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I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory" although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain." Right now, Dr. Gordon is discussing various academic attempts, and some of them actual RealWorld politically-applied attempts, to prescribe creolization as a form of ecopolitical therapy for an under-democratized cooperative WinWin world. So, here's an excerpt, with my own creolizing BothAnd comments in brackets: " ...this slippage [into prescriptive rather than the more academic descriptive] has made these creative writers mouthpieces of problematic efforts to [positive-regenerative] operationalize the [democratizing] creolizing spirit, particularly in the political projects of the Caribbean independence-era. For example, one might consider the Jamaican effort to forge 'one out of many,' or deliberately to craft a national identity that required emphasizing the multiple origins of the common [constituting-constituent-constitutional languaged and contracted] cultures that would guide and be embodied in process of [Second Generation democratic constitution-planning and writing] nation-building (Bolland 2006, 2). In assuming that there was no singular primordial [Elite-Won and Owned] nation to which the emergent state could refer, they concluded that there was no original purity [and loyalty] that would be endangered by the public recognition of the pluralistic [cooperative-regenerative-matriarchal-creolizing] culture that had [and is] already grown up there [and here]." "Particularly among anthropologists and sociologists, the record of the forgings of national [matriarchal-domestic dominant] creole identities and cultures is wrought with severe shortcomings. It has been suggested these projects imitated without inverting aspects of colonial societies that they promised to [constitutionally Original Intent] displace and [EliteWin-NonEliteLose] surpass (Misir, 2006). What became militant brands of cultural [LeftBrain Patriarchal Dominant] nationalism were seen in [Second Constitution-Drafting] fact to enshrine only one particular form of hybridity [e.g., European-Rooted PostRevolutionary Male Land and/or Creole-NonElite-Slave-Owners and NewNational CoOperative CoInvestors in regenerating democratizing development for health and safety], that of nationalist leaders at the forefront of efforts to oust white foreigners [and, in more RealTime US current events, to oust nonwhite and nonChristian and nonLeftBrain PatrioticDominant aliens]. Rather than nurturing the [global] social and political [cooperative WinWin] conditions for ongoing [regenerative-healthy ecopolitical] processes of creolization, in other words, one ossified [WinElite/Lose-NonElite ownership] instantiation was privileged to the exclusion of [WinWin] others in ways that cultivated [global paranoid competitive WinLose] xenophobia toward people who failed to exemplify such [WinLose Left Dominant v WinWin Right-suppressed bicameral] mixture, seeming to justify the continued unequal distribution of societal rewards." [and ecopolitical WinLose ossified political "wealth" removed from economic cooperative-regenerative ownership health.] (pp. 181-2) Meanwhile, taking a more internal psychological-neural view of evolutionary history, Dr. Damasio prescribes "...a growing understanding of how [creolizing ecosystemic co-empathic regeneration/double-bind degeneration] neuron [mirror-systemic] circuits work. [Bicameral] Mental states have been linked to the [Positive AND NotNot] firing rates [trends regenerative/degenerative] of neurons and to the [dipolar co-arising WinWin-Left/WinLose-Right] synchronization of neuron circuits by oscillatory [+,+/+,(-,-) (0) spacetime mirror fractal-revolution] activity. We also know that compared to other species human brains have a larger number and greater [phylogenic-historical RightBrain embryonic nutritional/digestive] specialization of [normative/notnot] areas, especially in the cerebral [bilateral] cortex (along with those of apes, whales and elephants [Win survival synaptic/aptic = notnot grieving personal/familial death and loss]) contains some unusually large neurons known as Von Economo [dipolar co-arising appositional] neurons; and that the dendritic [bilateral] branches of some prefrontal cortex neurons in [actively creolizing curious and cooperative-mirror communicating] primates are especially abundant compared to those of other cortical regions and of other [also bilateral-equivalent embodied DNA/RNA WinWin evolving] species. Are these newly discovered features sufficient to explain human [evolutionary bilateral revolutions of creole-polypathic] consciousness? The answer is no. These features help explain the richness of the human [bicameral WinWin balancing] mind, the vast [WinWin-LeftThrival OVER WinLose-RightSurvival phylogeny] panorama that we can access when minds become [bilaterally cooperative Yang/Yin creolizing co-incidental co-operative] conscious as a resut of varied self [/other, Left-Right reiterative and bilateral equivalent WinWin co-mirroring mentoring] processes. But in themselves they do not explain how [ego-Left] self and [eco-nutrition/digestive Right] subjectivity are [deductive/inductively co-re]generated, even if some of these same [neural-ecosystemic] features play a role in self [organic creole-polypathic Left-Right ecopolitical regeneratative] mechanisms [of self/other cooperative democratizing Original Intent governance]." (p. 257) So Creolizing Political LeftBrain Dominant-Democratizing HealthyWealth Trust Theory also emerges as How EgoLeft/EcoRight Selves Come to BiLaterally EquiValent PolyPathic Mind.

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