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Enough To Be Dangerous

Do you know the concern? "S/he knows just enough about a through z to be dangerous." I am uncomfortably familiar with this analysis, a weapon often wielded from ivory towers overly influenced by ideology masquerading as theory rooted in statistically measured experience, severed from historical-cultural, biological-neurological indigenous context. Even so, one feeling I am sure of my own too robust expertise is Intolerance. And, now I am discovering I have chosen to join a community with a multicultural intention to embrace, or at least tolerate, all souls, all species, all living systems except those deemed too intolerant, too wounded, for multicultural health as a resonant indicator of economic and political wealth. We are exclusively intolerant of intolerance because we would provide safe sanctuary to all souls, especially victims of monoculturing intolerance, of win/lose economic and political supremacy, strategy gamesmanship. I find a tension here between unconditional love and lacking sufficient curiosity and courage to discuss shared values and disvalues with those too defensive too hurt too lost too conservative to tolerate intolerably ***** me, to tolerate the alien Other. This reactionary intolerance of intolerant prejudice bigotry often straight white male supremacy, feels like further breeding ground for misunderstanding, segregation, mutual divestment business as usual, more win/lose devolutionary anger and fear, more potential violence, hate, war More egocentric privilege rather than universal ecosystemic love power Actively hoping to cooperatively uncover win/win polycultural resolutions resiliently curious and courageous when in the presence of win/lose competitions intolerant of active hope for restoring peace by retiring retributively inflicted punishment shunning non-communication anti-communion for past sins of intolerance.

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