Good and “Only a Prayer Left”

robertjahner

  • Good and “Only a Prayer Left”

    People say the political realm is ultimately about the money and power and it would seem those two forces have played a large role in how our nation has made its decisions in this period of history. But not until… Continue reading

  • Good and the Tyranny of Need

    We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of… Continue reading

  • Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence

    This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance.  The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now.  Our country is going to be pushed to the… Continue reading

  • Good, Suffering, and the Reconstruction of a Culture

    This nation of the United States appears to this writer to have a medical system that leads in the world in reducing the experience of physical pain.  The tragic irony is the United States just might also be a world… Continue reading

  • Good, the Inventory of Loss, and Resistance

    The Morning After This writer predicted that half our nation would be suffering grief no matter who won the election. I am now in the minority of grief while apparently a majority are celebrating. This is called democracy, and presumably… Continue reading

  • Good, Duty of Witness, and the Nation’s Next Story

    This concludes this election series of posts. In not too long the votes will be counted and possibly be in the process of being recounted and re-recounted. The possibility of violence exists coming from the transfer of power; a feeling… Continue reading

  • Good, Fascism, Socialism and Play Ground Insults

    Lobbing gross insults across the line is a pathetic way to run a campaign. We hear people shouting ‘fascist’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’ and so forth while many have only a vague idea of what is contained in these exchanges.  The current acceptance… Continue reading

  • Good, Hubris, the Waxed Emperor, and the Mentor

    The myth of Icarus is a cautionary tale for all times.  Flying too close to the sun with wax wings has predictable results. This is very much a tale for our time. Myths are truth that instruct with undeniable, universally… Continue reading

  • Good Future Hope and the New Vote Market

    My generation, like all generations, is not innocent.  We accomplished some good things in our time, but we also seem to have not considered sufficiently the needs of future generations with the committed energy needed. Many indigenous societies and cathedral… Continue reading

  • Good, Power and the Human Scale

    Over a life time I have come to understand the famous or influential people I have both admired and encountered as regular human beings, full of vanities, foibles, contradictions, heroic actions, kindness, cruelty, betrayal and often capable of great empathy… Continue reading