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Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership
Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism. Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream. Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult and violation. Living as we do today we run the risk of sanctioning violence thus…
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Good Grief, Good Guilt, and Good Friday
Tomorrow is called Good Friday in the tradition I was raised. As I child I was exposed repeatedly to the Catholic “Stations of the Cross” which, for those of other persuasions, is a ritualized service commemorating the Passion of Jesus. I learned from that service very early that adults can be cruel in the extreme…
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Good, Law and Order, and Simplicity as Paradox
How can one achieve simplicity in a complex society? Is it a choice to keep it simple or is it an obligation to wade into the complexities of the human drama. Each reader will have their opinion as does this writer, but lets look deeper. A hint: the deeper you go the simpler it gets.…
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Good, Us and Them, and When One is too Many
When did it happen that a person in the United States can be arrested, no charges presented, and disappear unrepresented and disconnected from friends, family or community. Such behavior was once the exclusive domain of underdeveloped country’s possessed by ruthless dictators. And yet, now, in this country we all love, the dark art of disappearing…
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Good and Dignity, the 7th, Last, and Bannister of All the Next Democracy’s Virtues
You need go no further than the dictionary get a grasp on the radical meaning of dignity but I think I like Wikipedia’s treatment of the word serves best; Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. The seventh proposed virtue for a citizen supporting democracy is: The…
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Good, Democracy’s 6th Virtue: Exercising the Right to Vote, and What Weren’t We thinking?
Oddly enough complaining about election outcomes, while not illegal, should probably should have some liability attached for those people who could have voted and didn’t. There is simply no excuse. And then there were the people who voted based on the surface information of the campaigns which is by nature unreliable. Voting only based on…
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Good, Catching Fire, and Resistance
The question keeps coming up; “Why isn’t the resistance catching fire?” Yes there are demonstrations, and they grow as a form of expression that could be called the safe theater of the political. In the past that theater could nudge a nation of conscience right or left significantly. Things are very different these days so…
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Good, the Young, the Earth, and Hopes Hiding Place
If you have ever been in a fender bender car accident, you know at the sound of the crunch the present moment is already the second casualty. Red and blue lights form to fill out the changed ambiance, and strange people you don’t know arguing fault fill the day that perhaps your drifting concentration brought…
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Good, and the 4th Virtue of the Next Democracy
The Fourth proposed virtue of the Next Democracy, “Respect and Reverence for all Life and the Living“, sadly brings us to the divisions in this country over health care and environment. For women, the divisions regarding life and the living are so very vulnerable to misunderstanding because of the semantics of this whole struggle. The semantic gulf somehow tragically makes…
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Good and the Evil Art of Enforced Disappearance
When people start disappearing without due process you have to wonder what is going so terribly wrong. Perhaps it would be unfair to compare the seeds of what is being planted right here in the United States today to the runaway brush fire of Chile’s enforced disappearances in the 1970s, but the crop has been…
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