[BCFSN] Fwd: Opinion: The Election of Trump: What is the Message?- Relocalization

[Andre Piver]

Hopefully the re-localization element in the below is appropriate to the BCFSN list as , there is no more basic element to re-localization than our food system.


Andre C. Piver MD
6774 Harrop Procter Rd.
Nelson, B.C., V1L 6R2
Canada , tel 250.229 4665






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> From: Andre Piver <andrepiver at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Opinion: The Election of Trump: What is the Message?
> Date: November 25, 2016 at 10:58:07 AM PST
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> The Election of Trump as the Messenger: 
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> I would like to share the Vox article <http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism <http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism>> about the social science data regarding how voters turn towards authoritarian leaders when they are fearful. This research was based on Republican primary exit poll slick and validated questionnaires. Relatively speaking, it is not Trump that is scary , it is the state of the electorate….the fertile soil. What Trump may or may not do himself, is almost irrelevant. Nature abhors a vacuum. When the opportunity is there it will be filled ….just like genes that confer bacteria with antibiotic resistance are   passed-on, when antibiotics are around. 
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> This is why a healthy micro-biome internal environment is critical within organisms to self-regulate and adapt; within external human systems, the equivalent would be a Transition Town, kind of re-localization of our economic and governance systems to bottom up. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_town <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_town>> ….re-creating local interdependent resilient economic/material capacity. This is and has always been the natural ground for community, connection, and belonging, which our brain “wiring” is adapted to, rather than ideology which is in the end, irrelevant and divisive, if it is not based on how WE are made. see :<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Progress <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Progress>> .
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>  The history of human philosophy/ideology is full of “shoulds” or "he saids” , all of it meaningless theory (in the air = yang) without taking into account history , which is in fact a reflection of how our brains are made ( incarnated, operationally on the ground = yin).  We are virtually the same creatures that lived in caves and have been for about 200,000 years. 
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> The clear past benefits of the industrial paradigm: scale, top-down centralization, and standardization are clearly far past their optimum application, with at least somewhat  un-intended side-effects of unsustainable wealth and opportunity gaps, loss of social cohesion and faith in institutions, resource depletion, and extreme weather. Accelerating incidences of hopeless "protesting-too-much” mass-kiling/suicide, opioid overdose and radicalization echo the same message. How about historic household debt? Wharehousing children in day-care and elderly in facilities? Can we consciously devolve our systems?
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> Re-creating self-regulating human ecosystems to which we are adapted, is the only answer to the many converging, clearly unsustainable processes in play (social, economic and environmental);  they are currently approaching inflection points, i.e. “Mad Max" and collapse. 
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> Andre C. Piver MD
> 6774 Harrop Procter Rd.
> Nelson, B.C., V1L 6R2
> Canada , tel 250.229 4665
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