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Good and the Many Faces of Posturing
“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite… Continue reading
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Good, and the Art Cultivating Enemies and Burning Friends
This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the… Continue reading
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Good, Change and the Poet Laureate
We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict… Continue reading
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Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock
Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading
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Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar
One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will… Continue reading
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Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News
I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are… Continue reading
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Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police
When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can… Continue reading
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Good, and Kidnapping History
The is a problem with foisting the truth of history and replacing it with a knockoff. Truth is like a snowball in the child’s hot hands who takes the snowball into the warm house to show Mom. It melts, disappears… Continue reading
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Good, Gold, and Gilding: A Deception
The Gilded Age entertainments so popular these days, are in reality, shows of obscenely wealthy people living in golden bird cages mounted on the backs of the working poor and middle class. Those glittery people’s lives are made possible by… 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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