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Whole Earth Patriotism

What is patriotism? Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority. Maybe superior health care integrity? What is nationalism? Usually positive values about monocultural monotheistic monopolistic identity, but I guess nationalism could also include negative evaluations, begging for more international interdependent freedom intuitively empowered to do good. What is lively good? Not evilly bad? Again? Well, OK, whatever falls into what we agree is notnot ancient through reversing contemporary recycling wealth power with of health power over deadening despair. Have we not had considerably too much experience with national-cultural superiority complexities leading to totalitarian toxic, evil outcomes? Why can't we redefine patriotism as economic-political cooperative maturity? I suppose we could, but maturity based on what standard of not immature? Well, where do we now base national superiority v inferiority? Some economists start with trends in Gross National Production. Could we at least compare GNP to Gross National Consumption? Maybe look at this prime balancing/unbalancing trend across the past several years of EarthTribe health care resilient co-investment So patriotism rises and falls with whether national production balances consumption? Of what? Of everything and everyone, I guess. But, I suspect robust international patriotism peaks where consumption and production approach co-arising not not bilateral (0)-sum WinWin cooperative health balance within a globally resilient ecopolitical nurturing-nutritional health-wealth network. So you suggest re-rooting nationalism in a more global patriotic cooperativist identity, maturing win/win resolutions, more robust and resilient ecopolitical national/international regenerativity. Because regenerativity, rather than degenerativity, invites increases in multiculturing relationships and transactions, while national superiority sparks racism and elitism and the entitled piracy and enslavement of yesterday's alien wild indigenous savages. Nationalistic patriotism suboptimizes inclusive global growing cooperative opportunities for indigenous network development we transubstantially need sacred wisdom as our Business As Usual co-investment pride of shared Golden Rule macaronic purpose speaking of peaking deep neurosensory repurpose Ecological health, political cooperative wealth, grow with multi- and poly-cultural outcomes; while monocultural nationalism produces racism and sexism and anthro-hubris inequitable incomes and unsustainable ecocidal outgos. Co-responsibility nurtures integrity, just as cultural elitism accelerates from illusions of biological superiority through short-term competitions for profits off remaining ecosystemic players, anti-ecological, if healthy growth invests toward integrative regenerative density. Nationalism grows antipathic distrust when we need to grow co-empathic wealthy trust of inclusive international democratization, mutually revered creolization, rather than patriot-identified colonization. As cooperative ecopolitics globally emerges we find ourselves playing WinWin long-term co-investment games with more multicultural mediating others. Interdependent listening and investment expands across oceans and the nonviolent internet. Regenerative dense mutuality grows in Mother Earth's bilateral hemispheric scope extending matriarchal family depth back to YinSquared Time inviting polypathic Yang-tridimensional space, nondually co-arising 4-dimensional RealTime notnot (0)-sum fractal anticipating WinWin eco-patriotic/matriotic multiculturing health and safety resonance. So what is your idea of true patriotism again? EarthPride and humane humility of and for resiliently regenerate climates of multicultural sacred non-sectarian superiority over degenerate too-secularized too-monoculturally segregating inferiority of anthro-centric unnatural anti-nature self-pardoning spiritual elite entitlement rights to commodify self-righteous divine monotheistic supremacy, to punish unorthodox prophets of green ecofeminists restoring panentheistic justice-- often with RightBrain dominant artistic and syncretic ego-empowering creolization transubstantiating OpenWealth and WholeHealth revolutionary EarthJustice CoEducational PermaCulturing Design Alliances.

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Date: 2/26/2017 10:03:00 PM
Hey Gerald. : ) Is there a way to culturally/socially implement this? I fear not, at least not until either it's too late or much closer to the deadline.
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 2/27/2017 9:59:00 AM
Buckminster Fuller observed that deadlines appear much clearer when healthier lifelines are cooperatively designed--or something like that. Essentially, permaculture design already does this, although it has not been applied to the larger geopolitical scale as much as it could be, and needs to be.

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