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  • Good and Shooting Ourselves to Death

    War Like a whale, is all consuming Everything fits into its mesh mouth … The bullet is a beast, as are we Our invisible battles are the hardest to win. . . by Amanda Gorman, excerpted from her poem;  War: What, Is It Good? from her book Call Us What We Carry Oddly there is an…

  • Good, and Frozen at 248 Years of the Good Old USA

    Whatever is coming out of Washington these days is clearly not the country our founders created 250 years ago.  In some ways the dream of the United States has been suspended for this writer and perhaps a majority of Americans who cannot figure out how you celebrate a tradition of democracy and freedom while both…

  • Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society

    History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important task–to complete the process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation.  How we deal with is crucial situation will determine our moral health as individuals, our cultural health as a…

  • Good, The Damage We do, and Lasting Wounds

    Wendall Berry, American poet, essayist, conservationist, teacher and, at root, a farmer provided the following quote.  His words are humble and instructive as we navigate the age “In general I have used my farm carefully.  It could be said I think, that I have improved it more than I have damaged it. The pond was…

  • Good and Saving Your Soul for the Long Struggle

    The Good Decisions Project’s series of posts, the current news, and this writers instincts warn that the current life of an activist and resister to the chaotic, often brutal policies in the United States can lead to the malnutrition of the soul. The air we all breathe seems to ring with rage and concern from…

  • Good, Breakdown in America, and Human Monasteries

    In times of social upheaval the cultures tend to build thick walls to protect their version of civilization that houses their sense of good in monasteries, libraries, or in an infinite variety of creeds, codes, or cults. Upheaval is a series of macro social decisions ripping up the connections that once held the whole together for the…

  • Good America the Broken Village, and the End of Complacency

    The staggering realization that as Americans and tax payers we are funding an international system of concentration camps of immigrants of uncertain legal status should awaken every generation of Americans. A British based journalist wrote an article for the New York Times which is at once clever, insightful, and I believe slightly off the mark.…

  • Good, Power and the Deceptive Immunity from Law

    The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old.  The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials.  At the peak of WWII no one would dare imagine the crimes being committed in their home streets would ever be…

  • Good and America the Godfather: the Downside of Mafia Tactics

    Anyone who watches the Godfather trilogy knows after watching the three hypnotic and strangely depressing trilogy of movies, in the end, the last Corleone simply collapses over the ashes of brutal life in which he achieved everything, bought the world, but at the price of his soul, and died alone.  He jettisoned his idealism in…

  • Good, Ai, and the Assault on Reality

    Reality used to be a place one visited when one’s mind became too self-serving, toxic, tiring, or simply boring. Then one day an aggressive cancer composed of digital media inserted itself between us, our minds and the reality of the world in which we live.   With a layer of digital media between us and the…