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  • Good, Fools and the Power of the Quote

    One of our new ‘political’ billionaires recently referred to the German Chancellor as an “incompetent fool” on the tragic story of the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg Germany. One really needs to ask who the fool is here. This writer occasionally wonders after reading the news how he would do in a job interview for…

  • Good, Energy Addiction, and youth as our Sacrificial Lambs

    One of my contracts in organizational work was working with a community that was recognizing the importance of changing to a harm reduction model to reduce the scourge of drug addiction.  Now with time and perspective, as I watch the price of gas at the pump and the rise and fall of energy prices for heating…

  • Good, The Man That Was, and The Fourth Monkey

    How did the man that was become the man that is; the President Elect?  Lately I have heard people ask this puzzling question over and over.  As news and events place an overlapping trance upon last years news we see contradictions in our national identity and leadership so utterly apparent that we fear for our…

  • Good, “Justified Killing”, and the Mortal Decision

    The tragically mistaken idea of someone killing another human being can be justified based on their own private rational and personal experience has surfaced once again in the storm stream of the internet. It appears the CEO of Unitedhealth may have been selected as a symbol to die in the name of a broken health…

  • Good, Democracy, Kakistocracy, and Demise

    The joy of any age is to see new words of ancient lineage showing up in the headlines. This week’s new old word is Kakistocracy. Of likely Greek origin it describes a government overrun and run by the least competent and/or most unscrupulous. I think it might be described as Stage IV Democracy; a kind…

  • Good Violence and Winning the Revolution

    Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished in that profoundly difficult work of governance. After the parades of ecstatic revolutionaries overloading the…

  • Good, Authority and the Idiot’s Power

    When a new administration appoints the cabinet members, state or federal, the prayer is the appointees have the authority (authenticity/expertise) to handle the power (simple leverage) of their new charges. The attribute of authority is a life time disciplined project, but power can be an ‘idiot’s game’.  Oddly enough so many people have conflated the…

  • Good, Employment Termination, and Internet Assault

    The internet and all of its components are slowly being evolved into a sited weapon as much as a service. The new administration has already begun to practice the act of doxxing. Doxxing in case you haven’t looked it up is the act of revealing personal identity and information on the internet about a person…

  • Good, Death and Dying

    I will break the political trance of this Project for a moment in a commitment to highlighting courageous writing that dares to approach something resembling the truth. Truth, after all, was the first and last victim of this last couple of years or campaigning.  In an earlier Posting we approached the difference between pain and…

  • Good, Sold Identity, and Breaking the Meta-Trance

    This country was founded on democracy for a reason. The reason was people wanted to think for themselves. They wanted build their system of governance from the ground up and live half way up to the sky in that imperfect consensus called the public authority. They intuited that as individuals they were quite imperfect but…