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Good and Cruelty’s Enjoyment
I keep coming back to the conversation I had with an older man in a park in Chicago. One of those tentative explorations between two people enjoying the view. He asked me why I wouldn’t vote for the candidate he… Continue reading
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Good and the Arc of Future
Over a lifetime it has been my experience to be able to feel the future coming. This intuition has been both a burden and and gift. A burden because the feeling is not paired with the gift of actual prediction… Continue reading
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Good, Grief, Covenant and the New American Binary
For most of our history as a nation”winner-take-all’ didn’t define the American election process. The election was more of a “winner-take-leadership” sort of contest. The prevailing candidate was put in charge of juggling the balance of power. Above all, the… Continue reading
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Good and the Human Flaw
Exploding pagers and two way radios triggered these reflections but they are only the tipping point of a long history of concern. When your skin-close personal possessions and accessories suddenly are outed as potential weapons of war some kind of… Continue reading
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Good, Certainty, Authority and the Popes
The Good Decision Project asks practitioners to identify and begin the work of decision making from a continuously evolving and maturing, individual “Sense of Good”. The global internet has shown the expression of religion to be vastly diverse and we… Continue reading
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Good and the Facade of Character
I am doing some business in Chicago and I have been passing by the remodeling of a ‘building-of-old-character’ as I walk each morning. I have included a picture of the reinforced facade, that hides the fact that the entire building… Continue reading
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Good and Good’s Pruning
This Good Decision Project has been occasionally criticized for its nearly singular focus on the word “Good”. The criticism suggests such a focus ignores what is bad, evil or just uncomfortable in this world. I have found just the opposite… Continue reading
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Good and Imperfection’s Beauty
Humble people and cultures know intuitively there is no perfect good. Some cultures guard against the very idea of human perfection for spiritual and or mental health reasons. Truly resilient cultures also tend to cultivate a dry, more often than… Continue reading
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Good, Need, and the Aesthetics of Greed
Back in the old days of comedy there was a routine that employed the line “remember darling it is more important to look good than to feel good”. Somehow this parody got laughs then, but no more. Greed thrives on… Continue reading
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Good, Revenge, and Retribution
As my sense of good evolved and matured it came to me that revenge and retribution are great ways to carve away at your future assigning mortgages on the attention and intention of your aspirations. Which is why I can’t… Continue reading
“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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