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Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society
History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important task–to complete the process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with… Continue reading
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Good, Breakdown in America, and Human Monasteries
In times of social upheaval the cultures tend to build thick walls to protect their version of civilization that houses their sense of good in monasteries, libraries, or in an infinite variety of creeds, codes, or cults. Upheaval is a… Continue reading
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Good America the Broken Village, and the End of Complacency
The staggering realization that as Americans and tax payers we are funding an international system of concentration camps of immigrants of uncertain legal status should awaken every generation of Americans. A British based journalist wrote an article for the New… Continue reading
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Good, Power and the Deceptive Immunity from Law
The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old. The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials. At the peak of WWII no… 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, 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, 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 Punishment on ‘Suspicion of Crime’
In some slow not so subtle changes in our country’s sense of justice, to suspect one of a crime is becoming the new standard of punishment: no trial, no evidence, no justification; simply suspicion can trigger brutal or even capital… Continue reading
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Good, The American Revolution and Devolution
PBS has released a Ken Burns Documentary on the American Revolution and I was shocked at how important that piece of our history is to the times we are living in 2026. I suspect some of our current turning of… Continue reading
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