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Circling Public Squares

Divide and conquer debates favor win/lose competitions as sometimes vicious over-investment in defeating healthy democracy to conquer public-square power space not particularly sublime While compassionate discussions favor win/win cooperation as virtuous co-investments in green communion circling passionate sharing time Becoming complexly nuanced beyond any tolerable hot red point of static Business As Usual stuck redundantly building stale uniformity lists from LeftBrain hearing preference for strong straight white self-defense protagonist voices Drowning out Other while dragging out streams of degenerating antagonist non-communication Unhealthy anthro-supremacist viciously polarizing and repolarizing hidden dark resentments, perennial fears of not enough Dissociating and ruminating dark rabbit holes for hiding capital competing heads while our ecocidal ideations destroy fragile health care systems, insuring natural defense organic industries food and potable water production and historical preservation and water-front real estate values Further dividing and polarizing deepest dialogue and highest and best debates favoring winner survives all competitions and vicious viral over-investment in defeating healthy democratic trust to conquer public-square power space by fostering active distrust of Other, not particularly sublime While more regenerative discussions favor win/win ecofeminist cooperation as virtuous co-investment in green communion circling compassion's communion through eternally sacred EarthTribe inclusive time.

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