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  • Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox

    We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox.  The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable?  How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating intolerance?  I doubt if we can avoid intolerance, but perhaps we need not get trapped…

  • Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health

    I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health.  The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence and strategy to make the world right again.  Some call it doom scrolling, but frankly…

  • Good and The Next Democracy in Our Land

    If the current government is not good, what would be good? To make good decisions into the future this Project offers we need a new articulation of the virtues that would constitute the covenant of the Next Democracy for the 21st Century. Our current leaders suggest that virtue is a ‘losers’ game fit only for…

  • Good, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows

    I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. This act of appeasement only opened the door for Hitler’s subsequent aggressions. How…

  • Good, and the 21st Century Version of the Examination of Conscience

    The Good Decision tries to look at both sides of any aspect of ‘good’. Otherwise, how can it be good if the bias of one’s mind is set to deny the errors of one’s way? The consequence of this examination of conscience no doubt is that occasionally this website offends someone who didn’t expect offense…

  • Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats

    The dark fascination with the last moments of the Titanic often comes home on the issue of too few life boats available and too many people in the fatally dark waters.  We tend to follow the movie storyline to the inevitable end with the hero either sinking into the inky cold depths, or being rescued…

  • Good, Open Ears, Shut Mouth and Stories for Now

    The minority party is making little headway and in fact losing ground. How can this be? Perhaps their lesson here is almost anything is better for a human being than being patronized. “I feel your pain . . . etc.” as the old cartoon went. If you have the income and education you are in…

  • Good, Good Connections, and Useless Knowledge

    It is becoming more apparent as a nation we have too little natural resistance against dictatorship.  The take over of the major balancing components of our democratic government is nearly complete.  The controlling political party is hard wired to compliance to a President having checked their souls at the door of Congress.  The other political…

  • Good and When the Rich Pick the Pockets of the Poor

    There is talk about reducing Medicaid benefits and looking at SNAP. Never have the rich picked the pockets of the poor, but for the current administration they have even figured that one out. No need for DOGE to personally to sneak a risk and reach into the pockets of thrift store winter clothed customers grabbing…

  • Good, Staggering Hubris, and Taking on the New Testament

    Apparently this Administration is also rewriting the four Gospels of Christianity. Even for this writer, the sheer bluster of this hubris leaves me nearly, but not quite, speechless. Usually such exploitive hypocrisy hides behind selective silences and knowing glances but with this vice president, all that is required is to simply revise what is universally…