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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.”

—The Good Decision Project

The Next Democracy

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, Cooperation, and Shared Sacrifice

    I have recently found the general political landscape in such chaotic shape as we lurch and sway toward the November elections that I was recently pleasantly surprised to encounter a piece news that might even suggest hope.  The New York… Continue reading

  • Good, Core Belief and Engineered Ignorance

    In my routine scan of this nation’s Sense of Democracy I had to stop this morning while scanning the commentary in The Fulcrum to think about about the term ‘core belief’ and the politicians who have compromised or abandoned their… Continue reading

  • The Feeling of being Object

    I developed The Good Decision Project on the understanding that humans were subjects and had to directly deal with their own subjectivity when making decisions.  A subject differs from an object in that a subject can never be fully described… Continue reading

  • Good and Harm: Why do Good?

    I once had someone say to me after feeling the consequences of making what they felt was a ‘bad decision’; “I regret that. All I know is in the future I will do no harm”. During that same period of… Continue reading

  • Religion, Nationalism, and Hearts and Minds

    One’s religion is a profoundly subjective experience and expression at once very personal and at the same time inextricably communal. Religion is so much more than just a a personal experience. Religion resides in us acting more as a living… Continue reading

  • Good, Law, and Morality

    You would have thought the Prohibition on alcohol could have taught us an important lesson as a nation regarding prohibitive law and the decisions people make at the physical and moral levels of personal identity. Legislating morality has been historically… Continue reading

  • Good, Cruelty and Uncertain Faith

    We live in times of certainty, hence division and conflict. With certainty comes righteousness. The first cousin of righteousness is all too often cruelty. In this post I will address cruelty of two kinds; intentional and ignorant. Intentional cruelty is… Continue reading

  • Good, Identity and Democracy

    How many people do you actually know personally who are raising their children to be overtly cruel, exploitive, cold hearted pragmatists?  How many of your close friends, in quiet moments  of reflection, perhaps after a shared meal, have casually disclosed:” you… Continue reading

  • Good, Truth, Harm, and our Spiraling Violence

    With this project called The Good Decision I have found myself deeply wound up in the profound, frequently contradictory difficulties presented by the word ‘good’. In my own journey I hold within me a conscious commitment to three attributes; forgiveness,… Continue reading

  • January 6 Witnessing and Watching

    In concluding my posting on  the Euvaldi/Buffalo tragedies I  said there was a difference between witnessing and watching.  ‘ Witnessing’ is a slightly damaged word.  In some religious contexts it means conforming through personal testimony to an external authority or… Continue reading

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