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What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system-- little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay of a segregating Country Club. No, this is addressed to economic policy re-tirers. Keep the tire and the chairs, but let's get the tread of our personal and public economies into EcoTherapeutic shape. Economic policy administrators are everybody, but some of us have more responsibility for larger populations and larger wealth deposits than oneself, and one's household, and one's own capacity to invest one's own funds and future. Based on my own miserable failure in these areas, my best advise for public policy administrators is to do just the opposite of what I have done. For example, do not invest your capital or equity in storage silos where your value will not have a chance to help fertilize local development-- and it doesn't get more local than a little Family Care, up to the point when Family Care becomes beyond what we can all do with and for others. Because, for instance, that would be breaking the Golden Rule. "Do to others as to self" implies do not do with others-- of any species, during any time, or era, or generation-- what they have not done with you. And, this Golden Rule is economic gold standard. I am here to tell you that this non(0)-Sum Cooperative Value Network is optimally balanced for inclusive prosperity and equity. Economic Zeroism derives from Buckminster Fuller's fairly famous "Trimtab Conjecture." Fuller lived as a Unitarian-- investing 100% in more than his fair share of Universal Intelligence. But, he wrote like a systematic Taoist: Trim Tab (wu wei) optimized economic flow is deeply nutritious, resonant, resilient-- and our competitive cultural and corporate alternative is toxic backwash. Cash on hand is a Trimtab opportunity for risk, for learning, for adventure, for investing in our shared Universal Nutritional Abundance. Investing in mindful and grateful cooperation with colleagues (but not authorities or "experts"-- these were blasphemy to Fuller's sense of intellectual integrity), people who intend a community that feels like home-- nurturing, and caring, and cooperative, where adults play nice, and all the kids are graceful-- and not so blind. The relationship between humans and their places is the story line of historical-cultural development. This cultural teleological view of history might, post-Bucky, bear the label ectosymbiotic evolution, a "positive" evolutionary trend (think "Positive Psychology" and "progress"). Regenerative wisdom theory informs a torus-spiraling Hilbert Space, filled with a positive teleological conjecture about our reason for being as a species. Combining Julian Jaynes' endosymbiotic evolutionary theory of how the bicameral LeftDominant-RightIntuitive hemispheres developed the capacity for self-consciousness and awareness of "not-self" as Other, with Fuller's binomial metric information development, and Gregori Perelman's (et. al.) (0)-soul Universal Group Theorem, I find merit in the conjecture that: Greatest, most equitably and peacefully inclusive, reason for investing in the hypothesis that we are all in Earth gratefully and mindfully together, defines,refines, and minimizes any crusty segregating monocultural remnants to the contrary. So, look around, fellow Bridge-Builders, economic developers, philanthropists for the future of everything, what seems to be thriving, growing, resilient, here for the long-term? Perhaps the urgency of our Transition Generation's position becomes clear when we suddenly realize that human biosystems, as we know and love them, are an endangered species. Thich Nhat Hanh says of Buddhism, "knowledge is regarded as an obstacle to understanding, like a block of ice that obstructs water from flowing.... water can flow, it can penetrate anything." (pp. 48-9, Being Peace, 1987). Considering the possibility that any somewhat sane and mature adult knows enough to perform more sustainably, more optimally, more wisely, as we plan our economies and investments, what is it that we fail to understand? If our economic, ecological, and social pathologies are a misunderstanding of information already profoundly and democratically accessible, what is at the root of our anomalous polycultural distrusting consciousness? Our internal nutrients and economies flow with richest understanding when balance is achieved between left and right, exterior and interior, ecological polycultures and economic value, Universal Intelligence and Polanyi's Personal Knowledge, cooperation and active hope of contributing, teaching, helping, mentoring, facilitating; between desire and gift, mindfulness and gratitude, justice and actively nurturing peace, Yang and Yin, causal verbs and co-arising nouns. Invest in cooperative vocations, residences, communities, strategies, research and win/win learning plans. Avoid competitive, survival-limited teleological assumptions, conjectures, missions, and corporate structures Create cultural and ecological and economic music and dancing in revolving circles with those investments; not marching in competitive, extractive, self-commodifying lose-lose squares. Cultural and economic EcoTherapy derive from consciousness of the Laws of Thermodynamics, of course, but, the Prime Root Law of Thermodynamics is the Law of Eternal Moment Thermodynamic Balance; what goes out, must come back in, and out again, regenerating frequencies of oscillating formed information (P) and reverse-functional Yin (NP) exformation, reiteratively bowing as TaoTorus-graced "Namaste."
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