Two Cultural Feet

David Holmgren a seminal PermaCultural Designer, if there ever has become one, suggests most people throughout Earth in this age of globally interdependent communication feel we have one foot planted in our original local community/family culture, and the other foot planted in a more comprehensively dominant economic and political and sociological culture; but also maybe both feet together co-arise in our ancient global ecological enculturation. More of a mindbody hop than a cognitive one-legged skip. I grew to the 18-year mark of emancipation in a conservative fundamentalist Republican Michigan family farm industrializing mid-to-later 1900s economic and political and sociological and ecological and anthropological and psychological and genderological and extended family farm as ancient forestological and embryonic wombological culture both internally adopted and externally alien adapting by trying on my daily and nightly ancient enculturations. As a child I could not distinguish between internalized enculturation and external dominant LeftBrain USA-WhiteEnglishOnly culture because I felt no incipient dissonance between these two external Left and internal Right, secular ecopolitical and socio-psychological sacred hemispheres of footedness, groundedness, ego/eco-centeredness. Then I noticed that the fantasy of partnering with socio-psychological masculinity rather than ecopolitical femininity--however lovely-- was mesmerizing, hypnotic, wondrously awesome, happiness and Aquarian beauty and bilaterally sexy and internally right yet very much externally alien wrong. So which was my true local culture with integrity and safety and love and faith and trust, and which was my dominant MidWest EnglishOnly White Straight Male Dominant extending patriarchal farm businessological culture? It has taken many years of self-inflicted therapy to answer that question Both Left-and-Right Win/Win polypathically healthy, rather than Either Left-or-Right Lose short-term to LoseLess long-term pathologically. Today, since the 9/11 of 2016, when nearly half of U.S. voters chose to vote for our own domestic terrorism inflicted against both promised rich and threatened poor, both hateful and fearful AlienElitist plutocrats and hated and feared non-fundamentalist non-white non-straight non-male non-competitive non-monoculturing not-sufficiently-domesticated and under-invested cooperative Left in ancient solidarity with Right Brained democrats, It is also true, an alternative majority fact, if you will, that slightly over half did NOT vote to internalize a domestic version of global fundamentalist terrorism, against the greater powers of polypathic Left/Right bilateral ancient love, against the principles of Zero-Sum WinWin ecopolitical integrity, from which my own Left-Right extending farm-as-global-forest ecology was originally spawned in patriarchal-matriarchal harmony Yang with Yin, not dissonantly alien against Left-RightBrain Ego/Eco inductive bilateral co-intelligence, Without, so far as I recall, quite so much RightFooted stomping and marching in military-industrialized Big RedBook of ViolentCapitalism Squares, where persuasive enculturation anciently begins at the alienating end of the longest and fattest gun.