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Opposites Attract

How might our feeling-language play its stretching role toward imagining ourselves and others differently than we believe we, and they, truly are on our best and worst day? Can you find a difference between dark problems, as issues, and lighter opportunities, as possible resolutions, in how they feel deeply heavy v. widely bright, but this difference is not that of opposites within themselves, so much as dialectical cause-effect appositional feeling diseased uneased and easy. Issues like gun control and anger management and rabid climate warming feel too dark and heavy and unpleasant to those who love control and fresh air and clean water and nutritious soil and other healthy things-- not so sure about giving way to violence, but certainly loving sufficient power to control my future with human privileged you. Anyway, opportunities to control ballistic violence and re-air issues from a freshly potentiating perspective, and to water clean health, rather than develop dark issues and constituencies living as monoculturally over-consuming AnthroMobs feel lighter, more enlightened, perhaps even a bit more, I don't know, maybe bipartisan rebalancing our WinWin CoOperative Power Game. How might our interior and exterior therapeutic voices learn to speak through cognitive-affective dark-languaged dissonance, for engaging co-invested awareness of light feels good and politically healthy and compellingly bright as night contrasting day Unjust dusk predicting yet another peaceful dawn?

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