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Transposition of Laotse's "On Punishment-4", p. 302, Modern Library, 1942, Lin Yutang translator and editor.

Variations on a Punishing Theme When people are hungry and at risk of homelessness despair chronic depression and climatic extinction Is it because their leaders and community developers, learning incubators and technical assistance providers, grantors and lenders, representatives and public sector service providers absorb too many investments and nutrients for their own mouths and mortgages? sleeping soundly at night unaware of how their Continuous Quality Improvement intentions economically and ecologically miss their mark of solidarity and mutual subsidiarity, of recreating the comfort and nutrients they intended to invest in those with greater need. Perhaps the self-blaming unruliness of hungry homeless people Is due to oversight interference of well-intended practitioners expert administrators senior consultants expertly dominating fragile margins of poverty feeding dissonant anger and fear and mistrust. Chronically at-risk species fear living death's dissonance and entropic non-thrival trends, Because we are anxious to survive, to build life; not so much death and perpetual advent. Wilting personal lives have no bandwidth left for righting macrosystemic death trends. It is mutual-mentors who co-invest in cooperative thriving, That incarnate wise evolution of deep ecologically balancing lives. Self-composting toilets have surprisingly greater nurturing value to people without a pot to pee in than community-composting banks and governments.

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