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Liberation's Pride

I wonder if fully liberated consciousness can only focus on integrity becoming; If partial consciousness and unconsciousness of left with right awareness is the default of dis-integrity, of wandering through detachment of unwanted apartheid and mutual apathy about integrity's personal national global governing pride, organic capacity to know and appreciate with active listening and non-violently speaking compassion. In "Why Liberalism Failed" Patrick Deneen wonders aloud if Business As Win/Lose Usual is "the dying gasp of an old white working class and the lashing out of debt-burdened youth" disenfranchised from classic Enlightenment and Reformation hope in a global multicultural climate of integral healthy-wealth. Deneen worries, as does post-millennial emerging consciousness, We are 20-20 witnesses of climatic pre-revolutionary ecosystems, and so, thereby, victims of individual ego-systemic failure due to lack of active consciousness, active hope for liberating organic integrity. Complex Reformation/Enlightenment, EitherOr/BothAnd integrity co-arising democracy's win/win cooperative trust, now at risk of becoming a failed natural experiment in multiculturing organically proud curiosity, integral courage to listen with compassionate attachment before speaking foolishly of competitive detached mendacious mechanisms. Human experience is not rooted in win/lose evolutionary machine models of robotic mutual autonomy, detached, Although these attributes lie within the organic planting and harvesting skill set of left-brain's active integrity, listening for how best to seed and feast on co-empathic health awareness. This morning my Fetal Alcohol inspired dis-integrity daughter pulled out her tight white T-shirt, a gift from her brother's African-American nurse, liberated, proud. In big black letters, except for the hot pink cursive "ignoring" her black on white shirt announces, defiantly, "I'D LISTEN TO YOU BUT ignoring YOU IS SO MUCH EASIER." Polarized self v other, ego v eco, left v right, northern white patriarchal privilege v southern ecofeminist integrity of all courageous curiosities except racist and sexist intolerance, disintegrity, does involve and invest heavily in "ignoring" But, resulting detached and mechanistic models of win/lose global lack of positive liberating progressive organic experience, are not easier to consciously perceive, they're just less extended family pride awareness, too disassociated identity reified from integral roots of EarthMother's multicultural compassion. Integrity as revered and worshiped, sung and danced by both health Reformers and would be wealth EnLighteners, Left activists and Right bicamerally active listeners to proud liberated integral memories and future climates of win/win images mapping organically interdependent experience, political and economic Yang thought and Yin felt co-passioning integrity.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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