Gifted-giving communities are communities based on radical giving and radical receiving. Gifted-giving communities are based on unconditional love, but their gift giving is decidedly and unambiguously conditional. It is on the condition of reciprocity (I give to you, you give to me) that causes the gift to grow and the community to be radically knit together. The gift grows in value, not due to the homicidal doctrine of scarcity permeating the capitalist project. Rather, the gift grows in value due to beautiful indebtedness, communal trust, and a child-like enthusiasm for giving back to those who sacrificially gave to you. This gift growth is a qualitative growth that experiences an expansion in psycho/spiritual exuberance even as it contracts, getting smaller and denser as it folds in on itself. This gift growth stands in stark contrast to the quantitative growth of the psychopath capitalist's ever expanding territorial and economic market, with its unlimited and vicious grabs at precious and increasingly limited resources, driven by real and imagined competition, cold blood lust and the crass fetish of domination-at-all-cost.
The formation of gifted-giving communities is the necessary precondition for the coming of ART.
The formation of gifted-giving communities is the necessary precondition for the coming of ART.