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In dialogue with Paulo Freire in dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, especially p. 47.

Victims of Straight White Patriarchal History are usually not hopelessly unenlightened and permanently disabled Ostracized by Self and/or Others from healthy democratic co-redemption Baptized and medicated and meditated into Truth seeking Beauty, Sacred Voices seeking Secular Choices reflecting cooperative EarthTribe's most win/win integral indigenous Wisdom. The unStraight unWhite unMale are not unPeople living outside touchable tangibly co-invested co-operatively healthy wealthy society. We have always been inside Earth's natural/spiritual mind nondualistically embodied economic and political beings still becoming wholy historical; not so much hysterical EarthTribal identity co-created us democratic co-passionate communicators from past regenerations toward future generations seeking wealth-optimizing cooperative health. Our co-empowering solution to emotional and cognitive apartheid is not always forced to colonize vulnerable prey for failure to rise to some self-empowered top OnePercent Overpowering those Others deaf, blind, and voiceless in superstructures of echoing monocultural oppression suppression negative repression rather than positive impression; anxiety defeating anticipation. Healthier democratic resolutions can transform win/lose competitions into win/win cooperative social structures as We The EnLightened People of democratic compassion become organically organizing beings within our health wealthing EarthCentric ComPassion Tribes. Such environmentally transcendent transformation does disempower StraightWhiteMonoCultural privileged monochromatic views of monotheistic autocratic secularizing Purpose Divorced from sacred democratic Meaning, attenuating resilience and resonance with marginalizing disenabling institutionalizing consumptive dysfunctional marginalizing predative colonizing intent of Might Makes MonoCulturing Right for anthrosupremacists. A StraightWhitePatriarchal capitalist consumer model of historical education assuming monotheistic "From Above" autocratic powers for controlling communication cannot peacefully or therapeutically or justly or sacramentally avoid a dispassionate threat to healthy EarthTribe co-producers Wealthing positive deviant ecofeminists leading organic communions with unrelentingly curious co-gravitating co-arising nonpartisan polypathic solidarity within whole-sum EarthTribal compassion.

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