I am revisiting value invested minds
and potentially wise political bodies
with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
He speaks of three interdependent aspects of wisdom.
The first is rooted in synergetic comprehension
of how and why knowledge, deductive information, facts, beliefs
may be both regeneratively positive
and degeneratively negative.
Wisdom begins with subjective information
and ends in polypathically inclusive comprehension.
As personal knowledge evolves,
it does so following economically regenerative trust
and yet also politically degenerative mistrust
principles of symbiotic and entropic procedures
rooted in neuro-ecological communication systems
Progressing toward what Bucky Fuller called synergetic comprehension,
and what Edward de Bono called the combination of
LeftBrain vertical
with RightBrain lateral thinking
to become bilaterally inclusive
in a bicamerally comprehensive
wu wei wisdom way.
The second face of wisdom is virtue,
rooted in the Roman nomial for man.
While ecologically interdependent consciousness
thinks positive verbal thoughts,
virtue walks the preverbal walk of cooperative righteousness
Acting with healthy pronoia intent
rather than slogging through unhealthy paranoia consent
to internally felt hypocrisy
threatening to become publicly vicious information,
marginalizing,
where public is synonymous with Other
ecologically interdependent sentient organisms
experiencing integrity as virtuously invoking pronoia
and entropy as viciously evoking paranoia.
This combination of unitarian health-value awareness
maturely integrated with a democratically virtuous
empowering lifestyle,
derives the third face of wisdom,
which Csikszentmihalyi expresses as happiness
Where Taoism’s Laotse extols the virtue
of nurturing contentment,
a democratically expansive spacious
and timeless kindness,
uniquely accessible to healthy humane nature
in full self-governing
compassionate communing
virtuous maturity.
Where comprehensive knowledge
and actively virtuous integrity
do not result in contentment,
the seeker of wisdom suffers unhealthy dispassionate losses
through cognitive-affective dissonance,
neuropsychological trauma,
often chronic depression.
Where comprehension and virtue,
deep learning compassionately healthy values
and cooperative win/win optimizing choices,
do not easily settle for our pluralistic
win v lose
compassion v dispassion discontenting norms
Indigenous wisdom’s nondualism
is sacred EarthMother’s more obvious healthy political
and wealthy economic choice
Polypathically uniting compassion
can be seriously compromised
by LeftBrain dominant
either eat or be eaten
paranoid devolutionary dissonance,
rather than Left/Right bicameral balancing
neuropsychological and eco-political outcomes
of EgoPeace with EarthRighteous
collaboratively wise contentment.
The remaining distance between comprehensive thought
and virtuously rewarding actions
results in internal contentiousness,
which chronically presents as depression,
a withdrawal into existential win or lose despair,
absence of hope for ego’s political capacity
for economic integrity
Given current anthropocentrically competitive
and sometimes even viciously terrifying
anti-ecological
anti-healthcare
anti-Earthcare
rabidly paranoid climates
of pathologically unwise
monoculturing irreligious hypocrisy.
Polypathic wisdom,
with active love praxis,
brings polyculturally wealthy
healthy democratic contentment
within, neuropsychologically,
as without, ecopolitically.
Actively shared contentment of cooperative intent,
as opposed to secretly held contentiousness
of competitive WinAnthro v LoseEarth 0-sum intellectual elitism,
speaks with more pronoia consciousness of wisdom’s potential
to restoratively heal by optimizing virtuously comprehensive
mind passion
with inclusively virtuous
body pleasure,
within as without.
Let us not be collectively fooled into suboptimal choices
between economic wisdom and healthy political values.
No such choices could be truly necessary
to further humane evolution of self,
other organisms,
and sacred WholeSystemic Earth
In appositional dipolar tension
with continuing antipathy, mistrust,
internal and external climate pathologies,
rooted in paranoid LeftBrain/RightWing dominant
anthropocentric verbal histories
of unwise
unhealthy
incomprehensibly vicious
violently discommunicating
dissociatively unkind
dispassionate
unhappy contentiousness.
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