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Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen
I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier. Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service. In some ways… Continue reading
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Good and “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” —Warsan Shire- The stunning quote above is from Warsan Shire, a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi. The quote was highlighted by David Zwirner in a… Continue reading
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Good and When Intelligence and Curiosity become a Liability
When exactly did it become a harsh liability to use words in whole sentences and be curious on all levels about something. When did intelligence become an unearned privilege? When did addressing natural complexity become the vanity of the self… Continue reading
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Good and Reforming the Normal: Speaking Truth
This Project and website proposed seven virtues of a New Democracy to which a citizen would need to commit in order for the United States to begin the process of reforming the era we are in and once again be… Continue reading
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Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”
We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual… Continue reading
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Good and the Princely Trappings of Fascism
Standing on the podium with a stern smile of self-importance while rank after marching rank of soldiers turn and solute the supreme leader of the failing kingdom has long been a favorite of soda cracker dictators enjoying the hopelessly pompous… Continue reading
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Good, Your Garden, Their Forest, and Our Next Better Democracy.
If you have ever planted a garden you know the optimism of green spring day shoots clearing the soil level, and the heartbreak of the first hail storm. Never mind all the bugs, snakes and other four legged pests feasting… Continue reading
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Good, Humility, Protest and the Performance of Life
Life is not a performance and we are not living in a movie. Rather in The Good Decision life is a gift and we are all enmeshed in a life experience that stretches back into deep history and portends forward… Continue reading
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Good, Nationalism, Religion, and the Dance Hall of the Dead
This will be short. Religion and Patriotism get a bad look when they dance with Nationalism. In this macabre Dance Hall of the Dead and Dangerous Partners, the winner is always that wicked conductor called War. India, Pakistan, Gaza, Israel,… Continue reading
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Good, the Breaks of Rigidity, and the Peaceful Flex
Things that are rigid break under duress. One of the arts of life is found in the flexibility of the organic. Yes, a tree seems rigid at the trunk, but upon closer inspection the life of that tree is more… Continue reading
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—The Good Decision Project
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