Responsible State, Living Development How becoming a JIWASA State improves the economy, health and our shared future
Responsible State, Living Development
How becoming a JIWASA State improves the economy, health and our shared future
First-Person Consciousness — Brain Bee
“My body has always been a responsible State. Politics is what hasn’t noticed yet.”
From the egg, before any word existed, my body already functioned as a mini JIWASA State.
Nutrients arrived through the placenta.
Oxygen came in, carbon dioxide went out.
Waste was eliminated.
Cells talked to each other, adjusting energy, defense, repair.
None of this was “market”. All of it was responsible metabolism: each part caring for the whole, because if one system fails, the entire body pays the price.
My Damasian Mind began there:
interoception (internal sensations) + proprioception (body in space) creating a feeling of living belonging.
I didn’t “think” about economics, but I could feel that:
hunger disorganises everything,
excess also makes you sick,
balance is continuous work.
As a child, I learned another language:
“growth”, “work”, “money”, “progress”, “debt”.
But no one told me that the State should also have a responsible physiology,
like my body.
In digital adolescence, the conflict became obvious:
my body asks for Zone 2 (fruition + metacognition),
the feeds push me into Zone 3 (fear, rage, consumption, compulsion),
the dominant economy sells me “freedom”
based on profit, consumption and accumulation,
even when that destroys my metabolic future and the Earth’s.
Through neuroscience, politics and DANA spirituality, I reached a simple sentence:
A responsible State is a State that becomes JIWASA –
a living body with shared metabolism,
where economy, health and common future are the same thing.
That is what this blog is about.
1. What is a Responsible State in the JIWASA key?
JIWASA, in Aymara, is not just “we”.
It is a pronoun that expresses a living collective –
an “I” that is born multiple.
When I say JIWASA State, I mean:
the citizen is not a customer of the State,
the citizen is a metabolic unit of the State;
the State is not a machine to extract taxes and distribute favours,
it is a living body that organises flows of energy, information, materials and care.
A Responsible State is one that:
Recognises that economy is metabolism, not only spreadsheets.
Understands that health depends much more on social determinants
(income, housing, sanitation, time, belonging)
than only on hospitals and high-tech medicine.Accepts that a shared future is not an abstract speech,
but a concrete variable when drafting laws, plans and budgets.
In JIWASA terms:
A Responsible State is one where the “I”
recognises it only exists because there is a “we”
and organises law as if that were biology,
not poetry.
2. Living economy: when the State takes metabolism seriously, GDP is no longer enough
Recent work on wellbeing economics and “Beyond GDP” shows that countries and regions that put wellbeing at the centre (not just growth) tend to:
reduce inequality,
gain resilience to crises,
improve physical and mental health indicators,
increase social trust and democratic stability.
Governments like Scotland, New Zealand, Wales, Iceland and Finland are already experimenting with wellbeing budgets and multidimensional indicators (health, climate, social cohesion, education, territory), not just GDP.
At the same time, large Beyond-GDP databases show that:
growing with high inequality is a sick economy:
wealth concentrates at the top (the 01s),
while the social base remains fragile, ill and vulnerable to shocks.
In Latin America, UNDP, ECLAC, the World Bank and others describe a kind of:
“high-inequality, low-growth trap” –
a structural deadlock where inequality and underinvestment
keep productivity low and social tension high.
In other words:
defending the current model is not “economic realism”,
it is insisting on a diseased physiology.
JIWASA economy and living development
When the State becomes JIWASA, it:
stops measuring success only by “how much we produced”
and starts asking “what does this do to the whole body and to the future?”;includes in its indicators:
social oxygen saturation (real access to health, education, free time, culture),
inequality levels,
territorial distribution of investment,
impact on climate and material metabolism.
Frameworks like the Wellbeing Economy and Doughnut Economics already offer tools for this:
a “safe and just space” between the social foundation and the ecological ceiling,
now being tested in cities and regions across the world.
In my language:
Living development is when public budgets
align with the physiology of the social body and the planet,
instead of feeding the short-term appetite of the 01s.
3. Health as a result of social metabolism
The Pan American Health Organization and recent work on social determinants of health show that:
inequality, racism, gender, territory and precarious work
shape health more than the mere existence of hospitals;high income concentration means
more chronic disease, more mental suffering, lower life expectancy.
In my neuro vocabulary:
a State that doesn’t create conditions for Zone 2 (fruition + metacognition)
produces brains trapped between exhausted Zone 1 (survival mode) and hijacked Zone 3 (fanaticism, hate, compulsion);this turns into depression, anxiety, violence, addictions,
and an economy based on medication, prisons and debt.
A Responsible JIWASA State changes the equation:
It guarantees minimum metabolic income (Drex Citizen)
so each person can say “no” to brutal exploitation
and “yes” to study, care and creative trajectories.It invests in social determinants of health:
decent housing,
fair mobility,
healthy food,
free time and belonging in public spaces.
It reads health as collective metabolism,
not just as “health expenditure”.
In practice, this tends to:
reduce hospitalisations and healthcare costs,
decrease violence and crime,
increase years of healthy life and productive capacity,
release creative and cooperative energy in the population.
It is not just “nice”:
it is economically intelligent.
4. Shared future: living development as anticipated memory
Beyond-GDP work insists that real development
is the combination of present wellbeing + future wellbeing,
considering inequality and ecological limits.
In the language I’ve been building:
Future Memory is the State’s capacity to ask, today:
“What does this decision do to the social body and the planet in 20–30 years?”Living development is when the State
refuses to trade decades of balance
for four years of predatory growth.
A Responsible JIWASA State:
treats climate, Drex Citizen and Zero Waste
as metabolic clauses,
not as government programmes that can be dismantled every election;uses wellbeing budgets and social-metabolism indicators
as the compass for public policy;creates Future Memory institutions
(a JIWASA Senate, intergenerational committees, biome councils)
that act as the “prefrontal cortex” of the nation.
When this solidifies,
the economy starts receiving more stable and meaningful signals:
investors see a long-term horizon,
workers see it makes sense to qualify and plan their lives,
communities see it is worth defending their territories,
young people see a possible future beyond the screen and the hype.
5. Practical paths to becoming a JIWASA State
To summarise, what does it mean in practice
to assume oneself as a Responsible JIWASA State?
Constitutionalise social metabolism
make explicit rights to a stable climate,
a circular materials metabolism (Zero Waste Brazil 2040),
and minimum metabolic income (Drex Citizen);recognise that destroying biomes and condemning generations to precarity
is injuring the “State-body” itself.Adopt wellbeing budgets and Beyond-GDP indicators
embed metrics of health, education, inequality, social cohesion,
and align them with climate and materials targets;draw from Wellbeing Economy and Doughnut Economics experiences,
adapting them to Brazilian and Latin American realities.Create and use social-metabolism indices
integrate data on carbon, materials, income, free time, violence,
mental health and civic participation;use these indices to guide investment decisions,
subsidies, concessions and sectoral policies.Strengthen the JIWASA citizen
ensure digital access, budget transparency,
public consultations and real participation tools;allow citizens to bring the justice system into action
when the State violates basic metabolic commitments.Educate for metabolic consciousness
from babies to elders:
show that body, city, biome and economy
are one system at different scales;teach that “progress” is not consuming more,
but cultivating more health, more belonging and more living time alive.
6. Closing: to be a responsible State is to become a body again
When I look at all this, as Brain Bee,
I see that the phrase “Responsible State”
only makes sense if we remember where it came from:
From the egg. From the body. From metabolism.
A State that becomes JIWASA:
recognises that the economy exists inside biology,
accepts that health is not a cost, but the base of everything,
understands that the future is not a luxury, but a condition for existence.
And, above all:
To improve economy, health and our shared future,
it is not enough to “govern better”.
We must feel ourselves as a body –
feel, in our collective interoception,
that each decision moves everyone’s metabolism.
When the State becomes JIWASA,
it stops being a distant abstraction
and returns to what it has always been, at the origin:
A living body in which every citizen
is a cell with dignity, energy and voice.
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