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Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror
That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift in our culture that could be either good news or dark news depending on the…
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Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”
This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before his concentration camp was liberated by the Americans, is often said to have described the…
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Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite
The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression and codification of the public’s authority. Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not the ‘elite‘ with the privilege of demolishing the history of this public place or our national…
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Good and Sad Lives Without a History
This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each other in an unbroken stream. She and her mother saved almost all letters, newspaper articles,…
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Good, Life’s last Layer, and Abuse’s Memory
Skin is a complex body organ and not wrapping paper. When the child gets the first deep scratch and the skin releases that emergent bit of blood many children follow their instincts and scream. But it seems now as adults we treat skin like an ornament or a drawing pad. We invite the sun to…
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Good and Pain as a Persistent Poet Teacher
Pain is unfortunately embedded in the process of being alive and healthy. We seem to want to make pain a package of one thing when in reality pain is part of the body’s narrative sending complex messages of an urgent nature regarding the path back to relief and health. I propose as a culture we are…
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Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game
Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made. Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation. However, in governance, ‘no skin in the game’ can only mean you have separated yourself from all the responsibility…
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Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.
The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy has bought a nice suit and strutted itself to the nation’s capital with its AI…
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Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster
The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century the prospect is no longer an Orwellian prediction but a visible accelerating scientific certainty so…
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Good, Let them Starve, and Domestic Abuse
First responders are no doubt aware of the dynamic of successful, cheerful, ‘confident’ adults who go home after work and for one mysterious sick reason or another abuse their hapless family. Wives doing secretive make up sessions prior to work the next day to hide the damage. Children, hungry, and confused showing up on the…
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