Stealing and Killing Time

Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville speaking of risks to Western liberal democratic experiments, great personal enlightenment adventures seldom calm within a federating kettle of competing selected fish, and usually not cooperatively resilient for health optimization of local community peaceful resonant wealth. In Tocqueville's time and place, liberal democracy evolved from feudal win/lose pre-industrial aristocracy overpowering non-elite serfs, and lesser natural organic beings, royal kleptocrats, universal white privileged patriarchs by right of land and title inheritance supported by Divine Might Makes Right evolutionary theologies. As Deneen liberally repeats, capital-invested democratic consumer legitimacy to cooperatively contract individually manifest humane superior spiritualized dignity is rooted in monocultural presentism, fragmenting mono-generational cultural contracts with multi-regenerational fields and nutritional species mellow meadows robust mountains and calm river valleys. Where Divine covenants signed, sealed, and delivered to predator Aristocrats were rooted in creeds dogma Divinely inspired scriptures, psalms sonnets holy creation stories sacred pre-historic memories, usually of patriarchal governors and their court-appointed entertainers, fire-circle dancers loyal soldiers and oral legend-tellers, poets, singers, lyricists, fools, seers, prophets, WiseElders. Presentism fragments intergenerational liturgical-nutritional commitments, argues Tocqueville, repeats Deneen. Yet liberal love integrates compassion for all Earth's regenerative/degenerative species verbally historic and non-verbally pre-historic patriarchal and matriarchal deduced and induced Divine EarthMother co-passion multiculturally articulate co-enlightenment covenants through cooperative win/win listening Time Sacredly interdependent natural/spiritual traditionally nondual resilience of Taoistic co-relational covenants Indigenously spiraling Yang/Yin out/in precessive/recessive iconic dialogical EarthTime's win/win sanctuary, ergodic. Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville speaking of risks and appositionally implied opportunities for Western/Eastern liberal democratic experiments, great personal North/South enlightenment adventures seldom calm within a federating creolizing kettle of competing win/lose yet cooperatively win/win selected fish swimming through climate surfing risks.