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Bipartisan Dissonance

When oppositional cognitive dissonance deflects focus from compassion, I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her. She sends me passive-aggressive messages, bread crumbs leading back in time to where she began to feel alone, marginalized, siloed, anxious, neglected. If you don't want a sopping wet tile bathroom floor because I have thrown all my naked Barbie and Ken parts, especially their water-filled hollow insides, and the five saturated pools of stained white washcloths I took out of that drawer just like you said not to, and the sudsy soft bar of soap, then you might want to reconsider leaving the bathroom during my princess bath. You might want to think of telling a smelling story or imagining with my behavioral lectures I so mercilessly inflict on the shattered heads of my daughter dolls. Perhaps oppositional cognitive dissonance is what conservative bodies have against liberal minds, and vice versa. If you abled and empowered adults? would be so kind as to return to cooperative civic and civil discussion, about my intrinsic dignity, royalty perhaps, sense of anthrosupreme entitlement, immaculate integrity of your own Sacred Orthodox Experience, utterly necessary to optimize sustainable and resilient health for all mindful Americans, regardless of mature, healthy abilities (although perhaps not quite sufficient), Including those who happen to have become embarrassed by their unhealthy wealth and extravagant disregard for undercommodified humane values, like caring and nurturing, loving and therapeutic co-mentoring relationships, sacred integrity, a moral economy rooted in co-invested compassion, eco/bio/neuro-logical environ-mental cooperative networks of bilaterally peaceful communication, Like the graceful synergy of all natural systems, most especially religiously reconnecting polycultural values delivering a unitarian positive co-redemptive humility, co-owning that we all created this rapacious extractive 0-sum mess together. So, please stop leaving the bathroom of discourse, regardless of how rhetorically insane and polemic, every time we complain about your nasty attitudes about wealthy compost and sustainable, resilient, optimized economic growth. Then you protest, by voting for the one you hate the least, as we go right on doing what we intended to do while we were throwing water on your slippery-floor economics of radical, reverse-hierarchical interdependence and mutual subsidiarity. Much too "global solidarity" for Republican taste as trusted Safe, much less Just to those who prefer their economically entrenched competitive silos soils souls. And, our Democratic family value parents hear their oppositionally disordered Republicans as if they were bionically alien sectarian utilitarians, like apartheid bumbling bees and red ant hives, devoid of deductive-inductive co-rational accessibility of even one unfractured dimension of resonance, and without capacity to empathize with our well-mentored habit of continually forgetting we could not restore a higher priority right now than retelling our oppositional dependents Dr. Seuss's The Lorax Interpreting each voice as our own Lorax regret, wondering why we continue competing to reach a Win-Win Earth Cooperative Game, and political and economic and ecological and cultural and biological healthy and caring finish line, no longer alone in our polycultural PolyLife Yum-Yum yang/yin Paradise. When I think about it, I can see that my competitive political and economic supremacist assumption, that Win-Win cooperation will not have our final say, is not ecologically, scientifically, or even permaculturally, metaphysically sound, rational, integrated, sustainably designed to benefit future regenerations, much less synergetic or holonically comprehensive. You can't win a P=NP, 4-fractal/spiral non(0)-sum cooperative economic logistical plan until everyone else has the freedom and integrity and ecotherapeutic orthopraxis comprehension, intention, to win-win with you, coincidentally. With this perhaps un-Christian, and vaguely irreligious perspective that Democratic mutual-redeemer culture is closer to non(0) sum Core Value Balanced Heaven rationality, inductive+deductive, than appears to be the case for our benighted Republican wealthy fat-cat anthro-supremacist residents of Earth, we have turned rather too far our spinning cultural revolution pendulum away from the racist sin of monocultural monotheism, poverty and the overpowering commodification of human lives, and the domestication of other species, and the stratification of Earth's fire, water, soil and sky, Under-producing Her capacity to regenerate fertile maturing seeds, turning away from sin as sterile isolating insanity, wild savaging disability, absence of healthy wilderness love to now prophesy the sins of monopolistic drenching wealth, and overly ballistic power; to notice challenging, dissonant tipping points within monocultural, monochromatic, monopolistic bicamerally competing ecopolitical uncertainty and ecological dysfunction for all consciousness, all nations, All extending families reconnecting our more humane DNA-informed bicameral information deep inhaling branch of EcoTribe, RNA-inscribed, transliterate, multisystemic and polyculturally Climaxing Community, interdependently Beloved coincidentally straining and stressing to comprehend Polynomial SpaceTime = Not-Not Polynomial Open Systemic Binomial Prime Relationship Temporal "Now" as Yang-convex/positive = Yin-concave/negative, as +1.00% QBit = -(-0)% Soul Core-emergent universal Vertex/Dark unitarian Vortex (Perelman, 1993) So, yes, democracy, not autocracy, may be somewhat closer to healthy wealth now, but closer doesn't count when playing Win/Win economic ecotherapy. Donkey clown shoes might also fit elephants. Speaking of elephants in too-narrow-minded oppositional spaces, where was I? Oh, yes, she’s in the bathtub again, better watch that wild wet floor.

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Date: 3/17/2016 4:39:00 PM
Correction: I meant (man made) in previous comment.
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Date: 3/17/2016 4:36:00 PM
I, sir, am neutral as far as government (plan mode) is concerned. But I do love the wordplay and structure.
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Date: 3/2/2016 10:24:00 PM
Wow! I don't know where to begin. Admittedly, it will take several readings to fully comprehend. Strange but interesting take on the politics of humanity....
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Date: 3/2/2016 4:59:00 PM
Yow! Love the total field panoramic view and your willingness to tackle human psychology as a poetic subject. The problem with cognition is that ANY new data creates dissonance to some degree. Why do people think differently from one another? If you see a red bicycle and I see a red bicycle, we're both likely to admit that we've seen a red bicycle. So where does it all go to shit? Are the categories too detailed? Does detail or stereotype spell doom and discord for the human symphony?
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 3/2/2016 7:44:00 PM
Perhaps our healthiest love flows between the two extremes, deductive detail and slavish stereotype.

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