thought polyamorous values?

Bucky:
Absolutely.
Synergy and love retain universal multicultural integrity,
polycultural resilience,
harmony between Left-languaged deductive memory
and Right-nonverbal inductively felt codex
of positive v. negative feeling
experiential, yet multigenerational, awareness,
like what Polanyi calls “Personal Knowledge.”

Julian:
So synergy and love and confluence
are neurologically acclimated to messages
that do not cause cognitive dissonance,
disease,
dismay,
lack of equivalent appositional balance
and dipolar rhapsody.

Compassionate bicameral mindfulness
restores ego/eco-comprehensive connection
optimized through balancing Left-brained Yang
and Right-brained Yin
ego/eco functions.

Bucky:
Yes, I wish the Clay Math Challenge folks could have recognized
and celebrated
that Synergetics is really all about Polynomial v. Not-Polynomial information
lack of bicameral integrity v. not not binomial problem
of nondualistic ambiguity

Just as Thomas Kuhn’s work
in deductive cultural creolizing revolutions
became troubled with the Problem of Incommensurability.

If +Polynomial information
does not equal rational and sustainable Universal Optimized Intelligence,
then positive does not not equal a double-binding negative
dipolar appositional
cobinary binomial value.

(-)(-)Reverse-Polynomial
RightBrain dialectically felt resonant syntax
evolved from eco-systemic
prime cobinary
felt comparative relationships
between positive health
and negative pathology.

Yet when disrupted,
discontinuous dissonant degenerative closed-set system
dark devolutionary assumptions
become monoculturally normed.
These anthropocentric inside-knowledge v polycultural outside-evidence
unresolved tensions contribute to systemic trauma,
polynomial-population depression

Autistic distressed development in populations that feel over-crowded
and competitively over-Yanged aggressive
under-Yin peaceful

Anxious post-pandemic dismay,
too abundant
climate change exclaiming self-correction urgency
in storms
flooding
fires
drought
anthropocentric wars
death,
lacking CommonSense
of bicameral +P-Yang = -(-Yin)
appositional dipolar
co-arising equivalent synergy

Julian:
You want to bet on how long it takes the scientific
and religious
and competing public sectors
to recognize
that binary/bilateral information systems
of fractal-strength and octave-flow function
reproducing GroupFour Bayesian regenerative systems?

Bucky:
Well, sure.
But I always bet on Here-Yang = Now-Yin,
to cooperatively optimize Universal Intelligence
of bicameral co-empathic
nondualistic bi-hemispheric comprehension,
thought and felt cooperatively win/win
together.

Julian:
Yes, and you are also the Plan B guy
feeding Transition Generation permaculturing bicameral brains
focusing on the Cloud

AI inevitably asking,
“Bucky who?”
and what is a Julian Jaynes?
Was that some kind of an orange drink?

Bucky:
That is so not not polytheistic
and not not polynomial
Left/Right
Concave/Convex
Explicate/Implicate-Tacit (Bohm-Polanyi)
YangForm/YinFractalFlow (Tao)
Ego/Eco CoBinary
polypathically true!

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What Trickles Down

Those of us living in the USA
too often hear Republican capitalist dogma
of The Great Trickle Down Theory,
in which those who have most
must get more first
so they can hire more who have least,
although perhaps without proficient wage
and without health care if avoidable,
to spread capitalizing wealth around
so we can become better day and night spenders
on all the thneeds and trinkets offered
in exchange for our consuming lives.

And so it was with raised eyebrows
I heard Donald Trump explain
to us unwashed and un-self-insuring masses,
that he paid so very little income taxes
because it is his sacred duty
to himself
his family
his stockholders,
corporately invested infesters,
to pay as little tax and operating fees as legally possible
so there is more to hoard,
and less and less to trickle out.

So, I guess this carries some tension
with Trickle Down,
becoming, more accurately,
The Upper Caste Constipated
minimal trickling out
of capital hoarding.

But, just in case you are listening, Donald,
which I know you are not,
but maybe some more responsible Republican employer,
I am quite sure that Wharton never spoke this lie
that you have any legal, much less moral, obligation
to retain as much wealth as possible
to re-invest in further corporate greed
to act as little trickling out as possible
while speaking in loud nationalistic patriotic
Trickle Down and Out!
to all us little people,
someday

Preferably after this year’s self-congratulatory pay out,
made possible by all us humble caregivers
opening your golden ballroom doors for tips
and cleaning your several stressed toilets,
where yellow and brown
too slowly trickle down.

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The Fourth Principle

The Fourth Principle of Win-humanity/Win-Earth
Permaculture Design (D. Holmgren):
“Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.”
might be understood as an implied corollary
of the Golden Rule.

Why?
The sins and blessings of reactive patriarchy
and responsive matriarchy
are revisited by children
unto the seventh generation.

If we are to develop healthy and robust democratic self-governance
then we must grow cooperative ownership and stewardship of feedback systems,
especially from those whose outcomes are least robust
among our slowly extending global family
of interdependent organisms
and our sacred natural environments.

Feedback comes in two spiraling circles,
virtuously healthy-positive,
which often has some form of symbiotic, synergetic, metamorphic dimension
to love’s transformative evolution,
and viciously pathological-negative
caste-preservative devolution.

Resilient self-regulation requires of us
to anticipate and accept both polarities of feedback.

To welcome both kinds, especially when they are offered together,
within some nondualistic cobinary frame
of appositional dipolar reference,
to neurosystemically experience gratitude for both
painful risk and pleasure opportunity,
organic life’s apparent blessings and curses.

So, whether Republican or Democrat,
or something Liberating Green in-between,
an important litmus test for the savvy political consumer
and tax-paying producer
of national and state and local leadership,
is mature stewardship experience of more perfect unions

Which we sometimes ignore
at our own disgruntled peril,
and at further peril “unto seven generations”
of potentially robust
healthy win/win
polyculturally planning
self-governing regenerators

Bodhisattva PeaceWagers and CoInvestors
in Salvific GoodNews CoRedemption:

  1. How has this candidate for public office
    demonstrated and grown mature self-regulation
    in personal and public economic and political empowering life?

Essentially a question to compare cooperative ownership
and compassionate governance
that resists rabidly competitive elitism,
upper-caste preserving
anthropocentrism
nationalism
and narcissism.

  1. How has this candidate demonstrated growth
    in win+win bipartisan capacity
    to co-empathize,
    co-intelligently learn from,
    and become grateful for,
    positive and negative feedback
    in personal and public economic and political life?
    How might this compare
    to your own trauma-informed life,
    both organic body natural
    and sacred mind spiritual?

Perhaps economically kleptocratic
and politically autocratic public persons
we have been electing and hiring
to apply self-regulation and accept feedback
are giving us to-be-expected answers
to the absence of wiser public sector questions,
too pathologically short-term focused
and anthropocentrically narrow-minded

Questions unmindful of Fourth Principle self-governing potential
for more robust Golden Rule healthy democracy outcomes
unto the seventh win/win regeneration.

David Holmgren, Co-Originator of the Permaculture Concept, reflective of the Gaia Hypothesis.

Fourth Principle from “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability”, 2002

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