Yin Speaks Yang

I was reading Lakoff's story of what he learned at Berkeley about international relations, when I found my RightBrain offering further nuance; not to deny what is here, but to add what is also here, but not explicitly stated, about regenerative ecopolitical health and safety. "The 'rational' approach to foreign policy was governed by a set of conceptual metaphors, taken as simple common sense, as metaphors [of and for regenerative v degenerative systemic processes] often are. As a special case of An Institution is a[n Organic-Holistic-Interdependent] Person, there was A Nation is a[n Organic-Multiculturing] Person." "In addition, a common metaphor for rationality is used, namely, Rationality is the Maximization of Self [as organic subsystemic part of MultiReGenerative Other]-Interest (or 'utility' [as health-wealth fertility]), which entails that it is 'irrational' [and unhealthy] to act against one's self-[intergenerational WinWin multicultural]interest[s]. These two metaphors are then combined to yield: A [Healthy, Happy, Secure] Nation is a Rational [Organic TransReGenerational Polypathic] Actor[ess]." "...we get as an entailment the central thesis of the [organic] rational [trans-regenerational evolutionary] actor model in international [interfamilial, intertribal, interspecies] relations: Every [healthy] nation acts [bicameral] rationally to maximize its [health-wealth] military [Yang] strength [prosperity], economic[-ecological hybrid] health [and happiness, with long-term defense of safety], and political [cooperative polypathic] influence." "Rationality, on this conception, is taken as [discontinuous, deductive-only, reified, either-or] universal and occurring at the [technology, tool, framing, modeling] level of the [organic, living, matriarch nurturing, ego/eco-loving, bicamerally mature-evolving] state." I feel so eviscerated. Get over it. Both-and; not either-or. You still got all your parts, just more integratively co-aligned. Yes, ma'am! Who got out of bed on the wrong side today? Don't even try it. I'm going back to my "Political Mind" without you. Doubtful. And, if possible, dangerous. You really aren't going to let me have the last word today are you? I thought I was your last word, your everything.