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Good; Expression, and Speech, as Virtue, Human Right, and Crime
Children are hounded with insults until they suicide. We have a president who posts and reposts obscenities. We see long term public servants reduced to a single insulting sentence of dismissal from leadership at the highest levels in government. We… Continue reading
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Good and the Paralyzing Limits of Pure Resistance
Like about seven million other patriotic Americans across the nation this writer attended a No Kings Protest in a small town with about only 250 other protesters. But the passion and creativity were on display. This week the signs and… Continue reading
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Good and the Broken Rules of War
For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end. If you are an American… Continue reading
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Good, the Symphony Conductor, the Dictator, and Authentic Leadership
In an age when political leadership has all the dignity of a sophomoric food fight, we need to step aside to return to the earlier part of the 20th century and learn from a symphony conductor. We seem in our… Continue reading
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Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy
It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last… Continue reading
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Good and How many Rights Cancel a Wrong?
Hard as it may be for some people to accept, the current administration may have done some good in the world. If the cease fire holds in Gaza , the hostages come home, and relief comes to the Gazan population,… Continue reading
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Good, Government and that Pesky Humanity
Human beings are not quite herd animals as history has shown us over and over. Yet despite the repeating evidence, frequently a government will try to frame policy around tactics based on the assumption of humans travel across the prairies… Continue reading
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Good, Sparks, Fire, and the New Cultural Arsonists
Having grown up living my life in the Rocky Mountains I have acquired an instinctive respect and fear of a drought ravaged forest in the fall of the year. One can smell the dryness of the forest and its fuels. … Continue reading
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Good, Beauty/Bad and Saving your Resisting Life
Writer Marilyn Robinson said in an interview with Peter Wehner in a New York Times article that “the idea of beauty is a Signature of God”. She went on to say: “I think we accepted a kind of functionalism as the… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and the Titanic’s Deck Furniture
There are metaphors that stand the test of time. Theologian Marcus Borg once said ‘a model is a metaphor that works. This is a “Titanic” time in politics. The Titanic’s deck furniture and how it was arranged just before it… Continue reading
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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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