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  • Good and Sorry Denmark and Norway. (errata)

    When I slip up I correct. In the Good, Transactional Idiocy and the Greenland Ruse post it was Denmark that was the object of attention regarding Greenland and not Norway. Early morning mind fog I suppose.

  • Good, Transactional Idiocy, and the Greenland Ruse

    We have a piece of calligraphy in our home done by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist teacher that says: “Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World”. This simple truth carries a second message unstated: “War in Oneself, War in the World. Our President has expressed this unstated truth in the war like nature of his…

  • Good, Decapitation’s Effects, and Guillotine Diplomacy

    Decapitation for the human species is 100% fatal.  The numbers are only slightly better for decapitated nations.  The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror demonstrated through the daily use of the guillotine if you decapitate a human being there is zero chance you can put that head or another better head back on the same victim…

  • Good and Language More Elegant than My Own

    Sometimes in this project I receive from readers language more elegant  and helpful than my own.  The note below came to me through a dear friend who owns and operates a book store in a Washington state.  The writer of this short note opens the store for her on Wednesdays and left this message. For…

  • Good and America’s Armed Amygdala

    The amygdala is the part of the human brain that is responsible for emotional processing. The fight or flight response also fires out of that organ of our brain. Our survival system works fast and must interpret reality at a speed beyond conscious thought.  That is why the training of any person carrying a lethal…

  • Good and Death by Disconnected Detail

    This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief.  From the time of the first floppy disc, the public sector has been been drawn down…

  • Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”

    The question becomes:  Can one individual have their own morality?  The short answer is no.  Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality.  Ultimately morality is a social word and loses its meaning the moment an individual declares him or herself law unto themselves thus…

  • Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life

    When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate.  “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in the last paragraph someone always sneaks in the number of civilian lives lost.  In Venezula…

  • Good and Overcoming the Short Comings of Histrionics in National Leadership

    Histrionics as a term is used often by misogynists to describe their presumed female gender’s response to complex situations that often require new levels of nuance, intuition, and clear thought. When a word in the english language gets trapped in games of dirty linguistic tricks sometimes we need to provide that word some intensive care…

  • Good, Government, and No Power, No Play

    I suspect the readership of this column could expand if this Project were to pick sides and join in the stalemated fray called American politics.  The reason that doesn’t happen is The Good Decision Project is about good and how that word plays into the decisions you make.  Good is such a personal, social and…