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Good, Hatred, Addiction, and “What’s Love Got to do with it?”
We live in a time when Tina Turner’s question of “what’s love got to do with it?” is maybe the most important question of the age. “What’s love but a second hand emotion?” seems the response and sales pitch of our present… Continue reading
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Good and the Humanitarian as Terrorist
If you listen to the current news cycle you begin to wonder when concern for fellow human beings will soon be labeled as a act of terror. Mind you this post is not about violence because violence requires one suspend… Continue reading
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Good and Power’s Purpose
In reading a New York Times article interviewing younger Americans who voted for the current administration I came away with the sense the only thing they absolutely agreed upon is the opposition party (in this case Democrats) lacked coherent identity… Continue reading
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Good and the New Dog Whistlers of the USA
A dog whistle in actual use operates at a pitch just beyond the range of human hearing. If you see a dog respond to a human with a dog whistle and are unaware of the whistle’s uses uses you are… Continue reading
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Good and Leadership’s Shame
It is hard and sorrowful to live in a country where the President himself acts as if ashamed of the American story. The current leadership is so ashamed they strive to erase all the dark and hard dimensions of the… Continue reading
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Good, Governing, Story, and the Insidious Anecdote
Mistaking an anecdote for a larger trend has been, is and will continue to be a fatal error in building public policy. When intentionally transforming a few anecdotes or stories, true or not, into a trend you have an evil strategy.… Continue reading
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Good and the Moot of Assassination
There probably would have been little Charlie Kirk and and I would have agreed upon in the rough and tumble of politics, but all those differences were rendered ‘moot’ by the news of his assassination. From the moment I heard… Continue reading
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Good, Self Harm, and Arresting the American Work Ethic
If we Americans were collectively a teenager we would be in therapy for cutting on ourselves. How very odd that we would arrest one the of support beams of this sprawling concept called the ‘American Work Ethic’. Keep in mind… Continue reading
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Good and the Importance of Center
Show me a high performance athlete who doesn’t understand the importance of the center of gravity. You can’t. They may not have the language for it but they understand the feel of the center, and when they fall even… 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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