Dr Ford and Judge Hyde

Why do we feel increasingly difficult conflicts create strong-rooted energy? And depressingly BusinessAsUsual penetrated exhumed exhausted extracted distracted by runaway toxic chaos? Yesterday, on my way to a deep rooted tree and shrub nursery half-way across Connecticut's Route 1 made-over shoreline my youngest NativeAmerican RightBrain son, on the other side of our front seat view, born without anything like a LeftBrain uncivil spoken capacity for WinLose dominant review, or even double-binding mutually recessive disassociation, And I, LeftBrain prattling on and on, Ego focused, Were listening to the Dr. Ford/Judge Kavanaugh, wounded Dr. Jeckyll and Judge Hide the Drunken Hormones, Great Inquisition. Guaranteed to produce LoseLose results primarily for them but also for their families and what remains of a creative democratically-energized dream. I was reminded of a quote from Sharon Blackie's "The Enchanted Life:" You can learn to belong anywhere... if you choose. It's an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it's also an act of love, and an enormous leap of faith. Dr. Ford's choices were lauded as not so much creative, but civic minded, courageous, even heroic. But all these belong under a good faith-rooted umbrella, for those who choose to find them. As I listened to Judge Kavanaugh and twittering Mr. Trump self-chosen not to belong but to rule over anywhere and anyone they choose, this bad faith lack of free restoring choice felt more like an act of excruciatingly violent penetration, psychological colonization. And, like all acts of aggression, choices to self-hate again later, deny yesterday's failures and isolating woundedness, fracturing today's acts of fear and anger cowardice and uncivil unsettling absence of systemically eco-rooted mindfulness A huge leap for them and their extended historic families and, to a more dispersed absorption rate of disempowering arhythmic rheumatic hate, into further vapidly empty shocking terrorizing pain perpetrating bad faith in this episodic failure of cooperative democracy to restore peace more than choose self-punishing injustice and bad-faith fed and watered by a culture gamely growing away from WinWin health and toward toxic patriotic LoseLose anti-ecological genocidal un-ego-logical pathologies. Why is it so difficult, for civil-minded Dr. Fords, to create and thrive positive balancing energy? And how depressively Business As WinLose UnUsually UnCivil for Judge Hyde, however Kavanaugh or Trump or any YangSupremacist uncivilly misjudging one and LeftBrain Dominant All, to pierce with chaotic runaway toxic LoseLose annihilating raping misconduct of patriarchal uber-chaotic energy. My youngest son, riding next to me on this gorgeous partly-cloudy NewEngland early autumn day, had no creatively rooted way to say how he was feeling RightBrain belonging to and with each spoken song of choice and collective unchoice, some courageously civil and vulnerable and transparent and some penetratingly harsh intolerant of our own chaotic weaknesses, afraid of losing entitled Yang LeftBrain powers to dominate RightBrain's cooperative restorations of today's shallow-rooted rocky landscapes.