Bottoms Uprising

Nothing grows naturally or resiliently, and certainly not perfectly, from the top down or from the outside in Including pyramids and sustainable nutrition economies and healthy organic democratic co-passion systems. Some win/lose things that do grow virally from outside in and/or over-powering top down: autocracy cancer kleptocracy pyramid schemes negative pathology eco-political colonies capital expansionism invasive species StraightMale privilege anthrosupremacy toxicity pollution trauma. I once spoke at a condominium meeting about cooperative democratic values for win/win self-governance Advocating for transparent and inclusive choicemaking And grassroots community maintenance And social and skill-sharing events Sweat-equity and time/talent exchange cooperative economies. The condominium's attorney, whom the large majority of members were about to terminate along with the autocratic landlord investor board chair who hired him to come to this annual meeting and explain, rationally and legally, why the residents could not do what we needed to do, which was first to get rid of him and his organized trauma straight-white-male Patriarchal view, This smug condominium attorney stood up when I had finished to lecture members and correct me about we actually do not live together in a co-invested democracy; we live in a from-above Republic. He not so slyly speaks at both local condo level and national corporate capitalized Republic level Because, he continued, unit owners have elected leaders given exclusive authority to vote on governance issues that the uninformed and unelected laity lack responsibility (and possibly StraightWhiteMale capacity) to decide. He misjudged his audience. This republican authority from above and from outside power-over totalitarian business, rather than democratic power-within co-governance, was precisely the problem this meeting had been organized to resolve, by democratic recall. The attorney had his power analysis backward. If we are, in our core root residential membership a healthy EarthTribe and actively cooperative win/win intentional health-is-social-wealth democracy FIRST FOREMOST FOUNDATIONALLY The grass roots of our self-governance are more likely to elect empowering and enlightened republican leaders with a resonant and health resilient empowering within view valuing transparency and multicultural inclusion For sustainable local and global choice-making from our cooperatively held integral happy synergetic robust win/win top The celebrated envy of all our benign and collaboratively empowering neighbors Noticing with multicultural wonder and polycultural awe that nothing grows naturally or resiliently, and certainly not perfectly or sacredly or democratically, from the top down or from the outside in.