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How the East Was Lost

The title, How the West Came to Rule, disturbs me enough to continue reading, like wanting to escape a nightmare but too fear frozen with why it could never truly end well to stop dreaming. In this case, is to stop reading. I'm sure this history of violent capitalism's romp across Earth, fueled by ecopolitical engines of Europe, then also what had become industrialized and militarized market colonies, is brilliantly nuanced and developed, and yet, for me, the subtitle GeoPolitical (0)Source Origins of Capitalism is also the story of How the East Came to UnRule, through more ecopolitically cooperative-oriented extended families, Elder Venerating as self-regenerative practice for economically nutritious WinWin, multiculturally held as morally and ethically, ecologically and psychologically, but also patriarchy and matriarchy healthier than capitalism's violent Great Climate Assumption of Christ's further love-evolution by means of unfortunately necessary ballistics, because of Original Sin, you know, not believing our ecopolitically cooperativist Golden Rule applies to my own LeftBrain dominant Ego honoring Heroic Saints I would not myself wish to ever economically become, not quite as East venerated cooperative-competitive Elder ReGenerator Bodhisattvas, in the West, not sacred compassion enough to stop playing tough-love, How the West Came to Capitalism's WinLose Aquisition-Inquisition, an evolutionary historic assumption about optimal WinWin regenerative enculturation. I continue reading How the West Came to Rule, Anievas and Nisancioglu, and continue my nightmare epic How the West Came to Lose Climate Health as Wealth; an Elder Wise creation story of ecopolitical origins through capital-rooted Zero-Sum Balance, both investment with disinvestment of consuming-Yang with productive-Yin economic ebb and flow of Capital DiPolar CoArising AnthroCentrism. To paraphrase Einstein, Cooperatively communicated imagination is more ecopolitically important than knowledge Of evolutionary Trees of Good Golden Rules and Evil Dissonant EgoDeaths to revolution WinWin regeneratively self-perpetuating Games like Thought Experiments, (0)Earth-centered, rooted in Elder cooperatively communicating DNA/RNA Solidarity images, icons of eternal full-octaved, multiculturally polypathic, imagination. We are anthrocentric patriarchal love through competitive condemnation, more Western significant than matriarchal cooperative ecopolitical nurturance, feeding LeftBrain violent capitalist-survivalist WinLose either/or assumptions about Earth's both/and WinWin evolution; not so much the other way around, historically speaking. While I have not reached the Conclusion as brought to Western and Eastern us and all in-between uneven compete/cooperate Tipping Points by Anievas and Nisancioglu, I do so hope we all arrive at this same time, How the West Came to OverRule Climate Health becoming mere premillennial decomposition opening new opportunities for ecotherapy, newly conscious responsibilities, even academic authority? for how the West and East cooperate to OverRule Past-Climate Pathologies, a way of venerating our holy sainted Elders, Left and Right ecoconscious therapeutic balance of multicultural EarthTribe West/East harmonics.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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