Whole Earth Patriotism
What is patriotism?
Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?
What is nationalism?
Usually positive values about monocultural
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess nationalism could also include negative evaluations,
begging for more international
interdependent freedom
intuitively empowered to do good.
What is lively good?
Not evilly bad?
Again?
Well, OK, whatever falls into what we agree is notnot ancient
through reversing contemporary recycling
wealth power with
of health power over
deadening despair.
Have we not had considerably too much experience
with national-cultural superiority complexities
leading to totalitarian toxic, evil outcomes?
Why can't we redefine patriotism
as economic-political cooperative maturity?
I suppose we could,
but maturity based on what standard of not immature?
Well, where do we now base national superiority v inferiority?
Some economists start with trends in Gross National Production.
Could we at least compare GNP to Gross National Consumption?
Maybe look at this prime balancing/unbalancing trend across the past several years
of EarthTribe health care
resilient co-investment
So patriotism rises and falls with whether national production balances consumption?
Of what?
Of everything and everyone, I guess.
But, I suspect robust international patriotism peaks where consumption and production
approach co-arising not not
bilateral (0)-sum WinWin cooperative health balance
within a globally resilient
ecopolitical nurturing-nutritional
health-wealth network.
So you suggest re-rooting nationalism in a more global patriotic cooperativist identity,
maturing win/win resolutions,
more robust and resilient
ecopolitical national/international regenerativity.
Because regenerativity, rather than degenerativity,
invites increases in multiculturing relationships and transactions,
while national superiority sparks racism and elitism
and the entitled piracy
and enslavement
of yesterday's alien
wild
indigenous savages.
Nationalistic patriotism suboptimizes
inclusive global growing cooperative opportunities
for indigenous network development
we transubstantially need sacred wisdom
as our Business As Usual co-investment pride
of shared Golden Rule macaronic purpose
speaking of peaking deep neurosensory repurpose
Ecological health,
political cooperative wealth,
grow with multi- and poly-cultural outcomes;
while monocultural nationalism produces racism and sexism
and anthro-hubris inequitable incomes
and unsustainable ecocidal outgos.
Co-responsibility nurtures integrity,
just as cultural elitism accelerates from illusions of biological superiority
through short-term competitions for profits off remaining ecosystemic players,
anti-ecological,
if healthy growth invests toward integrative regenerative density.
Nationalism grows antipathic distrust
when we need to grow co-empathic wealthy trust
of inclusive international democratization,
mutually revered creolization,
rather than patriot-identified colonization.
As cooperative ecopolitics globally emerges
we find ourselves playing WinWin long-term co-investment games
with more multicultural mediating others.
Interdependent listening and investment expands
across oceans and the nonviolent internet.
Regenerative dense mutuality
grows in Mother Earth's bilateral hemispheric scope
extending matriarchal family depth
back to YinSquared Time
inviting polypathic Yang-tridimensional space,
nondually co-arising 4-dimensional RealTime
notnot (0)-sum fractal anticipating WinWin
eco-patriotic/matriotic multiculturing health and safety resonance.
So what is your idea of true patriotism again?
EarthPride and humane humility
of and for resiliently regenerate climates
of multicultural sacred non-sectarian superiority
over degenerate too-secularized
too-monoculturally segregating
inferiority of anthro-centric
unnatural anti-nature
self-pardoning spiritual elite entitlement rights
to commodify self-righteous divine monotheistic supremacy,
to punish unorthodox prophets of green ecofeminists
restoring panentheistic justice--
often with RightBrain dominant
artistic and syncretic
ego-empowering creolization
transubstantiating
OpenWealth and WholeHealth revolutionary
EarthJustice CoEducational
PermaCulturing Design Alliances.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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