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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 has bought a nice suit and strutted itself to the nation’s capital with its AI…
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Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster
The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century the prospect is no longer an Orwellian prediction but a visible accelerating scientific certainty so…
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Good, Let them Starve, and Domestic Abuse
First responders are no doubt aware of the dynamic of successful, cheerful, ‘confident’ adults who go home after work and for one mysterious sick reason or another abuse their hapless family. Wives doing secretive make up sessions prior to work the next day to hide the damage. Children, hungry, and confused showing up on the…
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Good, Reverence for Life and the Two Skins Dilemma
The Next Democracy Value 4. Respect and Reverence for all life and the living; The history of this country may have to stop and fill a volume or two about the the ‘right-to-life’ tragedy created by Americans and has divided our nation so absolutely that the fabric of our society has torn nearly in half. Which side of the womb you most valued regarding…
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Good and the Danger of Pure Transactional Heart
Purity is a dangerous goal but this nation seems suddenly impressed with that word. How many times have we heard that dodgy family of superlatives like pure, perfect, and great used in the current political narrative. Take the stock market. Yes, this writer loves seeing his meager net worth creep up but whats the logic…
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Good, Truth, Speech and Expression
The unspoken foundation of the human right Freedom of Speech was always truth. One doubts that the crafters of this American Constitution ever dreamed that an age would come when the lie was granted equal footing with the truth and both truth and lie lived in comfortable proximity under the phrase “Freedom of Speech”. The…
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Good and Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’
The second virtue of a New Democracy (Building Toward the ‘Shared Public Reality’ and Unity) is to lock into a value that when exercised separates a true democracy from the 21st century train wreck now called the Divided States of America (DSA). As a country and culture we have allowed ourselves to be divided nearly precisely in half thus neutralizing…
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Good; Expression, and Speech, as Virtue, Human Right, and Crime
Children are hounded with insults until they suicide. We have a president who posts and reposts obscenities. We see long term public servants reduced to a single insulting sentence of dismissal from leadership at the highest levels in government. We are witnessing forms of expression that would have gotten anyone fired from their jobs for…
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Good and the Paralyzing Limits of Pure Resistance
Like about seven million other patriotic Americans across the nation this writer attended a No Kings Protest in a small town with about only 250 other protesters. But the passion and creativity were on display. This week the signs and shouts are all in the closet and I have to ask; “What’s next?” I am…
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Good and the Broken Rules of War
For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end. If you are an American raised and living in America you probably have lived your entire life under an invisible…
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