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Unstuck Adolescence

It might be said of adolescence,
This is a stage demanding economic authority,
autonomous freedom to invest and disinvest,
without yet accepting concomitant political responsibilities,
to family
to community
to children
to grandchildren
to disenfranchised populations
to Elders' wiser investments, in their permacultural time,
to other interdependent species
     in our food chain
     and in Earth's political digestion
          and indigestion
     food chain,
     feedback loops, double-bound.

Adolescence viewed in this dichotomous way,
with Yang economic authority embraced so warmly
     for short-term profit margins,
that Yin's invitation to long-term cooperative political responsibilities
remains a naive liberal view
     of ecological conservation;
confuses Yang adolescent dominance
with Yang/Yin maturity,
     patriarchal/matriarchal nondual supremacy
          over even inclusive anthrocentrism,
confuses patriarchal humanist libertarianism
     without matriarchal humane integrity
          of synergetic Gaia, hypostatic unioned,
          negentropic dipolar,

nursing bilaterally responsive regenerative systems,
incarnating as individual growing-up egos,
corporate ecosystems on our interependent way,
incorporated non-profits and public sectors
     too often acting like Industrial Era adolescent competitors,
     colonizing victims of criminalization
          and enslavement
          and addiction
          and domestic and international terrors
     through Anger Management
     and fake BadNews
     and dark magical nonthinking
     and fear-mongering
          feeding deeply encultured patriarchal paranoia,

sometimes improving skills for entrepreneurial autonomous bootstraps,
     where short-term successes include those designing boots thick enough
          for limited success
          in a dog eat dog world
but longer term outcomes evolve worker-
     and client- 
     and resident- 
     and GaiaCommons-owned cooperative structures
          systems
          networks
          WinWin games,
citizen-owned and managed civil governments,
care-receiver owned and managed healthcare cooperative networks

balancing mature economic authority with political long-term responsibility,
Yang with Yin-wizened wisdom
     rather than stuck in withering adolescence against
     each secularLeft and sacred RightBrained bicameral heart.

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017

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