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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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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 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

  • Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”

    This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before… Continue reading

  • Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite

    The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression  and codification of the public’s authority.  Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not… Continue reading

  • Good and Sad Lives Without a History

    This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each… Continue reading

  • Good, Life’s last Layer, and Abuse’s Memory

    Skin is a complex body organ and not wrapping paper. When the child gets the first deep scratch and the skin releases that emergent bit of blood many children follow their instincts and scream. But it seems now as adults… Continue reading

  • Good and Pain as a Persistent Poet Teacher

    Pain is unfortunately embedded in the process of being alive and healthy. We seem to want to make pain a package of one thing when in reality pain is part of the body’s narrative sending complex messages of an urgent nature… Continue reading

  • Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game

    Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made.  Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation.  However, in governance, ‘no… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading

  • Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster

    The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century… Continue reading

  • Good, Let them Starve, and Domestic Abuse

    First responders are no doubt aware of the dynamic of successful, cheerful, ‘confident’ adults who go home after work and for one mysterious sick reason or another abuse their hapless family. Wives doing secretive make up sessions prior to work… Continue reading

  • Good, Reverence for Life and the Two Skins Dilemma

    The Next Democracy Value 4. Respect and Reverence for all life and the living; The history of this country may have to stop and fill a volume or two about the the ‘right-to-life’ tragedy created by Americans and has divided our nation so absolutely that the fabric of our… Continue reading

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