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Paying Earth Back

I hear at least two national conversations that seem mutually contradictory and equally impossible, or at least revolutionarily improbable as compared to normal win/lose capital extractive hoarding habits in robust competitive investment accounts, business as not necessarily healthiness usual. I listen to "Third World" people of color and colonization-enslavement history more recent than the white serfs and spear-carriers of my own "First World" long-term memories. Pleas for remediation precede unpleasant declarations of independence precede demands for remuneration, please? But what does remediation look like, sound like, feel like in the fracturing face of ongoing resource acquisition? How are demands for independence from First World aristocracy different, and the same, compared to demands of interdependence for ecotherapy of win/lose global climates? Internally heading south in a negative lose/lose external way and a pathological internal, left-hemisphere capital-headed, narcissistic way to play Courageous warrior against our own right-hemisphere curious feelings, emotional win/win intelligence, attachment within this interdependent web womb of healthy EarthMother creative regeneration stories for ego-healing ecotherapeutic remediation. How would we begin to afford to heal our win/lose capitalism colonizing history? How could we undo past degenerative evolutions of multiculturally thriving bioregions, health-wealthy robust ecosystems, ecofeminist cooperative healers, peace-warrior creators "carrying all the eggs," nutritional communication womb carriers, yin-flow remediators of extractive historical violence against each First through Third World other and in capitalistically defined wealth at war with compassionately refined health of cooperative win/win ego/eco-therapeutic systems within And anthro/Earth-therapeutic global through local healing win/win systems health-wealth secular-sacred left-right yang-yin fragmenting remunerative new birth trends as integrity regenerative. Perhaps declaring my own interdependent attachment with She Who Carries All Earth's Eggs begins my internal reparation remediation remuneration for all the left-hemisphere dominant capitalistic win/lose games I have loved simply by honoring my Father over Mother Rather than restoring my cooperatively interdependent EarthMother bothNature/andNurture healthy co-arising circular first Tree of Good and Evil and FatherSun left-hemisphere enlightenment eitherLight/orDark wealthy deductive linear cause/effect second Tree of Life and Death.

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