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Saving Face Campaign

Nonviolent designers of Public Service Announcements Like "STOP" smoking shooting up drinking trashing burning ignoring various morbid diseases sinning sundry mental/spiritual pathologies unsafe behavior And feeling ugly smelling bad sexing eating crap unsafe touching Undeclaring vengeful killing wars Straight White Male supremacy ecofeminist confused agendas greens reds whites blues browns blacks Lust rust greed going to seed All these STOP campaigns seem to miss my pointed loser experience that aiming for what makes me right now happy is, perhaps, a long-term disgrace So, what I aim for instead is whatever lies and hiddenness, safe camouflage behind and beneath respectful society's muttered under sour breath "good riddance"ness, I aim for saving face. You can campaign all commercial day and consummating night to persuade me that my health is also our happy absence of communal fright and resonant, perhaps even resilient, brilliantly enlightened and empowering wealth. But, in my heart of hurt addiction depression anxiety remorse for an angry life at least half dead from fear you may uncover me in ways I can't pretend to self-righteously defend I need some campaign even larger than anti-addiction to thinking either bliss or blues, Win/lose Earth's evolving devolving runaway mission, money exchanging zero-sum transmission, inside a nonzero multiplying transmission system Not for peace, or win/win health is also wealth, or whimsically precarious happy nest unrest; not sure I tried my best. I want to join Earth's Great Return for self-regenerating revolving annual campaigns springing climate forth summer's healthy maturation falling harvest wisdom wintering indigenous sacred nurtured meaning, Theological enlightenment ecologically empowering in-between co-arising Yang SunGod and Yintegral Matriarchal Earth Tribes consuming public campaigns green co-passionate communion saving Earth's most happy sacred face, warm embrace, holistic place divinely humane race toward peaceful space and pace.

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