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Good, Reverence for Life and the Two Skins Dilemma
The Next Democracy Value 4. Respect and Reverence for all life and the living; The history of this country may have to stop and fill a volume or two about the the ‘right-to-life’ tragedy created by Americans and has divided our nation so absolutely that the fabric of our society has torn nearly in half. Which side of the womb you most valued regarding…
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Good and the Danger of Pure Transactional Heart
Purity is a dangerous goal but this nation seems suddenly impressed with that word. How many times have we heard that dodgy family of superlatives like pure, perfect, and great used in the current political narrative. Take the stock market. Yes, this writer loves seeing his meager net worth creep up but whats the logic…
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Good, Truth, Speech and Expression
The unspoken foundation of the human right Freedom of Speech was always truth. One doubts that the crafters of this American Constitution ever dreamed that an age would come when the lie was granted equal footing with the truth and both truth and lie lived in comfortable proximity under the phrase “Freedom of Speech”. The…
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Good and Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’
The second virtue of a New Democracy (Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’ and Unity) is to lock into a value that when exercised separates a true democracy from the 21st century train wreck now called the Divided States of America (DSA). As a country and culture we have allowed ourselves to be divided nearly precisely in half thus neutralizing…
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Good; Expression, and Speech, as Virtue, Human Right, and Crime
Children are hounded with insults until they suicide. We have a president who posts and reposts obscenities. We see long term public servants reduced to a single insulting sentence of dismissal from leadership at the highest levels in government. We are witnessing forms of expression that would have gotten anyone fired from their jobs for…
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Good and the Paralyzing Limits of Pure Resistance
Like about seven million other patriotic Americans across the nation this writer attended a No Kings Protest in a small town with about only 250 other protesters. But the passion and creativity were on display. This week the signs and shouts are all in the closet and I have to ask; “What’s next?” I am…
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Good and the Broken Rules of War
For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end. If you are an American raised and living in America you probably have lived your entire life under an invisible…
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Good, the Symphony Conductor, the Dictator, and Authentic Leadership
In an age when political leadership has all the dignity of a sophomoric food fight, we need to step aside to return to the earlier part of the 20th century and learn from a symphony conductor. We seem in our time to have lost the distinction between an authentic strong leader and a soft dictator.…
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Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy
It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last election, but if it wasn’t bad enough to hear misinformation with our ears, it is…
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Good and How many Rights Cancel a Wrong?
Hard as it may be for some people to accept, the current administration may have done some good in the world. If the cease fire holds in Gaza , the hostages come home, and relief comes to the Gazan population, our President may take a well deserved victory lap. This writer has been very critical…
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