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Said Hillary To Donald

Words have consequences, said rhetorical behaviorist Hillary to Donald, we would no more cooperatively elect a Donald Trump as President than we would compete to win Donald Duck for Empire Builder. Words mean things, said linguistic behaviorist Anat to her fellow Economist Collective, and the absence of words means something too. We're not sure what but I place my bet on more contenting ecopolitics. Light consequenced water, we know this from our history of science books but this is difficult to see how exactly this could be without sufficient silence to recall what dipolar co-arising energies lie in wait within this shared enlightenment, progenitor of stardust ecopoliticizing ecologizing harmonic fertile planets with their wet offspring. To paraphrase Joanna Macy, Active economics is not more wishful thinking. Active ecopolitical words and praxis do not wait for issues to be resurrected and remembered by the Donald Ducks or by some other self-serving would-be savior. Active Hope wakes up in life's ecological beauty wonder sabbath on whose silently exquisite behalf we can act as light. To the Hillaries: Follow the light, not so much the butch rhetoric. To the Donalds: Follow your truth with beauty loves, not so much your prized pathologies.

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