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So is there a way to cultivate life within the extractive? On the mundo level we can make the point that the air, the water, the earth, love is not owned and should not be, that the driving purpose ought to be life, not accumulation of money. What do we do on the day-to-day micro (individual) and meso (group) levels? Some of it must be to take a mundo level view into the micro and meso. We do better when we are aware of what we are doing.

A big part of what we are doing is caring and loving. This indeed is a larger view. If we as individuals see this larger picture, we can decide which of the “commands” of our “leaders” is legitimate. We can be like soldiers in wartime commanded to slaughter a village of innocents, who decline the illicit order. In a softer way, we can turn the order from extractive to include generative, giving both the profit motive and the loving motive breathing room. Nobody said it is easy. It will get easier as we find more ways.

:- Doug.