The Eighth Principle

Integrate rather than segregate. Yin rather than too much Yang dominance. At least in the worlds of Permaculture Design and Systems Theory and Democratic Political Theory, Polycultural outcomes are healthier and thereby wealthier, than monoculturing economic and political, ecopolitical-psychological and social and cultural and any system-balancing obectives. Monocultural objectives in an overripe infestation time can produce rabidly aggressive polarities overpowering and devouring prey, sources of nutrition and energy and fuel, to a tipping point beyond regenerative replacement. Sated monocultural predator overpopulations on climatic edge of hunger and thirst for former neighbors, now heading toward decline, extinguished by supremacist WinLose Players, populations, species, acting like cats living on a continent of catnip, constipated and out of nutritional balance, satiated just as catnip energy is at point of crisis. Cats facing decline, gradually wondering if they will have to end by preying on each others' young, or escape this over-catted monoculturing WinLose monopoly game conclusion to catnip bloated dominant patterns learned from catnip-hungry teachers and mentors, parents and siblings. So, whether cat or human, designing and learning to cooperatively integrate our integration objectives is not just better but healthier and thereby wealthier, more democratically effective, more economically nutritional, and more ego/eco-bilateral balancing than segregating ego-centric ethno-centric anthro-centric racist sexist ageist xenophobic paranoid supremacist monoculturing trends toward dissonance and despair. To paraphrase David Holmgren, regarding human waste and effects of polluting Earth, "Declining [health] energy availability will shift the general [ecopolitical-psychological] perception of these [cooperative symbiotic relationship] concepts from romantic idealism [RightBrain marginalization] to practical necessity." [Left-Right Yang-Yin Brain cooperative symbiotic relationship]. When we recall we are an inherently ecopolitical species, cooperative integrity unveils a primal practiced necessity of Mother Earth's gift-it-forward (0)-sum nutritional economy. Then gratitude and grace become as accessible to atheists, and Bodhisattva Warriors, and CoMessiahs, to peace martyrs and justice prophets as to any newborn on Earth, learning embryonic embrace of matriarchal root systems, womb through tomb lifetime co-investments open to Earth's regenerative gifts of health as wealthiest nurture of polycultural development, healthier than segregating supremacist degeneration, climate pathological objectives, nihilistic WinLose planning as if economic wealth optimization could be rooted in segregated capital vaults not investing in mutual Earth-Gratitude Integrity. Interdependently integrate all positive nutritional trends rather than merely segregate your negative ecopolitical predations, victimizations and criminalizations, from whom we truly have become, for now. Adopt active cooperativity rather than adapt to fear and anger tolerance much less mongering. Both integration and segregation are mutually contagious. One feeds love, the other bleeds despair.