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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…

  • 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…

  • 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 York Times which is at once clever, insightful, and I believe slightly off the mark.…

  • 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 one would dare imagine the crimes being committed in their home streets would ever be…

  • Good and America the Godfather: the Downside of Mafia Tactics

    Anyone who watches the Godfather trilogy knows after watching the three hypnotic and strangely depressing trilogy of movies, in the end, the last Corleone simply collapses over the ashes of brutal life in which he achieved everything, bought the world, but at the price of his soul, and died alone.  He jettisoned his idealism in…

  • Good, Ai, and the Assault on Reality

    Reality used to be a place one visited when one’s mind became too self-serving, toxic, tiring, or simply boring. Then one day an aggressive cancer composed of digital media inserted itself between us, our minds and the reality of the world in which we live.   With a layer of digital media between us and the…

  • Good and Sorry Denmark and Norway. (errata)

    When I slip up I correct. In the Good, Transactional Idiocy and the Greenland Ruse post it was Denmark that was the object of attention regarding Greenland and not Norway. Early morning mind fog I suppose.

  • Good, Transactional Idiocy, and the Greenland Ruse

    We have a piece of calligraphy in our home done by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist teacher that says: “Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World”. This simple truth carries a second message unstated: “War in Oneself, War in the World. Our President has expressed this unstated truth in the war like nature of his…

  • Good, Decapitation’s Effects, and Guillotine Diplomacy

    Decapitation for the human species is 100% fatal.  The numbers are only slightly better for decapitated nations.  The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror demonstrated through the daily use of the guillotine if you decapitate a human being there is zero chance you can put that head or another better head back on the same victim…

  • Good and Language More Elegant than My Own

    Sometimes in this project I receive from readers language more elegant  and helpful than my own.  The note below came to me through a dear friend who owns and operates a book store in a Washington state.  The writer of this short note opens the store for her on Wednesdays and left this message. For…