Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster

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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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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