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What sustains life are sacred values, so what cannot sustain becomes pathological. Matriarchy is about nurturing and care-giving, protecting life and conserving cooperative energies; yet that implies that patriarchy devolves to controlling and competitive care-receiving, destroying life as WinLose necessary to violently offend against further competing failures of energy. Patriarchy: Producing for this WinLose generation. Matriarchy: Conserving for next WinWin generations. Don't call that defense, call it what it is, offensive militarism plutocratic nationalism which acts like baseball fields used to perform in the U.S.: If you build it we will come to exploit it. A fratricidal nationalistic ecopolitics is also a suicidal WinLose ecologically cynical strategy against future generations who will never become, never emerge because we refuse to prioritize WinWin organic nurturing processes of co-empathic conservation as mental and physical healthy climates; basic synergetic hygiene. Freedom Seekers was the next generation vision of our Original Freedom Fighters; not so much to merely perpetuate younger fighters rather than seekers first. Seek and ye shall find. Don't seek, and we still fight on. This is neither the time to become hypnotized terrorized or even merely reactionary against Trumpians in this postmillennial moment of climaxing climate pathologies, our perfect storm; yet it is also a critical time to not continue being responsive to patriarchal anthropocentrism in all its ...ism aspish apeish forms. Why should U.S. women continue paying federal taxes? Investing further resources in WinLose politics, when we could, instead, invest in WinWin cooperative ownership of Earth as our mutual share-held Commons. We could instead invest our tax dollars in planting trees and building stronger cooperative ownership including deep learning and healthing ego/ecosystems, and investing in WinWin ecopolitical, and personal, sacred and naturally regenerative games, work and recreation, networks of positive matriarchal co-discernment, springing up from pockets and guilds of mutual subsidiarity. This is not just a U.S. women's federal tax boycott, but all women who feel suppressed and know oppression of cooperative investment in and of and for future generations, all conservationists of Earth's healthy futures, including our own, and our families, and our neighbors, all allies boycotting nationalism to co-invest in global cooperative nutrition-building networks of WinWin sacred ecology, both multicultural and polypathic, creolizing polycultures of and for regenerative health from (0)-sum now through interdependent evermore Deep Learning Time for CoOperative ReEducation. Nationalism is a political landscape problem. Matriarchal eco-repatriation is our ecopolitical climate of resolutions. All living systems vote yes with our cooperative lives; no with our degenerative ego-exhaustion. If not now, when? If not you, whom? If not here, where? If not this regenerative potential, then what remaining degenerativity? If not for love, then why bother? Military offensive strategic norms derive from fear that cooperative love will not and cannot grow powerful enough on the other side of a line we have drawn in our minds. And this fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy. For where fear rules our inter-relational policies and international controlling procedures, then love must thereby fade from a fear-mongered collective mind abandoned to pursue monopoly games, drawing ever more fading lines in quicksands of mistrust in and on Earth's profoundly robust cooperativity, standing-by nutritional potential for mutual loving contentment. It's not that competitive WinLose capitalism is bad or intrinsically patriarchal evil, it's more that cooperative WinWin capital investments work better longer for healthy conservation of multiculturing wealth. No taxation without equitable cooperative representation. A classic ring with a touch of postmillennial zing. Taxing investments sustaining healthy life are sacred values, so what cannot and must not pretend to sustain ecological wealth becomes pathological plutocracy.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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