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Domestic Help

Let us, for a heuristic historical moment, pause... create mental feeling embodied space, for domestication as value neutral, neither inherently good nor bad, but more of a gradual evolutionary process increasing mutual accessibility, and therefore care-giving and care-receiving vulnerability to active daily trust and mistrust, while avoiding wilder excesses of active distrust, anti-trust, rabidity. First, YangLight domesticated with, and not against, YinWater-Flow. Then man domesticated with woman, and only stupidly against. When domestication is negative, it pits a dipolarity against itself, like a body against a bitchy mind, a Yang pitbull of LeftBrain dominance, enslavement, violent commodification of domesticity as oppression, political, and sometimes biological, rape, terrorism, denialism of our other cooperative half, nihilism, chaos, entropy winding down Earth's dis-incarnate thoroughly domesticated absence of accessible wilderness energy. Which brings us back to historic domestication, stage two, domestication of energy, fire, nutrition, flow of water, passive heat radiance of light, plants and animals, for agricultural revolutionary domestication, electricity and oil and gas and coal, for industrial revolutionary domestication of energy. Domestication with, as opposed to against, can only unfold for both short-term and long-term multigenerational productive success, as an initial love cooperation, a mutual nutritional promising hunt and gathering of vulnerability and trust-building, necessary for a long-term extended family domestic garden, but also for a national domestic ecopolitical reforestation of regenerative continental models and ecotherapeutic health-maps, mutually cooperative responsiveness, solidarity of polypathic responsibility to authoritatively reweave narrow ethical and aesthetic ecological threading co-relational ways of domesticating polycultural balance, To absorb domestication's economic and political and psychological values when nondual co-arising, and disvalue when dualistic Yang and Yin compete oppose deny WinLose suboptimizing suppression into self-and-other domestication when appositional WinWin enlightenment with flow into mutual healthy wildness of Earth's primal cooperatively peaceful revolutions is slow and steady growth ours for positive value Earth care-giving as also care-receiving dipolar domestication of love climates our Yinmind-Yangbody landscaped selves. An individual ego's superego nature and a national culture's domestic eco-natured polypathic forest are equally concerned with intergenerational diversity flow of dipolar trusting deductive-inductive truths, of domesticated wildness, and equally concerned with economic power and co-equally concerned with Yang/Yin political productivity. Educators, and parents, and therefore politically powerful leaders, of environmental Earth-logical sciences and arts, and natural-spiritual religious and secular enculturing history too often reinforce Yang monoculturing obsessions with prevailing fast-growth measures of powerful domestic productivity, while ignoring ecologically deep domesticating-creolizing reforestation and long-term family genetic-diversity gardening for inductive polyphonic flow of mutually vulnerable nutritional trust, domesticating transgenerational healthy-wealth anthro-polypathic. Domestication, like creolization, is value neutral regarding whether competitively against or cooperatively with; yet ego- and eco-systemic mindbody outcomes tell our self and family and national and global domestic re-creation stories, whether Yang/Yin positive or Yang dispassionately against Yin oppositional negative, enslaved and impoverished and marginalized, or, more domestically likely, some creolizing place and time wu-wei in-between.

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