Faith In Economics
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I originally titled this piece "Faith in Politics". More than eight hours later, not one person had even bothered to open it up, which is kind of what the piece is about--absence in mainstream faith for empowering public health and wealth policies. So, I figured maybe some people would still hope to find faith in functioning cooperative economic systems?
Faith in politics is not popular.
Other than optimistic civics teachers
and elected office holders,
faith feels troublesome
when mixed with social empowerment
over Others.
"Others" holds and hides broad diversity:
children
women
people of color
prisoners
slaves
indentured servants
pets
cattle
sheep
farms
plantations
ranches
watersheds
melting ice caps
rising sea levels
polluted air
worn out topsoil
sewage disposal and highway and military systems
industrial production and consumption and devolutions...
Good faith in power
is faithful to power WITH Others,
WITH win/win co-aspirations,
and ego/eco-active non-ZeroSum hope
for health increasing more
openly contagious co-integrity.
Bad faith in power
builds reasons to justify
power against and over Others,
with win/lose evolutionary ZeroSum assumptions
about economic closed entropic-trending systems
currently favoring Western white privilege.
The faith
[belief
reason
emotional and cognitive intelligence
left-brain win/win active hope
and right-brain felt love, compassion, integrity, co-empathy]
of Messiahs
[and Bodhisattva PeaceCorp Warriors, global mustard seed planters,
Hiawathas and Renewable Energy (inside and out) Advocates,
and Ancient EcoFeminist Wisdom Healers]
is rooted in early cooperative intent
to push together toward light
[integral harmony singing Voices of Other
health
mutual empowerment
happy, inviting climate therapy
potential for personal
and global
integrity].
Good faith in politics
seeds active hope
for multicultural empowerment,
co-passioned love for synergetic health
as also true organic wealth.
Faith in healthy empowerment
is as original
[seminal
ZeroZone right-brain prominent
sacred
sacramental
integral
creative
birthing]
as our first pilgrimage
from EarthMother's womb
into this timeless light
of healthy passage
into interdependent passions
yet including autonomous
re-creative tension
promulgating win/win revolutionary intent.
Healthy intent
to see with both eyes equally
[curiously
courageously
secularly Left-Either/Or
and sacredly Right-Both/And
cooperatively win/win
nutritionally strategic]
To hear
both past right-healthed
multicultures
and future left-wealthed
polycultures
listening with
and then speaking up and out for organic
Faith in health-power
multipoly-pathic Voices
Still wise enough
to avoid monopolizing integrity's Light.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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