Wonder As a Political Choice

"Wonder or radical [polypathic, polycultural] amazement is a prerequisite for an authentic [ecopolitical] awareness of that which is; [regenerative love-rooted v degenerative fear-rooted messages, actions, choices, decisions regarding democratically cooperative egalitarian health and security for all]; it [polypathic open-systemic (0)-sum Wonder] refers not only to what we see [and smell, and taste, and hear, and feel, and think, and have positive-love and negative-fear attitudes about] but also to the very act of seeing, [bicameral mirror neural-empathicWonder/antipathicMisTrust] as well as to our own selves [wondrous and polypathically amazing bicameral nature-spirit biosystems] that [both Right and LeftBrain bilaterally] see and are amazed at their [our co-mentoring multicultural] ability to see." [ever more confluent-flow, positive-cooperative ecopolitical Wonder.] Abraham Heschel If Yang is a political WinLose player, He is also a LefBrain monoculturing actor, going it alone in part because of a mistrust of His (0)Riginally Intended Yin, now cast as a repressed cooperative economic consumer of Yang's fear-rooted dominating messages, actions, plutocratically rabid choices for hoarding short-term Wins, rather than cooperatively investing in democratically multiculturing us, rooted in Yin's dipolar co-arising co-empathic Left-Right Prime (0) Relationship of mutual balance and trust. For example, George Lakoff quotes a journalist recalling a slap-down from a Republican White House staffer: "The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the [regenerative and degenerative health] reality-based community,'... people who 'believe that [ecologically systemic multiculturally resonant] solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'" [ego/ecoconscious Left-Right balancing-reiterating] "'That's not the way the world [my LeftBrain Dominant, so RightBrain Repressed, ego- and anthro-centric fear-rooted paranoid WinLose disembodied nihilistic fundamentally egocentric experience of a nationalistic ecopolitical world] really works any more. We're an empire now [plutocratic fear-based, with rabid monoculturing intent, Yang uber-reified LeftBrain spiraling out of control] and when we act we create our own reality.' [Competitive WinLose BusinessAsUsual climate pathological trending] 'And while you're [Yintegratively cooperative-flowing] studying that [Yang NegativeParanoid] reality-- judiciously [LeftYang-RightYin WinWin discernment], as you will-- we'll act again, creating other new realities, [of old climates of WinLose pathology] which you can [Yintegratively-cooperatively] study too, and that's how things will [degeneratively] sort out. We're [LeftBrain dominant-supremacist] history's [Yang] actors... and you, all of you [Yintegrative polypathic regenerators], will be left to study what we do.'" [Without intending to ecologically-economically WinWin invest in future generations, as our (0)Riginal Intending cooperative incorporating Elders regeneratively invested in our health and safety.] George Lakoff, Political Mind, pp 40-1 Wonder or radical ecopolitical amazement is a prerequisite for an authentic awareness of those actions, cooperative/competitive choices, heath-wealth policies and polyculturing procedures, investments in our further WinWin wondrous polypathic bicameral future. EcoPolitical Actors who would produce wondrous wisdom and long-term fame, rather than infamy, are invited to listen to the muted voices of Earth's future, and to thereby become less fascinated with paranoid egocentric fears of losing shallow wealth devoid of healthy resonance; less Left-Dominant opens to more cooperatively Yintegral Right-Flow of healthy climates, wonder, radical awe, Basic Attendance to Ego/EcoConsciousness, mindfulness, (0) sum balance-centeredness. "[T]he radical conservative political and economic agenda is putting public [health] resources and government [security] functions into private [competitive WinLose] hands, while eliminating the capacity of [cooperatively owned, WinWin] government to protect and empower the public [health and safety]. The public has no [active cooperative incorporating, incarnating] conceptual framework... to comprehend what this [unnecessarily degenerative risk] means [for ourselves and our future generation of all amazing species], and with the stress of fear [packaged, marketed, and sold in a WinLose capitalist-militarist economy] and worry and overwork [and denial and vicarious WinLose evolutionary narrative entertainments, addictions, monopolies of imaginative powers] the public has little capacity to notice and to [cooperatively] create the substantial neural structures needed to [polypathically ego/eco-consciously] comprehend what is [fear-rooted] happening in hundreds of [love-motivated] areas of [wonder and awe-intended] life." George Lakoff, p. 42 Wonder or radical [poly-empathic] amazement is a[n ecological] prerequisite for an authentic [ecopolitical] awareness.