Dawkins' Bicameral Blind
Excuse me, Mr. Dawkins,
one,
or maybe two,
addition(s),
if you please:
You say "we are survival mechanisms."
which of course who could live to dispute?
but
from looks of me and you
and human natures more generally,
and bicamerally,
we are also health-thrival-relational
cooperative organisms
before we could ever get to all that
struggling with survivolution.
You call us, "Robot machines,
blindly programmed to preserve
the selfish molecules known as genes."
To which I heartily add my
Not so blindly
organically, interdependently programmed
for/of bicamerally ego/ecoconscious
cooperative win/win thrival
Bilateral co-empathic
intelligent health regenesis,
PolyCultural Design for 0-InteriorSoul
with interdependent health intent
in/exformed by +/-1 ExteriorZone
wealthy win/win resonance
v. pathological win/lose 0-sum chaotic
rabid anger/fear
narcissistic/paranoid
NotThisEgo/NotThatEco
co-dependent not-healthy/not-safe
disempowering dissonance
Trauma triggering
mere survival
robotic machinations.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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