Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Notes About The Poem

In dialogue with Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, especially p. 127.

Breaking Through Nationalism

Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions 
of eco-politically salvific technology.

When I first read this list
of his global Three,
the one that stood out
at least for me,
to potentially
break through our tendency
to see through lenses
nationalistically
is Earth's great climate pathology.

Still,
all three are LeftBrain dominant,
StraightWhiteMale privileged,
Patriarchal-Capitalist nationalistic systems
of scientific reductive-rooted secularism
and defensive 
extractive-infested 
militarism.

Aside from a home habitat 
in WholeEarth Crisis,
extinguishing all hope
of future peace health 
is our cooperative multicultural wealth
regeneration,
our ability to distinguish
which of these three
is most transparently
exploitive and disempowering
our SunShine EcoSystem,

To dialogically determine
which is most polyculturally vulnerable 
to inflaming
already repressive Patriarchal/Capitalism,

Which is most unenlightened
and monotheistically RightWing
StraightWhiteMale 
LeftBrain dominant

May also be the unholy Fascist fascinated
demonizing ecowomanist healthy choice
and Earth as sacred Goddess 
panentheistically denying,
Holy Nature/Spirit indigenous defying,
climatically degenerative Nationalism, yes,
but also, more fundamentally dualistic,
AnthroSupremacism
over ecofeminist healthy wealth
of fertile sacred Earth

Where monoculturing climate "change"
may become most easily defined
by Yanged out RightWing predation
fueled by a competitive economy
of hierarchical
from-above produced
and massively media marketed scarcity,
rather than from-within
ecological healthy robust wealth integrity.

Then again,
I could also see win/win opportunity
for health as wealthy polycultural activity
in co-immigrating away from global fear 
of nuclear nationalistic hostility

Emigrating toward global polypathic thrival
post-secularizing revival 
of sacredly uniting cooperativity
principles of Eartherapeutic Energy
as healthy integral international democracy,

NonViolent Communication fueled
by
and for
and with Whole
Holistic
Holy EarthTribal
win/win systemic
authentic 
intricate
exquisite sacred global integrity.

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