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Not Such Great Expectations

Paraphrasing Dickens speaking of Great Expectations through Pip's distraining voice, Our worst religious weaknesses and political meannesses and self and other deprivations are usually committed for the sake of avoiding elitist people whom we most actively distrust. On the other hand, trust invites vulnerability as distraining poverty embraces wealth, honesty, integrity, expanding democracy and cooperative co-investment. Oppressive religious and cultural repressions and suppressions are opiates of multiculturing people When monoculturing elitists offer religious opiate addictions to domesticating ritual thereby over-ruling democratic spiritual experience of daily natural and cooperative liturgies. Polycultural non-elites, like young organic gardeners of polyphonics and ecofeminist transgendering designers, thrive best within an alliance of the gentle and broken, vulnerable and open to new cooperative intimacies, gentrifying neighborhoods and families and hearts designed by rural-memory values for nutrition that also nurtures, health that also wealths, climates embracing edible and richly colored landscapes, mindshapes of and for regenerating future generations of and for polycultural cooperative EliteNetworks, neither opiated nor nervously nirvanaed nellies nor disappointed that WinLose investment didn't turn out as WinWin actively hoped for through EcoPolitical Constitutions reborn in and through each matriarchal ego/eco-doublebound organic governing womb, probably not so Dystopically Opiated, at least in our moments of original cooperative conception. Or, we could end less simply Dickens, with Great Expectations for avoiding: Our worst religious weaknesses and political meannesses and self and other deprivations, usually committed for the sake of avoiding elitist people (and other divine personages, distraining gods and goddesses) whom we most actively, LeftBrain dominantly, distrust.

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