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Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken
This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission. One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work. In the post… Continue reading
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Good and the Slow Walk to Hell
What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding… Continue reading
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Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country
Ethics are mediating devices through which humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant. Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly limited due to that individual complexity. The law is most definitely… Continue reading
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Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination
This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination. The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”. The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading
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Good, Warfare, the New Lawfare, and Obscene Private Wealth
I am aware that a vast majority of Americans could no more financially survive a protracted lawsuit than they could physically survive a bomb being dropped on their house in the middle of the night. There are, however, a growing… Continue reading
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Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal
In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or… Continue reading
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Good, Waiting for Godot , and Unlikely Strangers
Somehow Samual Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot” keeps percolating up as I watch the inevitability of this political season unfold. Whatever one thinks of our current President, the nation such as it is, and its Supreme Court, have conceded the… Continue reading
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Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp
Detention has become a euphemism for concentration. Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp. With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America. This is… Continue reading
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Good, Faux and True Authenticity, and Survival
One of our political parties is looking at the attribute ‘authenticity’ to strengthen their political approach. The challenge with authenticity is that it is nearly impossible to fake or predict. Our current leader is probably where he is because he… Continue reading
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Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage
This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon. Two ways to accomplish change: create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage. The second… Continue reading
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