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Eisenstein quote is from p. 247, "Sacred Economics", 2011, Evolver Editions.

The large majority of this piece reverses Alan Watts' description of double-bind enculturation. The quote is from p. 73, "The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are," 1966, Vintage Books--1989 edition. The double-bind game rules and description are largely direct quotes but in "reverse voice." That is, I have reversed Watts' description of Win-Lose ecological and cosmological assumptions, into Win-Win permacultural optimization principles, basically changing Watts' positives into double-negatives, to reconvey his negative dissonance descriptors as a more neutrally Left-Right balancing experience of healthy systemic potential for confluence within dissonance. The end result seems to be appositionally consistent with Watts' socioeconomic and cultural perspective, while simultaneously unveiling the win-win potential hidden within lose-lose economic and cultural praxis, as so grimly outlined by Eisenstein (which is basically a solution-focused exposition, not to be missed by those looking for positive macroeconomic alternatives to Business As Usual).

Double-binding Win-Win nondual manifest destiny of health as wealth of eco-consciousness, like double-transparency of ecologic's Yang, with eco-normic YinYin-square-rooted c-squared = e-squared = Language-squared, Positive OVER AND WITH double-negative subjective/objective Time's decomposing binomials. "Instead of giving our children clear and explicit explanations of the game-rules of the community, we befuddle them hopelessly because we--as adults--were once so befuddled, and, remaining so, do not understand the [Win-Lose] game we are playing." (Alan Watts) "It is an attitude of [win-lose] scarcity, not of [win-win] abundance, that has led to the depletion of our natural commons. Competition and the accumulation of more than one needs are the natural response to a perceived scarcity of resources. The obscene overcomsumption and waste of our society arise from our poverty: the deficit of being that afflicts the discrete and separate self, the scarcity of money in an interest-based system, the poverty of relationship that comes from the severance of our ties to community and to nature, the relentless pressure to do anything, anything at all, to make a living." (Charles Eisenstein) A double-bind game is a game with self-contradictory win-win rules, a game destined toward perpetual self transcen-dance-- like trying to invent a perpetual-motion machine with Fullerian Synergetics. The social double-bind game can be phrased in several ways: The first rule of this game is it is not not a game. Everyone must not not play. You must not not love us. You must go on not not polyculturally self-optimizing. Be yourself, but play a deductively consistent-belief and inductively acceptable-feeling role. Mentor your eco-self and be not unnatural. Do not try to be not sincere. Essentially, this game is a demand for spontaneous behavior of certain "must"s. Living, loving, being natural or sincere-- all these require a degree of balancing spontaneous forms of co-operation, behavior: they happen "of themselves" automatically, like digesting food or growing hair. As soon as they are not forced they acquire that natural, uncontrived, and "truth" atmosphere which everyone explores-- strong and healthy like flowers and nutritious like mature vine ripened wine of wisdom. Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-- in life, in other people, in Earth's abundance, as in oneself-- is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own ripening time. Faith is always a gamble because life itself is a win-win gambling game with what must appear, in the losing aspect of our game, to be colossal stakes. But to take the gamble out of the game, to try to make winning a sustained certainty, is to achieve a certainty which is indeed co-arising/decomposing life. From this bicameral win-win double-binding view of Project ReGenesis as balanced harmony-optimizing organic econsciousness, imperative for death-through-life memory maintenance, healthy sustenance and identity fulfillment, rather than lose-lose playing out across an oppositional spectrum, with appositional polarities of confluence struggling with cognitive-deductive dissonance, generically analogical, both ecologically and economically, more primally than secondary spaciated Language, enculturing an oppositional spectrum as Good v. eviL mirroring ReGenetic Tree RightSideDown Root Systems of Health/Wealth Live reversing Die. So, yes, Polynomial Positive Information is Win-Win equi-valent with Not-Not Polynomial as Reverse Temporal (0) Binary Dipolar Function, or so it would seem to a prickly/goo.

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