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Good, Corrective Pain, and the CPWP (Comfortable Privileged White Person)
Being comfortable in your own skin, feeling the privilege of your own blessings, and experiencing a state feeling in oneself as a worthy human being is an internal state for all humans, and is more basic than race. We live in a democracy and apparently haven’t understood that simple, fundamental truth. The truth is you…
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Good and It’s the Economy and Yet, It Isn’t. Its Amnesia and more
A nation that can’t lift its gaze beyond the economy is doomed to be lost. Unregulated capitalism is a game of winners and losers. Unfortunately, we will never be able to fit in that straight jacket of simplistic logic and the unjust leverage called pure capitalism. America is busy trying these days to fit their…
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Good, A Satisfied Mind, and the Next Democracy for the United States
How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I could do things my way Little do they know that is hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind . . . . But suddenly it happened that I lost every dime But I am richer by…
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Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies
The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think. The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities disappear. The apparent in-front-of-eyes truth is the jobs being taken by immigrants wouldn’t be considered…
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Good and Shooting Ourselves to Death
War Like a whale, is all consuming Everything fits into its mesh mouth … The bullet is a beast, as are we Our invisible battles are the hardest to win. . . by Amanda Gorman, excerpted from her poem; War: What, Is It Good? from her book Call Us What We Carry Oddly there is an…
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Good, and Frozen at 248 Years of the Good Old USA
Whatever is coming out of Washington these days is clearly not the country our founders created 250 years ago. In some ways the dream of the United States has been suspended for this writer and perhaps a majority of Americans who cannot figure out how you celebrate a tradition of democracy and freedom while both…
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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 is crucial situation will determine our moral health as individuals, our cultural health as a…
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Good, The Damage We do, and Lasting Wounds
Wendall Berry, American poet, essayist, conservationist, teacher and, at root, a farmer provided the following quote. His words are humble and instructive as we navigate the age “In general I have used my farm carefully. It could be said I think, that I have improved it more than I have damaged it. The pond was…
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Good and Saving Your Soul for the Long Struggle
The Good Decisions Project’s series of posts, the current news, and this writers instincts warn that the current life of an activist and resister to the chaotic, often brutal policies in the United States can lead to the malnutrition of the soul. The air we all breathe seems to ring with rage and concern from…
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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 series of macro social decisions ripping up the connections that once held the whole together for the…
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