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Enrichment

What opposes enlightenment? Endarkenment? You know, like dusk, evening, end of a day through end of time on living Earth. What opposes empowerment? Disempowerment. What might oppose Earth's enlightenment and/or empowerment? For me or throughout all multiculturing history? Possibly both? I see ego darkness, depression, fecklessness? inability to cause and/or perpetuate health, safety, individual powerlessness. Do disease and insecurity and lack of effective power feel like ways of experiencing poverty, absence of healthy robust choice for you, as seems to be true of my experience? Yes, but poverty does not feel like a synonym for dark feelings or disempowerment. Poverty, like racism, feels more political, economic, more ecosystemic. What is the opposite of ecosystemic enlightenment and/or empowerment? Ego isolation, unsystemic pathological darkness and/or disempowerment, disease, nonemployment, absence of meaning or purpose, economic depression, recession, political suppression, dissociative sublimation, narcissistic idolatry, monoculturing rage, violent zero-sum win/lose capitalism, religious-cultural apartheid, ecopolitical suicide, globally generic genocide, climate exhaustion, ego-autonomous annihilation Do these seem to oppose global and individual and local enrichment for you? as they do for me. Perhaps what opposes positive multilateral energy is always some unilateral form, political personal familial social psychological neurological theological ecological economic cultural religious, of impoverishing experience.

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