Long Systems Poems
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We dream of frictionless systems:
governments that run smoothly,
relationships without conflict,
work that flows effortlessly,
lives that glide from birth to death
without opposition, without resistance,
without the heat and wear
of friction.
We engineer for it:
lubricants to reduce drag,
policies to eliminate obstacles,
technologies to smooth
every rough edge,
optimize every process,
make everything
efficient, seamless,
frictionless.
But here's what we forget:
Friction is how you start a fire.
Friction is how you stop a car.
Friction is how you walk without slipping.
Friction is how pencils write on paper.
Friction is how climbers grip rock.
Friction is how we know we're making contact,
that we're touching something real,
that we're not just sliding past
each other and the world
without purchase, without grip,
without the resistance
that proves we're here.
Opposition is not always obstruction.
Resistance is not always wrong.
Conflict is not always destructive.
Sometimes friction is:
the democratic check on power,
the editor improving the work,
the friend telling you hard truths,
the scientist challenging the theory,
the activist resisting injustice,
the conscience resisting temptation,
the no that makes the yes mean something.
Sometimes the heat generated
by opposing forces
is not waste but energy,
not destruction but transformation,
not a sign that something's wrong
but a sign that something's
changing, moving, becoming
different from what it was.
We need smooth surfaces
and rough ones,
agreement and opposition,
flow and resistance,
moments when everything glides
and moments when everything
grinds and sparks and burns.
We need the friction.
Not because conflict is good
but because growth requires it,
not because opposition is pleasant
but because truth emerges from it,
not because resistance is easy
but because change demands it.
The frictionless world
is a fantasy,
and if we achieved it
we would find ourselves
sliding helplessly
through a life
too smooth to hold onto,
too easy to resist,
too perfect to be real.
Give me the rough surface.
Give me the opposition.
Give me the heat of disagreement,
the spark of collision,
the energy of transformation.
Give me the friction
that proves I'm pushing
against something real,
that proves I'm moving
at all.
Animistic
animated health
designing intelligence,
dynamically changing
emerging PoliCulture's wealth
Is rooted in economic
and political experiential consciousness
derived from,
and arriving for,
integral EarthTribe's
bihemispheric balancing win to win patterns
tipping forward progressive
democratically yintegral,
not so much autocratic yanged out,
healthy process
Defining/refining
both/and equivocating perceptions
of empowering/enlightening health risks
reconnecting/re-ligioning
secular/sacred EarthWealth,
indigenous wu-wei
Me/We nondualistic
nature/spirit
ego/ecosystemic ladder Poles
Transporting pokey
prickly powering spokes
to flow-hubbed nirvana
holonic ecofeminist Wholes
playing resilient win/win
inventive pro-life-ic EarthJust games
Robusty operas,
gracefilling choreography,
multicultural sexuality of good-sense humor
naturally indigenous ego systems
emerging from deep learning wisdom
Spiritual EarthMother
warm wombed centers
forward feeling
more than conserving backward
win/lose constipating touch
ZeroSum repetitive competitive
PatriCapitalist overpowering
Earth's Great Turning Communion,
poli-cultural
meta-phonic
Me-We wu-wei
healthing EarthClimate
restoring, not cancelling,
cultural wealth
Of polypathic
polymathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
polynomial
win/win polycultural patterns
Redesigning health
resiliently cultured
intelligent climate wealth
Animistic yintegrity
animated Yang spoke
pregnantly changing holonic hubs
emerging MeWe Woke.
Jesus taught the world
to become fishers of men
to collect Gods tithe
to overcome poverty
Yet men taught themselves
to steal Gods money
and spend it on themselves
take a look
at the houses brought
by the leaders of the church
where once they have your money
they build mansions of self greed
they read your bible
and preach we need money
for the poor
we need to help those in need
and yet your money lines their pockets
God never said build mansions
God said Treat your neighbour as yourself
is one of the most important rules of the bible
Where is the church when you need help
granted they offer food donations
but food donations come from other people
granted they provide the organisation
but yet the gravy of wealth is taken
by the leaders of the Church
do they invest Gods money
to build jobs and overcome poverty
do they create wealth with Gods money
to help people involved in car accidents
did they knock at your door
to offer you a job when you were unemployed
did they provide free education
to help you climb out of poverty
or did they provide expensive education
to once again line their own pockets
Why should Minister
have only the one job
granted on a Saturday or Sunday
the people need to hear the word of God
yet they could work
to satisfy their own needs
during the week
I am not God
But I would be worried
if I believed in the bible
Jesus was asked by the Hebrews
who should we pay God or Ceasor
He replied give unto Ceasor what is Ceasors
Give unto God what is Gods
The tithe belongs to God
You build your mansions with his money
You believe that in doing the job
of bringing people to God
you fulfil his request in the parable
of the talents
I hope, for your sake,
you are right
because if you a wrong
he said to the one that buried his money
I can be, a hard and cruel master
and all the servant did was bury the money
how much worse will it be
When you find God does exist
and he stands there asking you
what have you done with my money
did you use it to overcome poverty
did you use it to help the people in need
did you create my kingdom
invest my money
did you create free health systems
So poor people could get medication
so children can have eyesight problems fixed
so people didn't suffer
what did you do with my tithe?
So!
Well...
ummm....
When you are,
someday,
experiencing coitus
of some generic buzzy kind
common to all species
of loving life,
And you are about to have
a peak
polysensory
full mindbodied experience...
Excuse me for interrupting,
but I think you mean a peak
polyphonic engagement
or maybe
a polyvagal peak win/win default moment
in a neurosystemic
kinda pleasant
transportive
enlightening and empowering
serotonin and dopamining way.
Yes.
Both/And
All of the Above,
speaking with polycultural compassionate
nonviolent communication intent
And,
more back to the less LeftBrain verbal
original focus,
cooperatively acting,
co-investing
in a poly-lateral
compassion story game
you hope might never need to end,
alone again,
yet waiting for a repeat,
active hope
embodied wealth
whole-sum happiness regained
This sometimes ritualized
regenerative
sensory pleasure praxis
goes back in time
and out to include all Earth's
regenerative
polyculturally self/other co-governing
Ego/Eco BiCameral Systems
YangLeft/YinRight
positive dialogue
between non-apartisan engagers,
mindbody co-investors.
Yet, to speak of Living Green/Blue Balance
of Earth's healthiest wealth
as any living body of co-relationships
told and retold throughout
our global history
Now retold without shame
or punishment
assuming Sacred EarthMother's
regenerative
holonic polyentheistic nature
spirit is to put an all-encompassing
multiculturally regenerative win/win meme
ahead of monoculturing
predative YangBang memory
As to how we win/win co-passionately got here
and feel mutually engaged
when, as global green health allies,
we stay focused on Earth,
Most sacredly pleasurable
Light yintegrity mysteries
and Power yang natural histories
Of our original non-zero polysensory
polymathic bilateral zeroism
PoliCulturally Light Hot!
and subversive Wet Empowering
regenerative
fast and slow-grown
peak resilient experiences
So,
yes,
THAT!
ongoing nonviolent talk
About procreative
health-wealth
mostly pre-verbal care
in pleasantly cooperative
deeply and widely engaging
thriving sensory relationships
of EarthTribe loving
regenerative revolutionaries
Like trees,
Like flowers
and birds
and bees.
What LeftBrain sees
in YangWhite male
and YinBlack female,
RightBrain sees and smells and tastes and hears
in YangRed
tries to control the YinBlue
co-arising Bed.
Yin BlueGreen
remains our Sacred Queen
Sabbath,
SkyWoman,
Holonic Harmonic Karma,
Holy Matriotic Spirit.
And so they speak
bicamerally bipolar
without each other.
Patriarchally not-listening
quite as nonviolently
as more dipolar Matriarchal WiseElders
now less bothering to speak
about growing extractions
for further self-perpetuating
patriarchal Yang-climatic pathology
Feeling overcrowded,
under-valued,
fighting for Earth's more resilient polycultural
educational systems
cooperatively deep ecology.
Active slow-grow pacing
within Earth's Holonic Spirit
of and for
Restoring Therapeutic Educated Justice
As YangRed-YinBlue
EquiValent
Secular/Sacred GreenPeace.
All EarthTribes
Each organic empowering network,
Each Earth energy reconnection
and all regenerating light nature systems
are universal spirit united
in our commitment to co-empower win/win
anima mundi resolutions
through our Wholly enlightened
Holonic co-passions
When Holy natural/Spiritual humanity stands
and walks
and PassionStories in ecosystemic greatness
wonder
awe
expanding inner ego solidarity
integrity
synergy
Bicamerally united
in unstoppable health
wealth commitment
To embody
our full Left/Right mindful potential
for healing loneliness
rather than stealing hoarded anthro-solitude,
world wide walls
of nature v spirit separation
from world wondrous wealth
of integral information
Repeating
and translating
and transubstantiating
bodhisattva messianic messages
acting to co-redeem Others
on our way to sharing power
and light
and democratic energy
To recreate thriving Earth
internal/external cultural climates
of transformational health
development of organic wealth
Cooperatively shared
in-between
among
within all without
Each EarthTribe's
most win/win memory
of wondrous song
awesome dance
enlightening
and empowering
Shared habitat's organic
resilient wealth,
resonantly vibrant EarthHealth.
Fascinating,
this multicultural shift from monotheistic "feminist"
to compassionate "womanist".
Not an either-or, competitive shift,
typically left-brain dominant;
But a more complementary
cooperative
reciprocal
dipolar contrast
between ecological feminists
and theologically polypathic womanists,
reconnecting secular-sacred iconography
for MotherEarth's healthiest resilience.
Ecofeminists
struggling against egopatriarchal grand-staged history
of violence
war
capital-driven colonization,
rabid predation,
viral rabidity.
But, a womanist herstoric view
more quietly
domestically
intimately
vulnerably
transparently
sacredly
mysteriously
curiously
courageously
challenges left-brain straight white male humanists
to think and feel and act
with less anthropocentric assumptions
about underlying cooperative health systems
and nutrition networks
and safety values,
To include,
or at least consider more divinely
transcendently
and yet intimately,
To invite,
extend warm hospitality
to all organic creatures,
all ecosystemic energy systems
thirsting for reciprocal democratic healing
health
safety
compassion
resonant resilience
polyphonic polypaths
restoring health within retributive
win/lose
capitalistic degenerative systems.
To stretch our cooperative imaginations,
to reinterpret herstory
of a domestic and internationally transcendent MotherEarth
nature healing through restoring peace
and spiritual justice
what left-brain dominant humanists
have disassociated
with retributive anthro-hubris,
man v nature
and angry woman v left/righteous harmonic spirit.
Fascinating,
this multi-paradigmatic shift from monotheistic "sacred feminist"
to compassionate
health-resilient
water-bearer
womb well-being "womanist".
The day United Ways
slurp some Reality Stew
we will change this name
to The Same Ol' Competition Way;
cheering for ever-more community support
with the same constituency
we are teaching to over-power each other
for both community support and service.
Our United Way systemically grows
a Divided Fail.
The day our Philanthropic Foundation
absorbs some multiculturing fertility,
we will learn to ask whose foundation is this really?
Are we a Foundation of inclusive cooperation?
A Foundation with Golden Rule
applied to all species living now
and in our global future,
incarnating through our Elder species
for mutually optimizing regenerative purpose?
Are we a Philanthropic Foundation
created by people
who deeply cared about sustaining life's integrity
for seven generations?
Perhaps even more?
Are we more a Foundation of confusing mobbed competition
for scarce resources,
or a Foundation for regenerating abundant contentment,
goodness,
beauty,
wisdom,
optimized economic policies for cooperative
ecological health and well-being networks;
for minimizing suffering and exploitive commodification,
economic decomposition of Earth's natural elements and systems;
a pro-life Commons
racing to win diverse harmonies
before losing our dreams
of teleological faith
and ecological hope?
Could we become a Foundation for optimizing public policies
for mutually cooperative mentoring
of vocational choice,
of permaculturally,
organically,
integrally,
multisystemically functional, maybe even deeply creative, families
and thereby communities?
We stand within this permacultural Foundation
for cooperative mutual-investment guilds,
consumer and producer networks,
Climax Communities
for growing global consciousness of eco-balance identity,
Earth Care as Self and Other Care,
revolutioning this ReGenesis Foundation,
with both interior and exterior landscape applications,
both YinTime and YangSpace eco-function metrics,
mutually mentoring Earth's polyculturally cooperative eco-logic.
Platos dualism…
Laertius' "magi”
The most noble say we are an extraordinary event
And I agree with their logic and sentiment
An opportunity occurrence heaven sent
We are an awesome manifestation
We clearly embody an abstract incarnation
In His image complete systems of software emulation
The source energy, burning light, heat, oxygen
A flame ignites testosterone in the equation, estrogen
Essence sparks imagination, particles in circuits charging
Our sensors switched on, physical phenomenon's
Immanuel Kant contrasted it with noumenon's
A thing that is in itself sensed by humans
That which cannot be a direct observation
A world with what might be a spatial dimension
Möbius noted it rotates onto its mirror-image realization
Ruling that it is a universal mind bend
Something unseen to us and a god send
A conscience is alive and will transcend
Grasp the form of order among us, become analytic
These the concepts of the transcendental aesthetic
Leaving what’s not genuine or natural, synthetic
From experience discussions well-reasoned
Born with a formula programed and seasoned
Encrypted to crack codes to play roles in treason
We very well maintain the skeptic stance
Jesus a glitch to some who have no acceptance
But when focused and in a meditative trance
We embrace what is a peaceful coexistence
Bursting when the cosmos quest exploded
Interrelated tech terms, intelligence encoded
Beliefs of the understanding Empiricus’s philosophy noted
Martin Luther's theses, religious revolution then toted
Over conclusions that are only opinion
A servile dependent or a minion
The results will send us into oblivion
Has shown us that by suspending judgment
And by refusing speculative argument
Estimating the quality of worth and engagement
One achieves the state of ataraxia
Good conduct and the practice of eupraxia
Generating good health and euphoria
And through research and great finds
What philosophers teach and is best for mankind
Suspend judgment and attain tranquility of mind
I got him at university when I was nineteen:
Too late for me and my anger, but he was spritely;
It was after I'd initially objectified things myself,
By writing a computer program that reacted intelligently.
I should have been entitled to write it at school,
Where my anger was my extra disability,
But I was kept off the systems 'cos of fear,
That I didn't have enough hand dexterity.
My anger was just against fundamentalism,
Christian, and occasionally Islamic as well;
My family was Christian but weighed god as great,
Such that sometimes all I did was my life hate.
Express your anger when you can,
Demand to be met by a psychologist,
Make those around you understand,
You're entitlement to with peace land.