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  • Good and Bring In the Clowns

    Two men/boys in positions of vast power and influence publicly squabbled with each other yesterday. The squabble would be garden variety pathetic except they hold positions of power in our nation. The squabble involves the livelihoods of hundreds and thousands of people and the future of our democracy. How could anyone not see this coming?…

  • Good, Why We?, and Wily Culpability

    This Project might pull in more readers if this writer stopped using the pronouns  “we” and “us” and started pointing fingers.  I think the current approach may be frustrating to some friends both liberal and conservative.  There are reasons for this deliberate avoidance of using the names of the usual suspects. Anymore there are some…

  • Good, and the Passive Deaths We Own

    The tragic truth is people are dying as the world’s cultures and economies shake themselves trying to find an equilibrium. The search for equilibrium or at least a rough justice in essential life resource distribution, as we have seen, has been undone by something as simple as greed or more biblically ‘avarice’. The salve we…

  • Good, Character, Class, and Picking Friends and Allies

    The one downside of having reached the top is there is nowhere to run from your mistakes.  A wealthy businessman who makes mistakes near the top can always resign and pull out the old trope of needing to spend time with family or other “creative pursuits.  After all, the mistake is the harsh task master…

  • Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings

    I read the other day there are  some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch of darkness bears note. The note is we live in political times where empathy is…

  • Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen

    I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier.  Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service.  In some ways the video game approach I am describing resembles the real world consequence approach of this…

  • Good and “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”

    “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” —Warsan Shire- The stunning quote above is from Warsan Shire, a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi. The quote was highlighted by David Zwirner in a promotion for the art of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage being shown in New York City.…

  • Good and When Intelligence and Curiosity become a Liability

    When exactly did it become a harsh liability to use words in whole sentences and be curious on all levels about something.  When did intelligence become an unearned privilege? When did addressing natural complexity become the vanity of the self importance?  Finally, when did George Orwell and the novel 1984 move from fiction to the…

  • Good and Reforming the Normal: Speaking Truth

    This Project and website proposed seven virtues of a New Democracy to which a citizen would need to commit in order for the United States to begin the process of reforming the era we are in and once again be a democracy.  In the last post we talked about the dangers of normalizing the current…

  • Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”

    We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual good fortune  changes everything. After the funeral, the communal clean up, or even the fabulous…