“One lives a good life through making good decisions and continually going to that place in you where you find your good.”

—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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  • Good and the World of Hungry Stereotypes

    (a brief digression in prep for Inauguration Day) At some deep, embarrassing, defensive level this writer sometimes feels made to feel like he lives in one of the most disliked demographics in the world today; the older, white, middle class… Continue reading

  • Good, Nurturance and Cultural Suicide.

    The quality and strength of the  nurturance communities a culture builds and sustains around the health of it’s future generations is the predictor of that culture’s future, if there is to be a future.  Our culture is in trouble because… Continue reading

  • Good, LA Fire, Doing Good, and the Horse’s Petuny

    The California LA fires will eventually go out and the daunting work of recovery will begin. LA like any community in America has a middle class and a lot of people working hard and on the edge. It is not… Continue reading

  • Good and Back to the Mining of Good

    The outrageous political news cycle these days and the California wild fires share at least this in common; there are days in our lives when life seems to slip beyond our grasp, control, or even influence. Our family has a… Continue reading

  • Good, Grief, Jan 6 and DD Day

    For people living outside the Meta-trance, January 6 is our American democracy’s second  Day of Infamy. That is why when this day opened with the next administration promising celebrating and exoneration for the convicted perpetrators of the January 6 crimes this… Continue reading

  • Good, Safety, Children, and What Matters Most

    The furies of this day are tomorrow’s dust in the wind. Making this world safe for today’s children is making the world safe for the future’s adults. Overcoming the meta-trance that makes this world so unsafe today is more than… Continue reading

  • Good, Distraction, and the True Sense Radical

    How do we break through this divisive trance? In earlier Posts we have looked at the difference between the extremist and the true radical. The point was the extremist plays the shallow ends of the political spectrum. The true sense… Continue reading

  • Good, Crime upon Crime, and Exploiting Tragedy

    Recently a woman was murdered on a subway. She was set on fire by her attacker. This is an unimaginably cruel act and a horrible way to die. But the abuse doesn’t stop there. The 57-year-old victim’s name was Debrina Kawam. Her tragic… Continue reading

  • Good and the Passing of a President

    Can you imagine a President of this country who worked tirelessly after his term in office to directly and personally build housing for people living in poverty, was instrumental in reducing to almost elimination river blindness, created international programs to… Continue reading

  • Good, Deep History, and the Vatman’s Tears

    To create a moment in history like ours today, you need to ignore two things; deep history and the facts of the day. The facts are here for us to use and abuse. But history lies in the root system… Continue reading