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Why Is It

Why is it: we plant gardens but we garden plants? we call natural medicines drugs and we call unnaturally produced drugs medicines? we label our disease-addicted corporate-insurance complex a humane "health care system"? we prefer fetal alcohol syndrome, pickled livers, and dead drunk outcomes to THC induced probable failure to ever develop yet another over-yanged Type A personality, with an antisocial proclivity for sprouting pickled livers and other deadly outcomes? we tend to respond to uninvited Type B personality invitations with Type A fully-alert personalities, yet we respond to uninvited Type A demands with Type B laissez-faire, neglect, and cognitively hypnotized languishing? the older our nation grows the younger our culture appears to prefer? we pay more and more to elect politicians who produce positive economic priorities and outcomes less and less? the louder and longer I persist in persuading you of my wisdom the shorter and softer grows your attention span and capacity to hear me? we produce prodigious amounts of dispossession destined for the trash yet we seldom intend to ever possess and take ownership of our future trash? Business As Usual economists respond to eco-logical health as if their home eco-nomial turf were some alien crazy wealth? domineering competitive Business As Usuals fail to see we are a sustainable cooperative economy's most significant source for disinvestment away from Earth design health and resilient development wealth? we seldom have enough time to notice and appreciate new places and faces but we drag through ponderous time invested in the same ol' retiring spaces? if some communication event between two people is called a transaction then we think "economics," but if some communication event between two non-humans is called a relationship then we think "ecology"? that digital information is always binary but polynomial information is not assumed to also flow binomially balanced? we invest in gardening well-crowned edible and ornamental gardens but we often find it prudent to nationalistically divest of co-evolving nutrition-rooted Earth?

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