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Vulnerability is rich soil for gratitude while Yang strength is rockier, less robust for absorbing flows of nurturing waters. Just as gratitude is richer soil for abundance than Yang attitudes of elitist patriarchal supremacy. At Yang's perpetual adolescent table, each diner has his family's autonomous bowl and spoon of diverse inherited sizes. The object of this eating nutrition game is to grab as much of Earth's Common HealthWealth as possible, to keep your bowl not just full, but overflowing into storage bins and deposit boxes. Good Yang capitalists, well-fed to corpulence, are not known for their satiated abundance, but more for insatiable hunger for more food in their wealth bowls today, unaware that Earth's crops of storage bins and deposit boxes encroach now across the Commons garden of formerly more organic nutritional abundance. Yin has no such strong autonomous table. Here Gaia is known as a OneBowl-OneSpoon economy playing universal Golden Rule cooperative politics. As political capitalism's OneBowl Earth separates wealth for those inside our OneBowl from health, especially for those on the margins of our One Matriarchal Gratitude Bowl, then competitive abundance tips toward cooperative recessions, suppressions oppressions away from abundance toward insatiability of Yang's autonomous growing numbers of bowls and spoons of widely disparate inherited sizes, where biggest might of great abundance never fills each glutted plutocratic bowl not yet sufficient for paranoid insecurity's conservation needs, sufficiency in defensive competition with all Others. At some point Yang might notice that all patriarchal competing bowls of diverse sizes and colors and cultures and nutrients, derive from our one GaiaEarth Bowl with One Ecological Spoon, feeding Yin vulnerability toward matriarchal gratitude and, thereby, cooperative ecopolitical abundance, and not so much falsely autonomous Yang short-term strength feeding anthrocentric competitions and racisms toward capital violent-industrialized marketing of Earth's remaining scarcity for Yin/Yang OneBowl-OneSpoon ecological life.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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