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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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Good, Decapitation’s Effects, and Guillotine Diplomacy
Decapitation for the human species is 100% fatal. The numbers are only slightly better for decapitated nations. The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror demonstrated through the daily use of the guillotine if you decapitate a human being there is zero… Continue reading
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Good and Language More Elegant than My Own
Sometimes in this project I receive from readers language more elegant and helpful than my own. The note below came to me through a dear friend who owns and operates a book store in a Washington state. The writer of… Continue reading
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Good and America’s Armed Amygdala
The amygdala is the part of the human brain that is responsible for emotional processing. The fight or flight response also fires out of that organ of our brain. Our survival system works fast and must interpret reality at a… Continue reading
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Good and Death by Disconnected Detail
This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief. From… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”
The question becomes: Can one individual have their own morality? The short answer is no. Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality. Ultimately morality is a social word and… Continue reading
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Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life
When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate. “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in… Continue reading
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Good and Overcoming the Short Comings of Histrionics in National Leadership
Histrionics as a term is used often by misogynists to describe their presumed female gender’s response to complex situations that often require new levels of nuance, intuition, and clear thought. When a word in the english language gets trapped in… Continue reading
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Good, Government, and No Power, No Play
I suspect the readership of this column could expand if this Project were to pick sides and join in the stalemated fray called American politics. The reason that doesn’t happen is The Good Decision Project is about good and how… Continue reading
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Good and the Crude Dentistry of America’s Authoritarians
What happened last week in Venezuela upset the world order in ways our leadership cannot seem to imagine. Our current heavy handed government impulsively removed a President from another nation like an abscessed tooth on the assumption the cavity of… Continue reading
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Good, Methadone, and Fossil fuels: America’s Drug of Choice
Every time I hear or read we “captured” another county’s leader, I cringe. This writer is clearly no fan of Venezuela’s President, but let us face the truth; kidnapping another nation’s president is not “capturing” but simple kidnapping. No, this… Continue reading
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