“One lives a good life through making good decisions and continually going to that place in you where you find your good.”

The Next Democracy

Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.

The ConversationNovember 9, 2021robertjahner
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    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

  • Good, Power, Minds and Hearts

    The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts.  Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t… Continue reading

  • Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater

    This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal.  In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as… Continue reading

  • Good, Jelly Beans, AI, and The Odyssey

    I can remember my love of jelly beans as a child.  The more the better was my approach.  This writer can also remember the stomach aches when he got more than he was allowed, acquired  through nefarious means.  As I… Continue reading

  • Good and Science in Handcuffs

    Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science.  Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge.  Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading

  • Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses

    Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital.  Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break.  The… Continue reading

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading

  • Good, and Serious Levity in Resistance: Words Better than Mine, Poet: Theodore Roethke

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  • Good and When a Man can’t Lose

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  • Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil

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  • Good and the Slaughter of Innocents

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