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In his letter from the Birmingham, Alabama jail, Martin Luther King spread a viral resilient and resonant message, declaring a network of gospel-inspired mutuality.  This piece expands on that infrastructure, drawing parallels between networks and interdependent ecological and theological climates, cultures of mutual integrity, synergy.  With gratitude to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the transparency and vulnerability of his global Dream for a multiculturally healthy humanity.

Societies, religious and secular, nation-states, corporations, extended families, tribes, colonies, property owners, owned properties are caught in, invested in, an inescapable network of climate mutuality, cooperativity, multicultural communion, tie-dyed, camouflaged in a single Earth habitat of green-blue spectral destiny rhapsody rapture. Climate injustice anywhere is a threat to health and justice and peace everywhere. There are some climates in our social political economic racist system to which all EarthDwellers ought to be maladjusted divested struggling to breathe free, to dream expansively inclusively theo- and ego- and eco-logically. Internal and external climates of hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only mutually-owned ease, an inside/outside climate of love, can do that. We must win/win evolve, for all human climates of conflict, a strategic method which rejects revenge, retributive win/lose punishing injustice, aggression, and retaliation rather than therapeutic climates of restoration, non-violent co-passionate peace. The religious and spiritual and empowering and enlightening foundation of such a healing method is nonsectarian love, integrity, multicultural climates of warm synergetic active appreciation. Before it is too late, we must narrow this gaping theological anti-ecological chasm, maladjustment between our proclamations of separate but equal peace and our own privileged and elitist investments deeds words thoughts feelings which culturally precipitate and historically perpetuate win/lose war violence aggression competitions in mutual disdain, detachment from mutual appreciation social cooperation resilient wealthy empower nation of resonantly healthy enlighenment, consciousness, awareness, multicultural climate noticing, EarthCentric appreciation. One day we must come to see hear feel touch smell taste this EarthClimate of peace is not merely a distant goal dream theological and ecological conjoined objective that we cooperatively seek, but a means by which we arrive at this mutual climate of non-violent peace, our goal, destiny, fulfillment of multiculturing, creolizing, transubstantiating secular and sacred humanity. We must pursue peaceful climate ends through win/win restorative justice means. We shall hew carve design develop out of this maladjustment mountain of climate despair, a stone, a cooperatively-owned pearl, an equal and integral communion, global theist and atheist alliance of and for resilient EarthClimate hope.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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