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Please Do Panic

Writing yet another note to my straight white CongressMan, asking him to Please, Do Panic about all this fear-based non-legislation undemocratic fascist nationalistic Win/Lose evolutionary corrupt democratic devolution going on around and within us, I'm wearing a white 1970s vintage Tshirt from Castro Street's Don't Panic political resistance and celebration apparel. Fifty years later, I think it is well past time to take the cooperativist win/win panic plunge, With a bold black framed message: THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS WRONG My son's Haitian-American nurse, married and straight as a military-industrialized arrow, without the slightest quiver of vocalized doubt, Sexy darkbrown skin, greying at his wisdom temples, and a devout capitalist 7th Day Adventist family provider man of second or third evangelical generation, Wants to know if he, in 2020, is affiliated with what my Tshirt says to the Religious Right of 1975. Possibly, but I have always known you as part of a Spiritual Right, Which does not too liberally judge outside your own sensory satisfactory experience, And is informed and transparently curious to learn from your own sensory anticipations of healthy smells and wealthy tastes, what feels good and touches right, And to responsibly stretch your own sensory anxieties/anticipations without blaming or ambiguously shaming yourself for not accepting who you are right now in this life flowing toward who we will become sacredly together, spiritually and naturally, tomorrow. Which must, in good right faith, inevitably become a more rooted choice to not be some other spiritual or anti-spiritual life, sometimes anxious about monoculturally competing and other times anticipating multicultural engagement to be most naturally/spiritually right in the ZeroZone pocket of just Right EarthNursing balance. Finding right religion in natural/spiritual sensory experience; your own phenomenological journey embeds our shared ontological history of sensory neurological reweaving re-ligioning psychological left/right yang/yin ancient sensory co-arising climax of co-awareness, consciousness, co-operative con-scientiousness, Ego/Eco-Systemic Balance. My son's 7th Day Adventist Black Lives Matter Haitian-American straight male nurse responds, "Thank you. That's true." "Where can I find this shirt? I would like one to wear to our church picnic. My extended Right spiritual family will have many paniced health questions." And concerns about green democratic wealth, I add. "And, as you say, some surprisingly grateful gospel faith anticipations."

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