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

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Choose the virtues for the next democracy. Setting aside race, creed, status, gender, what citizen virtues could you gather around to help build the next majority for our democracy? We provide a template for you to consider and decide.

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Good, The Damage We do, and Lasting WoundsGood, The Damage We do, and Lasting WoundsFebruary 6, 2026robertjahner
Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized SocietyGood, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized SocietyFebruary 7, 2026robertjahner
Values, Ethics and InspirationValues, Ethics and InspirationAugust 5, 2021robertjahner

  • Good and Spirituality under Tyranny

    David Brooks quotes Howard Thurman in his New York Times piece (5/10/24 How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency. The article so precisely illuminates the importance of starting your considerations for future actions or expressions from within. And that… Continue reading

  • Good and Real Change

    Real change can be traumatic.  Change will always be work.  Anyone who has ever oared a river raft has had a crash course in this thing called change.  The peaceful river can put one to sleep, but in a couple… Continue reading

  • Don’t light a match

    In this last month, I have traveled through many of the towns in which I have lived over the course of my life thus far. In this journey I have had coffee and conversations with many old friends and delivered… Continue reading

  • Goodness and Moral Dissonance

    There is a frank and direct discomfort, if not pain, in any action one takes that generates moral dissonance within one’s considerations. When you cross grain what you believe to be good you will feel the ‘soul scratch’. I frequently… Continue reading

  • Good and Pleasure

    Is “good” pleasant? The short answer for The Good Decision discipline is “no”. “Is integrity easy” might be the more appropriate question and the answer is also more obvious: no, integrity is not easy. The Good Decision will never sell… Continue reading

  • Good and Cruelty and the American Tradition

    When it comes to the word good, I have long come to the conclusion that cruelty is never good. The enjoyment and mastery of cruelty in ones language and actions is a fatal flaw in the human character. As we… Continue reading

  • Wretched Truth & Beautiful Language, intersect with Tragedy

    Poetry can take us to places that political and analytical language cannot. Some language slips through the screens of culture, gender, religion, nation, patriotism, vengeance and justice and simply speaks the hard planked heart language of mother, father, elder, infant… Continue reading

  • Good, Kind, Nice, and Nonsense

    For me this project is an effort to rescue good from its relatives nice and kind. Nice is the form of manners that avoids conflict through the use of faint praise. “Nice car!” one might say to the friend who… Continue reading

  • Good Discernment and the Ground of Our Being

    I have taken a break from my postings as of late to gather perspective. The Good Decision as a project needs to better communicate something that is critical to the times we are in. Thus far, while the focus has… Continue reading

  • Good, Artificial Intelligence, and Faith

    I concluded my last over-long post with the sentence: “Our world’s trouble right now is not that AI is becoming more competitively human;  it is that humans are becoming more like AI”.  I work each day with a Rubik’s cube knowing that… Continue reading

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