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In Our Dotage

What do you dote on? Who do you dote with, if anyone? "Dote" is an old-time word for ruminate, to dwell on and within, to become absorbed by and with. Then there is also "antidote". Let's imagine that our massive events and entertainment media were to merge into an eventertainment industry, hypnotised and hypnotising to dote on negative alarming events in which we pathologize ourselves and others victims in some intensely dissonant way, suffering anthro-doting mis-creations not yet present when multimedia creator god looked and saw that we should could would prefer to smell and look and feel good, or at least better. This way of empathizing with vicarious others stepping into our co-awareness of emotive/cognitive humanity, discovering both my and our darker fear and anger identities as victims of eco-political anti-dotage abuse and neglect, trauma and terrifying apathy Doting on dissociation from negative disvalues against organic life and sacred love may also co-arise associative antidotes Reverent wonder and revered awe recovering sacred integrity rediscovering organic synergy uncovering frightening and angry dotage antidotes Peace restoring empowering multi-mediating gods and goddesses hunting healthy ways and gathering wealthy means for images made of childhood daydreams Curious and courageous stories fracturing fearful crevices and angry cracks anti-doting peaceful healing justice fragrant with lemon-scented mercy, lavender of love's promise in four-dimensional fully organic spectral color following outlines of days when healthy therapeutic news was sunrise good and sunset bad, but all agreed, normatively good was green below with blue above in yellow light from which we came to champion dote through each night or free of fear day bright. If we are victim doters then antidoting virtuous too to see full color stretching identities of me through organic you within each of time's regeneratively bilateral antidotes, both victim and larger self-potentiating virtues, curiously co-redemptive powers cooperating our more positive psychology, evaporating our too negative multi-unmediated dotage, ruminating our wiser win/win experiments together, amply covered by pronoia's poetic non licentious license.

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