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Balancing Ecopolitical Systems

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Inspired by, and sort of a paraphrase of,  pp. 305-306 of "Braiding Sweetgrass", Robin Wall Kimmerer, with gratitude.

Balanced systems normally calibrate through double-negative dipolar feedback loops, in which a change in one cause incites an oppositional change in another effect, so they balance each other out over reiterative adjusting time. Hungry systems eat. Devouring systems become satiated systems, potentially, or at least less hungry systems. Time-to-stop feedback, time-to-start feedback, are two nondual dipolar faces of reciprocity, a hypostatic union of internal causal subsystem and responsively effected/affected/effective environmental subsystem co-creating mutual sustainability climates and landscapes, mutually echoing dipolar co-arising ecosystems, discerning reiterative delineations between 0-sum optimizing WinWin outcomes and 0-sum suboptimizing WinLose competitions, heading toward runaway LoseLose. Double negative feedback loops are also positive/negative mutual sufficiency feedback loops accessible to double-bound listeners, also responsive co-empathic, polypathic loops feeding and starving back to strengthen WinWin self-as-part-of-other ecosystemic disciplines, building resistance to runaway viruses taking too monoculturally much through WinLose competitively suboptimizing acclimations not yet fully resolved WinWin potentiated. Ego survivalist rampage is the monolithic megalopolis monster recreated in reverse of creation stories, in which antiheroes encourage us to recoil from greedy hoarding feedback loops within. Like looking in the mirror expecting to find a positive healthy democrat, and finding a too-fat plutocrat still hungry for yet more instead.

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