{"id":529,"date":"2015-06-29T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2024-01-12T22:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:52:03","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalearthstriving.org\/blog\/articlespapers\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics should come after ecogeorelative, impact assessment, and ecogeorational decision-making.\u00a0 It should be a gut-feeling indicator.\u00a0 Maybe politics has been functioning at the wrong spatial resolution, so it has failed miserably (should we include everyone?).\u00a0 Politics has become more about fighting and never-ending controversy as we support the means rather than any sustainable striving end.\u00a0 Politics has become a way of life for some; it often occupies a significant amount of time regarding priorities rather than problem-solving.\u00a0 I believe it might relate to the same concept of organizations\u2019 resistance to change and individual complacency because politics works well for some people.\u00a0 Politics gives people the lives they want in terms of the power they need to get acceptance to do anything they want, even if their actions are extremely destructive.\u00a0 Because politics is at the wrong resolution and scale, it works as a destructive force as it takes it from the individual level and makes a cult out of it to maximize violence.\u00a0 Politics at the individual level never becomes violence because no one knows or should know the totality of another person\u2019s politics.\u00a0 Instead, they should know the person as an integrated whole and not look at individual pieces of politics, which are often used to hurt someone rather than include them.\u00a0 Those who start political wars find politics appealing because all they need to do is pry into an individual\u2019s personal beliefs or manufactured perceptions of their beliefs.\u00a0 We must go back to leaving a person\u2019s politics at the proper resolution in their minds and let the whole person integrate their beliefs in a way that best strives to solve problems instead of creating violence and war.\u00a0 We must get back to knowing people and respecting their ideas even if we disagree.\u00a0 Although some extreme political functioning might like the power behind some extreme viewpoints.\u00a0 The prioritization of more rationality in terms of holistic advice so people can learn is the best alternative; otherwise, people\u2019s politics will take on whatever way they interpret their education, usually in an out-of-context way.\u00a0 Only those who learn that learning is more than education out of context.\u00a0 It is about all of the integrated contexts.\u00a0 Otherwise, narrow-minded politics from educated people who never knew how to learn and adapt in a holistic problem-solving context will continue their destructive endeavors.\u00a0 I wonder if the difference goes back to the motivations in the first place, as some are motivated to learn, and some are motivated to get educated to get rich or powerful or be a hero instead of contributing to the genuine holistic problem-solving effort.\u00a0 Others want to learn to help in some way.\u00a0 Focusing on politics instead of real holistic problem-solving is ignorance, as it does not make the world a better place but performs itinerant functioning to win only at any cost.\u00a0 Politics works for those incapable of solving problems in any real way as they are more interested in their complacency and often dysfunctional organizations that resist change.\u00a0 These compulsions only contribute to static elitism and political power alliances instead of more rational integrated problem-solving.\u00a0 The old politics is like profit, power, drugs, sex, and rock and roll.\u00a0 Genuine holistic politics is respect for individuals as each of us is cohesively similar, and the best part is that we are all diverse and different as this is a learning opportunity, not a divisive violence-creating concept.\u00a0 Genuine holistic politics is about personal contributions in context with our broader nature regarding cohesive collaboration, problem-solving, and connectedness to all of humanity and nature.\u00a0 We should no longer focus on personal politics as a priority as it serves no useful purpose.\u00a0 We must get to know people for who they are as people, celebrate their similarities and differences, work together with our similarities, and learn from our differences.\u00a0 It is one of the greatest concepts that we are all unique in our similarities and our diversity because if we were just all the same or if we were just all different, we would not have anything to talk about.\u00a0 It is also like checks and balances and continual learning and continuous improvement.\u00a0 The old politics is itinerant and destructive.\u00a0 Genuine holistic, adaptive ecogeorelative politics build harmony, peace, and cohesive collaboration at the end of any rational decision-making process.\u00a0 It creates lovers, not fighters.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 I am a lover, not a fighter.\u00a0 We must transform profit, power, drugs, sex, and rock and roll lyrics into creating value, energy, benefits, creativity, holistic learning and advice, comfort, joy, love, peace, hope, and enlightened symphonies of all types.\u00a0 At the same time, we strive to find sustainable striving happiness on Earth.\u00a0 Again, politics should only represent a small fraction of the time at the end of a holistically rational decision-making process (for gut feel) UVM-SENR 1998.\u00a0 For too long, it has been first and last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics should come after ecogeorelative, impact assessment, and ecogeorational decision-making.\u00a0 It should be a gut-feeling indicator.\u00a0 Maybe politics has been functioning at the wrong spatial resolution, so it has failed miserably (should we include everyone?).\u00a0 Politics has become more about fighting and never-ending controversy as we support the means rather than any sustainable striving end.\u00a0 &hellip; 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