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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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Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox
We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox. The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable? How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating… Continue reading
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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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Good and The Next Democracy in Our Land
If the current government is not good, what would be good? To make good decisions into the future this Project offers we need a new articulation of the virtues that would constitute the covenant of the Next Democracy for the… Continue reading
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Good, Dishonor and Appeasement: Peace in the Shadows
I am reminded this week by the shameful work of the current administration of Neville Chamberlain’s signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 with Germany’s Adolf Hitler, Fascist Italy and the French Republic. This agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex Sudetenland… Continue reading
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—The Good Decision Project
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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