Symbiotic Ethos
Systemic Expressions
✴️ Symbiotic Commonwealth
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Relational Wisdom
Economic Theory
Cooperative Advantage
Cultural Theory
Empathetic Intelligence
Ecological Theory
Stewardship Joy
The Pro-Social Core: Rewarding cooperation, care, and long-term thinking.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
Where can I practice Relational Wisdom and Empathetic Intelligence today to experience the Cooperative Advantage over competition, and find Stewardship Joy in caring for people and planet?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Does helping others improve your own position?
2. Are conflicts resolved through understanding or power?
3. Does the system reward trust-building?
Related Variables
- Social capital measurements
- Empathy and cooperation indices
- Conflict resolution effectiveness
"The hand and foot feel the need of one another; all the senses and their objects are mutually dependent. All beings are helpful to one another." — Sutta Nipata
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Mycelial Network
Capacity for Relational Intelligence
🧾 Rationale
To leverage our differences as collective strength, creating societies that thrive on mutual aid.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Cooperative ownership, shared leadership, and rituals that celebrate interdependence.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Relational Fidelity: The community's commitment to protecting the bonds of trust, isolating behaviors that exploit or divide.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Social Interactions
- ENHANCES: Trust; social capital; collective intelligence; mutual support; long-term relationships
- OBSOLESCES: Zero-sum competition; hyper-individualism; short-term opportunism
- RETRIEVES: Village/tribal cooperation at scale in complex societies
- REVERSES INTO: Cooperation becomes so natural it's no longer seen as strategy but as water we swim in
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Relational Metabolism: The system's social chemistry operates on empathy, cooperation, and mutual advantage as default settings.
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
Indigenous Forest Management in Pacific Northwest (ongoing)
Traditional ecological knowledge of Coast Salish peoples demonstrates symbiotic ethos through controlled burning practices that increase biodiversity, salmon habitat restoration that benefits entire watersheds, and governance systems based on seven-generation thinking.
Sources: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission | Traditional Ecological Knowledge Institute | University of Washington Ethnobotany
📚 Literature
"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
Kimmerer weaves indigenous knowledge with scientific understanding to demonstrate relational wisdom, showing how humans can find cooperative advantage through empathetic intelligence and experience stewardship joy in reciprocal relationships with more-than-human world.
