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Good, Freedom of Speech in the Context of Democracy’s Morality
The Third Virtue of the Next Democracy is “Freedom of Speech and Expression“. The first two virtues, 1. Speaking Truth and 2. Building a Shared Reality partially set the stage and context for Freedom of Speech, for speech, free or not, is nothing without… Continue reading
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Good, The Second Virtue of the New Democracy, and Shared Reality
If a culture becomes obsessed with differences and competition, not surprisingly they will end up finding differences and competing in those differences. Now if that same culture builds a transactional economy focused and based purely on those competing differences, look out,… Continue reading
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Democracy and Truth: The Power of Knowing What Else is True
In a training session on Trauma Resilience the presenter who has worked the earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and large disasters across the globe directly assisting people who appeared to have lost everything, forever, gave me a life saving question to ask. … Continue reading
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Democracy’s First Virtue: Telling the Painful Inconvenient Truth
Truth in times like these will more often than not contain an arrangement of facts that are both painful and inconvenient. A recent public hearing showed a crowd screaming at a minority party representative to do something. Do what? The… Continue reading
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Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?
How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good. The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance. I can’t… Continue reading
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Good and Obscene Wealth: the Newest Disability
In case you haven’t noticed the term disability has been transformed in these past decades. In the 1980s and 90s people with functional differences from the mainstream stripped the prefix ‘dis’ from disability and decided that the only issues that… Continue reading
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Good and the Rising Price of Protest in America
How many billion dollars must one have to be free to fling words of protest in any direction; even if that protest is loaded with insults and misleading statements? Apparently being President or his wealthy loyal friend are the new… Continue reading
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Good and Another Argument Against War
We have seen large two strategies of war in our world these recent years. The first seems constructed around ‘stock pile strategy’ which is whoever runs out of weapons of destruction first loses. Civilians be damned we shall keep the… Continue reading
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Good, Freedom, Liberty, and the New “Bait and Switch”
The protagonist in a popular television series called Zero Day made a distinction between liberty and freedom. Because this writer had never really given those two words much thought at that level I went to the Oxford Dictionary to see… Continue reading
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Good, Competition, Capitalism, and the Pressure Points
These reflections arise from reading about the pressures on airline pilots, air traffic controllers, workers subject to ‘keystroke counts’ and other ‘Musklike” pressures being constantly introduced into our world of work. Humans love to compete as it brings out marvelous… Continue reading
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