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Becoming Attitudes

Boredom. Basic Attendance. Bliss. Basic Attendance, like everyday naked birthday suit Positive Psychology, wu wei squeezed in between boredom and bliss. A "wear your everyday stay-at-home comfy clothes" way of balancing Yin's manic excesses of sensory-cognitive relational internalization and Yang's monocultural excesses of ego-conscious totalitarian supremacy, each and all very nice in mutual moderation, but really not sustainable for Business As Cooperatively Usual, everyday ecopolitical mundane purposes in extreme dualistic polarities. Basic Attendance neither grasps for ego's supremacist Win though others Lose happiness, nor despairs of ego's ephemeral, shame-filled absence of efficacy, lack of interest in whatever Earth offers as a mix of nutrition and pathology in too-slow times of ego's under-investment in actively imagined love fertilization, wanting what grows healthiest for right now's appropriately wealthy cooperative attendance within and yet toward Earth's multicultural ecopolitical balancing voices. Our authority to label behavior with criminal over-yanged intent might better also include yin's within responsibilities for concomitant disabling/enabling power outcomes for all concerned, for therapeutic intent, as ecologically harmonic within/without healthy communication practices and sometimes ego-disjunctive disciplines. What is good for goose, also good for gander, but what is bad for gander should not also feed the goose.

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