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This piece is a dialogue with Laotse and Chuangtse as found on pp. 56-57 of Lin Yutang's (editor and translator) brilliant "The Wisdom of Laotse."
He begins
commenting on Chuang-tse
who was commenting on Laotse's
"Exalt not the wise
So that the people shall not scheme [win v lose]
and contend [in partisan debate];"
Wait, am I in the wrong place
or the wrong day
and or time?
The title drawing me here
and now
is "The Prophetic Function of Trumpism"
Exalt not self-promoting grandeur,
So democratic culture
shall induct win/win resolutions together
and resonate with sacred integrity.
Hmmm.
OK,
so maybe this is the right place
but ahead of our time,
like prophecy
and not-not double negative paradoxymorons;
Exalting the transparently invulnerable
unwise leader.
He came like a surgeon
to overpower a diseased patient.
We will cooperate
like a health care climate
to retreat with a wealthy EarthPhysician.
He came like a good son
proffering toxic medicine to a father
sick from neglect.
S/he will come
as a loving FatherLight
investing in multicultural meditation
within a Messianic ReGeneration ChristChild
HolonicSpirit who has been sick
from an EarthClimate of red anger
and yellow neglect.
For in the world of perfect green/blue peace,
no value was placed
upon exalting the wise,
or putting the capable men in position.
For on a multiculturally healthy Earth
restoring justice as peace,
abundant win/win values
overwhelming win/lose cancerous capitalism
will not be invested upon abusing
and violating the unwise,
instead committed to restoring healthy egos
to cooperative leadership positions.
The president
was like the top of a tree
unconsciously transcendent,
and the people lived like the deer
in the forest.
Cooperative circles of residents
will return as root systems
of a sacred EarthTree
communicatively communioned,
and egosystems will again live
like nutritious products of extended families
of mammals
amid a forest of MotherTree icons
to and for climate health,
future seeds
and wombs
of Bodhisattva EarthMother.
Doing liberally loving right,
they did not know
it was called green left justice.
Having gone violently wrong,
punishingly win/lose,
manna v mammon,
capitalistic top to patriarchal bottom,
we have deeply learned
we are called to cooperative
healthy
democratic peace.
Kind to one another,
they did not know
that it was called humanity.
Having been unkind
egotistically against each polarized Other,
we deeply and multiculturally learned
we are divinely called humane.
They were straight
and did not know
it was called faithfulness.
We will also be LGBTQ
and will not doubt
wealthy culture calls to octaves
of climates in full spectral healthing color.
They were proper,
and did not know
it was called honesty.
They were improperly Yang hemisphere imbalanced,
and will become witnesses
to compassion's universally cooperative yintegrity.
They moved about
and called to one another for help,
and did not call it favor
or asking for redemptive grace.
They will immigrate and emigrate
for climate restoration
and co-invest in each other for sensory help,
and call this restoring Earth's optimal health justice.
Therefore,
their actions left no ecological trace
and their events
left no theological reflective record.
Therefore,
our future actions
and wise words
will leave no history conquering trace
and EarthTribe's creative events
will leave no monoculturing manifest destiny
conquering monotheistic
monopolistic
monosyllabic just red right man history,
No summary
drawing together past
meets present
prophetically greets future,
no re-membering conclusion,
no polling trends
for restoring EarthJustice health
as our prophetic bicameral measure
of cooperative vocational wealth.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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