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Good and the Tyranny of Need
We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of the quality of our lives. If violence is a threat to agency and efficacy, being…
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Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence
This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance. The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now. Our country is going to be pushed to the edges of many people’s tolerance as the future unfolds. I can only describe why The…
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Good, Suffering, and the Reconstruction of a Culture
This nation of the United States appears to this writer to have a medical system that leads in the world in reducing the experience of physical pain. The tragic irony is the United States just might also be a world leader in suffering as well. Maybe we should start here with the natures of the…
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Good, the Inventory of Loss, and Resistance
The Morning After This writer predicted that half our nation would be suffering grief no matter who won the election. I am now in the minority of grief while apparently a majority are celebrating. This is called democracy, and presumably to model the practice of democracy one must endure the status and suffering of minority…
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Good, Duty of Witness, and the Nation’s Next Story
This concludes this election series of posts. In not too long the votes will be counted and possibly be in the process of being recounted and re-recounted. The possibility of violence exists coming from the transfer of power; a feeling originating not out pessimism, but rather out of one candidates’s promises. But whatever comes next,…
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Good, Fascism, Socialism and Play Ground Insults
Lobbing gross insults across the line is a pathetic way to run a campaign. We hear people shouting ‘fascist’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’ and so forth while many have only a vague idea of what is contained in these exchanges. The current acceptance of criminal behavior, playground name calling, and a willingness of so many highly placed people…
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Good, Hubris, the Waxed Emperor, and the Mentor
The myth of Icarus is a cautionary tale for all times. Flying too close to the sun with wax wings has predictable results. This is very much a tale for our time. Myths are truth that instruct with undeniable, universally accepted facts organized brilliantly on a storyline. In this case, youthful hubris results in the…
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Good Future Hope and the New Vote Market
My generation, like all generations, is not innocent. We accomplished some good things in our time, but we also seem to have not considered sufficiently the needs of future generations with the committed energy needed. Many indigenous societies and cathedral builders lived with their community’s future firmly embedded in mind and soul. All we, in…
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Good, Power and the Human Scale
Over a life time I have come to understand the famous or influential people I have both admired and encountered as regular human beings, full of vanities, foibles, contradictions, heroic actions, kindness, cruelty, betrayal and often capable of great empathy and equilibrium under duress. In short they turned out to be people on the human…
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Good, Delusion, Narrative and Numbers
When it comes to politics or business, some times the numbers work for you, and sometimes the narrative is the wind in your sails. Either way, narrative and numbers are a single sword with two equally sharp edges. In one of my professional lives I did statewide needs assessments and insisted that the work be…
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