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Good and the Rising Price of Protest in America
How many billion dollars must one have to be free to fling words of protest in any direction; even if that protest is loaded with insults and misleading statements? Apparently being President or his wealthy loyal friend are the new benchmark for freedom of speech and protest. How poor and vulnerable do you have to…
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Good and Another Argument Against War
We have seen large two strategies of war in our world these recent years. The first seems constructed around ‘stock pile strategy’ which is whoever runs out of weapons of destruction first loses. Civilians be damned we shall keep the fire burning. The second is the ‘Peace for Profit’ strategy, currently in practice, which is…
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Good, Freedom, Liberty, and the New “Bait and Switch”
The protagonist in a popular television series called Zero Day made a distinction between liberty and freedom. Because this writer had never really given those two words much thought at that level I went to the Oxford Dictionary to see if such subtly had anything to do with today’s careening, reckless, self dealing government. The…
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Good, Competition, Capitalism, and the Pressure Points
These reflections arise from reading about the pressures on airline pilots, air traffic controllers, workers subject to ‘keystroke counts’ and other ‘Musklike” pressures being constantly introduced into our world of work. Humans love to compete as it brings out marvelous performances now and then. But have you ever wondered while watching Olympics at what point…
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Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox
We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox. The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable? How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating intolerance? I doubt if we can avoid intolerance, but perhaps we need not get trapped…
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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence and strategy to make the world right again. Some call it doom scrolling, but frankly…
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Good and The Next Democracy in Our Land
If the current government is not good, what would be good? To make good decisions into the future this Project offers we need a new articulation of the virtues that would constitute the covenant of the Next Democracy for the 21st Century. Our current leaders suggest that virtue is a ‘losers’ game fit only for…
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Good, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows
I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. This act of appeasement only opened the door for Hitler’s subsequent aggressions. How…
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Good, and the 21st Century Version of the Examination of Conscience
The Good Decision tries to look at both sides of any aspect of ‘good’. Otherwise, how can it be good if the bias of one’s mind is set to deny the errors of one’s way? The consequence of this examination of conscience no doubt is that occasionally this website offends someone who didn’t expect offense…
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Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats
The dark fascination with the last moments of the Titanic often comes home on the issue of too few life boats available and too many people in the fatally dark waters. We tend to follow the movie storyline to the inevitable end with the hero either sinking into the inky cold depths, or being rescued…
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