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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. … Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Good, the Symphony Conductor, the Dictator, and Authentic Leadership
In an age when political leadership has all the dignity of a sophomoric food fight, we need to step aside to return to the earlier part of the 20th century and learn from a symphony conductor. We seem in our… Continue reading
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Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy
It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last… Continue reading
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Good and How many Rights Cancel a Wrong?
Hard as it may be for some people to accept, the current administration may have done some good in the world. If the cease fire holds in Gaza , the hostages come home, and relief comes to the Gazan population,… Continue reading
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Good, Government and that Pesky Humanity
Human beings are not quite herd animals as history has shown us over and over. Yet despite the repeating evidence, frequently a government will try to frame policy around tactics based on the assumption of humans travel across the prairies… Continue reading
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