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Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”
“The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.” David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North… Continue reading
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Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds
When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting… Continue reading
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Good: and the Kryptonite Called Division
The futility of our times is we keeping sharpening the blades of rage be those blades sarcastic humor, or outright disgust; aversion backed by our version of “facts” only to remain ever more mired in a dangerous deadlock. This is… Continue reading
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Good, Two Trick Ponies and the Dog Days of Summer
Do people make big decisions in the Dog Days of Summer? Not so much I think. August is summer, sand, and the lassitude of heavy heat. The one thing that does happen is repetition, for it is easier and less… Continue reading
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Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction
I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in… Continue reading
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Good and Submitting to Nature and Wilderness
My wife and I climbed a steep arroyo yesterday just above Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. There were a few things for us to always consider in the back country in New Mexico. The first is to stay together if… Continue reading
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Good, Mortality, Poets and What Really Matters
There are going to be dry patches in this period of history where one wakes up in the morning and it feels like there is nothing left to say. This wordless writer read about Andrea Gibson, a poet, this morning… Continue reading
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Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken
This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission. One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work. In the post… Continue reading
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Good and the Slow Walk to Hell
What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding… Continue reading
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Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country
Ethics are mediating devices through which humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant. Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly limited due to that individual complexity. The law is most definitely… Continue reading
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The Next Democracy
Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.
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