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Strong Health Defense

Avoiding risk is not always the best way to feed and assertively, but not overbearingly, water resilient opportunities. Patriarchalism is not ever the best way to build resilient ecofeminist cooperative opportunities. It may too often be exclaimed, "The best offense is a strong defense." Defensive strategies begin to look remarkably aggressive, even left-brain overwearingly offensive. I don't recall the reverse claim, "The best defense is an affluent effluent offense." Probably because this is not necessarily true to resiliently healthy experience. Mosquito repellent bracelets seem more sustainably effective than bombing my entire lot in predator/prey life with toxic insecticide. And yet, I'm not sure that the more popular aphorism is any more true or false. The most resilient and powerful defense against suffering and loss, against climates of pathology, already feels too self-isolating timid lacking in healthy robust curiosity, too anti-degenerative to actively regenerate hope and cooperative faith and win/win co-passion and gratitude for courage to face new frontiers of awareness with those and that now less known, less connected, less resiliently resonantly etched into our global gratitude attitude experience. If we were to re-image offensive strategies to grow win/win economic/political gratitude as Yang-strength, universally mutually empowering; And, Yin-effluent flow as defensive ecofeminist opportunities, invitations to ease off the left-brain dominant competitive either/or thinking enculturing win/lose inflaming gas, We might find ourselves with feminists resisting patriarchal extraction histories predicting only future Loser economics and Loser ecological disempowerment of otherwise healthy robust futures, Yang-offensive and Yin-defensive balance. But, resistance without resilient win/win offensives does not effectively balance our tipping point double-bound offensive/defensive optimization, inviting us toward cooperatively-held articulate resilient healthy purpose, robustly wealthy sacred meaning experiencing Yang-health as Yin beauty-wealth, Universal offense-wealth as unitarian defense, slow-grown communal ecofeminist ego-political win/win integrity; healthy-wealth optimization, right-brain prominent enculturation, resilient both-offense-and-defense resonance. A frog in a patriarchal well does not know the great ecofeminist sea.

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