Democratica - a lifestyle synthesis. Part 2. Haruna Darbo. MJoTA 2013 v7n2 p0813
Our capacity for
innovation in conflict & its resolution
Let us put aside for the
moment a review of the intractable morphology of our conflicts. Not because
that is not a tempting and exhilarating exercise but because it often becomes
too academic for value.
At any given moment, there are hundreds if not thousands
or millions of processes that occur inside of us, some violent, and others
non-violent.
If we consider the non-violent processes as the resolution of the
violent conflicts, we would not be too far off the mark because either extreme
of state is a progressive departure from our natural equilibrium.
Feeding,
waste-removal, sneezing, coughing, yawning, spasms, sweating, yelling, and even
our movements, are all activities we undertake, some "voluntarily"
and others involuntarily, to coral or temper our extremes.
There is not much
life as we know it beyond the extremes and the life that does exist in that
region forms part of a network of equilibrium fields.
Left to our own and
natural devices, we are equally likely to remain within the field of our own
equilibrium point (equilibrium field) or to slide into the equilibrium field of
another animal, plant, or matter.
The violent nature of some of our conflicts
generally marks the transition between equilibrium fields. The force within our
unique equilibrium fields is centrifugal and it is what constitutes our
proprietary innovation.
I discuss this biophysical idea a bit more in my book
DEMOCRATICA - A Lifestyle synthesis.
For purposes of this conversation, suffice
it to say that we are constantly mired in equilibrium-seeking or
balance-seeking activity, in anger, joy, conflict, monastic reflection, or in
festival.
Perhaps this is what informs Cicero's notions for the Rule of Law
that I shared earlier.
