Good and Evil; High Value/to ‘Collateral Damage’ Ratio

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  • Good and Evil; High Value/to ‘Collateral Damage’ Ratio

    I gather a high value target would be the person or persons designated for death in this new kind of military conflict that is called a “war” only when the flags are flying. The news that there may exist ratios at play when it comes to determining how many innocent civilians can appropriately die along…

  • Good and the End of Despair, Words Better Than Mine: Adrienne Rich

    excerpted from the Poem Dreams before Waking by Adrienna Rich ” . . .What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope.– You yourself must change it.– what would it feel like to know your country was changing?– You yourself must change it.– Though your life felt arduous…

  • Good, Water and Eroding Our Existence on the Globe

    We humans, as biological events, are composed mostly of water which is critical to remember since any abuse of the earth’s ecology of water cycles naturally becomes a form of self abuse.  We are sadly destroying the critical water cycles of this planet.  Those working water processes assure a future for all of us and…

  • Good and History down the Memory Hole

    “What war?” asks the Vice President  “What January 6 insurrection?”  asks the President.  “What 19 trillion dollars of new investments in the American Economy?” asks the press when the administration touts a great economy that for some reason refuses to show itself. “What the hell?” asks the people who follow the news in papers, on…

  • Good, Sheep that Roar; the Wolf Sanctions Breaking the Law

    From Aesop, the Greek story teller, to Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount to Little Red Riding Hood we have been warned about wolves with ill intent disguised as sheep or in the case of Little Red, disguised as Grandma. Immoral intent disguised as helpful sheep hide aberrant ways until their relentless human nature…

  • Good AI and Recalculating Reality

    A very human habit has been for all human history has been the use of our bodily senses to affirm reality.  Up to now phrases like “seeing is believing’ caused no pause or hitch in the conversation.  You could hear a voice and know in your heart this is your son or daughter, mother or…

  • Good, Words Better than Mine; Remembering Wendell Berry

    Poem excerpted from the Barbara Kingsolver’s NYT article on Wendell Berry Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry . . . As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go.…

  • Good and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Shoulders of Giants.

    While criticism of the contemporary American scene may be important, the one thing criticism doesn’t generate is a vision of a better world or the Next Democracy. That task has already been started for us and we need only to go back one century to benefit from studying that clearer vision. The Chair of United…

  • Good and the Price of your Soul

    The good news is that if you want to sell your soul, at least the president and his party have put a real price tag on it.  For tens of thousands of years the human soul has evaded the commodification of the soul’s value.  Those who presumably sold their souls to the devil became the…

  • Good and the Assault on Goodness

    This writer sees the eyes roll when I suggest I am writing this column to support and rehabilitate the word “good”.  The more interested people who contest this approach ask me if I am promoting the all out relativity of good and implying what the individual feels is good is always good.  That is when…