How I Know How to Be Smart & Resilient

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  Resilience, Sustainability and
           Paradigm Shifts

What's the difference and then
what's the relationship among:

The ONE & the many?
The Individual & the Collective?
The Environment & the Environed?
Text & Context?
Trees & Forest?
Part & WHOLE?
Corporations and  persons
 
What's the similarity among the items
of this paradigm?  (Add more.)


    Fighting the Good Fight
 
No way I know how to be smart
except by taking issue with others
 
         Yes,  I say, BUT…
 
&  go on to point out  inadequacies,
incompleteness, bias & belief, limits
of meta force,  presumptions  of 
underlying assumptions, any contra-
dictions I might spot. generalizations.
reductions.
 
I fight the good fight over words:
Satanic wrangle over letters of
the law:  literalist & determined
to  nail IT down: my  side, the
righteous bearing IT away..
 
Worthy Opposition or just plain
opposition? It’s the frame of
minding that counts, yes?
 
This is PLAY!
No, this is WAR!
Is this Play or is this War?
 
With  ones I love: “relationship” is
crucial, my ego: crucified.
 
With them whom I don’t: civil, sure:
flatter & flirt.
 
When it’s The Principle of the Thing,
however, then: Ego Galore. I do what
I can to  make monkeys  of them  all.
 
Monkeys galore.  Yipppi ki yeah 
A joyful noise. Good time had by all.