Good Thanks and Thanksgiving

robertjahner

  • Good Thanks and Thanksgiving

    This Project is grateful for the people that read and comment on these posts. I am reminded how thoughtful people are as this project offers no miracles, no riches, and no easy outs. We know we have work to do… Continue reading

  • Good, Pure Capitalism, and People as Problem

    The unavoidable flaw in pure Capitalism is the spreadsheet is not the whole story even when it is the only book you read. The unavoidable problem for people right now is they are facing a competition that has never existed… Continue reading

  • Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror

    That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift… Continue reading

  • Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”

    This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before… Continue reading

  • Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite

    The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression  and codification of the public’s authority.  Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not… Continue reading

  • Good and Sad Lives Without a History

    This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each… Continue reading

  • Good, Life’s last Layer, and Abuse’s Memory

    Skin is a complex body organ and not wrapping paper. When the child gets the first deep scratch and the skin releases that emergent bit of blood many children follow their instincts and scream. But it seems now as adults… Continue reading

  • Good and Pain as a Persistent Poet Teacher

    Pain is unfortunately embedded in the process of being alive and healthy. We seem to want to make pain a package of one thing when in reality pain is part of the body’s narrative sending complex messages of an urgent nature… Continue reading

  • Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game

    Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made.  Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation.  However, in governance, ‘no… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading