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Bicameral Gratitude

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This piece combines the philosophy of Alan Watts with Buckminster Fuller's synergetics, especially his teleological metaphysic of Universal Intelligence, as iconized by RNA/DNA fractal-syntax of nature's self-regenerative cooperating gratitude for life, including decay; information, including ex-formation; both positively and negatively ionic energy.

OK class, now listen up and down, in and out, said Professor Fuller Watts, professing political philosophy 404. We begin with a deductive reductive object lesson, then spread out across inductive intuition universal information and self-governing intelligence through co-mentored gratitude. I will speak in bipartisan political language because it shouts at us, all too familiar, but I have an underlying assumption that each of us has some Republican and some Democrat within our arterial minds and hearts and lungs, and all those other organic parts. Our Republican nationalistic patriotic side leans toward universalism, just as our bipolar Democratic global citizen side leans toward unitarianism. Party leaders want us to believe we cannot have our peacefilled cake and eat balancing economic political justice too, which may help them pay their mortgages but does not help me or you. To my Republican dominant friends: You continue not beating yourselves up for unhealthy chronic economic dissonance within Earth's potential for interdependent nutritionally sustainable outcomes, to retain your Business As Usual dislogic, anti-ecologic supremacy, irrational sub-optimization standards for measuring this quarter's success, to sustain high-risk monocultural design assumptions, killing our collective national and global future for our species and most other organic subsystems within this Polyculture Tree of Good and Reverse-Temporal eviL. To my Democratic unitarian co-mentors with mutually messianic intent: You continue beating yourselves up for redemptive healthy cognitive-affective-intuitive dissonance about balancing Yang with YinYin, competing appositions within Win-Win logistics, still disharmonizing your republican universalist anthems with your democratically unitarian psalms. In the election year we refuse to choose Republic or Democrat and insist on balancing both endosymbiotically, within our interior bicameral landscapes, and ectosymbiotically, as our exterior bicameral universal-unitarian landscape, we will more intelligently pursue policies and procedures reflecting polyculturally inclusive development rather than a competitive, monopolistic, self-marginalizing monoculture of supremely ludicrous speciation. As we learn to balance our Republican Yangish Left hemispheres with our Democratic YinYin Right hemisphere's double-bound unitarianism, we emerge more authentically as mutually benign parasites nurtured by one nondually co-arising, organically self-organizing, holistic iconic Host. Now, stepping back to Universal Principle of Thermodynamic Balance: embodied (republic) Universe is also incarnate (democratic synergy) In-Formation, bicamerally "self" conscious as Universal Intelligentling Thanksgiving Time. Our DemoRepublic Species eats and senses healthy-wealthy nutrients through nondual-transparent ergodics of DNA eisegetics dancing to RNA's temporal-fractal exe-genesis. If Republicans have cornered the monocultural market on Polynomially deductive information, then Democrats' optimal healthy-wealth is Not-Not Polynomial Polycultural Balance, a bipartisan political field party serving only organically and locally enthymematic economics and politically grateful graceful relationships. If God the Father created a Republic-an, then CoMessianic Son regenerated a radically inclusive democracy of EarthTribal Solidarity prophetic of great transitions as PolyCultural Revolutions.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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