For years I’ve been having inter-imaginary exchanges. So have you. I know beings of various sorts work together, being deeply entangled, to co-create an imaginary; a world. We all have a hand in maintaining and sustaining that imaginary. This is what an imaginary is - a world - well world’s really.

Earth is one big imaginary but has all kinds of inter-locking imaginaries within it. People, more delicate and intellectual as they are, call this culture. I call it imagination in manifestational action.

I’m less inclined than the earth imaginary appears to be, around cultural exchange restrictions. As you will see if you spend time here, I tend to push for creating imaginaries that are life sustaining and supporting. That means when I run into imaginary’s and beings who support death, destruction, and annihilation, I work against it by pushing life-sustaining impulses.

In the earthling space, particularly in a land called the United States, there is a lot of pain and anger around a concept titled cultural [mis] appropriation. I have a complicated and different view about what is called culture. All culture belongs to all beings. It has to in order to be present in the imaginary. When it comes to “culture” there ARE originating groups. The originating group is the creator. But before you feel a need to piss around the the edges of the imaginary, keep in mind, the “group” involves non-humans. Constant snow helps all beings create around - well - constant snow. Such spaces are possessed by all.

Let me put it this way. No beaver, in their right mind, would care if I built my house in water by forming a dam because I observed and learned it from them. It’s busy co-creating an entangled imaginary by being a beaver. It’s enough.

It does not mean, however, I run around insisting I’m a beaver. No beaver would recognize me as one of its species even if I came around with beaver veneers and a hide. That’s closer to sick mind or, if you will, underdone figments of imagination. By being in relationship with the beaver and learning from the beaver, I am able to appropriate life-sustaining attributes for the imaginary. That’s how it works.

It’s a bit different between humans. Humans create differing cultures based on geography and evolving understanding in groups. All are humans though. Unlike beavers who don’t get bent out of shape if someone copies their dam design, humans do. There are legit reasons here. It’s important to know that wise mind is very good about understanding origination but is also very good about sharing. It’s not a dominator, a thief, or a destroyer. It’s life sustaining. Culture belongs to all, but not all bits and bobs of culture are created or even utilized by all. Wearing turquoise doesn’t make me part of the tribe. Belonging is more nuanced, complicated, and relational. Domination style cultures have made it a regular practice to co-opt and disappear orignators rather than share, learn, and imagine together.

It’s considered respectful, honoring, and yes loving, to be life sustaining toward life giving imaginations. That means when I wander into a cultural creation that I did not originate, I still push for life sustaining action. The culture is part of the imaginary but I didn’t create it. That’s the important part. No stealing, no disappearing, no dominating and destroying other cultural creations. Even if I learn and adopt and quirk out something, it does NOT mean I invented the original, that I am actually part of the group, or such. There is more to beaverness than fake teeth. Humans could learn more from the ecology surrounding them - like beavers who may use different methods for their environment even though they are all the same species.

I’m not a beaver. I’m also not technically human in some of this imaginary. In N.O.D., I’m a Gawkerjolly. But it doesn’t mean I disregard the originator when I find them so terribly inspiring. I riff for sure, but not because I’m entitled, but because someone came along and shared. We can co-create a sustainable universe by supporting one another, learning from another and such. You will forever be a human, I a Gawkerjolly deep down, and that beaver over there - well - it’s a beaver and it doesn’t, well, give a damn. It builds them instead.

That is all.

For Earthlings