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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 and the Joy of "What Else is True"Good and the Joy of "What Else is True"December 24, 2025robertjahner
Good and "My Child is Being Poisoned". When to Intervene?Good and "My Child is Being Poisoned". When to Intervene?December 26, 2025robertjahner
Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieGood, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieDecember 30, 2025robertjahner

  • Acting out of Good, Community and Democracy

    This is a second blog inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s article WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID It’s not just a phase published by Atlantic monthly April 11, 2022. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist… Continue reading

  • Good and Anger

    Jonathan Haidt recently wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly called: WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID  It’s not just a phase.   I was so impressed by Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind  Why Good  People… Continue reading

  • What Good is Writing into the Wind?

    I frequently receive spam email telling me my following is not strong and of course they have just the products to correct that problem for my website. Occasionally I receive encouraging notes in my spam folder letting me know they… Continue reading

  • The Nonsense of Good

    “Good” is a universally used word in our English language, but with such wild range of meanings that the word good in itself verges on being  a nonsense word.  One person starts a chess program for impoverished children and calls… Continue reading

  • Authority and Authenticity

    For many people, depending on their experience with ‘authority’, authenticity and authority are  in conflict with one another.  When these two terms are in conflict inside a person, life can become challenging and stressful.  A central purpose of The Good… Continue reading

  • Cruelty and Good

    In the challenge of developing this model I have had to resist the temptation to define ‘goodness’ in terms of specific behaviors or values.  But that said, the realities of the world around us require I deal with those actions… Continue reading

  • Guns and Good

    These past few weeks have showcased the pathetic and the tragic. A young man with a head full of childish fantasies carries a powerful lethal gun over state lines to a demonstration/riot with the idea that he would protect the… Continue reading

  • The Limits to ‘Good’

    The structure of The Good Decision relies heavily on an assumoption of the goodness of human beings, but that assumption alone can be dangerously naive. For the purposes of The Good Decision (TGD) process I am  trying to address that… Continue reading

  • Scorn, Anger, and Common Threads

    Everyday I go through the New York Times searching for decision points in American public policy and culture. The columnist David Brooks interests me in that he feels no compulsion to feel more or less conservative than he actually is… Continue reading

  • Carl Jung, Good, and Sense of Good

    I could as well have hyphenated Sense of Good, but rather I have used the three words in the first Pause as a proper noun to shift the reader’s mind a bit. A friend and reader of this model sent… Continue reading

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