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Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings
I read the other day there are some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch of darkness bears note. The note is we live in political times where empathy is…
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Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen
I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier. Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service. In some ways the video game approach I am describing resembles the real world consequence approach of this…
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Good and “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” —Warsan Shire- The stunning quote above is from Warsan Shire, a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi. The quote was highlighted by David Zwirner in a promotion for the art of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage being shown in New York City.…
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Good and When Intelligence and Curiosity become a Liability
When exactly did it become a harsh liability to use words in whole sentences and be curious on all levels about something. When did intelligence become an unearned privilege? When did addressing natural complexity become the vanity of the self importance? Finally, when did George Orwell and the novel 1984 move from fiction to the…
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Good and Reforming the Normal: Speaking Truth
This Project and website proposed seven virtues of a New Democracy to which a citizen would need to commit in order for the United States to begin the process of reforming the era we are in and once again be a democracy. In the last post we talked about the dangers of normalizing the current…
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Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”
We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual good fortune changes everything. After the funeral, the communal clean up, or even the fabulous…
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Good and the Princely Trappings of Fascism
Standing on the podium with a stern smile of self-importance while rank after marching rank of soldiers turn and solute the supreme leader of the failing kingdom has long been a favorite of soda cracker dictators enjoying the hopelessly pompous expensive annual military parade. Our country has long seen these sad shows as a propping…
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Good, Your Garden, Their Forest, and Our Next Better Democracy.
If you have ever planted a garden you know the optimism of green spring day shoots clearing the soil level, and the heartbreak of the first hail storm. Never mind all the bugs, snakes and other four legged pests feasting on your sacred garden space without your permission. So it is with your mind and…
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Good, Humility, Protest and the Performance of Life
Life is not a performance and we are not living in a movie. Rather in The Good Decision life is a gift and we are all enmeshed in a life experience that stretches back into deep history and portends forward well into the future. Our individual stories are either negatively charged dust or the nano…
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Good, Nationalism, Religion, and the Dance Hall of the Dead
This will be short. Religion and Patriotism get a bad look when they dance with Nationalism. In this macabre Dance Hall of the Dead and Dangerous Partners, the winner is always that wicked conductor called War. India, Pakistan, Gaza, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and the United States need to switch partners if ever there is to…
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