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Stable Diversity

Nature loves diversity just as air abhors a vacuum. Stability lives in staged apposition with diversity as Yang predicts Yin, as time moving stably forward predicts time imagined more diversely as the history of regeneratively slow-evolving Earth. Stability, without conjoining diversity, is a highly subjective attribution when blanketed across a lifespan, when covering a generation of interdependent lifespans, even when defining a genetically stable species across many re-stabilizing generations. What is stable within a life is what is reliably conserved, like a heart beat, and breathing, digesting and eliminating, consumer and producer functions, economic and political forms of conserving balance, cooperative survival of the best interdependence more than competitive Win/Lose frictions, or all thoughts and feelings of stability disappear. Conserving stability over a lifetime is a highly subjective attribution, perhaps too broad and sweeping, too global and universal too totalitarian too elitist biased to be more microscopically accurate across any one lifespan. For example, the growth rate of an infant could not be stably conserved throughout an eight-decade human life span, nor could the constant two-year old questions, Why? conserve stability in a four-decade middle-age climate of chronic crisis about half-empty ecopolitical ego-stability. Adolescent adventures in gender-related competitions over multigenerational cooperations could not stably conserve a marriage or a nation or a planet across a regenerative trans-speciating lifespan of co-domesticating creolization, democratization of shared wisdom, health, wealth. I wonder if conserving stability of bilateral mind, and centering on stability with diversity body more likely matriarchal than patriarchal, oriented toward health and safety across eight positive WinWin regenerations, at eight-decades of humane life, facing immanent individual ego-death, could already be conservatively stabilizing in the bicameral mindbody of an infant child, or even a stuck in adolescent competitions patriarchal-dominant nation?

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