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Good and the minority position in democracy
In just a few weeks approximately slightly less than 50% of American voters will feel themselves in the political minority. In this age of unbridled, often undisciplined rage we need to take stock and be concerned. In a democracy, majority… Continue reading
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A deeply radical journey down from the extremes
The most radical act we may have to offer is a deep form of transparency with ourselves and others. Extremism only requires a capacity to acquire an ideology or a creed and the motivation suspend internal integrity to act in the… Continue reading
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Good, Evil, Safety and Mental Health
I have avoided as much as possible using the word evil throughout this blog because I find, like the word ‘good’, it has been loaded in terms of meaning with so much baggage. I decided early to focus on good because… Continue reading
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Good and the Reinforcement of Hope
I am reworking aspects of the website for the Good Decision Project starting with the homepage. While “The Conversation” or blog dimension of the site has shown signs of life, the website has been underwhelming in terms of response and… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
“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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