Gadflies and Honeybees
Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?
Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
These are expansive gadfly questions,
problems,
issues of complexly dipolar reason,
leftbrain dominant
either-or thinking
we are either thinking or feeling
rather than conscious of both,
and neither sufficient
without the necessary other.
Light
and passion
win competitive evolutions
only to lose cooperative revolutionary
awareness,
dipolar and co-arising,
bipolar and co-exhaling.
We dissociate cognitive reason
from rightbrain's more original intuitive-sourced feelings.
Unitarian-Universalists,
like balanced Taoists,
advocate our 7th Principle
about interdependent
intersectional
co-passioning webs
of non-violent life communing love,
passion,
cooperative empowerment,
bicameral egopatriarchal/ecofeminist
yang-yintegrity
spatial-temporal
NonZero-Sum Win/Win contextual
counter-capitalism multicultural,
bilateral
WinLeft's progressive egolove
to WinRight's healthiest conservational ecolife.
So, let's not continue
beginning with a full-spectral blue
and red
and ultra-violet synergy,
but confine our response
to questions not yet leftbrain asked
And notice, instead, dark and light green,
in-between sunny courage yellow
and curious and long-hidden orange,
Merging and emerging
what comes after RightWing Red depressions
of Earth's healthiest well-being values.
If Earth's children are, sometimes
not-straight
not-white
not-male,
not particularly egocentric,
not especially competitive,
more artistic and wounded, perhaps,
And not necessarily human,
maybe a chick,
or a colt,
a cub,
pup,
kitten,
calf,
a matriarchal egg, etc.
And,
you are a Wise EcoFeminist Elder,
an organic gardener
looking out for your healthy flock,
your child with disabilities,
your own chronic climate anxiety of win/lose stress,
expecting Aspergerish cooperative co-arising warm compassion
in-between memories of win/lose competitions
and images of future win/win cooperative democratic empowerment
through co-invested polypathic communication,
polynomial relationship,
polyphonic climates of compassion.
You probably would think/feel yourself responsible
for protecting your co-empathic young
from white predative super-privileged heteromale-dominant hate,
from self-unfulfilling prophets of egalitarian apartheid
without hope of interdependent healthy regenerativity.
You would probably want to be reassured that:
1. Your young non-elitist adult understands what s/he will be hearing
is driven by leftbrain competitive
either/or
emotionally dissociated
deductive/reductive dominating
egocentric
monocultural identity,
semi-consciousness,
at best, no more elitist right
than non-elitist wrong.
2. The right to free and responsible speech
(U-U Principle Four)
has a reverse corollary,
usually unconsciously assumed
S/he has the freedom not to listen
to unfree hate,
dissociated
potentially toxic
one-sided presentations
and leftbrain lopsided verbal competitions
against distorted straw ecofeminist
green compassion,
cooperative social investors,
voters,
residents,
indigenous organic citizens of sacred MotherEarth
before denizens of any nation- or race-identified state,
or supremacist tribe
or elitist capital.
3. I would not think/feel
I am "coddling" my adolescent dependents,
whether human in formation
or a yearling pony,
by inviting them to anticipate discussion
bilateral negotiation
fluid cooperative positioning
with win/win non-violent intent,
That we are good
and natural
and healthy
and democratic
to assume restorative green resilience
of all ecosystems
and all subclimates is healthy,
whether internal or external,
whether yin or yang,
implicit or explicit,
whether unitarian inhaling or universal exhaling,
whether ecofeminist or egopatriarchal,
whether sacred Left interdependent ecosystemic
or secular Right autonomously egocentric,
Dialogue is always a healthier choice
for a wise green energy democracy
than trust-violent
overly competitive debates,
with zero-sum win/lose relational/nutritional assumptions
about energy's inevitable cold outcomes,
As if win/lose capitalism makes democratic nurturing sense
despite win/win co-empowering green
original sacred-mind and secular-body
bilateral revolutionary intent,
Where rational regenerative history
greets intuitive resonant mystery
with deep green learning respect.
4. And we are not really 'coddling'
to rationally expect non-violent discussion
begins with compassionate win/win listening
for points of cooperative agreement,
Usually more significant
than win/lose points of runaway disagreement,
regardless of cultural color appreciation
or species gratitude,
or the healthier humor of leftbrain egopatriarchal dominance
passionate about cooperative rightbrain ecofeminist prominence.
Reason-rooted StraightWhiteMale gadflies
sometimes have trouble hearing
and appreciating the power
of 7th interdependent identity principles
in balance with
1st co-relational
co-passionate dignity principles
Of egalitarian freedoms to speak
and interdependent responsibilities
to listen for win/lose issues
while discerning win/win cooperative resolutions.
Gadflies may merely tolerate
dissonant monoculturing elistist risks,
rather than resonantly co-responding
with confluent
co-passionate
polyculturing
interdependent opportunities
to feel with resonant ears,
Which invite more of a honey bee
kind of humming green consciousness,
both wealthy mind-thought
and healthy body-felt.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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