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Sharing Is Caring

Yesterday I heard someone say To cure police and military violence, we need a NonTrumpian change of culture. Sometimes revolutionary changes include conserving feminist elements of ancient healing cultures; Intent to reward multicultural inclusion rather than hanging on to patriarchal and capitalistic monocultural supremacy-- a culture of exclusion, excommunication, and extraction from Earth's communal nature and spirit. Sometimes we need to restore justice and peace to our own soil and souls before we are ready to grow healthy seeds of primal relationship, healthcare, compassion, into wealthy win/win Paradise. I have also heard it said, If you show mercy to a sociopath, And if you merely shun an imperialistic narcissist, you will only fuel future selfish outrage. But, I have lived with oppositional defiance neurologically hard-wired for adolescent megalomania and know that punishment, revenge, violence, anger, fear, and hatred fuel sociopathology, Not healing warmth of transparent and vulnerable attachment, healthy curiosity, abundant care, nonviolent communication, compassion, gratitude for opportunities to explore win/win polycultural outcomes ecologically healthy and communally wealthy erupting into global healing theological experience of grace. My daughter with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome listens by the hour to a kids song, "Sharing is caring. Be kind to everyone." But, we train our police, and our soldiers and our political party and economic investors the opposite retributive competitive hostile paternalistic capitalistic win/lose zero-sum monoculturing shadow of ecofeminist multicultural truth and beauty, nature and spirit. The false peace of tolerating mutual win/lose hostility is a sin of freedom's omission to reconnect with Earth's greater gracious half.

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